Attention Classics Students: Force-Add Policy
Waiting lists will be maintained for certain CLS courses at the discretion of individual instructors. If a faculty member chooses to establish a waiting list, it will be posted on his/her office door at the beginning of the course registration period. Students should add their names manually to that list of they are interested in being force-added. All Classics faculty offices are on the first floor in Irvin Hall; if you cannot find the office you need, please ask at the main department office in 105 Irvin.
Once classes have begun, students will be admitted from the waiting list in accordance with the following priorities: Classics majors, Classics minors, seniors who need the course to graduate, and students who have declared the Classics Thematic Sequence.
Students must attend the first day of class to be force-added to the course. Attending the first day is not an absolute guarantee of getting added, but it is guaranteed that students will not be force-added from the list if they do not attend the first day.
The final decision on all force-adds is made by the instructor of the course.
John W. Altman Humanities Scholar-in-Residence Program
March 4-6, 2009
Featured speakers will be
Kurt Raaflaub, Brown University, who will speak on borrowings from Mesopotamian myths in the Greek tradition. He also works on
NE political and legal influences on ancient Greece.
Raymond Westbrook, Johns Hopkins University, an expert on ancient law who will speak on the relationship between Greek law and ancient Near Eastern Law codes.
Jacques Berlinerblau, Georgetown University, who will speak on ideological barriers to the study of Greek culture in the contest of the
Ancient Near East. (He is the author of Heresy in the University, on the Black Athena controversy.) He is currently working on the
use of the Bible in contemporary politics, and will be giving a talk to the dept. of
Comparative Religion while he is here.
There will be a reception to follow on March 4th and 6th.
2008 Outstanding Educator!
Judith de Luce (Colby
College 1968) has been named the
2008 "Outstanding EDUCATOR for
2007-2008"
CONGRATULATIONS TO STEVEN L. TUCK!
Steven L. Tuck has been
granted tenure and promoted to Associate Professor
of Classics. Tuck received a bachelor's degree in
history and classics from Indiana University and a Ph.D. in
classical art and archaeology from the University of
Michigan. He had a postdoctoral position as the Arthur and
Joyce Gordon Fellow in Latin Epigraphy at Ohio State
University. Tuck is the author of eight articles on Roman
art and architecture, Greek and Latin epigraphy and the
analysis of imperial building prorams. His book on Latin
inscriptions was published in 2005 by the University of
Michigan Press. He received the Distinguished Scholar Award
for a junior faculty member in 2005.
Professor Steven Tuck was presented with the
Distinguished Scholar award in recognition
of a substantial and continuing record of research that has
brought prominence in his field. Steven Tuck received the
Distinguished Scholar award for a junior member who has
demonstrated great potential in research or creative work.
Tuck was named by the committee on faculty research and
Miami's office for the advancement of research and
scholarship. Tuck joined the Miami faculty in 2001. His
research interests include archaeology of the Roman
provinces, the topography and monuments of ancient Rome,
imperial ruler cult and Latin epigraphy. One of his
publications, in the Journal of Roman Archaeology, is
considered a "pivotal work in an ongoing redefinition of
the earliest development of architecture in the Roman
Republic." Tuck has been invited to be participant in the
Archaeological Institute of America's lecture circuit, a
significant recognition for a young scholar.
2008
- 2009 AWARDS
THE
HENRY C. MONTGOMERY SCHOLARSHIP
Recipient: Melanie Rund
BISHOP PRIZE IN LATIN
Recipient: Edgar Evan Hayes
ELLIOTT PRIZE FOR GREEK PREPARATION
Recipient: Emily Schubeler
BISHOP-ELLIOTT PRIZE IN CLASSICAL HUMANITIES
Recipient: Katherine Petrole
MARYILYN WADE-DUFF SCHOLARSHIP
Recipient: Melanie Rund
BISHOP-ELLIOTT PRIZE FOR LATIN PREPARATION
Recipient: Emily Trygstad
EACH YEAR WE ALSO AWARD STUDENT MEMBERSHIPS TO THE
ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA TO STUDENTS WHOSE
INTERESTS IN MATERIAL CULTURE WE WANT TO ENCOURAGE
Recipients: Lisa Mays, Alex Pierce, Stephen Clatos, Jessica
Gerber, Katherine Spaulding, McLean Beto