| University of Colorado Department of Classics | Vol. V · No. 1 · October 1, 1998 |
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Our year begins on an upbeat note. Having just welcomed two faculty members to our sparkling Boulder September, we are turning our attention to another search already underway. The Departmentıs successes in recruitment, teaching, research and community outreach have caught the attention of the College and University administrations. We were awarded our newest position because we emerged successfully from a College-wide reinvestment exercise in which departments across the College submitted themselves to a competitive process by crafting proposals for growth and restructuring. Given the strength of the many nationally distinguished departments in our College, we were honored to have been selected for targeted growth. We hope and expect to continue along our present trajectory as we move the department into still greater national prominence. The successes I mention are easy to numerate. Most centrally, we have continued to attract exceptionally strong junior faculty members whose enthusiasm and innovations have helped to transform the Department. This year we were delighted to have our offers accepted by Professor Susan Prince and Professor Diane Conlin, both profiled in the accompanying story. They join Professors Churchill, Traill, Lenski and |
Gibert, all Assistant Professors who continue to make their marks. Also continuing to solidify the Department's reputation are Professors Knox, Fredricksmeyer and Schutrumpf. Although we will miss them sorely during their absences, the Department was delighted, if unsurprised, to see Professors Knox and Schutrumpf win prestigious fellowships this past year. Prof. Schutrumpf has been selected to join the Institutute for Advanced Studies in Princeton for the spring semester, while Prof. Knox is on a research leave funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities. While conducting his research, Prof. Knox will have to find time to carry on his editorial responsibilities at Classical Journal, whose editor he was appointed as of this year. We are all delighted to become the host institution of that outstanding journal. At home in Boulder, our faculty continues to excel in the classroom. Almost every member now makes heavy use of web-related, bases |
and pedagogical aids. Of course, Classics as a discipline recognized the
potential of those resources early on. Perhaps, then, it is no surprise to find our colleagues exploiting
these tools to good effect. This, however, cannot be the whole explanation for the astonishing rise in numbers
of majors and students of Classics courses. That is instead attributable to the talent, enthusiasm and
dedicated skill of our faculty, all of whom I would like to commend and thank. They are the heart and soul
of our operation. Itıs a good thing, then to find them all in such a healthy state!
If you would like to check in on them or on the developments in the Classics community in Boulder, a good place to begin is: We hope to hear from you all, Friends, Alumni and Alumnae of Colorado Classics. BY DIANE CONLIN After many years of gray skies and long, bleak winters in Michigan, I arrived with my family in sunny Colorado this past June. After completing my Ph.D. in Classical Art and Archaeology from the University of Michigan in 1993, I stayed in Ann Arbor as a Visiting Assistant Professor for the |
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