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ASCSA NEWS
New Assistant Director Making His Mark
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n July, the School welcomed Nicholas Blackwell as Assistant Director of the American School, a new twelve-month administrative position. Mr. Blackwell, whose appointment was approved by the ASCSA Managing Committee in May, will serve a three-year term at the School. Mr. Blackwell was a Regular Member of the School in 2006– 07, a Student Associate Member in 2008 and 2009, and a Senior Associate Member in 2011. Most
recently, he was Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) Junior Research Fellow at the Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem. He holds a B.A. from Davidson College and an M.A. from Bryn Mawr College, and was awarded a Ph.D. in Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology from Bryn Mawr in May 2011. Mr. Blackwell brings to this position a wealth of administrative skills, relationships with both American and international
News&Notes In April, Charles K. Williams II, ASCSA Trustee and Field Director Emeritus of the Corinth Excavations, was elected as a member of the American Philosophical Society, the oldest learned society in the United States. ddd At a ceremony on the island of Kythera in June, George L. Huxley, former Director of the Gennadius Library (1986–1989), was honored by the Mayor of Kythera at a ceremony marking a halfcentury since the beginning of joint work by the University of Pennsylvania Museum and the British School at Athens on the island. Huxley, who codirected (with Nicolas Coldstream) excavations at Kastri, gave a lecture on the island as it was fifty years ago, and there was an exhibition of photographs by dig photographer Ivan Strahan. ddd Managing Committee Member Peter Krentz, W.R. Grey Professor of Classics and History at Davidson College, was the recipient in October of the college’s Thomas Jefferson Award,
which honors a faculty member who by personal influence, teaching, writing, and scholarship promotes the high ideals of Thomas Jefferson. ddd
Former School Director Jack L. Davis has been elected as one of six external members of the newly formed Presidential Council of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens. The Council, formed in response to an act of Parliament, is charged with broad oversight of the university’s structure, operation, quality, and internationalization. ddd Managing Committee Member Sheila Dillon (Duke University) will become the next Editor-inChief of the American Journal of Archaeology in 2013, following the highly successful editorship of Managing Committee Member Naomi J. Norman (University of Georgia). ddd Stephen Tracy, former Chair of the Managing Committee and past Director of the School, reports the publication in Germany (by Walter De Gruyter) of his fascicle (with collaborator and co-author Voula N. Bardani)
scholars, and general experience of excavating, traveling, and researching in Greece. Among his numerous awards and fellowships are the AIA’s Pomerance Fellowship; CAORC Multicountry Fellowship for Cyprus, Greece, and Turkey; and the Parks Fellowship from CAARI. His archaeological field experience includes Mitrou (where he ran the Mitrou field school), Athienou (Cyprus), Kos, and Corinth; he also has extensive museum experience. Nick Blackwell lectures on Eutresis on a student trip this fall.
Inscriptiones Atticae Euclidis anno posteriores. Ed. tertia. Pars I: Fasc. 5: Leges et decreta annorum 229/8–168/7. The work was done under the auspices of the Inscriptiones Graecae project of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences.
uled to reopen in 2013 for a second five-year campaign, to focus on an Early Iron Age temple partially exposed in the 2006 season and several Early Iron Age buildings and Archaic houses on the west slope of the South Acropolis.
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Managing Committee Member Brenda J. Longfellow (University of Iowa) is the winner of a 2012–13 Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize (Fellowship in Ancient Studies) from the American Academy in Rome, for her project “Past Lives, Present Meanings: Reused Statues in Imperial Rome.”
Managing Committee Member Jeremy B. Rutter, professor of classical studies and the Sherman Fairchild Professorship in the Humanities (Emeritus) at Dartmouth College, is receiving the Gold Medal for Distinguished Archaeological Achievement of the Archaeological Institute of America at the Annual Meeting in Seattle on January 4.
ddd Donald C. Haggis (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), Managing Committee nomineeand co-director (with Margaret S. Mook) of the Azoria Project, was awarded a three-year Collaborative Research Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, entitled “The Azoria Project Excavations: A Study of Urbanization on Crete, 700–500 B.C.” The $250,000 award constitutes a significant contribution in support of on-going excavations at Azoria, which are sched-
ddd Managing Committee Vice Chair Barbara Tsakirgis (Vanderbilt University) gave a lecture at Columbia University in September, entitled “The Athens of the South: William Bell Dinsmoor and the Design of the Nashville Parthenon.” The lecture was co-sponsored by the ASCSA, the Columbia Center of Archaeology, and Columbia University’s Department of Art History and Archaeology.