Classics Professors Paul Christesen '88 and Alexandra Schultz receive fellowships

Paul Christesen '88 was awared a Fellowship by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. The prestigious fellowships provide support to outstanding scholars and artists in midcareer, allowing them to pursue their work without restriction.

Paul Christesen's areas of expertise include ancient Greek history with a focus on Sparta, sport history, the relationship between sport and political systems, and the use of geographic information systems, aka GIS, to compile archaeological data. 

Christesen is aiming high for the monograph he plans to finish during his fellowship, Living Luxuriously in Ancient Sparta.

Link to full article and a description of Professor Christesen's research project here.

Alexandra Schultz has been awarded a fellowship at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC. 

Alexandra will spend one semester there working on her book, provisionally titled The Mirage of Alexandria: A New History of Libraries in Greco-Roman Antiquity.