The WCC and TAPA invite you to participate in a jointly-hosted Reading Group featuring the Paragraphoi essays from TAPA’s Fall 2023 issue.

These brief and passionate essays were written under the rubric of “Rupture and Return.” For these essays, editor Catherine Conybeare invited colleagues to reflect on the impact of the pandemic on their professional lives and their personal and institutional commitments. The authors are scholars at different phases of their careers and from a variety of institutions, both in the U.S. and international. The goal of this project was to sustain the impetus for change that emerged during the lockdowns.

Authors: Amy Pistone, Mar Astrid Rodda, Suzanne Lye, Lylaah Bhalerao, Deborah Beck, and Olivia Hopewell.

Facilitator: Catherine Conybeare

WCC is electing three new Steering Committee members this Spring. We call on all members to vote. The deadline is Friday, April 19, 2024 at 5pm ET.

The WCC has a new award! To honor the service of individuals who have contributed to our field by inspiring and lifting up others, we are pleased to introduce the new WCC Sharon L. James Mentorship Award. This award will be presented to an individual for their embodiment of the WCC ideal of "radical mentoring," as practiced by Sharon L. James, in their mentorship of others in the field of Classics.

Nominations are open until July 1.

Have you read an interesting article or seen a great conference presentation by a pre-PhD student that made you think differently about gender in antiquity? Have you noticed colleagues or organizations that are going above and beyond to mentor or support others in the field? If so, WCC invites you to nominate them for one of the following awards:

Scholarship/Paper Prizes: The Barbara McManus Award for Outstanding Scholarship, The Pre-PhD Paper Presentation

Advocacy Awards: The WCC Leadership Award, The WCC Sharon L. James Mentorship Award, The WCC Award in Professional Equity, The WCC Public Scholarship Award.

Nominations are open until July 1.

We invite you to meet up with WCC officers and fellow members if you are attending CAMWS in St. Louis this week.

Please come find our table in the book room and attend the CAMWS/ WCC co-sponsored opening reception. Here are the details:

CAMWS/WCC Opening Reception

Thursday, April 4 at 7-8:15 CT, located in Plaza & Empire

The WCC is now accepting nominations for the Steering Committee! Please consider joining the leadership of the WCC by nominating yourself or others. The nomination period is now open. Nomination deadline: Monday, March 18.

There are three positions available for the 2024 election cycle: Events Coordinator, Membership Coordinator, Mentorship Program Coordinator

Electees to each of these positions will serve a four year term (July 1, 2024 - June 30, 2028), beginning with the specific duties for which they have been elected and then rotating into other leadership roles as they gain experience within the organization, ultimately stepping into the role of Co-Chair if they wish to do so.

by T. H. M. Gellar-Goad (Ph.D. ’12), Christopher B. Polt (Ph.D. ’10), and Serena S. Witzke (Ph.D. ’14)

“Sharon L. James, Professor of Classics at UNC-Chapel Hill, passed away on Thursday, December 28, 2023. To call her teaching “influential” and her work “groundbreaking” feels incommensurate with the profound impact she had on students, colleagues, friends, and scholars worldwide.”

Anyone whose life was touched by Sharon James is encouraged to send a remembrance, reflection, or anecdote to T. H. M. Gellar-Goad at thmgg@wfu.edu to be published in an In Memoriam page on the website of the NEH Institute on Roman comedy.

Welcome to the Winter 2023/2024 edition of Cloelia, the WCC’s quarterly newsletter devoted to keeping our membership up-to-date on the latest activities and initiatives of the Women’s Classical Caucus (WCC). We are heading into the holidays and looking forward to the new year, which brings us the annual meeting of the SCS/AIA and with it a full slate of WCC-sponsored panels and gatherings.

This newsletter also celebrates this year’s award winners for Best Article and Best Pre-PhD Paper Award. Finally, we invite you to read our co-chair Suzanne Lye’s reflections on service through the WCC in a world that continues to be shaped by the COVID-19 pandemic.