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The National Endowment for the Humanities announced awards announced last week.  Sinclair Bell (’95 Classical Studies Major, History Major), Professor at Northern Illinois University, has received fellowship funding for research and preparation of a book on the representation of Africans in ancient Roman art.  His project is titled: Race and Representation in the Roman Empire: Images of… Continue Reading: Alum Receives Fellowship Funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities

Student Queen McKee (’23) has published a piece in Ad Meliora titled Reimagining Lysistrata: Gender Expansion, Equity, Representation and Impact.  Check it out here: https://medium.com/ad-meliora/reimagining-lysistrata-gender-expansion-equity-representation-and-impact-beb6b5b4affc

Check out the essays written by Classics Professors T. H. M. Gellar-Goad, Brian Warren, and Amy Lather! How We Know What We Know: Humanities Responds to Pandemic

Check out this article by an alumn about chariot racing! Click here     

The Classics Department supports the ZSR Librarians’ Assembly, Statement on Online Proctoring Services, July 23, 2020, which includes this statement:   “While we affirm the need to ensure academic integrity and protect academic freedom, as well as the need to meet the requirements of various accrediting bodies, we must place before all of these our commitment to a… Continue Reading: Dept Support of the ZSR Librarians’ Assembly, Statement on Online Proctoring Services

The Department of Classics at Wake Forest University stands in solidarity with Black communities and with all people of color.  We join them in their grief and anger at the violent deaths of George Floyd and other Black Americans, and support their appeal for an end to the racism, injustice, cruelty, and fear that have… Continue Reading: Statement of Solidarity with Black Lives Matter

Following a screening of Spike Lee’s 2015 Film Chi-raq, Professors Sherri Lawson Clark, Ronald Neal, and T.H.M. Gellar-Goad offered their perspectives on the film’s intervention in questions of race, class, and non-violent protest. While acknowledging the film’s controversial approach, which applies bold satire to painful community trauma, the panelists found value in the film’s skillful adaptation… Continue Reading: Screening & Panel Event

We extend MAXIMAS GRATIAS to all those who came to celebrate the launch of John Oksanish’s book, _Vitruvian Man: Rome Under Construction_, at Bookmarks last night. It was a standing room only! Dr Oksanish in particular extends his thanks to those who came and purchased a copy. Stay tuned for news of more faculty book… Continue Reading: Oksanish Book Launch

On Friday, January 17th, we held a kick-off reception for the 14 Black Classicists exhibit currently on display in the ZSR Ammons Gallery.  This exhibit is a photographic portrait series featuring Black scholars, teachers, and leaders in the field of Classics whose forgotten histories have been recovered by the archival research of Professor Michele Valerie… Continue Reading: Centering Black Classicists Exhibit Reception

Congratulations to T. H. M. Gellar-Goad of the Classics Dept at Wake Forest University and Christopher B. Polt of the Classical Studies Dept at Boston College on receiving the Activism Award of the Lambda Classical Caucus, for their work lobbying the Classical Association of the Middle West and South to better protect LGBTQI+ members of the… Continue Reading: Gellar-Goad and Polt Receive Activism Award of the Lambda Classical Caucus