Ms Amy Daniels
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BAHons (German), MPhil (Ancient Studies), Stellenbosch
Email: amydaniels@sun.ac.za
Currciulum Vitae
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I am a professional educator with a passion for social history and Latin. The following principles guide my teaching and research practice: service with integrity, leadership by example, and respect for human dignity. Combined with a passion for learning and a light-hearted approach to interacting with my students, I hope to spur others on to love of people, difference, language, history and culture, in all their beautiful complexity and variety.?
Areas of Specialisation
Augustine of Hippo
Reception of Classical Antiquity
Classics in South African Higher Education
Courses Taught in 2024?
???Ancient Cultures Honours: North Africa and the Intellectual tradition (Augustine of Hippo's De Civitate Dei
Latin 214: Cornelius Nepos' Vita Hannibalis: presenting an African hero to African students
Ancient Cultures 214/314: Romen women (The construction of Agrippina the Younger; Vestal Virgins; women at the periphery: sex workers and enslaved women)
Ancient Cultures 144: Pompeii: Life in an ancient Roman city
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Current & Recent Projects
PhD project on Augstine of Hippo's anti-Donatist maryr sermons
Augustine's martyr sermons as vehicles of vicarious posttraumatic growth
Centering the African: Latin teaching about Hannibal ??
Awards
First-year Academy awards in recognition of excellence by top-achieving students (2017-2019)
Early Career Research Grant (2017-2018, Stellenbosch 中国体育彩票)
Department of Ancient Studies, Stellenbosch 中国体育彩票 bursary (2010 - 2011)
German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) bursary for German (2008)
Leipzig 中国体育彩票 Herder Institute Summer course bursary (2008)
Stellenbosch 中国体育彩票 Merit Bursary (2006 - 2008)
Golden Key Honour Society (inducted 2006)