Judith Peller Hallett, Professor of Classics and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Emerita Wins Howarth Mentoring Award

Judith Peller Hallett, Professor of Classics and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Emerita wins Howarth Mentoring Award.

The Mentoring Committee of the Association of Ancient Historians (AAH) has awarded Professor of Classics and Distinguished Scholar-Teacher Emerita Judith Peller Hallett the 2023 Randall Howarth Award for Excellence in Mentoring. The AAH presents the award in grateful memory of its former Secretary-Treasurer, who died of cancer in 2018. Hallett’s work—and that of her mentees—focuses on gender, sexuality, class and ethnicity in both the Greco-Roman world and the 19th and 20th century global classics community. She is a founding member of the Women’s Classical Caucus and a Women’s Studies affiliate faculty member since 1983.

The committee highlights Prof. Hallett's distinguished role as a mentor for younger scholars, in particular her generosity in sharing her expertise, and the encouragement and practical guidance she has given her mentees. The statement also mentions as features of her mentorship, her organization of lectures and the connectionS  she provides based on her network of scholars. In addition, the committee recognized her dedication to addressing larger issues in scholarship, the educational workplace, and the wider political world.

In her statement of thanks to the committee and the AAH, Prof. Hallett wrote: it is "my immense pleasure to be  recognized by an organization whose very first meeting I attended in 1974, and to whose founder, Ernst Badian, I owe so much as a feminist researcher, scholarly writer and fellow member of the tribe. I dedicate the award to the memory of my 8th grade history and civics teacher, Rudolph Lea (1923-2023), who died in March. He fled Nazi Germany as a young boy and — like Ernst Badian and my Harvard mentor Herbert Bloch, both also Jewish refugees from the Nazis — found a welcoming academic environment in our country from which he was able to inspire me, as well as so many others, with his distinctive perspectives on and rigorous analytical tools for understanding the past."

Congratulations to Prof. Hallett on her well-deserved award!