Liane Houghtalin, associate professor of classics at the University of Mary Washington, has been named the winner of the 2008 Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) Award for Excellence in College Teaching.
The award was announced April 19 at the CAMWS annual meeting in Tucson, Ariz. CAMWS, which includes more than 30 states and three Canadian provinces, is the largest regional organization in classics.
An expert in classical archaeology and ancient numismatics, Dr. Houghtalin currently is involved in archaeological projects in Tunisia and Greece. She has brought more than 6,000 coins from various excavations in ancient Carthage for cleaning and study at UMW. Dr. Houghtalin has given numerous presentations about classical archaeology and numismatics at national professional conferences and has published site finds from excavations at Minturno in Italy and Carthage. She also has a special interest in the influence of the classical world on the modern world.
Dr. Houghtalin received a bachelor’s degree from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and master’s and doctoral degrees from Bryn Mawr College.