WCC Award History

Deborah Lyons, Awards Officer
lyonsd@muohio.edu

2009 Awards (presented January 2011)

The Barbara McManus Award for Best Article:
Holly M. Sypniewski. (Classical Studies, Millsaps College) “The Pursuit of Eros in Plato’s Symposium and Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” in International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 15:4 (2008) 558-586.
Best Faculty Paper:
Deborah Kamen and Sarah Levin-Richardson. (Classics, University of Washington) “Lusty Ladies: Fututrices in the Roman Imaginary,” presented at APA Anaheim, 2010.
Best Student Paper:
Christine Marquis. (Classical and Near Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota), “Juno and Amata: Powerful Wives and Political Disorder in the Aeneid,” presented at CAMWS 2009.

2008 Awards (presented January 2010)

Best Article:
John H. Starks, Jr. (Binghamton University, State University of New York), “Pantomime Actresses in Latin Inscriptions,” in New Directions in Ancient Pantomime, edd. E. Hall and R. Wyles. Oxford University Press, 2008. 110-145.
Best Faculty Paper:
Geoff Bakewell (Creighton University), “The Kyprios Kharakter of Aeschylus’ Danaids,” presented at APA Philadelphia, 2009.

Best Student Paper:
Allison Fields (University of Cincinnati), “Lucian’s Megilla/us: Rethinking Gender, Agency, and Same-Sex Relationships,” presented at CAMWS 2009.

2007 Awards (presented January 2009)

Best Article:
Deborah Lyons (Miami University of Ohio), “The Scandal of Women’s Ritual,” in Finding Persephone: Women’s Rituals in the Ancient Mediterranean, ed. A. Tzanetou and M. Parca. Indiana University Press, 2007.
Best Faculty Paper:
Herica Valladares (Johns Hopkins University), “Women’s pleasure in Roman art: the state of the question,” presented at Feminism and Classics V (University of Michigan), May 2008.
Best Student Paper:
Alexander Dressler (University of Washington), “Subjectivity, Contradiction and the Traditions of Feminist-Platonism,” presented at Plato and Platonisms (University of South Carolina), March 2008.
Certificate for Special Feminist Contribution to Pedagogy:
Sharon James (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) “Feminist Pedagogy and Latin Literature, ” presented at Feminism and the Classics V (University of Michigan), May 2008.

2006 Awards (presented January 2008)

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.

2005 Awards (presented January 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 (UCLA Classics Department), “Magic and Inversion in Sophocles’ Trachiniae,” presented at APA Montréal 2006,

2004 Awards (presented January 2006)

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 Blanshard (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.

2003 Awards (presented January 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.

2002 Awards (presented January 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.

2001 Awards (presented January 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.

2000 Awards (presented January 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.

1999 Awards (presented January 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.

1998 Awards (presented December 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.

1997 Awards (presented December 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 Student Paper:
Sarah Stroup, “Designing Women: Aristophanes’ Lysistrata and the ‘Hetairization’ of the Greek Wife,” presented at APA 1998.

1996 Awards (presented December 1997)

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.

1995 Awards (presented December 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.

1994 Awards (presented December 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.

1993 Awards (presented December 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.

1992 Awards (presented December 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.

1991 Awards (presented December 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.