Rate My Professor Janice Siegel

Siegel has received prestigious awards and fellowships, such as a Fulbright Scholarship for study at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, a National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar in Spetses, Greece, a Loeb Classical Library Foundation Research Grant from Harvard University, a Summer Scholar's Program at Harvard University's Center for Hellenic Studies, a Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Travel Grant, and an Adelaide E. Hahn Scholarship from the Classical Association of the Atlantic States. At Hampden-Sydney College, she has held the Mellon Grant for Western Culture Course Development and the Bortz Technology Award. She contributes to college service as Chair of the Department, member of committees including Promotion and Tenure, Student Affairs, Professional Development, and International Studies, advisor to freshmen, Honors students, Classics Club, and Eta Sigma Phi, and leader of study abroad trips to Greece and Turkey. Professionally, she serves as Collegiate Membership Director for the Classical Association of Virginia, has presented papers at conferences such as the Classical Association of the Middle West and South and the Science Fiction Foundation Conference in Liverpool, and acts as a peer reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship Program in Ancient and Classical Studies. Her dissertation, 'Child-feast and revenge: Ovid and the myth of Procne, Philomela and Tereus' (1994), underscores her focus on Ovidian themes. Siegel maintains Dr. J's Illustrated Guide to the Classical World, a comprehensive online resource with thousands of photos of ancient sites and an audio-visual database for classics teaching, enhancing pedagogical resources in the field.