Modern Greek Section
The Catherine Grigoriou-Theocarakis Prize 2011
The 2011 Catherine Grigoriou-Theocarakis Prize for excellence in Modern Greek Studies has been awarded to Callum Humphries, of Gonville and Caius College. Callum is a second-year student in the Faculty of Modern and Medieval Languages. He began Modern Greek in the Michaelmas Term 2009, and also studies French. In this year's examinations for Part IB of the Modern and Medieval Languages Tripos he was awarded an Upper Second, with excellent results in his Modern Greek papers. He plans to spend the academic year 2011-12 in Athens, studying at the University.
The prize was established in 2009 by Dr Nikolaos Theocarakis in memory of his late wife Catherine Grigoriou-Theocarakis. It forms part of a generous benefaction of £100,000 made by Dr Theocarakis to the University in 2009, to support the advancement of Modern Greek Studies. Both Dr Theocarakis and his wife studied at Cambridge. Catherine, who died in 2009, was a member of Girton College. After studying French and Linguistics at Athens University, she came to Cambridge to take a postgraduate course in Strategic Studies, graduating with an MPhil in 1987. She was an exceptionally talented linguist and an accomplished poet in both Greek and English.
