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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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
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Jack Davis in American Academy of Arts & Sciences
Congratulations to Jack Davis, who has been inducted into the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Cambridge, MA, on September 21st! A great honor for him, for our department, and for the University of Cincinnati.
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Association of American Historians 2025 Meeting in Cincinnati
The 2025 Annual Meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians (AAH) will be hosted by the University of Cincinnati from 16-18 April, 2025. The AAH is the premier organization for the study of ancient history in the United States and Canada, and we are excited for the opportunity to host and to showcase our programs. More information on the conference, including panel topics and instructions for abstract submissions, can be found here: classics.uc.edu/aah-2025. We look forward to welcoming everyone to Cincinnati next spring!
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The Anthologist's Workshop
The international Semple Symposium organized by Susan Prince and Christopher Moore at UC Classics on the anthology of John Stobaeus is about to begin! "The Anthologist’s Workshop: Insights on the Principles, Materials, and Techniques behind the Anthology of John Stobaeus", 2-4 May 2024.
