In celebration of its 60th anniversary, Brock shone the spotlight on some of its most brilliant graduates by awarding 60 Alumni Brilliance Awards. Created for the University’s diamond anniversary, the awards recognize Brock alumni for significant contributions to their profession, local and global communities, or society at large over the past six decades.

Two alumni from the Department of Classics were honoured, Maureen Carroll (BA ’75) and Brad Inwood (BA ’74).

Maureen Carroll is Chair of Roman Archaeology at the University of York with particular interests in funerary commemoration, childhood, votive religion, and ethnic identity and dress. A participant in Brock’s archaeological practicum in Cyprus, Carroll has directed excavations at numerous Roman sites in Europe, including Pompeii and Cologne, and currently leads excavations at the Roman Imperial Estate at Vagnari in south-east Italy.

The William Lampson Professor of Philosophy and of Classics at Yale, Brad Inwood is a specialist in ancient philosophy with particular emphasis on Stoicism and the Presocratics. He is the author of multiple books and articles on ancient philosophy, including Ethics and Human Action in Early Stoicism, The Poem of Empedocles, Reading Seneca: Stoic Philosophy at Rome, Seneca: Selected Philosophical Letters, and Ethics After Aristotle.

Kim Post (BA ’03, Med ’14, BEd ’21), Director, Alumni Relations, remarks, “There are so many amazing Brock alumni doing incredible things in their communities and around the world. These awards truly capture the spirit of Brock.”

Read more about the awards in the Brock News and find the full list of awardees here.