| Department of Classics | University of Colorado at Boulder | December 2001 |
Table of Contents
Active Undergraduates Spread Success Across Campus and Continents
Classics Graduate Program Marks Many Successes
Lively Lectures Abound This Year
Meet Bekki Richards, an Innovator in Distance Education
Legio XIIII Invades CU's Campus
Alumni Secure Prestigious Positions
Friends of Classics at CU-Boulder
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From the Chair
Peter A. Knox
In this, my penultimate year as Chair, it is a pleasure to contemplate the accomplishments of the many talented colleagues who now make up the faculty of the Department of Classics. At the moment the majority of our faculty are relatively recent arrivals at CU, but even I, one of the grizzled veterans, am only entering my tenth year in Boulder. This is a young and vibrant program, bristling with activity in teaching and scholarship. Before long, new books by John Gibert on Euripides, Ariana Traill on Terence, Susan Prince on Antisthenes, and Noel Lenski on Constantine will be at the publishers. Diane Conlin is pursuing projects developed during last spring’s conference on “Marble in the Roman World”, Beth Dusinberre is exploring Persepolis, and Peter Hunt is making significant contributions to our knowledge of ancient warfare. Eckart Schütrumpf is nearing completion of the fourth volume of his monumental commentary on Aristotle’s Politics, while on leave this year on a Faculty Fellowship. Last year’s Faculty Fellow, Chris Shields, is lecturing on his research projects around the globe, most recently in New Zealand. And our most recent recipient of CU’s most prestigious teaching award, Barbara Hill, is marshalling our burgeoning Latin language program.
Elsewhere in this newsletter John Gibert, our Associate Chair for Graduate Studies, reports on the many activities of our graduate students and graduate alumni. Our most recent Ph.D. recipients, Douglas Doll, Paul Ojennus, and Zachary Biles, are currently teaching at the University of Oklahoma, Purdue University, and Davidson College respectively. Current graduate students are carrying on the tradition of active engagement in the teaching and scholarly activities of the Department through participation in the Association of Students of the Classical World. Undergraduates, about whom you will hear from Noel Lenski, are also an integral part of the life of the Department. In January, J.K. Melton returns from a semester at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, while Jared Benton crosses the Atlantic for the spring semester at ICCS. In the not too distant future, perhaps more CU students will be making that trip to participate in the field school for archaeology that we hope to establish.
We have all been touched by the strange and tragic events of this peculiar autumn. Many members of our Department, students and faculty, have friends and family who were close to the disasters in New York and Washington. We are all grateful that, so far as we know, none in our CU family of classicists suffered direct personal loss. As educators, we struggle to find ways to help our students-and ourselves-to come to terms with the inexplicable. The study of the past is one avenue to an understanding of the complexities of the present. Our Department has been central to that endeavor during the first 125 years in the life of the University, and so it is today, when such understanding is as crucial as it has ever been.
