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 four summer programs.

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.

2003 dates
23 June - 1 August

2003 application deadline
3 March 2003

2003 Director
Professor Ann Vasaly, FAAR'83, of Boston University


National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar

This four-to-six-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 one or two leading scholars on a given topic in the humanities with the goal of furthering their teaching and scholarship.

2003 topic
Archaeology and Ideology in Modern Rome

2003 dates
30 June - 1 August

2003 application deadline
1 March 2003

2003 Directors
Professors John Davis, RAAR'01, of the University of Connecticut and David Kertzer, RAAR'00, of Brown University

Summer Program in Applied Palaeography

This seven-week program is open to qualified graduate students and other scholars. The program offers an intensive introduction to Latin palaeography from Roman antiquity through the European Renaissance and considers as well the impact of printing on western graphic culture, the transmission of classical texts, and the history of palaeography as a discipline.

2003 dates
4 June - 23 July

2003 application deadline
1 February 2003

2003 Director
Professor Christopher Celenza, FAAR'94, of Michigan State University


Summer Program in Archaeology

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.

2003 dates
4 June - 23 July

2003 application deadline
15 March 2003

2003 Directors
Professors Ilaria Romeo of the Universita' degli Studi Roma Tor Vergata and Nicola Terrenato of the University of North Carolina