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Classical Languages alumna Mary Somerville (’15) has been awarded the Hahn Scholarship for study in Rome this summer! The scholarship is awarded to a member of CAAS (the Classical Association of the Atlantic States) to help cover the cost of Classical Summer School at the […]

Emily Greenwood, Chair and Professor of Classics at Yale University, gave a talk on Wednesday about death and remembrance in Classical and Afro-Caribbean literature.  Whereas in ancient Greece and Rome, elite dead were commemorated primarily through stone monuments and not through the physical bones themselves, […]

Karen Gusmer, President of Beta Iota chapter at Wake Forest, is majoring in Classical Languages: Latin. She represented the chapter very well at the national convention this past weekend at St. Olaf College in Minnesota.  In addition to meeting both legendary professors, Groton and May, […]

Check out these photos from Classics student, Zoe Schneider, who is spending her semester at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome.  “Standing in the footprints of history is such a humbling experience,” says Zoe, who received the William Royall Scholarship from the Classical […]

Please click here to read the Draft letter in support of students against institutional racism at Wake Forest University.

Seven College faculty members were celebrated recently for their longtime service at Wake Forest. As part of this celebration, their colleagues shared stories and thoughts about them. Check out the link below to read about Mary Pendergraft! http://college.wfu.edu/celebrating-our-faculty/ http://college.wfu.edu/celebrating-our-faculty-mary-pendergraft/

Professors Emily Austin (Philosophy) and T. H. M. Gellar-Goad (Classics) have been awarded a major Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship in support of the conference they are organizing, Feminism & Classics 2020, to be hosted by Wake Forest in May of next year.  The LCLF […]

Professor Patrice Rankine gave a talk on Classics and white supremacy, for a crowd of more than 40, the largest on record for a Wake Forest Classics event.  His February 7th talk was titled “Caught in the Act: The Classics, White Supremacy, and the Search for […]

Kevin received a bronze medal for his score on the CAMWS College Greek Exam and was the top scorer at WFU!

Former WFU Classical Studies Student, Scholar Sinclair W. Bell, Selected as Editor of Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome.  Read more here.