News and Information
Current Department News
Dissertations completed in the Academic Year 2008/2009(10-19-2009)
In the Academic Year 2008/2009, the following students graduated with a PhD from our Department:
Christopher Brown, on "An Atticist Lexicographer"
Kristen Gentile, on "Reclaiming the Role of the Old Priestess: Ritual Agency and the Post-Menopausal Body in Ancient Greece"
Molly Ayn Lewis Jones, on "A Dangerous Art: Greek Physicians and Medical Risk in Imperial Rome"
Aaron Wenzel, on "Pots of Honey and Dead Philosophers: The Ideal of Athens in the Roman Empire"
Congratulations to all, and good luck with your professional career!
Graduate Associate Teaching Award for Aaron Wenzel(10-19-2009)
Aaron Wenzel won one of the 2009 Graduate Association Teaching Awards. The Award is the University’s highest recognition of the exceptional teaching provided by graduate students at Ohio State. A $1500 award is given to the recipients along with a plaque and a letter of recognition from the Dean of the Graduate School. With Aaron, this is the second year in a row one of our Graduate TAs has won it: one of the winners of 2008 was Chris Bungard.
The Department is very proud of this succession of talented and highly successful teachers.
Honors and Accomplishments of Our Faculty(10-19-2009)
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University Awards
Fritz Graf was named one of the three Distinguished University Professors of 2009 and a Distinguished University Scholar (see previous news item).
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Other Honors and Awards
Sarah Iles Johnston has been elected member of the editorial board of Archiv fuer Religionswissenschaft.
Department Awards Spring 2009(10-19-2009)
In May 2009, the Department has awarded the following fellowships and awards:
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Undergraduate Majors
Undergraduate Award of Excellence: Tiffany Arnett
Honorable Mention in Classics: Yu Chen
David J. Neustadt Scholarship in Greek and Latin: James Gentry and Eric Mentges
Rebecca Lucile Cornetet Scholarship: Olga Koutseridi
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Graduate Students
John Vaughn Travel Award: Craig Jendza (study abroad in Athens)
Geoffrey Woodhead Prize: Hanne Eisenfeld
Professor David Hahm Retires(06-29-2009)
At the end of this Academic Year, Prof. David Hahm has retired from the Department. David Hahm, who had received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin as a student of the legendary Friedrich Solmsen, joined the then Classics Department of OSU in 1969 as an Assistant Professor, coming from the University of Missouri. He received tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in 1972 and was promoted to Full Professor in 1978. He chaired the Department, now Greek & Latin, from 1999 until 2006. Under his stewardship, the Department underwent a momentous generational change and positioned itself as one of the most interesting departments of classical studies in the country.
Congratulations to Professor Fritz Graf(03-06-2009)
In its meeting of June 5, the Board of Trustees conferred the title of Distinguished University Professor to Professor Fritz Graf. This title is awarded permanently to no more than three exceptional faculty per year and recognizes accomplishments in research, scholarly or creative work, teaching, and service that are both distinguished and distinctive. Professor Graf received it especially for his many outstanding contributions to the study of Classics and ancient religions that he made as a researcher and teacher at several European and American universities in the course of his career.
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University Awards and Recognition
In March, Professor Graf also received the Distinguished Scholar Award from President Gordon Gee. Given annually only to six professors across all the colleges of the university, the award honors excellence in scholarship. In Prof. Graf's case, the award recognizes his contribution to the fields of Classics and the religions of the classical world.
We congratulate Prof. Graf on this wonderful achievement and the recognition it brings to the department.
New Professor of Greek(01-14-2009)
We are proud to announce that Benjamin Acosta-Hughes has decided to join the Department at the rank of Full Professor. Benjamin Acosta-Hughes got his PhD from Berkeley and is coming from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. He is a leading expert on the poetry of the Hellenistic epoch and made his reputation with his first book, Polyeideia: The Iambi of Callimachus and the Archaic Iambic Tradition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002): the book was praised as one of the "most significant recent publications of the field" and it "a model how this is done." His second book, Arion's Lyre: Archaic Lyric in Hellenistic Poetry is under contract with Princeton University Press and scheduled to appear next year. Between the two monographs, he has published a number of scholarly papers in leading journals or in collected volumes, and he co-edited a conference volume on the epigrammatist Posidippus of Pella (Labored in Papyrus Leaves: Center for Hellenic Studies, 2004) whose collection of more than one hundred epigrams has been recovered from Egyptian mummy wrappings (2001). Together with Susan Stephens of Stanford, he is working on a monograph on Callimachus entitled "Callimachus in Context" that is scheduled to appear next year; and he will publish the Loeb edition of Greek epigrams. Besides his impressive scholarship, Professor Acosta-Hughes brings with him his numerous ties to European universities. He is an honorary faculty member of the Università Roma III, and he has taught and will teach again at the École Normale Superieure (Lettres et Sciences Humaines) in Lyon (France).
He will join our Department for the Academic year 2009/2010, and we are very much looking forward to it.
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