Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome
Location
Rome

Italy
Information
TypeStudy abroad center
MottoIn centro crescit scientia
Established1965
Faculty6
Enrollment35
Campus typeurban
Websitethecentrorome.org

The Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome (ICCS) is an overseas study center located in Rome, Italy for undergraduate students in fields related to Classical Studies.[1] It was first established in 1965 by ten American colleges and universities; by 2007 the number of member institutions had grown to 113.[2][3] It is sometimes called the Centro, the Italian word for center.

Structure

Each member institution furnishes a "faculty representative" to the Centro; from these, four are elected by the institutional representatives to sit on a governing board called the Managing Committee, with a fifth member provided by Duke University, which provides administrative services to the ICCS. The Managing Committee elects its chair for a five-year term; the current chair is Professor Jeremy Hartnett of Wabash College.[4] Until 1992, administrative services were provided by Stanford University.[5] The Managing Committee hires a Professor in Charge (PIC) for each year, and three subordinate faculty members, who are responsible for instruction and are usually drawn from American colleges and universities. The Centro offers competitive admission to North American undergraduate students to study the Ancient City, Greek or Latin literature, Italian language, or (Renaissance and Baroque) Art History. A group of normally 36 undergraduate students are competitively selected as Centristi each semester.

The Centro has received financial support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Corning Incorporated Foundation, the Danforth Foundation, the Old Dominion Foundation, the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, its consortium of colleges and universities, former students, and friends. One of its founders was the American Classicist Brooks Otis, in whose memory the center's library is named.[6]

Faculty

Normally there are four faculty members at ICCS Rome: a senior 'Professor in Charge' (PIC), two junior professors (often an associate professor and an assistant professor), and a graduate student assistant, the 'Resident Instructor' (RI). The Professor in Charge is chosen by the Managing Committee and the remaining faculty are hired competitively at the annual meetings of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies in January. Faculty duties vary in accordance with the organizational plans of the PIC, but the course load is nominally two courses per semester except for the RI, who teaches a 1-1 load with additional resident supervisorial duties. The professors live in ICCS-rented apartments in the neighborhood, while the RI lives on the premises of the ICCS.[7]

Professors-in-Charge

YearNameInstitution
1967-1968William AndersonUniversity of California, Berkeley
1968-1969Charles Theophilus Murphy†Oberlin College
1969-1970Edward Togo Salmon†McMaster University
1970-1971Edward Togo Salmon†McMaster University
1971-1972Charles P. Segal[8]Brown University
1972-1973John Van SickleBrown University
1973-1974Paul MacKendrick†University of Wisconsin
1974 FallCharles L. Babcock† [9]Ohio State University
1975 SpringAlexander McKay†McMaster University
1975-1976J. Arthur Hanson†Princeton University
1976 fallJohn E. Stambaugh[10][11]†Williams College
1977 springJane CodyUniversity of Southern California
1977-1978Katherine A. GeffckenWellesley College
1978-1979Harry B. EvansFordham University
1979-1980Mary SturgeonThe University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1980-1981Gerhard M. Koeppel† [12]The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1981-1982Jean D'AmatoUniversity of Southern California
1982-1983Eric NielsenBowdoin College
1983-1984Leon FittsDickinson College
1984-1985Herbert W. BenarioEmory University
1985-1986Paul B. Harvey, jr.†Penn State University
1986-1987John E. FischerWabash College
1987-1988Ann Ellis HansonYale University
1988-1989Stephen L. DysonWesleyan University
1989-1990Gerhard M. Koeppel†The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1990-1991James RussellUniversity of British Columbia
1991-1992Russell T. "Darby" ScottBryn Mawr College
1992-1993Mary T. BoatwrightDuke University
1993-1994James C. Anderson jr.The University of Georgia
1994-1995James FranklinIndiana University, Bloomington
1995-1996Stephen L. DysonUniversity at Buffalo - SUNY
1996-1997Thomas A.J. McGinnVanderbilt University
1997 FallJames FranklinIndiana University, Bloomington
1998 SpringGerhard M. Koeppel†University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1998-1999Helen NagyUniversity of Puget Sound
1999-2000James RussellUniversity of British Columbia
2000-2001Harry B. EvansFordham University
2001-2002Bernard Frischer[13]UCLA
2002-2003Christopher ParslowWesleyan University
2003-2004Michele R. SalzmanUniversity of California, Riverside
2004-2005Mary SturgeonUniversity of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2005-2006Michael MaasRice University
2006-2007Doug Domingo-ForasteCalifornia State University, Long Beach
2007-2008Walter EnglertReed College
2008-2009Nigel Pollard Swansea University
2009-2010Peter Burian Archived 2012-06-26 at the Wayback MachineDuke University
2010-2011R. Scott SmithUniversity of New Hampshire
2011-2012Gregory S. Bucher Archived 2012-05-10 at the Wayback MachineCreighton University
2012-2013Daniel W. BermanTemple University
2013-2014Peter Burian Archived 2012-06-26 at the Wayback MachineDuke University
2014-2015Beth Severy-HovenMacalester College
2015-2016Garrett G. Fagan†Pennsylvania State University
2016-2017Christopher A. GreggGeorge Mason University
2017-2018Jeremy HartnettWabash College
2018-2019Barbette SpaethCollege of William & Mary
2019-2020John MuccigrossoDrew University
2020-2021Myles McDonnellQueens College, CUNY
2021-2022Kathleen M. Coleman FBAHarvard University
2022-2023Christopher A. GreggGeorge Mason University

Coursework

The main component of the curriculum at the ICCS is the so-called "Ancient City" course.[7] Worth two credits and demanding an exceptional amount of time, this course teaches the history and archaeology of the city of Rome with a focus on its topography, ancient and modern.[14] Although they are supplemented by a weekly lecture, field trips provide the core of the class, with two excursions per week, one a full day, and one a half day. While pedagogies vary with each PIC, students are generally expected to give one or more on-site presentations, which help further emphasize the physicality of the field.[3][15]

In addition to the ancient city course students must take two additional courses (some choose to take a third). One class must be in either the Greek or the Latin language. Currently Centro provides three electives, Elementary Italian, Renaissance and Baroque Italian art history and a course in Conservation Management. Paul Tegmeyer, a faculty member of John Cabot University, teaches the art history course. [16] The class consists of a weekly lecture Wednesday afternoons and a field trip Friday mornings, normally to a museum or church.[17] Instruction in Italian is provided by Dr. Barbara Castaldo.


Life at the Centro

All students live in a small four-story building that previously served as a convent, located at Via Alessandro Algardi 19, in the Monteverde Vecchio section of Rome, having moved here from Via Ulisse Seni 2. Breakfast, dinner, and most lunches are eaten together on all weekdays; the bedrooms are small; the long and frequent field trips for the Ancient City course mean that class time is heavily weighted.

Suzanne Deal Booth Scholar-in-Residence

In 2012 a program of resident scholars was announced,[18] funded by Suzanne Deal Booth. Booth Residents spend one week at the Centro during each academic year.

Date of TenureNameInstitution
2012-13Richard Talbert[19]University of North Carolina
2013-14Susan StevensRandolph College
2014-15Erich Gruen[20]University of California, Berkeley
2015-16Anthony CorbeillUniversity of Kansas
2016-17Jennifer TrimbleStanford University
2017-18Judy Hallett[21]University of Maryland

Sources

  • Mary Taliaferro Boatwright, Michael Maas, Corb Smith, et al. 2015. The Centro at Fifty: The History of the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, 1965-2015. Centro Press. ISBN 9780692378953.

References

  1. ↑ University of Michigan Official Publication. UM Libraries. 1974. pp. 6–. UOM:39015078740084.
  2. ↑ "Duke Global Education : ICCS Membership". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-02-18.
  3. 1 2 Mary Boatwright; Michael Maas; Corb Smith (1 May 2015). The Centro at Fifty: The History of the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, 1965?2015. Centro Press. ISBN 978-0-692-37895-3.
  4. ↑ "Academics - Classics Faculty & Staff | Wabash College".
  5. ↑ "Duke Global Education : ICCS - Rome". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-02-17.
  6. ↑ "Iccs Rome Library".
  7. 1 2 "Duke Global Education : Academics". Archived from the original on 2014-02-22. Retrieved 2014-02-18.
  8. ↑ Charles Segal (1998). Aglaia. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 339–. ISBN 978-0-8476-8617-9.
  9. ↑ "Charles Luther Babcock Obituary (2012) the Columbus Dispatch". Legacy.com.
  10. ↑ "John e. Stambaugh, Professor, 50". The New York Times. 10 June 1990.
  11. ↑ Ward W. Briggs (1 January 1994). Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists. Greenwood Publishing Group. pp. 609–. ISBN 978-0-313-24560-2.
  12. ↑ "Gerhard Koeppel | Department of Classics".
  13. ↑ Gregson Davis (4 February 2010). A Companion to Horace. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 11–. ISBN 978-1-4443-1919-4.
  14. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2014-12-20. Retrieved 2015-03-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  15. ↑ ICCS Rome - Academics "Duke Global Education : Academics". Archived from the original on 2014-12-20. Retrieved 2014-12-20.
  16. ↑ "Duke Global Education : Paul Tegmeyer". Archived from the original on 2015-06-10. Retrieved 2015-06-10.
  17. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2015-04-02. Retrieved 2015-03-09.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  18. ↑ "Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies". Archived from the original on 2013-01-25. Retrieved 2012-11-09.
  19. ↑ "Richard Talbert serves as inaugural Suzanne Deal Booth Scholar-in-Residence at ICCS-Rome | Ancient World Mapping Center". Archived from the original on 2015-09-26. Retrieved 2015-04-01.
  20. ↑ "Suzanne Deal Booth Scholar-in-Residence Program Celebrates Third Year". Retrieved 10 December 2016.
  21. ↑ "Hallett awarded 2017-2018 ICCS residency". Archived from the original on 21 December 2016. Retrieved 10 December 2016.

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