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Department of Classics Launches New Website!
The Department of Classics has launched a newly designed and developed website. The site was built in accordance with Web standards by the Office of Web Communications and Support in the College of Arts and Letters. The Office of Web Communications and Support is an affiliate of the Notre Dame Web Group.
The site, which aims to "Bring the Classics to Life" uses advanced technology and design to promote maximum usability, accessibility, and effectiveness for its audience.
Hritzu-Erikson Summer Travel Bursaries
Applications are invited from students concentrating in Classics (majors, minors, and ECS students) for bursaries to assist with summer travel to places of interest and relevance to the department's programs of study. Such places might include archaeological sites and museums in the greater Mediterranean world, or museums of particular importance in North America and elsewhere. Awards of up to $1000 may be made. Applications will be assessed on a competitive basis. They should provide a detailed account of proposed travel plans, and include a clear statement of the relationship between the proposed travel and the course of study in progress. An estimate of expenses is also required. Applications should be addressed to Professor Keith Bradley, Chair, Department of Classics, no later than April 30, 2007.
Afsaruddin Awarded Carnegie Scholars Fellowship
By Susan Guibert
March 28, 2005
Asma Afsaruddin, an associate professor of classics who specializes in Islam and Arabic literature, was awarded a Carnegie Scholars Fellowship from the Carnegie Corporation of New York for the 2005-06 academic year. She will pursue research on a book titled “Striving in the Path of God: Discursive Traditions on Jihad and the Cult of Martyrdom,” which examines the earliest meanings of the terms “jihad” and “shahid” and how their complex semantic history affects our understanding of these terms.
The Carnegie Scholars Program supports research that broadens society’s knowledge of Islam as a religion and of Muslim culture in the United States and abroad.