| Department of Classics | University of Colorado at Boulder | December 2001 |
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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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Classics Graduate Program Marks Many Successes
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| Chair Peter Knox (left) and Associate Chair for Graduate Studies John Gibert (right) flank new PhD Paul Ojennus and new MA Jason Miller at the May commencement ceremony. |
This fall the Department welcomes five new students into our MA programs. Zenon Culverhouse and Holly Scripter have most recently been graduate students in other CU departments. After earning a BA at San Francisco State University in 1999, Zenon began studying for a Master’s in Philosophy in Boulder. While beginning his graduate study in Classics, he is finishing a thesis on “The Epistemological Function of Myth in Plato’s Republic.” Holly took her BA from Principia College (Elsah, IL) in 1996; she will receive her BA in Art History from CU’s Department of Fine Arts in December, after completing her thesis on “American Modernism in New York: Alfred Stieglitz and his Galleries.” Joanna Kingsbury joins us from the University of Wisconsin (Madison), where she earned her BA degree in Classics in 1999. Here in Boulder, she has begun to serve as the Editorial Assistant for The Classical Journal. Dwight Scull comes to us with an undergraduate degree in Biblical Studies from Colorado Christian Academy. And Dave Yates, this year’s Norlin Fellow, earned his BA in Classics at the University of Virginia last spring.
Three of our returning MA students traveled and studied in Greece this past summer. After short stays in Athens and Thessaloniki, Jude Morris spent the remainder of his time on the Greek islands of Samothrace and Limnos. There he divided his time between surveying the mystery sanctuaries on those two islands for his master’s thesis and long, contemplative walks along the beach. Ines Hälbig visited Athens, Delphi, and Olympia, among other places. She reports an ominous encounter with a horse called Antigone, “the crankiest, most stubborn horse” she’s ever met. By first galloping and then stopping suddenly, head between her legs, Antigone eventually managed to throw Ines into a big pool of mud. Marion Brew received the Lawler Scholarship, a full scholarship from the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, last summer and had the good fortune to spend six and a half “grueling” weeks visiting sites and museums throughout mainland Greece and the island of Crete. CU Professor Emerita Hara Tzavella-Evjen was her guide to Boeotia. A fourth student, Jason Miller (who, having completed his MA here at CU in the spring, has now begun studying for his PhD), traveled to Italy. He reports finding the Capitoline Museum and Roman cuisine particularly impressive.
Altogether, we currently have twenty students enrolled in the MA program and two in the PhD program. Four are employed in the Latin classrooms and eight as Graduate Assistants in large lecture classes.
