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Alumna Awarded Hahn Scholarship for Study in Rome!

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, Yale University, speaks to Classics faculty & students at Wake Forest

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, […]


Student Karen Gusmer Wins Award for Best Paper at Eta Sigma Phi National Convention

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, […]


Dr. Patrice Rankine Speaks at Wake Forest University

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 […]


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