What to Do With A Classics Degree: Social Impact Games
Very interesting interview in Fast Company … Jessica Goldfin has some really good advice in this one for those with a Classics-related degree who are hitting the job market: As an undergraduate student of art and classical civilizations at Florida State University, Jessica Goldfin helped excavate ruins. Today, as special assistant to the president at [...]
Something About Classicists?
… or at least guys who like Classics and major social media? Check out this incipit of a piece from Bloomberg: In Russia, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg faces stiff competition for the role of number one news-making internet wunderkind. His name is Pavel Durov. Durov, 27, is the founder and CEO of VKontakte (“In Contact”), [...]
Why Study Classics? Why not?
This one’s been lurking in my email box for a while … tip o’ the pileus to Dr Stephen Glass (emeritus, Pitzer College) who sent this along fom The Princeton Review: Guide to College Majors: 2004 “A classics major offers the opportunity to explore the beliefs and achievements of antiquity, and to learn just how [...]
Why Classics?
Tip o’ the pileus to Rose Williams for alerting us to this piece in USA Today: When college-targeted publications feature articles on topics like the highest-paying college majors or the college majors that are most likely to land you a job, things do not always look too good for people studying the humanities. Humanities departments [...]
Classics Feel Good Story of the Day
From the Gothamist: An immigrant from the former Yugoslavia who has worked as a janitor for Columbia University for 20 years has finally earned his bachelor’s degree in classics, with honors. The Daily News reports that while you were concerned with catching up on Boardwalk Empire and content to remain in the same, midlevel job [...]
Another Classicist Author
It’s interesting how many authors of juvenile fiction (it seems) have a Classics background … here’s the latest one to keep an eye on, from the Daily Record: MEET writer Daniela Sacerdoti – who has swapped Italy for Scotland to keep our teenagers up all night. The mum-of-two’s new novel – Dreams, a demonic, paranormal [...]
More Classical NFL ~ Jonathan Martin
Looks like another Classicist got drafted last weekend … an excerpt from the Boston Herald: [...] The Dolphins need to do a better job keeping their quarterbacks up, so they took Stanford offensive tackle Jonathan Martin in the second round. They’ll need to coach up University of Miami defensive end Olivier Vernon, whose college production [...]
John Allemang’s Career Path
The incipit of a feature in Trinity College Magazine … always fun to read about a Canadian who studied Classics and had subsequent success (he currently is with the Globe and Mail, I believe): John Allemang ’74 is a journalist, rather than someone for whom journalism is a job. His newsroom experiences date back to [...]
What to Do With a Classics Degree: Madeline Miller’s Career Path
From a brief item in Boston Globe Magazine: My mom used to read the Greek myths, particularly The Iliad, to me when I was a little girl, and I absolutely loved them. AT BROWN, I MAJORED IN LATIN and Greek, and then I stayed and got my master’s, also in the classics. I had always [...]
What to do With A Classics Degree: Work for Google!
We’ll start with the tweet (thanks Sylvia!): @rogueclassicist A classicist at Google! gmailblog.blogspot.com/2011/07/faces-…— Sylvia (@ClassicBookworm) July 22, 2011 … and then we might as well include the incipit of the post from the Gmailblog to have it on record in case it moves: In this month’s Faces of Gmail we’re profiling Sarah Price, our history-loving, [...]
Video of the Moment: Directing the Trojan Women
Just came across this while looking for something for my kid … Colby Devitt (Classics Major!) talks about how Helene Foley talked her into going after a grant to direct a drama in Greek and all that was involved: … this has ‘What to do with a Classics degree’ potential too …
When Classicists Head Spy Agencies …
From Charlotte Higgins, inter alia: Asked about connections between his education and his current role, he replied: “MI5 needs people with good intellectual skills, the ability to spot connections, the ability to absorb and assess a variety of material. Natural ground for a classicist.” He added: “There has been something of a classical tradition in [...]
Conserving Your Summer
One of the potential ‘career areas’ I don’t think we stress enough in the Classics world is conservation, so here’s a piece from UD Daily wherein a student describes her experiences: This summer I am working in the conservation lab at the archaeological site of Poggio Colla in the Mugello Valley of Tuscany, Italy. Poggio [...]
What To Do With a Classics Degree
The incipit and a bit of an item in the Guardian: As experts warn the ongoing cuts in the public sector could result in record levels of graduate unemployment; despondent graduate jobseekers may find comfort in the words of Friedrich Nietzsche: “That which does not kill us makes us stronger.” Of course, Nietzsche was a [...]
What To Do With A Classics Degree: Part ?
A financial blog called FINS has an interview with “HFM” who is described: Meet “HFM,” an anonymous hedge fund manager who sat down for multiple interviews on the financial crisis from 2007 through 2009 with the literary magazine n+1. Those interviews have been collected and released as a book “Diary of a Very Bad Year: [...]
What To Do With A Classics Degree
Interesting job/life: Liana Lupas stands out in New York, even by the standards of a city that defines itself with superlatives and seems to have world-class specialists in every conceivable discipline. She calls herself “the only librarian in the world who takes care of one book.” Of course, that book is “the” Book, the Bible. [...]
On the Utility of Classics
Seen in the New York Times: I couldn’t help noticing a theme running through the Book Review for Jan. 24. The lead review treated books by Garry Wills, whose primary academic training was in classics (Latin and Greek), and John Yoo, whose teachers at the Episcopal Academy in Pennsylvania, where I teach Latin and Greek, [...]
What To Do With A Classics Degree … Daniel Levin
We can add the author of the recently-released The Last Ember to the list … from the Courier-Journal: New York author Daniel Levin has garnered rave reviews for his debut suspense novel, “The Last Ember” — a fictional thriller set in Rome and the Middle East. Advertisement Jonathan Marcus, the book’s protagonist, and Dr. Emili [...]
Harvard Marketing Classics (etc.)
Some excerpts from a lengthy piece in the Boston Globe: When Harvard was founded nearly four centuries ago, all students read and spoke Latin. They had to: Lectures were delivered primarily in the ancient tongue, and the classics was pretty much all they could study. Today, the number of students conversant in Cicero and Plato [...]
What To Do With A Classics Degree (sort of)
Well, not really … the Canadian Opera Company has a new musical director and the Star has an interviewish/background thing on him. Inter alia: What would you be if you weren’t a performer? I’d be an unhappy person. To be serious: I might have become a professor/teacher for classics. I was quite deep into ancient [...]
