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Our department has been granted a new line and we will be conducting a national search for a sixth full-time faculty member in the fall. You can find the job announcement here.
Tim O'Sullivan recently won the Gildersleeve Prize for his article "Walking with Odysseus: The Portico Frame of the Odyssey Landscapes" (AJP 128.4: 497-532). The Gildersleeve Prize is awarded anually by the Johns Hopkins University Press for the best article published in the American Journal of Philology.
Dr. Joan Burton has stepped down as chair after serving eight years (2000-08); Dr. Thomas Jenkins took over as our new chair on June 1st, 2008. Dr. Burton shares her thoughts on this moment of transition for the department:
| It has been my great pleasure to serve as the Chair of Classical Studies for the past eight years. This has been such an exciting time for Classical Studies at Trinity. When I became chair, the number of majors had always been in the single digits; now we have around forty. When I started as chair, there were only four tenured or tenure-track faculty; now we have grown to five—and just this year we have been granted a sixth (to start in 2009). We have added fabulous new courses to the curriculum, including Daily Life in Ancient Rome, Antiquity and Modernity, Greek Religious Experience, Theorizing Myth, Ancient Cyprus, and Pirates, Merchants and Marines: Seafaring in the Ancient Mediterranean. At a time when at many schools Classics is shrinking, we have been growing and changing to meet the times. We have supported and graduated a slew of talented and diverse students, now engaged in a multitude of projects. Students have headed off to graduate school in classics, archaeology, anthropology, linguistics, neuroscience, Middle Eastern Studies, economics, theology, library science, business, and art history, to law school and medical school, to work for Teach for America, to teach English abroad, to work in theater, etc. We hosted the meeting of the National Junior Classical League at Trinity in 2003, and the annual meeting of the Texas Classical Association in 2005. I shall miss the bustle of leading such a vibrant department, with such amazing colleagues, students, and staff. I have a year’s leave next year, and will be working at the University of Maryland. My husband and I have just purchased a tandem bicycle and will be touring around the Chesapeake Bay soon. Keep in touch; I will have my Trinity email! |
2006-07 Newsletter: The Classical Studies department newsletter (pdf) gives you the latest information about what's going on in our world.
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contact info:
Department of Classical Studies
Trinity University
One Trinity Place, #39
San Antonio, TX 78212
p: (210) 999-7653
f: (210) 999-8008
senior secretary:
Rose Cohen-Brown (rcohenbr AT trinity D0T edu) |
