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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...
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...
2023/2024 Lecture Series Event: Epic Racecraft and the Race of Heroes
Sep. 26, 2023—The Department of Classical and Mediterranean Studies welcomes Professor Jackie Murray to present the lecture, Epic Racecraft and the Race of Heroes, as part of the Classical and Mediterrranean Studies 2023/2024 Lecture Series. Jackie Murray is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classics at University of Buffalo. This lecture will be presented on Thursday,...
Department Hosts 2022-2023 Lecture Series
Feb. 20, 2023—This academic year, the Department of Classical and Mediterranean Studies is honored to host an esteemed group of lecturers for its 2022/2023 lecture series: October 6, 2022: Professor of Religion at Colgate University, Georgia Frank, presented Unfinished Christians – Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity. November 10, 2022: Associate Professor of Architectural History and...
Professors and students explore an ancient port-city in Israel
Aug. 8, 2022—Over the past five years, Vanderbilt researchers and students working at the ancient port-city of Caesarea Maritima, on the north coast of modern-day Israel, have unearthed tantalizing clues to life in the city during the Early Islamic period as well as the best-preserved remains yet discovered of Herod the Great’s famous Temple of Rome and...
Dan Solomon lectures on Roman propaganda at regional conference
Aug. 8, 2022—Daniel Solomon delivered a lecture entitled “War and Peace in Augustan Propaganda” at the Tennessee Foreign Language Teaching Association Annual Conference in November 2021. Professor Solomon is an expert in Roman thought, society, and literature, and he regularly teaches courses on the reign of Augustus and the poetry of the Late Republic to Early Empire....