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Jump to navigation Department of Classics The University of Chicago Home Welcome Prizes and Placement Videos History of the Department People Events Fields Undergraduate Graduate Courses Resources Contact Us Welcome to Chicago Classics! Our Department The faculty of the Classics department work in literature, linguistics, history, archaeology, and philosophy. We are developing innovative approaches to the study of Greco-Roman antiquity through our collaborative work with scholars in a wide variety of fields. We belong to international research networks and we teach, publish, and host workshops and conferences with colleagues from Art History , the Committee on Social Thought , Comparative Literature , the Divinity School , English , Germanic Studies , History , the Law School , Linguistics , the Oriental Institute , Philosophy , Political Science , Romance Languages , and Theater and Performance Studies . In keeping with the wide ranging research agendas of our faculty, the culture of Classics at the University of Chicago is pluralistic. The Department offers four different Ph.D. programs, each of which fosters a distinctive interdisciplinary approach to the study of Greco-Roman antiquity: Classical Languages and Literatures , the Ancient Mediterranean World , Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy , and the joint Ph.D. in Classics and Social Thought . More information about each of these programs can be found in the program descriptions . Read more about the history of the department! Latest News Renowed Classicist and Professor at the University of Oslo Han Lamers will be giving a seminar Spring Quarter entitled Classical Reception Studies: Key Texts and Ideas . (CLAS 44519, KNOW 44519, CLCV 25019) The department wishes to congratulate Dr. Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer, Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Classics, on her invitation to join the Board of Trustees of the American Academy in Rome. The department wishes to congratulate Dr. Shadi Bartsch-Zimmer, Helen A. Regenstein Distinguished Service Professor of Classics, for delivering the Clark Lecture at Brigham Young University. Pages … … See All News Prizes and Placements Mark Payne , Professor of Classics and the College, and in the John U. Nef Committee on Social Thought has been appointed a Chester D. Tripp Professor. Emily Austin , Assistant Professor of Classics and the College, received a Fellowship at the Franke Institute for the Humanities as a member of the 2019-2020 class. Kassandra Jackson Miller (PhD '17) has received a two-year (renewable) contract as a visiting assistant professor at Bard College. Abigail Akavia (PhD '18) has been awarded a Postdoctoral Research Fellowship from the Minerva Stiftung, a branch of the Max-Planck Gesellschaft, working on a project entitled "Empathy in Theater and Dance: Listening, Movement and Collective Emotion." Lakshmi Ramgopal (PhD '16) has accepted a tenure-track position at Columbia University. Paul Vadan (PhD '18) has accepted a one-year visiting assistant professorship at Reed College. Aaron Seider (PhD '11) has been awarded tenure at the College of the Holy Cross. Julia Mebane (PhD '17) has accepted a tenure-track position at the University of Indiana. read more Latest Videos Engagement of Faculty with Students Michèle Lowrie : Security, a Roman Metaphor from the American Academy in Berlin . more videos Search form Search Undergraduate Open House 2019 Undergraduate Open House 2019 Undergraduate Open House 2019 Annual Potluck 2018 Annual Potluck 2018 Annual Potluck 2018 Hellenists vs Latinists Soccer Game, Spring 2018 Hellenists vs Latinists Soccer Game, Spring 2018 Hellenists vs Latinists Soccer Game, Spring 2018 Hellenists vs Latinists Soccer Game, Spring 2018 Christopher Faraone's Book Seminar Julie Mebane (PhD '17) at Indiana University Hellenist vs Latinist Soccer Game, Fall 2017 Hellenist vs Latinist Soccer Game, Fall 2017 Hellenist vs Latinist Soccer Game, Fall 2017 Hellenist vs Latinist Soccer Game, Fall 2017 Hellenist vs Latinist Soccer Game, Fall 2017 Lakshmi Ramgopal, Jonah Radding and baby Gaia at the 527th Convocation, June 2016 Hellenist vs Latinist Soccer Game, Spring 2016 Hellenist vs Latinist Soccer Game, Spring 2016 Hellenist vs Latinist Soccer Game, Spring 2016 Hellenist vs Latinist Soccer Game, Spring 2016 Hellenist vs Latinist Soccer Game, Spring 2016 Hellenist vs Latinist Soccer Game, Spring 2016 Hellenist vs Latinist Soccer Game, Spring 2016 Jonathan M. Hall at the Field Museum Winter Formal Party 2015 Winter Formal Party 2015 Personal encounters with the divine Personal encounters with the divine Personal encounters with the divine On-site Teaching: Delphi On-site Teaching: Olympia On-site Teaching: Athens Upcoming Events Rhetorics and Poetics Workshop Thu, Feb. 20 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Classics Building, Room 21 Ancient Societies Workshop Tue, Feb. 25 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Classics Building, Room 21 Ancient Greek and Roman Philosophy Workshop, Anthony Price (Birkbeck), 'Aristotelian Continence Reconsidered' Wed, Feb. 26 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM Classics Building, Room 110 Rhetorics and Poetics Workshop Thu, Feb. 27 3:30 PM - 4:30 PM Classics Building, Room 21 Winter Formal Fri, Feb. 28 7:00 PM - 12:00 AM Other Location More Department of Classics 1115 E. 58th Street Chicago, IL 60637 Division of the Humanities | The University of Chicago | Privacy Notice...