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…
Congratulations to Zinon Papakonstantinou, Associate Professor of Classics, on the official release of his new book Sport and Identity in Ancient Greece, with Routledge. From the publisher: From the eighth century BCE to…
Zinon Papakonstantinou, Associate Professor of Classics, has won a Mercator Fellowship from the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. The Mercator Fellowship entails a visiting professorship linked to a Germany-based research project. In his case, the three-year project, in collaboration…
Jumana Almahamid, Visiting Lecturer in the Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, was honored this month with a HOPE Award from UIC Campus Housing. Her Arabic language students living in campus housing residents nominated her and she was selected in…
Paris Papamichos Chronakis has recently published the article “A National Home in the Diaspora? Salonican Zionism and the Making of a Greco-Jewish City” in the Winter 2018 edition of the Journal of Levantine Studies.…
The Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies’s Paris Papamichos Chronakis has just published a new chapter related to his research on Greek Jews in the Holocaust. Entitled “‘We Lived as Greeks and We Died…
Paris Papamichos Chronakis has just published an article entitled “From the Lone Survivor to the Networked Self: Social Networks Meet the Digital Holocaust Archive” in the online journal Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History.…
Heidi Schlipphacke (Germanic Studies) received a 2017-2018 Institute for the Humanities Fellowship for her project “The Aesthetics of Kinship.” Heidi Schlipphacke is Associate Professor of Germanic Studies and Classics at the University of…
Zinon Papakonstantinou, Associate Professor of Classics and History gave the Ioannides Memorial Lecture at University of Western Ontario in Canada on March 31st. Professor Papakonstantinou’s talk was titled, “Greek Athletes in the Roman…
