[In Memoriam] Trudy Harrington Becker

• Ancient Rome
• Classical Studies
• Women’s Studies

• PhD, University of Florida
• MA, Virginia Tech
• MA, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
• BA, College of the Holy Cross

• Associate Chair, Department of History, 2011-2016
• State Vice President for Virginia, Classical Association of the Middle West and South
• President, Academy of Teaching Excellence, 2012-13
• Co-Coordinator, Classical Studies Program
• Webmaster, Classical Studies Program

• Alumni Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Academic Advising, Virginia Tech, 2018
• William E. Wine Award for Excellence in Teaching, Virginia Tech, 2015
• Alumni Award for Excellence in International Education, Virginia Tech,  2014
• Excellence in International Initiatives, Virginia Tech College of Liberal Arts and Human Sciences, 2013

Journal Articles

“Broadening Access to a Classical Education: Virginia State Colleges in the Nineteenth Century,” Classical Journal 96.3 (2001) 309-322.

“A Source for Ideology: The Classical Education of Martin Luther King, Jr.,” Classical Bulletin, 76.2 (2000) 181-189 (Special issue devoted to 20th c. use of the classical world).

“Daniel B. Williams: Virginia’s First State Hired Black College Classics Instructor,” Classical Outlook 76.3 (1999) 94-95.

“Ambiguity and the Female Warrior: Vergil’s Camilla,” Electronic Antiquity, 4.1 (August 1997).