Hans Wietzke has been awarded a residential fellowship for Fall 2025 at Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington D.C., where he will work on his book project, Herodotus’ Laughter: Media and Aesthetics in Greek Science and Geography. Prof. Wietzke’s book investigates how Greek scientific and geographical authors negotiated fundamental choices of textual form—verbal or visual, poetry or prose—to make complex information about the world comprehensible, as well as to add charge to the atmosphere of wonder and debate.