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Our Classics Newsletter: Meli Nucesque

Spring 2026
- Featuring alumnus Samuel Korb, Theology PhD graduate student at Notre Dame
Fall 2025
- Featuring alumna Gabriela Florencia (Sanchez), Linguistics PhD graduate student at the University of Texas-Arlington
Spring 2025
- Featuring alumna Rebecca Deitsch, Assistant Professor at Smith College
Fall 2024
- Featuring alumnus Richard von Weber-Hahnsberg, Latin Educator
Fall 2023
- Featuring "Student Scholar" Anand Mangal (MA '25) and alumna Claire Giuntini, Editor at First Things
Spring 2023
- Featuring alumnus Dr. Brian Woods, anesthesiologist in NYC
Fall 2019
- Featuring alumna Abigail Palmer, Latin Educator and Author of Faelan and the Miracle Machines
Spring 2019
- Featuring "Professor Spotlight" Dr. David Sweet
Fall 2018
- Featuring alumna Rebekah Spearman, Assistant Professor, St. John's Annapolis
Spring 2018
- Featuring alumnus Jim Motes, Teacher, Lawyer at Dolan Divorce Lawyers
Fall 2017
- Featuring alumna Eileen (Puhringer) Riggins, Director of Project Management at Huron
Spring 2017
- Featuring alumna Emily Austin, Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Chicago
Fall 2016
- Featuring alumnus Peter Heyne, Wisconsin State Public Defender

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Job Opportunities

Check here regularly for job postings or email the Chair of Classics, tdanze@udallas.edu for the most recent job notices.

Providence Preparatory School, https://www.provprep.org/ in Belton, Texas is looking for part-time positions for Rhetoric School Humanities Instructor and Rhetoric School Latin Teacher. Please email Shannon Morrison at shannon.morrison@provprep.org for more information.

Aristoi Classical Academy in Katy, Texas, https://www.aristoiclassical.org/, Join a growing and thriving program at Aristoi! They are looking for a teacher for primarily 7th and 8th grade Latin, with a possibility of level-one high school Latin. For more information on the position go here.

Geneva School of Boerne in Boerne, Texas, just outside of San Antonio is a well-established K-12 classical and Christian school. Geneva has a full-time teaching position available for Latin within their upper school (a combination of middle/high school). The position is a full-time Latin teaching opportunity for both middle and high school. The position offers compensation at 51-55k, along with comprehensive benefits. An application for the position is available at Careers – Geneva School of Boerne and at Logic School Teacher (English Language Arts/Latin/Logic). Should you have any questions about the position, please contact jrosheger@genevaschooltx.org .

Cambridge School of Dallas https://www.cambridgedallas.org/ is looking for a Latin Teacher starting Fall 2026. If someone is interested, they are welcome to contact the headmaster Dr. Moryam VanOpstal directly (mvanopstal@cambridgedallas.org). They would teach middle school Latin 1-2 but also likely some Bible or History courses (also at the 6th-8th grade level).

Fiat Classical Academy, a new classical Catholic high school in Indiana, is looking for a Latin Teacher. See job descriptions at Employment Opportunities | fiatclassicalacademy.org.

Great Hearts Academies regularly hires Latin teachers for lower and upper schools across their network in Phoenix, Dallas/Ft. Worth, San Antonio, and Baton Rouge. Latin teachers enjoy the opportunity to teach the ancient language they love to students who are being immersed in a study of the liberal arts. Additionally, they enjoy the curricular and pedagogical support of the Great Hearts network, and the fellowship of faculty with varied backgrounds and interests who are united in a pursuit of truth, beauty, and goodness. Go here for current openings.

New Mexico Military Institute and the Intermediate Preparatory Academy: The Intermediate Preparatory Academy is a new middle school recently launched by the New Mexico Military Institute in Roswell, New Mexico. The IPA mission includes three years of required Latin. IPA's founding students and founding Latin teacher are on track to complete Units 1 through 4 of the Cambridge series by the time the students graduate from eighth grade. IPA expects to hire multiple additional Latin teachers over the next few years. Like the New Mexico Military Institute, IPA is not a public school. IPA does not require a teaching license. Interested Latin teachers are invited to reach out directly to the Head of School, Dr. Nina Leacock, at leacock@nmmi.edu. Interested teachers can check their jobs page.

Lakehill Preparatory School: Lakehill Preparatory School is a K-12 school of approximately 400 students looking for a part-time high school Latin teacher for the 2025-2026 school year. Anyone interested in teaching 1-2 classes can find more information here.

Saint Paul’s Classical School in Melbourne, Florida, an Anglican parochial institution devoted to the classical Christian tradition, serving 95 students in grades K–12 is looking for a Latin teacher for grades 7-12. Starting salaries begin at $60,000 and increase with teaching experience and advanced degrees. Contact Brian Oldfield if you are interested. Brian@SaintPaulsMelbourne.org

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