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Classical Studies at Tufts

We are very pleased to have Professor Marcus Ziemann join the Classical Studies community at Tufts.
New course: Reading in a Digital Age (DH 150) explores how to use AI for multilingual research and new questions. Offered by Digital Humanities (Classical Studies).
Grants: The Department of Classical Studies is working on two new funded projects, each of which began in 2026.
Professor and Chair Gregory Crane, his long time collaborator (and former Tufts researcher) David A. Smith of Northeastern, and Associate Professor Riccardo Strobino are developing Beyond Translation: Opening up the Human Record, a project funded by Schmidt Sciences’ Humanities Artificial Intelligence Virtual Institute.
At the same time, a grant from the Scholarly Editions and Translations program at the National Endowment for the Humanities (RQ-306857-26) is allowing Crane and Strobino to begin work on a Born-Digital edition of Aristotle’s Poetics in Greek, Arabic and Latin.