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 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.

2000–2001Richard J.A. TalbertUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillRoman Roads, Maps, and World-View
2001–2002Tista BagchiUniversity of Delhi, IndiaThe Simplex Sentence as a Unit of Grammar and Reasoning
2002–2003Peter T. StruckUniversity of PennsylvaniaDivination and Greek Hermeneutics
2003–2004Carolyn HigbieState University of New York at BuffaloReferring to Homer
2004–2005Benjamin Henri IsaacTel Aviv University(1) Corpus of Ancient Inscriptions of Judaea/Palestina
(2) Greek and Roman Ideas of Warfare
2005–2006Tina LuUniversity of PennsylvaniaThe Boy Who Was an Ingot, or Money in Late Imperial Chinese Literature
2006–2007Judson S. HerrmanAllegheny CollegeThe New Hyperides in the Archimiedes Palimpset
2007–2008Alison KeithUniversity of TorontoOvidian Transformations in Flavian Epic
2008–2009Monika Truemper-RitterUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillBathing Culture in the Ancient Greek World
2009–2010Jason BeDuhnNorthern Arizona UniversityDigital Enhancement, Editing, Translation, and Analysis of the “Dublin Kephalaia”
2010–2011Gavin KellyUniversity of EdinburghRutilus’ Return
2011–2012Ajantha SubramanianDuke UniversityGifted: Knowledge and Value in Indian Technical Education
2012–2013Joshua SosinDuke UniversityA Possession for All Time: Charitable Foundations in the Hellenistic World
2013–2014Rachell PowellBoston UniversityGenetic Engineering and the Future of Humanity: A Philosophical Exploration of the Biotechnology Revolution
2014–2015Yasmin SolomonescuUniversity of Notre DameRomantic Persuasions: Literary Rhetoric, 1770–1840
2015–2016Anthony E. KayeUniversity of PennsylvaniaTaking Canaan: Rethinking the Nat Turner Revolt
2016–2017Edith SarraIndiana University, BloomingtonUnreal Houses: Character, Gender, and Genealogy in “The Tale of Genji”
2017–2018Emily LevineUniversity of North Carolina at GreensboroExceptional Institutions: Cities, Capital, and the Rise of the Research University
2018–2019Abraham TerianSaint Nersess Armenian SeminaryPhilo of Alexandria: On Providence I-II.  Critical Text, Translation and Commentary
2019–2020Pamela LothspeichUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillLila Affects: Power, Masculinity, and Sociality in a Vernacular Theatre
2020–2021Christopher MoorePennsylvania State UniversityThe Virtue of Agency: Sôphrosunȇ and Selfhood in Ancient Greece
2021–2022Julia L. ShearAmerican School of Classical Studies at AthensCreating Collective Memories in Ancient Athens
2022–2023Mariska LeunissenUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel HillFacts, Evidence, and Observation: Aristotle’s Natural Scientific Study of Women and Motherhood
2023–2024Andrea U. De GiorgiFlorida State UniversityCosa and the Water Systems of the Roman Conquest of Italy (3rd–2nd c. BCE)
2024–2025Michael ChildersColorado State UniversityThe Mountains are Calling: Tourists and the Unmaking of Yosemite National Park