The Outreach Awards Committee is delighted to award the 2025 Forum Prize to Alexandra S. Henning, host of the Ancient Office Hours podcast. Lexie Henning's engaging work on on the production, direction, and dissemination of the podcast has resulted in over 50,000 downloads, and has brought current research in the study of the ancient Mediterranean to a broader audience.
The SCS Outreach Award Committee is delighted to award the 2025 Mary-Kay Gamel Outreach Prize to Dr. Anne Groton. Dr. Groton, the Chair of the Department of Classics at St. Olaf College, is the longtime director of the St. Olaf Latin and Greeks Plays, musical student productions which bring the classics to schools and colleges in Minnesota and beyond.
Distinguished Service Award
2025 Citation
In 2025, the sixth year of the Erich S. Gruen Prize, the selection committee received submissions of impressive quality and range, exemplifying innovative research examining aspects of ethnic identity and cultural exchange across the ancient Mediterranean world, from a wide variety of disciplinary backgrounds.
Annually since 1984, the SCS (formerly APA) has sent a postdoctoral fellow to Munich to learn lexicography and contribute to the venerable and indispensable Thesaurus linguae Latinae. After the NEH terminated their grant in the spring, the SCS Board honored their commitment to the then Fellow and her successor from the Society’s own funds, a most impressive gesture.
The Committee on Translation of Classical Authors is delighted to announce the inaugural recipient of the Raffaella Cribiore Award for Outstanding Literary Translation. The Cribiore Award honors outstanding book-length translations from Ancient Greek or Latin into Enlish. This year’s awardee is:
C. Luke Soucy, Ovid's Metamorphoses (University of California Press, 2023)
The C. J. Goodwin Award of Merit Committee is delighted to announce the three recipients of the 2025 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit. The Goodwin Awards honor outstanding contributions to classical scholarship by members of the Society. This year’s awardees are:
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Fellowship: an Informational Webinar
Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Fellowship: an Informational Webinar
November 5, 2025, 4pm EST / 1pm PST
The Society for Classical Studies is pleased to announce that the 2025 Erich S. Gruen Prize is now open for submissions. All graduate students in North America are invited to enter the annual competition for the best graduate research paper on multiculturalism in the ancient Mediterranean. This year the prize will be a cash award of $1,000.