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• Connor O’Rourke wins Graduate Student Poster Award

  Tuesday, January 07, 2025 | By egreene

  Congratulations to M.A. student Connor O’Rourke for receiving the Best Graduate Student Poster Award at the 126th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, which took place January 2-5 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Connor’s poster, “Helen’s Divinely Heroic Worship at the Menelaion: Exploring the Liminality of Hero-Divinity Worship through Spatiality in Sparta,” emerged from a paper he wrote in a class on Helen with Dr. Adam Rappold during his final year as an undergraduate. The poster allowed him to explore intersections between archaeology, mythic heroes and the divine.

  Explore the program of the Annual Meeting, and the 39 posters presented in Session 2L.

  

• Brock at the AIA / SCS Annual Meeting

  Thursday, January 02, 2025 | By egreene

  Brock will be well-represented at the 126th joint annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of American and the Society for Classical Studies. In a panel on Fieldwork and Analysis in Crete, Angus Smith will present his ceramic research, “The Neopalatial and Postpalatial Pottery Sequence of Gournia: New Evidence for Long Term Continuities and Change” and serve as a panelist in a workshop, “Fieldwork and Families: Challenges in the Research/Life Responsibilities,” sponsored by the AIA’s Research and Academic Affairs Committee. Elizabeth Greene has organized a workshop panel, “Sharing Archaeological Stories: A Workshop with ARCHAEOLOGY Magazine, and will speak about provenance research with students on objects in Brock’s Cypriote Museum in a workshop, “Unprovenanced Antiquities and Academic Institutions: Lessons Learned and Ways Forward.” M.A. student Connor O’Rourke will present a poster, “Helen’s Heroic Worship at the Menelaion.”

  Check out the full program of the 2025 Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies, to be hosted in Philadelphia, PA. Join some sessions in person or virtually!

• Cassidy Robertson awarded Harrison-Thompson Bursary Trust

  Tuesday, December 17, 2024 | By egreene

  Congratulations to M.A. student Cassidy Robertson for receiving the Harrison-Thompson Bursary Trust from the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs. Available through the generosity of the estate of Bernard Harrison, this scholarship is made annually to one full-time student in each of the five faculties: Applied Health Sciences, Goodman School of Business, Humanities, Mathematics and Science, and Social Sciences.

  Check out the webpage of Graduate Studies and Postdoctoral Affairs to see the full list of internal scholarships and awards available to graduate students at Brock. Donor-supported student awards and bursaries allow incoming and current graduate students to pursue their dreams and undertake world-class research.

  

  Cassidy Robertson participates in underwater survey at Vendicari, Sicily.

   

• Anton Jansen receives two teaching awards

  Monday, December 09, 2024 | By egreene

  Congratulations to Anton Jansen, who received two awards at the Centre for Pedagogical Innovation’s (CPI) Tribute to Teaching on Monday, Dec. 9. Jansen was a double honoree, receiving both the 2024 Don Ursino Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Large Classes and the 2024 Clarke Thomson Award for Excellence in Sessional Teaching. As so many students in the Department of Classics and Archaeology know, Dr. Jansen’s teaching is inspirational!

  Read the story in the Brock News here.

  

• Allison Glazebrook delivers Sally Katary Memorial Lecture

  Saturday, November 30, 2024 | By egreene

  On November 28th, Allison Glazebrook delivered the Dr. Sally L.D. Katary Memorial Lecture in the Northrop Frye Center at Victoria University in the University of Toronto. Her lecture was titled, “Slavery and the Athenian Sex Trade.”

  The late Dr. Sally L. D Katary taught Ancient Studies and Classics at Thorneloe University for 30 years until her sudden passing on August 6, 2016. A world-renowned Egyptologist with a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto, Dr. Katary was filmed by National Geographic on the subject of ancient Egypt and was well-known for courses on Greek mythology women in the ancient world; her students deeply appreciated her gift for storytelling. First established at Thorneloe University in her memory in 2017, The Dr. Sally L. D. Katary Memorial Lecture Series moved in 2024 to the Northrop Frye Centre at Victoria University.

  

• Angus Smith delivers talks and untalks

  Thursday, November 28, 2024 | By egreene

  On November 25, Angus Smith delivered a talk to the Brock University Archaeological Society titled, “Top Ten Pottery Styles of Ancient Greece!” What are your favorites?

  Two days later, on November 27th, he presented an “unTalk” at the St Catharines Library titled, “My Life in Fragments: The Story of a ‘Sherd Nerd’ in Piecing Together the Minoan Past,” at which participants had the chance to engage with ancient sherds from the Department’s collection of Cypriote antiquities.

  Read more in the Brock News about the UnTalks at the St Catharines Public Library and new approaches to engaging the community in the joy of learning:

  Humanities reimagines public lecture series

   

• Exploring a world of opportunity with Carrie Murray

  Tuesday, October 15, 2024 | By egreene

  Don’t miss coverage of Carrie Murray’s archaeological practicum on the island of Pantelleria (Italy) in the Brock News.

  “During the trip, she and other students became well-versed in excavation while exploring a Punic and Roman period sanctuary on the edge of the volcanic crater-lake Lago di Venere.

  Led by Associate Professor of Art and Archaeology Carrie Murray, students spent a month excavating, recording and processing artifacts, which Murray said strengthened their hands-on skills while connecting students to cultural, intellectual and artistic ideas from ancient times.

  “We learned about the life and death of the sanctuary site through the recovery of votive offerings, discovered new structures and even found signs of an earthquake in antiquity,” Murray said.”

  

  In September, Dr Murray presented a paper on her work at Pantelleria at the Annual Meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists in Rome, Italy, “Excavating and Exhibiting the Punic Sanctuary at the Lago di Venere, Pantelleria.”

  Murray also recently published a paper on the “Iconography of Elephants in the early 3rd century BC Italy: Pro-Roman, anti-Roman or multivalent?” Accordia Research Papers 16: 177-197.

   

• New publication of Amathus Gate Cemetery Excavations

  Tuesday, October 01, 2024 | By egreene

  Don’t miss the new publication of City and Cemetery: Excavations at Kourion’s Amathous Gate Cemetery, Cyprus. The Excavations of Danielle A. Parks, edited by Michael Given, Chris Mavromatis, and R. Smadar Gabrieli with contributions by D. Matthew Buell, Peter Cosyns, Anne Destrooper-Georgiades, Natasha J. Heap, Malgorzata Kajzer, Xenia Paula Kyriakou, R. Scott Moore, Meredith P. Nelson, Giorgios Papantniou, Chris Parks, David S. Reese, Tina Ross, Agnieszka E. Szymańska, and Urszula Wicenciak (Annual of the American Society of Overseas Research, Volumes 76 & 77: ASOR, 2024). Volume 1: Context, Analysis, and Conclusions; Volume 2: Human Bone, Ecofacts, and Artifacts.

  The Amathous Gate Cemetery played a key role in the spatial and social organization of the well-preserved city of Kourion on the south coast of Cyprus. It saw major transformations between the Hellenistic and Byzantine periods, from massively destructive earthquakes and the rise of Christianity to new social and administrative structures.

  The excavations were directed by the late Danielle A. Parks from 1995 to 2000, and found striking evidence for burial and commemoration, a wide range of material culture, and a large assemblage of well-preserved human remains. The project uses an innovative methodology for analyzing mixed stratigraphy and legacy data, which we offer to those researching sites with similar challenges.

  Volume I presents the chamber tombs and cist tombs, quarrying evidence, and deposition activity from the cleanup after the 370s CE earthquake. It integrates the stratigraphy with the analysis of the material culture and the recording of rock-cut features and gives a broad interpretation of the results of the whole project.

  Volume II presents detailed descriptions and interpretations of the ecofacts and artifacts. These include human and animal bone, pottery, lamps, figurines, stone objects, painted plaster, glass, jewelry, coins, and loom weights. Scientific methods include isotopic analysis of the bones, Neutron Activation Analysis of the pottery, and spectroscopic analysis of the glass.

  These volumes are the result of a White Levy Program grant awarded to Dr. Michael Given in 2016.

  The Department of Classics and Archaeology continues to miss Danielle and we offer our thanks to her colleagues and former students for their labor in seeing this publication to completion.

  

• Allison Glazebrook awarded SSHRC Insight Grant

  Friday, September 13, 2024 | By egreene

  Congratulations to Allison Glazebrook, who received an Insight Grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada for her project titled, “The Cycle of Slavery and the Athenian Brothel.” We can’t wait to see where this new trajectory of research will lead!

  Read more about recent SSHRC grants to Brock faculty in the Brock News.

  “Today’s federal government investment is a testament to the depth and breadth of Brock University research and its impact locally and internationally,” says Chris Bittle, Member of Parliament for St. Catharines. “The wide array of topics being funded by these awards is impressive and will contribute much to the vibrancy of communities here in Niagara and worldwide.”

  Check out some of Dr Glazebrook’s other recent papers and publications:

  “Discourses of Desire in Ancient Greece and Rome” is out in the new Cambridge World History of Sexualities, Vol. II: Sexualities: Systems of Thought and Belief. Edited by Merry E. Wiesner-Hanks and Matthew Kuefler (Cambridge University Press, 2024) 87-113.

  In July, she delivered a paper, “(Re)Housing Women’s Knowledge in the Attic Orators” in the panel What do Women Know? Gendered Knowledge and its Rhetorical Representations in Classical Athens at the Twenty-Fourth Biennial Conference of the International Society for the History of Rhetoric, in Vancouver BC.

  

• Undergraduate Student Published in Philomathes 8.1 Journal

  Friday, August 02, 2024 | By jhawman

  A hearty congratulations to Classics minor James Moens on the release of Philomathes 8.1, A Journal of Undergraduate Research in Classics in June through Austin Peay State University. James’s piece, “Agronomic Policy: Re-evaluating the Agricultural Decline of the Later Roman Empire,” along with the other articles in the journal, can be read here: www.apsu.edu/philomathes/Issues.php

  Congratulations, James Moens!

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