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Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome
Location
Map
Rome

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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

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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

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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

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Year Name Institution
1967-1968 William Anderson University of California, Berkeley
1968-1969 Charles Theophilus Murphy† Oberlin College
1969-1970 Edward Togo Salmon† McMaster University
1970-1971 Edward Togo Salmon† McMaster University
1971-1972 Charles P. Segal[8] Brown University
1972-1973 John Van Sickle Brown University
1973-1974 Paul MacKendrick† University of Wisconsin
1974 Fall Charles L. Babcock† [9] Ohio State University
1975 Spring Alexander McKay† McMaster University
1975-1976 J. Arthur Hanson† Princeton University
1976 fall John E. Stambaugh[10][11]† Williams College
1977 spring Jane Cody University of Southern California
1977-1978 Katherine A. Geffcken Wellesley College
1978-1979 Harry B. Evans Fordham University
1979-1980 Mary Sturgeon The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1980-1981 Gerhard M. Koeppel† [12] The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1981-1982 Jean D'Amato University of Southern California
1982-1983 Eric Nielsen Bowdoin College
1983-1984 Leon Fitts Dickinson College
1984-1985 Herbert W. Benario [de] Emory University
1985-1986 Paul B. Harvey, jr.† Penn State University
1986-1987 John E. Fischer Wabash College
1987-1988 Ann Ellis Hanson Yale University
1988-1989 Stephen L. Dyson[permanent dead link] Wesleyan University
1989-1990 Gerhard M. Koeppel† The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1990-1991 James Russell University of British Columbia
1991-1992 Russell T. "Darby" Scott Bryn Mawr College
1992-1993 Mary T. Boatwright Duke University
1993-1994 James C. Anderson jr. The University of Georgia
1994-1995 James Franklin Indiana University, Bloomington
1995-1996 Stephen L. Dyson University at Buffalo - SUNY
1996-1997 Thomas A.J. McGinn Vanderbilt University
1997 Fall James Franklin Indiana University, Bloomington
1998 Spring Gerhard M. Koeppel† University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1998-1999 Helen Nagy University of Puget Sound
1999-2000 James Russell University of British Columbia
2000-2001 Harry B. Evans Fordham University
2001-2002 Bernard Frischer[13] UCLA
2002-2003 Christopher Parslow Wesleyan University
2003-2004 Michele R. Salzman University of California, Riverside
2004-2005 Mary Sturgeon University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
2005-2006 Michael Maas Rice University
2006-2007 Doug Domingo-Foraste California State University, Long Beach
2007-2008 Walter Englert[permanent dead link] Reed College
2008-2009 Nigel Pollard Swansea University
2009-2010 Peter Burian Archived 2012-06-26 at the Wayback Machine Duke University
2010-2011 R. Scott Smith[permanent dead link] University of New Hampshire
2011-2012 Gregory S. Bucher Archived 2012-05-10 at the Wayback Machine Creighton University
2012-2013 Daniel W. Berman Temple University
2013-2014 Peter Burian Archived 2012-06-26 at the Wayback Machine Duke University
2014-2015 Beth Severy-Hoven Macalester College
2015-2016 Garrett G. Fagan† Pennsylvania State University
2016-2017 Christopher A. Gregg George Mason University
2017-2018 Jeremy Hartnett Wabash College
2018-2019 Barbette Spaeth College of William & Mary
2019-2020 John Muccigrosso Drew University
2020-2021 Myles McDonnell Queens College, CUNY
2021-2022 Kathleen M. Coleman FBA Harvard University
2022-2023 Christopher A. Gregg George Mason University
2023-2024 Anthony Corbeill University of Virginia
2024-2025 Sonia Sabnis Reed College

Coursework

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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

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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

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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 Tenure Name Institution
2012-13 Richard Talbert[19] University of North Carolina
2013-14 Susan Stevens Randolph College
2014-15 Erich Gruen[20] University of California, Berkeley
2015-16 Anthony Corbeill University of Kansas
2016-17 Jennifer Trimble Stanford University
2017-18 Judy Hallett[21] University of Maryland
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Sources

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  • 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

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  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. ^ a b 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. ^ a b "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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