News and Kudos
Tushar Irani has been appointed to a tenure-track position at Wesleyan University, in Connecticut. Tushar will be teaching in both the Wesleyan College of Letters (an interdisciplinary major in history, literature, and philosophy) and in the Philosophy Department. He has served frequently as a teaching assistant in Classics and has been a regular participant in the events of the Classical Traditions Initiative. Congratulations, Tushar!
Demetra Kasimis has been awarded a postgraduate research scholarship by the Alexander S. Onassis Foundation to conduct doctoral research in Greece for the 2008-09 academic year. Kasimis received the 2008-09 Alumnae Fellowship from The Graduate School, a fellowship made possible by the financial support of the Alumnae of Northwestern to fund a year of dissertation writing. She was awarded associate membership at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2007-2008. Ms. Kasimis served as a Classics department Graduate Teaching Assistant in 2005-06 and 2006-07. She is a graduate student in the Political Science Department, Northwestern University.
Jessica Keating, a doctoral student in art history, is Samuel H. Kress Fellow in residence at the Zentralinstitut für Kunstgeschicte in Munich for the 2006-2008 academic years. Ms. Keating served as a Classics Department Graduate Teaching Assistant 2005-06.
Steve Skultety (2006 Northwestern PhD in ancient philosophy), started a tenure-track position in the department of philosophy at the University of Mississippi (Oxford) in September 2006. Mr. Skultety served as a Graduate Teaching Assistant in the Department of Classics 2004-05 and 2005-06.
