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The 2009-10 academic year sees a good deal of continuity in departmental and program personnel. Andrew Zissos will stay on as Chair of the UCI Classics Department; Sherry Miller continues as Department Manager; Cynthia Claxton remains both Graduate and Undergraduate Advisor; Michele Salzman (UCR) continues as Chair of the Joint Executive Committee of the Tri-Campus Graduate Program. We are also happy to retain Randy Pogorzelski as a visiting lecturer (now standing in for Andromache Karanika, who is on sabbatical at the Center for Helenic Studies, Washington D.C.), and to see the return, at least for the initial part of the year, of Cristiano Castelletti, a Swiss post-doctoral researcher, who is writing a commentary on Valerius Flaccus under the supervision of Andrew Zissos.
The Classics Department welcomes back Zina Giannopoulou from a sabbatical year spendt at the Center for Helenic Studies, Washington D.C. We also welcome Catherine Burke, from University College Cork, a Fullbright student who will be in residence for the 2009-10 academic year, working with Jim Porter on Homeric reception. Finally, we welcome our new Tri-Campus graduate students Kevin Batton, Dan Bellum, Chris Edmonston, and Carly Maris.
The 2009-10 academic year promises to be a rich and interesting one for Classics. Maria Pantelia, Director of the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae, has organized a major conference, "Reclaiming the Past, Envisioning the Future", October 29-30, 2009, in honor of Theodore Bruner (1938-2007), TLG founding director. In addition, the annual meeting of the American Philological Association will be held in Anaheim on January 6-9. Departmental participation promises to be high on the scholarly level, as well as on those of organization and logisitics. In addition to these major events, there will be, as last year, an array of colloquia, papers, and workshops sponsored variously by the Classics Department at UCI and the Tri-Campus Graduate Program in Classics.
There is no denying that these are difficult times throughout the University of California. Every program and department in the UCI School of Humanities has seen significant budget cuts and staff reductions, and there may be more bad news to come before the situation improves. We remain confident, however, that we will be able to weather the economic storm without compromising our pedagogical mission.
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