Greetings from Columbia, Missouri, where I look daily for positives amid the onslaught of slings and arrows that is 2020. Where to find solace or hope? Fall weather and the end (none too soon!) of hurricane season; my students, who remain cheerful (maybe?) behind their masks; the energy and activism of friends and colleagues working against the injustices that seem to mount daily around us; and, a pleasant surprise to me in my first few months as CAMWS president, the willingness of so many of you to pitch in and pull together to keep CAMWS strong and vibrant. Many thanks to all committee members and vice-presidents! And special thanks to our new Secretary-Treasurer, Davina McClain, who has braved downed trees, power outages, and hurricane winds to keep the work of CAMWS moving forward.

One of the strengths of CAMWS has been the number of awards we are able to offer or support, and our website highlights three new ones: the Teacher Training Initiative focuses on the training and development of K-12 Latin teachers; the Rudolph Masciantonio Diversity Award supports students who have historically faced barriers in their pursuit of Classical Studies; and CAMWS has provided support for the American School’s William Scarborough Fund, intended to make the school’s programs accessible to a broader community of students. Central in the last two of these initiatives has been the CAMWS Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, particularly in crafting the details of the Masciantonio Award.

Special thanks also to Antony Augoustakis, who will be ending his 5-year term as editor of CJ in June, 2021. Antony has done excellent work with CJ, contributing to its continued position as one of the premier journals in our discipline. The search for the next editor has begun; see the webpage for information about applying.

Everyone is wondering about the 2021 meeting. As Davina and I announced by email, we visited Cleveland in early October, where we found the hotel an excellent conference venue and two members of the local committee, Paul Iverson and Timothy Wutrich, generous and welcoming. We also announced that anyone who so wishes will be able to attend the meeting virtually. We now have the unfortunate confirmation that, even if we are able to hold some of the meeting in person, none of the events can take place on the Case Western Reserve campus. (Maybe in 2026?) The Program Committee is a little behind the usual schedule, but has reviewed all panel and workshop proposals and looks forward to reviewing the individual abstracts.

Finally, do renew your CAMWS membership for 2021 if you have not yet done that. We count on your support to continue all the good work going on in CAMWS!

David Schenker

President

Inheriting an amazing organization which has grown so much under my predecessor, Tom Sienkewicz, has been both exciting and daunting. Doing so in the midst of all that 2020 has brought with it – well, let’s just say that “challenging” is, perhaps, the most apt description. For those who do not know me, hi! I am T. Davina McClain, the newest in the list of those into whose hands the position of Secretary-Treasurer has been entrusted. I teach Latin, Greek, and classics, and in the Great Books sequence, “Texts and Traditions,” in the Louisiana Scholars’ College, the honors college at Northwestern State University in Natchitoches, LA. No, not Nacogdoches - that is in Texas. And no, they are not pronounced alike: Natchitoches is pronounced as “Nak-a-tish” (rhymes with Whack-a-fish). The mythos is that Natchitoches and Nacogdoches were founded by Caddo Indian rival brothers who were placed back-to-back by their father and told to establish their homes where they stopped. Since each town has a university, and we are in the same conference, the rivalry continues to be played out on various fields and courts, or at least it usually is.

In the office you will now find, Drew Alvarez (see below). His start date in March was the day that our campus shut down, but laptop in hand, Drew educated himself about the CAMWS organization and website and was ready to go when campus began a phased reopening on June 1st. Grateful does not begin to cover my appreciation for everything he has already done.

Trying to move an organization’s office – especially one that has been in one location for eight years – is a challenge in a good year. The shift in the conference date and the lockdown at Monmouth and NSU’s campuses has made it take a little longer to get things set up. We now, however, have received the approximately 170 boxes that Jevanie packed and shipped from Illinois to Louisiana, and we have made a friend (or enemy) of the UPS deliverer, Brian. Our office, Room 313, in the Watson Memorial Library, will eventually look less like a cardboard jungle and more like a thriving headquarters. I am especially grateful for all the time that Jevanie spent both packing boxes and training us on the database and giving us such a good idea of all the things that are ahead. In addition, President David Schenker’s wit and wisdom in all things has been the perfect combination for dealing with the many complications of 2020. And Past President Anne Groton continues to provide support and answers based on her multiple roles in the organization.

Two hurricanes and seven days total without power at Domus Davinae have added to the “fun,” yet CAMWS work has continued. The call for papers has gone out and abstracts continue to roll in. We are in discussion with the various entities involved about what form the meeting will take. This is not a simple process – there is a contract and the penalty for cancelling is substantial – but there are aspects of the contract that we are working with to do what is best for CAMWS members. The April date puts us in an “iffy” position, but recently other meetings at the same time (CANE) or afterward (Society for Late Antiquity) have switched to virtual, so the signs are beginning to align. You should have received a survey which will give us additional data to make our decision. And we promise that decision as soon as there is one.

In other news, CAMWS has developed two new opportunities as part of our Teaching Training Initiative. The Partnership Initiative provides funding to support the work of a high school teacher and a college/university faculty member working together to encourage students to pursue teacher certification. The Scholarship Initiative is open to high school seniors as well as college students who commit to earning certification to teach Latin. Information and the links to the applications are available at https://camws.org/ttiinfo.

The Executive Committee also approved two different actions to support diversity in the discipline. When the ASCSA established the William Sanders Scarborough Fellowship, (someone whose work has long been championed by CAMWS’ Michele Ronnick), the EC approved a $500 donation to the fund. This fellowship will support graduate students, faculty, and independent scholars of diverse backgrounds in their desire to pursue study and research at the School.

The second opportunity is the call for applications for the first Rudolph Masciantonio CAMWS Diversity Award. Named in honor of Rudolph Masciantonio, who included CAMWS among the classics organizations to received bequests in his will, these scholarships will support diverse undergraduates and graduate students. The Committee for Diversity and Inclusion will receive the applications and is looking forward to announcing the winners at the meeting. For information and the link to the application, see https://camws.org/masciantonioinfo.

The most recent issue of The Classical Journal has already hit your electronic and physical mailboxes. Editor Antony Augoustakis has chosen to hand over the reins at the end of his term, so a committee is now reviewing applications. Learn more at https://camws.org/CJeditorsearch2020.

If you have not yet renewed your membership, please do so at https://camws.org/membershiprenewal. On November 30, all the passwords will change, so if you have not renewed by that point, the Loeb, access to Greek Keys, OUP discount, and JPASS discount will disappear.

And Institutional Members – it is not too early to renew or establish your Institutional Membership. This membership is a great way to introduce your students to CAMWS and to advertise your academic program. https://camws.org/membership/institutionform.php

I am sure there are other things I should include – it will take me a little while to get the hang of all of this – but I want to end by thanking you for your support of your students and the extra time you devote to helping them understand the complexities of the ancient world; for your support of your colleagues across the country – the speed with which calls for help or advice are answered testify to the strength of the classics network; and for your support of CAMWS as a mechanism to try to help you do the things that matter to you as teachers, students, and scholars.

Sincerely,

T. Davina McClain, Secretary-Treasurer

Μοῖραι and COVID permitting, the 117th Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South will be held Wednesday-Saturday, April 7-10, 2021, in Cleveland, Ohio at the Cleveland Marriott Downtown at Key Center at the invitation of Case Western Reserve University.

Nota Bene: While we certainly hope that the 2021 CAMWS Meeting will take place in Cleveland, OH in-person, we will be monitoring the situation and will notify members as soon as possible if health and safety concerns require a change in plans. Thank you for your patience and understanding as we all continue to navigate this new world

In a normal year, we would be able to share the stories and pictures from the winners of our 2020 Travel Grants. But this was no normal year. We are pleased, however, share an update from one of the first recipients of our Faculty-Undergraduate Collaborative Research Projects and announce the winners of last year’s Greek awards!

Pauline Ripat (University of Winnipeg) and Christina Vester (University of Waterloo) are pleased to announce the release of Hoi Polloi Logoi.

Hoi Polloi Logoi (HPL) is the sibling app to Vice Verba. HPL, free on iOS and Play, tests the recognition and creation of ancient Greek verb forms. If players answer 10 correctly, they win some coins that can be saved up and then turned in for an ancient Greek monster’s dating profile – which includes award winning illustrations from Rick Sealock). Like Vice Verba, HPL can be played in English or French.

For iOS:

For Android:

A brief statement from the app creators follows:

The Classical Association of the Middle West and South has established the Edward Phinney Book Prize, to be awarded to any student receiving a perfect score (or coming closest to a perfect score) on the College Greek Exam.

The 2020 winner of the Edward Phinney Book Prize is Michael Kerr (Brigham Young University).

The Intermediate College Greek Exam Prize is awarded to the student(s) earning the highest score on the Intermediate College Greek Exam.

The 2020 winner is David Sullivan (University of Georgia).

Congratulations to both winners!

The Rudolph Masciantonio CAMWS Diversity Award honors a long-time champion of how effective, imaginative, and humane teaching makes Latin, Greek, and classics of value to all students, regardless of personal, family or societal challenges which they confronted. The awards are funded from a portion of his estate which was bequeathed to CAMWS and are administered by the CAMWS Committee on Diversity and Inclusion.

A Rudolph Masciantonio CAMWS Diversity Award ($500) will be awarded each year to one undergraduate student and one graduate student.

Awardees will be those whom the profession or life circumstances or societal structures have limited in their access to the study of our field: students from various racially, ethnically, sexually (including LGBTQIA+), physically and religiously disadvantaged groups ; first-generation students (including those from immigrant families); intersectional students; those educated at schools which have abandoned Latin, Greek, and classics; those for whom misunderstanding or bias has meant lack of prior exposure to the Greco-Roman past; and those for whom narrower definitions of “classics” have meant denying the importance of other parts of the Mediterranean basin as legitimate parts of the ancient world.

To apply for a Masciantonio Diversity Award, please fill out this online application. Deadline for receipt of applications is January 31, 2021.

The CAMWS Subcommittee for the Bolchazy Pedagogy Book Award announces an annual call for nominations for the Award. The recipient of this $500.00 award will be announced at the annual CAMWS business meeting, where the recipient is encouraged to accept the award in person. This prize has been named in memory of Ladislaus J. Bolchazy in recognition of his long career promoting classical scholarship and pedagogy. The subcommittee asks for your help in identifying distinguished works of pedagogy, including textbooks, handbooks, anthologies or other works primarily intended for the classroom in the field of classical studies (including, but not limited to, the languages, literatures, history, religions, philosophy, art, architecture, archaeology, economy, and reception of Greek and Roman antiquity) published by CAMWS members in the past three years.

Preference will be given to language-based textbooks. The author of the nominated work shall be a member of the association in good standing in the year of the nomination and for at least the previous year. Nominations may be made by any publisher or by any member of CAMWS in good standing, including the author.

Criteria:

Nominations of pedagogical books should be sent to the chair of the subcommittee on the Ladislaus J. Bolchazy Pedagogy Book Award at pedagogyaward@camws.org.

The annual deadline for nominations for the award is September 1st. The subcommittee may, at its sole discretion, retain an unsuccessful nomination for consideration in the following year.

The winning book is announced at the annual CAMWS business meeting.

The Subcommittee on the CAMWS First Book Award asks for your help in identifying distinguished first scholarly books (or digital equivalents) in the field of classical studies (including, but not limited to, the languages, literatures, history, religions, philosophy, art, architecture, archaeology, economy, and reception of Greek and Roman antiquity) published by CAMWS members in 2018, 2019, or 2020. Self-nominations are encouraged. Please note that nominated authors must be members of the Association in good standing and for at least the previous year and that CAMWS has a separate award for pedagogical books (see Bolchazy Book Award). In the case of co-authored books, all authors must meet “first book” and membership eligibility requirements.

Please send nominations, including titles and publishing information, to the committee chair by email (firstbook@camws.org).

The Committee will close its list for the 2021 award on September 1, 2020.

Books published after that date may be considered for the 2022 award.

The current committee’s guidelines for awards include

All other factors being equal, the committee is looking for something that shifts the conversation substantially in the area covered by the book.

Recipients are encouraged to accept this award in person at the annual CAMWS business meeting.

To support programs and activities in primary and secondary schools, the CAMWS Committee for the Promotion of Latin (CPL) annually recognizes with a plaque and a certificate the group which develops the most outstanding and effective activity for promoting Latin in CAMWS territory during each academic year (including the preceding summer). The winner of this award is announced every spring at the annual CAMWS meeting.

Projects supported by CPL grants are automatically eligible for this award.

Any other group wishing to compete for this award must be sponsored by a current CAMWS member and must submit a letter of application to the CPL chair at cpl@camws.org by January 30, 2021. The application letter must include a 100-word summary of the project and a more detailed project description not to exceed 500 words in length. Applicants are encouraged to attach supporting materials such as photographs, flyers, pertinent newspaper articles, etc.

Recipients are encouraged to accept this award in person at the annual CAMWS business meeting.

Keely Lake Travel Grants for School Groups are named after Keely K. Lake who served as chair of the CAMWS Committee for the Promotion of Latin from 2016-2019. She taught Latin at Wayland Academy (WI) from 2002 until 2018 and received a CAMWS Ovatio in 2011. If you would like to donate to this grant fund, please go to camws.org/donate/keely-lake.

Keely Lake Travel Grants are designed for 7-12 grade school teachers who want to take their students on a trip to an excavation, exhibit or historic site(s) that both enhances their learning experience and furthers their interest in Classical Studies. The grant supports both domestic and international travel.

Requests for funds up to $2000 may be submitted, but every effort will be made to share these resources in smaller amounts among as many schools as possible.

Proposals should include a budget, the dates of the projected trip and a detailed description of the planned activities, including a time line; proposals for support of participation in an excavation should include a letter from the excavation director detailing the students’ responsibilities.

The proposals will be judged by the Committee for the Promotion of Latin. Questions pertaining to the preparation of a proposal should be directed to the committee chair at cpl@camws.org.

Upon their return recipients of a Lake Travel Grant are required to provide documentation of their participation in the originally proposed activity, a brief report on the outcomes of the travel, including issues that may have occurred and that may be considered by the grant committee in the future, and a summary of this activity, including photographs, for publication in the CAMWS newsletter and on the website for the grant. Award payments will be made only after this report is submitted.

Applications for the Keely Lake Travel Grant for School Groups may be submitted by 7-12 grade school teachers who hold a current individual membership in CAMWS.

Applications will be reviewed in two groups. The deadline for consideration for fall requests is September 30, and the deadline for spring and summer requests is January 30.

Proxima cognati dixere Caristia cari,

        et venit ad socios turba propinqua deos

Ovid, Fasti 2.617-618

The Roman festival known as the Caristia took place on the 22nd of February (VIII Kal. Mart). A time for family members to reunite and renew their ties, the Caristia involved a potluck meal.

CPL would like to send you money to help you bring your classroom “family” together for a gathering. All you need to do to apply is complete and send in a simple application (online or downloaded pdf). You could use a Caristia grant to help defray the costs of

Use your imagination. We want to give you money to support your program and to foster interest in Latin and Classical culture.

Once you receive the money, we will ask only that you do two things for us:

We want as many CAMWS members as possible to take advantage of this grant. It will be a wonderful way for CAMWS to help you, and once your photographs are up on the webpage, it is a way for all of us and and our students to get to know each other.

Classicists are, in essence, bridge-makers (pontifices). It is sobering to realize that those who study and teach the ancient world are the only means of connecting the present with the past—the only ones who make possible that ongoing conversation between our children and our parents and grandparents which is the basis of Western culture. Now, especially in times of economic crisis, many of those bridges are in danger of being weakened or destroyed.

CAMWS’s primary mission in the 21st century is to strengthen existing bridges and build new ones. The main way we do this is through supporting those who teach the Classics in our schools and universities. Through encouraging outreach outside school settings, we hope to help build bridges to the larger community. We also seek to form more bridges between the various levels of our profession. We are therefore unveiling our new (Bridge Initiative Grant) program, an ongoing campaign that will boost in a powerful way the work of the CAMWS Committee for the Promotion of Latin (CPL). We hope to do this both by increasing dramatically the number of grants and by making sure that each grant has the highest impact.

The CPL has always sought to encourage any and all activities that promote the Classics, both in and outside of schools: toga parties, plays, videos, reading groups, rallies, Classics Days, etc. But we also want to increase awareness, at each educational level of our Classics community, of the good things that are being done at other levels. Now more than ever, K-12 teachers and college teachers need to be supporting and communicating with one another on a regular basis. The BIG program is designed to facilitate this support and communication.

Please include the following sentence on all promotional material for your event: Funded in whole or in part by a grant from the CAMWS Committe for the Promotion of Latin (camws.org).

CAMWS invites applications for a new program that supports partnerships between K-12 schools and colleges/universities. Our goal is that the partnership will work in one of three ways:

     a. K-12 Classics teachers, especially those certified to teach Latin, would be invited to visit college/university campuses and speak with Classics undergraduates about the rewards of K-12 teaching.

     b. College/university Classics faculty or undergraduate Classics majors, particularly those in programs that offer Latin teaching certification, would be invited to visit K-12 schools and speak with students about the rewards of majoring in Classics and of becoming certified to teach Latin in K-12 schools.

     c.  K-12 Classics teachers, especially those certified to teach Latin, would be invited to serve as mentors for undergraduate Classics majors interested in a K-12 teaching career.

The maximum amount per award is $250. Of that amount, $100 is an honorarium for the visitor/mentor and up to $150 is available for travel and other expenses (such as refreshments, certificates, or instructional materials). Funds will be paid after the event or interaction has taken place, upon receipt of a brief report on the event or interaction. No more than two partnerships will be funded each year.

Applications for funds to support any of these activities should be sent to the CAMWS Committee for the Promotion of Latin. The application itself should consist of two parts:

     a. A one-page plan for outreach (K-12 to college/university, college/university to K-12) or mentorship including assurance that the visitor/mentor as well as those visited/mentored have agreed to take part. At least one member of the partnership must be a current CAMWS member.

     b. A brief budget.

The application deadline is February 1.

Use this link to submit the application in the body of an e-mail or as an attachment (preferred).

CAMWS invites applications for a new program to support undergraduate students, especially those from underrepresented or underserved populations, who pursue certification in Latin. Applicants for this $500 scholarship may be a high-school senior who commits to majoring in Classics and earning certification in college or university, or a college/university first-year student, sophomore or junior who is pursuing teaching certification. The scholarship may be renewable.

Applications for funds from this program should be sent to the CAMWS Teaching Awards Subcommittee. The application itself should consist of three parts:

a. A one-page statement of purpose indicating specific plans for pursuing Latin certification.

b. A transcript (high school or college) with Classics-related coursework highlighted.

     c. One letter of support from a teacher or mentor, sent directly to the Teaching Awards Subcommittee. The teacher/mentor must be a current CAMWS member.

The application deadline is February 1.

A maximum of two scholarships will be awarded each year.

Please submit your application materials and letter of support here.

The Manson A. Stewart Teacher Training Award is named after Prof. Manson A. Stewart, who taught Classics at Yankton College in South Dakota from 1909 until 1948. This award was established as part of a bequest by his wife, Ruth Reed Stewart.

Teacher Training Awards: Designed to provide some financial assistance to those who wish to obtain certification to teach Latin at the primary through the secondary level, whether the specific courses are needed in Latin or in Education. The award is not intended to cover all costs of the training, and the size of the award varies according to the actual costs (primarily tuition and travel), the size of the committee’s budget, and the number of applications. Previous awards have been as high as $2050. Applicants must be current CAMWS members.

To donate to the CAMWS Teacher Training Award Fund, go to https://camws.org/donate/teacher-training-initiative.

Note that CAMWS also provides other grants and awards for teachers:

To apply for a Teacher Training Award, please fill out this on-line application. Deadline for receipt of applications is January 30, 2021.

The Manson A. Stewart Travel Award is named after Prof. Manson A. Stewart, who taught Classics at Yankton College in South Dakota from 1909 until 1948. This award was established as part of a bequest by his wife, Ruth Reed Stewart. Manson A. Stewart Travel Awards are designed primarily to assist K-12 teachers with cash awards to offset the costs of attending CAMWS meetings, including the cost of a substitute teacher. Graduate students and contingent faculty are also eligible for these awards, which are not intended to cover all costs of the travel. The size of the award varies according to the actual cost the travel will entail, the size of the committee’s budget, and the number of applications. Preference will be given to individuals who have not previously received this award. Awards for travel to meetings have ranged from $150 to $700; for travel to a Southern Section meeting, somewhat less. Applicants must be current CAMWS members.

To apply for the Travel Award, please fill out this on-line application.

Deadline for grant applications for Manson A. Stewart Travel Awards to attend the 2021 CAMWS meeting in Cleveland is January 30, 2021.

Recipients are expected to accept these awards in person at the business meeting held at the conference.

For questions about these awards, please contact the chair of the Subcommittee for the Manson A. Stewart Teacher Training and Travel Awards, at stewartteacher@camws.org.

CAMWS invites new K-12 teachers of Latin and ancient Greek to apply for the following awards, administered by the Subcommittee on the Manson Stewart Teacher Training and Travel Awards.

The Student Loan Assistance for New Teachers award, worth up to $1000.00 which may be awarded to one or more successful applicants, is designated to offset student loan debt for recent baccalaureate or M.A.T. recipients who are entering the teaching profession. This award is designed to ease the transition into employment and to enable young teachers to perform effectively despite financial constraints. Eligible candidates will be Latin teachers at the primary or secondary school level with student debt from a recent B.A. or M.A.T. degree. Applicants must be within the first five years of teaching and be teaching at least two sections of Latin or ancient Greek. Applicants must be members in good standing of CAMWS and must supply proof of student debt along with a letter of application, a CV providing information of education and relevant employment history, a statement (no more than 500 words) detailing the applicant’s accomplishments within the field of classics, a statement (500 words) detailing the applicant’s teaching aspirations at his or her teaching institution and a letter of recommendation from the school. This award can only be received once.

The award will be granted on both merit and need-based factors. Merit will be evaluated on the basis of the applicant’s graduation GPA, major field GPA, narratives of achievements in classics and teaching aspirations and the strength of the principal’s recommendation. Need will be evaluated on the basis of total student debt. Preference will be given to an applicant with greater debt when other factors between applicants are evaluated equally.

Apply here on-line.

The New Teacher Start Up Funds Award is a start-up grant for new teachers designed to offset the costs of materials and supplies purchased for classroom instruction. Funds from the Award may be used to reimburse purchase of texts and research materials, classroom supplies, or classroom technology (including computer software or subscription fees for online materials) to be used in classroom instruction; the award may not be used for purchase of computer or tablet for personal use. The total amount of this award is $500 which may be awarded to one or more successful applicants. Eligible applicants are new primary and secondary school Latin teachers within the first five years of their profession. Applicants must be members in good standing of CAMWS and must submit a receipt of purchase for classroom materials, a letter of application that details the use of said materials for classroom instruction, and the educational goals to be met by classroom utilization of these materials, a letter of support from the principal, and a current CV providing information of education and relevant employment history. This award can only be received once.

Apply here on-line for Start-Up Funds.

Deadline for grant applications is January 30, 2021.

For questions about these awards, please contact the chair of the Subcommittee for the Manson Stewart Teacher Training and Travel Awards, at stewartteacher@camws.org.

The recipients of this award are announced at the annual business meeting.

CAMWS offers two awards for excellence in teaching. Kraft Award for Excellence in Secondary School Teaching recognizes outstanding teachers of Latin in public or private schools (middle schools included). The CAMWS Award for Excellence in College Teaching recognizes outstanding teachers of the Classics in college or university. Both full- and part-time teachers (who teach at least half-time with a minimum of five years teaching experience) are eligible for either award. All nominees must be current CAMWS members. Nominees for the Kraft Award must be high school or middle school teachers at the time of application, and nominees for the CAMWS Award must teach at the collegiate level at the time of application. No nominee may previously have won a teaching award from CAMWS.

These awards are made annually. The recipients are announced at the annual CAMWS meeting and each receives an award of $500. Honorees are encouraged to accept their awards in person at this meeting.

The nomination deadline is November 15th. The deadline for receipt of all application materials is December 20th.

For further information about the award for middle or high school teachers, please go to Kraft Award for Excellence in Secondary School Teaching. To make a nomination, go to this Online Nomination Form.

For further information about the award for college teachers, please go to CAMWS Award for Excellence in College Teaching. To make a nomination, go to this Online Nomination Form.

These awards are made by the CAMWS Subcommittee on Teaching Awards. The chair of this subcommittee can be reached at teaching@camws.org.

CAMWS offers a number of Summer Travel Awards to graduate students and teachers of Classics (Greek, Latin, Classical Art & Archaeology and Ancient History) at the pre-collegiate (primary, secondary, or high school) level the opportunity to advance research and/or pedagogical interests abroad in Athens, Rome, or other appropriate ancient site. Award amounts cover program costs (tuition, basic room and board) as per the AAR and ASCSA summer school or other program web sites. Airfare and other transportation expenses are excluded. These awards are the William T. Semple Award, the Mary A. Grant Award, and the Janice and Herbert Benario Award.

The William T. Semple Award is a full fellowship for attending the Summer Session of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens only. (Applicants for ASCSA Summer Seminars should apply for the Benario Award.) This award is named in honor of William T. Semple of the University of Cincinnati.

The Mary A. Grant Award is a full fellowship for attending the summer session of the American Academy in Rome. This award is named in honor of Mary A. Grant of the University of Kansas.

The Janice and Herbert Benario Award is a fellowship that the recipient may apply to the summer travel (not fieldwork or conference) program of his or her choice. Amount is contingent upon program cost, up to $3000. An applicant for the Benario Award must submit an itemized budget of program costs (no travel expenses) at the time of application. This award is named in honor of Herbert and Janice Benario of Emory University.

In certain circumstances CAMWS may offer additional summer travel awards.

To be eligible for a these awards, an applicant must be a current member of CAMWS who either:

CAMWS members teaching or studying at a school outside CAMWS territory are eligible to apply for these awards if their schools are current institutional members of CAMWS (https://camws.org/institutionalmembership) and they themselves are members. Preference will be given to applicants who have not received one of these travel awards in the past four years (teachers) or two years (graduate students).

Priority for the Benario Award will be given to applicants interested in summer programs other than those of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens and the American Academy in Rome, which are normally funded by the Semple and Grant Awards. Many other programs can be funded with this award. Here is a list of programs which the Benario Award has supported in the past.

An individual cannot accept a Semple, Grant, or Benario Award from CAMWS if (1) he or she receives any other award or scholarship for the same summer program and the combined amount of these awards would be more than the cost of the program and airfare, or (2) he or she receives another CAMWS summer travel award, such as one of the Excavation and Field School Awards. Winners of the Semple, Grant, and Benario Awards are free to apply for external funding to cover their airfare, which is not covered by the award.

On-line Application Form must be received by January 15, 2021. Please note that files must be complete (including all letters of recommendation) for candidates to receive an award. The subcommittee may read and rank incomplete files, but no incomplete file may receive the award.

If a recipient cannot accept the award by March 31, the award will be given to the runner-up. Recipients of these awards are encouraged to accept them in person at the annual CAMWS business meeting and are expected to submit a written, illustrated report for the CAMWS Newsletter.

Questions regarding the application may be directed to the chair of the Semple, Grant and Benario Subcommittee at sgb@camws.org.

The Classical Association of the Middle West and South annually awards three $2000.00 scholarships for participation in summer excavation or field school at an archaeological site in the Greco-Roman world. These awards may support individuals engaged in any stage of the work, including physical excavation, illustration, digital recording, faunal and ceramic analysis. Generally, one award will be made to at least one graduate student and another to an undergraduate, but teachers at all levels of instruction are also eligible for this award.

One of these awards is named in honor of former CAMWS president Peter Knox of Case Western University. A second award is named in memory of C. McKenzie Lewis of the University of Waterloo (ON).

To be eligible for a CAMWS Excavation and Field School Award, one must be a current member of CAMWS who either:

Professional archaeologists are not eligible for these awards.

While priority will be given to applicants who have not had previous excavation experience in the Greco-Roman world, applicants returning to the field are also encouraged to apply.

These awards are administered by the Subcommittee on the Excavation and Field School Awards.

To apply for an award, please submit this Online Application Form by January 30th of each year.

Please note that this application requires letters of recommendation. It would be wise for applicants to discuss this with prospective recommenders early and warn them about this due date.

Recipients are encouraged to accept the award in person at the annual CAMWS business meeting and are expected to submit a written, illustrated report for the CAMWS Newsletter.

Note 1: An individual who wins one of the CAMWS Excavation and Field School Awards cannot also receive a Semple, Grant, or Benario Award from CAMWS in the same year.

Note 2: An individual cannot accept one of these awards from CAMWS if he or she receives another award or scholarship for the same field school and the combined amount of these awards would be more than the cost of the field school.

For further information, contact the chair of the Subcommittee on the Excavation and Field School Awards at archaeology@camws.org.

The CAMWS Undergraduate Awards Sub-Committee annually awards up to two research grants supporting collaborative research between a faculty member and an undergraduate. These awards can be for up to $1,000 each. Applications are due by December 6th every year.

Guidelines:

These awards are intended to support faculty research collaborations in Classics (any sub-discipline) with undergraduate students. Faculty-student pairs may be from institutions with graduate programs, but the student involved must be in an undergraduate.

Applications should include statements from the faculty and student researchers outlining the nature of the project, giving a prospective timeline for the project, an account of the respective responsibilities and intellectual contributions of faculty member and student, as well as a budget indicating how the money will be spent (the award covers such expenses as books, supplies, and travel for the student but not honoraria). The application should also indicate whether the project is receiving support from the applicant’s home institution. Finally the application should describe what the research pair envisages the nature of the final product to be, and what contribution it is intended to make to the field. We encourage presentation of the projects at a future CAMWS meeting. The faculty member participating in this project must be a current CAMWS member at the time of application. The undergraduate does not. If awarded the grant, the undergraduate will receive a complimentary membership in CAMWS for the year of the grant.

A final report is due to the CAMWS office at the end of the project (no later than a semester after the receipt of the award). The report is to include statements by both student and faculty as well as a summary report about the money spent. Any funds remaining are to be returned to CAMWS after the final report is submitted.

The award of up to $1000 will be paid to the Department or a suitable institutional office. The contribution of the faculty member will also be recognized by CAMWS (on CAMWS website, program, and by a letter sent to the faculty member’s chair).

For further information, contact the chair of the CAMWS Undergraduate Awards Sub-Committee at undergraduate@camws.org.

The Manson A. Stewart Undergraduate Award is named after Prof. Manson A. Stewart, who taught Classics at Yankton College in South Dakota from 1909 until 1948. This award was established as part of a bequest by his wife, Ruth Reed Stewart.

The award, originally a scholarship paid to the undergraduate student’s institution to cover tuition, is now paid directly to the student as a recognition of academic achievement and potential in the study of Classics.

Teachers of undergraduate students are invited to nominate their most outstanding young Classicists for the CAMWS Manson Stewart Undergraduate Awards. Every year CAMWS makes $1,000.00 awards (accompanied by a one-year membership in CAMWS) to a limited number of undergraduate students majoring in Classics at the sophomore or junior level at a CAMWS college or university. Nominees are expected to take a minimum of two courses in Latin or Greek (normally at least one per quarter or semester) during the junior or senior year in which the award is made.

Students are to be nominated by a department or program; no institution may nominate more than two students per year. The individual who fills out the nomination form on behalf of the department must be an individual member of CAMWS. Each nominee must fill out an application form, write a brief essay, and submit a college or university transcript and two letters of recommendation. Those who write the two letters of recommendations do not need to be CAMWS members. Applicants will indicate on their application the academic purpose for which they intend to use this award money (e.g., tuition, books, academic travel, etc.).

Nominations must be received annually by January 6.

If you represent a department wishing to nominate a student, you can do so by completing this on-line nomination form.

Please note that a student can receive this award only once.

If you have any questions, please contact the chair of the CAMWS Undergraduate Award Committee at undergraduate@camws.org.

The recipients of these awards are announced at the annual business meeting.

Recipients of this award are nominated by their school, college or university and receive a complimentary one-year membership in CAMWS for the following academic year, including an electronic subscription to The Classical Journal and access to the Loeb Classical Library On-Line and a subscription to Greek Keys. To nominate K-16 (but not graduate) students for this award, please use this Award Designation Form. Nominators must be current institutional members of CAMWS. CAMWS congratulates all these fine scholars. For a list of recipients of this award, see Institutional Members Of CAMWS 2000-Present.

James Ruebel Undergraduate Travel Awards are available for undergraduate students to attend the annual CAMWS meeting (not CAMWS-SS). These awards honor James Ruebel of Ball State University (and CAMWS President in 2001-2002) who was especially dedicated to undergraduate education. The size of the award varies according to the actual cost the travel will entail, the size of the committee’s budget, and the number of applications.Priority will be given to students with experience in the ancient languages who are specifically planning to teach languages at the secondary school level over students who are non-language track students (e.g., Classical Civilization majors or other majors with minimum language requirements). Priority will also be given to students currently enrolled in a B.A. granting program over a recent graduate of a B.A. program. Preference will also be given to individuals who have not previously received this award. Applicants must be current CAMWS members. To donate to the fund for this prize, please go to https://camws.org/donate/ruebelfund.

To apply for the Ruebel Award, please fill out this on-line application.

Deadline for grant applications for James Ruebel Undergraduate Travel Awards to attend the 2021 CAMWS meeting in Cleveland is January 30, 2021.

Recipients are expected to accept these awards in person at the business meeting held at the conference.

For questions about these awards, please contact the chair of the Subcommittee for the Manson A. Stewart Teacher Training and Travel Awards, at stewartteacher@camws.org.

The Classical Association of the Middle West and South offers cash prizes, book awards, and awards of commendation to qualifying winners in its Latin Translation Exams for High School students and for College/University students.

Because of complications from Covid-19 shutdowns, the exam will be given in the Spring of 2021. Registration for this exam will be due January 15, 2021.

Administration of this exam (for 2021) will take place during the last week in January and the first week in February (but please check Important Upcoming CAMWS Dates and Deadlines for specific dates for this year).

Winners will be announced at or just before the annual CAMWS meeting.

CAMWS has offered a Latin Translation Exam since 1986. Until 1997 one poetry and one prose exam were offered each year. Since 1998 one exam has been offered each year, with an annual poetry / prose alternation. In 2015 intermediate and advanced levels of competition were introduced and college students became eligible to participate. For more details, see this Contest History.

All questions about this contest should be directed to the Chair of the Subcommittee on School Awards at translationexam@camws.org.

Χαῖρε! The College Greek Exam (CGE) is the first and only nationally standardized exam for assessing students in their first year of college-level Greek (normally in their second semester). In addition to the standard exam for first-year students, CAMWS offers an Attic Tragedy exam.

The syllabus and information about previous exams are posted at camws.org/cgehistory. The grammatical material is not geared toward any specific textbook but is based on frequency of forms and constructions, chosen with the idea that these are fundamental concepts for any beginning reader of ancient Greek (Attic or Koine). Similarly, the vocabulary is chosen on the basis of frequency across a wide variety of texts and with the idea that the list will constitute a useful core for readers of diverse interests. The syllabus, previous exams, reports, and more are posted as well. The Attic Tragedy Exam results from a collaboration with the National Greek Exam. The syllabus and format (linked here) are the same. This exam should be administered to undergraduates at the intermediate or advanced level.

Medals and ribbons are awarded as prizes. In addition the Ed Phinney Award is awarded to any student earning a perfect score (or the highest score) on the elementary exam. The Intermediate College Greek Exam Prize is awarded to the students earning the highest score on the intermediate exam.

Please note that because of complications from Covid-19 shutdowns, the exam will be given in the Spring of 2021 only.

Please submit this form to request exam administration materials. Requests for spring administration should be received by January 31. Those schools teaching the first semester of Greek in fall instead of spring should request administration materials by October 31. The spring exams will be administered March 15-19, 2021. If you need to administer tests March 8-12, 2021, please make note of that when registering or notify the CGE Chair at cge@camws.org. Completed exams must be received by the CGE Committee no later than Friday, March 31.

For questions about this exam, please contact the CGE Chair at cge@camws.org.

The Classical Association of the Middle West and South has established the Edward Phinney Book Prize, to be awarded to any student receiving a perfect score (or coming closest to a perfect score) on the College Greek Exam.

After receiving his PhD from the University of California Berkeley (1963), Phinney joined the Classics department at the University of Massachusetts in 1969, where he became an important advocate for educational technology and distance learning. With Patricia Bell he was the author of the Cambridge Latin Course. He died in 1996.

Since 2008, the College Greek Exam (CGE) has been providing a national exam for college students in Beginning Greek courses. The exam is administered in fall and spring to students enrolled in the second semester of elementary Greek. For information, reports and previous exams, visit www.dramata.com. In addition to the Phinney award, students compete for medals and ribbons. To participate in the exam, contact the Chair of the CGE Committee at cge@camws.org.

This prize is awarded to the student(s) earning the highest score on the Intermediate College Greek Exam.

Presidential Awards for Outstanding Undergraduate and Graduate Student Papers are given at the Annual Meeting. Eligible are undergraduate and graduate students whose papers are accepted on the program and who will not have received their Ph.D. by the time the paper is read. The full text of the oral talk is submitted in advance of the meeting and an ad hoc committee selects the winner. The award (for each undergraduate student $100 plus a one-year membership in CAMWS, for each graduate student $200 plus a one-year membership in the Society for Classical Studies) is presented at the annual business meeting.

There are two criteria for evaluation: (1) the quality of the scholarly argument, including the importance of the topic, the originality of the treatment, and demonstrated familiarity with scholarship; (2) indication of an effective oral presentation, based on the quality of the writing, overall organization, and interest to an audience. Any undergraduate or graduate student whose abstract has been accepted by the program committee may submit a complete text of the paper for consideration for this award.

The paper submitted for this award should be in the form actually to be delivered at the meeting (not a longer seminar paper on which the CAMWS paper is based). The paper should include a cover page with the following information: title of the paper, name of undergraduate or graduate student, academic affiliation, and email address. Please do not submit a handout or include footnotes. All quotations should be included in the body of the paper and a bibliography provided at the end.

Those wishing to be considered for this award at the upcoming CAMWS meeting should submit their completed paper electronically to the CAMWS President at president@camws.org by February 15.

The Presidential Award for the Outstanding Undergraduate Student Poster Presentation is given at the Annual Meeting. Eligible are undergraduate students whose poster is accepted on the program and who will not have graduated by the time of the annual meeting. The award (with a prize of $100 plus a one-year membership in CAMWS) is presented at the annual business meeting.

There are two criteria for evaluation: (1) the effectiveness of the visual presentation, including the design of the poster, the originality of the treatment, the significance of the topic and conclusions, and the quality of analysis displayed; and (2) the effectiveness of the oral discussion of the topic during the specified poster session, including the clarity of presentation, demonstrated knowledge of the topic, familiarity with recent scholarship, and the ability to engage with the audience in responding to questions.

The CAMWS Award for Special Service formally acknowledges exceptional promotion of classics and/or accomplishments for the profession in CAMWS territory. The award is given pro re nata.

Eligibility: CAMWS membership is not required. Recipients can be classicists or non-classicists who have made special contributions to the promotion of Latin and Classical studies, especially at the state and local level, in CAMWS territory. Ideal candidates include people involved in our field who do much for their local communities or classics in general, but do not interact frequently, if at all, at large meetings. Nevertheless, these people make MORE than a difference. Suitable candidates for this award also include parents or community members who support local Latin programs in notable ways; companies that donate money or other resources for the promotion of Latin; school administrators who help Latin teachers by giving access to school rooms or supplies or extra funds; newspapers or magazines that give free advertising for events; benefactors who give money for books or scholarships; or students who have promoted Latin in an original manner.

Nomination and selection process: Please submit a signed statement of nomination, 500-600 words in length, that describes the nominee and his/her work. Nominations for the award can be emailed to specialservice@camws.org (or mailed to CAMWS, 313 Watson Memorial Library, Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, LA 71497) but must be received by January 30. Supporting documents are not required, but they may be solicited if questions arise. The chair of the Steering Committee on Awards and Scholarships with advice from the five subcommittee chairs will then determine the winners. Announcement of the results will be made at the spring CAMWS meeting. If you have any questions about this award, please contact the Chair of the Steering Committee on Awards and Scholarships at steering@camws.org.

Each year since 1950 the Classical Association of the Middle West and South has awarded ovationes (honorary citations written in Latin and delivered at the CAMWS Annual Meeting) to members for their service to CAMWS and the Classics profession. The Latin texts are subsequently published in The Classical Journal. A list of CAMWS orators is available here.

Dear CAMWS Members:

The CAMWS Executive Committee has approved the following amendments to the CAMWS constitution. The constitution requires that all proposed amendments be submitted to the membership in writing at least a month before the annual Business Meeting, at which such amendments must be approved by a vote of the members in attendance.

These amendments were proposed by both the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and a Task Force on Committees appointed for this purpose by President Anne Groton.

Here is a summary of the proposed changes:

Below are provided the current wording in the constitution, the proposed wording with edits, and the proposed wording without edits.

Section 1. The standing committees of the Association include the Executive Committee, the Development Committee, the Finance Committee, the History Committee, the Membership Committee, the Merit Committee, the Nominating Committee, the Program Committee, the Committee for the Promotion of Latin, the Resolutions Committee, and the Steering Committee on Awards and Scholarships.

Section 5. There shall be an Executive Committee consisting of the President; the President-Elect; the immediate Past President; the Secretary-Treasurer; the Editor of The Classical Journal; the Editor of Teaching Classical Languages; the Editor of the CAMWS Newsletter; the Chairs of the Steering Committee on Awards and Scholarships, the Committee for the Promotion of Latin, the Finance Committee, and the Membership Committee; and three elected Members-at-Large, who shall serve for renewable terms of three years each, one term expiring each year. The Executive Committee shall meet in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Association, except as provided under Article V.2. Election of Members-at-Large shall take place at the Annual Business Meeting.

Section 1. The standing committees of the Association include the Executive Committee, the Development Committee, the Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, the Finance Committee, the History Committee, the Membership Committee, the Merit Committee, the Nominating Committee, the Program Committee, the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, the Resolutions Committee, and the Steering Committee on Awards and Scholarships, and the Strategic Planning Committee.

Section 5. There shall be an Executive Committee consisting of the President; the President-Elect; the immediate Past President; the Secretary-Treasurer; the Editor of The Classical Journal; the Editor of Teaching Classical Languages; the Editor of the CAMWS Newsletter; the Chairs of the Steering Committee on Awards and Scholarships, the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, the Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, the Finance Committee, and the Membership Strategic Planning Committee; and three elected Members-at-Large, who shall serve for renewable terms of three years each, one term expiring each year. The Executive Committee shall meet in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Association, except as provided under Article V.2. Election of Members-at-Large shall take place at the Annual Business Meeting.

Section 1. The standing committees of the Association include the Executive Committee, the Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, the Finance Committee, the History Committee, the Merit Committee, the Nominating Committee, the Program Committee, the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, the Resolutions Committee, the Steering Committee on Awards and Scholarships, and the Strategic Planning Committee.

Section 5. There shall be an Executive Committee consisting of the President; the President-Elect; the immediate Past President; the Secretary-Treasurer; the Editor of The Classical Journal; the Editor of Teaching Classical Languages; the Editor of the CAMWS Newsletter; the Chairs of the Steering Committee on Awards and Scholarships, the Committee for the Promotion of Latin and Greek, the Committee on Diversity and Inclusion, the Finance Committee, and the Strategic Planning Committee; and three elected Members-at-Large, who shall serve for renewable terms of three years each, one term expiring each year. The Executive Committee shall meet in conjunction with the Annual Meeting of the Association, except as provided under Article V.2. Election of Members-at-Large shall take place at the Annual Business Meeting.

More Than A Sex-Strike: A Case Of Medical Pathology In Aristophanes’ Lysistrata

by Natalia Tsoumpra

In this article, I consider the sex-strike in Lysistrata in the light of contemporary medical theories. I suggest that the young women who perform the sex-strike feature as (symbolic) Hippocratic patients who struggle with the symptoms of the condition of the “wandering womb.” Although some scholars have noted the medical vocabulary with regard to male pathology in Lysistrata, there is no study to date which considers the female sex-strike in the context of medical pathology. Through the perpetuation of the women’s pathological condition by means of the sex-strike and the overt manifestation of their disease, men are forced to comprehend fully and appreciate the importance of the reproductive role of women in the city. In this way, the traditional medical idea of the female as an unstable object, always in need of being brought into equilibrium and stability, is manipulated in the play by the women, who make the men realize the dangers their war policy entails: far from just threatening them with suspension of sex, the women force the men to face the real danger, sterility and cessation of reproduction.

by Hans Jorgen Hansen

This paper argues that the first 43 lines of Theocritus’ Idyll 15 constitute a mime within a mime. It conforms to the formal features of other Hellenistic mimes and serves as foil for the rest of the poem, which departs from the conventions of the genre, engages in generic contamination and adopts typically Hellenistic metapoetic and aesthetic discourses. The evolution of the poem is reflected in its road-motif—as the women travel from the opening household setting to Ptolemy’s palace, the genre of the text evolves from a straightforward mime into a distinctly Hellenistic poem.

by Alessandro Rolim de Moura

This paper discusses Lucan’s reception of Hesiod, indicating how the Roman poet uses his predecessor to his own ends. It deals with the role of Hesiod in Lucan’s view of civil war as a manifestation of cosmic phenomena. Two Lucanian characters are given special emphasis: Figulus and Erictho. The article seeks to identify the effect obtained in specific passages through allusion to Hesiod and explain the importance of Hesiodic paradigms in defining more general structuring patterns in the Bellum Civile, in particular as regards the connections between the political and the cosmic spheres of the war(s) related by Lucan. It argues that the relationship between Lucan and Hesiod is relevant for our interpretation of both poets.

Answering The Natural Questions: Pliny’s Ep. 4.30 And Ep. 8.20

by Christopher V. Trinacty

This paper argues that Pliny the Younger activates specific intertexts to the third book of Seneca’s Naturales Quaestiones (NQ) as part of his self-fashioning. Seneca’s own epistolary and scientific prowess are recalled in Pliny’s careful and erudite letters, but Pliny also adds his own literary perspective to the genre of natural science. An analysis of Ep. 4.30 and 8.20 reveals how Pliny competes with Seneca’s literary and scientific auctoritas in order to create his own innovative response to the Naturales Quaestiones. In doing so, Pliny updates these mirabilia into fitting subjects for epistolary expression and for both intertextual and intratextual play. His handling of the material acts as useful lens to his persona and his perspective on the epistolary genre for fruitful philosophical and literary expression.

Teaching Classical Languages (TCL) is the peer-reviewed, online journal dedicated to exploring how we teach (and how we learn) Greek and Latin.

As the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic has forced classes to move to “remote delivery,” students and teachers alike are fearful that both “Everything Will Change” and “Nothing Will Change.” For teachers concerned about the rise of online and distance education, this emergency foray into online teaching prefigures a turn to more permanent and widespread online delivery of coursework: everything will change. For underserved students for whom school serves as a safe place and provides the possibility for socio-economic mobility, the emphasis on technology in remote delivery reiterates geographic and class disparities: nothing will change.

The world over, we are hoping that we will emerge from this period somehow changed for the better: that we will learn lessons about what really matters and how better to do what matters most. We are concerned to make the best use of this bizarre opportunity to reconsider our lives, our priorities, our work, our teaching.

Teaching Classical Languages will devote its next issue (11.2) to essays and columns on lessons learned during the COVID-19-induced shift to remote instruction.

CAMWS ANNOUNCES THE SEARCH FOR THE NEXT EDITOR OF THE CLASSICAL JOURNAL

Applications are now being accepted for the position of Editor of The Classical Journal. The term of the current Editor ends on June 30, 2021. Applicants must be members of The Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) and must agree to serve at least one five-year term (July 1, 2021 through June 30, 2026). The CAMWS Constitution permits the term of the CJ Editor to be renewed once.

The CJ Editor is responsible for building an editorial team, for preparing and submitting electronic copy, for soliciting advertisements, and for supervising all initiatives undertaken by the journal, including its website. The CJ Editor appoints an Editorial Board, including a Book Review Editor and a Forum Editor, and is responsible for supervising the content and production of those sections and related online materials. The CJ Editor sits on the CAMWS Executive Committee and is paid an annual stipend. The CAMWS Secretary-Treasurer serves as Business Manager of The Classical Journal and handles subscriptions, billing, and other financial matters.

It is expected that the host institution will provide office space, computer facilities, and complete or partial funding for an editorial assistant. The first issue produced by the new Editor will be CJ 117 (October-November 2021).

A letter of application with a CV should be sent by email to Peter Knox, Chair, CJ Search Committee (pek30@case.edu). The letter should address one’s vision for CJ and include a statement about institutional support for the journal. Informal inquiries in advance of an application are encouraged. Consideration of applications will begin on November 1, 2020 and will continue until the position is filled.

CAMWS does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex (including pregnancy and gender identity), national origin, political affiliation, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, genetic information, age, membership in an employee organization, retaliation, parental status, military service, or any other factor not related to merit.

In the spring of 2018 the CAMWS Development Committee, under the leadership of its chair John Miller (University of Virginia), launched the Teacher Training Initiative (TTI), dedicated to supporting K-12 Latin teacher training and professional development. Since then, CAMWS consulares, officers, and individual members have contributed $21,273 to the campaign, and the Executive Committee has approved a commitment of $10,000 from the CAMWS endowment, bringing the total amount of available funds to $31,273 (as of June 2020).

During 2019-20 an ad-hoc committee, chaired by Fanny Dolansky (Brock University), brainstormed about how best to disburse the funds. In its report, submitted to the Executive Committee this spring, the committee suggested ideas in four categories: teaching certification, training experiences, mentoring experiences, and start-up costs. Building on those suggestions, and believing that our top priority should be brand-new initiatives to attract pre-college as well as undergraduates into the profession, the outgoing and incoming CAMWS Presidents and the outgoing and incoming CAMWS Secretary-Treasurers propose a two-pronged approach to spending the TTI funds: A Partnership Program and Scholarship Program.

The Partnership Program provides funds to establish a partnerships between K-12 schools and colleges/universities in one or more of the following ways:

      a.  K-12 Classics teachers, especially those certified to teach Latin, would be invited to visit college/university campuses and speak with Classics undergraduates about the rewards of K-12 teaching.

      b.  College/university Classics faculty or undergraduate Classics majors, particularly those in programs that offer Latin teaching certification, would be invited to visit K-12 schools and speak with students about the rewards of majoring in Classics and of becoming certified to teach Latin in K-12 schools.

      c.  K-12 Classics teachers, especially those certified to teach Latin, would be invited to serve as mentors for undergraduate Classics majors interested in a K-12 teaching career.

TTI funds would cover honoraria, transportation costs, meals, certificates, etc. CAMWS State/Provincial and Regional Vice-Presidents would be charged with publicizing the program and recruiting teachers to serve as speakers and mentors.

The Scholarship Program establishes two $500 scholarships to support undergraduate students, especially those from underrepresented or underserved populations, who pursue certification in Latin.

These scholarships welcome applications from high-school students who commit to majoring in Classics and earning certification, or college/university freshmen, sophomores, or juniors who are pursuing teaching certification. The scholarship may be renewable for up to three additional years (for undergraduate study), provided that the student maintains their commitment to earning certification to teach classics.

The application information is now available for these TTI Programs on the Awards Page.

The CAMWS Executive Committee has approved a proposal that CAMWS contribute $5000 to the newly established SCS-WCC COVID-19 Relief Fund (https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/scs-wcc-covid-19-relief-fund) and offer a free 1-year CAMWS membership as an option for any of the recipients. Our hope is that the other classical associations in North America will follow our lead so that, by consolidating our resources, the fund can grow as large as possible. We are grateful to the SCS and WCC for spearheading this initiative and providing a way for CAMWS as an institution to assist those classicists who are most in need of relief funds. We encourage individual donations as well; if you wish, you may use the donation designation button below.

The CAMWS Executive Committtee has voted to name one of the CAMWS Excavation and Field School Awards after McKenzie (“Mac”) Lewis of the University of Waterloo, Canada. Lewis passed away suddenly on March 8, 2020. Mac, who completed his Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology at Florida State University, was from 2012 the director of the Villa del Vergigno Archaeological Project. He was a much beloved colleague and teacher, who last year won a CAMWS faculty-undergraduate collaborative research grant for digitizing data from the excavations. He was serving on the CAMWS Resolutions Committee at the time of his death.

This categorized bibliography emphasizes open-access resources and is meant to be introductory rather than comprehensive. It was created by Clara Bosak-Schroeder, Dan Leon, and Ashley Weed for the Diversity and Inclusion Committee of the Classics Department at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1m7Me3Wp3gSndJAA17Y7XJ8a_TlPl30iJ_jkUE7nxOkU/edit.

CAMWS members have full access to the Loeb Classical Library On-Line.

Go to https://cj.camws.org/loeb. (password protected)

Dr. David Noe is the Chair of Philosophy and Professor of Classics

at Calvin College;

Dr. Jeff Winkle is Assistant Professor of Humanities

at Grand Rapids Community College

What do you get when you combine a 1st century Roman tragedy, based on performances of 20th century radio dramas, through 21st century technology? The upcoming Mississippi State University Shackouls Honors College radio drama presentation for the Halloween season. This first-of-its-kind project, entitled, “A Halloween Feast with Seneca’s Oedipus”, was released to listeners on Monday, October 26th through the honors college podcast: Honorable Mentions. It was also be played during the week before Halloween by local radio stations.

Due to the COVID-19 challenges for the fall semester, Shackouls Honors College had to postpone its annual September “Classical Week” event, which included the presentation of a classical play. To continue with a classical “theatrical” activity during the fall semester, Dr. Donna Clevinger, professor and senior faculty fellow at the honors college and play director, decided to produce Seneca’s Oedipus as a radio drama based on the popular “radio dramas” of the 20th century. Seneca’s Oedipus has all the ingredients of a Halloween horror story with the appearance of a ghost, animal sacrifice, human disfigurement along with incest and impalements. It is also a timely play: King Oedipus and his city of Thebes is besieged with a plague when the play begins, reminiscent of our own continued struggles with COVID-19.

This “free admission” event featured 18 honors students serving as cast members and production staff. These students represented new and returning students having a cross section of campus majors including Engineering, Business, Animal and Diary Science, Computer Science, and Education. Clevinger noted that this radio drama had been a very special experience. “With past productions, there were many elements to consider besides the sounds of a character’s voice. The staging, character movements, costumes, and props are vital to the annual outdoor production. Now, with only the student’s voice, sounds effects, and original music composed and performed by cast and production staff members to convey all that is not seen, this ‘Halloween feast’ has been a learning as well as a rewarding experience. I am so very proud of the students, their commitment and sacrifice to this first ever project. It has been a wonderful treat for the honors college.”

There are many people to thank for their help and support. Special thanks are extended to Dr. Greg Staley, Professor of Classics, University of Maryland and Dr. Anne Groton, Professor of Classics, St. Olaf College.

The deadline for the Frank M. Snowden Jr. Undergraduate Scholarships (formerly the Minority Scholarships) has been extended to December 11.

See the SCS website for a full list of recent deadline extensions.

The deadline for applications for the position of Editor of TAPA has been extended to November 20, 2020. Furthermore, in recognition of the increased demands currently being made on faculty time, we will now entertain, in addition to applications to be sole Editor, proposals from any self-formed team of two co-editors who wish to share the duties. A two-person application should include a statement of how the two co-editors will complement each other, how they will divide tasks, how often they will consult each other, and how they will reach consensus in difficult cases.

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce the academic programs and fellowships for the 2021-2022 academic year at the Gennadius Library. Opened in 1926 with 26,000 volumes from diplomat and bibliophile Joannes Gennadius, the Gennadius Library now holds a richly diverse collection of over 146,000 books and rare bindings, archives, manuscripts, and works of art illuminating the Hellenic tradition and neighboring cultures. The Library has become an internationally renowned center for the study of Greek history, literature, and art, especially from the Byzantine period to modern times.

See https://www.ascsa.edu.gr/research/gennadius-library/educational-programs/fellowships for a full list of available programs and application instructions.

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens does not discriminate on the basis of race, age, sex, sexual orientation, color, religion, ethnic origin, or disability when considering admission to any form of membership or application for employment.

The American School of Classical Studies at Athens is pleased to announce a gift from two anonymous trustees in support of the renovated Student Center. The trustees have named the John Wesley Gilbert Room, located on the first floor of the Annex, in honor of the esteemed scholar, linguist, teacher, community leader, missionary, and first African American student of the American School.

Born into slavery in rural Georgia, John Wesley Gilbert (1863–1923) has justly earned fame as “the first Black archaeologist.” He studied at Paine Institute (now Paine College) and earned an A.B. in ancient Greek from Brown University in 1888, making him one of the first Black scholars in the country to earn a bachelor’s degree in classical studies. In 1890–1891, Gilbert became the first African American student to attend the American School. Gilbert was awarded an A.M. from Brown in 1891 and was subsequently hired as the first Black faculty member at Paine, where he taught Greek, French, German, Hebrew, and Latin.

Vergil’s poetry has long offered fertile ground for scholars engaging questions of race, ethnicity and national identity, owing especially to the momentous social changes to which his works respond (Syed 2005; Reed 2007; Fletcher 2014; Giusti 2018; Barchiesi, forthcoming). The complexities of identity reflected in his corpus have afforded rich insights into the poems themselves and the era’s political milieu; beyond their Roman context, across the centuries his poetry has been co-opted in both racist and nationalist rhetoric, and, at the same time, inspired multicultural receptions among its many audiences, from Enoch Powell’s “Rivers of Blood” speech to Gwendolyn Brooks’ The Anniad (e.g. Thomas 2001; Laird 2010; Ronnick 2010; Torlone 2014; Pogorzelski 2016).

This year’s theme invites diverse approaches to the ways in which Vergil’s poetry represents, constructs, critiques, or sustains collective identities, in the ancient Mediterranean and well beyond. It also aims to stimulate new connections between Vergilian study and wider interest in identity and multicultural exchange among classicists, as well as contemporary discourse on racism, colonialism, immigration, and nationalism. Topics may include, but are not limited to:

Confirmed Speakers:

Samuel Agbamu (Royal Holloway), Maurizio Bettini (University of Siena), Filippo Carlà-Uhink (Potsdam University), Anna Maria Cimino (Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa), Hardeep Dhindsa (King’s College London), K.F.B. Fletcher (Louisiana State University), Valentina Follo (American Academy in Rome), Elena Giusti (University of Warwick), Andrew Laird (Brown University), Jackie Murray (University of Kentucky), Nandini Pandey (University of Wisconsin), Michele Ronnick (Wayne State University), Caroline Stark (Howard University), Richard Thomas (Harvard University), Zara Torlone (Miami University), Adriana Vazquez (UCLA)

Please send abstracts of roughly 300 words to identityinvergil@gmail.com by December 1, 2020. Papers will be 20 minutes long, with time for discussion after each. We hope to gather an inclusive group of speakers from multiple backgrounds and academic ranks, and especially encourage submissions from scholars belonging to communities underrepresented in the field.

Participants arrive on June 22; we are planning to hold the conference at the Villa Vergiliana and enjoy visits to Vergilian sites alongside presentations and discussion. That said, in light of the uncertainties COVID-19 continues to present, including financial pressures in the academy that might make travel abroad (for a typically self-funded conference with a registration fee) less accessible for some participants, we are leaving open the option for a hybrid or virtual symposium, to be determined as events proceed; we are also pursuing sources of financial assistance for qualifying speakers. Whatever form it will ultimately take, we look forward to a vibrant and engaging symposium in June 2021.

You are welcome to contact the organizers with any questions about the symposium, including the status of remote participation options or possible funding aid: Tedd Wimperis (twimperis@elon.edu); David Wright (dwright31@fordham.edu).

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The Department of Classics at the University of Cincinnati is searching for a senior scholar to hold the inaugural Theodore and Bessie Christopoulos Professorship in Ancient Greek History.

The search is open to senior historians of Greek antiquity specializing in any period from the Bronze Age through the Hellenistic period.

Further details of the application process can be found at: https://jobs.uc.edu/job/Cincinnati-Associate-or-Full-Professor%2C-Ancient-Greek-History-OH-45201/690381500/.

Kindly note that the committee will begin reviewing application on December 1, but the position will remain open until filled.

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me directly at marion.kruse@uc.edu.

The Classics Department at Colby College has been authorized to make a tenure-track appointment at the Advanced Assistant Professor level, beginning September 1, 2021. The search committee has a strong preference for candidates with at least two years of teaching experience. We invite applications from candidates capable of teaching with distinction courses in ancient Greek and Latin at all undergraduate levels, as well as courses on topics in Greek and/or Roman cultural history, such as race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, digital humanities, environmental humanities, material culture, or reception studies. Research specialization may be in Greek Literature and Culture, Ancient History, or contacts between Greece and other cultures of the ancient Mediterranean. Interdisciplinary approaches that expand the traditional boundaries of Classics are particularly welcome. The successful candidate will be expected to develop research projects to which undergraduates can contribute, to participate in rethinking the content and pedagogy of the department’s undergraduate curriculum, and to assume a position of leadership in the Department at the earliest opportunity. The search committee is especially interested in candidates who, through their research, teaching, advising, and/or service, will contribute to the diversity and excellence of the campus community. The normal teaching load is 4.5 courses per year. Ph.D. by date of appointment is required. Course load is 4.5, i.e., 4 courses in the first year of employment and alternating between 5 and 4 in subsequent years. Ph.D. by date of appointment is required.

Applicants should submit a cover letter that explains their interest in and qualifications for the position, a curriculum vitae, three letters of recommendation, a writing sample, a statement of research interests, and a teaching dossier via Interfolio at the following link: http://apply.interfolio.com/79923.

The teaching dossier should include a statement of teaching philosophy documenting a commitment to the value of diversity and experience with inclusive teaching, and complete sets of course evaluations from a selection of representative courses.

N.B.. Interviews will be conducted remotely between December 7 and 18. Applications received by November 15 will receive full consideration but review will continue until the position is filled. Address all inquiries to Kerill O’Neill, Search Committee Chair (knoneill@colby.edu).

Colby is a private, coeducational liberal arts college that admits students and makes employment decisions on the basis of the individual’s qualifications to contribute to Colby’s educational objectives and institutional needs. Colby College does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, religion, ancestry or national origin, age, marital status, genetic information, or veteran’s status in employment or in our educational programs. Colby is an Equal Opportunity employer, committed to excellence through diversity, and encourages applications from qualified persons of color, women, persons with disabilities, military veterans and members of other under-represented groups. Colby complies with Title IX, which prohibits discrimination on the basis of sex in an institution’s education programs and activities. Questions regarding Title IX may be referred to Colby’s Title IX coordinator or to the federal Office of Civil Rights. For more information about the College, please visit our website: www.colby.edu.

The Department of Modern Languages and Classics at the University of Alabama (Tuscaloosa, AL) is seeking adjunct instructors for openings in Spring 2021 and (potentially) beyond. In Spring 2021 we have a particular need for instructors qualified to teach courses in Greek Mythology and in Roman History. The teaching must be done in person.

For further questions or to express interest, please contact our Department Chair, Dr. Cheryl Toman (catoman@ua.edu). Please share this announcement widely with your colleagues and current & recent graduate students!

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