Professor Allison Glazebrook has received the 2023 Faculty of Humanities Award for Excellence in Research and Creative Activity (https://brocku.ca/humanities/research/award-for-excellence/). This Brock award recognizes a consistent track record of outstanding research or creative achievements appropriate to the nominee’s discipline. Congratulations Dr. Glazebrook for this impressive recognition!
Brock faculty and alumni were well-represented at this year’s Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of Canada, held May 10-12 in Halifax, NS. Conference information and the full program is available here. Don’t miss next year’s annual meeting in Laval!
Allison Glazebrook and Angus Smith represented the faculty with their papers:
Rodney Fitzsimons, Trent University, Matthew Buell, Jane Francis, Concordia University, and R.A.K. Smith, Brock University, “Canadians at Aghios Nikolaos Again: Report of the Khavania Archaeological Project, 2022.”
Allison Glazebrook, Brock University, “The Importance of Place: Athenian Women in the Polis.”
Our alumni were visible giving papers and organizing panels:
Jeff Masse, University of Toronto, gave a paper, “On the Distributed Agency of Arrows in the Homeric Poems” in a session organized by Simone Mollard, McMaster University, Catherine Tracy, Bishop’s University, and Christina Vester, University of Waterloo.
Two M.A. alumni were featured in a panel organized by the Graduate Student Caucus and chaired by Victoria Muccilli and Simone Mollard:
Jazz Demetrioff, University at Buffalo, “Calling all Doctors: The Hand vs. the Practitioner.”
Stephanie Dennie, University of Western Ontario, “Attic Drama as A Starting Point: Using Sophocles’ Antigone as an introduction to interdisciplinary learning in a co-taught class for Theatre Studies and Community Psychology.”
We love to celebrate the stories of our alumni, in the field or far beyond. Please drop us a note if you have any news to share.
A hearty congratulations to Classics and Archaeology undergraduate student Annemiek Gritter on recently placing in the second prize category for the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) Latin Translation Exam for college/university students! Annemiek wrote the Advanced College Exam, which is open to students in their third year of post-secondary Latin and beyond at institutions with CAMWS memberships within the wide-ranging area that CAMWS spans (32 US states and three Canadian provinces). For the CAMWS Advanced College Exam, Annemiek is the only student at a Canadian university to place within these three prize categories!
Congratulations, Annemiek Gritter!
A hearty congratulations to Classics and Archaeology undergraduate student Emma Consoli on recently being awarded the prestigious Harry C. Maynard Scholarship! The Department of Classics and Archaeology has a long history of success in encouraging students to apply for this award; we are delighted to welcome Emma to their number.
The Harry C. Maynard Scholarship is awarded annually to students studying Classics in memory of the late Harry C. Maynard who taught Classics at the University of Toronto for many years. The Ontario Classical Association (OCA) has undertaken, by arrangement with the Trustees, to advertise the scholarship, receive applications, and rigorously access applicants. With recommendation from the OCA, the Trustees of Maynard’s estate select the recipients of this prestigious scholarship.
Congratulations, Emma Consoli!
Congratulations to Classics and Archaeology alumna Alison Innes (MA ’13) on her new position as the Brock University Faculty of Humanities’ “Strategic Initiatives and Outreach Officer”! Previously the “Social Media Co-ordinator”, this change in job title became effective on Monday, March 20th, 2023.
Alison will also be starting her PhD in Interdisciplinary Humanities at Brock this Fall!
Congratulations, Alison Innes!
A hearty congratulations to Classics and Archaeology undergraduate student Daniel Belanger on recently being awarded the prestigious Harry C. Maynard Scholarship! The Department of Classics and Archaeology has a long history of success in encouraging students to apply for this award; we are delighted to welcome Daniel to their number.
The Harry C. Maynard Scholarship is awarded annually to students studying Classics in memory of the late Harry C. Maynard who taught Classics at the University of Toronto for many years. The Ontario Classical Association (OCA) has undertaken, by arrangement with the Trustees, to advertise the scholarship, receive applications, and rigorously access applicants. With recommendation from the OCA, the Trustees of Maynard’s estate select the recipients of this prestigious scholarship.
Congratulations, Daniel Belanger!
Dr. Eóin O’Donoghue (left) and Dr. Carrie Murray (centre), the new joint Review Editors of Ancient West & East from Peeters Publishing, with Stephanie Peeters, Peeters Publishing Representative (right)
The Department of Classics and Archaeology’s own Dr. Carrie Murray has officially been named as a joint Review Editor of Ancient West & East!
Ancient West & East is an academic journal devoted to the study of the periphery of the ancient world, its so-called barbarian milieu, the activities thereabouts of Greeks and Romans, and the relations between them and local peoples. Much attention is paid to local societies and cultures and their links with the early Byzantine and Near Eastern civilisations as well as the Graeco-Roman.
In early November 2022, Prof. Elizabeth Greene gave a keynote lecture “A Sea of Many Voices: Toward an Inclusive Maritime Heritage in Southeast Sicily” in collaboration with with Justin Leidwanger of Stanford University and Leopoldo Repola of the University of Naples at the Under the Mediterranean II conference hosted by L-Università ta’ Malta and held by the Honor Frost Foundation. While there, the Honor Frost Foundation interviewed Prof. Greene and Dr. Leidwanger for their Dive & Dig podcast.
In this episode we head to the Mediterranean and discover more about Inclusive Maritime Heritage in Southeast Sicily. We explore the ancient fishing traditions of the Marzamemi, discuss shipwrecks, connectivity, and the innovative, reflexive ways the team are working with local communities to tell the story of their maritime past.
To listen to the podcast, click here.
As Prof. Elizabeth Greene begins her term as President of the Archaeological Institute of America, she caught the attention of the St. Catharines Standard.
Working in a harbour in Turkey, underwater archaeologist Elizabeth Greene recalls finding a broken wooden comb. Follow-up research revealed the comb was likely used by sailors to comb lice out of their hair. To this day, it is one of her favourite finds.
It painted a picture –– not of the traders who moved luxury goods of gold, silver and bronze. But of the sailors, on boats, taking long journeys across the seas.
To read the full story, click here: https://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/news/niagara-region/2023/01/12/brock-professor-elizabeth-greene-named-president-of-archaeological-institute-of-america.html.
The Department of Classics and Archaeology’s annual Saturnalia event marks its 10th anniversary and makes Brock News by bringing a taste of an ancient Roman experience to students:
Brock University students are invited to experience a bit of ancient Roman Thursday, Dec. 8 when the Department of Classics and Archaeology holds its 10th annual Saturnalia event.
Based on an ancient Roman festival, the event gives students the opportunity to connect with each other and with faculty in a fun environment while learning about the ancient Mediterranean world.
“It’s an opportunity to embrace everyone’s company and celebrate that we’re a community of people who really love learning about ancient Greece and Rome,” says Fanny Dolansky, Associate Professor and one of the organizers for this year’s event.
Continue reading here: Experience ancient Rome at Brock’s 10th annual Saturnalia
