I was the co-winner of the 2014 prize for "The Poetic Logic of Negative Exceptionalism in Lucretius, Book Five": http://wccaucus.org/blog/co-winner-2014-mcmanus-award-best-article-holm….
“The Poetic Logic of Negative Exceptionalism in Lucretius, Book Five” analyzes how Lucretius handles a significant problem in Epicurean accounts of…
I have been awarded a three-year New Directions Fellowship by the Mellon Foundation to support further training in the history and philosophy of science and ethics at Chicago, Princeton, and NYU. From the website: "New Directions Fellowships assist faculty members in the humanities, broadly understood to include the arts, history, languages,…
Registration is now open for the conference "Vital Traditions: Greco-Roman Medicine and the Life Sciences in the Twenty-First Century; A Conference in Honor of Heinrich von Staden," to be held April 19-20, 2013 in Princeton: http://www.princeton.edu/classics/edita/conferences/vitaltraditions/"
Constanze Güthenke and I have been awarded a three-year Global Collaborative Networks Fund grant from the The Council for International Teaching and Research at Princeton for our project "Postclassicisms." The project brings together Princeton faculty and graduate students with scholars and researchers working in reception studies and related…
Together with Constanze Güthenke (Princeton) and Tim Whitmarsh (Oxford), I have been awarded a Tier-1 2012-13 Oxford-Princeton Collaborative Research Grant to develop an exchange between researchers in Greek literature at the two universities, organized around the topic of "Postclassicisms." For further information, see http://www.princeton…