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Assistant Professor James Zainaldin publishes Cambridge monograph on Roman “arts and sciences”
Feb. 21, 2025—The Department congratulates James Zainaldin on the publication in the past week of his monograph The artes and the Emergence of a Scientific Culture in the Early Roman Empire with Cambridge University Press! Zainaldin’s book reconsiders ancient Latin writings on disciplines including medicine, architecture, agriculture, land-surveying, and the art of war to make a new argument for the...
Assistant Professor James Zainaldin wins international research scholarship
Jan. 13, 2025—Professor James Zainaldin has received a junior research scholarship from the Fondation Hardt pour l’étude de l’antiquité classique in Geneva, Switzerland, to support a scholarly stay at the the Fondation’s world-renowned research library. Professor Zainaldin will be visiting the Fondation Hardt later in 2025 to advance his research on the ancient Greek and Roman traditions...
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...
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...