Faculty in the News: Prof. Judith Hallett Wins Mentoring Award

Prof. Hallett wins the 2023 Randall Howarth Award for Excellence in Mentoring.

The Mentoring Committee of the Association of Ancient Historians (AAH) has awarded Prof. Emerita Judith Hallett the 2023 Randall Howarth Award for Excellence in Mentoring.

The committee highlights Prof. Hallett's distinguished role as a mentor for younger scholars, in particular for her generosity in sharing her expertise, and the encouragement and practical guidance she has given her mentees. The statement also mentions, as features of her mentorship, her organization of lectures and the connection she provides based on her network of scholars. In addition, the committee recognized her dedication to addressing larger issues in scholarship, the educational workplace, and the wider political world.

In her statement of thanks to the committee and the AAH, Prof. Hallett wrote: it is "my immense pleasure in being recognized by an organization whose very first meeting I attended in 1974, and to whose founder, Ernst Badian, I owe so much as a feminist researcher, scholarly writer and fellow member of the tribe. I dedicate the award to the memory of my 8th grade history and civics teacher, Rudolph Lea (1923-2023), who died last month. He fled Nazi Germany as a young boy and — like Ernst Badian and my Harvard mentor Herbert Bloch, both also Jewish refugees from the Nazis — found a welcoming academic environment in our country from which he was able to inspire me, as well as so many others, with his distinctive perspectives on and rigorous analytical tools for understanding the past."

Congratulations to Prof. Hallett on her well-deserved award!