Five graduate students from the John and Penelope Biggs Department of Classics were awarded Travel Awards from the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS), supporting their participation in the organization’s 2026 Annual Meeting, held March 11–14 in Mobile, Alabama.
The award recipients—Sarah Mason, Owen Embree, Bayla Kamens, William Sieving, and Davis Holden—were selected through a competitive process that recognizes outstanding graduate student research in the field of classical studies. Each student presented an original paper at the conference, sharing their work with an audience of scholars from across the Midwest, South, and beyond.
CAMWS Travel Awards are intended to facilitate graduate student participation in professional conferences by helping to defray the costs of travel, lodging, and registration. The awards not only recognize the quality of recipients’ research but also support professional development at a crucial stage of academic training.
The CAMWS Annual Meeting serves as a major regional conference for classicists, featuring paper sessions, plenary addresses, workshops, and opportunities for scholarly exchange and networking. Presenting at CAMWS allows graduate students to engage with current debates in the field, receive feedback on their research, and build connections with faculty and peers from other institutions.
The department congratulates Sarah Mason, Owen Embree, Bayla Kamens, William Sieving, and Davis Holden on earning CAMWS Travel Awards and on representing the John and Penelope Biggs Department of Classics with distinction at the 2026 annual conference.
