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Senior Lecturer Jason Harris receives the Harriet S. Gilliam Award for Excellence in Teaching
Dec. 13, 2024—Jason Harris has received the 2024 Harriet S. Gilliam Award for Excellence in Teaching by a Lecturer or Senior Lecturer. The award recognizes a continuing-track faculty member on a full-time, multi-year contract who has achieved excellence in teaching undergraduates. The Department congratulates and thanks Prof. Harris for his many years of mentoring students, increasing enrollments, and...
2024/2025 Lecture Series Event – A History of Air: The First Centuries
Nov. 11, 2024—The Vanderbilt Department of Classical and Mediterranean Studies is excited to Benjamin Folit-Weinberg, Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at The Ohio State University, to present A History of Air: The First Centuries as part of the Department of Classical and Mediterranean Studies 2024/2025 Lecture Series. This lecture will be held on Wednesday, November...
Undergrad Eleanor Vander Laan ’24 wins the 2024 Cooley Prize
Apr. 23, 2024—On April 22, 2024, the Department of Classical and Mediterranean studies presented Eleanor Vander Laan with a new award to recognize academic excellence and extraordinary service by a graduating senior major. They are a graduating senior majoring in Classical and Mediterranean Studies, as well as Educational Studies and History. Eleanor maintained a perfect GPA across...
Department of Classical and Mediterranean Studies Distinguished Lecture: Book Panel in Honor of Peter R.L. Brown’s “Journeys of the Mind”
Mar. 14, 2024—The Vanderbilt University Department of Classical and Mediterranean Studies is pleased to present the 2023-2024 distinguished lecture, Book Panel in Honor of Peter R.L. Brown’s Journeys of the Mind. Over the course of six decades, the work of Peter Brown, the Philip and Beulah Rollins Professor of History, emeritus at Princeton University, has defined our understanding of...
How to Be Healthy: Discussion + Signing
Feb. 15, 2024—On Tuesday, March 5th Adjoint Assistant Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies, Katherine D. Van Schaik, will be hosting a reading of her new book, “How to be Healthy: An Ancient Guide to Wellness“. Assistant Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies, James Zainaldin, will be joining Assistant Professor Van Schaik in conversation for the discussion....
2023/2024 Lecture Series Event – Remind Me of Anactoria: Models for Meaning from the Structure(s) of Early Modern Greek Poetry
Feb. 14, 2024—The Vanderbilt Department of Classical and Mediterranean Studies is excited to welcome Joel Christensen, Professor of Classical Studies at Brandeis University, to present Remind Me of Anactoria: Models for Meaning from the Structure(s) of Early Greek Poetry. This event is the second of the department’s 2023/2024 lecture series. Professor Christensen will present his talk on...
Assistant Professor Katherine D. Van Schaik Publishes New Book
Jan. 12, 2024—In How to Be Healthy, Adjoint Assistant Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies and Vanderbilt University Medical Center practicing physician Katherine D. Van Schaik presents a collection of Galen’s enduring insights about how we can take care of our bodies and minds, prevent disease, and reach a healthy old age. The second-century Greek physician Galen—the most...
Two Vanderbilt faculty members present at national meeting of Society for Classical Studies
Jan. 2, 2024—Two Vanderbilt Classical and Mediterranean Studies faculty members are representing the department at the January 2024 annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies, the national professional organization for the discipline. Isabella Reinhardt will present on “Ares, Xerxes, and Collective Suffering in Aeschylus’ Persians” on Jan. 6 in the panel “Tragedy and Theory.” Dr. Reinhardt says, “The talk offers...
James Zainaldin presents on comparative Greco-Roman and Chinese classics in distinguished global lecture series
Dec. 18, 2023—James Zainaldin, Assistant Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies, delivered a presentation on December 15th, 2023, entitled in the distinguished Guangqi Classics Lecture and Seminar Series hosted by the Guangqi International Center for Scholars of Shanghai Normal University. The lecture, presented as a webinar and attended by more than 100 students and scholars around the...