The members of the University of California UAW—the union that represents tens of thousands of postdocs, academic researchers, graduate student researchers, trainees, fellows, graduate student instructors, readers, and tutors—have been negotiating for a contract with the University since spring 2021. Recently, they voted overwhelmingly to strike on November 14.
Fall 2022 is here! Welcome back and to our incoming class of students. Your Undergrad Advising team is excited to see you, whether in person or via remote appointments. Please make an appointment from this link: https://appointments.ucdavis.edu/?office=39; or use our drop in advising Tuesday afternoon or Friday morning from this link: https://appointments.ucdavis.edu/?office=39
Welcome back and to Fall quarter. The Advising team is excited for another great year. We are now able to offer virtual drop-in advising. Please visit this link, https://langlit.advisingfrontdesk.lsit.ucdavis.edu/signin, on Tuesday’s from 1:30-3pm or Friday 9-11am. We are looking forward to assisting you with your advising needs.
Undergraduate Advising as a full team. Please welcome Anna Pendleton and Veronica Munoz! Make an appointment from the below link for any advising needs:
Rex Stem, our colleague and beloved friend, died on Wednesday October 21, 2020 at UC Davis Medical Center in Sacramento of complications from colon cancer. He was fifty-one years old. Rex is survived by his wife Melissa, son Henry, and daughter Nathalie, by his father and brother, and by his many friends.
The Classics Program is delighted to announce the appointment of Kathleen Cruz as Assistant Professor of Classics.
Professor Cruz arrives at UCD from Princeton University, where she completed her PhD thesis entitled "The Poetics of Horror in Lucan's Bellum Civile and Statius' Thebaid." It may be some time before students can meet Professor Cruz in person, so in the meantime we offer a brief Q&A by way of virtual introduction:
After nearly nine and a half years as Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor of UCD, Ralph Hexter stepped down from his administrative posts this June (you can learn about his many accomplishments here and here) and rejoined the Classics Program (and Department of Comparative Literature) as an active faculty member.
