April 2014

Haggis awarded $200,000 grant to support Azoria archaeological project

Donald Haggis, professor of classical archaeology and the Nicholas A. Cassas Term Professor of Greek Studies in the department of classics, was awarded a $200,000 grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation. The award will support ongoing archaeological excavations at Azoria, an early Greek city located on the island of Crete.

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PlayMakers’ Haj takes ‘Pericles’ to Oregon Shakespeare Festival

Joseph Haj, producing artistic director of PlayMakers Repertory Company, is leading a team of artists from PlayMakers to mount a production of William Shakespeare’s “Pericles” at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival (OSF). Haj, who helmed PlayMakers’ production of the epic adventure in 2008, will direct the OSF staging set for Feb. 28-Nov. 1, 2015. He takes

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