classics
Chellgren Center Names 36 New Fellows, Five Endowed Professorships
The University of Kentucky Chellgren Center for Undergraduate Excellence honored its newest class of Chellgren Fellows Sunday, Aug. 23. Five Chellgren Endowed Professorships were also announced.
'Suda On Line' Database is Complete
UK faculty members, Ross Scaife and Raphael Finkel, contributed to the English translation of the Suda lexicon, a massive 10th century Byzantine encyclopedia.
Languages and the Arts: The Perfect Love Story
The relationship has never been made official, but everyone knows that Languages and the Arts are an item. As the story goes, the two got together sometime around the fall of Babel, and they’ve been inseparable ever since.
Celebrate A&S: 2012 Hall of Fame Inductee Louis J. Swift
Lou Swift graduated from Johns Hopkins in 1963 and joined UK’s faculty as the chair of the newly reformed Department of Classics in 1970. His research interests focus on the study of early Christianity, including the issue of war and peace in late antiquity, and the relationship between religion and politics in America. Though he officially retired in 2001, he continues to teach an undergraduate course on the connection between religion and politics in America.
UK Latin Seminar, Internationally Recognized and Celebrated
This past summer marked the 16th anniversary of one of the world's most unique events held on UK's campus.
UK Graduate Awarded Prestigious Fellowship in Germany
UK graduate Casey Carmichael, who earned his master's degree from the Department of Classics in 2010, was recently awarded a six-month doctoral fellowship from the Leibniz Institute for European History in Mainz, Germany.
Classics Alum Casey Carmichael Receives Prestigious Doctoral Fellowship in Germany
By Guy Spriggs
Casey Carmichael, who earned his masters degree in Classics at the University in Kentucky in 2010, has been awarded six-month doctoral fellowship from the Leibniz Institute for European History in Mainz, Germany.
Leighanne Root
A professor can impact a student during and after their college career in a plethora of ways. Leighanne Root has been able to learn, utilize and grow with her professors throughout her time at the University of Kentucky.
Classics Graduate Student Awarded Fellowship to Study in Athens, Greece
Congratulations are in order for graduate student Jonathan Meyer who has been awarded a fellowship to attend The American School of Classical Studies at Athens next year. Meyer, a Master’s student in the UK Classics Department, will spend the 2012-2013 school year in Greece studying the history and culture of ancient Greece and the Hellenic world.