Facilities and Resources

The Department regularly plays host each spring term to the Langford Family Eminent Scholar. This is a visiting position that attracts scholars of the highest caliber from a broad range of disciplines within classics. The Langford Scholar teaches a graduate class or conducts a seminar in the area of her or his research. Past Langford Scholars have included Michael Jameson, W.S. Anderson, Robin Seager, A.P. Burnett, Erika Simon, Elaine Fantham, Peter Rhodes and Alan Boegehold. The 2006 Langford Scholar will be Alan Shapiro.

Each year the Department hosts two influential academic events:

The Langford Seminar is a one-day conference held every fall term, the topics of which vary widely. Speakers are usually drawn from throughout the USA and Europe. One of the attractive features of the conference is the opportunity it provides for graduate students and visiting scholars to meet and converse at coffees, teas and lunch.

The Langford Conference, a two-day event held every spring term, is directed by the Langford Family Eminent Scholar. Again, distinguished classicists from around the country and around the world gather to address a theme or topic selected by the Langford Scholar.

In every spring term the Department hosts a Graduate Symposium, which provides an opportunity or graduate students to present their research to the Department and to the University at large. At each Graduate Symposium a key-note address is delivered by a distinguished visitor.

In additon, there are lectures by faculty in residence and by visitors throughout each term.

The M. Lynette Thompson Library is the departmental library which hosts a good collection of primary sources, reference materials and encyclopedias in the Ancient World, Archaeology, and the Classical Languages. The library also provides a attractive and quiet place for studying for many of our students.

The computer lab is a resource for graduate students; it is equipped both with PC and Mac computers, as well as scanners and printers. Academic software for archeological and philological research is available.

The Classics Slide Library has approximately 12,000 images geared towards the teaching of classical art, archaeology, and civilization.

Available Software Programs are GIS (Geographical Information Systems) and TLG (Thesaurus Linguae Graecae).

We also have archives of several archaeological projects, including Cetamura, the Argolid Exploration Project's Argolid Survey, the EBA excavations at Tsoungiza, and the Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey.

Our archaeology faculty offers fieldwork opportunities in Greece and Italy every summer. Prof. Nancy de Grummond is directing a research project at Cetamura. Prof. Daniel Pullen takes students to his projects--the Saronic Harbors Archaeological Research Project (SHARP).