Department News and Events

Department News

Further congratulations to Ken Calemmo '12, who is this year's recipient of the George B. Moran Award for service to the College and the greater Worcester community! Ken was also awarded the key to the city by the city of Worcester for his outstanding work as SGA Director of Off-Campus Relations.

Congratulations to Eliza Gettel '12, who has been award a Fulbright grant to study for an MA in Social Archaeology at the University of Southampton next year. She has also been accepted to pursue a PhD in Ancient History at Harvard University the following year.

Congratulations to George Matthews '12, who has been awarded a Fulbright grant to pursue a taught Master's in Classics at the University of Liverpool next year. George also won first prize in this year's Eta Sigma Phi translation contest in Advanced Latin.

Congratulations to Melissa Browne '12 and Ken Calemmo '12, who are both joining Teach for America after graduation. Melissa will be teaching in the Wilmington, Delaware area, and Ken will be teaching in Camden, NJ, while working on a Master's in Urban Education at U. Penn.

Congratulations to Daniel Libatique '10, who will begin the Ph.D. program in Classical Studies at Boston University this fall.

Congratulations to Classics Majors Thomas Arralde '13, Stephanie Lindeborg '13, and Christine Roughan '14! Their project, “Editing the Oldest Complete Manuscript of the Iliad,” has been accepted for presentation at the Council on Undergraduate Research’s Posters on the Hill event. The event will take place on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on April 24, 2012, where they will present their work to members of Congress and other government officials. According to CUR, 850 applications were received this year, and only 74 were selected. Arralde, Lindeborg, and Roughan produced a complete digital edition of Book 1 of the Iliad in the 10th-century Venetus A manuscript, including over 1200 individual scholia. Working collaboratively, they inventoried every bit of writing on each page, used digital tools to map the location (as a proportional area on the image of the page) of each scholion as well as other items on the page, assigned a unique identifier to each scholion, and transcribed a diplomatic edition of all the text, which they then marked up in TEI-XML. Their work in Summer 2011 was funded through the Mellon Summer Research Program for the Social Sciences, Arts, & Humanities at Holy Cross and the Holy Cross Alumni/Parent Fund for Summer Research. Read more about it in the Holy Cross Magazine.

Department Events

Prof. Christopher Krebs
Department of the Classics, Harvard University

"Tacitus’s Germania

or

What Makes Books Dangerous?"

Wednesday, April 11, 2012 at 4:30 p.m.

Hogan Campus Ceneter – Room 406

Open to the Public – Refreshments Will Be Served

Classics Day

Classics Day 2012 Information

Students from St. Sebastian's High School run in the chariot race on Holy Cross Classics Day 2009.  Courtesy of the Worcester Telegram & Gazette.

Questions about the Classics Department? Call us at 508-793-2547 or e-mail classicsdept@holycross.edu.