Cat Lambert to join Cornell Classics Department

The Department extends its congratulations to PhD candidate Cat Lambert, who will be joining the Department of Classics at Cornell University as a postdoctoral fellow for the 2022-2023 academic year, and then as an Assistant Professor.

Cat works widely on Latin and Greek literature, with particular interests in book history, gender, and queer studies. Her current research is driven by a desire to open up new understandings of material texts and their readers in antiquity. In particular, in her recent article, “The Ancient Entomological Bookworm” (Arethusa 2020), she traces the vermiculate gaps left in the bookworm’s wake as it munches through the papyrus scroll and becomes activated by imperial Greek and Latin texts as a metaphor for skewering inept, pedantic readers of low-social status.

At Cornell, Cat will develop her book project, Bad Readers in Ancient Rome. This project builds on a central insight from her work on the bookworm, which is that staking a claim to an ideal, readerly embodiment over another also stakes a historically specific claim to power, embodiment, and identity. Her book blends the methodology of book history with the insights of feminist, queer, and critical theory to understand why certain readerly embodiments and modes are stigmatized for deviating from the hegemonic norm, and to illuminate the broader material, social networks that are adumbrated by books as objects in the imperial Roman Mediterranean. Ultimately, she argues that "bad readers" offer a powerful locus for telling a new story about books and readers in antiquity, as well as a lens for theorizing how certain hermeneutic modes in the discipline today intersect with and reproduce hierarchies of power.

Cat is also excited to get to know students at Cornell through her teaching. She will teach Latin and Greek language and literature, as well as "Queer Classics," a course she developed at Columbia through the Teaching Scholars program. 

You can read a full write-up of Cat's appointment here: https://classics.cornell.edu/news/cornell-classics-welcomes-new-faculty-member-cat-lambert 

Students Win Recitation Prizes

Congratulations to Sydney Hertz (Barnard first year) and Gavin Barba (Columbia postbac) for their first prizes in Greek at the 2022 New York Classical Club’s Competition in the Oral Reading of Greek and Latin! Because of the Covid pandemic, this year’s contest was video-based. Sydney and Gavin submitted films of themselves reciting a set passage from Euripides’ Bacchae (Agaue with the head of Pentheus), impressing the judges both with their linguistic and metrical accuracy and their dramatic impressiveness.

Karen Van Dyck to receive Honorary Doctorate from the University of Athens

Karen Van Dyck, Kimon A. Doukas Professor of Modern Greek Language and Literature, will receive an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Athens on March 23, 2022.

Read more about the ceremony here.

The Department extends its warmest congratulations to Professor Van Dyck.

Honorary Doctorate Ceremony

Nancy Worman: AAP PROSE Award in Classics

The Department of Classics extends its congratulations to Nancy Worman, Barnard Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature, on winning the AAP’s PROSE Award in Classics for Tragic Bodies: Edges of the Human in Greek Drama.

The Association of American Publishers (AAP) selects academic works across 39 different categories to recognize the contribution and accomplishment of authors in their distinguished field.

The official press release notes:

“This year’s PROSE Award entries overwhelmingly raised the bar in quality, content, and diversity, reflecting the profound expertise that goes into creating scholarly publications in every conceivable area of study,” commented Syreeta Swann, Chief Operating Officer, AAP. “We are pleased to announce that our panel of 24 judges has reviewed more than 560 entries, in the process singling out 106 titles to be honored as finalists. From this list, our judges then identified 39 outstanding titles to be honored as Category Winners.”

More information is available via the AAP website.

A conversation on translation and linguistic hybridity in Albanian-Greek Borderlands - Saturday @noon - January 15th, 2022

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/endangered-dialects-in-the-albanian-greek-borderlands-tickets-235789481687?aff=erelexpmlt

A discussion of the preservation and translations of Corinthian Arvanitika poetry.

About this event

ZOOM LINK: https://depaul.zoom.us/j/98792934031?pwd=bWEvdHNmTWgrT09nZmRsMDdnTWxPZz09

Password: "bregu"

Join professor and literary translator Peter Constantine (Princeton University) on the preservation of Corinthian Arvanitika and his translations of Arvanitika poetry, alongside professor and translator Karen Van Dyck (Columbia University) on Gralbanian in contemporary Greek fiction, and novelist Gazmend Kapllani, author of A Short Border Handbook and My Name is Europe, who will speak about his fictional work dealing with themes of immigration, borders, and border-crossing.

In this session, we will discuss Constantine’s efforts to preserve Arvanitika, Van Dyck’s new work on translingualism and Gralbanian, and Kapllani’s fictional work, which originally appeared in Greek, focusing squarely on the interface between Albanian and Greek.

Department of Classics Faculty, Graduate Students, and Recent Alumni to Present at the 2022 SCS/AIA

This year, the SCS/AIA is holding its annual conference virtually, and Department of Classics faculty, graduate students, affiliated students, and alumni will be making presentations over the coming days. Please read on for more details.

Thursday, January 6

FIRST PAPER SESSION (8:00am-10:30am PST = 11:00am-1:30pm EST)

SCS-1: Rebuilding, Reconnecting, Restructuring: The Future(s) of Classical Studies Post-COVID (organized by the Graduate Student Committee, I. Morrison-Moncure, and C. Gipson)

Elizabeth Heintges (Classics), “Collaboration on the Macro- and Micro-Scale”

SCS-3: Ancient Music and the Visual Arts (organized by MOISA and C. Brøns)

Deborah Steiner (faculty), “Things that Sing: Objectified Music in Archaic and Early Classical Greece”

SCS-5: Enslavement and Literary Work in the Roman Mediterranean (organized by J. Coogan, J. Howley, and C. Moss)

Brett Stine (Classics), “A Slip of the Tongue: An Exploration of Enslaved Visibility in Roman Book Work”

            Cat Lambert (Classics), “Enslavement and the Reader(s) in Seneca's Moral Epistles”

Joseph Howley (faculty), “The Amanuensis as Vilicus: Enslaved Labor in Roman Agriculture and Authorship”

AIA-1C: Roman Epigraphy and Writing

Alice Sharpless (CLST), “Inscribing Value? A New Look at Weight Inscriptions on Roman Silver”

THIRD PAPER SESSION (2:00pm-5:00pm PST = 5:00pm-8:00pm EST)

SCS-25: Parmenides and Plato (M. Folch presiding)

Emma Ianni (Classics), “Antigone in Magnesia: Plato's Revision of the Sophoclean Tragedy in the Laws”

AIA-3F: Boundaries and Liminality in Roman Material Culture (colloquium; organized by L. Porstner and S. Madole Lewis)

Nikki Vellidis (CLST MA ’21), “Beware of Envy: A Study of Phthonos in the Envy Mosaic of the Villa of Skala”

Friday, January 7

FOURTH PAPER SESSION (8:00am-10:30am PST = 11:00am-1:30pm EST)

SCS-32: The Poetics of Slavery and Vergil's Georgics (organized by K. Dennis and E. Valdivieso)

Joseph Howley (faculty), “Response”

FIFTH PAPER SESSION (11:00am-1:00pm PST = 2:00pm-4:00pm EST)

SCS-36: Honig's Bacchae / Euripides' Theory of Refusal (organized by C. Conybeare)

Vanessa Stovall (CLST M.A. ’20), ““Actin' Womanish” - Fabulation, Cosmetics, and (En)gendered Sophistry with Euripides and Hartman in Bacch(ant)ic Canon”

SCS-38: Ancient Medicine (T. Mulder presiding)

Erin Petrella (Classics), “Magicae Herbae, Alchemy, and the 15th Century Reception of Pliny's Historia Naturalis”

SIXTH PAPER SESSION (2:00pm-5:00pm PST)

SCS-50: Black Athena before Black Athena (organized by Eos: Africana Receptions of Greece and Rome, M. Hanses, and J. Murray)

Yujhán Claros (Classics PhD ’21), “Modernist Poets at the Margins: The Prophetic Arts and Aesthetics of Kahlil Gibran and Melvin Tolson”

AIA-6C: Signifying the Senses and Female Emotions in Italy and Greece (colloquium; organized by A. Eichengreen and D. Smotherman Bennett)

Maria Dimitropoulos (CLST), “Lemnian Deeds:  Representations of Spousal Homicide in Vase Painting”

AIA-6F: Material Evidence of Dance Performances in the Ancient World (colloquium; organized by A. Bellia and E. Angliker)

Deborah Steiner (faculty), “Buildings that Dance: Choral Architecture in Stone and Text”

Saturday, January 8

SEVENTH PAPER SESSION (8:00am-11:00am PST = 11:00am-2:00pm EST)

SCS-63/AIA-7D: Multilingualism and Coinage in the Ancient World (Joint AIA-SCS Session, organized by J. Simmons and T. Ish-Shalom)

Ute Wartenberg (faculty), “Multilingualism and Coinage in the Achaemenid Empire”

Tal Ish-Shalom (CLST), “Beyond Audiences: Bilingual Coins in Late-Hellenistic Sidon and Tyre”

Jeremy Simmons (CLST PhD ’20), “Signals in Script: Finding Meaning in Multilingual Issues of the Kushans and Western Kshatrapas”

AIA-7A: Roman Sculpture

Alexander Ekserdjian (Art History), “Communication from on High: the Function of the Images of the Gods in the Temple Pediments of Hellenistic Italy” 

NINTH PAPER SESSION (2:30pm-5:00pm PST = 5:30-8:00pm EST)

SCS- 77: Freedom and Enslavement (J. Howley presiding)

SCS-79: Egypt (E. Kelting presiding)

Susan Rahyab (CLST), “The Private Lives of Public Notaries: Uncovering the Agoranomoi in Greco-Roman Egypt”

The Light That Burns Us Edited by Karen Van Dyck

Announcing debut poetry collection in English by Greek poet Jazra Khaleed edited by Karen Van Dyck with an introduction by Peter Constantine.

Philosophy in Ovid, Ovid as Philosopher Edited by Katharina Volk and Gareth Williams

Based on a 2019 Columbia conference, this volume contains sixteen essays by a group of international scholars, which explore the hitherto understudied and underappreciated philosophical aspects of Ovid’s work. The collection questions the feasibility of separating out the categories of the "philosophical" and the "literary,” and investigates the ways in which Ovid offers unusual, controversial, or provocative reactions to received philosophical ideas. Ultimately, it makes a case for viewing the Ovidian corpus not just as a body of writings that are often philosophically inflected, but also as texts that may themselves be read as philosophically adventurous and experimental.

Publisher’s link.

A New Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Post-Baccalaureate Fellowship

The Classics Department and Classical Studies Graduate Program are delighted to announce the creation of two fellowships for our post-baccalaureate certificate in Classics. These fellowships, which are part of the university’s commitment in support of diversity, equity, and inclusion, include full coverage of tuition and fees, a $25,000 combined living stipend and housing subsidy, and support for the student to participate in excavations held over the summer at Hadrian’s Villa in Tivoli.

For information on the post-baccalaureate certificate, see http://classics.columbia.edu/overview-2.

For information on fellowship eligibility and application requirements, see http://classics.columbia.edu/fellowship.

The fellowship application deadline for AY 2022–23 is March 1, 2022. If you have any questions, you are welcome to contact Darcy Krasne (dk3009@columbia.edu), the faculty advisor of the Classics post-baccalaureate certificate.

Heyman Center: Celebrating Recent Work by Katharina Volk

The Roman Republic of Letters: Scholarship, Philosophy, and Politics in the Age of Cicero and Caesar
by: Katharina Volk

In collaboration with the Heyman Center for Humanities, the Classics Department will be having an event celebrating the recent publication of Professor Katharina Volk’s The Roman Republic of Letters. In her book Volk explores a fascinating chapter of intellectual history, focusing on the literary senators of the mid-first century BCE who came to blows over the future of Rome even as they debated philosophy, history, political theory, linguistics, science, and religion.

This event will take place in-person at the Heyman Center and virtually over Zoom. We ask that everyone register via Zoom, even those who plan to attend in-person. For more information please visit either the events page at Columbia Classics or The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities.

A Practical performative project on Ancient Greek Chorus

By Katia Savrami

September 29, 2021

Do you want to participate on a research performative project in Ancient Greek Choruses?

The aim is to create two choreographed dramatic choruses’ fragments from Sophocles’ Antigone (with Masks) and Euripides’ Bacchae (with stones as a prop held by the actresses which produces the rhythm) that will challenge the conventional boundaries between representation of the past and current embodiment. As an academic, former dancer and choreographer, coming from Athens-Greece, we will focus on issues related to space, meter, and movement elements, and elaborate together with the student’s manners to create the contemporary choreographed chorus fragments.

• Place: Columbia Campus (exact location not known yet)

• Rehearsal period: Friday evenings and Saturdays in October (a time convenient for all)

• Required: 5 Students with acting and movement skills

• Attached the text that needs to be memorized
  

If you want to participate, please contact: as6551@columbia.edu.

Thank you for your interest!

Katia Savrami, Associate Professor in Dance at the Department of Theatre Studies, University of Patras, Greece
Fulbright Fellow for the fall Semester 2021 at the Department of Classics, Program in Hellenic Studies, Columbia University

Biographical note: Dr Katia Savrami (www.savrami.gr)

TEXT THAT NEEDS TO BE MEMORIZED

Taplin, Antigone 1st Stasimon

Arrowsmith, Bacchae 3rd Stasimon

In Memoriam: Ashley Simone

The Classics Department mourns the death of Ashley A. Simone (Ph.D. 2020), who unexpectedly passed away on 16 September 2021 at the age of thirty-three.  Ashley was a beloved member of the Department from 2012 to 2020, touching the lives of faculty, graduate students, undergraduates, and staff alike.  Our hearts go out to Ashley’s family, to whom we offer our sincerest condolences.

            Ashley entered Columbia’s Ph.D. program in Classics after earning a B.A. at Baylor University and spending a semester as a Visiting Student at the University of St Andrew’s, Scotland.  A Latinist with a strong interest in philosophy, Ashley found herself drawn to topics of ancient cosmology and was particularly fascinated by Greco-Roman discussions of the stars, those symbols of cosmic order and beauty.  She explored these topics in her highly original dissertation, “Cicero among the Stars: Astral Literature and Natural Philosophy in the Late Republic,” in which she traced Cicero’s lifelong interest in the heavens, from his youthful translation of Aratus to the Somnium Scipionis and on to the philosophical treatises of the author’s last years.

            Ashley was very active in the field of Classics, presenting her work in numerous venues in the US and Europe and serving on committees of the Society for Classical Studies and the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.  In addition to her Ciceronian research, she had a strong interest in Augustan poetry and its reception: she published a note on Horace’s Cleopatra Ode (CP 114, 2019) and a book chapter on the Ovide moralisé (Receptions of Antiquity, Brill 2015), and in 2019 co-organized a panel on “Time in Augustan Literature” for the CAMWS Annual Meeting in Lincoln, NE. 

            Deeply committed to classical teaching and learning and to the ideals of a liberal arts education, Ashley had a knack for imparting her enthusiasm for the ancient world to others.  She was a caring and popular teacher in both the Department and the Core Curriculum, and in 2020 received the extraordinary honor of Columbia’s Presidential Award for Teaching Excellence.  Ashley’s dedication to making the benefits of a classical education widely available is apparent from her work for the Paideia Institute’s Aequora after-school program in 2016-17, during which time she founded the Aequora Site at Corpus Christi School, New York, devoted to making Classics more accessible to young people from all parts of Upper Manhattan.  Ashley also taught for a semester in 2019 at Fairfield University, where she was an instructor in ancient Greek civilization and history, and, after receiving her Ph.D., took a position at St. Mary’s Catholic School in Taylor, TX, where, as the Head Latin and Philosophy Teacher, she distinguished herself by designing the school’s Latin program.

            Ashley’s contributions to the well-being and flourishing of the Columbia Classics community were many, including her untiring work for the Barnard Columbia Ancient Drama Group from 2012 to 2019 and her active role in many seasons of graduate recruitment. On the sixth floor of Hamilton and beyond, she will be remembered for her stylish flair, infectious joie de vivre, and unfailing kindness. Ashley’s star has set prematurely, but she will live on in our hearts.

New Book on Gilbert Highet by Robert Ball

The Department of Classics is pleased to acknowledge the publication of The Classical Legacy of Gilbert Highet: An In-Depth Retrospect by Robert Ball.

From the Lockwood Press website:
Gilbert Highet (1906–1978) was one of Columbia University’s greatest teachers and in his day the most celebrated classical scholar in America. One may regard his life and career as both extraordinary and controversial. Now, over forty years after his death, a fresh retrospect seems appropriate, as a way of presenting new information about him and evaluating his enduring classical legacy for the twenty-first century reader. This fully documented biographical appreciation of Highet’s life and work, capped by fully updated bibliographies of publications by him and about him, offers a long-overdue “official life” of this unique and towering figure.

More information is available here.

Nikolas Kakkoufa receives the Spring 2021 Provost Large-Scale Teaching & Learning Grant

Nikolas Kakkoufa receives the Spring 2021 Provost Large-Scale Teaching & Learning Grant for his project, Learning Greece from the Streets: An Urban E-Archaeology of the City. For more information, please click HERE.

The Cavafy Dossier: boundary 2 Special Issue Edited by Stathis Gourgouris

Prof. Stathis Gourgouris has edited a special issue for the journal boundary 2, called "The Cavafy Dossier".

This pioneering issue is the first collective effort to examine Cavafy in the context of colonialism and the British Empire. Further info and table of contents can be found in the Duke University Press link:

https://read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/issue/48/2

Cat Lambert Receives Honorable Mention in the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography Annual Essay Prize

Cat Lambert has received an Honorable Mention in the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography Annual Essay Prize for her article, "The Ancient Entomological Bookworm," published in Arethusa 53 (2020: 1-24). Summing up her piece, the Essay Prize Committee wrote, "What kinds of readers are bookworms, anyway? Lambert marshals bibliographical, literary, and biological evidence, showing us how bookworms tunneled through books and how people used the bookworm as a metaphor in the ancient Mediterranean world. Through the bookworm, authors represented their anxieties about the survival of their writings and who was reading them, and how. Lambert offers us a cogent model for pursuing the social history of reading when material evidence is scant."

A full citation of the Essay Prize can be found here.

Cat Lambert

The Undying Song: Writing the Homosexual Body in the long 19th Century and beyond

The Undying Song:

Writing the Homosexual Body in the long 19th Century and beyond

By Dr. Nikolas Kakkoufa

(Columbia University; currently Marilena Laskaridis Visiting Research Fellow, University of Amsterdam)

Friday, 7 May, 15.30 (CET)

Location:   https://uva-live.zoom.us/j/88607866042 
(Meeting ID: 886 0786 6042)
Language: English

Abstract

 2021 marks the Bicentennial of the Greek Revolution with a plethora of activities and events that span the globe and explore its different aspects and connections to the Mediterranean, the world, and Greece today. What seems to be missing from most of these celebrations and academic events is an extensive discussion on the body itself. How are bodies produced, constructed, and regulated before, during, and after the Greek revolution? What is the difference between the way bodies – and desires – were inscribed and transcribed in the everyday life, the literary imagination, and the newly founded constitution and penal code? This talk will take Georgios Tertsetis as a starting point to explore the discourse on the homosexual body in the first half of the 19th century while also considering the possibilities of its reception in a present continuous tense. 

Bio

Nikolas P. Kakkoufa (PhD, King’s College London 2015) is a Lecturer in Modern Greek at the Department of Classics, the Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Program in Hellenic Studies, and an Affiliate Faculty at the Institute for Research on Women, Gender, and Sexuality at Columbia University, New York. His courses range from beginners to advanced classes in language and culture and seminars on literature and sexuality. His ongoing research projects focus on queer theory, on the image of the city in literature, and on the use of literature and translation pedagogy in second language acquisition. He has given presentations and has published papers on language pedagogy and on the work of Vitsenzo Kornaros, Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, Kostis Palamas, C.P. Cavafy, Kostas Karyotakis, Nikolas Calas, Lefteris Poulios, Michalis Ganas, and others. He is currently writing a book tentatively titled ‘Word is the flesh’: The Body in the Work of Walt Whitman, Oscar Wilde, and C. P. Cavafy. During Spring 2021 he is a Marilena Laskaridis Visiting Research Fellow at the University of Amsterdam.

John Izzo Receives 2021-2022 Rome Prize

The Department of Classics extends its enthusiastic congratulations to PhD candidate John Izzo on receiving the 2021-2022 Millicent Mercer Johnsen Rome Prize in Ancient Studies for his dissertation entitled, “Tironian Notes: Literary and Historical Studies on Marcus Tullius Tiro.” 

John’s doctoral research explores the multifarious connections between Roman slavery and Latin literature by analyzing the life, writings, and reception of Marcus Tullius Tiro. Although extant evidence generally provides only glimpses of individual Roman slaves and freedmen, relatively detailed references to Tiro appear in ancient sources. The analysis of Cicero’s letters, fragments of Tiro’s own writings, and the reception of Tiro by later authors is therefore able to open up new perspectives on Roman slavery. By applying diverse literary and historical approaches to these texts, as well as placing them in dialogue with comparative evidence, John’s dissertation reassesses what these sources can tell us about Tiro’s activities as a secretary to Cicero and as an intellectual in his own right. In doing so, it also contributes to our knowledge of the important roles of slaves and freedmen in the management of aristocratic households and the production of classical literature.

John is looking forward to studying in Rome and to joining the collaborative community at the American Academy.

The full press release can be viewed here.

www.aarome.org

John Izzo

Undergraduate Prizes and Honors

The Classics Department congratulates its graduating seniors and is delighted to announce the following Honors and prizes:

DEPARTMENTAL HONORS
Uwade Akhere
Herbert Rimerman
Hacer Berra Akcan

PHI BETA KAPPA
Julian Pecht
Herbert Rimerman
Issac Shott Rosenfeld
Hacer Berra Akcan

DOUGLAS GARDNER CAVERLY PRIZE
Herbert Rimerman

ERNEST STADLER PRIZE 
Uwade Akhere
Julian Pecht
Arnav Tandon

BENJAMIN F. ROMAINE PRIZE 
Herbert Rimerman

EARLE PRIZE
Helen Ruger
Pedro Tozzi Pistoso

JUDITH STRONACH PRIZE
Hacer Berra Akcan

 Optime fecistis!

Elizabeth Heintges to Deliver Inaugural SAIG/GSC Dissertation Lecture

The Student Affairs Interest Group (SAIG) of the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) and the Graduate Student Committee (GSC) of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS) are pleased to present the inaugural SAIG/GSC Dissertation Lecture. This annual talk is a collaborative effort intended to highlight the work of a senior doctoral candidate whose research features interdisciplinary work between the fields of archaeology and classical philology, and to support the student networks between these related fields.

As the first SAIG/GSC Dissertation Lecturer, Elizabeth Heintges, doctoral candidate at Columbia University, will present “Forgetting Sextus Pompey: the bellum Siculum and Vergil’s Aeneid,” integrating both literary and material evidence into an analysis of two major moments in Roman Republican history. Please see the poster and abstract below for more details.

The lecture will be held virtually on Thursday, April 22, 2021 at 5:00 pm EDT. Please register here in advance of this Zoom webinar.

Any questions? Please don’t hesitate to reach out via email (studentaffairsaia@gmail.com).

About the Annual Lecture, SAIG, and GSC:

Following the 2020 AIA/SCS Annual Meeting, the Student Affairs Interest Group of the AIA and the Graduate Student Committee of the SCS began discussing future collaboration, with the purpose of highlighting and uplifting interdisciplinary graduate research. From this, the SAIG/GSC Annual Lecture was born, an awarded lecture for a doctoral candidate who emphasizes both new and interdisciplinary research in their own work. This Inaugural 2021 Lecture serves to empower graduate students, provide a professionalization opportunity during a critical period of career transition, and broadly, to foster interdisciplinary collaboration. Through an ongoing virtual lecture series, the SAIG and GSC hope to expand access for their graduate audiences to new research and upcoming scholars, and to allow for scholarly participation and interest across a broad geographic area.

The Student Affairs Interest Group (SAIG) seeks to increase student engagement within the AIA and to provide student members a platform to have their voices heard. SAIG consists of AIA members with an interest in the expansion of opportunities for student participation and professional development within the AIA, the promotion of student scholarship, and the facilitation of dialogues between the student membership and other members of the organization through its various events, initiatives, and mentorship program. More information can be found at https://studentaffairsaia.wordpress.com/.

The SCS Graduate Student Committee (GSC) is a nominated subcommittee within the Education Division of the SCS, chiefly concerned with graduate student representation and unification for both member and non-member graduate students. Its initiatives have recently included advocating for greater representation of graduate students in positions of leadership and facilitating the creation of a region-based graduate student network.