The winners of the Classical and Medieval Studies Awards were given out on Friday night at the Wine and Cheese Event.
The Department of Classical Studies at the University of Waterloo proudly announces the release of the inaugural volume of Epic Threads. Here, emperors fall, soldiers dream, women rise, and gods doubt. Created and edited by students with faculty mentorship, Epic Threads invites readers to explore the ancient and medieval worlds through poetry, prose, drama, and art that bridge creative imagination with scholarly insight. We believe that creative writing is not a departure from scholarly engagement—it’s a powerful extension of it. Our first volume brings together works inspired mostly by the Classical tradition, but we remain open to adjacent fields including Near Eastern, Biblical, and Medieval studies. Each piece reimagines the past while reflecting on the timeless human questions that continue to shape us today.
On Monday, Oct. 6, 2025, Classical Studies co-hosted the international workshop ‘Female Roles in Ancient Foundation Legends’. The event was spear-headed by the Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies (WIHS) and invited into the Dragen Lab at St Jerome’s University, which allowed for zooming in colleagues from around the world.
Prof. Andrew Faulkner participated in a two-day seminar in April 2025 hosted by the Pappas Patristic Institute at Holy Cross in Boston, where he and his colleague Dr Christos Simelidis (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki) together presented their Collaborative research on a newly identified Byzantine paraphrase of the Psalter in iambic verse. Please see video.
Congratulations to Bel Cairns, winner of the 2024 Society for Linguistic Anthropology Undergraduate Paper Award in the Course Paper category for their Anth 221/GSJ 221 paper: "Cis is a Slur": Twitter Takes on Performative Language Ideology
Congratulations to Dr. Christina Vester and Dr. Pauline Ripat (University of Winnipeg in winning the The Elaine Fantham Award in Public Engagement. The Award is given out by the CAC to individuals with exceptional projects, performances, or events that address communities outside the academy and that engage those communities with the ancient world, its reception, and/or individual research into these fields.
Read the latest copy of Tiresias, our student journal, Volume 5. Also, go to Volume 4 for the past journal. If you need more information about how to be part of this, please contact me.
In tribute to Mac Lewis, who passed away in March 2020, the Department of Classical Studies at the University of Waterloo is honoured to create the Mac Lewis Memorial Award in Classics, in collaboration with his family and friends.
On April 1, the Consul-General of Greece, Mr. Victor Maligoudis, and Prof. Christos Michalakelis, CEO of Study in Greece, met with Prof. Ian Rowlands of Waterloo International, Matthew Coleman and Riemer Faber of the Department of Classics and of the Institute for Hellenistic Studies to talk about advancing student experience in Greece, courses abroad, and academic networking with colleagues in Greece.
Congratulations to Stavros Stavroulias! Stavros will be Valedictorian for the Faculty of Arts convocation this coming spring. This is a well deserved accolade for our Medieval Studies & Speech Communication double major. Stavros, as you all know, is involved in a myriad of clubs, activities, and studies. To name but a few roles Stavros has taken on: Consul of the Classical & Medieval Students Society, student representative on the Arts Endowment Fund, VP Academic representative for the Arts Student Union, pop up art show participant, and the list goes on.