The University of Cincinnati Classics Department is one of the most active and largest centers for the study of the Greek and Roman Antiquity in the United States. Seventeen full-time faculty members, four research associates, and two Rawson Visiting Scholars specialize in Classical philology, ancient history, and archaeology, including Greek prehistory.
About thirty-five graduate students are in residence at any given time, while others spend a year or more abroad to study or conduct research. In the heart of the Department is the recently renovated Burnam Classical Library, the world's most comprehensive library for advanced research in Classics (with some 300,000 volumes). The department's Tytus Fellowships bring an additional nine to twelve researchers to the Department each year, in addition to many shorter-term visitors. About thirty undergraduate majors profit from the vibrant scholarly community, while an Outreach Program takes faculty and graduate students to more than 100 area schools each year. The department's lecture series, including those sponsored by the Archaeological Institute of America, attract audiences from the larger academic and lay community in the Cincinnati area. The Department edits Nestor, a bibliographic resource for Aegean Prehistory, and sponsors continuing series of publications for Pylos, Keos, and Troy. Faculty organize or participate in archaeological fieldwork in Greece at Pylos, Knossos, Isthmia, Anavlochos and the Athenian Agora, in Italy at Pompeii and Tharros in Sardinia, in Turkey at Gordion, and in Israel at Caesarea Maritima.
The Cincinnati Difference
What will you find in the Department of Classics at the University of Cincinnati and nowhere else?
- Six or seven years of guaranteed funding, at a level well above subsistence in low-cost Cincinnati
- Personalized professional development and mentorship
- In-person and online teaching experience suited to your needs and development
- Non-teaching service assignments in the first two years, and a dissertation year at the end
- A carefully designed and flexible ancient languages curriculum, allowing either fast passage or up to four years for mastery
- The world-renowned John Miller Burnam Classics Library, with over 300,000 monographs and 2,000 active periodical subscriptions
- The award-winning Outreach Program, now in its second decade
- The Tytus Scholars program, hosting 9 new visiting Classics scholars from around the world every year
- Excavation opportunities under Cincinnati permits in Greece and Italy
Learn more about our Faculty, Ph.D. and MA tracks in Ancient History, Bronze Age and Classical Archaeology, and Greek and Latin Philology. You may also browse our graduate course cycles, and check out detailed policy about our graduate programs in our Graduate Handbook. See more here about the Burnam Library, the Tytus Fellows program, and our Outreach program.
Contact
Department of Classics
410 Blegen Library
PO Box 210226
Cincinnati, Ohio 45221-0226
Phone | (513) 556-3050
Fax | (513) 556-4366
classics@uc.edu
Latest News
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New Issue of the Blegen Bulletin
Blegen Bulletin 2024, the newsletter of UC Classics, is available as a pdf here!
In this issue:
- Daniel Markovich’s vision as head of UC Classics for the department and the discipline
- The research interests of new faculty members Dylan Kenny and Mathijs Wibier, and the current research projects of Steven Ellis and Marion Kruse
- Events sponsored by UC Classics including brown bag faculty talks, the Semple Symposium on Stobaeus, a celebration of Peter van Minnen’s career, and much more
- The move of two more research resources in Aegean prehistory to UC Classics: the Aegean conferences and Aegaeum publications, and the PASP archives, joining Nestor
- The Rawson Fellowship program and the three Fellows currently resident in Cincinnati: Tom Carpenter, Jan Driessen, and Lynne Lancaster
- An engaging year of student activities, including an original production of Plautus’ Amphitruo, and the study abroad of Semple Scholars
- Books, books, and more books, including four Festschriften honoring members of the UC Classics community
- Brief news and updates about members of the faculty, current students, and alumni—including a profile of Dan Levine (PhD 1980), who was the recipient of the Aristeia Award from the ASCSA.
Enjoy — and send your own news and updates to Carol Hershenson!
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Empire of Correspondence Conference at UC Boulder
Our own Matthijs Wibier and colleagues organize the conference "Empire of Correspondence" on Imperial letters at the University of Colorado Boulder on October 4-5, with the contribution of our own Kelly Shannon-Henderson ("Constructing Emperor Cult in the Letters between Pliny and Trajan"). If you want to attend via Zoom, please register at https://forms.gle/41AuVUhjoWd965qD9
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Prof. Hilary Becker Visists UC Classics
This year, Prof. Hilary Becker (Binghamton University) is the guest speaker selected by our graduate students. Prof. Becker will deliver a lecture titled "Troubleshooting Roman pigments and glass" on October 3rd, 6 PM, in Blegen 308. Additionally, she will be conducting a workshop on Fresco making on October 4 at 12:15 in Blegen 214. (Organization: Callie Todhunter, Poster Charlie Kuhlman)
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Aegean Celebration
Please join us on 3-4 October for our Aegean Celebration on the occasion of the publication of The Palace of Nestor at Pylos IV.1 and the arrival of the Aegean Scripts and Prehistory (PASP) archive to the Department of Classics at UC ! You can attend the presentations by Thomas Palaima, Dimitri Nakassis and Jeffrey Kramer on Friday, 4 October, 3:30-4:45 PM via Zoom: https://ucincinnati.zoom.us/j/81337214638
Click here for the full size poster.
(Poster: Charlie Kuhlman)
