Summer Programs

Throughout most of its history the American Academy in Rome has sponsored summer programs. Consistent with the Academy's mission, these programs are intended to provide American scholars, teachers and academically advanced students the opportunity to experience and draw upon the resources of Rome. Below are links to the Academy's current summer programs.

Classical Summer School
National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar
The Howard Comfort, FAAR'29, Summer Program in Roman Pottery
Summer Program in Archaeology
Scuola di Etruscologia e Archeologia dell'Italia Antica

Participants in Academy summer programs are invited to join the Classical Society of the American Academy in Rome. For more information on the Classical Society of the American Academy in Rome and CSAAR membership, please visit their website at www.csaarome.org.

Classical Summer School

This six-week program is designed to provide qualified graduate students, mature undergraduates, and middle school, high school, and two-year college teachers with a well-founded understanding of the growth and development of the city of Rome through a careful study of material remains and literary sources.

2009 dates
June 22 - July 31, 2009

2009 application deadline
January 15th, 2009
Notification will be on or around March 1, 2009.

2009 Director
Professor Gregory S. Bucher, FAAR'96
Associate Professor of Classical and Near Eastern Studies
Creighton University

Click here for more information, or contact Professor Bucher at bucher@creighton.edu.

This five week program is designed for teachers of American undergraduate students. Qualified independent scholars and those employed by museums, libraries, historical societies and other organizations may be eligible. Participants work with leading scholars on a given topic in the humanities with the goal of furthering their teaching and scholarship.

2008 topic
Identity and Self-Representation in the Subcultures of Ancient Rome Identity and Self-Representation in the Subcultures of Ancient Rome

2008 dates
June 23 - July 27, 2008

2008 application deadline
March 1st, 2008

2008 Directors
Eleanor Winsor Leach, Indiana University
Eve D'Ambra, Vassar College

Participants
15 people.

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The Summer Program in Roman Pottery Studies is a four-week program designed to present the basics of Roman pottery studies and thus to fill a gap in archaeological training. Pottery is the most common discovery on archaeological sites in the Mediterranean on land and in shallow waters and also in the deep sea, which is opening up to archaeological research. It usually offers the most important evidence for dating and socio-economic matters, such as trade relations and consumption patterns of food. As knowledge of pottery can be gained only through direct contact with ceramic assemblages.

The program was first offered in 2006 as the first year of a three-year pilot series, honoring the memory of Howard Comfort, a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and an eminent scholar of Roman pottery.

2008 dates
June 16 - July 14, 2008

2008 application deadline
January 15th, 2008. Notification will be on or around March 1, 2008.

2008 Director
Archer Martin, Adjunct Professor, Università Suor Orsola Benincasa (Napoli)

Participants
About 5 people.

Click here for more information, or contact archer.martin@aarome.org or info@aarome.org.

This seven-week program provides an overview of archaeological problems and methods for graduate students in all fields of classical studies. Three weeks of the program are spent in Rome studying monuments and other resources; the balance of the time is spent on-site at an archaeological excavation.

2008 dates
June 3 - July 22, 2008

2008 application deadline
January 15th, 2008. Notification will be on or around March 1, 2008.

2008 Director
Nicola Terrenato, University of Michigan

Participants
12 people.

Scuola di Etruscologia e Archeologia dell'Italia Antica

The Academy has granted affiliation to the Scuola di Etruscologia e Archeologia dell'Italia Antica at Orvieto, which is intended to foster the development of young scholars about to embark on their careers. During two weeks in the summer the participants attend lectures and seminars on a specific theme chosen each year by the Advisory Committee. In the following months they elaborate papers under the direction of the teaching staff. Those that are considered worthy are published in the Scuola’s dedicated series. The students and faculty in the first cycles have been largely Italian, but the Scuola’s desire in seeking AAR affiliation is to broaden its international outreach. Although some knowledge of Italian is required, work may be presented in English.

Director: Prof. Giuseppe M. Della Fina
(Director of the Museo "Claudio Faina" at Orvieto)

Information: info@uniorvieto.it, fainaorv@tin.it, http://www.museofaina.it

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