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Columns::January 27, 2003

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Honors student and Foundation Fellow wins fellowship

By Terrence D. Nowlin
tdnowlin@uga.edu

Robin McGill, a senior classics major from Marietta, has been awarded the Lionel Pearson Fellowship by the American

Robin McGill

Philological Association.
The fellowship is awarded to a single student each year; both American and Canadian classics students are eligible. The fellowship supports study at universities in England and Scotland.
Each participating university nominated one student. The four finalists were invited to the APA national convention in New Orleans earlier this month.
“The three other finalists were really wonderful,” says McGill, “so I was really surprised and honored when I found out I had won.”
She will use the fellowship to pursue a master’s degree from the University of St. Andrews in Scotland. Her field of interest is late antiquity but she also is interested in ancient Greek philosophy and rhetoric as well as Latin. She ultimately plans to return to the United States to teach at the university level.
Keith Dix, assistant professor of classics at UGA, says the award is a major prize within the discipline.
“It’s one of the most prestigious and difficult in classics,” he says. “It recognizes outstanding undergraduates in Latin and Greek.”
“There are so many people and opportunities that I have had here at UGA that helped me to get this award,” says McGill. “As far as classics is concerned, I owe a great debt to all of my professors, especially the ones who never let me get by with anything less than I am capable of doing.”
The fellowship will pay for McGill’s academic fees, airfare and a living stipend for one full year of her study in Scotland.
The APA is considered the principal learned society for classical studies in North America and was founded in 1869.

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