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Distinguished Service Awards

 

Distinguished Service Awards

The APA Board of Directors established the Association's Distinguished Service Awards in September 1984.  The minutes of that meeting state

"The Directors voted to establish a Medal for Distinguished Service, to be given from time to time at the discretion of the Board of Directors, and to award the medal for the first time this year."

The Awards acknowledge extraordinary service to the profession of classics and the American Philological Association.  They are occasional rather than annual awards.  Any member of the Association may submit a recommendation; nominations are made by a Director at a meeting of the Board, and approved by the Board as a whole.  Recipients to date of Distinguished Service Awards are

1984 Phyllis Gordan for her service to the Association as Director and Financial Trustee and for her work on Renaissance manuscripts

1987 David Packard and Theodore Brunner for their work on the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae

1996 Helen North and Bernard M. W. Knox for many contributions to both the Association and the field in general

1999 Dee L. Clayman for her work on the Database of Classical Bibliography; Marianne McDonald for her work on the Thesaurus Linguae Graecae; Richard J. A. Talbert for his work on the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World

2007 Roger S. Bagnall for outstanding administration of both the Association and other classics institutions and for leadership in the field of papyrology; Elaine Fantham for a wide range of excellent scholarship and teaching in Latin literature and for many contributions to the work of the Association