Two Classics Grad Students Receive the 2008-2009 Geballe Dissertation Research Fellowship

 

CONGRATULATIONS TO:

 

Rachel Ahern who will be working on her dissertation discussing The Rhetoric of Homeric Speech

AND

Lela Urquhart who will be working on her dissertation discussing Greek Religion and Indigenous Society in the Archaic Western Mediterranean: Impacts, Interactions, and Religious Integration

The Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellowships, endowed by Theodore and Frances Geballe, are awarded to doctoral students whose work is of the highest distinction and promise. In addition to a fellowship stipend, the recipients of these fellowships have offices at the Center and take part, with other graduate and faculty fellows, in the Center’s programs, promoting humanistic research and education at Stanford. The Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellowships also provide additional research funding.