The Department of Classics at Brown University has been authorized to announce a search for a specialist in ancient Greek literature at the rank of Assistant Professor (tenure-track) or tenured Associate Professor.

The David Pingree Prize in Ancient Science and Intellectual History: 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.

Melissa Sassin (entry year 2009) speaks about why Brown Classics works for her.

Professor Emeritus of Classics, Kurt Raaflaub was named a recipient of a 2010 Mellon Emeritus Fellowship.

The Phi Beta Kappa Society has chosen Ella Grunberger-Kirsh as the winner of the 2024 Mary Isabel Sibley Fellowship. The Fellowship comes with a stipend of $20,000. Established in 1934 by Isabelle Stone in honor of her mother, this fellowship recognizes exceptional young scholars in various humanistic fields. Ella plans to use the fellowship to adapt her dissertation into a book. Her project, “The Memory-Writers: a Social and Intellectual History of Shorthand in Late Antiquity,” tracks the development of shorthand as a cultural artifact from the fourth to the seventh centuries C. E. Her project weaves together this linguistic history of shorthand with an investigation of shorthand-writers in the institutional record and reveals how shorthand-writers were viewed by others and how lives spent toggling between symbols and alphabets influenced the way they imagined themselves and their society.