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.

Phi Beta Kappa (ΦΒΚ) is the oldest and most prestigious academic honors society in the United States. It encourages intellectual distinction among undergraduates by recognizing “outstanding academic accomplishment in the course of a broad liberal education.”

“For the last thirteen years, I’ve been working on a new theory of tragedy where risk is the dramatic fulcrum of the action. Why risk?—risk is just so fascinating that someone had to build a theory of drama around it.

The Classics Department is pleased to announce that two of our graduate students have recently received awards.

Jamie Flynn, a Senior, and a concentrator in Classics @ Brown, has published a book review of Paul Rahe's recent work on Sparta's strategy and foreign policy during the mid-5th century BCE.

Phi Beta Kappa (ΦΒΚ) is the oldest and most prestigious academic honors society in the United States.

Brown University made its presence known at this years SCS/AIA annual meeting.