James Stuart Constantine began teaching at the University of Virginia in 1930 directly from graduate work at Princeton University and remained for his academic career, outside of a stint in the Air Force in the West Indies (1943-1945). He wrote on some musical topics, rarely on classical ones, cheerfully admitting that music was his first love and he did Classics “to earn a living.” Throughout his career he was a church organist, a church choir director, worked with the Glee Club, and was a co-founder of the Tuesday Evening Concert Series. His large collection of Classics books became the core of the new Constantine Library dedicated to him by students and colleagues in June 1970. Prof. Constantine and several colleagues and friends endowed the James S. Constantine Lecture Series in 1987. He died on November 23, 1989, in Mechanicsburg, PA, at age eighty-nine.
1987 Bernard Knox (Center for Hellenic Studies)
1988 Douglass Parker (Texas)
1989 Christian Habicht (Princeton, Institute for Advanced Studies)
1990 Zeph Stewart (Harvard)
1991 Richard Hunter (Cambridge)
1992 Alan Boegehold (Brown)
1993 David Konstan (Brown)
1994 Gregory Nagy (Harvard)
1995 H. Alan Shapiro (Johns Hopkins)
1996 John Camp (Randolph Macon)
1997 Mary Lefkowitz (Wellesley)
1998 Jasper Griffin (Oxford)
1999 Martin Ostwald (Penn)
2000 Fritz Graf (Princeton)
2001 David Sider (NYU)
2002 Claude Calame (Lausanne)
2003 Lesley Dean-Jones (Texas)
2004 Michael Gagarin (Texas)
2006 Peter Green (Texas)
2007 Alexander Sens (Georgetown)
2008 Richard Janko (Michigan)
2009 Jeffrey Rusten (Cornell)
2010 Benjamin Acosta-Hughes (Michigan)
2011 Silvia Montiglio (Johns Hopkins)
2012 Ruth Scodel (Michigan)
2013 Harvey Yunis (Rice)
2014 Dee Clayman (Brooklyn College)
2015 Donald Mastronarde (Berkeley)
2016 Andrew Ford (Princeton)
2018 Susan Stephens (Stanford)
2019 Joshua Katz (Princeton)
2021 Emily Mackil (University of CA, Berkeley)
2022 Radcliffe Edmonds (Bryn Mawr)
2023 Andromache Karanika (University of CA, Irvine)
2024 Sheila Murnaghan (Penn)