CLASSCIAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA

AWARD OF MERIT 2022

The Professional Awards Committee on behalf of the Classical Association of Canada is pleased to confirm Professor Michele George as the recipient of the Award of Merit of the Classical Association of Canada for the year 2022. This award recognizes Professor George’s stellar service to the discipline and the Association, her many research accomplishments, as well as her mentorship.

Professor George graduated from the University of Toronto with a BA in Classics in 1983, before earning both her MA in 1986 and PhD in 1993 from McMaster University. She taught from 1991-1993 at the University of Victoria before returning to McMaster, first as a SSHRC post-doctoral fellow in 1993-94, and from 1994 as an Assistant Professor. She has been at McMaster ever since, obtaining the rank of Full Professor in 2015.

Professor George’s contribution to scholarship is centered on different aspects of Roman domestic life through material culture, an area of the discipline in which she has published seminal works and in which she continues to be very active. Her publications in this field include a book on Roman domestic architecture and edited volumes on Roman slavery and the Roman family, as well as numerous articles and book chapters on various aspects of these areas. She has written extensively on the intersection of these two fields of Roman culture, focusing on archaeological evidence related to the family, slavery, Pompeii and domestic architecture in Italy and the provinces. Professor George also has interests in health in the ancient world, in particular in the skeletal and burial evidence of Vitamin D levels in relation to gender and social status, a SSHRC-funded project on which she collaborated with colleagues in the Department of Anthropology at McMaster University. The study of material culture as a point of access to social status continues to fascinate Professor George and to keep her engaged in research on the cutting edge of the discipline. Only in 2020 she was awarded a SSHRC Insight Grant in support of a project concerning the Roman perception of the female life-cycle, in the transitional period between childhood and adulthood, as evidenced in burial practices and funerary commemorations.

As a teacher, Professor George has helped to establish a strong undergraduate and graduate curriculum in material culture at McMaster and has supervised many MA and PhD students. Her former students express gratitude for her mentorship and acknowledge her continued influence on their careers. They speak to her empathy and tailored approach to supervision as well as her straightforward and pragmatic advice.  She has indeed been an inspiring teacher and mentor to many, always generous with her time and always showing genuine interest in their work. Throughout her career at McMaster, she has unfailingly made students feel welcome in the department and never treated anybody as less than an intellectual peer. Former students continue to benefit from Professor George’s empathetic understanding of the challenges involved in pursuing a career, in Academia and beyond.

Professor George’s contribution to the profession and to the Canadian Classics community has been both extensive and profound. Within the CAC she has always been a very active member and has held positions of considerable significance, serving on the Council as a member of the Scholarship Committee (2002-2004), the Executive Council (2002-2004; 2012-2017), and the Nominating Committee (2017-2023). She has served on the board of Phoenix almost without pause since 1996, as Associate Editor – Archaeology (1996-2007; 2017-present), Book Review Editor (2007-2011), and as Editor (2012-2017). She also served as primary editor of Phoenix’s book series for a number of years.  Moreover, she has collaborated with Canadian and international colleagues through conferences she has organized and volumes she has edited. She has been a much sought-after external referee. The many books and articles she has refereed for Canadian and international publications are a testament to her research expertise; her extensive participation in grant reviews, department reviews, and tenure and promotion cases speak to her overall professionalism and the respect she has earned from the community of scholars.

Throughout her career Professor George has set a high standard for research, collegiality, and service to the Association. Her commitment to Classics at McMaster and throughout Canada make her a most deserving recipient of the Award of Merit.

CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA

AWARD OF MERIT 2021

The Professional Awards Committee on behalf of the Classical Association of Canada is pleased to confirm Professor Richard Burgess as the recipient of the Award of Merit of the Classical Association of Canada for the year 2021. This award recognizes Professor Burgess’s rich contributions to the discipline in Canada and beyond.

For more than thirty years Professor Burgess has been a pillar of the Department of Classics (now of Classics and Religious Studies) at the University of Ottawa. Having completed his undergraduate studies at Trinity College and the University of Toronto, where Tim Barnes proved a life-long source of support and influence, he headed to Oxford in 1984 for his doctorate, where his thesis on the fifth-century chronicler Hydatius was supervised by John Matthews. Thus began an enduring passion for Greek and Latin chronicles, a field of study in which he is now the recognised world expert, and he continues to publish voluminously, notably in his Mosaics of Time. The Latin Chronicle Traditions from the First Century BC to the Sixth Century AD, vol. I: A Historical Introduction to the Chronicle Genre from its Origins to the High Middle Ages (Turnhout, 2013), with Michael Kulikowski.

Yet chronicles are but one strand of his research. Professor Burgess is also a keen numismatist and regularly gives courses on Roman coins; he is now involved in a long-term project with George Bevan at Queen’s University and other Canadian academics that involves advanced techniques to track the gold in late Roman solidi. He has also produced a website that analyses the gold coinage of the late Roman emperor Anthemius. He has written extensively on the historiography of the fourth and fifth centuries, as well as on various aspects of Late Roman and early Byzantine history, including the emperor Constantine. If the crux of a late Roman problem involves chronology, consuls, or coinage, he’s interested in it.

In the classroom, Professor Burgess is prized as an entertaining and erudite lecturer, bringing Roman civilization to life for generations of undergraduates through his passion for the subject and his remarkable collection of swords, displayed in class to full effect. It is no surprise that his courses, now that they have gone on-line, have proved such a hit not only within the university but well beyond it. But he is equally passionate about leading just a handful of students through the intricacies of Greek grammar.

Professor Burgess has also been a faithful supporter of the Ontario Classical Association over the years, keenly participating in their events, including the Ontario High School Student Classics Conference held annually at Brock University. At the national level, he is also known for his willingness to volunteer time serving on important committees, including the PhD Dissertation Prize, of the Classical Association of Canada.

A careful scholar, Professor Burgess patiently and painstakingly pursues his research, poring through the photographs of manuscripts now provided so abundantly on the web and publishing the results in his typically lucid and forthright style. He is a popular public speaker, having given invited lectures at major conferences throughout the US, the UK, Europe, and in Sweden. In 2012 he was honoured for his achievements, being elected Fellow to the Royal Society of Canada.

The Classical Association of Canada takes immense pleasure in recognizing Professor Burgess’s outstanding contributions to research, pedagogy, and service in the discipline with the Award of Merit.

CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA

AWARD OF MERIT, 2019

The Award of Merit Committee on behalf of the Classical Association of Canada is pleased to confirm Professor Bonnie MacLachlan as the recipient of the Award of Merit of the Classical Association of Canada for the year 2019.

Over the course of her career, which is still in progress, Bonnie MacLachlan has taken on the role of mystagogue for students and colleagues, guiding us through the often confusing mazes of academic life, mentoring, encouraging, and leading by example. She exemplifies all that is good about our profession and discipline. Bonnie has made important contributions to the fields of ancient Greek poetry and religion, comic theater in the Greek West, and gender studies. These include seven books, numerous articles, chapters, reviews, and many conference presentations, and keynote addresses.

Bonnie earned her BA at Carleton, her MA at the University of Ottawa, and her PhD in 1987 at the University of Toronto, with a dissertation on “Charis in Early Greek Poetry,” which she revised as a book, published with Princeton in 1993 as The Age of Grace. Charis in Early Greek Poetry. Widely cited, it remains the most authoritative treatment of that transformative power animating ancient Greek social relationships, as depicted in poets from Homer to Pindar and Aeschylus. In 1989, Bonnie accepted a position in the department of Classical Studies at the University of Western Ontario, earning tenure in 1993. She was the first woman in a tenure track position in that department of nine, blazing a trail for what is currently one of the most diverse and equitable Classical Studies departments in Canada. Bonnie taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Greek and Classical Studies, directed graduate students or served as an external examiner as far away as Australia. She retired in 2012, but is still an active researcher, Professor Emerita and Adjunct Research Professor at Western, currently collaborating on a multi-disciplinary research project on Lydian coins.

Bonnie is well known for her work on Greek lyric poetry. In addition to her book, there are articles and chapters on Sappho, Anacreon and Pindar. She recently collected and edited the various papers of Emmett Robbins, in Thalia Delighting in Song. Essays on Ancient Greek Poetry (Toronto 2013). This labor of love and friendship epitomizes what is so fine and noble about Bonnie. As she has often done, Bonnie is happy to step behind the curtains, as it were, to spotlight the work of others and give the scholarly community access to important scholarship.

This is not to say that Bonnie’s work goes unnoticed. She has an international reputation in the area of Greek religion, including important articles on “Sacred Prostitution and Aphrodite,” another on the “Ungendering of Aphrodite,” which explores the ancient intersexed deities of Cyprus. Her work on women in Greek religion includes articles and chapters on a woman’s curse, as well as publications on chthonic rituals associated with girls’ coming of age, and an interest in the Sicilian comic theater and its associated chthonic elements. She has been invited to give lectures on katabasis and women’s cults in North America and Europe, and was recently asked to present a key-note address at a Swiss conference on non-elite couples. In October she will be presenting a paper on Pindar and the nymphs at a conference in Syracuse, Sicily.

Bonnie’s interest in women and gender led to a SSHRC grant in 1998 for a memorable conference on “Virginity Revisited,” which drew together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars whose collective interest in the social construction of virginity in antiquity, the medieval and the early modern periods, resulted in an co-edited volume: Virginity Revisited: Configurations of the Un-possessed Body (Toronto 2007). And she has produced a two-volume sourcebook of lucidly translated passages of Greek and Latin authors that include literary, rhetorical, philosophical and legal sources, as well as papyri and inscriptions.

Bonnie is also an accomplished musician (piano), who collaborated with a composer to write a children’s opera “Ariadne’s Thread,” (2005) which was funded ($10,000) by TD Arts Sponsorship, and performed at the Waldorf School in London, Ontario. Her musical interests are also represented in her co-edited volume (to which she contributed) Harmonia Mundi. Music and Philosophy in the Ancient World (Rome 1991).

In the area of professional service Bonnie’s contributions, both to her home institution and the CAC, are inspirational. She has served as Associate Dean of Arts and Graduate Chair of Classical Studies at Western, and as Vice President, President, and Past President of the CAC. She has also served on the editorial board of Phoenix, as well as the CAC council, and other committees. Her expertise is much in demand as a referee for journals that include Phoenix.

In addition her commitment to the status of women both in the academy and beyond have been outstanding. In 2007 she obtained an $80,000.00 grant to produce a documentary on the climate of sexual violence and intimidation on Canadian campuses, helping to bring to light the barriers that stand in the way of women’s full potential. In 2009 she also published the writings of one of her students from Iran who was abused by her father and who ultimately committed suicide: Seda’s Story: A Memoir gives voice to that young woman. Bonnie is currently on the board of directors of the Muslim Resource Centre in London Ontario where she works with immigrant and refugee women, and she is learning Arabic in order to communicate with them.

Finally, Bonnie is an exemplary mentor and supporter of colleagues, men and women alike. Her friends, colleagues, and students have gained immeasurable support and guidance from her rare combination of wisdom, vast knowledge, acute intelligence, gentle patience, humility, generosity, sense of humor, and strength. She is fully deserving of the Classical Association of Canada’s Award of Merit.

CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA

AWARD OF MERIT, 2017

The Award of Merit Committee on behalf of the Classical Association of Canada is pleased to confirm Professor Ian Storey as the recipient of the Award of Merit of the Classical Association of Canada for the year 2017. This distinction recognizes Professor Storey’s outstanding contributions to Classical Studies in Canada as an internationally renowned scholar and dedicated teacher, his unflagging support as friend and mentor to generations of students and colleagues, and his committed service to the profession.

Professor Storey was born in Toronto, where he stayed to complete his Honors BA in Classics at the University of Toronto in 1968, followed by an MA in Classical Studies at the same institution in 1969. From there he proceeded to Oxford, Lincoln College, to earn an MPhil in 1971 in Greek & Latin Language & Literature with a thesis on Aristophanic Prosopography. Returning to the University of Toronto he earned his doctorate in Classical Studies with a dissertation on “Komoidoumenoi and komoidein in Old Comedy.” A komoidoumenos is the target of mockery in Old Comedy, and Professor Storey continues to compile a catalogue of these individuals, painstakingly determining their identifications and offering explanations of the jokes and puns associated with them. And as his friends know, Ian is both a student and practitioner of the art of the pun. Debating for example on a point in Aristophanes’ Birds he observed, “that we might not always agree, but it’s simply a difference of a pinion.”

While completing his doctorate Ian began to teach at Trent University in 1974, working his way up the academic cursus to achieve the rank of full professor in 1989 until his retirement in 2012, when he became Professor Emeritus. He has also served as an adjunct professor in the School of Graduate Studies at Queens University where he has supervised MA theses in Classics. His dedication to his students’ success is perhaps most in evidence by the fact that he has co-published with two of them. Indeed, many of his students have gone on to academic careers. As Professor Kevin Whetter, a member of the department of English at Acadia University, puts it, “Ian is one of the best teachers I ever had. His pedagogic and scholarly mentorship and inspiration are partly responsible for my decision to enter graduate studies in the first place.”

Ian has made a special contribution to the pedagogy of Greek drama by nurturing the Classics drama group, a.k.a. the Conacher players, a troupe of student actors from Trent, who produce a different Greek play every year, which they take on the road. He maintains a website dedicated to the group and has presented papers on its dynamics at the American Philological Association and elsewhere.

Professor Storey’s publications fall into four categories: i) Greek and Roman drama, particularly Old Comedy and Euripides; (ii) Athenian prosopography; (iii) Lucian and the Greek tradition of comic fiction; (iv) the Classical Tradition, notably the work of C.S. Lewis. It is his work in Greek Old Comedy, however, for which Ian is best known. He is the leading authority on the Greek comic dramatist, Eupolis, whose fragmentary work he elucidates in a distinguished volume, Eupolis: Poet of Old Comedy published by Oxford UP (2003). Eupolis was a greatly admired poet in antiquity, but little known in the present day, because of the fragmentary condition of his surviving work. Thanks to Ian Storey’s meticulous analysis of these texts, Eupolis is now accessible to a wide audience. Subsequently Ian was commissioned to anthologize, edit and translate a three volume Loeb edition of the fragments of fifty-eight Greek comic poets, again bringing to light material that would have otherwise languished in obscurity. As his colleague Hugh Elton, Dean of Humanities at Trent, remarks: “These are the very tools of scholarship and they are going to be a part of the scholarship of Greek comedy probably into the 22nd century.”

In addition to these outstanding contributions, Ian has produced four invaluable bibliographies on Greek comedy, two other monographs on ancient Greek drama, over forty articles and book chapters, and over fifty reviews and short essays. He continues to be an active researcher and has books in progress on Aristophanes Peace, and C.S. Lewis.

Ian Storey’s honors and awards include the prestigious T.B.L. Webster Fellowship, at the Institute for Classical Studies at the University of London in 2008. His lecture for that fellowship dealt with a play by the little-known comic poet Archippos, Fishes. When asked why he chose the topic, he responded, “Oh, just for the halibut.”

In 2009 he was the Oliver Smithies Lecturer & Visiting Fellow at Balliol College, Oxford. In 2014 he was presented with the Distinguished Research Award from Trent University, an accolade presented annually to one member of Trent’s faculty “in recognition of outstanding achievement in research and scholarship.” He has also held numerous visiting or honorary professorships in such far-flung locations as the University of Canterbury, New Zealand (in 1990/91), the University of Tasmania (in 1995), and Exeter University (2000), but also closer to home at Acadia University and Dalhousie University (2003).

The third strand of the triple helix of academic activity is service, and here again Ian’s contributions are admirable. He has been active as an Associate Editor for Phoenix, has been a member of the CAC Council twice, and has made many other contributions to the Association and profession. Ian has also served as Chair of his department and principal of Otonabee College at Trent.

In recognition of his contributions to the study of Old Comedy, Ian has been honored with a volume entitled, No Laughing Matter: Studies in Athenian Comedy (2014, Bloomsbury), edited by Toph Marshall and George Kovacs, who describe their honorand as a “hero of Old Comedy.” The volume includes contributions by some of the leading scholars in Greek comedy, as well as former students and grateful colleagues, most of whom draw on the important research tools that Professor Storey has produced.

It therefore is our honor to confer upon Ian Storey the well-deserved Classical Association of Canada Award of Merit for 2017.

CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA

AWARD OF MERIT, 2016

The Award of Merit Committee is pleased to confirm that Professor Alison M. Keith (University of Toronto) is the recipient of the Award of Merit of the Classical Association of Canada for the year 2016. This award recognizes Professor Keith’s exemplary services to Classical Studies in Canada and beyond as an internationally-renowned scholar in literature and gender in the Roman world, as a dedicator teacher and mentor, and as a tireless administrator at the local, regional and national level. Not least she has served our Association with real distinction over many years in a rich variety of roles.

Alison Keith received her B.A. in Classics from the University of Alberta and then completed her graduate work in Classical Studies at the University of Michigan, gaining her M.A. in 1984 and her Ph.D. in 1988. She immediately gained a tenure-track position in the Classics Department at the University of Toronto, where she has been a Full Professor since 2003. In addition to her main appointment in Classics, she is cross-appointed to the Centre for Medieval Studies and the Centre for Comparative Literature as well as the Institute for Women and Gender Studies.

Professor Keith’s is an internationally renowned scholar, with a series of extensive publications (with still more in preparation). In particular, these explore the intersection of gender and genre in Latin literature. She has published three major monographs, which are all essential reading in their field: The Play of Fictions: Studies in Ovid’s Metamorphoses Book 2 (University of Michigan Press, 1992), Engendering Rome: Women in Latin Epic (Cambridge University Press, 2000), and Propertius, Poet of Love and Leisure (Duckworth, 2008). In addition, she has published a very useful teaching edition, with commentary, on selections from Latin Epic for Bolchazy-Carducci (2012) and has edited (or co-edited) a number of path-breaking volumes of essays: Metamorphosis: the Changing Face of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in Medieval and Early Modern Europe (with Stephen Rupp, 2007); Latin Elegy and Hellenistic Epigram (2011); Women and War in Antiquity (with Jacqueline Fabre-Serris, 2015); Roman Dress and the Fabric of Roman Society and Roman Literary Cultures (both with Jonathan Edmondson, 2008 and 2016). In addition, in 2014 she edited a special issue of Mouseion (vol. 11.3) in memory of the 2012 CAC Award of Merit Winner, John W. Geyssen.

Professor Keith’s high standing in our profession is well illustrated by the frequent invitations she receives to speak at conferences or give special keynote lectures in Canada, the U.S. and Europe, and it was officially recognized by her selection as a research fellow of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung in 1999 and even more by her election as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2012.

At the same time Professor Keith is a dedicated teacher, regularly teaching a range of courses in Classics and Women’s Studies at the University of Toronto from introductory first-year courses on such topics as classical literature in translation or ancient myth to senior graduate seminars on Roman poetry and gender. In particular, she is a devoted and much admired supervisor and mentor of graduate students. To date, she has supervised seven Ph.D. students, all of whom are teaching in Canadian or U.S. universities. She has also played an important role in community outreach, regularly giving talks in high schools in the Toronto area, serving for several years on the Executive of the Ontario Classical Association, and always willing to speak on television or radio or in pre-concert talks on a variety of classical topics, not least the reception of classical themes in contemporary western culture.

Professor Keith has also played a leadership role in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at the University of Toronto for many years, in particular her highly successful period as Chair of the Department of Classics from 2007 to 2013, but also as Graduate Coordinator and then Acting Director of the Women and Gender Studies Institute (2004-2007), as chair of the Provostial Advisory Committee of the University of Toronto Library System (2010-2014) and as a member of the university’s Advancement Review Panel (since 2007) and the university’s Academic Board (2009-2014). Given her standing in the profession and her wealth of administrative expertise, it comes as no surprise that she is regularly called upon to serve as an external reviewer of Classics’ departments across Canada and in the U.S.

Throughout her career Professor Keith has devoted herself to the promotion of our discipline in Canada and beyond. She has been a regular contributor to the Annual Meetings of our Association, giving papers and organizing a series of cutting-edge panels. For more than a quarter-century she has worked in various capacities on the Editorial Committee of one of our Association’s journals, Phoenix. In an unbroken sequence she has served as Secretary-Treasurer (1989-1993), Associate Editor (1993-1997), Reviews Editor (1997-2002), Editor (2002-2007) and since 2007 Co-Editor of the Phoenix Supplementary Series. In addition, she is the founding Co-Editor of the subseries Phoenix Studies in Gender. Early in her career she served on our Association’s Council and soon after completing her term as Editor of Phoenix, she began a six-year period of devoted service as our Vice-President (2008-10), President (2010-12) and Past President (2012-14), during which time she spearheaded a number of new initiatives that have ensured the vitality of the CAC/SCEC. Over the years she has also served the American Philological Association (now the Society for Classical Studies) in a variety of capacities and she currently sits on the Board of Directors, where she aims to bring a distinctively Canadian perspective to the Society’s ongoing work in support of our profession.

For her path-breaking scholarship, for her stimulating teaching and generous mentorship of many younger scholars, and for her tireless efforts to animate and promote Classics at the University of Toronto, in Ontario, and in Canada and beyond through her devoted administrative and editorial work, the Classical Association of Canada is proud to recognize that Alison M. Keith most richly deserves the Association’s Award of Merit for 2016.

CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA

AWARD OF MERIT, 2015

The Award of Merit Committee is pleased to confirm Giger Professor Emerita R. Elaine
Fantham as the recipient of the Award of Merit of the Classical Association of Canda for the year 2015. This award recognizes Professor Fantham’s remarkable contributions to Classical Studies in Canada as a scholar and teacher, and her generous service as friend and mentor to three generations of students, colleagues, and friends in the profession.

Born in Liverpool U.K., Elaine Fantham received her B.A. (first class in Literae Humaniores) and first graduate degree at Oxford University before returning to her home city as Leverhulme Research Fellow to earn her Ph.D. with a dissertation on Plautus’ comedy Curculio (examined by R.G. Austin and O. Skutsch) in 1965. She taught briefly at St Andrews University, as a fellow of St. Salvator’s College (1965-1966), before moving with her mathematician husband to Indiana University in Bloomington. There she taught in the Department of Classics as a Visiting Lecturer (1966-1968), before moving again, with their Scottish daughter and American son, to Toronto in 1968. She taught at Trinity College in the University of Toronto for eighteen years (Assistant to Associate Professor 1968-1978, Professor 1978-86), and was welcomed right from the start by Mary White, who virtually founded the Association and did so much to establish Phoenix as an internationally renowned journal, as well as by the other members of the Classics contingent of that congenial college, including John Cole, Desmond Conacher, Alexander Dalzell, and George Grube. In 1986 she was appointed Giger Professor of Latin at Princeton University, where she remained until her retirement in 2001.

Elaine has been a longstanding member of the Association, beginning with her arrival in the Department of Classics at the University of Toronto and continuing long after her departure for Princeton in 1986. While in Canada, she served on the editorial committee of Phoenix from 1976 to 1979; gave a series of papers across the country on both the Atlantic and Western lecture tours sponsored by the Association; and served as Vice-President of the Association from 1982-84, during which period she also served as Vice- President and then President of the Canadian Society for the History of Rhetoric (1983-1986). In 1996, she delivered the keynote lecture at the annual meeting of the Association in St. Catharine’s.

In addition to her valuable service to the Canadian academic community, Elaine has been very active across North America: she enjoyed spells as a Visiting Professor of Classics at Ohio State University in Columbus OH (1983) and as Langford Visiting Professor at Florida State University in 2001; and in 1999-2000 she lectured for Phi Beta Kappa across the United States. She has also contributed signal service to the American Philological Association, the largest professional classics association in the world, where she was an outstanding advocate for Canadian scholars and universities. She served as member, then chair, of the Goodwin Award Committee (1997-2000), and then, after her retirement from Princeton and return to Toronto in 2001, as President-Elect (2003) and President (2004) of that Association.

Since retiring from Princeton University in 2001, Professor Fantham has made her primary residence in Toronto, where her grown-up family lives, and she has continued to make significant contributions to the research and teaching mission of the graduate department of Classics at the university in which she established her career. In the early years of the new millennium, she took on supplementary graduate teaching for the Toronto Department in a wide range of M.A. and Ph.D. courses, but in addition, and much more importantly, she has been closely involved from the start of her retirement in mentoring not only senior graduate and undergraduate students, but also friends and colleagues across the country. She has offered us all a model of the very highest standard of professional activity and collegiality. Her commitment to the Department, her colleagues and students – not only nationally and internationally, but also locally and provincially – has been particularly valuable in this period, when she also served as the Honorary President of the Classical Association of Canada from 2001 to 2006. In January 2009, she received the Distinguished Service Award from the American Philological Association in recognition of her superlative service to the profession.

Professor Fantham continued to travel and lecture in the USA, Britain and Italy until quite recently as she is much in demand. She the author of seventeen books (including scholarly monographs, commentaries, editions and translations, and an omnibus of her selected articles) and over a hundred articles and book chapters; co-author of the standard textbook on women in antiquity; and editor or co-editor of another four works, including the seven-volume Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome of which she was an Associate Editor.

Known both for the wide range and for the accessibility of her scholarship, Elaine is the grande dame of Latin studies in the English-speaking world. She appeared regularly on U.S. National Public Radio as a commentator on classical subjects from 1996 onwards, giving a public and very human voice to Classics. Professor Fantham has been a valuable asset not only to her former Department but also to the Classics community of her adoptive country over nearly fifty years, first as a faculty member, then as a former but staunchly supportive colleague, and now again as an active participant in our teaching and research missions. Her standing in the field of Classics and collegial commitment to its promotion make her an invaluable resource for our community and we are therefore enormously proud to confer upon her the Classical Association of Canada Award of Merit for 2015.

CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA

AWARD OF MERIT, 2014

The Award of Merit Committee is pleased to confirm Professor Jonathan Edmondson as the recipient of the Award of Merit of the Classical Association of Canada for the year 2014. This award recognizes Professor Edmondson’s remarkable contributions to Classical Studies in Canada as a scholar and teacher, and his generous service as an administrator.

Jonathan Edmondson received his PhD from Cambridge University in 1985 and, in 1987, took up a position at York University, Toronto where he has been a Full Professor since 2005. He is also appointed to a Full Professorship at the University of Toronto, status only, as of 2011.

Dr. Edmondson is a distinguished researcher with an international reputation. He has received several major grants to support his research on Roman Spain, where his work in Augusta Emerita (Mérida) has recently earned him special recognition with the award of the “Genio Protector de la Colonia Augusta Emerita”, from the Spanish Ministry of Education and Culture / National Museum of Roman Art (Museo Nacional de Arte Romano). Dr. Edmondson is a prolific scholar; he has written, co-authored, or edited nine books, and published thirty-two book chapters and more than a dozen articles. He has also made his mark as a speaker both in Canada and abroad by delivering more than one hundred invited lectures and presentations.

Jonathan Edmondson has occupied several key administrative positions in his career at York University, and at every stage has advanced the study of Classics. He has been co-ordinator of the Programme in Classical Studies from 1995 to 1998 and again from 2001 to 2005, and chair of the Department of History from 2009 to 2013, a position from which he raised the profile of the study of ancient history. Dr Edmondson was instrumental in establishing the Collaborative Programme in Ancient History (ColPAH) between the University of Toronto and York, serving as Chair of the Steering Committee to create the Programme in 2003-4. He has also served as director of the Programme (2008- 2010) and as a member of the Steering Committee (2010-12), in addition to supervising the dissertations of several students in the programme.

Jonathan Edmondson has been a dedicated and generous servant of the Classical Association of Canada. He has contributed substantially to the intellectual life of the Association; he has presented fifteen separate research papers at the annual conference, and has twice been the touring Distinguished Lecturer for the CAC: in 1994 he gave a lecture tour of universities in Western Canada, and in 2003 he lectured throughout Atlantic Canada. He has also been an Associate Editor (1989-1997), and then Editor of the Association’s journal Phoenix (1997-2002), and is currently (2007 to date) co-editor of the Phoenix Supplementary Series. Most notably, Jonathan Edmondson has served successively as Vice-President (2006-2008), President (2008-10), and Past-President (2010-12) of the CAC.

Jonathan Edmondson has also supported Classics at the provincial level, serving on the executive board of the Ontario Classical Association from 1996 to 2003. He went on to take the role of Vice President (2003-2004) and President of the Association (2004-6).

As this long list of his accomplishments clearly indicates, Jonathan Edmondson has worked tirelessly and with great success to promote the study of Classics at the university, provincial and national level. In short, Jonathan’s service to Classical Studies in Canada has been and continues to be exemplary, and he is most deserving of this recognition.

CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA

AWARD OF MERIT, 2013

The Award of Merit Committee is pleased to confirm that Professor Iain McDougall is the recipient of the Award of Merit of the Classical Association of Canada for the year 2013. This award recognizes Professor MacDougall’s notable services to Classical Studies in Canada as a dedicated teacher, mentor to students and faculty alike, as a gifted administrator, as a scholar of Greek History and as a dedicated servant of the Association.

Iain McDougall was born in Glasgow, Scotland; he received his M.A Honours from St. Andrews University in 1964 and his Ph.D. from St. Andrews in 1981. Under the supervision of Sir Kenneth Dover, he completed what by all counts must be the largest dissertation of its kind, which was subsequently published in 1983, A Lexicon of Diodorus Siculus, though perhaps it should be called The Lexicon, in two volumes of 1761 pages. This was no mean feat as it was completed before the dawn of the TLG and other digital tools. It was a mammoth undertaking, the result of almost twenty years of work on the language of the most voluminous of Greek historians. No mere compilation, this lexicon involves analyses and interpretations of Diodoran usage, and still remains an essential aid for the student of Diodorus. Given its length and the time devoted to completing it, this had to be a work of passion, or at least led to some passion, as it was often done in the pleasant summer months, with Iain sailing up and down Lake of the Woods with his lovely wife Val.

Iain began his teaching career in 1966 as a lecturer within the Classics Department at the University of Winnipeg, where he would spend his whole career. In those early years as lecturer, from 1966-1969, Iain also served as Don for the Men’s Residence. Stories could be told, but this is not the place to recount such tales. In 1969, Iain became Assistant Professor and worked his way through the ranks, being promoted to Professor in 1983. In 1976 he became chair of the department and continued in that role for 22 years. During that time, he oversaw the doubling of the department’s faculty, tripling of its enrollment and by the time of his retirement in 2005, it was generally regarded as the best undergraduate department in Canada. Iain was a dedicated teacher, the result of which can be seen in the number of students winning prizes in the Classical Association Sight Translation Competitions over the life of his teaching career. He was also a gifted administrator, not only dexterously guiding the department but also being called upon to serve on countless university committees. For his dedicated service to the University of Winnipeg, he was awarded The Robin H. Farquhar Award for Excellence in Contributing to Self Governance.

Iain’s dedicated service also extended to the Association. He began as Treasurer, in which role he served for seventeen years from 1979 to 1996. Under his steady leadership the Association was placed on a firm financial footing and was in good financial health, when his long tenure ended as Treasurer. Not only did he serve on the Executive in this key role, he also served as Vice-President, President and finally Past-President. Thus, for some twenty-three years, Iain played an active and influential role in the Association. Indeed, he single-handedly organized the annual meeting of the Association for 2000, which was held in Winnipeg. Those of us who attended that year, can’t forget the opening barbeque and reception, which was graciously held at his home. The food was plentiful, the wine flowed freely and the conversation was genuine. This speaks for Iain’s warmth and generosity. Finally we should note that Iain was also a founder of the Classical Association of the Canadian West, which he attended frequently and which still meets today.

For his dedicated teaching and award-winning service to his home university, for his mentorship to students and faculty alike, for his scholarship in Greek History, for his long-standing support of Classics in Canada, and for his long, dedicated service to the Classical Association of Canada, we hereby recognize that Iain McDougall mostly richly deserves the Award of Merit of the Classical Association of Canada for 2013.

CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA

AWARD OF MERIT, 2012

The Award of Merit Committee is pleased to confirm our sadly departed colleague Professor John W. Geyssen as the posthumous recipient of the Award of Merit of the Classical Association of Canada for the year 2012. This award recognizes Professor Geyssen’s notable services to Classical Studies in Canada as an award-winning and innovative teacher, a fondly remembered advisor and mentor to a host of students, a vigorous promoter of the knowledge of the ancient Greek and Roman world, and as a stalwart servant of the Association. He was actively engaged in the promotion of the discipline of Classics and the development of the next generation of scholars when he was suddenly and prematurely taken from us on June 4, 2011.

John Geyssen, born in Oakville (Ontario), took his B.A. and M.A. degrees in Classics at Queen’s University. He then moved to Duke University to complete his Ph.D. in 1992, where he successfully defended his doctoral thesis on Statius and the Traditions of Imperial Panegyric: A Literary Commentary on Silvae 1.1 under Dr Francis Newton. In 1992 he obtained a sessional position in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of New Brunswick in Fredericton, which then led to a tenure-track position in 1998 and the receipt of an IMASCO Young Scholar Award. He was quickly granted tenure and promoted to the rank of Associate Professor in 2000.

Professor Geyssen was a natural and gifted teacher, who brought his passion for Classics into the classroom, across the university campus, and out into the broader community. He was nominated for several teaching awards at the University of New Brunswick, and most deservedly won the Faculty of Arts Teaching Award in 1998 and the UNB Student Union Teaching Excellence Merit Award in 2008.

He was also an academic innovator. During his nineteen-year career at UNB, he introduced eleven new courses and several of these innovative courses (on Greek and Roman art, and on love and sexuality in Greece and Rome) have become mainstays of the Classics Department, attracting Classics majors and non-Classics students from across the university. He was an enthusiastic lecturer and organizer of several UNB Summer Travel Study Programs in Rome and Athens, where he introduced students to the fascinating sites and rich museum collections that revealed so much about the cultures of Greece and Rome that he loved so passionately.

In addition, Professor Geyssen served several generations of students at UNB with his tireless work as undergraduate advisor and, latterly, Chair of the Department of Classics and Ancient History. His door was always open, as he went out of his way to provide undergraduate and graduate students with official and unofficial advice that helped them advance in their careers and overcome any problems they had to confront.

Professor Geyssen’s international scholarly reputation was established by his well respected monograph on Imperial Panegyric in Statius: A Literary Commentary on Silvae 1.1 (New York: Peter Lang, 1996) and by a series of articles on Latin literature and Roman art published in such leading journals as Mnemosyne, Latomus, and Athenaeum. His scholarly standing led to an invitation to serve as an editorial correspondent of Mouseion between 2001 and 2008. He was then invited in 2008 to become the lead co-editor of the journal, carrying full editorial responsibility for two of the three issues each year, and for all administrative and financial matters connected with the journal. The journal flourished under his editorship.

His devoted work for Mouseion was by no means the only service he provided to advance the welfare of Classics in Canada. From the late 1990s he served the Classical Association of Canada tirelessly in a number of important roles. From 1999 to 2008 he was Editor of the Canadian Classical Bulletin/Bulletin canadien des études anciennes (CCB/BCEA). In this capacity he provided an outstanding service to Classics students, Classics departments and programmes across the country, and to all Association members by disseminating important information about Classics in Canada in a timely and efficient fashion. Throughout his time as Editor of the CCB and as Co-Editor of Mouseion he diligently attended all Council meetings of the Association and contributed much wise counsel. In 2003 he played a major role as co-organizer of the first joint-meeting of the Association with the Association of Ancient Historians in Fredericton on the campus of UNB, an experiment that proved highly successfully. He was also a keen supporter of the Atlantic Classical Association, co-organizing three annual conferences in Fredericton in 1998, 2000, and 2001.

For his award-winning and innovative teaching, for the many contributions he made as advisor and mentor of generations of Classics students, for his well regarded scholarship on Latin literature and Roman art, for his long-standing efforts in support of Classical Studies in Canada, and for the stalwart services he provided for the Classical Association of Canada, we hereby recognize that (†) John Geyssen (1962–2011) mostly richly deserves the Award of Merit of the Classical Association of Canada for 2012.

AWARD OF MERIT, 2011

The Award of Merit Committee is pleased to confirm Professor Léopold Migeotte as the recipient of the Award of Merit of the Classical Association of Canada for the year 2011. This award recognizes Professor Migeotte’s notable services to Classical Studies in Canada as scholar, advisor, and teacher.

After studying classical philology at Namur and Louvain in Belgium (the country of his birth), Léopold Migeotte came to settle in Québec in 1964, where he initially taught ancient languages at the high-school level. He became a professor of Ancient History at Laval University in Quebec in 1966, while he was preparing his doctoral thesis on public borrowing and loans in Greek cities. In 1978 he defended his thesis with great success at the Université de Lyon II. Throughout his career at Laval Professor Migeotte taught the history of Ancient Greece and Greek epigraphy, a subject that he introduced at the university, until his retirement in 1997.

Awarded the formal rank of Professor emeritus of Laval University in 1999, he is also an Associate Director of Studies at the École Pratique des Hautes Études, IVe section (Paris), member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute (Berlin), and Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada. He has also served on the Executive Committee of the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy. For several years he was President of Humanitas, a foundation for the encouragement of Classical Studies in the province of Quebec, President of the Quebec Society for Ancient Studies, and a member of the committee of the International Association of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (AIEGL).

In Canada Professor Migeotte has served the Classical Association of Canada in a variety of capacities. He was a member of the Editorial Board of Phoenix from 1977 to 1979 and again from 1992 to 1994. He sat on the Council of the Association from 1981 to 1983 and in 1989-1990 as Vice-President. He helped organize the annual meeting of the Association in Quebec City in May 1989. Then during the later years of his career at Laval, Léopold Migeotte organized in Québec in 1994 the quinquennial congress of the Fédération internationale des associations d’études classiques (FIEC). More recently, he has served as Honorary President of the Association from 2007 to 2010, when he made a major contribution to the smooth operation of Council with his wise advice and the weight of his experience.

Pupil of Louis Robert, his specialty is the economic and financial history of Greek cities. He has published several well-received studies (L’emprunt public dans les cités grecques. Recueil des documents et analyse critique, Québec-Paris, 1984; Les souscriptions publiques dans les cités grecques, Québec-Genève, 1992; L’économie des cités grecques : de l’archaïsme au Haut-Empire romain, Paris, 2nd edition, 2007) and almost a hundred scholarly and more popular articles. At the moment he is preparing a general work entitled Le citoyen grec et les finances publiques aux périodes classique et hellénistique and two volumes of his opera minora selecta. The first of these two volumes of his articles appeared this past winter as Économie et finances publiques des cités grecques. I. Choix d’articles publiés de 1976 à 2001 (546 pages!).

A scholar with an international reputation, L. Migeotte continues to be invited to sit on Ph.D. thesis juries and to participate in various types of scholarly events in Canada and around the world. His third book on the economy of Greek cities has been translated into Italian, modern Greek and English, which illustrates the wide diffusion of his scholarship and the international renown it has garnered.

After almost fifty years in Canada, a country whose citizenship he proudly acquired, Léopold Migeotte has had an exemplary career. For his significant and well regarded contributions to research on the history of Ancient Greece and in Greek epigraphy, for his long-standing efforts in support of Classical Studies in Quebec and in Canada, and for the warm admiration he has inspired in several generations of colleagues and students alike, we recognize that Léopold Migeotte fully deserves the Award of Merit of the Classical Association of Canada.

CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA

AWARD OF MERIT, 2010

• The Award of Merit Committee is pleased to name Professor Martin Cropp as the 2010 recipient of the Classical Association of Canada’s Award of Merit. This award recognizes Professor Cropp’s outstanding service to the discipline of Classics in Canada as an administrator, a scholar and a mentor and teacher.
• In 1974, while completing his graduate studies at the University of Toronto, Martin Cropp was appointed Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics at the University of Calgary. Over the next three decades, he demonstrated outstanding leadership in his department – serving two terms as Head (1980-1986; 1988-1993) and yet another as Acting Head (1998-2000), playing a prominent role in both the establishment of a very successful graduate program and the revision of the undergraduate curriculum, and co-founding the very successful Calgary Society for Mediterranean Studies, of which he was joint director from 1989 to 2004. Beyond his own department, Professor Cropp served on a wide variety of key university committees at all levels, including the University Planning and Budget Committees, the General Faculties Council, the University Research Grants Committee, and the Faculty of Humanities Promotions Committee.
• After an active career of some 31 years, he retired as a Professor from the Department of Greek and Roman Studies. Since 2005 he has been an active emeritus professor in the department where he worked tirelessly for so many years.
• On the larger scene, his service to the discipline has been outstanding. His administrative abilities and his great energy have resulted in his election as President of the Classical Association of the Canadian West in 1986, of the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest in 2003, and of the Classical Association of Canada in 2004. This is to say nothing of three terms on the CAC Council, service on numerous committees in four different professional associations, organization of a series of important grant-supported conferences, several years as Associate Editor/Joint Editor of Échos du Monde Classique/Classical Views, and terms on the editorial board of Phoenix and of Bryn Mawr Classical Review.
• As a scholar, he has an international reputation. His work on Euripides is held in the highest regard, and he himself is held in high esteem by both students and colleagues, a fact reflected in the volume published in his honour in 2009.
• For his important and considerable contributions to classical scholarship; for a length record of service within his department, at his university, and in support of Classics across Canada, and for the warm admiration that he has engendered in several generations of colleagues and students, we recognize Martin Cropp as a very worthy recipient of the CAC Award of Merit.

CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA

AWARD OF MERIT, 2009

• The Award of Merit Committee is pleased to name Professor Catherine Rubincam as the 2009 recipient of the Classical Association of Canada’s Award of Merit. This award recognizes Professor Rubincam’s outstanding service to the discipline of Classics in Canada as a mentor, teacher, scholar, and administrator.
• After completing graduate studies at Harvard, Professor Rubincam returned to Canada in 1969 to take up a position at Erindale College in the University of Toronto (now University of Toronto Mississauga), where she later served as Associate Dean, Humanities and V-P Academic from 1993 to 1999. Always available to her students, and highly regarded as a most supportive and loyal colleague, she has used her considerable academic experience to become an effective mentor for emerging scholars both at UTM and throughout Canada.
• Her service for the Classical Association of Canada has been continuing and important, including  twenty-five consecutive years on the Editorial Committee of Phoenix—first as Secretary-Treasurer, and then, successively, as Review Editor, Editor, and Editor of the Phoenix Supplementary Series.  During these same years she was also twice elected to the CAC Council, and in 2000 she was elected Vice-President of the Association, and subsequently served as President (2002-2004) and as Past President (2004-2006).  Moreover, she has also contributed considerable time and energy to service in the broader Humanities community of Canada—as an adjudicator on SSHRC Committee 1 in the Research Grants Program, as a member of the Executive of the Canadian Federation for the Humanities and Social Sciences, and as an external assessor for colleagues under consideration for tenure and/or promotion and for departments of Classical Studies under regulatory review.
• Professor Rubincam’s own on-going research, such as her SSHRC-funded project on the use of numbers in Greek historical narratives, and her project on the history of the numismatic iconography of liberty in European tradition, is being published in leading journals in Classics and Greek history.
• In her administrative and intellectual service to the field of Classics in Canada, Catherine Rubincam has been, and continues to be, an inspiration to students, junior faculty, and senior colleagues alike.  For her outstanding contribution to our discipline, she is a truly worthy recipient of the CAC Award of Merit.

CLASSICAL ASSOCIATION OF CANADA

AWARD OF MERIT, 2008

The Award of Merit Committee has the honour of naming Professor Mark Joyal as the first recipient of the Classical Association of Canada’s Award of Merit. The award recognizes Professor Joyal’s manifold and sustained services to Classical studies in Canada as a teacher, scholar and administrator.

After completing his studies at the University of Manitoba and St Andrews University, Professor Joyal held temporary posts at the Universities of Calgary and Toronto before being appointed to the Department of Classics at Memorial University. He served there for seventeen years, twelve of these as department head. Since 2003 he has been Professor of Classics and department head at the University of Manitoba. He is a rigorous and inspirational teacher, untiring in his commitment to this fundamental duty of our profession. By regularly teaching a full complement of courses alongside his administrative and editorial work he has advanced both the programmes concerned and the progress of many individual students towards their degrees. In the realm of scholarship he is noted for his scrupulous work on the texts of Plato and others, especially the Platonic Theages, and is now contributing to editions in both the Éditions Budé and the Oxford Classical Texts series. He has performed signal service to the Association and to the Canadian scholarly community as an editor of Échos du monde classique/Classical Views, now Mouseion, for no less than fourteen years, and his editorial activity has extended to several collections of essays as well as a jointly authored sourcebook on Greek and Roman education to be published this year. His administrative skills, dedication and patience have earned the respect and gratitude of his colleagues and have ensured the health and advancement, often in difficult times, of the programmes and projects which he has guided.

Mark Joyal’s personal qualities of intellectual and ethical rigour, good judgement, generosity and humanitas have consistently inspired and encouraged those who work with him. We are proud to recognize him as one who has served, and continues to serve, the cause of Classical studies in Canada with distinction.