Carmella Vircillo Franklin Awarded Guggenheim Fellowship

Professor of Classics, Carmella Vircillo Franklin, was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship in April. Professor Franklin was one of eight Columbia University faculty and among 175 scholars, artists, and scientists chosen from more than 3,100 applicants this year.

The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation provides grants for fellows to pursue work in their field. Professor Franklin's research focuses on medieval Latin texts and their manuscripts and she will use the fellowship to prepare the first critical edition of the Liber Pontificalis of the 12th century, to be published in the Monumenta Germaniae Historica. This text is at the center of a larger project provisionally entitled “The Liber pontificalis of Pandulphus Romanus: From Schismatic Document to Renaissance Exemplar,” a study of the reception of the papal chronicle created during the schism of 1130.

Elizabeth Irwin Awarded NEH Fellowship

Elizabeth Irwin, Professor of Classics at Columbia University, was awarded a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Spring 2015.

Stathis Gourgouris Awarded Lenfest Distinguished Faculty

Professor of Classics, English, and Comparative Literature at Columbia University Stathis Gourgouris was awarded Lenfest Distinguished Faculty. This award is given each year to “faculty of unusual merit across a range of professorial activities—including scholarship, University citizenship and professional involvement—with a primary emphasis on the instruction and mentoring of undergraduate and graduate students.”

Karen Van Dyck Named Michael I. Sovern Affiliated Fellow

Kimon A. Doukas Professor of Hellenic Studies Karen Van Dyck was named Michael I. Sovern Affiliated Fellow by the American Academy in Rome for Spring 2015. The fellowship enables a member of the Columbia community to spend six weeks in residence at the Academy.

Joseph Howley Awarded Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Critical Bibliography

Joseph Howley, Assistant Professor of Classics at Columbia University, was one of 20 awarded an Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School for 2014-16 in Charlottesville, Va.

Alan Cameron Recognized by the British Academy

Professor Emeritus Alan Cameron was awarded the 2013 Kenyon Medal for Classical Studies and Archaeology by the British Academy, citing “Alan Cameron has produced a major series of books on various aspects of the later Graeco-Roman world, from early Hellenistic times to the late Empire. He has a remarkable flair for synthesising literary with social and political history, at the same time clarifying the nature and relationships of the sources, and he regularly subjects long-accepted doctrines to examination and challenge.” The award is given every two years since 1957.