Department of Classics Newsletter

Ivy Stiles (BA 1986) visited the department in June and introduced his wife, Marina, to the department and showed her CU and Boulder. Ivy teaches Latin I-Latin AP and Introduction to Greek at Rabun Gap-Nacoochee School in Rabun Gap, Georgia, where he also coaches swimming, cross country and track and field. Ivy is working on his MA in Classics at the University of Georgia.

Dorothy Rohner (MA 1989, PhD 1993) is a member of the faculty of the Classics department at the University of North Carolina Asheville, where she was recently promoted to the rank of Associate Professor. UNC Asheville is a small liberal arts institution with a student population of 3300 and a vibrant Classics department. Dorothy takes a group of students to Greece every odd year for a two-week tour of archeological sites and two weeks of excavation with a Greek archaeologist. Last summer the group worked on Mykonos. She recently received a $20,000 grant from the UNC system to develop an e-learning course in "Old World/New World Archaeology" in collaboration with Prof. Anne Rogers of Western State University. In addition, she is active in CAMWS and the Women's Classical Caucus.

Clay Jenkinson, who completed Classics graduate courses in the 1990's as part of his continuing effort to attain knowledge similar to that of Thomas Jefferson, presented "An Evening with Thomas Jefferson" in Denver on February 15. Clay was the principal on-air commentator in Ken Burns' series on Jefferson, has been a featured guest on "Politically Incorrect" and CSPAN, and hosts the "Thomas Jefferson Hour," a nationally syndicated radio program.

Georgia Irby-Massie (PhD 1994) has accepted a position at Baylor University where she will join John Thorburn (PhD 1993) on the Classics faculty. John has recently been appointed editor of the CAMWS newsletter and serves as Assistant Director for both Baylor's University Scholars Program and the Baylor in Italy Program.

Alexandra Christidou (PhD 1996) teaches elementary school in her homeland of Greece. She has received a permanent assignment to the first elementary school in her hometown of Ag. Stefanos. Alexandra's e-mail address is aleka@rockinmranch.com.

Anetra Parks (BA 1998, JD 2001) will continue to work as the staff attorney/law clerk for the Ho-Chunk Nation Court System till June 28. In early July she will move from Black River Falls, WI, to Boulder, where she will begin a new job as an Associate with the law firm of Greene, Meyer & McElroy, a firm which practices both Indian Law and Family Law. Welcome back to Boulder, Anetra!