<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">With apologies to for the lateness of this message, I am delighted to announce the winners of the 2008 John J. Winkler Memorial Prize, which was awarded last spring. In the graduate division, the Prize went to Danielle Meinrath, a Ph.D. candidate at Princeton University, for "The Ancilla and her Ass: Re-reading Photis in Apuleius' <i>Metamorphoses.</i>" In the undergraduate division the prize went to Alison Fields, a Claissical Civilization major at NYU for "Megilla/us: The (Fe)Male Penetrator of Lucian's <i>Dialogue of the Courtesans</i>." Ms. Meinrath has just delivered her paper as the annual Winkler Memorial Lecture at Oberlin College.<div><br></div><div>The 2008 Prize was judged by a jury of 4: <span style="font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman'; ">Tamara Chin, University of Chicago; Jay Reed, University of Michigan; Elizabeth Manwell, Kalamazoo College; David Fredrick, University of Arkansas. David Halperin (Chair of the Winkler Memorial Trust), the jury, and I offer our congratulations to Ms. Meinrath and Ms. Fields for their outstanding and innovative work.</span></div><div><br></div><div>A call for papers for the 2009 Winkler Memorial Prize will go out shortly; details are available now at <a href="http://www.oberlin.edu/faculty/kormand/Winkler.html">http://www.oberlin.edu/faculty/kormand/Winkler.html</a> . </div><div><br></div><div><p style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 16px; margin-left: 0px; "><font face="Times" size="5" style="font: normal normal normal 16px/normal Times; ">The John J. Winkler memorial Trust was established as an independent, charitable foundation on June 1, 1990. Its purpose is to honor Jack Winkler's memory and to promote both his scholarly and his political ideals. Inquiries about the Prize, tax-deductible gifts to the Trust, and general correspondence may be addressed to: Kirk Ormand, John. J. Winkler Memorial Trust, Dept. of Classics, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH 44074.</font></p></div><div><div>Kirk Ormand</div></div>
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