"Andrew Laird's superlative Aztec Latin, a staggeringly rich and erudite study”, “a magnificent exploration of the deployment of a humanistic educational system in Mexico.”

Please join the Department of Classics in congratulating Prof. Candace Rice, who has won the 2023-2024 Graduate School Faculty Award for Advising and Mentoring. The award recognizes faculty members who have made significant contributions as advisers or mentors to our graduate students. Needless to say, there were many nominations, but Candace's dedication, hard-work, and care, easily allowed her candidacy to rise to the top. All in our community send hearty congratulations to Candace for this much-deserved award.

The Department of Classics is proud to announce that Prof. David Buchta, Senior Lecturer in Sanskrit, has won the Karen T. Romer Award for Excellence in Advising.

At the most recent meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Itamar Levin, a fifth-year student in our graduate program, delivered a paper, "'Bring Him Home': Iliad 7.334–5 and the Commemoration of the War Dead in Archaic Greece," for which Itamar has won CAMWS' Presidential Award for Outstanding Graduate Paper. Congratulations, Itamar!

Prof. Sasha-Mae Eccleston and Prof. Dan-el Padilla Peralta (Princeton) have been awarded a one million dollar grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to support the development of the Racing the Classics Fellowship Program.

Congratulations to the graduate students presenting their work at this year’s annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies.

Brown Classics mourns the loss of Kurt Raaflaub— prolific scholar, generous teacher, and a devoted member of our community for 45 years.

Please join us in saying Congratulations to the Classics Department Class of 2023.

The Department of Classics proudly announces the winners of the 2023 prize exams, thesis prizes and service awards.

This year, Classics @ Brown held our fifth annual Button Badge Competition.

Instituted by Isabelle Pingree and Brown University in 2011 to honor the distinguished career of her late husband Professor David E. Pingree, University Professor and Professor of the History of Mathematics and of Classics at Brown University until his death in 2005.

Brown University invites applications for an International Humanities Postdoctoral Fellowship in early modern studies with a focus on “Humanities in the Colonial World c. 1500-1750."

The Department of Classics at Brown University invites applications for two (2) two-year, non-renewable Postdoctoral/Post-MFA fellowships in Critical Classical Studies to begin July 1, 2023.

We were again unable to host our annual Commencement Reception and Diploma Ceremony this year, so we want to show our appreciation to all of our 2021 graduates by recognizing their achievements at Brown on our website.

After two years we were finally able to host our annual Commencement Reception and Diploma Ceremony this year! We want to show our appreciation to all of our 2022 graduates by recognizing their achievements at Brown on our website. The Department conferred twenty-one undergraduate degrees in May 2022.

This year, Classics @ Brown held our fourth annual Button Badge Competition.

Last Fall, The American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) paid homage to the late Alan Boegehold (1927-2015) with a room named in his honor.

The Department of Classics is pleased to announce four language prize exams in the month of March. Financial prizes will be awarded for each exam.

The David Pingree Prize in Ancient Science and Intellectual History

The Department of Classics held The President Francis Wayland Prize Exams in Latin and Ancient Greek in early November.

Brown University’s Department of Classics and Department of Comparative Literature invite applications for a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Critical Classical Reception.

Congratulations to Kelly Nguyen (Ph.D., Ancient History) for winning the John J. Winkler Memorial Prize!

This year, Classics @ Brown held our third annual Button Badge Competition.

Since we were unable to host our normal Classics Commencement Reception and the Diploma Ceremony this year, we wanted to show our appreciation to all of our 2020 graduates by recognizing their achievements at Brown on our website.

The Classics Department is pleased to announce that we are planning to run this year’s Lyon-Foster Language Prize Exams via Zoom.

Congratulations Kelly Nguyen for winning the inaugural SCS Erich S. Gruen Prize.

On November 26th, Classics PhD candidate, Avi Kapach, published an article in Trends in Classics, a journal produced by the academic publisher, De Gruyter Publishing.

When the pandemic began to take hold in March, international students were faced with a tough choice: To remain with their friends at Brown, or to return to their home countries before borders were shut.

Typically, at the start of each academic year, the Classics Department hosts a welcome reception at the Brown Faculty Club to celebrate the start of the school year.

This year, Classics @ Brown held our second annual Button Badge Competition. We asked all undergraduates in Classics courses to create an design that they felt represented Classics at Brown University.

This Fall, Professor Amy Russell joins the Department of Classics at Brown University as Assistant Professor of Classics.

"The tradition of the Vietnamese reception of classical literature has not yet been examined, and this article is the first to venture into this intersection between Classics and Vietnamese studies."

This afternoon marked the end of the formal teaching period in the Spring 2020 semester, a memorable one.