research | 1 4 8 17 19 21 AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS ANNUAL REPORT c 2015–2016 3 MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD PRESIDENT, MANAGING COMMITTEE CHAIR, AND DIRECTOR 4 ACADEMICS 8 ARCHAEO LOGICAL FIELDWORK 13 RESEARCH FACILITIES 19 OUTREACH 21 LECTURES AND EVENTS 23 U.S. ACTIVITIES 27 GOVERNANCE 28 STAFF, FACULTY, AND MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL 32 COOPERATING INSTITUTIONS AND THEIR REPRESENTATIVES 35 DONORS 38 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS 2 | research ABOUT THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS Established in 1881 by a consortium of nine American universities to foster the study of Greek thought and life and to enhance the education and experience of scholars seeking to become teachers of Greek, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens is today the leading American research and teaching institute. The School has evolved beyond its original scope to pursue a multifaceted mission to advance knowl- edge of Greece from antiquity to the present, both within Greece and as pertaining to other areas of the ancient and early modern world, by training young scholars, conducting and promoting archaeological fieldwork, providing resources for scholarly work, and disseminating research. The ASCSA is also charged by the Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports with primary responsibility for all American archaeological research in the country, and is actively engaged in supporting the investigation, preservation, and presenta- tion of Greece’s cultural heritage. The School conducts these broad and cross-disciplinary operations under the stewardship of its Board of Trustees; the guidance of its Managing Committee, representing 193 affiliated North American institutions of higher learning; and the leadership of its Athens-based Director and Princeton, New Jersey–based Execu- tive Director. This report summarizes the American School’s accomplishments in education, excavation, research, outreach, and publication during the academic year 2015–2016 and highlights several milestones that embody the School’s unique scope and mission. Q see our new introductory video of the school at https://vimeo.com/166801992 research | 3 Message from the Board President, Managing Committee Chair, and Director One of the mainstays of civilizations through two building projects that are complemented by a robust and are institutions like ours that preserve advance and enable programming innovative series of programs—lectures, and protect the past for the erudition necessary for modern scholarship. colloquia, conferences, exhibitions, and and enjoyment of those who find in One of the highlights of this report concerts that equally demonstrate the history and tradition inspiration and is the inauguration of the Malcolm H. lively outreach to diverse and traditional guidance for their lives and their works. Wiener Laboratory for Archaeological audiences in Greece and throughout The American School of Classical Science—a major international facility the United States. They realize the Studies at Athens is one of many with the equipment and expertise to School’s mission to educate broadly, American cultural and educational transform the role of science in the while additions to the core academic research centers that provide students study of the Hellenic past. Soon to programs of the School demonstrate and scholars a base of operations abroad, follow is the addition to the West the strength of the rich tradition of but it is uniquely the oldest and largest Wing of the Gennadius Library, whose providing training through the regular of such overseas research centers. It is completion will transform the operation year and summer session academic also unique for the breadth and size of of all the libraries, special collections, programs. All of these draw on its consortium of colleges, universities, and archives of the School and offer a members of the nearly 200 Cooperating and research centers throughout commodious exhibition space to display Institutions of the School, who through North America. This arrangement was the treasures of the collections. At the their voluntary efforts sustain the celebrated during 2016 as the 135th same time, this year saw the completion programs through committee work and year since the School’s founding. of a major digitization project that will through active participation. Over that period it has arguably been offer to the public scores of thousands In these ways the School celebrated a major force in the advancement of of documents, especially relating to its 135th anniversary by renewing the humanities throughout the United modern Greek literature. Another digital its commitments and laying the States through its programs and initiative was the launching of iDig foundations for the next generations teaching of the civilizations of ancient through iTunes, a free comprehensive of scholars to exploit to the fullest the Greece. But it has not stood still. tool for recording of archaeological facilities and opportunities the ASCSA Its record instead is one of visionary excavations. These and other initiatives provides. We hope that you will agree recognition of the importance of demonstrate the vitality of the School’s that this report demonstrates the value expanding its horizons to cover all the commitment to staying at the forefront of humanistic institutions such as disciplines that concern themselves of developments in research and the ours. We welcome your support and with understanding the Hellenic past. dissemination of knowledge. encourage you to visit us in Greece to This year the School is proud to report As you read this report you will see first-hand our dynamic community that it has moved forward substantively find evidence that these advances at work. William T. Loomis Jenifer Neils James C. Wright Acting President, Board of Trustees Chair, Managing Committee Director of the School 4 | ACADEMICS idely recognized as the institutions (see Appendix: Members of itinerary, exposed students to Western most significant resource the School for a full list) to its formal and Northern Greece. Highlights in Greece for North academic program. The School’s long included a stop at the Bronze Age AmericanW scholars of Greece and tradition of introducing students to the necropolis at Voudeni (Achaia), the the Greek diaspora, the American topography and monuments of Greece site of Xerxes’ canal across the Athos School of Classical Studies at Athens remained central to the curriculum as peninsula in Chalkidike, new Bronze educates young scholars—the core Regular Program Members participated Age excavations at Amphissa, and of its mission—by presenting a in a nine-month traveling seminar exhilarating hikes to Panopeus and the multidisciplinary approach to Hellenic interspersed with hands-on workshops cliffs above Delphi. Trip 2 brought the studies, encompassing the fields and on-site excavation training. group to Central Greece, with special of archaeology, anthropology, the Over the course of four core trips attention to Boiotia and Thessaly. As archaeological sciences, topography, during the fall, Members delivered ever, few hills with antiquities were architecture, epigraphy, numismatics, oral reports on monuments and left unclimbed. Underlining the history, art, language, literature, were engaged and inspired by on- growing import of scientific analysis philosophy, religion, and cultural site exchanges with School faculty in archaeological study, Wiener studies. members, as well as a multitude of Laboratory Director Panagiotis (Takis) Through its Regular and Sum- guest speakers. The year’s first two trips Karkanas joined the trip to describe mer Programs, the School provides were led by Mellon Professor Daly. his work at Koutroulou Magoula and students, teachers, and scholars from Trip 1, with an intensive two-week Theopetra Cave. North America and elsewhere an opportunity for unparalleled immer- sion into the sites and monuments of Hellenic civilization and the culture of modern Greece. The Regular Program In 2015–2016 the School—under the leadership of Director James Wright (Bryn Mawr College) and the oversight of Mellon Professor Kevin Daly (Bucknell University), with support from Assistant Director Dylan Rogers (University of Virginia); Guy Sanders, Director of the Excavations at Ancient Corinth; John Camp, Director of the Excavations of the Athenian Agora; and other School faculty and staff— welcomed 16 students representing 13 Mellon Professor Kevin Daly explains a site plan to the Regular members academics | 5 Students at the Temple of Zeus at Euromos during the optional trip to Turkey Guy Sanders led the year’s third Athens and Attica with Kevin Daly and hiked to the fabled Dragon Houses at trip, to the Deep Peloponnese, where numerous internationally known guest Stira and visited Karystos at the south the students visited sites of all eras and speakers. Augmenting the curriculum, of the island. One final hike, to the sizes. There were many memorable Whitehead Professor Donald Haggis tower above Hesiod’s Askra, capped the stops, but a special highlight came (UNC-Chapel Hill) lectured on the Athens-based section of the program. when Dr. Sharon Stocker, co- problems of context, stratigraphy, Following seven months of traveling, director of the School-affiliated Pylos and site formation, while Whitehead research, and scholarship, the students Excavation, led the students through Professor Richard McKirahan (Pomona had an opportunity to excavate and the palace at Pylos and shared her College) helped the students