| 1 2019 ANNUAL REPORT 2020 AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS 2 | Above: The Stoa of Attalos and Parthenon at sunrise Cover: Regular Members enjoy a spectacular view of Siphai on the Gulf of Corinth | 3 AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS 139TH ANNUAL REPORT | 2019–2020 c 5 MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD PRESIDENT, MANAGING COMMITTEE CHAIR, AND DIRECTOR 6 ACADEMIC PROGRAMS 10 ARCHAEO LOGICAL FIELDWORK 15 RESEARCH FACILITIES 21 PUBLICATIONS 23 OUTREACH 25 PHILANTHROPY AND PUBLIC ENGAGEMENT 30 HONORS AND AWARDS 31 LECTURES AND EVENTS 33 GOVERNANCE 34 STAFF, FACULTY, AND MEMBERS OF THE SCHOOL 39 COOPERATING INSTITUTIONS 43 DONORS 47 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS Q and g indicate special digital content. Please click these links to view the media. The4 | Acropolis at sunrise ABOUT THE AMERICAN SCHOOL OF CLASSICAL STUDIES AT ATHENS Founded in 1881, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens is the oldest and largest U.S. overseas research institution. A consortium of nearly 200 North American colleges and universities, the School provides graduate students and scholars a base for the advanced study of all aspects of Greek culture, from antiquity to the present day. The School remains, as its founders envisioned, primarily a privately funded, nonprofit educational and cultural center dedicated to preserving and promoting Greece’s rich heritage. The mission of the School is to advance knowledge of Greece (and related Mediterranean areas) in all periods by training young scholars, sponsoring and promoting archaeological fieldwork, providing resources for scholarly work, and disseminating research. The School 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 presentation 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, and the leadership of its Director of the School in Athens, Greece, and Executive Director in Princeton, New Jersey. This report covers the academic year 2019–2020, summarizing the School’s accomplishments in education, excavation, research, publications, outreach, and public programming, and outlining the School’s progress in strengthening its position as one of the preeminent centers for the study of the Greek world. | 5 MESSAGE FROM THE BOARD PRESIDENT, MANAGING COMMITTEE CHAIR, AND DIRECTOR OF THE SCHOOL The 2019–2020 academic year will to great advantage. Professor Fachard access for non-rare resources in the surely enter the annals of the American left the School in June 2020 to take up Gennadius Library, and the expansion School of Classical Studies at Athens a position at the University of Lausanne, of stacks and reading space in the as one of the most memorable and Switzerland. We thank him for his Blegen Library. The Wiener Laboratory challenging. The COVID-19 pandemic dynamic and devoted service as Mellon of Archaeological Sciences acquired closed the School on March 16, Professor. equipment for extracting remains of 2020, and as we write these words the In summer 2019, the School ancient DNA on site. The Archives impact of that pandemic is still being hosted its usual Summer Session and not only expanded its holdings but felt around the world. Against that Seminars, one of which took to the seas also completed the conservation of the backdrop, however, there is much to be and experienced Greece as so many robes of John Gennadius. celebrated. an ancient mariner might have done. The COVID-19 pandemic closed Even before the upheaval caused Another seminar explored Sparta, many doors, but others opened. The by the pandemic, this was never while the Gennadius Library Summer School’s lectures and other events going to be a normal academic year. Session mixed close readings of from Cotsen Hall (pages 31–32) were Loring Hall, the residence building for Byzantine Greek texts with field trips already being livestreamed to a global students and visiting scholars first built to major sites and museums. audience. When Cotsen Hall closed, in 1929, closed in December 2019 for The summer months of 2019 also the staff in Athens shifted to a lively a much-needed complete renovation saw numerous archaeological projects program of Webinars, including the and the addition of an entire new floor. in the field. The Athenian Agora School’s annual Open Meeting. More School alumni/ae, trustees, and long- continued to explore the area around people than ever before, across Greece time and new friends of the School all the ancient Painted Stoa, while the and around the world, were introduced pitched in to support this ambitious Corinth Excavations continued their to the work of the School. project. Despite COVID-19, we are on exploration of a Roman neighborhood Not for the first time in its nearly target for reopening the complex for north of the Theater. Affiliated projects 140-year history, the American School our students and scholars in June 2021. at Pylos, Samothrace, Molyvoti, Mt. of Classical Studies demonstrated its Of course, this construction meant Lykaion, and Megalopolis all had resilience and ability to thrive under the that the students arriving in September very successful seasons in 2019 (pages most adverse conditions. None of this 2019 only had a few months with access 12–14). would be possible without the efforts to Loring Hall. On page 6, Mellon The research facilities of the School of our staff in Princeton and Athens Professor Sylvian Fachard describes continued to improve with the and the loyal support of countless how he restructured the traditional adoption of the Library of Congress individuals and foundations. program of travel to sites and museums classification system, open stack William T. Loomis Mark L. Lawall Jenifer Neils President, Board of Trustees Chair, Managing Committee Director of the School 6 | ACADEMIC PROGRAMS ylvian Fachard skillfully led a Assistant Director of the School, array of guest speakers. Notable new modified and unprecedented and Tom Brogan, Director of the highlights included: a tour of the academic program in his third INSTAP Study Center for East Classical sculpture collection at the Sand final year as Mellon Professor Crete). For the first time in post- National Museum (Olga Palagia, before assuming the post of Professor war history, the School ended the Professor of Classical Archaeology of Classical Archaeology at the Regular Program due to a force at the National and Kapodistrian University of Lausanne and Director majeure. Despite this unfortunate University of Athens), a full morning at of the Swiss School of Archaeology in ending, Fachard emphasized that the the Piraeus Museum (Olga Palagia and Greece. 2019–2020 Regular Program should Edward Harris, Emeritus Professor of be remembered for its exceptionally Ancient History, Durham University), the regular program talented group of students. and a session on Byzantine Athens Whitehead Distinguished Scholars (Maria Georgopoulou, Director of the The 2019–2020 Regular Program Cynthia Patterson and Chris Ratté Gennadius Library). schedule was “reversed” to meet the taught “Health and Healing in the Fachard again offered a condensed challenges posed by Loring Hall’s Ancient Greek World” and “The course on “modern” Greek history temporary closing. The Athens and Lives of Cities in Greece and Western and facilitated the opportunity Attica program and the Whitehead Anatolia in the Hellenistic and Early for students to take a geographic seminars occurred in the fall, following Roman Periods,” respectively. Both information system (GIS) seminar. the western and northern Greece seminars interacted well with the This course familiarized participants trip (led by Fachard in September). Athens and Attica Program and its with the possibilities offered by GIS in The other four “fall” trips took place between January and early March. Fachard directed the central Greece trip, while Christopher Pfaff, Director of the Corinth Excavations, handled Corinthia and the Argolid, and Jenifer Neils, Director of the School, took charge in the Deep Peloponnese. Fachard reported that this reversed approach to the Regular Program was successful and offered significant advantages over the traditional schedule. These changes ended up being minimal compared to the significant disruption provoked by the coronavirus. An abrupt termination of the Regular Program occurred on March 13, when students were on the Crete trip (led by Eric Driscoll, Assistant Director Eric Driscoll (far right) guides students at the Kerameikos Academic programs | 7 Clockwise from top left: Regular Members hike Panakton Regular Member Evan Levine reports on the Late Bronze Age/Early Iron Age transition in Eastern Crete, after a hike to the mountaintop settlement of Karfi Associate Director of the Corinth Excavations Ioulia Tzonou (center) lectures to students at the Acropolis Mellon Professor Sylvian Fachard second from left) with Regular Members at Eutresis, Boeotia 8 | Academic programs in full swing when the group arrives. New discoveries appear as the students look on. It is hard to imagine a better advertisement for the field of Greek Archaeology! In addition to this six- week session, the School also offers two shorter, three-week seminars. Nigel Kennell of the University of British Columbia led 12 students on a seminar entitled “Finding the Spartans.” In