A committee formed of faculty from the Departments of Classics, Philosophy, and Art History & Archaeology has awarded grants from the Penelope Biggs Travel Award to four WashU faculty members, three graduate students, and five undergraduate students. The Penelope Biggs Travel Award was established by John Biggs, a generous friend of Washington University and the study of ancient Greece and Rome, in memory of his wife Penelope Biggs, a classical scholar and teacher of Latin. Faculty in any department, and any students who have coursework in Classics, Art History & Archaeology, or Philosophy, are eligible for the awards, which fund research and study in Greco-Roman antiquity.
Awards to Faculty Members
William Bubelis, Associate Professor of Classics, will use his award to carry out his duties as Greek numismatist at the University of Notre Dame’s excavations at the Greco-Roman site of Butrint, Albania.
Cathy Keane, Professor of Classics, will deliver a paper entitled “Epigram’s Unfinished Business in Juvenal Satire 4” at the Celtic Classics Conference in Coimbra, Portugal.
An award will support Chris Erdman, Assistant Professor of Classics, as he conducts research in Italy for his book project on voting culture in the late Roman Republic.
Justin Meyer, Lecturer in Classics, will travel to Munich, Germany to examine an autograph manuscript of the Liber Epigraphicus, a collection of Roman inscriptions by the Nuremberg humanist Hartmann Schedel.
Awards to Graduate Students
Davis Holden, MA student in Classics, will take a course in German for Students of Classical Studies in Cologne, Germany.
Bayla Kamens, PhD student in Classics, will attend the Summer School in Latin Lexicography at the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae in Munich, Germany.
Mo Stein, MA student in Art History & Archaeology, will study Roman faience items and a Roman bath in England.
Awards to Undergraduate Students
Michael Davis, a major in Math and Computer Science and Art History & Archaeology, will participate in an archaeological field school at the Roman harbor in Corinth, Greece.
Xander Georgoulis, a major in Political Science and minor in Classics, will take a course at the College Year in Athens on populist politics in ancient Athens.
Morasha Rabinowitz, a major in Art History & Archaeology and Anthropology, plans to take part in an archaeological excavation related to Classical antiquity in the Near East.
Nicole Spangler, a major in Classics and History, will join an archaeological field school at the Roman site of Aguntum in Austria.
Elio Sun, a major in Classics and History, will take part in the Nikopoli Archaeology and Bioarchaeology Field School in Greece.
