STUDENT-FACULTY RESEARCH

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At Ripon, the Classics program continues to win competitive grants from the college for collaborative research. Eight weeks of work this summer resulted in a presentation by Classics major DAVID SHEDIVY and Prof. ED. LOWRY at the Wisconsin Association of Foreign Language Teachers in November. The two will also present at CAMWS in April “Roman Environmental Literature: Some Prolegomena.”

Three students from DePauw—FRANK ABA-ONU, TINA BRADLEY, & JOHN O’NEAL—have been selected to participate in the summer’s Hacimusalar Archaeological Project in Turkey, a program involving DePauw, Holy Cross College, and the Associated Colleges of the South.

During June-July 2003 JOE RIFE of Macalester directed the second season of the Kenchreai Cemetery Project, an interdisciplinary archaeological study of a large cemetery of chamber tombs of Roman and Early Christian date at Kenchreai, the eastern port of Corinth. The season was a great success. He supervised eight students from Macalester and one from Cornell University, who also participated in an educational program of site visits and seminars, and collaborated with senior staff members MIREILLE LEE and MICHAEL NELSON (Macalester), Melissa Morison (Grand Valley State University), Alix Barbet (E.N.S.-C.N.R.S., Paris), Manuel Guterres (Katholieke Universitaet, Leeuwen), and colleagues from the Fourth Ephoreia of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities at Nafplion. Two Macalester students received competitive internal grants for summer collaborative research: EMILY RACKOW (‘04) received a Keck Grant to support her work in archaeological photography and digital imaging, and KATIE KRAJECK (‘04) received a Lilly Grant for her study of archaeological ethics and cultural resource management. Joe plans to run a third and final season in early summer 2004, also involving students from Macalester and specialists in ceramics, architecture, geomorphology, taphonomy, Roman wall-painting, and conservation. He hopes to complete the detailed documentation of the architectural and artifactual remains within their historical and topographical setting; to study and conserve the funerary paintings in collaboration with Dr. Barbet and her assistants; and to conduct a geophysical survey of the entire burial ground in collaboration with Apostolos Sarris (F.O.R.T.H.-Rethymno). To learn more about the Kenchreai Cemetery Project, please contact Joe at rife@macalester.edu or check out the department website.

ANDREW OVERMAN (Macalester) hopes to resume work this summer with students at the Roman temple site in Omrit, Israel after the political situation caused a temporary suspension.