Tytus 2026 fellow
On Monday, Sept. 28th, we had the pleasure to welcome to our department this term's Tytus fellows!
 
Miriam Mann (Oxford) presented her research of the Linear B Archive of Pylos, Najee Olya (William & Mary) discussed the work on his future book on Africa and Africans in Greek art, and James Sickinger (Florida State) on publishing ostraka from the Agora and on the broader context of ostracism.
 
The Tytus fellowship allows researchers to benefit from the resources of the Burnam Classics Library and enriches the academic life of the department.
 
Thank you to Steven Ellis for organising the Tytus program and yesterday's event and to the library team and graduate students for making it happen!
Wenner portrait

Congratulations to our alumna, Dr. Sarah Wenner, on her promotion to Associate Curator of Ancient Art at the Cincinnati Art Museum!

Sarah defended her dissertation, "(Re) Making a Roman City: Refuse, Recycling, and Renovation Across Empire", in 2023. Expert in the ceramic traditions of Southern Jordan, she holds the curatorial position alongside her Assistant Professorship at ACOR in Jordan.

In April 2026, she was the recipient of the Ellen and Charles Steinmetz Endowment of the Arhcaeological Institute of America (AIA). Click here to learn more about Sarah's project and her background in archaeology: https://buff.ly/Apx5JYY

Wibier UCNews

Read the article by Michael Miller in UC News on Matthijs Wibier, who "edited and translated a Latin legal text he pieced together from fragments that surprisingly survived in the Egyptian sands for more than 1,600 years.

What’s less surprising? It’s about taxes"!

Matthijs presented his recent edition and translation of a previously unknown Roman legal text in a paper titled "The Penn Parchment: A Collection of Roman Imperial Constitutions from the Late Fourth Century in the Penn Museum".