Alumni – St Andrews Classics

Congratulations to Consuelo Martino

We’re thrilled to announce that former PhD student Consuelo Martino has been awarded a prestigious Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship, to start at the University of Edinburgh in May 2023. She’ll be working on an exciting new project called ‘Civil War and cultural trauma: rethinking the beginning of the Roman Empire’, which seeks to radically change…

Congratulations to Bart Danon

We are delighted to share the news that Dr Bart Danon, a recent PhD student at the School of Classics, has been appointed Assistant Professor in Ancient History at the University of Groningen. Bart completed his PhD on the distribution of wealth in the Roman empire in April 2021. Bart’s new publication, The Uncertain Past,…

Congratulations to Giorgos Mouratidis

We are delighted to share the news that Dr Giorgos Mouratidis, a recent PhD student at the School of Classics, has been appointed Assistant Director of the British School at Athens. Giorgos completed his PhD on athletes and cities between the late Hellenistic and the imperial periods in 2020. He will bring his fantastic knowledge…

Congratulations to Nuria Scapin and Aiste Celkyte

Two of our former PhD students, both of whom were supervised by Stephen Halliwell, have published monographs this summer: Nuria Scapin, The Flower of Suffering: Theology, Justice, and the Cosmos in Aeschylus’ Oresteia and Presocratic Thought, has been published by De Gruyter Aiste Celkyte, The Stoic Theory of Beauty, by Edinburgh University Press. Many congratulations to both of…

Call for submissions: Quarantine Art Exhibition

My name is Flora Outram and I have just completed my fourth and final year of Classics at St Andrews from my kitchen table in the South of England. I know for a fact that this is not an experience unique to me, and so first of all I would like to send out my…

Postdoctoral Leverhulme award for Chloe Bray

Following the recent success of passing her PhD, Chloe Bray has now been awarded funding from the Leverhulme Trust for a two-year research fellowship at Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg, Germany. This funding will allow Chloe to work on a monograph entitled “Ancient Greek Landscape between the Intelligible and the Unintelligible”, which will look at fears and anxieties…

Congratulations to Matthew Shelton

Matthew Shelton has been appointed Lecturer in Classics at the University of Cape Town. His appointment there will start in July 2019. Matthew’s PhD thesis explored madness in Xenophon, Plato and Stoicism, and he also works on Apuleius and Epicurean epistemology. Congratulations, Matthew!

Congratulations to Matthijs Wibier

Congratulations to Matthijs Wibier, who has been appointed to a permanent lectureship in Ancient History in the Department of Classical and Archaeological Studies at the University of Kent, Canterbury. His research and teaching focus on the culture(s) and literature(s) of the Roman Empire. Matthijs received his PhD in Classics from St Andrews in 2014, supervised…

Ana Kotarcic wins FWO [Pegasus]2 MSCA fellowship

Ana Kotarcic, who obtained her PhD in Classics from St Andrews in 2015, has been awarded an FWO [Pegasus]2 Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellowship. Ana will use this three-year fellowship, running from 2017 to 2020, to pursue a research project on Aristotle and language at the Centre for the Historiography of Linguistics at KU Leuven, Belgium. Congratulations…