Society for Classical Studies

The Society for Classical Studies ( SCS ) is a non-profit association founded in 1869 for North American researchers in the field of Roman and ancient Greek culture, history. Until 2013 it was known as the American Philological Association ( APA ); In 2014 it was renamed the Society for Classical Studies.

While the association originally carried out research projects on various languages, over time it specialized in Latin and ancient Greek, as the most diverse philological associations of modern languages ​​emerged over time. The association's journal, the Transactions of the American Philological Association (TAPA, also TAPhA according to some scientific formulas), is a leading international series of publications in classical philology .

The association holds its annual meetings in January with the Archaeological Institute of America . It is based at the University of Pennsylvania .

List of presidents

The following list is based on the list of Past Presidents of the Society for Classical Studies . The board of directors is elected annually at the general assembly, which originally took place in July (until 1903). In 1904 the meeting took place in September, from 1905 to 1999 towards the end of December (1964 on August 29), since 2001 in January.

year Surname University or institution 1869/1870 William Dwight Whitney Yale University 1870/1871 Howard Crosby New York University 1871/1872 William Watson Goodwin Harvard University 1872/1873 Asahel C. Kendrick University of Rochester 1873/1874 Francis Andrew March Lafayette College 1874/1875 James Hammond Trumbull no 1875/1876 Albert Harkness Brown University 1876/1877 Samuel Stehman Haldeman University of Pennsylvania 1877/1878 Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve Johns Hopkins University 1878/1879 Jotham Bradbury Sewall Thayer Academy 1879/1880 Crawford Howell Toy no 1880/1881 Lewis R. Packard Yale University 1881/1882 Frederic De Forest Allen Harvard University 1882/1883 Milton W. Humphreys Vanderbilt University 1883/1884 Martin Luther D'Ooge University of Michigan 1884/1885 William Watson Goodwin Harvard University 1885/1886 Tracy Peck Yale University 1886/1887 Augustus C. Merriam Columbia University 1887/1888 Isaac Hollister Hall Metropolitan Museum of Art 1888/1889 Thomas Day Seymour Yale University 1889/1890 Charles Rockwell Lanman Harvard University 1890/1891 Julius Sachs Sachs Collegiate Institute 1891/1892 Samuel Hart Trinity College (Connecticut) 1892/1893 William Gardner Hale University of Chicago 1893/1894 James Mercer Garnett University of Virginia 1894/1895 John Henry Wright Harvard University 1895/1896 Francis Andrew March Lafayette College 1896/1897 Bernadotte Perrin Yale University 1897/1898 Minton Warren Johns Hopkins University 1898/1899 Clement Lawrence Smith Harvard University 1899/1900 Abby Leach Vassar College 1900/1901 Samuel Ball Platner Western Reserve University 1901/1902 Andrew Fleming West Princeton University 1902/1903 Charles Forster Smith University of Wisconsin 1903/1904 George Hempl University of Michigan 1904/1905 Herbert Weir Smyth Harvard University 1906 Elmer Truesdell Merrill Trinity College (Connecticut) 1907 Francis W. Kelsey University of Michigan 1908 Charles Edwin Bennett Cornell University 1909 Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve Johns Hopkins University 1910 Paul Shorey University of Chicago 1911 John Carew Rolfe University of Pennsylvania 1912 Thomas Dwight Goodell Yale University 1913 Harold North Fowler Western Reserve University 1914 Edward Capps Princeton University 1915 Edward Parmelee Morris Yale University 1916 Carl Darling Buck University of Chicago 1917 Frank Gardner Moore Columbia University 1918 Frank Frost Abbott Princeton University 1919 John A. Scott Northwestern University 1920 Clifford Herschel Moore Harvard University 1921 Walton Brooks McDaniel University of Pennsylvania 1922 Francis Greenleaf Allinson Brown University 1923 Edward Kennard Rand Harvard University 1924 Samuel Eliot Bassett University of Vermont 1925 Gordon Jennings Laing University of Chicago 1926 Henry Rushton Fairclough Stanford University 1927 Frank Cole Babbitt Trinity College (Connecticut) 1928 Clarence Powers Bill Western Reserve University 1929 Tenney Frank Johns Hopkins University 1930 Charles Burton Gulick Harvard University 1931 Henry W. Prescott University of Chicago 1932 Ivan M. Linforth University of California, Berkeley 1933 Campbell Bonner University of Michigan 1934 Elizabeth Hazelton Haight Vassar College 1935 Berthold Louis Ullman University of Chicago 1936 George Lincoln Hendrickson Harvard University 1937 Henry Arthur Sanders University of Michigan 1938 William Abbott Oldfather University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1939 Austin Morris Harmon Yale University 1940 Arthur Stanley Pease Harvard University 1941 George Miller Calhoun University of California, Berkeley 1942 Lily Ross Taylor Bryn Mawr College 1943 Marbury Bladen Ogle University of Minnesota 1944 John Garrett Winter University of Michigan 1945 George Depue Hadzsits Johns Hopkins University 1946 Levi Arnold Post Haverford College 1947 Norman Wentworth DeWitt Washington University in St. Louis 1948 Cornelia Catlin Coulter Mount Holyoke College 1949 William Hardy Alexander University of California, Berkeley 1950 Lucius Rogers Shero Swarthmore College 1951 William Chase Greene Harvard University 1952 Jakob Larsen University of Chicago 1953 Benjamin Dean Meritt Institute for Advanced Study 1954 Robert Broughton Bryn Mawr College 1955 Harry Caplan Cornell University 1956 George Eckel Duckworth Princeton University 1957 Charles Bradford Welles Yale University 1958 Gertrude Smith University of Chicago 1959 Robert J. Getty University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1960 Louis Alexander MacKay University of California, Berkeley 1961 Robert Samuel Rogers Duke University 1962 Inez Scott Ryberg Vassar College 1963 Howard Comfort Haverford College 1964 Gerald Else University of Michigan 1965 Dorothy Mae Robathan Wellesley College 1966 John Lewis Heller University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 1967 Phillip DeLacy University of Pennsylvania 1968 Frederick M. Combellack University of Oregon 1969 Herbert Bloch Harvard University 1970 Malcolm Francis McGregor University of British Columbia 1971 Edward Togo Salmon Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies 1972 Agnes Kirsopp Lake Michels Bryn Mawr College 1973 William H. Willis Duke University 1974 Harry Louis Levy City University of New York 1975 James Henry Oliver Johns Hopkins University 1976 Helen F. North Swarthmore College 1977 William Scovil Anderson University of California, Berkeley 1978 Frank O. Copley University of Michigan 1979 George A. Kennedy University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 1980 Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox Center for Hellenic Studies 1981 Michael H. Jameson Stanford University 1982 Michael Putnam Brown University 1983 Zeph Stewart Harvard University 1984 Gordon M. Kirkwood Cornell University 1985 Helen Bacon Barnard College 1986 George P. Goold Yale University 1987 Martin Ostwald Swarthmore College 1988 W. Robert Connor Princeton University 1989 Thomas G. Rosenmeyer University of California, Berkeley 1990 John Peradotto University at Buffalo 1991 Gregory Nagy Harvard University 1992 Erich S. Gruen University of California, Berkeley 1993 Ludwig Koenen University of Michigan 1994 Charles Segal Harvard University 1995 Emily Vermeule Harvard University 1996 Robert A. Kaster University of Chicago 1997 Susan Treggiari Stanford University 1998 Helene P. Foley Barnard College 1999 David Konstan Brown University 2000 Julia Haig Gaisser Bryn Mawr College 2001 Kenneth J. Reckford University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2002 Michael Gagarin University of Texas at Austin 2003 James J. O'Donnell Georgetown University 2004 Elaine Fantham Princeton University 2005 Eleanor Winsor Leach Indiana University Bloomington 2006 Jenny Strauss Clay University of Virginia 2007 Ruth Scodel University of Michigan 2008 Kurt Raaflaub Brown University 2009 Josiah Ober Stanford University 2010 Dee L. Clayman City University of New York 2011 Kathleen M. Coleman Harvard University 2012 Jeffrey Henderson Boston University 2013 Denis Feeney Princeton University 2014 Kathryn Gutzwiller University of Cincinnati 2015 John Marincola Florida State University 2016 Roger S. Bagnall Columbia University 2017 S. Georgia Nugent College of Wooster 2018 Joseph Farrell University of Pennsylvania 2019 Mary T. Boatwright Duke University 2020 Sheila Murnaghan University of Pennsylvania 2021 Shelley Haley Hamilton College (New York)

Web links

• SCS website (English)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Adam Blistein: Update on Change of Association's Name. In: APA Blog. November 18, 2013, accessed November 28, 2014 . 
2. ^ Past Presidents at classicalstudies.org