The Undergraduate Research Opportunities Program (UROP)
Undergraduate majors in the Department of Classical Studies have the opportunity to pursue research interests. UROP provides financial support for student research stipends, supplies, and travel. Research through UROP must take place under the guidance of a BU faculty mentor, and is defined as any scientific or scholarly activity that contributes to the production of new knowledge. Visit their website for more information.
Summer 2022
Aarohi Goel, UROP Humanities Scholars Award
Are You Truly Friends? A Translation and Interpretation of Cicero’s De Amicitia.
Faculty mentor: Professor Zsuzsanna Várhelyi
Carter Fahey, UROP Humanities Scholars Award
Per Oculi Antiquitatum: Reframing Modern Politics Through Ancient Art
Faculty mentor: Professor Stephanie Nelson
Fall 2019
Elisabeth Kotsalidis, UROP Humanities Scholars Award
An Investigation of Homer’s Iliad
Faculty mentor: Professor Stephen Scully
Spring 2019
Mari Rooney, UROP Humanities Scholars Award
Computer Aided Analysis of Greek Poetic Meter
Faculty mentor: Professor Alexander Nikolaev
Fall 2018
Hailey Hart-Thompson, UROP Humanities Scholars Award
The Happiness Capacity: The Pursuit of Eudaimonic Happiness in Contemporary Cultural Environments
Faculty mentor: Professor Zsuzsanna Várhelyi
Joseph Salzo, UROP Humanities Scholars Award
Visualizing Social Networks in Letters from Ancient Rome With Gephi
Faculty mentor: Professor Hannah Čulík-Baird
Summer 2018
Elisabeth Kotsalidis, UROP Humanities Scholars Award
An Investigation into Greek Etymology: Lexical Borrowings from Anatolia
Chance Pompay, UROP Humanities Scholars Award
Discovering the Correspondence between Roman Aristocratic Agricultural Literature and Physical Villa Construction and Design at the Villa di Vacone.
Faculty mentor: Professor Nikolaev
Fall & Summer 2017
Gregory Kerr, UROP Humanities Scholars Award
‘Didn’t They _______ Over There?’ — Debunking Historical and Cultural Myths and Misconceptions Around the World.
Faculty mentor: Professor David Roochnik, Department of Philosophy
Spring 2017
Gideon Breslaw, UROP Humanities Scholars Award, and
Elizabeth Higgins, UROP Humanities Scholars Award, and
Suzanna Levey
Editing the Oxford Handbook of Hesiod
Faculty mentor: Professor Stephen Scully
Gregory Kerr, UROP Humanities Scholars Award
“Why Can’t We All Just Get Along?”: The History of Abrahamic Religions, Their Societies, Their Philosophies, and Their Conflicts
Faculty mentor: Professor Loren Jay Samons
Spring 2016
Gideon Breslaw, UROP Humanities Scholars Award
Reconstruction and Translation of Phoenician Text
(Faculty mentor: Professor Alexander Nikolaev)
Gregory Kerr, UROP Humanities Scholars Award
Proving Thucydides Right: Human Nature and Repeated Actions Throughout History.
Faculty mentor: Professor Stephanie Nelson