Dear CAAS colleagues,

We, the members of the CAAS Awards Committee, warmly invite you to nominate a colleague to be considered for an ovatio or gratulatio, or for the Barbara F. McManus Leadership Award for CAAS 2026. The CAAS Awards Committee accepts nominations drafted by members in good standing. Recipients of awards will be celebrated with a Latin award script composed by the Latin Citations Committee, which will be read by a treasured colleague at the 2026 annual fall meeting of CAAS at the Hotel Du Pont in Wilmington, Delaware, October 8-10. 

The Awards Committee’s charge is to “select honorees from the CAAS membership who meet the following criteria: long and/or distinguished service to CAAS and/or to the classics community by those in the CAAS region.”

To nominate a colleague for an ovatio (an ovation and rejoicing of excellence in service to CAAS and to our discipline) or a gratulatio (congratulations and celebration of a colleague’s service to CAAS and to our profession), we request that you provide the name of the person nominated, accompanied by a brief (one paragraph) rationale for the nominee’s worthiness for an award. You may submit your nominations for ovationes and gratulationes using this Google Form.

To nominate a colleague for the Barbara F. McManus Leadership Award, please use the following link for the criteria and nomination form: The Barbara F. McManus Leadership Award | CAAS-CW.  Please submit all materials to the Chair of the Awards Committee, Maria S. Marsilio, for review by members of the committee: marsilio@sju.edu.

You may find a full listing of recent honorees and an archive of past honorees here: Archive of Honorees | CAAS-CW

The firm deadline for submission of all nominations is Friday, May 1, 2026. 

Please consider nominating your colleagues who have given valuable service to CAAS.

Thank you from the Awards Committee!

Each year at its annual meeting the Classical Association of the Atlantic States presents ovationes to members selected by the Awards Committee for their significant service to the discipline and the organization. The ovatio is read in Latin by a colleague close to the honoree at a plenary luncheon, while copies of the ovatio in Latin and English are distributed to attendees.

The ovatio recognizes long and distinguished service to CAAS and/or to the classics community by those in the CAAS region, especially by those retiring or concluding a long term of service.

The Awards Committee is now accepting nominations for 2020 CAAS ovationes, to be presented at the 2020 October annual meeting. Nominees and nominators need to be CAAS members in good standing. To nominate a candidate to the Awards Committee for an ovatio, please download and complete the nomination form at https://caas-cw.org/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/04/CAAS-award-nomination-form-rev-0316.doc, and procure a copy of your nominee’s CV or resume.

Please send your completed nomination form and your nominee’s CV or resume as email attachments to the Chair of the Awards Committee, Sarah Ferrario (ferraris@cua.edu) by July 1, 2019.

Thank you very much for assisting the committee in its work.

2018-2019 Awards Committee: Sarah Ferrario, Chair (2015-2017, 2017-2019); Shelley Haley (2017-2019); Timothy Renner (2018-2020); Maria Marsilio, Program Coordinator, liaison.