We are thrilled to announce that Kathryn A. Morgan, Joan Palevsky Professor of Classics at UCLA, has been named Associate Director of the UCLA SNF Hellenic Center for 2026-2028. Professor Morgan will be focusing on the historical context of the Olympics and be an ambassador for the 2028 Olympic activities associated with the campus on behalf of our UCLA community. Professor Morgan’s interests range broadly over Greek literature of the fifth and fourth centuries BCE. She regularly teaches graduate seminars in Attic tragedy, Pindar and Greek lyric, and Plato, and her research moves between projects connected with Plato and with Pindar. The former is represented by her book Myth and Philosophy from the Presocratics to Plato, by many recent papers, and by her current book project on Plato and Thucydides. Her next book, Pindar and the Construction of Syracusan Monarchy in the Fifth Century B.C. (2015), was a groundbreaking reading of the poetry written by the lyric poet Pindar for Hieron of Syracuse. Professor Morgan served as Chair of the UCLA Department of Classics from 2014-2020 and was a founding member of the UCLA SNF Hellenic Center for which she has also chaired the Faculty Advisory Committee.