Working Classicists Awards 2024: The Winners
We are delighted to give some recognition to people across the discipline who are working to make it a better place.
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Emily Waller Singeisen
- Jun 19
- 10 min
Trojan Horse Universities: How tech billionaires and alt-right figures legitimise intolerance in Classics.
A dangerous movement in Classics is using a Trojan horse of respectability to promote much uglier ideas.
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Tallulah Trezevant
- Jun 13
- 14 min
The Antiquity to Alt-Right Pipeline
Classical statues in the profile? Racism and misogyny in the feed? Tallulah Trezevant looks at the alt-Right and Classics...
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Tyler Smith
- Jul 31, 2023
- 4 min
The Neoclassical country house: A Working Classicist’s nightmare?
Tyler Smith has some grave reservations about our country house museums - as well he might!
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Working Classicist Admin
- Jul 28, 2023
- 4 min
Working Classicists Awards 2023 - The Results Are In!
This year, as Working Classicists continues to grow, we made the decision to run our very first awards ceremony. None of what we do would...
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Robert Verkaik
- Feb 14, 2023
- 4 min
A Class Apart-heid
Author Robert Verkaik suggests that incorporating the private sector into the state sector will lead to a more egalitarian education system.
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Cora Beth Fraser
- Feb 18, 2022
- 4 min
Taking a Name
A familiar tombstone to Classicists has particular resonance to @drcorabeth
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Thomas Brock
- Dec 24, 2021
- 7 min
A Strong Fish Swims Against The Tide
How not to become a Classics Teacher: The experience of one Classicist’s journey in the subject
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Samantha Sharman
- Oct 29, 2021
- 2 min
The Issue is Pretending There's No Issue
One academic's experience of impostor syndrome, and how we might address this crushing psychological barrier.
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Frances Forbes-Carbines
- Oct 15, 2021
- 3 min
Resting on his laurels
Boris Johnson’s antics have damaged the reputation of Classics: here’s how we win it back!
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Danielle Bisset
- Oct 1, 2021
- 3 min
Does Classics Need to Age Down to Grow Up?
We need to platform younger voices in the discipline if we are to encourage and foster greater participation.
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Working Classicist Admin
- Aug 27, 2021
- 4 min
Snob Values
In July we tweeted: The responses we received were depressing and in some cases genuinely life-changing for the worse. While it is...
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Andy Roberts
- Aug 6, 2021
- 5 min
The Curricular Elephant in the Room
Recently in How to build a Classics Department from scratch George has shown how the work of one person can truly have an effect on...
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Working Classicist Admin
- Jul 9, 2021
- 2 min
Accessing Apollo
Hopefully the first of many artistic contributions to the site, Alice Casalini has produced this glorious representation of Apollo - a...
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"For what people have always sought is equality before the law. For rights that were not open to all alike would be no rights.” - Cicero. Yes, that Cicero...
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