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Alan van den Arend
Graduate Student, MA in Classics

I completed my undergraduate coursework at Cornell University in 2010, earning a BA in Latin and Ancient Greek. There I was a re-founding president of the Classics club, an active member in a number of campus and volunteer organizations, and the recipient of both an Urkunde Award from the German Consulate and, upon graduation, a Classics Department Book Award for excellence in Classics. After graduation, I spent several years teaching as both a private tutor and a faculty member at South Brunswick High School in New Jersey. From 2013-2014 I was a student and fellow at the Accademia Vivarium Novum - a small private college in Rome, Italy where all of the students study Latin and Ancient Greek in an immersive environment - after which I returned to teaching high school in New Jersey at the Lenape Regional District for the subsequent academic year. The 2015-2016 recipient of the generous Graduate School Academic Year Fellowship in Classics, I have come to UK to pursue my MA in Classics as well as a certificates in Latin Studies (in the Institutum Studiis Latinis Provehendis) and the Committee on Social Theory. Upon graduation, I would like to continue my academic work and pursue a PhD in Classics, History, or Social Thought. In my free time I enjoy volunteering with my college Fraternity (I teach international courses on Leadership & Organizational Development), playing classical guitar, and being involved with the Jewish community here in Lexington, KY.

Contact Information
alan.vandenarend@uky.edu
1022 Patterson Office Tower
(859)-257-7014
Education

Graduate Student Teaching Assistant, the University of Kentucky (2015-2016)

Graduate School Academic Year Fellow, the University of Kentucky (2015-2016)

Fellow, Accademia Vivarium Novum (2013-2014)

BA, Latin and Ancient Greek, Cornell University 2010
Research Interests
  • History of Classics
  • Reception Studies (Classics)
  • Intellectual History
  • Early Modern Europe
  • Social Theory
  • Educational Philosophy
  • political economy
  • Marxian Criticism
Affiliations
  • Social Theory
  • Accademia Vivarium Novum
  • Cornell University
  • American Classical League
  • Classical Association of the Midwest and South (CAMWS)
  • Classical Association of the Atlantic States (CAAS)
  • New Jersey Classical Association
  • Institutum Humanitati Provehendae Amygdala