CHS fellow Joshua Billings Receives Charles Goodwin Award of Merit


Congratulations to Joshua Billings, a current fellow at the Center of Hellenic Studies, who has been awarded the 2015 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit for his book Genealogy of the Tragic: Greek Tragedy and German Philosophy (Princeton University Press, 2014).

2762Joshua Billings (DPhil Oxford) is Assistant Professor of Classics at Princeton University. His research focuses on Greek literature and philosophy and modern intellectual history, with a particular concentration on tragedy. In addition to his monograph, Genealogy of the Tragic: Greek Tragedy and German Philosophy (Princeton 2014), he has co-edited two volumes, Choruses, Ancient and Modern (Oxford 2013) and Tragedy and the Idea of Modernity (Oxford 2015). At CHS, he has been working on a project on drama and intellectual culture at the end of the fifth century BC, provisionally entitled “Enlightenment on stage.”

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