Postclassicisms Website Launched
The website for "Postclassicisms," a global research network dedicated to redefining the study of antiquity, is now live: www.postclassicisms.org. The network is based at Princeton. Constanze Güthenke and I are co-PIs.
NEH Summer Institute "Mortality: Facing Death in Ancient Greece"
For the week of July 7, I will be in residence as a faculty member at the NEH Summer Institute "Mortality: Facing Death in Ancient Greece," organized by Karen Bassi in Athens, Greece. The session of Week 2 is "Mortal Bodies and Immortal Souls in Greek Medicine and Philosophy." For more information, see the Institute's website: http://mortality…
Barbara McManus Prize for Best Published Article on Gender or Women's Studies in Antiquity, 2014
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…
Review of "Gender: Antiquity and its Legacy" by Adriel Trott in hypatia reviews online
Excellent and insightful review of Gender: Antiquity and its Legacy by Adriel Trott: http://hypatiaphilosophy.org/HRO/reviews/content/192.
New Directions Fellowship (Mellon Foundation)
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,…
Tribute to Caroline Walker Bynum, Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, Toronto, May 22-25, 2014
I was deeply honored to be involved in a panel devoted to the work and impact of Caroline Walker Bynum at the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians, held May 22-25 in Toronto. The panel, organized by Felice Lifshitz and Suzanne Akbari, was called “Beliefs, Bodies and Making History Matter: Multigenerational Encounters with the Work of…