The Women's Classical Caucus

an Affiliate of the American Philological Association

Best Article:

Teresa R. Ramsby (U Mass Amherst) and Beth Severy-Hoven (Macalester), "Gender, Sex and the domestication of empire in art of the Augustan Age," Arethusa 40 (2007) 43-71.

Best Faculty Paper:

Anise K. Strong (Northwestern), "Daughter and Employee: Mother-Daughter Bonds among Prostitutes," presented at APA 2007.

Best Student Paper:

H. Christian Blood (U C Santa Cruz), "Queer Icons, Iconoclasts, and Anti-Icons: Plato and his Symposium in Athens, Hollywood, and Washington, D.C.," presented at APA 2007.

Best Article:

Holt Parker (University of Cincinnati) "Why Were the Vestals Virgins? Or The Chastity of Women and the Safety of the Roman State," AJP 125 (2004) 563-601.

Best Student Paper:

Emily Rush of the UCLA Classics Department, for her 2006 APA Paper, "Magic and Inversion in Sophocles' Trachiniae."

Best Article:

Sarah Culpepper Stroup (University of Washington), "Designing Women: Aristophanes' Lysistrata and the 'Hetairization' of the Greek Wife," Arethusa 37 (2004) 37-73.

Best Faculty Paper:

Alastair Blanchard (University of Sydney), "The Queer Pornography of the Classical Imagination: An Invitation to View Some Etchings," presented at APA 2005.

Best Student Paper:

Rachel Meyers (Duke), "Representing Antonine Imperial Women at Olympia," presented at APA 2005.

Best Article:

Matthew Roller (Johns Hopkins University), "Horizontal Women: Posture and Sex in the Roman Convivium ," AJP (2003).

Best Paper:

Patricia Rosenmeyer, "Pamphilian Damophyle and Claudia Damo: Partners in Poetry," presented at APA 2004.

Best Article:

Marie Cleary, "Vague Irregular Notions: American Women and Classical Mythology, 1780-1855," New England Classical Journal 29 (2002) 222-235.

Best Paper:

Amanda Wilcox, "Exemplary Grief: A Technology of Gender in Senecan Consolation," presented at APA 2003.

Best Article:

Marilyn Skinner, "Ladies' Day at the Art Institute: Theocritus, Herodas, and the Gendered Gaze," in André Lardinois and Laura McClure, eds., Making Silence Speak: Women's Voices in Greek Literature and Society (Princeton, 2001) 201-222.

Best Faculty Paper:

Anne E. Haeckl, "Brothers or Lovers? A New Reading of the Tondo of the Two Brothers from Antinoopolis, Egypt," presented at CAMWS 2001.

Best Student Paper:

Melissa Mueller, "Word and Object in Euripides' Ion: The Silent Truth of Family Heirlooms" presented at APA 2002.

Best Article:

Michele Ronnick, "William Sanders Scarborough: The First African-American Member of the Modern Language Association," PMLA 115 (2002) 1787-1793.

Best Faculty Paper:

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, "The Greek Wedding: Escape from Patriarchy?" presented at APA 2001.

Best Student Paper:

Tricia Gilson, "Amazons in Plato's Republic: Classical Tradition in Herland" presented at APA 2001.

Best Article:

Yopie Prins, "Greek Maenads, Victorian Spinsters," in Richard Dellamora, ed., Victorian Sexual Dissidence (Chicago, 1999).

Best Paper:

Mary Jane Engh and Kathryn Meyer, "Tiger Tamers, Tax Collectors, Poets, and Politicians: Researching Active Women in the Roman World," presented at CAPN 1999.

Best Article:

Lynn Roller, "The Ideology of the Eunuch Priest," in Maria Wyke, ed., Gender and the Body in the Ancient Mediterranean (Blackwell, 1998).

Best Faculty Paper:

Mary Knight, "Nymphae Sectio: Female Genital Mutilation and the 'Treatment' of Venery in Greco-Roman Egypt," presented at APA 1998.

Best Student Paper:

Sarah Stroup, "Designing Women: Aristophanes' Lysistrata and the 'Hetairization' of the Greek Wife," presented at APA 1998.

Best Article:

Lynn Roller, "The Ideology of the Eunuch Priest," in Maria Wyke, ed., Gender and the Body in the Ancient Mediterranean (Blackwell, 1998).

Best Faculty Paper:

Mary Knight, "Nymphae Sectio: Female Genital Mutilation and the 'Treatment' of Venery in Greco-Roman Egypt," presented at APA 1998.

Best Article:

Natalie Kampen, "Omphale and the Instability of Gender," in N. B. Kampen, ed., Sexuality in Ancient Art (Cambridge, 1996) 233-46.

Best Paper:

Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, "Excavating Ancient Greek Female Homoeroticism: New Theoretical Approaches," presented at APA 1996.

Best Article:

Molly Levine, "The Gendered Grammar of Ancient Mediterranean Hair," in H. Eilberg-Schwartz and W. Doniger, eds., Off With Her Head! The Denial of Women's Identity in Myth, Religion, and Culture (Berkeley, 1995) 76-130.

Best Paper:

Dolores O'Higgins, "Brides of Death: Reading the Crones of Aristophanes' Comedies," presented at APA 1995.

Best Article:

Helene Foley, "Interpretive Essay," in H. Foley, ed., The Homeric Hymn to Demeter (Princeton, 1994) 79-178.

Best Paper:

Joan Reilly, "Naked and Limbless: Learning about the Feminine Body in Ancient Athens," presented at APA 1994.

Best Article:

Shelby Brown, "Feminist Research in Archaeology: What Does It Mean? Why Is It Taking So Long?" in N. S. Rabinowitz and A. Richlin, eds., Feminist Theory and the Classics (New York, 1993) 238-271.

Best Papers (a Tie):

Susan Blundell, "Marriage and the Maiden: Narratives on the Athenian Acropolis," presented at APA 1993.

Dierdre von Dornum, "What Voice Does Homer Use for Penelope?" presented at APA 1993.

Best Article:

Leslie Dean-Jones, "The Politics of Pleasure: Female Sexual Appetite in the Hippocratic Corpus," Helios 19 (1992) 72-91.

Best Paper:

Ellen Oliensis, "Socius Amor: Friends and Lovers in Propertius' Monobiblos," presented at APA 1992.

Best Article:

Amy Richlin, "Zeus and Metis: Foucault, Feminism, Classics," Helios 18 (1991) 160-180.

Best Paper:

Holt Parker, "Sappho Schoolmistress," presented at APA 1991.