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In late March, postgraduate researchers from the Cambridge Faculty of Classics travelled to Yale University for the second Yale-Cambridge Roman Empire Workshop. Held over three days in New Haven, Connecticut, the international conference brought together early-career scholars and senior faculty from archaeology, classics, art history, history, and …

Unfortunately, this year's J.H. Gray Lectures have been cancelled due to speaker ill-health. We are sorry for the short notice and for any inconvenience caused. 

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Dr Daniel Sutton has won a Phyle Project Award, for scholars working on how democracy has been preserved, restored, or recovered across time. For more information please see the Phyle Project website.

The Faculty is delighted to announce the award of a BA Mid-Career Fellowship to Ben Gray from September 2026 on 'Rejecting and Reinventing Citizenship: The Polis and its Critics between the Hellenistic and Modern Worlds'.

The Faculty is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Roko Rumora (Assistant Curator of Ancient Art, Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH) as Senior Curator, Mediterranean Antiquities at the Fitzwilliam Museum, from 13th April 2026, in a linked appointment with the Faculty.

The Faculty of Classics is seeking to appoint a temporary Teaching Associate in in Latin literature from 1 October 2026 (or as soon as possible thereafter) for  twelve months. Applications are invited from those with a primary research interest in Classical Latin literature. Closing date: 5 May 2026For more information on the role and on how to app…

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Dr Chiara Meccariello (University of Exeter) and Dr Oliver Thomas (University of Nottingham) have been appointed to Assistant Professorships in Classics (Greek Literature) from 2026/27. 

The Faculty is delighted to announce that Professor Christopher Whitton has accepted election to the Kennedy Professorship of Latin from 1 October 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 and first centuries BC – for…

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. 

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 - Drs Greg and Dagmar Reynolds …

The Faculty has been ranked first in the UK for Classics and Ancient History in the Guardian University Guide 2026.This reflects our longstanding commitment to academic excellence, rigorous teaching, and student support. The Guardian rankings are based on a range of indicators, including student satisfaction, teaching quality, and career outcomes.C…

A study published today in the journal 'Antiquity' from the Universities of Cambridge and Nottingham has overturned long-held assumptions about Britain’s post-Roman economy. Contrary to the popular belief that industrial activity collapsed after the Romans left around 400 AD, researchers have uncovered compelling evidence of sustained—and even boom…

We are very sad to pass on the news of the death of Barrie Fleet, aged 87, a long-standing and much-valued colleague and sometime Director of Studies in Classics at Corpus. He was a distinguished scholar of the late-antique Neo-Platonist philosopher, Plotinus, publishing translations and commentaries on Ennead III.6 and IV.8.

The Faculty invites potential applicants to the Leverhulme Early Career Fellowship scheme (internal review deadline 31/10/25), with a particular interest in hosting researchers working within areas relevant to our research clusters: Greek and Latin LiteratureGreek and Roman Philosophy Ancient HistoryClassical Art and ArchaeologyClassical and Compar…