Kelly Nguyen (PhD, Ancient History) has been awarded the prestigious Graduate Fellowship at the Cogut Institute for Humanities for next academic year, 2020-2021. The Cogut Institute for the Humanities sponsors year-long fellowships for Brown University graduate students (in the fourth or fifth year of their PhD program) in the humanities. Graduate Fellowships provide an enhanced context for advanced doctoral students, including the presentation of work-in-progress and the benefits of critique from an exciting group of Faculty Fellows, International Humanities and Mellon Postdoctoral Fellows, and Visiting Faculty. Kelly is in her fifth year in the Classics Department’s Ancient History PhD program. Her dissertation is entitled “Vercingetorix in Vietnam: Classical Reception in French Colonial and Postcolonial Vietnamese Communities”.

Marko Vitas (PhD, Classics) has been awarded the CAMWS 2020 Presidential Award for the Outstanding Graduate Student Paper for his paper entitled “Name Replacement as a Stylistic Device in Pindar’s Epinician Odes”.  Graduate students reading papers at the annual CAMWS meeting are invited to submit those papers for the Presidential Award. The paper is evaluated on the quality of the scholarly argument and the effectiveness of their oral presentation.  Winners receive monetary prize along with a free membership to CAMWS for a year. Marko is a second year graduate student in Classics.

Congratulations to Kelly and Marko on their outstanding achievements.