On microaggressions

by Helen Morales, UC Santa Barbara

I am grateful to have this opportunity to think again about the subject of microaggressions, which I first discussed at the Feminism and Classics VII conference in Seattle in May 2016.¹ This article is a revised version of my…

The Problem of Gendered Violence in Academia

By Dr Allison Surtees, University of Winnipeg

Gendered violence is one of many challenges women in academia face. It is not a problem specific to academia; it is rampant in our society more broadly. There are, however…

From Feminism to Orientalism: Grace Harriet Macurdy on Cleopatra and Antony

Walter D. Penrose, Jr., San Diego State University

Grace Harriet Macurdy may well have been the first feminist classicist. In her book…

Teaching and Contextualizing Gendered Violence — and Other Abuses of Academic Power — in Our Classical Texts and Communities

by Judith P. Hallett, University of Maryland, College Park

Grace Harriet Macurdy and “Woman Power” in Argead Macedonia: Eurydice, Mother of Philip II

Elizabeth Carney, Clemson University

My freshman year, during what proved to be my last conversation with my paternal…

Ending bullying and harassment in the UK classical workplace

by Susan Deacy and Fiona McHardy (University of Roehampton, UK)

Introduction
We offer this paper at a moment in which various groups are coming together in the UK and internationally to discuss this…

Assessing and Continuing the Contributions of Grace Harriet Macurdy, Pioneering Feminist Scholar: Barbara McManus’ “The Drunken Duchess of Vassar”

Judith P. Hallet, University of Maryland, College Park

Grace Harriet Macurdy on the Seleucid Queens

Gillian Ramsey, Campion College at the University of Regina

There is great power in naming a thing, bringing it into the light, calling it out, identifying it as something with a meaning…

Grace Harriet Macurdy (1866–1946) and her Impact on Women’s History: Response

Sheila Ager, University of Waterloo

The focus on Grace Macurdy’s role as a Classical historian and on Barbara McManus’ engaging biography of her has…