THE AMERICAN SCHOOL

OF CLASSICAL STUDIES

IN ATHENS

In 1881, scholars from nine American universities banded together with a group of leading businessmen to establish the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. It was their stated purpose to offer both graduate students and scholars the opportunity to study Greek civilization at first hand, in Greece.

Now the largest of fourteen foreign advanced research institutes in Athens, the American School serves the students and faculty of 167 affiliated colleges and universities in North America. Governed in academic matters by a Managing Committee formed of representatives from these member institutions, the School continues true to its original mission: to teach the archaeology, art, history, language, and literature of Greece from early times to the present, to survey and excavate archaeological sites in Greek lands, and to publish the results of its excavation and research.

Some 400 students and scholars avail themselves of the School's facilities and services every year. Recognized by the Greek government as the permanent American archaeological presence in Greece, the School is the official link between American archaeologists and classicists and the Archaeological Service of the Ministry of Culture.

Creighton has been a member institution of the American School since 1997, and Professor Geoff Bakewell, a former fellow of the School, has served on the Managing Committee since then. Other School alumni at Creighton include Professors Habash and Bucher; Professor Clark attended the School's Summer Session.

The Summer Session is an excellent way for the serious undergraduate student of classics to gain a working familiarity with Greek antiquities and the environment of the school through an intensive program of study. Professor Bakewell led one of the Summer Sessions in 1999. The School runs two summer sessions every year, with competitive admission open to undergraduate and graduate students, as well as high school and college faculty. See the brochure for the 2004 Summer Session (which will be in Turkey, not Greece this year because of teh madness of Olympic Crowds) here.

For further information contact Professor Geoff Bakewell.