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BAGNALL
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has selected Roger Bagnall, professor
of classics and history, as one of four winners of its 2003 Distinguished
Achievement Award. Bagnall, an internationally respected and prolific
historian of the Graeco-Roman world, has gained widespread recognition
for interpreting papyrus documents from Egypt (CCT,
November 2002) and has made important discoveries in many areas
of Greek and Roman civilization.
The foundation established the award to promote creative intellectual
thought and research in liberal arts and the humanities in the nation’s
higher education system. The funds, distributed across a three-year
period, will be granted to and overseen by the University. Bagnall
will submit a proposed program plan and budget to support his continued
work as well as new activities.
Among the projects that will benefit — winners and their
institutions are eligible for up to $1.5 million to continue programs,
research and teaching in the recipients’ areas of specialty
— are Columbia’s excavations at Amheida in Egypt, the
conservation and study of graffiti on plaster in the agora of ancient
Smyrna (modern Izmir, Turkey), and the Advanced Papyrological Information
System, an ambitious digital project Bagnall launched. Some of the
funds also will be used to buy books for the libraries and to support
graduate students.
Bagnall was educated at Yale and the University of Toronto and
came to Columbia in 1974 as an assistant professor. He served as
dean of GSAS from 1989–93 and as chair of the classics department
from 1994–2000; he also has been acting chair of the English
and Italian departments. He is curator of the papyrus collection
in the Columbia University Libraries.
The other award winners this year are Robert B. Brandom, Distinguished
Service Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pittsburgh;
Anthony Grafton, Henry Putnam University Professor of History at
Princeton; and Christopher Ricks, Warren Professor of the Humanities
at Boston University.
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