Director's Welcome

Welcome to the Center for Hellenic Studies at UC San Diego.

As the incoming director of the Center for Hellenic Studies, I would first like to thank Denise Demetriou and Ed Watts. Through their work these past few years, the Center and its programming are thriving. We have welcomed internationally recognized scholars to our campus, increased our support for undergraduate research, and broadened our institutional partnerships.

I am excited to continue this work while adding a new perspective to the Center and its mission. In addition to highlighting undergraduate and graduate student work on campus, I hope this year to find ways to support campus community-building through a variety of more informal programming. Interwoven among our invited speakers, the Center will seek to highlight research happening here in San Diego. Especially in a time of uncertainty in higher education, the study of the Greek world and its complex legacy remain more essential than ever.

The Center for Hellenic Studies at UC San Diego offers a unique way to examine the history, culture and physical remains of over 3,000 years of Greek history.  The Center is a vibrant modern forum that fosters an intellectual community nationally and internationally, where local and international faculty, researchers, and students can collaborate and study the Hellenic world. Our affiliated faculty members and graduate students are housed in the History, Literature, Philosophy, Anthropology, Political Science, and Theater and Dance Departments, we have partnerships with institutions in Greece, Italy, Israel, China, and Canada, and we often host visiting scholars from other countries. Our work at the Center embraces history and literature, digital scholarship, and the history of ideas and sciences in the ancient and the modern Greek-speaking world. 

I hope to see you at our events soon.

Edward Kelting, Director and Associate Professor of Mediterranean Studies