Dr. Krishni Burns received a 2024 HOPE (Honoring Our Professors’ Excellence) Award presented by UIC Campus Housing in recognition of faculty who have positively made a lasting impact on Campus Housing residents. Congrats…
Rachel Chinchilla, class of 2023, has won a scholarship to the Post-Baccalaureate Certificate program at Loyola University Chicago where she will spend the year studying Latin. She is deciding whether to become a…
Homerathon was a huge success! Congrats CAMS!! The recent UIC/National Hellenic Museum Homerathon was covered in a segment on WGN. There’s a nice interview with Young Kim and a lot of shots of…
The Department of Classics and Mediterranean Studies was saddened to learn of the passing on November 19, 2021 of Dr. John Vaio (1939-2021), Professor Emeritus of Classics. After receiving his doctorate from Columbia…
Krishni Burns, Lecturer of Latin, recently blogged about her new project Calliope’s Library: Books for Young Readers for the Society for Classical Studies. In the post, Burns details the project’s genesis as well…
The April 2021 adaptation of Plautus’s Casina by UIC Classics alumna Luana Davila was recently featured by the Society for Classical Studies. In an interview, Davila and her collaborator, Amy Gerwert Valdez, a Theater…
Young Richard Kim, Associate Profess and Head of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, was awarded a grant under the University of Illinois System’s second Presidential Initiative: Expanding the Impact of the Arts and the…
Young Richard Kim, associate professor and head of Classics and Mediterranean Studies and associate professor of History, recently published an op-ed piece with Newsweek. In it he writes about multilingualism in American culture…
Young Richard Kim, associate professor and Head of Classics and Mediterranean Studies, joined WBEZ’s “Reset” for a discussion about the origin of the model minority myth and how it impacted Asian Americans growing…
Mark your calendars for April 30th and the opening (via livestream) of a new adaptation of Plautus’s Casina by UIC Classical Studies major Luana Davila! Additional details coming soon. Promotional Flyer Produced by Columbia…
