Elizabeth Irwin, Professor of Classics at Columbia University, was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Spring 2015.
Stathis Gourgouris Awarded Lenfest Distinguished Faculty
Professor of Classics, English, and Comparative Literature at Columbia University Stathis Gourgouris was awarded Lenfest Distinguished Faculty. This award is given each year to “faculty of unusual merit across a range of professorial activities—including scholarship, University citizenship and professional involvement—with a primary emphasis on the instruction and mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students.”
Karen Van Dyck Named Michael I. Sovern Affiliated Fellow
Kimon A. Doukas Professor of Hellenic Studies Karen Van Dyck was named Michael I. Sovern Affiliated Fellow by the American Academy in Rome for Spring 2015. The fellowship enables a member of the Columbia community to spend six weeks in residence at the Academy.
Joseph Howley Awarded Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Critical Bibliography
Joseph Howley, Assistant Professor of Classics at Columbia University, was one of 20 awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School for 2014-16 in Charlottesville, Va.
Alan Cameron Recognized by the British Academy
Professor Emeritus Alan Cameron was awarded the 2013 Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies and Archaeology by the British Academy, citing “Alan Cameron has produced a major series of books on various aspects of the later Graeco-Roman world, from early Hellenistic times to the late Empire. He has a remarkable flair for synthesising literary with social and political history, at the same time clarifying the nature and relationships of the sources, and he regularly subjects long-accepted doctrines to examination and challenge.” The award is given every two years since 1957.