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. These productions are a wonderful example of creative outreach which the Committee is delighted to recognize.
In 2024, the Society for Classical Studies renamed the Outreach Prize in honor of Mary-Kay Gamel to recognize her distinguished record of both popular and scholarly outreach. Gamel, who was a Professor Emerita of Classics, Comparative Literature, and Theater Arts at the University of California, Santa Cruz, was awarded the 2009 Outreach Prize for her work “translating, reconceptualizing, and staging Greek and Roman plays for diverse modern audiences for more than twenty years.”
