“This wonderful gift from Maria Stata will make a significant and lasting difference to our classical studies program,” says BU President Robert A. “It is filled with spectacular ideas that are as important and powerful today as they were 2,500 years ago. “Ancient Greece is a living world,” says Roochnik. And while BU has a sizable community of scholars who focus on ancient Greece from several perspectives, including classical studies, history, and political science, the inaugural Maria Stata Professor is David Roochnik, a CAS professor and chair of philosophy.
The $2.5 million gift creates the Maria Stata Professorship in Classical Greek Studies, which will support a distinguished senior faculty member with scholarly and teaching expertise in the classical period of Greek history. Now, thanks to a gift from Maria Stata (CAS’62), that enduring influence will be even more greatly appreciated by students and scholars in the College of Arts & Sciences. The culture of ancient Greece is alive and well and living conspicuously, for those who pay attention, in the sciences, arts, architecture, politics, and philosophy of our everyday world.
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