Professor Gregory Staley Appointed Honors Humanities Director in Honors College

I am very pleased to announce that Professor Gregory A. Staley has been named the new director of the Honors Humanities Living and Learning Program, one of seven Honors College living and learning programs. This program is jointly sponsored by the Honors College and the College of Arts and Humanities.

 

Gregory A. Staley, Associate Professor of Classics, has been teaching at the University of Maryland, College Park since 1979. His work at Maryland constitutes a return of sorts, since he first began his study of Latin at North Hagerstown High School here in Maryland. Professor Staley earned his A.B. in Latin at Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA, where he received the Filler Prize in Classics. He was a Proctor Fellow at Princeton University, receiving there both his M.A. and Ph.D. in Classics. He did postgraduate work in 1983-84 as a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome. Professor Staley's research focuses on the Roman writer Seneca and on the American reception of the Classics.

Professor Staley has regularly been honored for his teaching. In 1999 he won an award for Excellence in Teaching from the American Philological Association, the national organization of professors of Classics. He has served as a Lilly Fellow and been elected to the Academy for Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Maryland. He regularly teaches courses in Classics, Latin, and in the University Honors Program where his seminar HONR208C “Are We Rome?” always receives the highest praise from students.

As Honors Humanities director, Professor Staley plans to emphasize the intersections between the humanities and the sciences; to highlight the connections between the humanities and careers; and to honor the ways in which knowledge of the past helps to shape the future.

I am very grateful to my colleagues who served on the Honors Humanities Director Search Committee, chaired by Professor Alene Moyer.

 

Let me also take this opportunity to thank outgoing Honors Humanities Director, Professor Valerie Orlando, who will take sabbatical next year before returning to her home Department of French and Italian in the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures. Professor Orlando has many strengths, but one that I will miss next year is her extraordinary talent for engaging Honors Humanities students (and the rest of us) in face-to-face conversations on campus with nationally and internationally recognized scholars and thinkers in the Humanities.

 

With best wishes,

Bill Dorland

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Prof. William Dorland
Honors College Director
Anne Arundel Hall
The University of Maryland
College Park, MD  20742-9605
301-405-6771 
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