The family of 2023 graduate Marshall St. Amant has generously established a new endowment for Classics that will be used to help students studying abroad cover incidental costs. Read more here!
With a $100,000 gift, Gabriella and Marshall St. Amant (middle) have established two endowments. With them are their children, Marshall (left) and Bella (right).
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he Department of Classics is hosting a traveling photographic and historical exhibit called, “14 Black Classicists”. The exhibit, conceived and curated by Dr. Michele Valerie Ronnick of Wayne State University, reflects on the role of advanced education (and especially of the study of Classics) in building a free and prosperous Black community in the United States. Dr. Ronnick has collected the stories of nineteenth-century Black Americans who chose to pursue advanced education in Greek and Latin language and ancient history, literature and art, and went on to teach in the field. The exhibit is open until November 18th, Monday through Friday, 8 am to 7 pm in the Farrington Gallery on the first floor of Bryant Hall.
In addition to the exhibit, we will be hosting Dr. Ronnick for a talk on Thursday, November 3 at 5:30 in Bryant 209, with a reception and exhibit event preceding the talk, beginning at 4:00 in Farrington Gallery. Dr. Ronnick will provide “A Brief History of Black Classicism”. Monica Granderson-Little, who teaches in English at Jackson State University, will be delivering preliminary remarks that will help connect Dr. Ronnick’s talk and the exhibit to the broader history of Black education, with a particular focus on the history and the future of JSU.
Visitor and handicap parking for both events is available on the Lyceum Circle. ADA-compliant access to Bryant Hall is through the Fulton Chapel side door. If you have any questions, or if you require a disability related accommodation to fully participate in this event, please contact Molly Pasco-Pranger (mpranger@olemiss.edu or 662-915-7097).
Annabelle Harris, 2022-23 president of HSPh, reads at the Spring 2022 Taste of Classics. Photo by Gaetano Catelli.
Photo by Kevin Bain/The University of Mississippi Marketing Communications
For more than ten years, Eta Sigma Phi, the Classics Honor Society, has hosted Taste of Classics twice a year. Students and faculty gather to share readings of Greek and Roman literature and samples of Mediterranean food– you never know what you’ll hear or taste!
Dr. Serena Witzke, Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Wesleyan University will visits the department in early October to deliver a lecture entitled “What can we see through Roman comedy? Using Plautus and Terence to access non-citizen experiences.” Dr. Pasco-Pranger is teaching Roman Comedy as the advanced Latin course this semester, and Dr. Fenno is teaching an upper-level Classical Civilization course on Greek and Roman Comedy, so Dr. Witzke’s topic will be of particular interest and relevance to many of our students.
The talk is free and open to the public; if you have questions about accessibility, please email Dr. Pasco-Pranger at mpranger@olemiss.edu or call 662-915-7097.
Dr. Jacqueline DiBiasie-Sammons is part of the 2022 University of Mississippi TEDx program, “New Avenues”. Her talk on Roman graffiti as a way into the lives of the under-represented “99%” will be available on video after the program on February 22.
