Presidential Letters

Hello Friends and Colleagues!

As I write, we are about one month away from the annual meeting in San Francisco, January 7-10. I hope to see many of you there.

Dear Colleagues,

I’m commandeering the newsletter again this month to alert you to a few points of interest. First, we’re now just two months away from the SCS Annual Meeting in San Francisco. I hope to see many of you there.

Hello Friends and Colleagues:

Dear Colleagues,

What follows is a Presidential Letter. It has not been brought to the Board for approval and does not constitute policy. This venue exists for me, as President, to raise matters of concern with our membership. Though I have consulted with colleagues, I take sole responsibility for the opinions expressed below.

Dear Colleagues,

Dear SCS members,

On behalf of the SCS Board of Directors, I am pleased to announce the appointment of Zachary Slates as the new Executive Director of the Society for Classical Studies, effective 6 May 2024.

17 January, 2024

Dear Colleagues,

Dear Members of the Society for Classical Studies:

I write with an update on the Society’s Executive Director position. Two weeks ago I wrote to say that our long-serving Executive Director Helen Cullyer was stepping down effective December 1. Since then, we have been working to finalize the terms of appointment and to bring on board an interim Executive Director, whose role will be to guide the Society and keep it on track until we can appoint a permanent successor to Helen.

Dear members of the Society for Classical Studies:

As an undergraduate Classics student in the 1980s, I read somewhere the story of a Black man who attempted to register to vote in a southern state under Jim Crow. Local election officials administered him a “literacy test. He passed one such “test,” then another and another, including (the story goes) reading texts in Latin and Greek.