Classics Undergraduate Students Present at CAMWS Conference
CAMWS (Classical Association of the Middle West and South) 2025 (in Urbana-Champaign) was immensely successful for UIC students and faculty in the Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies.
Calliope's Library (Project Director: Dr. Krishni Burns)
Calliope's Library Student Assistant Caitlin Romaker ran an exhibition table for Calliope's Library: Books for Young Readers, stock with the study collection bought through our ACA grant. During the conference, the project website received double its usual traffic.
Undergraduate and Recent Alumni Presentations
Susie Summerlot ('26): “Sister Sites of Civic Engagement: the Circus Maximus and the National Mall”
Alec Breneman ('25): “Composing Latin in Dactylic Hexameter”
Kat Pope-Keegan ('25): “An Analysis of Agricultural Homeric Similes within Context”
Taylor Trower ('26): “Two Italian Receptions of Lucretia.”
Vidyalakshimi Devarajulu ('24): “The Blue/Black Coloring of Divinity in both Latin and Sanskrit Texts”
Tondum Pius-Alonee ('26): “A Comparison of Political Riots and Their Suppression”
Kira Oberman ('24): “Inauthentic lines in Ovid’s Heroides V”
Trenton Holmquist ('26): played Pleusicles in Theater In Greece and Rome's reading of Plautus' Miles Gloriosus
Morgan Ainsel ('24): "A Battery of Canons: Homer and Collaborative Writing"
Alec Breneman ('25): “Composing Latin in Dactylic Hexameter”
Kat Pope-Keegan ('25): “An Analysis of Agricultural Homeric Similes within Context”
Taylor Trower ('26): “Two Italian Receptions of Lucretia.”
Vidyalakshimi Devarajulu ('24): “The Blue/Black Coloring of Divinity in both Latin and Sanskrit Texts”
Tondum Pius-Alonee ('26): “A Comparison of Political Riots and Their Suppression”
Kira Oberman ('24): “Inauthentic lines in Ovid’s Heroides V”
Trenton Holmquist ('26): played Pleusicles in Theater In Greece and Rome's reading of Plautus' Miles Gloriosus
Morgan Ainsel ('24): "A Battery of Canons: Homer and Collaborative Writing"
Susie Summerlot received the Presidential Award for Outstanding Undergraduate Poster Presentation in the CAMWS Poster session from CAMWS President Lorenzo F. Garcia Jr. Congratulations, Susie!
Susie Summerlot ('26), Kira Oberman ('24), and Alec Breneman ('25), Vidyalakshimi Devarajulu ('24), Trenton Holmquist ('26), and Taylor Trower ('26) received James Ruebel Undergraduate Travel Awards. Congratulations Susie, Kira, Alec, Vidyalakshimi, Trenton, and Taylor!
Modified on April 01, 2025