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Bryn Chandra Coleman (1988-2024) was a proud graduate of the Rutgers Classics Department. To honor his memory, his family would like to give opportunities for travel to Rutgers undergraduates who share Bryn’s passion for the ancient world. Click HERE for more information.

Professor Kristina Chew has been honored with the Rudolph Masciantonio Award by the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, as well as with an Excellence in Online Teaching Award by Rutgers University Online Education Services. Congratulations, Kristina!

In Learned Emperors: Science, Technology, and Power at the Roman Imperial Court, Professor Serena Connolly argues that science and technology were a source of power to Julio-Claudian emperors: professions of knowledge, discernment, and mastery of them enabled emperors to delight, entertain, awe, and even terrify their subjects. Early modern historians have explored the ways in which various European rulers employed intellectualism, specifically an interest in science and technology, as part of...

Professor Jeffrey Ulrich’s The Shadow of an Ass (Philosophical Choice and Aesthetic Experience in Apuleius' Metamorphoses) addresses fundamental questions about the reception and aesthetic experience of Apuleius’ Metamorphoses, popularly known as The Golden Ass, by situating the novel in a contemporaneous literary and philosophical discourse emerging in the Second Sophistic. This unique Latin novel follows a man who is accidentally turned into a donkey because of his curiosity, viewing the...

Victoria Hodges has received an Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, which she is spending at Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford, as a Visiting Associate Member. Congratulations, Victoria!

Emily Wiley has been awarded this year’s Fowler Merle-Smith Fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.

Corey Brennan’s Archivio Digitale Boncompagni Ludovisi project, now in its 13th year, has seen over 50 students work on the artistic and archival treasures of the Casino dell’Aurora in Rome. One intern, Carol Cofone ’17, in 2025 published the results of her work as a book with Rutgers University Press, The Twilight of Rome's Papal Nobility: The Life of Agnese Borghese Boncompagni Ludovisi; another, Hatice Koroglu Cam ’22, received national press attention for her identification in the...

We're excited to report that in Spring 2025, Maria Walsh, a junior majoring in Classics, has won first place in the 2025 New York Classical Club's college Latin contest.