Elizabeth Keitel, Professor Emeritus of Classics at UMass Amherst, has been honored with the 2020 Barlow-Beach Award from the Classical Association of New England. The award, the most prestigious...

The Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) has presented Teresa Ramsby with the 2019–2020 Award for Excellence in College Teaching. She joins her departmental colleague Debbie...

On May 7, the Department of Classics gathered via Zoom for a virtual Honors Colloquium and Celebration of the Class of 2020. Despite the unusual events of the Spring semester due to the Covid 19...

Applications for the 2020 season of the archaeology field school on Kea, Greece are being accepted until October 20. For more information, contact Prof. Shannon Hogue.  

On April 26, 2019 the Department of Classics held a colloquium on Greek and Roman historiography in honor of Elizabeth Keitel on the occasion of her retirement. There were four papers by eminent...

Emma Vanderpool, MAT 2019, has received the Distinguished Graduate Student Teaching Award at UMass Amherst, one of only two prizes given to graduate student teachers each year. Her UMass students...