The Classics Department is Excited to Announce Two New Faculty Hires in Ancient History and Greek Philology

Wibier

Matthijs Wibier (2014 PhD in Classics from St. Andrews) will be joining us in the fall. He is a Roman cultural and intellectual historian with a specialization in Roman law and a broad interest in Roman politics and government. Matthijs can boast a long list of publications already. He is currently working on a monograph on the Roman legal experts in the early Empire as well as on a collective volume on the transmission of Roman law in Late Antiquity. Matthijs is originally from the Netherlands (2010 MA in Classics from Leiden University) and has been teaching at the University of Kent since 2018. Earlier he spent a few years each at Penn State and the University of Pavia. We wish Matthijs welcome in what has now officially become the Classics department with the highest concentration of ancient historians in the US! He is eager to take on graduate students interested in Roman history.

Kenny

Dylan Kenny comes to Cincinnati from the University of California, Berkeley, where he has recently completed his PhD on the early fifth-century poet Pindar. Dylan was attracted to Classics through its modern reception in pictorial art, the early days of the printing press, and ideologies of work. His current research addresses the intersections between Pindar’s poetry and philosophical discourses of the early fifth century BCE. Whereas recent generations of scholars have isolated Pindar from his contemporaries and read his poetry as a strange kind of archaic residue, rich as it is in complex symbolism, Dylan builds on early-modern scholarly opinion that Pindar was a serious ethicist and political advisor to show that he was conversant also with most major philosophical topics of his day. In his earlier work, Dylan edited a collection of essays on the Victorian art critic Vernon Lee, wrote a prize-winning thesis on the early modern painter Pieter Bruegel the Elder, wrote a prize-winning MA thesis on Xenophon’s Education of Cyrus, and wrote a second MA thesis on the Renaissance publisher Henri Estienne of Geneva. Dylan grew up near Fresno, California, and completed the two-year liberal arts program at Deep Springs College, a two-year liberal arts college in the California dessert that integrates sustenance labor with readings from the European tradition. He subsequently earned his BA at Yale, continued his studies of Classics and Early Modern History on a three-year fellowship for post-graduate study at the University of Cambridge, and returned to Berkeley for his PhD in Classics. 

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Cincinnati Opera and the Outreach Program partner together for an exciting new project:  a series of 6 lectures for a brand new course at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Cincinnati, during the Spring Term 2023. From May 3rd to June 7th,  Graduate Student Cecilia Cozzi and singers of the Cincinnati Opera will joint forces to show how human characters (both in Greek tragedy and live opera) deal with all the complex emotions of our inner life and discuss how each art form confronts its audience with dangerous questions and open dilemmas. Each lecture will be at the UC Victory Parkway Campus and feature the combination of dramatic readings from Greek tragedy with different live performances, provided by the Cincinnati Opera.

Fantastical mermaid tail
The collaboration between the Cincinnati Outreach program and the CSO resumes. For the first time after the pandemic, the Outreach program will return at the Cincinnati Music Hall for the famous "Pre-concert-talks" Series. Mark your calendar: on March 17th and 18th at 6 p.m.,  graduate student Cecilia Cozzi will join assistant director Daniel Wiley for a conversation on the fascinating Sirens in the Odyssey, preparing the audience for the following subscription concert, "The Mermaid." Special Discount codes to UC students and faculty will be soon provided for both performances. Stay tuned!
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Applications for the Tytus Fellowship and Cincinnati Summer Residencies are open!

Use the correct online form for each application (see the links above). The deadline for applications is March 1, 2023.

Senior scholars are invited to apply for the Margo Tytus Visiting Scholars Program. Applicants for this program will ordinarily be a minimum of five years beyond receipt of the Ph.D., with notable publication histories. Tytus Scholars are expected to be in residence at the University of Cincinnati for a minimum of one semester (ca. four months) and a maximum of two during the regular academic year; see UC Academic Calendar. In exceptional circumstances, Tytus Scholars may be appointed for a shorter term (one to two months) during the regular academic year. Tytus Scholars will receive a monthly stipend of $1,500 plus housing near campus and a transportation allowance, as well as office space attached to the Burnam Classics Library.

More recent PhDs and other scholars who would benefit from the use of a world-class classics library are invited to apply for the Cincinnati Summer Residency program. Applicants for this program will have their Ph.D. in hand by the time of application, and will ordinarily be in residence at the University of Cincinnati for approximately two months in the summer terms, May to mid-August; see UC Academic Calendar. Cincinnati Summer Residents will receive housing near campus and office space attached to the Burnam Classics Library. Residents are not eligible for a stipend or travel reimbursement.

The Department of Classics is now accepting applications for Semple Scholarships and its new Centennial Scholarships for the upcoming 2023-2024 academic year. 
 
For more details on these two undergraduate scholarship opportunities, please see the departmental scholarship page.
 
The application process is fully electronic this year. Use our online form.
 
The deadline for both scholarship applications is Jan 27, 2023.

The Department of Classics at the University of Cincinnati invites applications for a tenure track position in Ancient History with a research specialization in Roman Republican and/or Imperial history at the level of Assistant Professor, to begin August 15, 2023.

Details can be found at the UC Jobs website. Applications are currently being reviewed but the position will remain open until filled.