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Letter from the President. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .1APA News Blog. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .2Slate of Candidates for Summer 2010 Elections. . . . . . 2Nominating Committee Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .3Distinguished Service Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4APA President’s Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .4C.J. Goodwin Award of Merit

2009 Recipient. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Call for Nominations for 2010. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5Previous Winners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7

Awards for Excellence in the Teaching of Classics2009 Recipients. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6Call for Nominations for 2010. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10Previous Winners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .8

Awards for Excellence in Precollegiate Teaching2009 Recipient. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11Call for Nominations for 2010. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12Previous Winners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Outreach Prize2009 Recipient. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .13Call for Nominations for 2010. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13Previous Winners. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

Reports of Vice Presidents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .142010 Coffin Award. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23In Memoriam. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .24141st Annual Meeting Report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29Acknowledgements of Service to the APA. . . . . . . . . 29Volunteers for 2011 Annual Meeting. . . . . . . . . . . . .30Announcements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30Awards to Members. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31Meetings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31Summer Programs. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .31Fellowships / Funding Opportunities. . . . . . . . . . . . . .312010 Officers, Directors & Committee Members.32Newsletter Editorial Policies. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35Important Deadlines. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .36Officer/Committee Survey. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .37APA Office Publications Order Form. . . . . . . . . . . . . 39141st Annual Meeting Photo Montage. . . . . . . . . . . .42Capital Campaign News. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Back Page

LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENTLETTER FROM THE PRESIDENTLETTER FROM THE PRESIDENTLETTER FROM THE PRESIDENTLETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT

By now you have all heard about the APA’s Capital Cam-paign, and many of you have already made generous con-tributions. The campaign has a number of worthy goals,but I want to use this opportunity to talk about the onethat is closest to my heart–an endowment to support theAmerican Office of the l’Année philologique. As you allknow, The APh is the bibliography of record in our field,the place where all of our publications are documented,indexed and assigned to headings in a standard format soother scholars can learn about them, now and in the fu-ture, and we can find out about the books and articles weneed for our own work.

While it is true that much research these days begins withGoogle, professional, scholarly research never ends there.The titles of books appear, sometimes with their entirecontents, through the good offices of Google Books, anda search on JStor can lead the way to relevant articles inEnglish language journals (for the most part), but none ofthese services, useful as they are, can produce a com-plete, reliable account of all the work a real scholar needsto see. The APh is the sole source of comprehensive in-formation about European publications of all types, andsimply put, we cannot do without it.

Beyond bibliography the APh is now poised become amuch more widely-ranging and versatile research tool.With support from the NEH for the DCB project, theAPh has been online since 2002, and links to JStor di-rectly from citations in the APh can now be installedthrough OpenURL. Beyond this, the APA has fundingfrom the Mellon Foundation for software and databasedevelopment that will facilitate linking between citationsof Greek and Latin texts in the APh with full texts online,and it has recently received funding from the Kress Foun-dation to test the possibility of links to images. A new,up-to-date user-interface is also on the way.

The APh has grown and changed over the years, yet itretains its original spirit. It was founded in Paris in 1926by J. Marouzeau, as a challenge to the Bibliothecaphilologica classica, and it has been published annually

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since 1927. Juliette Ernst, who worked with Marouzeaufrom the earliest years, and shared his view of classics asan interdisciplinary area study, succeeded him as directorin 1965. Her heroic efforts kept the bibliography aliveduring the Second World War when she made clandes-tine border crossings from Switzerland into occupiedFrance to bring her manuscripts to the printer and cor-rect proof. She retired in 1992, at age ninety-two, twenty-two years after the mandatory retirement age, when hereyesight began to fail, and died in 2001.

In 1965, when the quantity of publications became toogreat for the Paris office to handle, Mlle Ernst convincedT. Robert Broughton to create an American Office atChapel Hill which took over the collecting and editing ofall of the English language publications. It is that office,which documents your work and mine, that needs oursupport. It has been funded, since its founding, by suc-cessive grants from the NEH, which is now redirecting itsresources away from projects that have no definable end-point. A cumulative bibliography, like the APh, is up-dated every year, and falls outside the NEH’s currentguidelines. The Endowment has not abandoned us en-tirely, however. Far from it! It has given the APA a Chal-lenge Grant of up to $650,000 to help the Associationraise the funding it needs to ensure that the AmericanOffice can continue its work.

The NEH will give us one dollar for every four we con-tribute, so we need a total of 2.6 million dollars to achieveour goals. We have already made great progress towardour goal, but we still need $600,000 by July 31, 2010,and then $500,000 more by July 31, 2011 to fullyfund the American Office and support classics in othercrucial ways. Please help by visiting this web site: https://app.etapestry.com/hosted/AmericanPhilologicalAssociat/OnlineDonation.html, and giving what you can.

Dee L. Clayman

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As announced in the October-December 2009 Newslet-ter, the APA will publish only four newsletters each yearbut will issue more frequent updates in electronic form.These updates will appear on the APA web site and in e-mails to members as we have done for a number of years.In addition, we will take advantage of a news blog createdby Web Editor Robin Mitchell-Boyask (http://apaclassics.blogspot.com/). APA Officers (as well asRobin and myself) will post information on this blog as it

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Adam D. BlisteinExecutive Director

CANDIDATES FOR 2010 ELECTIONSCANDIDATES FOR 2010 ELECTIONSCANDIDATES FOR 2010 ELECTIONSCANDIDATES FOR 2010 ELECTIONSCANDIDATES FOR 2010 ELECTIONS

President-ElectPresident-ElectPresident-ElectPresident-ElectPresident-ElectBarbara K. GoldJeffrey Henderson

Vice President for ProgramVice President for ProgramVice President for ProgramVice President for ProgramVice President for ProgramJoseph FarrellWilliam A. Johnson

Board of DirectorsBoard of DirectorsBoard of DirectorsBoard of DirectorsBoard of DirectorsFritz GrafJonathan M. HallLeslie KurkeKathryn A. MorganCharles Platter

Education CommitteeEducation CommitteeEducation CommitteeEducation CommitteeEducation CommitteeKeely LakeNigel Nicholson

Goodwin Award CommitteeGoodwin Award CommitteeGoodwin Award CommitteeGoodwin Award CommitteeGoodwin Award CommitteeJames I. PorterJames E. G. Zetzel

Nominating CommitteeNominating CommitteeNominating CommitteeNominating CommitteeNominating CommitteeLaurel FulkersonRichard P. MartinPaul Alan MillerJoseph D. Reed

Professional Matters CommitteeProfessional Matters CommitteeProfessional Matters CommitteeProfessional Matters CommitteeProfessional Matters CommitteeRuby BlondellMary T. Boatwright

Program CommitteeProgram CommitteeProgram CommitteeProgram CommitteeProgram CommitteeAntonios AugoustakisKirk FreudenburgCorinne O. PachePeter T. Struck

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Publications CommitteePublications CommitteePublications CommitteePublications CommitteePublications CommitteeJohn BodelHelma J. M. Dik

Members are reminded that it is possible to nominateadditional candidates by petition. Nominations of candi-dates not proposed by the Nominating Committee shallrequire the signature of twenty members in good stand-ing (2010 dues must be paid) and must be reported tothe Executive Director by April 15, 2010. A currentcurriculum vitae of the candidate, who must also be amember in good standing, should be submitted by thesame deadline.

NOMINATING COMMITTEE REPORTNOMINATING COMMITTEE REPORTNOMINATING COMMITTEE REPORTNOMINATING COMMITTEE REPORTNOMINATING COMMITTEE REPORT

The 2009-2010 Nominating Committee met for twofull days, first on November 7, 2009 in Philadelphia,and then on January 6, 2010 in Anaheim. Thecommittee’s deliberations and subsequent conversationsof the co-chairs with nominees produced a slate of twenty-five candidates for twelve vacancies in nine offices to runin the 2010 elections. The slate, which has already beenannounced, precedes this report.

As in the past years, the Committee sought to identifyqualified candidates who would reflect the diversity ofthe Association in terms of geography, type of institu-tion, scholarly field, relative seniority, and gender. Wewere also attentive of course to the need for maintainingan appropriate balance with the members of committeeswho are already serving. We have made an effort to iden-tify “fresh” nominees for some of the committees, i.e.,individuals whose qualifications were very strong but whofor one reason or another might not yet have performedmuch APA service.

We have also, as has been customary over the past sev-eral years, sent a list of recommended committee mem-bers to the President for use in filling appointed slots inthe various APA committees. We hope in this way togive members with limited APA experience an opportu-nity to serve in and learn about the organization, espe-cially younger members of the profession who may notyet be ready for an elective office, or whose names mightnot yet be well enough known to give a strong chance ofwinning.

In its deliberations, the Committee followed the estab-lished procedures of previous years. As we conferred todevelop lists of possible candidates for each office, allself-nominated individuals and all individuals suggested

by the committee members were considered. After thor-ough, sometimes lengthy, discussion, each committeemember ranked the names on agreed lists of possible nomi-nees, which ranged in number from 16 names to 24.The final rankings were determined by the cumulativescores assigned by the entire Committee. After the vot-ing, we discussed possible conflicts and imbalances in thevoting results, e.g., contests for any office between twomembers of the same department, or between memberswho have a recognized conflict of interest. We also keptin mind problems of balance in disciplinary interests, typesof institutions, etc. where relevant to particular commit-tees. To the extent that it was possible to do so, we soughtto avoid slates with a significant imbalance in name recog-nition.

After each meeting the Co-Chairs contacted proposedcandidates in the order of the Committee’s ranking. Wehad notable success this year, winning agreement fromour first choices for every single office, and filling theslate in all but four instances with candidates who wereamong our top five choices. We feel, therefore, that theslate is a strong one and reflects reasonably well theCommittee’s efforts to balance the roster of candidatesfor the individual offices. Inevitably, a certain number ofthe candidates declined nomination, almost all with re-grets and because of other obligations rather than lack ofinterest in the position. The most common reasons fordeclining were the demands of administrative responsi-bilities at their own institutions and/or of current researchprojects, and several candidates indicated that they wouldbe interested in running at a later time. (We have passedthis information on to our successors.)

All self-nominated members received careful consider-ation, and we continue to urge members to nominatethemselves or others for offices for which they feel quali-fied. (See the form on page 37.) This expands our poolof interested and willing candidates and increases the mem-bers’ input into the nominating process. We also remindmembers that, in addition to the elected Committees,there are numerous committees of the APA that are ap-pointed by the President and Board of Directors. Serviceon one of these can be a good means of achieving in-creased visibility in the Association and is good experi-ence for preparing to stand for an elected office. We there-fore encourage self-nomination for any of these appointedcommittees.

The Co-Chairs and the Committee members–JoyConnolly, Laura McClure, Robin Mitchell-Boyask, KurtRaaflaub, and Peter Rose–owe a special debt of thanks,as always, to Adam Blistein and the staff at the APA of-fice for their work on the logistics of transportation, hous-

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ing and food, for the documentation provided on theoffices and candidates (present and past) of the Associa-tion, and for prompt and helpful replies to queries aboutthe responsibilities and functions of APA offices.

Finally, we take this occasion to offer two suggestions.The first involves the business of the Nominating Com-mittee itself. The committee works with a thick binderfull of information collected by APA staff, including a listof all current and past officeholders and a list of all unsuc-cessful candidates for office. If these two lists could becombined it would save the committee a good deal oftime now spent in flipping back and forth to do cross-checking for availability and appropriateness of potentialcandidates. At some future point, if technology and staff-ing allows, it would also be good to offer Committeemembers a choice of hard-copy or digital copies of thesefiles, and we imagine that eventually all of this informa-tion should be provided in digital formats.

Secondly, we have spent some time considering how tomake participation in the APA more attractive to highschool teachers of classics, whose students are ultimatelythe future of the field and of our organization. We sug-gest that, in addition to outreach efforts, the Directorsconsider adding a dedicated seat on the Board for a highschool teacher. One possible way to do this might be toask the American Classical League to provide names andresumes of teachers able and willing to serve. The Nomi-nating Committee would then proceed to prepare a slateof two candidates in the usual way. We think the input ofan experienced and well-connected secondary schoolteacher could benefit the Association, and hope that per-son would then act as a liaison with teachers, their schools,and their organizations.

Respectfully submitted,

Peter Burian and James O’Hara, Co-ChairsJoy Connolly, Laura McClure, Robin Mitchell-Boyask,Peter Rose, Kurt Raaflaub (ex officio)

2009 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD2009 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD2009 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD2009 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD2009 DISTINGUISHED SERVICE AWARD

In almost forty years at Bryn Mawr College, RichardRichardRichardRichardRichardHamiltonHamiltonHamiltonHamiltonHamilton has been in every regard the colleague we allwish for. His distinguished record of scholarship in Greekliterature and religion is enviable, while his engagement inthe College and with his students has been generous, in-spiring, effective. Many Hamilton students have theirPh.D.'s from other institutions, but they owe their funda-mental training, orientation, and inspiration to him.

It is as a citizen of the classical profession in the UnitedStates that he has earned the APA’s Distinguished Ser-vice Award. In the 1970s, Prof. Hamilton recognizedthat instructors in classical Greek faced a challenge whenbringing their students past introductory Greek coursesin Homer and Plato to other Greek authors. He pre-scribed a remedy, and made it a reality. Since their in-ception in 1980 the Bryn Mawr Commentaries have beenvalued pedagogical tools throughout the profession. Care-fully selected and rigorously edited, the Commentariesoffer the assurance of scholarly accuracy and pedagogicalconsistency. Some 70 scholars have contributed volumesto the series and at last count, 100 volumes were in print.

The Commentaries were originally envisaged as mimeo-graphs, but by the time the first volumes were published,technology had marched forward to the happy world of“desktop publishing.” That attention to the potential oftechnological pointed to the future not only of pedagogybut of scholarship.

In 1990 Professor Hamilton conceived the revolution inscholarship that would become the Bryn Mawr ClassicalReview. He saw a need for high quality and timely re-views, published soon after a book appeared in print.BMCR is now publishing more than 700 reviews a year(the seven thousandth review was published in late Octo-ber of 2009). It has become a primary voice of classicsbook reviewing in the United States, now drawing booksand reviewers from around the world. Its free–“openaccess”–subscription by e-mail and distribution by websitehas made BMCR a part of the everyday working life ofclassicists around the world.

In fomenting and realizing these two revolutions, in peda-gogy and scholarship, Professor Richard Hamilton hasbrought together wide and inclusive groups of colleagues.Yet both revolutions were animated, from their first daysto the present, by his unfailing energy, selflessness, pa-tience, good judgment, scholarly acumen, and good cheer.Friends and colleagues know well that this citation falls farshort of enumerating his virtues, but the classics profes-sion as a whole recognizes that it owes him thanks andacclaim for important work, well done, work from whichour profession has benefited enormously, and will con-tinue to benefit for many years to come.

APA PRESIDENT’S AWARDAPA PRESIDENT’S AWARDAPA PRESIDENT’S AWARDAPA PRESIDENT’S AWARDAPA PRESIDENT’S AWARD

The American Philological Association’s PresidentialAward is established to honor an individual, group, ororganization outside of the Classics profession that has

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made significant contributions to advancing public appre-ciation and awareness of Classical antiquity.

Nominations for this Award are open to the professionand the public. Nominations, containing a letter describ-ing the nominee’s contributions, along with a brief biog-raphy or C.V., should be sent to the APA’s ExecutiveDirector no later than June 1June 1June 1June 1June 1 of each year.

The selection will be made by the APA’s Executive Com-mittee, enhanced for this purpose by the Vice Presidentfor Outreach and the Chair of the Development Com-mittee (unless they happen to be members of the Execu-tive Committee), at its summer meeting by conferencecall. The Committee’s recommendation will be presentedfor decision to the full APA Board at its September meet-ing. The Award will be announced and presented at thesubsequent Annual Meeting of the APA in January.

The Award will consist of an inscribed gift from the Asso-ciation.

Adam D. Blistein, Executive DirectorAmerican Philological Association292 Claudia Cohen HallUniversity of Pennsylvania249 S. 36th StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19104-6304

C.J. GOODWIN AWARD OF MERITC.J. GOODWIN AWARD OF MERITC.J. GOODWIN AWARD OF MERITC.J. GOODWIN AWARD OF MERITC.J. GOODWIN AWARD OF MERIT

JULIA HAIG GAISSERJULIA HAIG GAISSERJULIA HAIG GAISSERJULIA HAIG GAISSERJULIA HAIG GAISSER

Very occasionally a book comes along that reminds us ina new way of the foundations of our discipline, and thatbrings alive the historical processes by which we retain aconnection with the books once written by the Greeksand Romans. The book which we acknowledge with thisyear’s Goodwin Award of Merit is one that makes us lookat the process of the transmission of texts with open, fresh,and excited eyes; it is a triumph of the historical imagina-tion, which achieves its ambitious goals by combining pre-cise and meticulous erudition with elegant and forcefulwriting. We all know what a stemma looks like, with itsarray of Roman and Greek letters, but this book brings tolife the human beings behind those ciphers, taking us intothe studies and libraries of the people who handled thebooks that are the ancestors of our own texts. This bookalso brings to life the books themselves, with sensitivediscussions of the illustrations in illuminated manuscripts,and with imaginative recreation of the numinous powerthat a rare manuscript could command.

The winner of this year’s award, Julia Haig Gaisser, bringsa lifetime’s experience of philology in its fullest sense tothe task of leading us through The Fortunes of Apuleiusand the Golden Ass, demonstrating at every turn hercommand of textual and literary criticism, intellectual andcultural history, and even art history. She has taken aspectacular test case and used it to demonstrate the fateof a classical text, making its journey—as she puts it—“from roll to codex, into a medieval library, into the handsof humanists, into print, and finally into translation,” and“providing a window into each of the main points in thetransmission and reception of ancient authors.” In hisown writings, Apuleius was already busily programminghis reception, and he was as lucky in his transmission ashe was in his life. Fingered by St. Augustine as “a famousPlatonist in both Greek and Latin,” he became only thesecond classical author to be printed in Italy thanks to hotdebates between Florentine Platonists and their conserva-tive opponents, and his scurrilous novel was dragged alongby the more respectable coat-tails of the Apologia andthe De Deo Socratis. As this example demonstrates, JuliaGaisser makes every stage in the reception and transmis-sion of Apuleius a new chapter in the intellectual historyof its time, and not just an unmotivated point in a row ofdates, as she shows his text moving through the handsand minds of commentators, artists, philosophers andcreative writers. Her sensitivity to the cultural context ofreading and writing makes us reconsider the implicationsof even the most apparently banal statements of fact. Wecan casually say that “Boccaccio read Apuleius,” but JuliaGaisser’s historical imagination brings that statement alive.Where did Boccaccio get his text of Apuleius? What didit look like? We learn that Boccaccio transcribed his ownmanuscript of Apuleius, a “careless and inattentive” onemaybe, but still testimony to the work required at thattime to master and assimilate an ancient author.

For her original vindication of the core concerns of theAmerican Philological Association, we are proud to presentthe 2009 Goodwin Award of Merit to Julia Haig Gaisser.

Denis Feeney, ChairT. Peter WisemanDavid Sider

CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR 2010CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR 2010CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR 2010CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR 2010CALL FOR NOMINATIONS FOR 2010

The Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit, named in honorof a long-time member and generous benefactor of theAmerican Philological Association, is the only honor forscholarly achievement given by the Association. It is pre-sented at the Annual Meeting for an outstanding contri-


bution to classical scholarship published by a member ofthe Association during the three years before the currentcalendar year, i.e., in this case, 2007, 2008, and 2009.Candidates to be considered must have been continuousAPA members for the three previous years (since 2007).The APA office will verify the membership of authors.

The work chosen to receive the award may be a book,monograph, or article, provided that it has not appearedin substantially the same form in earlier publications. It isselected by the Committee on the C. J. Goodwin Awardof Merit, which consists of three elected members. Be-cause of the increased number of scholarly publications,the Committee is now empowered to make two awardsand, for the same reason, particularly appreciates nomi-nations across all areas of Classics:

Letters of nomination are due by June 4, 2010June 4, 2010June 4, 2010June 4, 2010June 4, 2010,and shouldbe sent to the APA Office, 292 Claudia Cohen Hall,University of Pennsylvania, 249 S. 36th Street, Philadel-phia, PA 19104-6304. Publishers wishing books to beconsidered by the Committee should send three copiesto the address above by the deadline of June 4, 2010June 4, 2010June 4, 2010June 4, 2010June 4, 2010.

AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCEAWARDS FOR EXCELLENCEAWARDS FOR EXCELLENCEAWARDS FOR EXCELLENCEAWARDS FOR EXCELLENCEIN THE TEACHING OF CLASSICSIN THE TEACHING OF CLASSICSIN THE TEACHING OF CLASSICSIN THE TEACHING OF CLASSICSIN THE TEACHING OF CLASSICS

GREG ALDRETEGREG ALDRETEGREG ALDRETEGREG ALDRETEGREG ALDRETE

We all know heroic colleagues who are the only classicistsin their institutions. But Greg Aldrete, Professor of Hu-manistic Studies and History at the University of Wiscon-sin-Green Bay, is the only faculty member there whoteaches in any area before the middle ages. As the Chairof Humanistic Studies writes, UWGB enrolls “mainly first-generation college students for whom classical antiquityeither means nothing or is associated with being boring”;Greg Aldrete not only engages but inspires these studentswhile carrying a staggering three-FOUR annual course loadand teaching a total of 400 to 500 students a year.

Since Professor Aldrete arrived at UWGB in 1995, hehas taught a wide range of existing courses and has devel-oped numerous new classes on all aspects of the historyof Greece and Rome. In addition, he has supervised 26independent studies and honors theses, all as voluntaryunpaid overloads, on topics ranging from “Roman Impe-rialism” to “Virgil and Dante” to “Augustus and Archi-tecture as Propaganda.” All his classes, from large sur-veys to independent studies, stress primary sources. InHumanistic Studies 101, he uses a course pack of pri-mary texts that he translated himself, and assigns an ana-

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lytical paper of at least six pages—not a common assign-ment in a course that enrolls as many as 250 students.He also incorporates material culture into his classroom,whether bringing in ancient coins or having his studentsconstruct hoplite shields and fight mock battles. His courseevaluations consistently rank him at an average of 9.6 ona scale of 10—and yet at the same time he is one of thetoughest graders on his campus.

Students’ comments repeatedly stress how enthrallingProfessor Aldrete’s lectures are and how his assignmentspush the students to achieve; one writes, “He is so pas-sionate about this topic that you can’t help but get ex-cited about Greece as well.” Another comments, “It takesa good teacher to educate a student, but it takes a greatteacher to make students think analytically and activelyengage their minds in the subject.” Students mention thatthey enrol in every one of his classes that they possiblycan; “a semester without one of his classes felt lacklustreand empty,” says one.

Professor Aldrete single-handedly created a new track,“Ancient and Medieval History,” within the HumanisticStudies major. Two years after its creation the programenrols several dozen students and is the major’s fastestgrowing track. Somehow he has also found time to serveas advisor for the newly formed Ancient and MedievalHistory Club, to maintain an active publication record,and to develop the remarkable Linothorax Project withcurrent and former students.

One student wrote, “It should be mandatory that everystudent take at least one class with Professor Aldrete.”Alas, that is not in our power. We can, however, offerGreg Aldrete our heartiest congratulations as he receivesthe APA’s Excellence in Teaching Award for 2010.

RONNIE ANCONARONNIE ANCONARONNIE ANCONARONNIE ANCONARONNIE ANCONA

It seems that Dr. Ronnie Ancona thrives on being busy.For the last twenty-five years, she has taught classics atHunter College in New York City and CUNY GraduateCenter. But “taught Classics” or even “at Hunter” doesn’treally cover this. To be more specific, she teaches or hastaught Greek at the beginning and advanced level, Latinlanguage at all levels, etymology, classical mythology,Roman and Greek civilization, and specialty classes onwomen and slavery. Of course, that’s just the undergradu-ate level. She has taught methods of teaching Latin at themaster’s level, and supervised the secondary-school stu-dent teachers, as well as teaching a full range of Latinlanguage courses. At the Ph.D. Level, she has taught

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Goodwin Award of MeritGoodwin Award of MeritGoodwin Award of MeritGoodwin Award of MeritGoodwin Award of MeritPrevious Winners 1951-2009Previous Winners 1951-2009Previous Winners 1951-2009Previous Winners 1951-2009Previous Winners 1951-2009

1951 David Magie, Roman Rule in Asia Minor1952 Cedric Whitman, Sophocles, A Study of Heroic Humanism1953 Thomas Robert Shannon Broughton, The Magistrates of the Roman Republic1954 Benjamin Dean Merrit, Henry Theodore Wade-Gery, Malcolm McGregor, The Athenian Tribute Lists1955 Ben Edwin Perry, Aesopica1956 Kurt von Fritz, The Theory of the Mixed Constitution in Antiquity1957 Jakob Aall Ottesen Larsen, Representative Government in Greek and Roman History1958 Berthold Louis Ullman, Studies in the Italian Renaissance1959 Gordon Macdonald Kirkwood, A Study of Sophoclean Drama1960 Alexander Turyn, The Byzantine Manuscript Tradition of the Tragedies of Euripides1961 James Wilson Poultney, The Bronze Tables of Iguvium1962 Lily Ross Taylor, The Voting Districts of the Roman Republic1963 Gilbert Highet, The Anatomy of Satire1964 Louise Adams Holland, Janus and the Bridge1965 Herbert Strainge Long, Diogenis Laertii Vitae Philosophorum1966 Brooks Otis, Vergil: A Study in Civilized Poetry1967 George Max Antony Grube, The Greek and Roman Critics1968 Edward Togo Salmon, Samnium and the Samnites1969 Helen Florence North, Sophrosyne: Self-Knowledge and Self-Restraint in Greek Literature1970 Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels, The Calendar of the Roman Republic1971 Michael Courtney Jenkins Putnam, Vergil’s Pastoral Art1972 Friedrich Solmsen, Hesiodi Theogonia Opera et Dies Scutum1973 Frank M. Snowden, Jr., Blacks in Antiquity1974 Charles Edson, Inscriptiones Graecae, Vol. X, Pars II, Facs. I (Inscriptiones Thessalonicae et viciniae)1975 George A. Kennedy, The Art of Rhetoric in the Roman World1976 W. Kendrick Pritchett, The Greek State at War1977 Harold Cherniss, Plutarch’s Moralia XIII, Parts I and II (Loeb Classical Library)1978 David R. Shackleton-Bailey, 2 volume edition of Cicero’s Epistulae ad Familiares1979 Leendert G. Westerink, 2 volume study of the Greek Commentaries on Plato’s Phaedo1980 Emily T. Vermeule, Aspects of Death in Early Greek Art and Poetry1981 John H. Finley, Homer’s Odyssey1982 Gregory Nagy, Best of the Achaeans1983 Bruce W. Frier, Landlords and Tenants in Imperial Rome1984 Timothy D. Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius (and) The New Empire of Diocletian and Constantine1985 Howard Jacobson, The Exagoge of Ezekiel1986 William C. Scott, Musical Design in Aeschylean Theater1987 R. J. A. Talbert, The Senate of Imperial Rome1988 John J. Winkler, Auctor & Actor, A Narratological Reading of Apuleius’ The Golden Ass1989 Josiah Ober, Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens: Rhetoric, Ideology and the Power of the People1990 Martin Ostwald, From Popular Sovereignty to Sovereignty of Law: Law, Society, and Politics in Fifth-Century Athens1991 Robert A. Kaster, Guardians of Language. The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity1992 Heinrich von Staden, Herophilus: The Art of Medicine in Early Alexandria1993 Susan Treggiari, Roman Marriage: Iusti Coniuges From the Time of Cicero to the Time of Ulpian1994 Gregory Vlastos, Socrates: Ironist and Moral Philosopher1995 Peter White, Promised Verse: Poets in the Society of Augustan Rome1996 Alan Cameron, The Greek Anthology from Meleager to Planudes1997 Donald J. Mastronarde, Euripides: Phoenissae1998 Calvert Watkins, How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics1999 Jonathan M. Hall, Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity2000 Kathryn Gutzwiller, Poetic Garlands; Hellenistic Epigrams in Context2001 Richard Janko, Philodemos' On Poems

Jeffrey Henderson, Aristophanes, Volumes 1-2 (Loeb Classical Library)2002 Kathleen McCarthy, Slaves, Masters, and the Art of Authority in Plautine Comedy2003 Clifford Ando, Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire2004 Raffaella Cribiore, Gymnastics of the Mind2005 Timothy Peter Wiseman, The Myths of Rome2006 Kristina Milnor, Gender, Domesticity, and the Age of Augustus: Inventing Private Life2007 Peter Struck, Birth of the Symbol: Ancient Readers at the Limits of their Texts2008 David Konstan, The Emotions of the Ancient Greeks: Studies in Aristotle and Classical Literature2009 Julia Haig Gaisser, The Fortunes of Apuleius and the Golden Ass

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Paul Frederic Burke, Jr., Clark UniversityFloyd L. Moreland, Brooklyn College, CUNYLaura B. Clayton, Lenoir Rhyne CollegeCecil W. Wooten, Indiana UniversityJohn M. Crossett, Cornell College, IowaCecelia E. Luschnig, University of IdahoG. Karl Galinsky, University of Texas at Austin

19801980198019801980

John R. Workman, Brown UniversityDaniel P. Tompkins, Temple UniversityJames T. McDonough, Jr., St. Joseph’s UniversityRobert Sawyer, Hiram CollegeStephen Fineberg, Knox CollegeTheodore Tarkow, University of Missouri-ColumbiaSamuel B. Carleton, Pacific Lutheran University

19811981198119811981

Louis H. Feldman, Yeshiva CollegeCatherine Freis, Millsaps CollegeRobert J. Ball, University of Hawaii

19821982198219821982

Janice M. Benario, Georgia State UniversityHelene P. Foley, Barnard CollegeDaniel J. Taylor, Lawrence University

19831983198319831983

Kenneth F. Kitchell, Jr., Louisiana State UniversityGilbert P. Rose, Swarthmore CollegeJon David Solomon, University of Minnesota

19841984198419841984

Richard A. LaFleur, University of GeorgiaJames T. Svendsen, University of Utah

19851985198519851985

Karelisa V. Hartigan, University of FloridaWilliam E. McCulloh, Kenyon CollegeNicholas D. Smith, Virginia Polytechnic Institute

19861986198619861986

Jerrold C. Brown, Hartwick CollegeJames May, St. Olaf CollegeAndrew Szegedy-Maszak, Wesleyan University

19871987198719871987

H. Don Cameron, University of MichiganKathryn Ann Thomas, Creighton UniversityTamara Green, Hunter College

19881988198819881988

Ann L.T. Bergren, University of California-Los AngelesCharles M. Reed, Virginia Polytechnic Institute & Catawaba College

19891989198919891989

Jane Crawford, Loyola Marymount UniversityJohn Heath, Rollins CollegeThomas J. Sienkewicz, Monmouth College

19901990199019901990

William K. Freiert, Gustavus Adolphus CollegeRichard Freis, Millsaps CollegeRosemary M. Nielsen, University of Alberta

19911991199119911991

Victor D. Hanson, California State University at FresnoMichael Poliakoff, Hillsdale CollegeJohn Rouman, University of New Hampshire

19921992199219921992

Sister Mary Faith Dargan, Albertus Magnus CollegeDaniel Levine, University of ArkansasJohn P. Lynch, University of California at Santa Cruz

19931993199319931993

Robert A. Seelinger, Westminster CollegeThomas Van Nortwick, Oberlin College

19941994199419941994

Hardy Hansen, Brooklyn CollegeJames S. Ruebel, Iowa State UniversityBrent M. Froberg, University of South Dakota

19951995199519951995

Anne Groton, St. Olaf CollegeHelen Edmunds Moritz, Santa Clara University

19961996199619961996

Richard A. Gerberding, University of Alabama at HuntsvilleJohn T. Kirby, Purdue UniversityMaria Pantelia, University of New Hampshire

19971997199719971997

Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow, Brandeis UniversityMichele Valerie Ronnick, Wayne State UniversityW. Jeffrey Tatum, Florida State University

19981998199819981998

Monica S. Cyrino, University of New MexicoElizabeth Vandiver, Northwestern UniversityJohn McMahon, Le Moyne College

19991999199919991999

Gregory A. Staley, University of MarylandFrances B. Titchener, Utah State University

20002000200020002000

Robert W. Cape, Jr., Austin CollegeHans-Friedrich O. Mueller, Florida State University

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Pamela Vaughn, San Francisco State University

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Gregory Daugherty, Randolph-Macon CollegeSr. Therese M. Dougherty, College of Notre Dame of MDR. Alden Smith, Baylor University

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Martha A. Davis, Temple UniversityDavid Fredrick, University of ArkansasPhilip Holt, University of Wyoming

20042004200420042004

Judith de Luce, Miami University of OhioKathryn A. Morgan, University of California-Los Angeles

20052005200520052005

Phyllis Culham, United States Naval AcademyRalph F. Gallucci, University of California at Santa BarbaraT. Davina McClain, Loyola University in New Orleans

20062006200620062006

Matthew Dillon, Loyola Marymount UniversityRobert Alan Gurval, University of California-Los AngelesDavid Schenker, University of Missouri

20072007200720072007

Eric Casey, Sweet Briar CollegeMary C. English, Montclair State UniversityJoseph J. Walsh, Loyola College in Maryland

20082008200820082008

Laurel Fulkerson, Florida State UniversityDavid Rohrbacher, New College of FloridaNancy Sultan, Illinois Wesleyan University

20092009200920092009

Gregory Aldrete, University of Wisconsin-Green BayRonnie Ancona, Hunter College and CUNY Graduate CenterDenise McCoskey, Miami University

APA Awards for Excellence in TeachingAPA Awards for Excellence in TeachingAPA Awards for Excellence in TeachingAPA Awards for Excellence in TeachingAPA Awards for Excellence in TeachingPrevious Winners 1979-2009Previous Winners 1979-2009Previous Winners 1979-2009Previous Winners 1979-2009Previous Winners 1979-2009

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1999 Ronald B. Palma, Holland Hall School, Tulsa, OKChristine F. Sleeper, Herndon High School, Herndon, VA

2000 Richard J. Beaton, Griffin High School, Griffin, GAAnn Criswell, Castilleja School, Palo Alto, CA

2001 Melissa Schons Bishop, Lenape Regional High School, Medford, NJSally R. Davis, Arlington Virginia Public Schools, Arlington, VA

2002 Caroline P. Caswell, Boston Latin Academy, Boston, MAMindy Goodman, F. A. Day Middle School, Newton, MA

2003 Scott Ettinger, Riverdale Country School, Bronx, NYNicoletta Villa-Sella, The Linsly School, Wheeling, WV

2004 Kelly Kusch, Covington Latin School, Covington, KYSally Murphy, Winsor School, Boston, MA

2005 Ellen Sassenberg, Rochester Mayo High School, Rochester, MNJane Ulrich, Shaker Heights High School, Shaker Heights, OH

2006 Catherine Torigian, The Browning School, New York, NY

2007 Sean Smith, Amherst-Pelham Regional High School & Middle School, Amherst, MAMary Ann Staley, Howard County Public School System, MD

2008 Paul Properzio, Boston Latin Academy, Boston, MA

2009 Stergios Lazos, St. Edward High School, Cleveland, OH

APA AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE IN PRECOLLEGIATE TEACHINGPrevious Winners 1999-2009

APA Outreach PrizePrevious Winners 2003-2009

2003 Herbert Golder, Boston UniversityEditor-in-Chief of Arion

Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow, Brandeis UniversityThe Examined Life: Greek Studies in the Schools

2004 Roger T. Macfarlane, Brigham Young UniversityTelevision Documentary, "Out of the Ashes: Recovering the Lost Library of Herculaneum"

2005 Marianne McDonald, University of California at San DiegoA body of work that brings the beauty and power of classical drama to general, non-professional audiences

2006 Michele Valerie Ronnick, Wayne State UniversityA body of work describing the experiences of Black Classicists in the post Civil War period

2007 Steering Committee for the University of California Multi-Campus Research Group in the History and Culture of Late AntiquityTeaching materials on late antiquity for middle school social studies classes

2008 No award

2009 Mary-Kay Gamel, University of California at Santa CruzFor translating, reconceptualizing, and staging Greek and Roman plays for diverse modern audiences for more than twenty years.

courses in Horace, Ovid, Catullus, and Cicero at theCUNY Graduate Ph.D. program. Right now she has classesin development on the figure of Medea in literature andthe arts, and a Latin Poetry Research seminar for doctoralstudents. That’s three huge areas—Latin, Greek, and an-cient civilization, at three levels, and two institutions. Weneed a better word than busy!

Dr. Ancona’s students appear to be well aware of theirgood fortune in having such a teacher, and many of themwrote letters of support . One outstanding example is astudent who went on from a Hunter B.A. and a CUNYPh.D. to join the faculty at a fine Midwestern state uni-versity. This now-colleague describes with appreciationDr. Ancona’s emphasis on independent thinking in herstudents, the strong bond of trust between student andprofessor, and the pride she felt in achieving under such amentor, saying of Ancona that “She supported me, urgedand gently goaded me when necessary, while always al-lowing me to pursue my goals and ideas in my own way.”Many student letters make clear how generous Dr. Anconais with her time and advice, and how sound are her sug-gestions. And yet they also make clear that her expecta-tions are high, and that she expects as much from herstudents as she herself gives.

Surely one of her most important professional accom-plishments is her twenty-year stint directing the reinsti-tuted M.A. program in Latin teaching at Hunter. Her useof Blackboard technology and pursuit of external fundsfor (e.g.) National Latin Teacher Recruitment Week makeit clear that she does not inhabit a remote Ivory Tower,but is part of the bustling and energetic modern world.Typically, she has been involved in revising this alreadyvery successful program whose fine graduates will helpensure the survival of Latin teaching for years to come. Inthese difficult days, that is no mean feat, and it is hard toconceive of any achievement more significant.

DENISE McCOSKEYDENISE McCOSKEYDENISE McCOSKEYDENISE McCOSKEYDENISE McCOSKEY

Of our next honorand, a colleague wrote: “I find it nearlyimpossible to write about Denise without resorting to alist of superlatives, but she really is extraordinary.” DeniseMcCoskey came to Miami University of Ohio in 1995,and quickly made her mark. She teaches a range of coursesthat has been characterized as “amazing” and in all ofthem she displays her trademark juxtaposition of ancientand modern, so that students in Classical Mythology ex-perience sophisticated readings that set myths in adiachronic perspective, moving, for example, fromAeschylus to Eugene O’Neill, Fritz Graf and Elie Wiesel.

In addition to offerings like Classical Mythology, Womenin Antiquity, Greek and Roman Tragedy, and Lyric Po-etry, she has initiated several specialized courses: Traveland Self-Definition in Antiquity, Race and Ethnicity inAntiquity, Identity and Cultural Difference in Greco-Ro-man Egypt, The Roman Past in the Making of ModernEurope, Jews among the Greeks and Romans, Conflict inGreco-Roman Egypt. Whatever she teaches, she promptsstudents “to interrogate and situate notions of identitywithin their historical, cultural, and social contexts . . .[and] engage rigorously with primary source documents.”Her commitment to diversity in learning is reflected alsoin her affiliation with the Jewish Studies and Black WorldStudies Programs. As she herself puts it, her aims are tofoster student involvement in learning and a diverse cur-riculum and disrupt their expectations. To this end sheemphasizes participation and discussion, as her studentsnote frequently and with appreciation. An outside ob-server remarks: “Her classes are noisy, wonderfully noisy,with lively discussion and much excited argument.” Al-most all are impressed by her passion, engagement, andtheoretical sophistication.

Her demands of her students generate both glowing praiseand a deepened awareness of what is involved in the learn-ing experience. “Your breadth of knowledge is amazing,”says one. Another marvels: “The quizzes actually were ahelp!” Most telling is the following: “Do not take thiscourse if you don’t want to work. You will get out of itprecisely as much as you put into it . . . This was probablyboth my favorite and my hardest course of the semes-ter.” Denise McCoskey, to quote from one last letter, is“one of the most outstanding teachers and mentors Iknow.” So it is a great pleasure to honor her with theAPA’s 2009 Award for Excellence in Teaching at theCollege Level.

CCCCCALLALLALLALLALL FORFORFORFORFOR N N N N NOMINATIONSOMINATIONSOMINATIONSOMINATIONSOMINATIONS FORFORFORFORFOR 2010 2010 2010 2010 2010

The Committee on the Awards for Excellence in the Teach-ing of Classics at the College Level invites nominations forthe 2010 APA Awards for Excellence in Teaching, inorder to give special and public expression to the APA'scommitment to honor and foster excellence in the teach-ing of the Classics. We welcome nominations of facultyteaching Classics in all sorts of departments, whether publicor private, in large institutions or small. Please note care-fully the deadlines and procedures described below.

One to three awards for excellence in the teaching of theClassics will be given to college and university teachersfrom the United States and Canada. Each winner will re-

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ceive a certificate of award and a cash prize of $300. Theawards will be presented at the Plenary Session of theAnnual Meeting in San Antonio, TX in January 2011.

Criteria:Criteria:Criteria:Criteria:Criteria: The following factors are considered in the se-lection process: (a) excellence in the teaching of Classicsat the undergraduate or graduate level; (b) subject mat-ter that is "classical" in the widest sense, i.e., Greek andLatin language, literature, culture, mythology, history,etymology; and (c) the design and successful implemen-tation of new courses and programs. Winners of theseawards must be members of the APA and have a mini-mum of three years of teaching experience prior to nomi-nation. By action of the APA Board of Directors, onlyindividuals may be considered for these awards.

Nomination:Nomination:Nomination:Nomination:Nomination: While a letter of self-nomination may benecessary in exceptional cases, a letter of nomination ispreferred. Nominators, who need not be APA members,may be administrators, chairpersons, departmental col-leagues, or faculty in other department or institutions.Nomination letters should indicate how the candidatemeets the criteria for the award. The nominator shouldsubmit the letter with a current curriculum vitae of thenominee to the Executive Director of the APA by MayMayMayMayMay10, 201010, 201010, 201010, 201010, 2010. The letter is the key to the candidate's con-tinuation in the selection process.

The Committee reviews nominations and invites the sub-mission of full dossiers for selected nominees. These dos-siers should include four copies of the following: (1) anupdated c.v.; (2) a minimum of three, and preferablysix, letters of support, which should include one eachfrom a student, colleague, and administrative superior;(3) brief descriptions of all courses taught during the pastfive years, including some representative syllabi and as-signments; these should be included both for new coursesdesigned by the nominee and his or her "traditional"courses; (4) complete sets of student evaluations fromselected courses.

The letter of invitation to submit a full dossier will be sentto the nominator via e-mail, with a copy to the candi-date, not later than June 7, 2010. Completed dossiersmust then be submitted to the Executive Director by July23, 2010. Only dossiers complete at this time will beconsidered. The APA will retain for consideration fortwo additional years the full dossiers of candidates whodo not receive an award in the year of nomination. In thetwo succeeding years, these applicants will need only tosubmit updated information for consideration by subse-quent Committees.

American Philological Association292 Claudia Cohen Hall, University of Pennsylvania249 South 36th StreetPhiladelphia, PA 19104-6304

AWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE INAWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE INAWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE INAWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE INAWARDS FOR EXCELLENCE INPRECOLLEGIATE TEACHINGPRECOLLEGIATE TEACHINGPRECOLLEGIATE TEACHINGPRECOLLEGIATE TEACHINGPRECOLLEGIATE TEACHING

STERGIOS LAZOSSTERGIOS LAZOSSTERGIOS LAZOSSTERGIOS LAZOSSTERGIOS LAZOS

In 2008, the winner of this year’s Pre-Collegiate Teach-ing Award spoke at his school’s Awards Day. His topicwas “Pietas.” His personal statement on teaching beginsby evoking the examples of his undergraduate teachers atDartmouth. Stergios Lazos understands his place in thechain of pietas, of honor and duty given and received,that links teacher to student in the best classical teaching.

Our winner has also spoken to his students on the topics“Reach for the Stars” and “Deus ipse audentes iuvat.”These were formal exhortations to excellence on formaloccasions, but it is clear that Stergios Lazos exhorts hisstudents to excellence in every moment of his teaching.The many awards that they have won—perfect scores onthe National Latin Exam, 5s on the AP exam, honors inJunior Classical League certamina—tell part of the tale.Their words reveal the rest. One student remembers acrucial moment during a trip to Greece and Italy. Mr.Lazos read a Latin poem to illustrate the acoustical prop-erties of a Roman theater—not, surely, the first time any-one has done so, but something in his reading turned itinto an exhortation that, as the student writes, changedher “understanding of Greek and Roman theatre and ar-chitecture” and inspired her to pursue graduate studyand a career in art history.

During twenty-five years of teaching Stergios Lazos hascreated a Latin program at one school, helped anothergrow from 19 students to over 100, and at St. EdwardHigh School has increased classics offerings from fourcourses to twelve, including Greek. Twice the Ohio Clas-sical Conference has chosen his program as the best inthe state. And there is more. But even if I had “a voicenever to be broken and a heart of bronze within me”(Iliad 2.490), I could not catalog the honors and accom-plishments of Stergios Lazos and his students. It is thus apleasure to note, finally, that mere accumulation of hon-ors and awards is not what motivates this year’s outstand-ing pre-collegiate teacher. His motto is Latina omnibus;as he himself says, magna cum pietate, “All of my stu-dents, the weakest to the strongest, are eager to tell theirpeers they are in Latin . . . I only try to give my students

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what was given to me.” It gives me great pleasure topresent this year’s APA Pre-Collegiate Teaching Awardto Stergios Lazos of St. Edward High School in Lakewood,Ohio.


The Joint Committee on the Classics in American Educa-tion invites nominations for the 2010 APA Awards for2010 APA Awards for2010 APA Awards for2010 APA Awards for2010 APA Awards forExcellence in Teaching at the Precollegiate LevelExcellence in Teaching at the Precollegiate LevelExcellence in Teaching at the Precollegiate LevelExcellence in Teaching at the Precollegiate LevelExcellence in Teaching at the Precollegiate Level. Up totwo winners will be honored with $300 cash awards. Thewinners will be announced at both the APA Annual Meet-ing in San Antonio, TX January 2011 and the ACL Insti-tute in June 2011, and winners may select the meetingat which they wish to receive the award.

Eligibility is open to teachers, full- or part-time, of gradesK-12 in schools in the United States and Canada who atthe time of the application teach at least one class ofLatin, Greek, or classics at the K-12 level. Membership inthe APA is not required. Nominations may be made bya colleague, administrator, or former student, who is thor-oughly familiar with the teacher’s work. (Additional guide-lines for nominators are offered below.)

The nomination packet should consist of three compo-nents and should be submitted collated in sextuplicateunder one cover. The components are 1) a letter of nomi-nation; the letter may come from someone within theeducational institution of the nominee; 2) a letter of sup-port from someone in the field of classical studies; and 3)the candidate’s current curriculum vitae. Nominationletters should indicate how the candidate meets the crite-ria of the award. The letter is the key to the candidate'scontinuation in the selection process.

The Committee reviews nominations and invites the sub-mission of full dossiers for selected nominees. Note theseNote theseNote theseNote theseNote thesenew instructions for the full dossiers:new instructions for the full dossiers:new instructions for the full dossiers:new instructions for the full dossiers:new instructions for the full dossiers: These dossiers mustalso be submitted collated in sextuplicate and will include

1. a short cover letter with a one-paragraph summaryof the nominee’s key achievements as a teacher.

2. a curriculum vitae – no more than 2 pages.

3. a personal statement of no more than 750 wordsin which the nominee explains his or her achievementsin terms of vision, strategies, and methods.

4. letters of recommendation:a. no more than two letters from a supervisor or col-

league in the field of classics or foreign language teach-ing;b. no more than four letters from students and/orrecent graduates or parents.

5. portfolio materials—e.g., pedagogical materials, pro-gram flyers, class memorabilia, news clippings. Thecomplete portfolio should contain no more than 10items and should not exceed 20 pages or the elec-tronic equivalent.

Applicants will be compared and judged by quality ratherthan quantity of application materials and are asked to beselective rather than comprehensive.

Award winners are selected by a subcommittee of theJoint Committee on the Classics in American Education,whose membership is selected equally from both the APAand the American Classical League. September 13, 2010September 13, 2010September 13, 2010September 13, 2010September 13, 2010is the deadline for the postmark of nominations.

Applications should be submitted to the ACL/APA JointCommittee on the Classics in American Education, c/oThe American Philological Association. The APA’s cur-rent address is 292 Claudia Cohen Hall, University ofPennsylvania, 249 South 36th Street, Philadelphia PA19104-6304, but we anticipate that its office will moveduring the Summer of 2010. Please check the APA’sweb site (www.apaclassics.org) for an up-to-date mailingaddress. Questions about the competition may be di-rected to [email protected].

Additional Guidelines for NominatorsAdditional Guidelines for NominatorsAdditional Guidelines for NominatorsAdditional Guidelines for NominatorsAdditional Guidelines for NominatorsThe key to a successful nomination is detailed informa-tion about the nominee’s teaching practices and results.The nominator plays a crucial role in gathering and pre-senting this information. The additional letters of supportshould be from students, colleagues, administrators, par-ents, etc. who can also speak in detail about the nominee.Due to the fact that all of the nominees are usually highlyqualified, letters of nomination must move far beyondgeneral statements that the nominee is an excellent teacher.

Supporting Materials for the Second RoundSupporting Materials for the Second RoundSupporting Materials for the Second RoundSupporting Materials for the Second RoundSupporting Materials for the Second RoundFinalists in the competition will be invited to submit addi-tional supporting materials such as innovative teachingunits, Latin publicity items, additional testimonials andrecommendations, etc. As noted above, these materialsmust be submitted collated in sextuplicate and cannot bereturned except under special circumstances.

Every application should address at least four of the fol-lowing criteria:

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••••• success, size, and growth of the classics program inthe candidate’s school

••••• outreach and promotion of the classics••••• innovative and creative classroom activity••••• evidence of improved student learning••••• student success in contests and competitions••••• movement of significant numbers of students to the

next level of study••••• student travel and field trips ranging from study of

local architecture to study abroad••••• the teacher’s professional service and professional

development including workshops (both taken andgiven), papers presented, offices held, awards re-ceived, etc.

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OUTREACH PRIZEOUTREACH PRIZEOUTREACH PRIZEOUTREACH PRIZEOUTREACH PRIZE

MARY-KAY GAMELMARY-KAY GAMELMARY-KAY GAMELMARY-KAY GAMELMARY-KAY GAMEL

Following the unanimous recommendation of the Out-reach Prize Committee, the Board of Directors awardsthe 2009 APA Prize for Scholarly Outreach to Mary-Kay Gamel, Professor of Classics, Comparative Literature,and Theater Arts at the University of California, SantaCruz. Professor Gamel has been translating,reconceptualizing, and staging Greek and Roman playsfor diverse modern audiences for more than twenty years,in Santa Cruz especially but in many other venues as well.Her versions of ancient tragedies and comedies draw au-diences into vital engagement with the classical textsthrough language, staging, music, and theatrical devicesthat dramatically juxtapose ancient cultural concepts withcontemporary entities and concerns, as for examplereimagining the women’s festival of Aristophanes’Thesmophoriazousai as The Julie Thesmo Show, a day-time-television talk show. She frequently helps audiencesthink through and articulate what they have experiencedby linking her productions to symposia, such as the con-ference on “Authenticity and Revision in Performance”held after a staging of her versions of Terence’s The Eu-nuch and Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s The Conversion ofThais. In the summer of 2009, she spent five weeks inNew Zealand, working with students at the University ofAuckland to adapt and stage her Eye on Apollo (a ver-sion of Euripides’ Ion) in a Maori context; it is hard toimagine a wider outreach, either geographically or cultur-ally!

Professor Gamel’s productions have brought ancient dramato thousands of people in an accessible, enjoyable, andmeaningful way. The UC Santa Cruz newspaper openeda 2006 review of The Buzz!!!!, her version of AristophanesWasps, with this reflection: “In light of a widening dividebetween conservative and liberal ideology, there is nobetter time to update a classic Greek satire, using wit andwisdom to illustrate our basic humanities, regardless ofpolitical viewpoints.” Professor Gamel has worked withand mentored many young actors and theater studentswho would otherwise not have encountered Greek andRoman drama, giving them a priceless opportunity to cre-atively engage with ancient culture and theatrical conven-tions. She has achieved all of this with prodigious energyon a volunteer basis, including raising funds to supporther productions and symposia, since these activities arenot part of her teaching responsibilities. Indeed, becauseof her talent and generosity, Professor Gamel has becomethe “go-to” person for any group or organization (in-cluding the APA) that wants to stage a classically-themedperformance.

Her colleague Karen Bassi characterizes Professor Gamelas “that rare academic whose work combines both prac-tice and theory.” All her creative practice is deeplygrounded in rigorous scholarship and a profound under-standing of ancient theater in its original cultural context,which enables her to preserve the essence while adaptingthe form. Her scholarship, presented in numerous ar-ticles and papers and soon to be crystallized in a book onRevising ‘Authenticity’ in Staging Ancient MediterraneanDrama, has been very influential in theater and perfor-mance studies, and her creative productions have actu-ally become the basis for scholarly discussion. The JulieThesmo Show, for example, inspired a special issue of theAmerican Journal of Philology in 2002 on “Performing/Transforming Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazousai.”

The APA is pleased to present this award to ProfessorMary-Kay Gamel in recognition of her outstanding anddramatic contribution to scholarly outreach.


The APA Outreach Prize, a prize of $300, recognizesoutstanding projects or events by an APA member ormembers that make an aspect of classical antiquity avail-able and attractive to an audience other than classics schol-ars or students in their courses. The project or event maybe of any kind and in any medium, including but notlimited to film, performance, public event, website, video,podcasts, visual arts, and print. Projects and events pro-

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moting any area of classics are eligible for the prize, aslong as they are grounded in sound scholarship and cur-rently reach a public that extends beyond the academy.The project or event to be considered must have beendeveloped entirely or in part within ten years of the nomi-nation deadline; candidates for the prize must currentlybe APA members. Curricular initiatives in the nominee'sown institution do not qualify for this prize.

Previous Prize recipients include Herbert Golder, BostonUniversity, Editor-in-Chief of Arion and Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow, Brandeis University, for a program entitled “TheExamined Life: Greek Studies in the Schools” (2003);Roger T. Macfarlane, Brigham Young University, Televi-sion Documentary, “Out of the Ashes: Recovering theLost Library of Herculaneum” (2004); MarianneMcDonald, University of California at San Diego (2005)and Mary-Kay Gamel, University of California at SantaCruz (2009) for their efforts to bring classical drama togeneral, non-professional audiences; and Michele V.Ronnick, Wayne State University for her work describingthe experiences of Black Classicists in the post Civil Warperiod (2006).

Nominations (which may be self-nominations) shouldconsist of a letter of nomination and three copies of adetailed description of the project or event to be consid-ered, including three copies of any material product thatmay have resulted (such as program, book or DVD).Evidence of the impact of the nominee's work on diverseaudiences will greatly strengthen nominations (e.g., pub-lished reviews, testimonia from participants or beneficia-ries, etc.). All nomination materials must be received byJuly 12, 2010July 12, 2010July 12, 2010July 12, 2010July 12, 2010, in the APA Office, 292 Cohen Hall,University of Pennsylvania, 249 S. 36th Street, Philadel-phia, PA 19104-6304. Nominations will remain in con-tention for a three-year period and will be judged by theOutreach Prize Committee, which consists of three mem-bers serving staggered three-year terms: one current orrecent member each of the Outreach and Research Com-mittees, both appointed by their respective Vice Presi-dents, and a third member to be appointed by the Presi-dent. The recommendation of the Outreach Prize Com-mittee will be subject to approval by the Board of Direc-tors.

REPORTS OF THE VICE PRESIDENTSREPORTS OF THE VICE PRESIDENTSREPORTS OF THE VICE PRESIDENTSREPORTS OF THE VICE PRESIDENTSREPORTS OF THE VICE PRESIDENTS

EDUCATION (EDUCATION (EDUCATION (EDUCATION (EDUCATION (OOOOOUTGOINGUTGOINGUTGOINGUTGOINGUTGOING)))))

Gratitude will be a theme of this final report of my termas Vice-President for Education. I begin by thanking the

members of the APA who elected me, all past and presentofficers and members of the Board with whom I have hadthe pleasure to serve, and Executive Director Adam Blisteinand his staff, who help the Education Division and ourAssociation in more ways than I can count. I am alsograteful to the dozens of APA members who served onthe Education Committee, the Joint Committee (withACL) on Classics in American Education, the Joint Com-mittee (with AIA) on Minority Student Scholarships, andthe divisional committees: the Committee on AncientHistory, the Coffin Traveling Fellowship Committee, theCommittee on Awards for Excellence in Teaching, andthe Subcommittee on Pre-Collegiate Teaching Awards.Our Association, which is neither very rich nor very large,depends on the volunteer service of its members, and allwho serve our profession in this way deserve its gratitude.

Standards for Latin Teacher Preparation: On October16 and 17, the APA/ACL Joint Task Force on TeacherTraining and Preparation met at Bryn Mawr College toreview responses to the initial draft of Standards for LatinTeacher Training and Certification, to make final revi-sions of the document (among which was a change oftitle to Standards for Latin Teacher Preparation), and todevelop plans for publication and dissemination of thefinished document.

The final version of Standards for Latin Teacher Prepara-tion accompanies this report. The Joint Task Force rec-ommends primary publication as a web-based documenthoused on the ACL’s server, with a link from the APAweb site. A small press run of about 500 printed copies,primarily for distribution to state education officials andother decision-makers, will supplement the web-basededition. ACL will hold copyright to both web-based andprinted versions, as it does with the Standards for Classi-cal Language Learning of 1997.

I ask the Board to approve this document and to autho-rize its publication. I hope also that the Board will joinme in expressing its thanks to the members of the JointTask Force who worked to create this effective, eloquentdescription of what a Latin teacher should know and beable to do. [Editor’s Note: The Board voted to acceptboth of Prof. Ancona’s recommendations. The Standardsdocument can be found at http://www.aclclassics.org/pdf/LatTeachPrep2010Stand.pdf, and printed copies areavailable from the ACL, http://www.aclclassics.org/pdf/standards_order.pdf.]

Advanced Placement Latin: At this writing (December24, 2009) the College Board has not settled on a sylla-bus for the new Advanced Placement Latin program thatwill replace the existing Vergil and the former Latin Lit-

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erature programs and examinations. It seems likely thatthe final version of the new syllabus will not be in placefor some time.

In November, 2009, the College Board invited the APAto nominate a representative to its AP Latin CurriculumReview Committee. According to Mr. James Monk, theCB’s Associate Director for World Languages and Cul-tures, this committee will develop a “curriculum frame-work” for AP Latin including “learning objectives, expec-tations of student performance, reading list/syllabus, gram-matical terms and figures of speech, overarching themesand essential questions. The curriculum framework willalso inform changes to the AP Latin exam by providingdetails of how the various components of the curriculumwill be accounted for in the assessment.” I am grateful toProf. Ann Vasaly for agreeing to serve as the APA repre-sentative to this Committee.

Mr. Monk and Prof. Christopher Francese have organizeda workshop at our meeting in Anaheim on “New Devel-opments in Advanced Placement (AP) Latin.” The work-shop will be held on Friday, January 8, from 11:15 until1:15 in Platinum Ballroom 3 of the Anaheim Marriott.

My term as Vice-President for Education has taught me agreat deal about the state of our profession of Classics inthe nation and world. It has also confirmed my belief inthe importance of the work done by the APA through itsofficers, directors, committees, and staff. Gratias vobisomnibus maximas ago.

Respectfully submitted,Lee T. PearcyJanuary 6, 2010

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I would like to begin this report by thanking my predeces-sor, Lee Pearcy, for his outstanding service as Vice Presi-dent over the last four years. His ability to listen, respond,and lead were especially apparent in two major tasks un-dertaken during his term of office: the development ofthe Standards for Latin Teacher Preparation and the APA’sresponse to the elimination of the Latin Literature Examof the Advanced Placement Program. As a result of hisown efforts and his collegial work with Sherwin Little,ACL President, Standards for Latin Teacher Preparationwill be published shortly. In addition, despite the CollegeBoard’s unfortunate change in its Latin program, Lee’sdetermined efforts ultimately gave the APA a voice inCollege Board deliberations at the Fall 2008 Chicago AP

Latin Faculty Colloquium and led to the invitation to havean APA representative on the College Board committeethat is currently working on a “curriculum framework”for Advanced Placement Latin. I very much appreciatethe contribution Lee has made to the profession and hishelp in making my transition into this office a smoothone.

Program Panel: The Division sponsored one panel at the2010 Annual Meeting in Anaheim. The Committee onAncient History presented a successful panel on “Mate-rial Culture in the History Classroom: Techniques andMethods,” organized by Serena Connolly. It was particu-larly useful to graduate students and to all with an interestin pedagogy and ancient history.

Education Committee and The Joint Committee on Clas-sics in American Education. The JCCAE, which consistsof the APA Education Committee plus representativesfrom ACL, met jointly this year with the Education Com-mittee:

The Committee revisited some issues that had been dis-cussed in previous years, including a possible meeting atAPA of departments engaged in teacher training, gather-ing of statistics on Classics as part of liberal education,and encouragement of more nominations for the awardfor Excellence in Pre-Collegiate Teaching. It was thoughtthat one factor discouraging candidates for this awardmight be the high cost of attending APA or ACL in orderto receive the award in person and the relatively smallamount of the award itself. It was hoped that added pub-licity by both APA and ACL, including timely e-blasts,might help to get the word out about this important award.

The Committee was updated on the changes to the LatinAdvanced Placement program and members were encour-aged to attend the APA 2010 workshop on New Devel-opments in AP Latin. The Latin Literature AP Exam hasnow been eliminated and the current Vergil Exam willchange to become a Vergil-Caesar Exam, with first ad-ministration planned for 2013 (with new course offeredin 2012-13). The syllabus for the new Exam is expectedto be announced in September 2010. There was discus-sion of possibly doing a panel on Caesar at a future APAAnnual Meeting. It was suggested that reprinting someold, but good, Caesar texts might also be useful for teach-ers planning to teach the new AP Latin syllabus.

There was a report on the Standards for Latin TeacherPreparation, which will be published this spring. The Com-mittee decided to develop a panel for APA 2011 to ad-dress why the Standards should be of interest to APAmembers. The panel will be organized by Lee Pearcy,

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outgoing APA Vice President and Sherwin Little, ACLPresident, who jointly chaired the task force that devel-oped the Standards. Additional plans for publicizing theStandards include a press release, a panel at the 2010ACL Institute, and possible sessions at regional meetings.

Plans were announced to update and expand the materialon the Education section of the APA website dealing withindividual state requirements for Latin teacher certifica-tion and licensure. This work will be done with the helpof a Student-Faculty Research Initiative Grant to the in-coming Vice President from the Office of the Presidentof Hunter College. A brief description of careers in Clas-sics at different levels (secondary, four-year college/uni-versity, and community college [if sufficient informationis available]) and the pathways to them will be posted aswell. This new material will complement the APA’s Guideto Graduate Programs in the Classics.

The APA Board supported the idea of the incoming VicePresident appointing a Task Force to develop some pre-liminary materials on Caesar that would benefit Latin teach-ers planning for the Caesar portion of the new AP LatinExam. The incoming Vice President appointed APA Boardmembers John Marincola and Ann Vasaly. These materi-als will appear on the Education page of the APA website.

Thank you to Rachel Sternberg for her service on theEducation Committee and welcome to new member, EricDugdale.

Committee on Ancient History. The Committee’s pri-mary activity this year was organizing the 2010 APApanel it sponsored. It plans to publish the papers fromthe panel on the APA website in order to reach an ex-panded audience. Its proposed panel for 2011, to be co-sponsored by the Women’s Classical Caucus, will addressthe underrepresentation of women in the teaching of an-cient history.

Thank you to Sara Forsdyke and Nathan Rosenstein(Chair) for their service. Welcome to new members, EmilyMackil and Georgia Tsouvala. The new Chair will be CarlinBarton.

Joint Committee (with AIA) on Minority Student Schol-arships. In keeping with the APA’s need to economize,the Committee did not hold its annual fundraising break-fast this year and instead focused all of its attention onselling raffle tickets. Those sales happily generated enoughincome to support two scholarships (although not fullyfunded ones). The Committee reconfirmed its commit-ment to choosing recipients for the scholarships for whomthe funded summer experience would be transformative.

Some concern was expressed that the number of appli-cants was down to six from the previous year’s fourteen.There was some speculation that the economy might beplaying a role. Potential candidates may not think theiractual expenses will be met by the amount of the scholar-ship and therefore may not apply. Informing applicantsabout possible supplemental sources of support might beuseful. Tulane University is to be applauded for donatingthe Scholarship brochures for this year.

Thank you to Benjamin Acosta-Hughes (Co-Chair) forhis service and welcome to new member, Mira Seo. Thenew APA Co-Chair will be Sanjaya Thakur.

Other Committees: The freestanding committees of theEducation Division also have new and retiring members.Thank you to Antonios Augoustakis for his service on theCoffin Traveling Fellowship Committee. Welcome to newmember, Greta Ham. Henry Bender is the new Chair.Thank you to Frances Titchener for her service on theCommittee on the Awards for Excellence in the Teachingof Classics. Welcome to new member, Mary English.Kathryn Morgan is the new Chair.

Finally, the incoming and outgoing Vice Presidents at-tended the meeting at APA of the National Committeefor Latin and Greek, a subcommittee of the AmericanClassical League, of which APA is a sponsoring organiza-tion. The VPs encouraged NCLG to keep APA membersinformed of its activities by sending reports to the APAfor inclusion in its Newsletter or in other kinds of posting(e-blast, blog etc.). The commercially produced videopromoting Latin, now posted on its website and YouTube,is just one example of material that could be publicizedappropriately to the APA membership.

Respectfully submitted,Ronnie AnconaJanuary 8, 2010

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Since I submitted my last report in September 2009, theDivision of Outreach has continued its efforts to expandthe intellectual scope of classical antiquity and its legacy,and to share this knowledge more widely, both withinand beyond the North American professional classicscommunity. The major focus of our activity was the an-nual APA meeting, held in Anaheim, California from Janu-ary 6-9, 2010. Official Outreach events included threepanels: “Classics and the Great Books” sponsored by theOutreach Committee itself, “Visualizing Ancient Narra-

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tive” sponsored by the Committee on the Classical Tradi-tion, and “Contexts for Ancient Greek and RomanDrama,” sponsored by the Committee on Classical andModern Performance. Each of these panels featured ex-cellent papers, drew strong audiences, and was enthusias-tically received.

CAMP was offered an unusual opportunity this year tosponsor a screening of silent films treating classical topics,and decided to hold the screening in place of a live per-formance. The screening took place on Friday, January 8and attracted a large audience of over 200. We are gratefulto Andrew Simpson of the Catholic University of Americafor providing superlative, improvised piano accompani-ment to these films, and to Jon Solomon, University ofIllinois, Champaign-Urbana, for his generosity of time andtreasure in helping to digitize them. Special thanks also goto Heather Hartz Gasda of the APA office, who under-took the complicated logistical arrangements for thescreening of the silent cinematic clips, The organizers ofthis screening, Pantelis Michelakis of Bristol University,and Maria Wyke of University College, London, also or-ganized a paper session the following day which situatedthese films—from France and Italy as well as the US— intheir historical and cultural contexts. In addition toMichelakis and Wyke, Margaret Malamud of New MexicoState University and Ruth Scodel of the University ofMichigan presented papers.

Another special opportunity was afforded CAMP andOutreach: Stephen Scully and Herbert Golder, with sup-port provided by the Boston University Department ofClassical Studies, offered to show My Son, My Son, WhatHave Ye Done? as an extra added attraction that sameevening. A new Hollywood film directed by WernerHerzog and co-written by Herzog and Golder, it is basedon a true story about an actor who murdered his ownmother after performing the role of the mythic matricideOrestes in Aeschylus’ Eumenides. Despite the late hour,the audience enjoyed this screening. CAMP is eager togive film a more prominent place in future APA sessionsand programs that it sponsors at other venues.

All three committees held meetings in Anaheim, as didthe editorial board of Amphora, the APA’s Outreachpublication. Both the Amphora editor, Davina McClain,Louisiana Scholars’ College of Northwestern State Uni-versity, and the assistant editor, Diane Johnson, WesternWashington University, have been reappointed to secondterms. We are greatly in their debt for their heroic workin transforming Amphora to an annual, mostly on-line,publication with no sacrifice in range or quality. At itsboard meeting, McClain welcomed two new members:Antony Augoustakis, Baylor University and the Univer-

sity of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, and Matthew Dillon,Loyola-Marymount University. The forthcoming 2010issue includes articles on such varied topics as the Catullustranslator Carl Sesar and the classically-inspired artist AnitaHuffington, classical magic in the Harry Potter novels andfilms, living history and classical archaeology in Gallo-Roman France, and the Herodotus digital “earth” project.

The Committee on the Classical Tradition thanked itsoutgoing chair, Judith Fletcher, Wilfrid Laurier Univer-sity, and outgoing member Michele Valerie Ronnick,Wayne State University, for their extraordinary contribu-tions to the committee. Fletcher, who oversaw the plan-ning for the 2010 panel, also organized two sessions—onthe topic of “Borders: geographical, social, political, tem-poral or conceptual”—sponsored by Outreach at the2009 meeting of the Classical Association of Canada.Ronnick organized two sessions, each on the topic of “BlackClassics”, sponsored by Outreach at the 2009 meetingof the College Language Association. Dirk Held, Con-necticut College, the new committee chair, welcomed twonew members: Paul Kimball, Bilkent University, and Bar-bara McManus, College of New Rochelle. The commit-tee is planning a panel on children’s literature about clas-sical antiquity for the 2011 APA meeting, and to spon-sor sessions at several other meetings, among them thatof the Classical Association of the Atlantic States. Thecommittee also discussed the possibility of changing itsname, so as to acknowledge the increasing currency ofthe more inclusive term “classical receptions” in identify-ing its purview.

I am delighted that Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz has agreedto serve as the chair of the Committee on Ancient andModern Performance for a second year. I would also liketo thank outgoing committee members Hallie RebeccaMarshall, University of British Columbia, and ElizabethScharffenberger, Columbia University, for their outstand-ing service to the committee. Marshall, who coordinates“The Dionysiac”–the committee’s e-mail list announcingperformances and other events of interest to classicists—organized the 2010 CAMP panel; Scharffenberger, whohas starred in several of the annual CAMP productions,spoke on the importance of comedy in undergraduate“great books” programs at the 2010 Outreach panel. Atits meeting, the committee welcomed Alison Futrell,University of Arizona, and George Kovacs, Trent Uni-versity, as new members. And it extended its warmestcongratulations to Mary-Kay Gamel, University of Cali-fornia, Santa Cruz, former chair of CAMP, who washonored with the APA scholarly Outreach prize this year.

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production of Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae, trans-lated and directed by Bella Vivante, University of Ari-zona. Its 2011 panel will explore the relationship be-tween democratic ideology and classical tradition in mod-ern performance, coordinating its theme with that of theyear-long conference on “Classics in the Modern World:A Democratic Turn” sponsored by the Classical Recep-tion Studies Network at the Open University in the UK.CAMP will investigate the possibilities of linking the APAOutreach Committee, which is an overseas affiliate of theCRSN, and the US institutional members of the CRSN(the classics departments at University of Michigan, NewYork University, and Northwestern University) througha website, following the model of the CRS network inAustralia. It is also working with the Outreach Commit-tee to assemble a roster of classicists with

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