Registration Open: North American Cicero Awayday 12 April 2025
Registration for the 2nd Biennial North American Cicero Awayday is now live. For details and registration, please click here: https://classics.wfu.edu/ciceroawayday2025_north_america/
Prof. John Oksanish discusses ancient views of gladiators and Gladiator II for The Conversation
Check out this piece Professor Oksanish wrote on the new Gladiators movie! https://theconversation.com/to-some-ancient-romans-gladiators-were-the-embodiment-of-tyranny-243247
T. H. M. Gellar-Goad’s First Year Seminar Featured in InsideWFU
Check out this article on Professor T. H. M. Gellar-Goad’s Fall 2024 semester First Year Seminar Course “Beware the Ides, Beware the Hemlock: Roleplaying Crisis in Ancient Greece and Rome” featured in InsideWFU: News Ancient Greek role-play revives political debate Dressed […]
Call for Papers
The Departments of Classics and Philosophy at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, NC, are pleased to host the second North American Cicero Awayday on Saturday 12 April 2025. The first North American version was held at The University of Virginia in 2023. The Awayday will […]
Podcast Interview
Check out this podcast interview with Professors T. H. M. Gellar-Goad and Caitlin Hines about Classics Beyond Whiteness that was recently released by Khameleon Classics!
Pictures from the Ancient Olympics!
Check out these pictures from the fifth annual Wake Forest Ancient Olympics, organized by Professor T. H. M. Gellar-Goad, on September 23rd! Photos by Tsing Liu.
We’re Hiring!
We are hiring a tenure-track professor with expertise in race, racism, and Greek & Roman studies this cycle. Check out the link to the job ad here: https://wfu.wd1.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/Faculty_Career_Website_live/job/Assistant-Professor–Department-of-Classical-Languages_R0004831
Professor T. H. M. Gellar-Goad Wins Leadership Award!
Congratulations to Professor T. H. M. Gellar-Goad on earning this year’s Leadership Award from the Women’s Classical Caucus! Read more here: https://www.wccclassics.org/award-winners
T. H. M. Gellar-Goad wins massive NEH grant
The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded Professor Gellar-Goad and his collaborator Christopher B. Polt (Boston College) a $224,081 grant to run an Institute for Higher Education Faculty in summer 2023 on “The Performance of Roman Comedy.” This grant is the largest-ever federal grant […]
Photos from “The Art, Archaeology, and Culture of Ancient Greece”
Check out these photos from the study abroad program “The Art, Archaeology, and Culture of Ancient Greece” – May 2022! In the middle of our first group dinner at Εύχαρις where we had some amazing Greek food. (May 9) Photo and caption by […]
