Professor Mahoney
CANES Major Brian Martens has been designated as a finalist in the 2009 Rhodes Scholarship competition!
Please offer him your congratulations if you see him!
CANES Major Claire O'Brien has been admitted to study in the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Sciliy program! Please congratulate her for winning admission in stiff competition against students from these schools.
Providence College Prof. Timothy Mahoney will give the talk "Doing the Best They Can: The Bittersweet Happiness of Philosophers-Rulers in the Republic" at 3:30 pm in SC 104 on 5 November 2009.
Professor Mahoney
18 August 2009: CANES Professor Jeffrey P. Hause awarded a prestigious Fulbright fellowship in French Studies!!
This fellowship goes to scholars in the humanities or social sciences who will engage in co-operative work with French scholars. His project is to research Aquinas's action theory in the light of his theories of virtue and responsibility, and his French sponsor is Cyrille Michon, Professor of Philosophy at the University of Nantes and co-founder of the Peter Abelard Center at the Sorbonne. He'll be at the University of Nantes in France from January until May of 2010.
17 August 2009: Prof. Bucher's article on the fragments of the Greek history of A. Postumius Albinus has now appeared in the Brill's New Jacoby edition of the fragments of Felix Jacoby's Fragmente der griechischen Historiker.
Summer 2009: It has been announced that Professors William O. Stephens and Jeffrey P. Hause now have primary appointments in CANES, and secondary appointments in Philosophy.
Summer 2009: Trevor Gerson (GRK '08) is now a married man! Congratulations, Trevor!
Summer 2009: CANES Professor Greg Bucher again led the Classical Summer School of the American Academy in Rome. It was a good summer, and he saw many exciting new monuments. Among the students was CANES CNE major Sarah Schmidt ('07). 2008 Classical Summer School student Jenny Fotsch (CANES LAT '03) has announced her engagement to fellow 2008 Summer Schooler Chad Austino, currently studying toward the PhD at Duke University. Congratulations!!
Here are a few pictures (see his Facebook page for more):
Prof. Bucher with his two Assistant Directors: John Hopkins (U Texas, Austin), 2008; Bucher; Scott Craver (UVA), 2009. They are standing in the doorway of the round temple of the Forum Boarium, an inaccessible structure which you will never get into.
This is the 2009 class of the Classical Summer School of the American Academy in Rome, on the steps of the (open!) round temple of the Forum Boarium.
Top row, l-r: Scott Craver, the Assistant Director, Lucy Robie, Rob McCutcheon, Ralph Annina, Hunter Nielsen, Bob Coleman, Jennifer Larson, Alex Miller (squatting, in red), Bucher.
Middle, l-r: Grace Hernandez, Jen Jordt, Melanie Racette-Campbell (above, with backpack on), Sophie Klein (above with shoulder strap), Christa Johnson (below, in black), Bob Brewer, Tom Hendrickson, Maureen Gassert (above, in fuscia), Michele Andrews, Melissa Hargis (below, in black), Brenda Fields, Manny Andino (above, in green), Sarah Schmidt (CANES CNE '07), Jenny Muslin (above, gray shirt), Giulia Fiorile (big white glasses), Mary Jo Behrensmeyer.
Bottom step, l-r: Craig Jacobs, Robbie Masterson, Barbara Kerner.
Here Prof. Bucher chats amiably with the prettiest woman in Etruria, Velia, from the tomb of the Orcus under the modern camposanto (graveyard) in Tarquinia.