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Robert F. and Margaret S. Goheen Fellowship

Celebrating one of the founders of the Center and his wife, the Robert F. and Margaret S. Goheen fellowship was endowed by numerous generous donors and has been awarded annually since the year 2000. Born in India where his parents were missionaries, Robert began his academic career as a professor of classics at Princeton in 1950 before being selected as the youngest president of the university since the American Revolution. After stepping down from his presidency in 1972, Goheen was named president of the Council on Foundations and was later appointed U.S. Ambassador to India by President Jimmy Carter.

Margaret was a committed and dedicated volunteer who served on boards and committees for the Princeton University’s Isabella McCosh Infirmary, The Princeton University Art Museum, The Aquinas Institute, Princeton YWCA, Stuart Country Day School and The Princeton Committee of the NAACP Legal Defense Fund.

2000–2001 Richard J.A. Talbert University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Roman Roads, Maps, and World-View
2001–2002 Tista Bagchi University of Delhi, India The Simplex Sentence as a Unit of Grammar and Reasoning
2002–2003 Peter T. Struck University of Pennsylvania Divination and Greek Hermeneutics
2003–2004 Carolyn Higbie State University of New York at Buffalo Referring to Homer
2004–2005 Benjamin Henri Isaac Tel Aviv University (1) Corpus of Ancient Inscriptions of Judaea/Palestina
(2) Greek and Roman Ideas of Warfare
2005–2006 Tina Lu University of Pennsylvania The Boy Who Was an Ingot, or Money in Late Imperial Chinese Literature
2006–2007 Judson S. Herrman Allegheny College The New Hyperides in the Archimiedes Palimpset
2007–2008 Alison Keith University of Toronto Ovidian Transformations in Flavian Epic
2008–2009 Monika Truemper-Ritter University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Bathing Culture in the Ancient Greek World
2009–2010 Jason BeDuhn Northern Arizona University Digital Enhancement, Editing, Translation, and Analysis of the “Dublin Kephalaia”
2010–2011 Gavin Kelly University of Edinburgh Rutilus’ Return
2011–2012 Ajantha Subramanian Duke University Gifted: Knowledge and Value in Indian Technical Education
2012–2013 Joshua Sosin Duke University A Possession for All Time: Charitable Foundations in the Hellenistic World
2013–2014 Rachell Powell Boston University Genetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity: A Philosophical Exploration of the Biotechnology Revolution
2014–2015 Yasmin Solomonescu University of Notre Dame Romantic Persuasions: Literary Rhetoric, 1770–1840
2015–2016 Anthony E. Kaye University of Pennsylvania Taking Canaan: Rethinking the Nat Turner Revolt
2016–2017 Edith Sarra Indiana University, Bloomington Unreal Houses: Character, Gender, and Genealogy in “The Tale of Genji”
2017–2018 Emily Levine University of North Carolina at Greensboro Exceptional Institutions: Cities, Capital, and the Rise of the Research University
2018–2019 Abraham Terian Saint Nersess Armenian Seminary Philo of Alexandria: On Providence I-II.  Critical Text, Translation and Commentary
2019–2020 Pamela Lothspeich University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Lila Affects: Power, Masculinity, and Sociality in a Vernacular Theatre
2020–2021 Christopher Moore Pennsylvania State University The Virtue of Agency: Sôphrosunȇ and Selfhood in Ancient Greece
2021–2022 Julia L. Shear American School of Classical Studies at Athens Creating Collective Memories in Ancient Athens
2022–2023 Mariska Leunissen University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Facts, Evidence, and Observation: Aristotle’s Natural Scientific Study of Women and Motherhood
2023–2024 Andrea U. De Giorgi Florida State University Cosa and the Water Systems of the Roman Conquest of Italy (3rd–2nd c. BCE)
2024–2025 Michael Childers Colorado State University The Mountains are Calling: Tourists and the Unmaking of Yosemite National Park