Equity and Social Justice Committee 2021 Report
The CNERS Equity and Social Justice Committee has prepared a report for the community on the response to our July 2020 Statement of Support against Racism, White Supremacy and Police Violence.
Dr. Marshall Receives SSHRC Insight Grant for Roman Comedy Project
Toph Marshall has been awarded a four-year Insight SSHRC grant to work on a project called Comic Routines in Roman Comedy. The chief goal of the project will be to produce a monograph documenting repeated physical routines across the 20 plays of Plautus and 6 plays of Terence, and the extant fragments of Republican comic […]
Dr. Keddie and Dr. Yoon promoted to Associate Professor
The Department congratulates Dr. Tony Keddie and Dr. Florence Yoon on their promotions to Associate Professor effective July 1, 2021. We are thrilled to have them as tenured members of the Department and look forward to many more years of research innovation and excellent teaching from them!
WELCOME TO DR. PHILIP YOO
Philip Yoo joins Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies in 2021/22 as Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible and Jewish Studies. A native of Mississauga, Ontario, he is a graduate of the University of Toronto (B.Comm. in Commerce and Finance; M.Div. from Knox College), Yale University (S.T.M.), and the University of Oxford (D.Phil.). Before his arrival […]
Sara Milstein Receives Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship
The Department congratulates Dr. Sara Milstein on receiving an inaugural UBC Killam Accelerator Research Fellowship! She is one of six faculty at UBC to receive the two-year fellowship. These awards recognize exceptional early-career researchers at UBC who have demonstrated outstanding research achievement and the potential for significant impact in their fields of scholarship. Dr. Milstein’s […]
Susanna Braund’s edited volume receives award for contribution to Vergilian studies
The Vergilian Society has awarded the 2021 McKay Prize to Susanna Braund’s co-edited volume (with Zara Martirosova Torlone), Virgil and his Translators (OUP, 2018).The McKay Prize is given in recognition of the book that, in the opinion of the prize evaluation committee, makes the greatest contribution toward our understanding and appreciation of Vergil. Book abstract from […]
Lisa Cooper recognized by ASOR for work with Damascus Committee and Syrian people
Dr. Lisa Cooper received the W. F. Albright Award from ASOR at the November 2020 Annual Meeting. This award honors an individual who has shown special support or made outstanding service contributions to one of the overseas centers, ACOR, AIAR, CAARI, or to one of the overseas committees – the Baghdad Committee and the Damascus […]
Ancient Egypt and the environment: conference proceedings co-edited by Dr. Schneider published
The proceedings of a conference that Dr. Thomas Schneider organized at UBC in April 2017 on Ancient Egypt and the Environment have been published by the Journal of Ancient Egyptian Interconnections as Gift of the Nile? Ancient Egypt and the Environment. The contributors offer studies on the cultural and environmental impact of the Nile on […]
HIGHEST HONOUR IN ARTS AND HUMANITIES
The fellowship recognizes Dr. Braund’s expertise on the translation history of Virgil and her pioneering literary study of Roman satire and cultural study of the emotions in Roman literature.
2020 Grad Zoom Gingerbread
Zoom gingerbread party!