Musician Joe Goodkin will be on campus April 21 to visit classes, have lunch with students, and perform "The Blues of Achilles."
Slava Komarovski’s latest book proposal, Mediation in the Buddhist World, has been accepted by Routledge, with a full manuscript submission date in 2027. Congratulations, Slava!
Jared Benton has been awarded a Loeb Classical Library Foundation grant of $13,900 to support his excavation in Morocco this summer. Congratulations, Jared!
Max Mueller’s recent book, Wakara’s America: The Life and Legacy of a Native Founder of the American West (Basic Books, 2025) was a finalist for the Western Writers of America’s Spur Award for Best Western Biography of the Year and is currently one of ten biographies longlisted for the Plutarch Award for Best Biography of the Year from Biographers International Organization. Congratulations and good luck, Max!
Emeritus colleague Steve Burnett has been invited to deliver a plenary address at the Bonn Humboldt Award Winners’ Forum, Bonn, Germany, 14-17 October 2026. The conference theme is “Global Perspectives on Reformation(s) and Peasant War(s): Social Movements and Religious Renewals over Five Hundred Years,” and Steve’s lecture will be called “War of Words: How Luther Branded the Peasants in His Pamphlets During the Peasant War (1524-26).” Congratulations, Steve!
