The Center for Hellenic Studies mourns the passing of Michael C. J. Putnam. An alumnus of Harvard University (A.B., A.M., and Ph.D.) and long-time faculty member at Brown’s Department of Classics, Michael was a dedicated servant to the field of classics. Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) offers four postdoctoral fellowship opportunities for the 2026-27 academic year. These programs encourage and support research of the highest quality on topics related to ancient Greek civilization. Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the appointment of Ryan Pasco as Associate Director of Fellowships and Academic Programs. Read more
The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the 2025-26 Fellows in Hellenic Studies. The fellowship programs encourage research of the highest quality on topics related to ancient Greece. Read more
By Rebecka Lindau, Chief Librarian Two famous and exquisite manuscript facsimiles are on display at the Center for Hellenic Studies. Both are of texts and images by ancient Greek writers, one a geographer, mathematician, astronomer, music theorist, and philosopher living in the 2nd century CE, Claudius Ptolemaios, and the other a medical doctor, Pedanius Dioscorides living in the 1st century CE. Both were revolutionary for their time and their work… Read more
The CHS library is pleased to welcome Allison Thornton as its new library assistant. Most recently, she comes to us from St. Joseph County Public Library in South Bend, Indiana, where she was the City Branch Assistant Manager. Read more
To mark Greek Independence Day on March 25, 2025, Nevila Pahumi, Modern Greek specialist at the Library of Congress, offers a historical background in this blogpost and presents items in the LC collection pertaining to the era of the Greek Revolution from 1821 and the birth of the modern Greek nation, whereas Rebecka Lindau, chief librarian at Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies, goes back some 2,500 years to the birth of Athenian democracy and features some rare books on the subject from a physical exhibition at the Center in connection with a celebratory evening organized by the Greek Embassy in cooperation with the CHS. Read more
Christina Lappa's "Echoes of 1821: Greek Heroes and Heroines" exhibition pays tribute to the heroes of the Greek War of Independence, with a special focus on the often-overlooked contributions of women. Read more
Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) is seeking up to three students and/or faculty to attend the International Modern Greek Seminar for Classicists, a one-week introduction to Modern Greek designed for undergraduate and graduate students with at least a basic knowledge of Ancient Greek. Read more
To honor the International Greek Language Day on February 9, Harvard’s Center for Hellenic Studies and Dumbarton Oaks, and the Library of Congress have joined together to offer a brief history of the language from antiquity to the present, and a presentation of Greek language highlights from the collections of the three institutions. Read more
