Cillian O’Hogan new Assistant Professor without review
Cillian O’Hogan will take up the post of Assistant Professor without review this September. Cillian completed his PhD in Classics at the University of Toronto in 2012, where he worked on Prudentius, the results from which will be appearing in a book from OUP this September, Prudentius and the Landscapes of Antiquity. He brings to […]
CNERS Faculty and Emeriti in the UK
Ancient Sicily is flavour of the summer in the UK at present. The British Museum is currently showing an exhibition entitled ‘Sicily: culture and conquest’, and the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford has a quite separate one, called ‘Storms, war and shipwrecks: treasures from the Sicilian seas’. CNERS’ Centre for the Study of Ancient Sicily has […]
Dr. Arden Williams teaching LATN 100 this summer
Welcome to Dr. Arden Williams! Arden received her PhD from UBC in the early 2000s. She has held term appointments at Wilfrid Laurier, Memorial and Dalhousie. Arden has taken up a sessional position with us teaching a summer section of Latin 100. Welcome home Arden!
Dr. Gregg Gardner promoted to Associate Professor
Congratulations to Dr Gregg Gardner, who has just heard from the President of UBC that he has been promoted to the rank of Associate Professor with tenure, with effect from July 1 2016. Good work, Gregg!
Irresistible: The Homeric Heroism of Muhammad Ali
Professor C. W. Marshall has written about what Muhammad Ali means to him at https://eidolon.pub/irresistible-2851f3641a28.
Roman Historian joining CNERS July 1
Katharine P.D. Huemoeller, receiving her PhD this summer from Princeton University, is a Roman historian who focuses on the non-elite in antiquity, gender and sexuality, and life outside the major urban centers of the ancient world. Her work engages all available evidence for the Roman world, from Roman poetry to legal documents on papyri to […]
Michael Griffin promoted to Associate Professor
We are delighted to announce that Dr. Michael Griffin will be promoted to the rank of Associate Professor, with tenure, in effect from July 1 2016. Congratulations, Michael!
Recent PhD, Andrew McClellan, accepts 2 year Post-Doctoral Fellowship.
We are pleased to announce that recent PhD student Andrew McClellan has accepted a two-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship, emphasizing Latin epic and its broader contexts, in the Department of Classics at Florida State University. Congratulations, Andrew!
Prof. Rumee Ahmed appointed Associate Dean, Communications and Innovation
We are pleased to announce that Professor Rumee Ahmed has been appointed Associate Dean, Communications and Innovation in the Faculty of Arts from 16 April 2016 through June 2019. Congratulations, Rumee!
Prof. Susanna Braund awarded 2016 Killam Research Fellowship
We are pleased to announce that Professor Susanna Braund has been awarded a Killam Research Fellowship in the 2016 national competition for her project ‘Virgil Translated’! Killam Research Fellowships provide two years relieved from all teaching and administrative duties. Congratulations, Susanna!