Rumi Venkatesh received the Award for Highest Distinction for her project “Claiming Roots: A Reclamation of Jewish Identity in Judah Halevi’s Kuzari” at the Fall 2020 Honors College Research Symposium. This project was…
Zinon Papakonstantinou, Professor of Classics, has published a new book, Cursing for Justice: Magic, Disputes, and the Lawcourts in Classical Athens (Franz Steiner Verlag: Stuttgart, 2021). From the publisher: This book is a…
Classical Studies major and Arabic minor Luana was recently featured as part of the Language and Culture Learning Center’s “UIC Language StorieS” project. She shared how her experiences growing up in a multi-cultural…
A Q&A with Young Kim, Associate Professor and Head of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, was featured in the American Historical Association’s Perspectives on History as part of a member spotlight series. Read the article online.
Young Kim, Associate Professory and Head of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, recently published a co-edited volume, a Festschrift for Raymond Van Dam. Leadership and Community in Late Antiquity: Essays in Honour of Raymond…
The Hill published an op-ed Young Richard Kim, associate professor and head of Classics and Mediterranean Studies and associate professor of History, in which he reflects on growing up in an immigrant family,…
Krishni Burns, Lecturer of Latin in the Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, recently published a review of Theater of War’s Oedipus Project. Her review of the May 7, 2020 Zoom production was…
Young Kim, Associate Professor and Head of the Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, has been selected for the University of Illinois’ 2020-2021 cohort of the Public Voices Fellowship. This program aims to…
The upcoming inaugural Chicagoland Homerathon to be hosted at UIC by the Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies April 4th, 2020 was recently featured on UIC Today. Read the article online.
University of Illinois at Chicago sophomore Luana Davila of Joliet has been awarded a U.S. Department of State Critical Language Scholarship to study Arabic in Morocco this summer. Davila, who is a classics…
