Annual Reports - The American School of Classical Studies at Athens

The American School
of Classical Studies at
Athens was established in
1881 by a consortium of nine
American universities, with a
mandate to foster the study
of Greek thought and life and
to enhance the education
and experience of scholars
seeking to become teachers
of Greek With a Managing
Committee providing academic
leadership, the School
pursued its mission, operating
on contributions from a
growing body of participating
colleges and universities
and other interested parties
Within a few years of its
founding, the School added
archaeological excavation
and research to its primary
focus as a teaching institution
intRODuctiOn & OvERviEW
The School campus
Today the School provides graduate students and
scholars from over 180 affiliated North American
colleges and universities a base for the advanced
study of all aspects of Greek culture, from antiquity
to the present day it also contributes considerably
to the dissemination of information about Greek
history and archaeology to the Greek public, as well
as to U S and international scholarly communities
And, it opens its resources to thousands of scholars
from Greek and European universities and cultural
institutions annually Guided in academic matters by
a Managing Committee composed of faculty representatives
from member institutions, and headed by
a Director who, along with a Mellon Professor, over-
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sees the academic program
in Athens and functions as
liaison between the School
and the Greek community,
the American School is
widely recognized as one
of the leading research centers
in Greece as well as the
most significant resource in
Greece for North American
scholars of ancient
and post-classical Greek
studies
To this day the American
School of Classical Studies
at Athens remains, as its
founders envisioned, a privately
funded, non-profit
educational institution, and
it continues true to its original
mission: to teach the
archaeology, art, history, language,
and literature of Greece from earliest times
to the present; to support research through such
avenues as its libraries, its archives, its study centers
at Corinth and the Athenian Agora, and its Wiener
Laboratory; to survey and excavate archaeological
sites in Greek lands; and to publish and disseminate
the results of its excavations and research At
the same time it has expanded its mission and now
recognizes its ever more important role as a cultural
provider to a Greek, European, and international
community
This report covers the academic years 2006–2007
through 2007–2008, summarizing the School’s accomplishments
in teaching, research, excavation,
and publication over the past two years and outlin-