Click on the links below to read the statements from the candidates for each office.
The candidates were asked to address in their statements: (1) their experiences and qualifications relevant to the office for which they are standing; and (2) what they hope to contribute to SCS and achieve if elected. Candidates were also asked for links to online CVs or the CVs were uploaded to the SCS website. For the election slate and the Nominating Committee report, please visit the 2025 Election Slate page.
Voting will open in early August. The statements are listed in the order on which they will appear on the ballot.
Election Candidate Statements:
- President-Elect
- Vice President for Education
- Director with Special Responsibility for Equity
- Directors-at-Large
- Committee on Professional Ethics
- Nominating Committee
- Program Committee
- Goodwin Committee
President-Elect
Victoria Pagán
Professor of Classics, University of Florida
The presidency of the SCS is bound to be challenging in the current political climate, but my experiences in teaching, research, and service, especially in the state of Florida, have prepared me to lead our profession with confidence and courage. At its root, confidence comes from trusting ourselves, each other, and our colleagues across academia. Courage comes from using the very threats to our field of study to crystalize our shared purpose. I bring these qualities to my work at the national, regional, and local levels.
For the SCS, I vetted applications for what were then called minority scholarships from 2006-2011. I stood for election to the Nominating Committee in 2015. Before the SCS created the permanent position of Director with Special Responsibility for Equity, I served from 2020-2023 as the Equity Advisor, a non-voting member of the Board of Directors. In 2023, I served on the Presidential Task Force on the Future of the SCS Annual Meetings and on the search committee for the position of Executive Director. I’ve been on interview committees for the Rome Prize (2023) and the TLL (2024). Affiliate groups are the lifeblood of the SCS, and I am a founding member of the Mountaintop Coalition, for members of the profession from underrepresented groups to network and feel welcome and appreciated. As I complete my term as co-chair of the WCC I’ve earned the trust of the members and created opportunities for growth and change.
On the regional level, CAMWS has been a consistent part of my professional life, starting as an assistant professor at the University of Wisconsin, where I was a state VP; a regional VP; member at large; chair of the local planning committee in Madison in 2005; and member of the local planning committee when the meeting was in Gainesville in 2006. In March 2026, I will proudly preside over the 122nd annual meeting in Mobile, Alabama, where CAMWS is dedicated to providing support and resources that ensure all colleagues feel safe in the Deep South: transportation, bathrooms, guides to friendly businesses, and mindful gathering with friends and allies as we socialize within and beyond the conference venue.
Locally, where state legislation has had direct impacts on curriculum and instruction, I’ve served my department as chair; graduate coordinator; and supervisor of the graduate teaching assistants. I’ve served on our college Faculty Diversity and Inclusion Committee; Finance Committee (twice); Tenure and Promotion Committee; and various search committees. As a long-standing member and now co-chair of the Intercollegiate Athletics Committee, I am devoted to the success and well-being of student athletes, many of them first-generation. Each of these leadership roles at the University of Florida has required me to listen and grasp competing and sometimes even conflicting points of view so that we can achieve the best outcome for the students and for the larger enterprise.
If elected, I will take a three-pronged approach to the office of president. First, I will seek financial resources from private entities to maximize current funding and develop new revenue streams to enhance the SCS portfolio and create greater autonomy for ourselves as an organization. Second, I will work to strengthen alliances and build stronger connections with other professional societies, beginning with the AIA. Third, I will seek to develop strategically targeted programming that capitalizes on our strengths and maximizes our impact to broaden access to the study of the ancient Mediterranean world and to communicate the specific impact of our work to the public.
Beyond these three strategies, we have a less tangible but no less important tool at our disposal: our shared commitment to the study of the ancient world. As higher education sustains direct attack, we must be willing to undertake the morally and epistemologically difficult work that we, as classicists, have been trained for all along. The great irony of the present political environment is that the very texts and ideas that we understand in all their complexities are the same tools that are being hijacked for the purpose of tearing down our institutions. However, because we acknowledge, invite, and embrace the complexities, differences, and yes, the diversity of the human condition, we are more powerful than any simple-minded, one-sided interpretation of the past. Through our collective teaching, research, and service, we fortify one another and amplify each other’s efforts. In the pursuit of truth and knowledge — the most enduring mandate of the SCS — arete is our best defense, joy our strongest resistance.
Vassiliki Panoussi
Chancellor Professor of Classical Studies, College of William & Mary
It is both an honor and a responsibility to stand for election for the role of President-Elect at a time when Classical Studies is at a critical inflection point. I come to this candidacy as someone whose career has been deeply rooted in the trenches of undergraduate education—teaching Latin and Greek to students encountering the ancient world for the first time. That experience has shaped my enduring conviction in the transformative power of our field and the importance of supporting those who keep it vibrant, particularly at the undergraduate level, where much of our teaching and recruitment occurs.
The challenges we face are real: shrinking departmental resources, disproportionate retirements, and sustained threats to humanities funding amid a broader—and unprecedented—attack on higher education. Yet in the face of these obstacles, we must not lose sight of the signs of strength. According to a recent American Academy of Arts & Sciences survey, nearly 93,000 students were enrolled in Classical Studies courses in Fall 2023, and 80% of department chairs reported stable or growing enrollments. These numbers speak volumes: students continue to be drawn to the questions we ask and the skills we cultivate, both in the classroom and beyond.
Notably, 69% of departments that award Classical Studies degrees do so at the undergraduate level alone. These departments are the front lines of our discipline’s future. They deserve our unwavering support—through curricular resources, enhanced visibility, and a renewed articulation of why the humanities are not a luxury, but a necessity in a world shaped by crisis, complexity, and polarization.
Now more than ever, the public face of our field matters. As humanists, we must demonstrate the relevance of Classical Studies in today’s urgent conversations—about democracy, identity, and justice. While we are fortunate to count many powerful public voices among us, we must do more to amplify our field’s reach. I would welcome the opportunity to help strengthen the resources available to members who wish to engage in advocacy, public scholarship, and media outreach.
We also carry a deep responsibility to the next generation. Young people from all backgrounds—especially those historically underrepresented in our field—deserve a clear, supported path into the profession. That means investing in inclusive pedagogies at both the graduate and undergraduate levels, supporting Latin programs in secondary schools, strengthening curricular bridges between high school and college, and deepening our partnerships with affiliated groups.
Technology, too, calls for our attention—not as a threat, but as a powerful tool. From AI-driven epigraphic restoration and paleographic analysis to interactive learning platforms and forgery detection, digital innovation is reshaping how we teach, research, and engage. We must lead in this space by modeling responsible and creative use of new tools. I will support initiatives that bring together classicists, digital humanists, computational linguists, and machine learning specialists to explore the opportunities ahead.
Over the course of my career, I have served as department chair, participated in key university committees, and worked extensively with other classical organizations. My involvement with the Society for Classical Studies includes seven years on the Annual Fund Committee, where I helped meet fundraising goals each year. I have also served on multiple CAMWS committees and helped organize one of its annual meetings at my home institution. Currently, I serve in my final year as President of the Vergilian Society, where I launched a new book series in collaboration with De Gruyter and initiated a capital campaign to strengthen the Society’s future.
In all my work—teaching, scholarship, and service—I have prioritized building community, mentoring early-career colleagues, and advancing equity and transparency. If elected President-Elect, I will advocate fiercely for Classical Studies and for the vital role the humanities play in shaping civic life. I will work collaboratively across institutions, disciplines, and organizations to ensure that our field remains not only relevant, but indispensable.
The future of Classical Studies will not be determined by numbers alone, though we must take them seriously. It will be shaped by our collective commitment—to act, to innovate, to include, and to sustain one another.
Thank you for your consideration.
Vice President for Education
Eric Dugdale
World Languages Teacher, Iowa CIty Community School District
The success––even survival––of our field will depend on our ability to innovate, collaborate, and welcome new contributors. The SCS, in partnership with the American Classical League and regional classical societies (CAMWS, CANE, CAPN etc.), is the big tent that can drive change. But as an organization there is a lot more we can and must do. Just look at our digital footprint through the eyes of an outsider and you will know what I mean. Even our Wikipedia page begins with a historical excursus and cites as its two examples of outreach Amphora and The Dionysiac (of which I served as founding editor), both of which are now defunct.
I am that outsider challenging our organization to do more. A first-generation student, son of a refugee, native of Colombia, I have taught or studied on every continent except Antarctica. “I live without baggage to better understand the world,” is one of my favorite lyrics by Belgian-Cameroonian singer-songwriter Lubiana. I started my teaching career in a primary school in England, have served in a variety of university leadership positions (department chair, director of the semester in India program, associate provost of general education and assessment, etc.), and now teach in a diverse inner-city middle school in which half of our students are on free and reduced lunch. Classical organizations in Brazil (SBEC) and the United Kingdom (JACT) offer innovative models for programming and outreach for the SCS to consider. There is so much more we can do to put teaching and learning at the core of SCS’ mission and annual meeting, as it is for the Modern Language Association and American Classical League.
In the last few years, I have purposely shifted to a model of collaborative scholarship involving undergraduates in my published research. a practice common in the sciences but virtually unknown in our field. They have contributed to two articles, two book chapters, and three reviews to date. These and other collaborations, including participation in the groundbreaking Homer Multitext Project, have given my students opportunities for leadership and brought classics to new audiences, including donors and legislators at the Minnesota state capitol.
The pool of classics majors is rapidly shrinking, putting unrelenting pressure on many of our programs. We can’t work ourselves out of this predicament through departmental outreach alone. We need to build new networks and reach new audiences, beginning from the ground up in K-12 education. My district has no Latin program, but my 7th grade students love exploring comparative linguistics. They investigate Indo-European languages and do poster presentations on Grimm’s law and Schleicher’s fable. Some may well seek out a classics course or two at college as a result. University departments should be (and in some cases are) seeking out these eager humanists and their teachers too. Understanding the common core standards that drive K-12 curricula is key to embedding classical content and developing strategic alliances.
SCS can facilitate and publicize strategic partnerships between schools and universities. Our alums may not have their pick of jobs in classics, but with deliberation and planning we can position them in related fields in education (language arts, social sciences, world languages) and beyond. When co-authoring the SCS Careers for Classicists-Undergraduate Edition, one of my favorite profiles to write was that of the chef and owner of a food truck, whose application of the skills he developed as a classics major serves as a powerful testimony of the versatility of the discipline. His story and that of many others must be sought out and amplified by the SCS.
I have a track record of leadership and work in the SCS (including on the Education Committee), CAMWS, and the Classical Association of Minnesota. More recently I have become involved in ACTFL and the Iowa World Languages Association .These experiences have taught me the value of hard work, collaboration, and fresh ideas. If elected as vice president for education, I will use my administrative experience to effectively carry out the important regular work of the education division. At the same time, I will engage educators at all levels to develop and support new pathways to classics and amplify the reach of existing ones.
James Patterson
Language Program Director, Classics, Yale University
It is an honor to have been nominated for the position of Vice President of Education. Considering the unprecedented challenges we face, from AI to new objectives of the federal government on top of preexisting concerns, this is something I do not take lightly. Education is the lifeblood of our discipline, and we need to work together now more than ever to keep it healthy.
For the past four years I have been Language Program Director in Classics at Yale, where I set the curriculum for introductory and intermediate Greek and Latin courses and mentor the graduate students who teach them. I serve on the Dean’s advisory committee on foreign language education and work with other Language Program Directors to create programing and advocate for language teachers at Yale. Meanwhile, I am collaborating with colleagues at institutions beyond Yale to develop an Open Educational Resource for teacher training at the college level, both for language courses and courses in translation.
Before coming to Yale, I taught in Classics and the Center for the Study of Core Texts & Ideas at the University of Texas at Austin, where I also received my PhD. Before that, I received my BA and MAT from the University of Massachusetts Amherst. My background, then, includes high school, college, and graduate education in public and private institutions in and outside of Classics departments. This background—along with my own struggles as a student—informs my approach to teaching, teacher training, and administration. I am President-Elect of the Classical Association of New England (CANE), and I have made it a priority to foster dialogue between high schools and colleges, public and private schools, and teachers and scholars. To facilitate this dialogue I hosted the annual meeting of the Classical Association of Connecticut at Yale in 2023 and 2024 and of CANE this past spring.
It should go without saying that, if elected, I will use all of the resources available to me to support every facet of the Education Division. I will not pretend to know the intricacies of each committee’s work at the moment, but I would very much like to learn them and offer whatever help I can give as VP of Education. I would promote work not only within committees but also between committees when collaboration of this sort is helpful. Following Kirk Ormand’s suggestion in his Presidential Letter of May 20, 2025, I would also work with counterparts in other professional societies when topics of shared concern might benefit from interdisciplinary cooperation. At the same time, we cannot lose sight of the obstacles teachers and students perpetually face, regardless of what is happening in Washington—accessibility, funding, respect, and so forth. I would give my attention equally to old concerns as to new.
Thank you for your consideration.
Director with Special Responsibity for Equity
Amanda Wilcox
Professor of Classics, Williams College
I am honored to stand for election to the position of “Director with Special Responsibility for Equity,” whose brief is the promotion of diversity, inclusivity, and equity throughout the activities of the Board. In this role, the Director acts as “a dedicated person, identifiable to all” who helps to “make the SCS more diverse, equitable, and inclusive…across its operation, divisions, and programs.” If elected, I would be conscientious in attempting to fill this role with humility, candor, and courage, in the hope of helping the SCS contribute toward equity of access to our field and toward equitable professional support and development for all members of our profession at every stage of their careers. The SCS should provide support and encouragement for diverse modes of research and scholarly production in Classical Studies in order to foster expansive and innovative perspectives on the ancient world, even as it continues to endorse longstanding projects such as the TLL that remain indispensable. The SCS should moreover strive to make the resources it underwrites available and useful to its members and member departments in every sort of institutional structure, including precollegiate programs. Likewise, we should continue to advertise, support, and encourage outreach to educational communities beyond institutions of higher education. And crucially, the SCS should continue its efforts to better tailor the Annual Meeting to meet the needs of its diverse membership, including a reconsideration of how career development and mentoring may occur more intentionally and effectively at the meeting, and to determine how the Annual Meeting can balance the not- entirely-complementary desiderata of inclusivity, affordability, and sustainability while hosting an inviting, lively forum for both the formal presentation and informal exchange of ideas.
Sam Flores
Associate Professor of Classics, College of Charleston
I am honored to be nominated for the Director with Special Responsibility for Equity position. Given the current political climate and the direct attacks on education, the SCS and similar professional organizations have a unique ability, and perhaps even a responsibility, to promote the values of diversity, equity, and inclusion without the same repercussions many of us have to face at our home institutions.
In my leadership and service, both institutionally and professionally, I have worked extensively towards making the field of classics and higher education in general more diverse and inclusive. At the College of Charleston, I have led and contributed to multiple committees, programs and initiatives, including the Center for the Study of Slavery in Charleston, Crossing the Cistern (an undergraduate mentorship program through the now defunct Office of Institutional Diversity), and the also defunct Race, Equity, and Inclusion (REI) Initiative, of which I served as director during the 2024-25 academic year. As REI director, I reviewed and assessed courses for the REI component of the General Education curriculum and designed faculty development to support colleagues who are teaching REI courses. I also worked with faculty and administrators in transitioning the REI Initiative into a program compliant with state legislative bills and federal executive orders specifically targeting DEI programs. I have also contributed to multiple organizations professionally. Most notably, I served on the SCS Committee on Diversity in the Profession from 2022-2025 and chaired the committee for the latter two years of my term. I also served as a founding member of the steering committee for the Mountaintop Coalition.
If elected, I would strive to ensure the SCS uses its platform and unique position as an independent organization. My goals would be: (1) to make the SCS a network of support for our many colleagues who are working to foster diversity in the profession amidst attacks at multiple levels; (2) to foster communication among the SCS committees, affiliate groups, and grassroots movements working to make our field more equitable and inclusive; and (3) to insert discussions of equity into conversations that SCS leadership at all levels holds about its present and future.
Stephanie McCarter
Professor of Classical, The University of the South
I am honored to stand for the SCS’s Director with Special Responsibility for Equity. I am currently a Professor of Classics at the University of the South, a small liberal arts college in Sewanee, Tennessee. I was a first-generation college student whose education was at large public institutions, the University of Tennessee and the University of Virginia. This background helps me understand how much every kind of student from every kind of background can enrich the field of Classics. If elected, I will work to ensure that the SCS continues to commit itself to diversity, equity, and inclusion, a task more critical now than ever as such efforts are being seriously undermined across American colleges and universities. I share President Kirk Ormand’s recently expressed sentiment that we must work diligently against any attacks on academic freedom, and that this is the particular responsibility of those of us with tenure.
To my mind, academic freedom guarantees the SCS the right to affirm our commitment to equity in the belief that doing so is ethically warranted and that diverse perspectives advance academic pursuits. When everyone has access to the study of antiquity, we develop a deeper understanding of the past and simultaneously broaden its intellectual appeal. I will work to ensure that SCS activities are inclusive not only in terms of gender, race, and ethnicity but also in terms of institutional affiliation, rank, and position type (whether contingent, tenured, etc.). I am passionately committed to a “big tent” approach to Classics that makes space for as many people and approaches as possible, and I will advocate that the organization be strategic in ensuring that every decision it makes takes equity into account. To cite work I have already done toward this goal within the SCS, I currently chair the Committee on Translations of Classical Authors, in which capacity I shepherded our proposal for the Raffaella Cribiore Award for Outstanding Literary Translation to its approval by the board. By recognizing the value of translation within the field, this award nurtures a mode of writing that benefits tremendously from diverse perspectives and that has the potential to overleap the academy’s walls and open its gates.
I have served the field and my institution extensively. Since 2022 I have been the Elections Officer for the International Ovidian Society, and I have worked to ensure that the make-up of its steering committee is representative of the larger field. I am also the CAMWS Vice President for the Upper South and was this year’s recipient of its Outstanding Regional Vice President Award. I have additionally served on numerous committees at my home institution, such as the Curriculum and Academic Policy Committee, the Leaves Committee, and the Appointments Committee. In 2019, my service was recognized with Sewanee’s Faculty Award for Excellence in Service to the Institution.
Directors-at-Large
Jacques Bailly
Associate Professor, Department of Classics, University of Vermont
Denise Demetriou
Gerry and Jeannie Ranglas Chair in Ancient Greek History, University of California, San Diego
I would be honored to serve as a Director-at-Large. I have a strong record of service at my home institution and within professional societies. I have served on and chaired the SCS’s Committee on Ancient History (2012-2014); more recently, I was appointed as a member of the SCS Presidential Task Force on the Future of the SCS Annual Meeting (2023). I also held the position of Secretary-Treasurer for the Association of Ancient Historians from 2015 to 2018, during which time the Association increased diversity among its members and developed a mentorship program for junior faculty, where I participated as a mentor. In 2020, I received the Randall Howarth Prize for Excellence in Mentoring from this association. From 2016 to 2020, I directed the Center for Hellenic Studies at UC San Diego and have co-directed it since 2022. During my (co-)directorship, we built partnerships with universities in China, Italy, Israel, and Greece, hosted post-doctoral fellows, enhanced undergraduate students’ experiences through engagement in the Center’s research projects, and, through our programming, created a thriving intellectual environment for faculty, graduate and undergraduate students, the community of San Diego, and beyond. I currently serve on the American School of Classical Studies in Athens’ Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Access Committee.
If elected, I would bring my commitment to service to the SCS Board of Directors, along with my perspectives as a faculty member at a large, Hispanic-serving public institution, my undergraduate experience at a liberal arts college, and my history as an immigrant. I intend to build on my work with the Presidential Task Force on the Future of the SCS Annual Meeting and consider further what the SCS can do for its members. To that end, I am interested in establishing mentorship programs that could benefit our members, especially those who are most vulnerable—graduate students, contingent faculty, and underrepresented or marginalized groups. Throughout my career, I have worked to make the field of Classics and Ancient History more diverse and inclusive through my research interests in marginalized groups, such as immigrants, the various pedagogies I employ in the classroom, and my successful recruitment of graduate students from underserved and underrepresented backgrounds. As a Director-at-Large, I hope to bring my commitment to equity, diversity, and inclusion to ongoing discussions about advocacy, growth, and inclusion, which are the three core values of the SCS’s mission.
Emily Baragwanath
Professor and incoming Chair, Department of Classical, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
I would be honored to serve as SCS Director-at-Large. This year colleges and universities find themselves in a dramatically changed landscape from last, with broad assaults on higher education and research institutes across the board. Helping figure out how best to assist colleagues, institutions, and the SCS in navigating this challenging new terrain would be my highest priority should I be elected. Two urgent issues include how to stave off, or navigate, deep cuts to budgets and programs; and how to present our field to institutional higher-ups and non-academics who are skeptically disposed. A particular challenge is making the case for support of graduate students at a time of such attack on the research enterprise. Our field is adaptable, interdisciplinary, and global, and puts us in an enviable position to teach our students not only liberal arts core values and what it means to be human (a perception all the more crucial given burgeoning AI), but also precisely the skills and sensibilities needing for navigating the challenges that lie ahead: critical and creative thinking, a global and historical perspective, and practical, market-oriented skills. I would work in practical ways to build bridges: to forge closer bonds between the SCS and AIA, since pooling our strengths will help to make our case compellingly, and between Classics/ Archaeology colleagues in universities, colleges, and public schools, on the one hand, and the broader community, on the other.
I believe my new role as Chair of the Department of Classics at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill would well complement service on the Board of Directors: in both cases I would be drawing on my 18 years’ experience in a large public university in the south, and in a department whose faculty bridge philology and archaeology, working productively with (and against) administrators and in support of colleagues across disciplines. In recent years I spear-headed a successful effort to roll back major cuts to the UNC Libraries’ operational budget and served on a University committee to select the Vice Provost for Universities Library and University Librarian. I have supported a wide cross-section of students in my years as Director of Graduate Studies and Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Classics. This past year I directed the Associate Professors Program at UNC’s Institute for Arts and Humanities, supporting newly-tenured Associate Professors across different departments and disciplines in juggling increasing institutional and administrative demands, field-related responsibilities, and their other dimensions of life. I am current President of the International Xenophon Society and a member (for a second time) of the CAMWS first book committee. I would also bring to the Director role my experience serving on the SCS Program Committee and the APA/SCS Development Committee, and the understanding I have gained over the course of living and working in five countries across three continents.
Hunter Gardner
Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, University of South Carolina
I am honored to be considered for a position among the SCS's Board of Directors. I have been a member of the SCS for over two decades and served as South Carolina’s SCS Legate for two years. I am currently the program director of Classics within a large languages department at a flagship state university. This experience has made me especially sensitive to the challenges and opportunities we face as a discipline, especially with regard to recruiting students and majors from underserved and underrepresented communities. In particular, we have dealt recently with problems of curriculum and whether to require a level of proficiency within the languages for our majors or allow students with less interest in learning Greek and Latin to pursue the study of antiquity: how can we cast a wider, more inclusive net (perhaps especially appealing to students never exposed to Latin or Greek at the secondary level), while also maintaining minimum enrolment numbers in upper-level language courses? These problems are not unique to the University of South Carolina, and I would like to bring my experience handling them to the broader national Classics community represented by the board.
As a member of CAMWS (Classical Association of the Middle West and South) I have served as SC’s Vice President, Southeast Regional Vice President, and most recently, President of the organization (2021-22). In my role as CAMWS president I became well acquainted with the challenges of satisfying many constituents with competing interests. It was under my guidance, at the prompting of very vocal members, that we established guidelines for choosing annual meeting sites that would allow us to host a more inclusive event. I have also acted as elections officer for the International Ovidian Society (IOS, 2018-2022), a job which requires consulting with the nominating committee to come up with an annual slate of candidates. I am currently acting Vice President for AIMS (Antiquity in Media Studies), a position that has allowed me to remain engaged with another area of Classics near and dear to my heart, reception studies. As a member of the SCS Board I would actively promote a wider interest in and exploration of the range of modern media responding to the ancient Greco-Roman world.
I have worked regularly with SC’s secondary school teachers (e.g., during the Fall Forum hosted on USC’s campus in 2024) and am especially interested in encouraging participation among k-12 faculty, in particular, initiatives that would allow them more access to annual SCS meetings. While I am aware that budgetary constraints are especially pertinent in all decisions made at the Board level, increasingly so as the current political administration doubles down on its attempts to gut funding for humanities-focused organisations and initiatives, it seems especially critical to foster growth at the secondary level.
Melissa Mueller
Professor, Department of Classics, University of Massachusetts Amherst
I am honored to stand for election to the Board of Directors. I have previously served on the SCS’ Program Committee (2020-22) and have been active in the organizational and mentoring dimensions of the Asian and Asian American Classical Caucus; in other relevant work, I have read applications for the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the National Humanities Center.
I have taught for the past eighteen years at UMass Amherst, a large public university in the northeast, in a Classics department consisting of ten full-time faculty with a diverse range of research specializations and a well-regarded Master of Arts in Teaching Latin and Classical Humanities. Over the course of my career I’ve seen the number of Classics majors fall by half (from 80-100 down to around 40) and the number of students enrolling in Greek and Latin shrink by similar percentages. One of my main reasons for wanting to join the Board of Directors is to open better channels of communication between the SCS and departments—especially those that do not grant PhDs in Classics and/or related fields—eager to find more effective ways of recruiting students and advocating for their relevance to their own institutions. This is an issue that affects SCS members everywhere. Without strong Latin and Classics programs in our secondary schools, there will be even fewer students arriving on campus who enroll in our courses. Likewise, PhD programs will be shutting down if there are no jobs at institutions like my own for their students to be hired into.
If elected I will concentrate on three priorities:
1) Widening the range of students, at all levels, who come into contact with the ancient world and its reception
2) Advocating and organizing for the importance of language teaching at both the K-12 level and at colleges and universities
3) Mentoring teachers at all stages of their career as an essential way of increasing engagement and avoiding burnout
Committee on Professional Ethics
Nigel Nicholson
Walter Mintz Professor of Greek, Latin and Mediterranean Studies and Humanities, Reed College
The primary responsibility of the Professional Ethics Committee is to consider complaints filed with the SCS by individuals against individual Classicists or Classics departments or other groups—outside of the context of the annual meeting, which has a separate complaints procedure. The scope of the Committee is pretty limited. The SCS Statement on Professional Ethics is a strong statement of principle—detailed and broad—but the SCS lacks the staff and finances to become involved in lengthy legal proceedings, and thus the Committee avoids taking complaints for which there are more suitable venues, typically within the respondent’s home institution. At the same time, the Committee does take up some cases, and there is also considerable room for informal consultations and resolutions.
Complaints procedures are often painful for all parties, but we should embrace them; as well as a means to repair wrongs, they are one route through which change happens. But it is crucial for all concerned that they are managed sensitively and professionally, and that requires experience and training, both of which I can offer. At Reed I served for seven years as the Dean of Faculty, our provost equivalent, as well as a further five years on our Appeals and Review Committee, and in those capacities I received considerable training and acquired a lot of experience with conducting investigations and interviews, managing formal and informal dispute resolutions, drafting grievance policies, and interacting with attorneys.
I am a big fan of our professional societies. I typically attend the SCS and Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest, and have done so for 30 years, and I have also served on the SCS Education Committee (2011-15) and as Treasurer and President of CAPN. These bodies play a crucial role in helping us share our practices and discoveries, and our hopes and concerns, and proper attention to maintaining professional conduct is an indispensable part of making them a success for everyone. Hopefully, the professional ethics committee’s services will be only rarely required, but if and when they are, I would be honored to put the experience I have gained in this area to use for the SCS—or to leave it the hands of my excellent colleagues on this slate.
Sarah Levin-Richardson
Associate Professor of Classics, University of Washington
I am honored to run for a position on the SCS Professional Ethics Committee. My research, teaching and service center the experiences of marginalized groups: I research Roman labor (especially slavery), sexuality, and graffiti; I teach courses on gender and sexuality in antiquity and incorporate the diversity of the ancient world into my regular slate of courses; and I’ve served in groups within and outside the SCS that aim to support various communities within Classics. Part of my role as Co-Chair of the Women’s Classical Caucus (2014-2015) and then Co-Chair of the Lambda Classical Caucus (2019-2022) was to field the concerns of members and advocate for resolutions, and there were ethical issues that came to our attention during that time that necessitated listening deeply and compassionately to multiple voices who saw the fundamental issues in very different ways. More recently, through our local chapter of the AIA, I started a microgrants program for local high school and college students to support their participation in archaeological projects, and initiated a Critical Archaeology Reading Group, now in its fifth year, that tackles ethical issues in our fields (e.g., I moderated our fall 2024 set of sessions on Roberta Mazza’s Stolen Fragments: Black Markets, Bad Faith, and the Illicit Trade in Ancient Artefacts). I currently serve on my university’s Faculty Council on Gender and Equity in the Profession (2022-2028), part of whose responsibility is to respond to issues raised by faculty across our three-campus system (UW Seattle, UW Bothell, UW Tacoma) and advocate for a more equitable workplace, whether that means restrooms that are both accessible and gender-inclusive, parental leave policies that account for all scenarios where a child enters a household, or a gender-neutral faculty code. Through this work, I have also learned about Alternative Dispute Resolution, which offers all parties to a dispute a flexible—and often more satisfactory—resolution.
If elected, I see my task as to listen to the professional concerns of our membership and to think creatively about ways to support parties in finding a resolution. I want individuals to feel heard, valued, and supported. I also hope to support the other committees in the Professional Matters Division in continuing the SCS’s important work in collecting data on our membership and their experiences. This data—in concert with the individual issues brought to the Professional Ethics Committee by our membership—is instrumental in revealing broader trends, thus providing information on where we as a field are falling short in supporting our members, and where our field needs to improve.
Kristina Chew
Associate Teaching Professor of Classics, Rutgers University
I am honored to be asked to stand for election to the Committee on Professional Ethics. If elected, I will strive to foster and preserve an equitable, thoughtful, and professional ethos in the SCS community, while urging the organization to advocate for a scholarly culture open to diverse individuals and their perspectives, supportive of academic freedom, and responsive to the challenges facing higher education today.
I am an Associate Teaching Professor of Classics at Rutgers University and the editor of Teaching Classical Languages. If asked to name an epithet to myself, I would choose πολυτρόπη as this word evokes the twists and unexpected turns I have encountered in three decades as a classicist who has moved among many different worlds. These include teaching at public, private, and religious institutions including both large (R1) universities and smaller colleges located on the East Coast, in the Midwest, and in northern California, and being a tenured professor and the director of Honors and other programs, then contingent faculty, and now a teaching professor with expertise in online learning and occasional lecturer at the University of California at Berkeley and at Santa Cruz. My guiding concern has stayed the same, to make Classics a field of scholarly endeavor inclusive of students from diverse backgrounds and of individuals with disabilities. This belief has shaped my scholarship on classical reception, as in my 1997 article “What Does E Pluribus Unum Mean?: Reading the classics and multicultural literature together”; my translations of Vergil’s Georgics and of Greek and Latin poetry that draw on my heritage as the granddaughter of undocumented Chinese immigrants; my teaching of Greek and Roman literature, history, and myth, and of the ancient Greek and Latin languages; and my mentoring of undergraduates and graduate students. Indeed, developing a critical pedagogy accessible to all has been at the core of my work as a classicist since my now-adult son was diagnosed with autism and intellectual disabilities in 1999, the first year of my first tenure-track position at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul. I was a member of the SCS’s Contingent Faculty Committee and of the Asian and Asian American Classical Committee at both of these groups’ inception and am currently a member of CAMWS’s Committee on Diversity and Inclusion and of its Executive Committee. I have been recognized for my contributions to diversity, equity, and inclusion in Classics as the recipient of the Masciantonio Diversity Award for Faculty/Programs 2024-2025 from CAMWS; a 2025 Excellence in Online Teaching Award in DEI and Accessibility from Rutgers; an Accessibility Champion Award from the Disability Resource Center of the University of California, Santa Cruz, in 2021; and a 2019-2020 Award for Distinguished Contributions to Undergraduate Education for Online Teaching from Rutgers.
Through the years of caring for my son while teaching and writing, I have sought to learn as much as I can about the lives of individuals with disabilities in the past and often reflected about how our work of studying and educating others about the ancient world frequently intersects with what is going on in the present. As classicists in a world beset by societal and political tensions and crises, our work of deepening and safeguarding knowledge of the past is all the more necessary, and our cultivation of a just and equitable scholarly community all the more essential. I am prepared to undertake this charge if elected to serve on the Committee on Professional Ethics.
Sonia Sabnis
Professor of Greek, Latin, and Ancient Mediterranean Studies and Humanities, Reed College
It is an honor to stand for election to the Committee on Professional Ethics. The charge of this committee is crucial to the success of our work as educators and scholars, and its work must be responsive to immediate situations in ways that are attentive to its consequences for all aspects of the profession. This work is surely not easy, but it fits well with the deliberative and evaluative skills that I have learned and practiced in almost 20 years as a faculty member.
My first SCS (then APA) was as a graduate student volunteer at the San Francisco meeting of 2005. More recently, my service to the profession has focused on increasing opportunities and support for underrepresented groups: I served on the Minority (now Snowden) Scholarships committee, back in the days when we still had to go around the hall collecting books for the raffle, as well as on the steering committee for the Mountaintop Coalition. In the past four years, I have mentored graduate students through the Asian and Asian-American Classical Caucus (AAACC).
I have taught at Reed College since 2006, with two years at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome (“the Centro”), most recently as Professor-in-Charge. My teaching is thus focused on undergraduates, whose ever-changing resources and questions have laid bare the importance of ethical behavior at every level. At the same time, I have had many opportunities to interact with graduate students and recent Ph.D.s—as a mentor, on hiring committees, in conference settings—as well as with scholars working in numerous subfields. I have observed that, despite many advancements and more open conversations about professionalization, we rarely work with the same set of assumptions when it comes to professional ethics, which govern everything from citing sources to respecting invisible labor, from communicating in job searches to modeling comportment on field trips in foreign countries.
Since I received tenure at Reed, my college service has been substantial: I have served on all its major committees, including five years on the Committee on Advancement and Tenure. In addition, I served on Reed’s most recent presidential search committee, which required even higher levels of discretion, judiciousness, and confidentiality than the others. If elected, I would draw on this experience as well as my conviction that, given the numerous threats against and tensions in higher education, we must engage in discussions about present and future challenges while also committing to and abiding by the standards delineated by the SCS.
Nominating Committee
Scott DiGiulio
Associate Professor of Classical & Modern Languages and Literatures, Mississippi State University
I am honored to have been nominated to stand for election to the Nominating Committee. A member of the SCS for more than a decade now, I have profited immensely from the intellectual and interpersonal exchanges that the Society has afforded me; while I have not yet held an office for the SCS, I welcome the opportunity to serve on the Nominating Committee and repay that debt.
The greatest strength of the SCS is the diversity of approaches, perspectives, and lived experiences that its members bring with them, and that is true now more than ever. One of my central priorities as a member of the Nominating Committee would be ensuring that the full diversity of the Society is represented at all levels by designing election slates comprising colleagues of different cultural backgrounds and identities, in addition to professional ranks, employment status, and geographical location. Indeed, I have brought a similarly inclusive approach to my previous service at my home institution, including my leadership of the College of Arts and Sciences’ Faculty Senate, in which role I worked to ensure that colleagues from all backgrounds and professional ranks could have a voice and contribute to shaping the College’s policies and community more broadly.
It is particularly important to make sure that the voices of colleagues from across as wide a range of institutions as possible are represented. As someone that has spent most of my career at a large, southern, public land-grant institution in a department of world languages, I know firsthand just how essential such programs are in ensuring the future health of our field. Moreover, colleagues at institutions that are typically underrepresented might be reluctant to serve but frequently have valuable insights; casting a wider net and drawing from a broader array of institutions can enhance our conversations about the state of the field and bring tangible benefit to the organization. Accordingly, as a member of the Nominating Committee I would be strongly committed to promoting slates of candidates that draw from the full gamut of institutions, from community colleges to large land-grant institutions, from small liberal arts colleges to PhD-granting research universities. I would strive to ensure that the greatest possible range of voices are represented throughout the Society, and to do so I would work to assemble slates of candidates that reflect all the constituencies of the SCS with respect to rank, employment status, type of institution, type of department (Classics, combined language, history, etc.), and geography, to name but a few.
I would also aim to bring together colleagues from across the spectrum of methodologies and subdisciplines. Through my own research, which has extended from traditional philology to digital humanities and much in between, I have come to know a range of colleagues across all areas of our field from whom I have learned much. Such cross-disciplinary dialogue promotes the vitality of our field, and as a member of the Nominating Committee I would work to draw on these experiences, and seek continued dialogue with colleagues across the Society, to identify slates of candidates that reflect the broadest possible range of backgrounds, interests, and institutions represented in our field.
Jinyu Liu
Betty Gage Professor of Roman History, Emory University
(1) Experiences and Qualifications: As a scholar deeply committed to the advancement of classical studies in a global context, I bring a breadth of experience in academic leadership, collaborative initiatives, and institutional service that aligns with the responsibilities of the Nominating Committee. I have dedicated my career to fostering inclusive and innovative approaches to the study of antiquity. I also bring a transnational perspective, having collaborated with scholars across North America, Europe, and Asia, which informs my understanding of the global dimensions of classical studies and the need for leadership that reflects the Society’s evolving priorities.
My administrative roles and professional serves have been extensive and diverse, including Chair of the Department of Classical Studies at DePauw (2013-2016), chief organizer of the Guangqi Classics Lecture and Seminar Series (in collaboration with the Guangqi International Center for Scholars, Shanghai) since 2015, member of various Faculty Search Committees, member of the Board of Directors for the Asian and American Asian Classical Caucus, member on the Undergraduate Studies Committee and Graduate Program Committee at Emory, and editor for several book series and an associate editor for the Journal of Classical Reception. My engagement with the SCS spans 23 years, during which I have served on the Board of Directors and collaborated with various committees under the leadership of different presidents. All of these have honed my ability to identify and nurture talent while ensuring diverse and equitable representation.
(2) Contributions and Goals: If elected to the Nominating Committee, I will work diligently to cultivate a slate of candidates who embody the SCS’s mission of excellence, inclusivity, and forward-thinking engagement. My key priorities include: 1. advocating for candidates who represent a range of institutional backgrounds, career stages, and identities, ensuring the Society’s leadership reflects the richness of our discipline; 2. identifying individuals with the expertise to tackle pressing challenges, from fostering public outreach to reimagining the role of classics in interdisciplinary and global contexts; 3. facilitating open dialogue with members to understand their aspirations for the Society’s future, ensuring the nominating process is responsive to collective needs; and 4. endorsing individuals who are committed to enhancing our methods of mentoring the increasing number of students from non-European and non-American backgrounds.
I am eager to contribute my energy and insight to this essential committee, helping to shape an SCS that is both grounded in scholarly rigor and boldly adaptive to the evolving landscapes of academia and beyond. Thank you for your consideration.
Trevor Luke
Associate Professor, Florida State University
The Society of Classical Studies joins the rest of the academy in facing some of the toughest challenges to higher education of the past century. To pilot our way through these challenges, strong but responsive and compassionate leadership in line with our society's values will be crucial. The Nominating Committee's task will be to exercise its best collective judgment and care in finding capable candidates who are committed to guiding us through these challenges successfully. To the Committee I would bring my listening ears and careful consideration as I work with fellow members to identify and solicit a slate of excellent candidates who reflect the rich tapestry of our community. These candidates will continue our society's work to make the study of the ancient world, with all its interdisciplinary potential, a vital part of a future academy with a broader, forward-facing vision.
One of the great challenges of the present is the siloing effect created by increasing demands upon faculty and administrators. Like you, I have worked with departmental colleagues against these isolating phenomena and in the face of political tension to see the best of our values become realities. Colleagues in different subdisciplines come to meetings with different needs and priorities. Yet, we are strongest when we come together to make common cause in serving our students, our subdisciplines, and each other. I find joy in seeing what comes into being through principled and prudent action in concert. Recently, I have had the honor of working with fine colleagues on CAMWS' Merit Subcommittee. Reflection on what makes members' contributions meritorious in that society arms me with useful insights for participating in the process of identifying leaders who will lend their service to guide the SCS community in living up to its aspirations for students and research. I look forward to working with you and for you.
Jesse Hill
Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, University of Edinburgh
I would welcome the opportunity to serve the SCS on the Nominating Committee. To my mind, the health of the SCS in part depends on the diversity of its membership. The nominating committee therefore needs to amplify the voices of as diverse a range of classicists as possible: scholars of different identities, cultural backgrounds, and nationalities; scholars at different career stages and different types of institutions; and scholars who work across the entire breadth of our chronologically, culturally, and methodologically vast discipline.
My experience would serve me well on this committee. I have served on the Equity and Social Justice Committee in the Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies at the University of British Columbia and on a Decolonising the Classics working group at the University of Edinburgh. As the co-editor of a volume of essays, moreover, and the organizer and participant in various conferences, workshops, and panels on both sides of the Atlantic, I have formed relationships with a very wide range of scholars. And my own particular position – I am an early-career scholar, a Canadian working precariously in Scotland – has made it so that my contacts and my perspective are relatively unique.
Program Committee
Andromache Karanika
Professor, University of California, Irvine
I am honored to be considered for service on the SCS Program Committee. I have long regarded the SCS annual meeting as a unique forum for scholarly exchange that showcases the intellectual vibrancy of our field, but also an annual re-start as I typically have the feeling of being energized for my research before going back to my classes every January. If elected, I would work to ensure that the program continues to be both a reflection of our field’s best scholarly work and an engine of its future transformations. I am particularly committed to building a program that is rigorous, inclusive, and imaginative—one that embraces a multiplicity of voices, perspectives, methods, and formats.
My research and teaching have always centered on interdisciplinary and intersectional approaches to the ancient world. As a scholar of ancient Greek literature, especially epic and lyric, I consistently engage with gender, performance, and what I envision as the past lived experience. My research, teaching, and service at my institution and beyond have taken me across disciplinary boundaries—from classical philology to medical humanities, from anthropological work to digital storytelling—and I am attentive to the ways in which these intersections create new possibilities for classical scholarship. This openness to diverse approaches, along with my editorial and reviewing experience as a former editor and a frequent reviewer for journals and university presses would inform my contributions to the Program Committee. I bring substantial experience in academic service and program building. I have had several service positions in the field, but perhaps what would be more relevant for this election is that I served as editor of TAPA for four years (2018-2021), president of CAMWS (2023-24), and chair of the CAMWS program committee (2023-2024). In my capacity as chair of the program committee in 2023-2024 for CAMWS, I helped put together an exciting conference in 2024 in St. Louis (while also celebrating the organization’s 120th annual meeting). I am deeply familiar with the administrative challenges of evaluation and program design. As department chair of the Classics Department at UC Irvine (2019-2025), I have participating in interdisciplinary research events, search committees, and programming that ranges from larger to smaller events often with views that see antiquity in a broader and comparative context. This experience has taught me how to balance scholarly depth with accessibility—skills that are crucial for shaping an annual meeting. When I was putting together the sessions for the 2024 CAMWS annual meeting, I thought that what each abstract conveys on its own becomes part of an open dialogue, and it is this dialogue that helps create better questions for each and all contributions in a panel, and ultimately for the entire meeting and our profession.
I believe that the SCS Program Committee must play an active role in fostering a more equitable and capacious vision of our field providing space not only for the presentation of research but also for reflection on the conditions under which that research is conducted and shared, as professional demands on our time increase while resources and opportunities shrink at an alarming rate. This means continuing to support alternative session formats, such as workshops and roundtables; it means ensuring the visibility of contingent faculty, early-career scholars, and scholars working outside the traditional boundaries of the field. It also means supporting our many other roles in our daily lives, and especially pedagogy and academic service, and brainstorming for the future of our field. I believe the best sessions emerge from generative exchange, and I would encourage session proposals that bring together diverse perspectives and promote dialogic engagement. Last but not least as someone who has received too many rejections for my own submitted abstracts to the SCS, I would advocate for more help in different ways as to what makes a ‘good’ abstract an ‘accepted’ abstract, and how one should think about the afterlife of presented work.
It would be a privilege to contribute to that work on behalf of the SCS community.
Sara R. Johnson
Associate Professor, University of Connecticut
The SCS has long been deeply rooted in the literary and material world of classical antiquity, and has worked hard to promote a greater diversity of perspectives on antiquity in so many important ways. It has encouraged broader diversity and opportunity for younger scholars entering the field in the twenty-first century, and stressed the true diversity of lived experience in the ancient world in terms of race/ethnicity, gender, social class, religion (to name only a few). While this important work must continue, one area in which there is room for greater growth is that of interdisciplinarity and a broader global perspective. As a scholar with strong interdisciplinary interests who has presented papers at the Society for Biblical Literature and the American Classical Literature Association as well as the Society for Classical Studies, if elected to the program committee, I hope to make interdisciplinary, comparative and global connections more visible in the program, attracting those at every rank and stage of the profession who sometimes fall between the cracks of sessions, conferences, and fields. Global antiquity, a young field still in its infancy in comparison with the growing prominence of the "the global Middle Ages," will be a critical frontier for the SCS in the decades to come.
As an associate professor of Classics and Mediterranean Studies at the University of Connecticut, in addition to my core appointment in Classics, I have served as the co-chair of Comparative Literary and Cultural Studies (a section of the larger Literatures, Cultures and Languages department), am affiliated with multiple academic divisions (History; Asian and Asian-American Studies; Hebrew and Judaic Studies), and have worked on the curriculum committee for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences for the last several years. These positions have enabled me to think deeply and continually about what it means to work across boundaries, the institutional challenges that exist to interdisciplinary work, and how to develop curricular reforms that highlight interconnections instead of remaining locked within traditional siloes.
No one person can encompass all of the areas that the Program Committee encompasses within its work. I am honored to have been nominated to stand for election to this important committee, and if elected, will bring my unique experiences and strengths to the position while collaborating with colleagues who bring their own experiences, strengths, and areas of focus. Diversity within a committee, like diversity in the field, builds strength and sparks fresh new direction.
Alex Dressler
Professor and Chair of Classical and Ancient Near Eastern Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
If elected to the Program Committee of the Society for Classical Studies, I would build on recent successes to further diversify the methods and topics presented at annual meetings, developing criteria that reflect the growing diversity of affinity groups and organizer-refereed panels, which I believe foster more cohesive and collaborative sessions, while also broadening the range of methods and areas of inquiry. I would also expand existing efforts to provide accessible guidance for early-career scholars and those from different national traditions, helping them engage more effectively with the convention. This would include creating more submission opportunities and facilitating connections with scholars across various career stages, both in traditional and emerging scholarly areas and in topics related to professional development. Specific initiatives could include increasing engagement with new media, as well as supporting less traditional forms of engagement with Greco-Roman antiquity, such as translation studies, experimental approaches to ancient literature, and comparison with antiquities beyond Greece and Rome.
As chair of an interdisciplinary department with a strong and innovative graduate program, I have extensive experience communicating across academic groups and promoting both established and emerging areas of Classical Studies. These include gender, sexuality, ancient medicine and religions (such as Ancient Judaism and Christianity), and Ancient Near Eastern Studies. My own scholarship covers Greek and Latin literature, from Republican and Imperial periods to Late Antique and occasionally Medieval and Neo-Latin, with interests in Hellenistic philosophy, Early Christianity, Ancient Comedy, Marxism, and queer and aesthetic theories. I have actively promoted scholarship within and beyond my institution, including most recently as a member of the NEH review committee for Africa, the Middle East, and the Ancient World. I have, finally, organized and contributed to panels that merge classical scholarship with political theory, sociology, and critical approaches to the field, such as feminist approaches to Classical Studies, both in the USA and internationally.
In sum, if elected, I would continue to advocate for a broader range of methodologies and perspectives, especially contributions that seek to articulate the value of Classical Studies or introduce new areas of reception and comparison, as well as new bodies of knowledge and the promotion of scholarship that reflects a broader range of orientations, including the methods, areas, and interests of international scholars, whose contributions to US Classical Studies are more important than ever.
Joseph Howley
Associate Professor, Classics, Columbia University
Goodwin Committee
Daryn Lehoux
Professor and Dept. Head, Classics and Archaeology, Professor of Philosophy, Queen's University
It is an honour to stand as a candidate for the Goodwin Prize Committee. My scholarly interests are highly interdisciplinary. I focus primarily on ancient science, medicine, and philosophy but I read and learn very widely in the many subfields of Classics, including literature and history. The last few years, as head of a department under attack by short-sighted austerity, I have found myself working very hard as an advocate for Classics and for the Humanities, both locally and nationally. It is here that I see the opportunity of the Goodwin Committee as particularly exciting. I believe that good writing and clear research communication are worth celebrating and promoting now more than ever. Voices both new and established in our field are producing vital and compelling research in the face of societal, political, and historical challenges that profoundly affect us, our students, and our communities. This work is both timely and exciting. It is that excitement and passion that I hope to share through the work of the Goodwin Committee.
I particularly enjoy the work of adjudication committees, and find that I learn a ton from the cross-disciplinary discussions and debates that such work requires. I have served as a committee member or referee for numerous scholarly publishers and national or international granting agencies on four continents and across several disciplines, including Guggenheim, National Science Foundation, European Research Council, Leverhulme, and (here in Canada) SSHRC and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research. I am very excited by the prospect of expanding my horizons and of giving back to the Classics community through the Goodwin Committee.
Elizabeth Meyer
T. Cary Johnson, Jr., Professor of History, University of Virginia
I am honored to be asked to stand for the Goodwin Prize Committee. I am an historian of both Greece and Rome, and read widely in many of the disciplines that comprise the Ancient World broadly conceived: literature, philology, archaeology and art history, epigraphy, law, and even some numismatics (in addition to, of course, history). I have a wide curiosity about the many directions in which the study of Antiquity is going, have advised the work of (and learned from) countless students whose interests are new to me, and have a lot of experience working on harmonious committees that have produced good results. I can also read fast, which I suspect is a requirement for this committee!