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Faculty of Classics

 

The Student-Staff Joint Committee meets termly to discuss issues relating to undergraduate and graduate activities. Students are represented on the committee by elected members from the student body. Each student member sits on the committee for one year. Elections to the posts of Undergraduate and Postgraduate Representative take place in Michaelmas Term.

 

Committee Membership 2026

Assistant Registrary & Faculty Administrator:

Nigel Thompson

nmt24@cam.ac.uk

Secretary:

 

 

Dir.of Postgrad Studies:

Christopher Whitton

clw36@cam.ac.uk

Dir.of Undergrad Studies:

Myrto Hatzimichali

mh303@cam.ac.uk

Deputy Librarian:

Stephen Howe

sh345@cam.ac.uk

Postdoc rep, Chair:

Connor Wood

cpw50@cam.ac.uk

PG student rep:

Leo Aschenbrenner Boonstra

lhca2@cam.ac.uk

UG student rep:

Alice Binnington

amb307@cam.ac.uk

UG student rep:

Scarlett McDonald

sm3029@cam.ac.uk

 

Items for Meetings

If you have an item that you would like discussed at the next SSJC meeting, contact your student representative and they will forward it to the Secretary of the Committee for inclusion on the agenda. Please ensure that any items reach the Secretary at least one week before the meeting.

Latest news

Cambridge Classicists on Nolan's Odyssey

17 July 2026

Today marks the highly anticipated theatrical release of Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster adaptation of The Odyssey . Starring Matt Damon as Odysseus, the film is generating lots of discussion across the global classics community. As people everywhere head to cinemas, academics from the Faculty are already exploring how...

Script Keepers Network Wins Cultural Collaboration Award

28 July 2026

The Script Keepers Network —co-led by Pippa Steele (Faculty of Classics and the VIEWS Project ) and Tim Brookes ( Endangered Alphabets Project )—has been awarded the prestigious NCACE Emerging Academic Cultural Collaboration Award by the National Centre for Academic and Cultural Exchange . The award recognises outstanding...

New Fellows welcomed to the British Academy

17 July 2026

The Faculty notes with pleasure that Professor James Warren has been elected to the British Academy’s Fellowship , joining an eminent community of scholars who share a commitment to advancing the humanities and social sciences. Current British Academy Fellows in the Faculty include Professors Emily Gowers, Stephen Oakley...

Prix des Libraires Payot 2026

23 June 2026

The Faculty is delighted to report that Prof. Josephine Quinn was awarded the Prix des Libraires Payot 2026 on June 18 for her book, Et le monde créa L'Occident (or, How the World Made the West).