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Cast gallery, Museum of Classical Archaeology

Classics is expanding its range, embracing the whole of ancient Mediterranean culture and all that Classics has meant to the world since antiquity. To enable us to take advantage of the opportunities that this expansion offers, we need to increase our funded positions for teaching and research.  Additional University Teaching Officer posts will allow us to provide a greater range of specialist expertise for our undergraduate and postgraduate students. Language Teaching Assistant and Postgraduate Teaching Assistant posts will allow us to continue to offer small-group teaching, particularly for language classes, and opportunities for our current and recently-graduated postgraduate students to acquire invaluable teaching experience.

New lectureships will allow us to attract talented researchers working over the whole range of Classics, capturing for Cambridge their energies and ideas in teaching and research. 

  • A gift of £550k will fund a University Assistant Professorship for 5 years
  • A gift of £4 million will endow a named Professorship in perpetuity
  • You can support Language Teaching Assistant and Postgraduate Teaching Assistant posts via an annual gift

To find out more about supporting a new endowed University lectureship or any other post, please contact  Kara Rann, CUDAR Associate Director for the School of Arts and Humanities or contact Emily Gowers, Chair of the Faculty Board of Classics.


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Professor Nicholas Zair awarded Leverhulme Research Fellowship

8 January 2026

The Faculty is pleased to announce that Professor Nicholas Zair has been awarded a 3 year Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship from 2026-2029 for his project Understanding Oscan. The Fellowship will allow Nick to spend the next three years working on Oscan, which was spoken widely across Southern Italy between the fifth...

Assistant Professorships in Classics (Greek Literature)

16 December 2025

The Faculty is seeking to appoint two Assistant Professorships in Classics (Greek Literature) from 01 September 2026 (or as soon as possible thereafter). Informal enquiries may be directed to Prof. Timothy Whitmarsh, Regius Professor of Greek . Closing date 19 January 2026. Further details are availble here

Dr Ben Gray, Assistant Professor in Classics (Ancient History)

20 October 2025

The Faculty is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Ben Gray ( Birkbeck, University of London) as Assistant Professor in Classics (Ancient History) from 1st January 2026.

“Decoding the Desert” and “Middleton’s Architectural Odysseys” now on CUDL

29 September 2025

Two collections from the Faculty Archives, the photographs of archaeologists Richard Norton and Richard Goodchild in Libya, and notebooks of Victorian architect J. H. Middleton, have been digitised and are available to view on the Cambridge University Digital Library. A gift from the family of Professor Joyce Reynolds -...