We are delighted to congratulate our former Fellow, Kassandra Miller, on her remarkable achievement as the recipient of the 2024 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit––the highest award for classical scholarship in the United States. Her award-winning book, Time and Ancient Medicine: How Sundials and Water Clocks Changed Medical Science (Oxford University Press, 2023), was supported by the Einstein Center Chronoi during the final stages of manuscript preparation.
The prize committee praised her work, noting:
This book makes a major intervention in the different but related discourses of ancient medicine and timekeeping, but its greatest strength surely lies in the fusion of those different proclivities. Miller shows an admirable expertise in the relevant evidence on both sides of the story that she tells, but the sum of her combined narrative components is far greater than its individual parts.
We also extend our best wishes to Miller as she embarks on her next book project.
To read the full award citation, click here. To preview and purchase the book, visit OUP. The book is also available through Oxford Academic.
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