Ancient Greek enthusiasts from across campus gather weekly for Homer Reading Group, a chance for beginners and world experts alike to bond over antiquity’s most famous bard.

We are pleased to announce that graduate students Sarah Norvell and Chiara Battisti have been named 2025–26 Graduate Research Fellows at the Center for Culture, Society and Religion. In addition, Sarah Norvell has received the Center's Dissertation Completion Award. 

The Humanities Council is pleased to award 28 new grants for innovation and collaboration in 2025-26, including to projects led by Peter Kelly, Alan Stahl, and several members of the Classics department's affiliated faculty.

Rosie Eden, a classics major from Scottsdale, Arizona, has been selected as the salutatorian. After graduation, Eden plans to attend law school and hopes to one day become a judge. She said her interest in the law is closely tied to her experiences studying classics.

Princeton Classics is pleased to congratulate graduate student Thu Truong on being named the 2025 winner of the John J. Winkler Memorial Prize for her paper “Ocean Vuong, Intertextuality, and the Limits of Interpretation.” Among the nation's most prestigious student accolades, the Prize is given to the best essay by a classics student in a risky or marginal field of classical studies.

Princeton Classics is delighted to congratulate Dr. Paul Eberwine *25 on his appointment to the Classical Studies faculty of the College of William & Mary. He will design and instruct a range of Greek and Latin language courses, classical civilization courses and interdisciplinary seminars, drawing directly “on the broad-based training” he received from both Princeton’s Classics Department and Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities.

"Fortunately, the introduction and thirteen accompanying essays make a masterly case for it as a remarkable example of carefully structured verse, and for its poet as a highly skilled and innovative writer. They leave no doubt that, technically and intellectually, Enuma elish was in its day a tour de force. Three thousand years later, this excellent little book helps us see why."

Princeton Classics congratulates Aditi Rao GS on joining the 2025–26 cohort of the Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in the Humanities! With a focus on issues of linguistic contact and cultural recognition at the border between Greek and Sanskritic worlds in the 3rd century BC, Aditi's research extends into practices of colonial philology and early-modern South Asian intellectual history. The IHUM Fellowship will allow her to continue her interdisciplinary research and exchange in pursuit of a joint doctoral degree.

Princeton Classics is delighted to congratulate newly-declared concentrator Adriana Clark ’27 on receiving a Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship from the Emma Bloomberg Center! Clark will enjoy a fully funded summer of research to kick-start her junior independent research.

The Princeton University Graduate School presented Joy Connolly ‘91 with the GradFUTURES 2025 GRADitude Award. Her leadership as the President of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) has been focused on creating systems and structures that promote innovation and equity in graduate education, particularly within the humanities, to meet the changing needs of scholars and society.