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American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA)

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The American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) is America’s first overseas research center and is still the largest in terms of assets, programs, and constituencies. It is a nonprofit organization based in the United States; its Trustees were incorporated in 1881 in Massachusetts for the purpose of founding the ASCSA in Greece. ASCSA’s website is at http://www.ascsa.edu.gr.

Major Impact

Since its beginnings, ASCSA has provided American graduate students and scholars a base in Greece for pursuing studies in the history and civilization of the Greek world (Lord 1947; Meritt 1984). ASCSA remains today a teaching institution, providing through its academic programs, opportunities for graduate students, undergraduates, secondary school and college teachers, as well as other scholars to study at first hand the sites and monuments of Greece. ASCSA is also a major research center for postdoctoral scholars pursuing independent research in a broad range of fields...

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References

  • Lord, L.E. 1947. A history of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1882–1942. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

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  • Meritt, L.T.S. 1984. History of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1939–1980. American School of Classical Studies at Athens: Princeton.

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  • Vogeikoff-Brogan, N. and J.L. Davis (eds.). 2013. Philhellenism, philanthropy, or political convenience? American archaeology in Greece. Hesperia (Special Issue) 82: 1.

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  • Vogeikoff-Brogan, N. The archivist’s notebook: Essays inspired by Archival Research in Greece. www.nataliavogeikoff.com

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  1. University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Irene Bald Romano

  2. University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, USA

    Jack L. Davis

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  1. Irene Bald Romano
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Correspondence to Irene Bald Romano .

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  1. Dept. of Classical and Near Eastern Studies, Binghamton University - SUNY, P.O. Box 6000 - LT 510, 13902-6000, Binghamton, NY, USA

    Jeffrey A. Becker Ph.D.

  2. Department of Classics, Davidson College, Box 7137, 28035-7137, Davidson, NC, USA

    Hilary Becker

  3. Department of Modern Languages and Classics, Saint Mary's University, 923 Robie Street, B3H 3C3, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

    Alison Barclay

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Romano, I.B., Davis, J.L. (2017). American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA). In: Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_1760-2

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