Redefining Classics 2025
The Department of Greek and Latin participated in the 2025 Redefining Classics conference by co-organizing an exhibition of Dr. Michele Valerie Ronnick's installation 14 Black Classicists.
Really Dead Languages is back and deader than ever!
Join us for any or all of four workshop sessions offering introductions to ancient and medieval languages and their epigraphy! No prior knowledge is required; attendance is open to the public and is completely free.
Our speakers will equip you with a basic understanding of each language (and its script)--enough knowledge to recognize these languages when visiting a museum, or to be the star philologist of your pub trivia team.
Thursday 6 Feb 5:30pm - The Celtic languages
Friday 7 Feb 4pm - Mayan hieroglyphs
Friday 7 Feb 5:30pm - Tour of Semitics/Institute of Christian Oriental Research collections
Saturday 8 Feb 10am - Sanskrit
Saturday 8 Feb 11:15am - Phoenician
Saturday 8 Feb 12:30pm - lunch at Garvey Hall
Saturday 8 Feb 1:15pm - Tour of Semitics/Institute of Christian Oriental Research collections
Saturday 8 Feb 2pm - Iron Age Hebrew funerary inscriptions
Saturday 8 Feb 3:15pm - Runes: There and Back Again
Saturday 8 Feb 4:15pm - closing discussion
Departmental alumnus produces a Latin reader's edition of St. Augustine's Confessions
Emmaus Academic Press has published a Latin reader's edition of St. Augustine's Confessions by CUA Greek and Latin alumnus, Kevin Bergdorf (Certificate in Greek and Latin, August 2022).
Departmental alumnus publishes previously untranslated canon law Latin text
CUA Greek and Latin alumnus Dr. Lionel Yaceczko translated a previously untranslated Latin text of the Syllabus, part of defence documents submitted during the Mortara case (1858). Dr. Yaceczko's translation appears in the CUA Press book The Mortara Case and Thomas Aquinas's Defense of Jewish Parental Authority: With Original Documents from the Mortara Case: Pro-memoria, Syllabus, Brevi cenni, published in February 2025.
Faculty member receives award for excellence in teaching
Professor William McCarthy (second from right), faculty member in the Department of Greek and Latin, received the Ingrid Merkel Award for Excellence in Teaching at a ceremony in Heritage Hall on Tuesday 3rd September 2024. The citation of Professor McCarthy's achievements that Dean Tom Smith read praised Professor McCarthy for '[modeling] the very essence of the human “desire to know”: his ability to connect ideas across time and space is fed by his remarkable memory for detail and sustained by his voracious curiosity.'
Research Associate alumnus honored for scientific achievements
Luigi M. De Luca (Maturita' Classica, Capece State College, Maglie, Lecce, Italy; Doctorate, Organic Chemistry, University of Pavia, Italy; M.A., Classics (Latin), University of Maryland, College Park; M.A., Greek, Catholic University; Ph.D., Greek and Latin, Catholic University), alumnus and Research Associate of the Department of Greek and Latin, has recently been inducted as a Fellow of the American Society for Nutrition Foundation, an honor conferred upon senior-level academics for professional contributions to the field of nutritional sciences (in this case, specifically Nutritional Biochemistry). Dr. De Luca's diverse academic skills and interests were also clearly represented in his 2019 dissertation for this department, which studied Basil of Caesarea’s botany, pharmacology, and nutrition.
Departmental alumna wins ACLS fellowship
Jocelyn (Rohrbach) Moore (B.A., Catholic University; M.A., Washington University in St. Louis; Ph.D., University of Virginia) has recently been awarded a 2023 ACLS Fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) to finish her book, If the House Would Speak: The House in Greek Tragedy, during the 2023-24 academic year. "The ACLS Fellowship Program supports exceptional scholarship in the humanities and interpretive social sciences that has the potential to make significant contributions within and beyond the awardees’ fields."