Est. community of teachers, scholars & students of antiquity
The Classical Association of the Middle West and South brings together college and university faculty, secondary-school teachers, and students who share a devotion to the languages, literatures, and civilizations of Greece and Rome.
Announcements
The 123rd Annual Meeting convenes in Cleveland, OH, at the invitation of Case Western Reserve University. The Call for Papers is now available.
A call for input is open on reimagining the CAMWS Southern Section.
Announcing the American Journal of Classical Reception — for more information, see ajcr.online.
New publication
CAMWS announces the launch of the American Journal of Classical Reception — a new home for scholarship on how the classical tradition is read, used, and remade from antiquity to the present.
Learn more at ajcr.onlineCall for volunteers
Founded in 2012 on the model of NPR’s StoryCorps, CAMWSCorps interviews longtime members about their experiences at meetings and the value CAMWS brought to their professional careers. Under the guidance of the History Committee, these conversations have become an oral history of the association — a unique living legacy for future historians of the field.
Our immediate need is for volunteers willing to edit interviews that have been transcribed electronically at roughly 90% accuracy. (The program struggles with “CAMWS”: one finds “cameras,” “campus,” and even “Kanye West.”) Each file runs five to seven printed pages and takes a little over an hour to edit.
To volunteer, please email CAMWS Historian Ward Briggs at wbriggs7@bellsouth.net — many thanks from the CAMWS History Committee.
Featured CAMWS member
Nobody knew how a nearly 2,000-year-old grave marker landed in a backyard for decades — until this week. Susann Lusnia quickly identified and authenticated the tablet after Dr. Santoro emailed her a picture of it. When she first saw the picture, she said, “it was like a shiver up my spine.”
“It was clear to me that it was an ancient Roman inscription. I was going to be surprised if it turned out not to be, but I was also surprised that it was a Roman inscription because it’s in New Orleans and somebody’s backyard.” — Professor Susann Lusnia, in The New York Times
Read the full story in The New York Times, or browse other featured CAMWS members.
Publications
A mix of academic articles and notes on Graeco-Roman antiquity — literary, historical, and cultural — alongside paedagogical pieces on teaching Latin and Greek in modern high schools, colleges, and universities, plus book reviews and a list of books received.
Visit the CJ site →
The peer-reviewed, online journal dedicated to exploring how we teach — and how we learn — Greek and Latin. TCL is sponsored by the Classical Association of the Middle West and South.
Visit the TCL site →Membership
Membership in CAMWS includes access to the digital Loeb Classical Library — on your desktop or mobile device — along with a full slate of member benefits.
Our commitment
The Classical Association of the Middle West and South decries all forms of hate, discrimination, racism, bigotry, and xenophobia. We affirm that all people deserve to be treated with equal compassion, dignity, and respect.
Diversity is a resource that strengthens and benefits our entire community — be it diversity of ability, age, ethnicity, gender identity, nationality, political thought, race, religion, sexuality, socioeconomic status, veteran status, or culture. We unequivocally stand with our colleagues, students, families, and friends to support and celebrate all ways to be human.
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