Summer Grants and Fellowships
We congratulate our many past recipients, listed below along with their projects.
Summer of '23
- Kate Izzo '26 won a stipend for summer study to participate in the San Gemini Preservation Studies Program in San Gemini, Umbria to study the Restoration of Traditional Masonry Buildings in Italy and the Sketching and Analysis of Historic Buildings.
- Leah Rottler-Gurley '26 won a stipend for summer study to participate in "Castles in Communities" an archaeological and anthropological field school in Ballintober, Ireland.
- Jason Rowe '26 won a stipend for summer study to participate in "Excavating in the Aegean: The Despotiko Field School" an archaeological field school on the islands of Paros and Despotiko, Greece.
- Robbie Buhite '24 (Classics and English) won a student summer fellowship to work on "Echoes of Ancient Greek Lyric in Catullus' Carmina" under the direction of Dr. Aaron Palmore
- Christina Guerra '23 (Classical Civilization and Art History) won a student summer fellowship to work on "Researching Medieval Manuscripts at 91心頭 Notre Dame Library" under the direction of Dr. Kerry Boeye.
Summer of '22
- Christina Guerra '23 won a Stipend for Summer Study to participate in an archaeological dig at the Sanctuary of Apollo Amyklaios in Sparta run by the Hellenic Research Council.
Summer of '20
- Patrick Waters '22 won a Stipend for Summer Study to study spoken Latin at the "total immersion" program of the Academia Vivarium Novum summer school in Rome. (Cancelled due to Covid)
Summer of '18
- Megan Adlem '19 won a Stipend for Summer Study to participate in the College Year in Athens archaeological program "Excavating in the Aegean: The Case of Despotiko."
Summer of '17
- Kelly Mueller '18 won a Student Summer Fellowship to work "Josephus and Flavian Rome: An Examination of the Effects of Flavian Rome on Flavius Josephus."
- Joshua Ziesel '17 won a stipend for Summer Study to study German at the Goethe Institute in Berlin.
- Katie Wright '17 won a stipend for Summer Study to participate in the Troia Archaeological field school at the Roman fortress of Halmyris in Murighiol, Romania.
- Ian McNeeley '17 won a Student Summer Fellowship to work on "The Female Ideal: Representation and Myth in Heliodorus' Aithiopika".
- Calix O'Hara '17 won a Student Summer Fellowship to work on the "The Transcription and Analysis of Sentences Commentaries."
- Rebecca Swerdlow '17 (minor) won a Student Summer Fellowship to work on "Mariana Mirroring Penelope."
- Joshua Ziesel '17 won a Student Summer Fellowship to work on "A Corpus-Based Linguistic Study of Greek Tragic Interjections in Roman New Comedy."
- Ashley Buzzanca '18 won a Grant for Unpaid Internship to spend the summer working in the archives of the Western Reserve Historical Society.
Summer of 15
- Joshua Ziesel 17 won a Student Summer Fellowship to research the Greek demonstrative "that" (ekeinos) for a paper titled, "A Corpus-Based Linguistic Study of Ekeinos in Lysias."
- Kjerstin Burdiek 17 won a Student Summer Fellowship to write a paper on Alexander the Great, titled "Son of Ammon, Son of Zeus: Alexander the Great and Multicultural Mythmaking."
- Calix O'Hara 17 won a Student Summer Fellowship to study the strength of ancient armor in "Testing the Efficacy of Ancient Greek Linen Body Armor." Calix also received a Hauber Summer Research Fellowship for a related project, "Determining the ballistic resistance and effectiveness of historic linen body armor."
- Katie Wright 17 won a Stipend for Summer Study to go on the College Year in Athens' summer program: Excavating in the Aegean: The Case of Despotiko. The program begins with one week in the archaeological museum on Paros, working with artifacts from Despotiko, an important archaic sanctuary of Apollo, and then moves to three weeks of on-site archaeological work at the sanctuary where students are trained in proper excavation techniques.
- Michele Ryan 17, a double-major in Classical Civilization and Biology (with a chemistry minor), won a Stipend for Summer Study to participate in the program "Archaeological Anthropology in Crete" where she will help with forensic anthropological analysis and field/lab illustration of human skeletal remains from the late Iron age burial ground in Eleutherna, Crete.
Summer of 14
- Natalie Tsottles 16 won a National Fellowships Office Summer Research Grant for her project "Faith, Hope, and Love in the thought of Peter Gracilis." Natalie will be creating an original transcription, of a Latin manuscript folio from Peter Gracilis' Commentary on The Sentences, which will contribute to the critical edition of this text. She will then read the text for content and develop a commentary on the philosophical and theological content of the text, that will focus on the nature of faith, what it is, and how it is acquired.
- Shawn Turner 16 won his second Stipend for Internship to intern at St. Ignatius 91心頭 Academy where he will teach a Humanities course and will otherwise help out with the teaching of Latin and the mentoring of students.
Summer of 13
- Mitch Corwin 14 won a Stipend for Summer Study to travel to Athens to participate in the summer program of the American School of Classical Studies in Greece.
- Natalie Tsottles 16 won a Stipend for Summer Study to attend a two-week long program in spoken Latin and pedagogy, hosted by the North American Institute for Living Latin Studies.
- Shawn Turner 16 won a Stipend for Internship to intern at St. Ignatius 91心頭 Academy where he will teach a Humanities course and will otherwise help out with the teaching of Latin and the mentoring of students.
Summer of 12
- Sidney Christman 13 won a Student Summer Fellowship to research gender roles in Athenian drama for her paper "What Nature Suits Us For: Gender in Athenian Drama." Sidney focused on a comparison of gender ideologies in Aristophanes Ecclesiazusai and Sophocles Antigone.
Summer of 11
- Gavin Blasdel 12 won a Student Summer Fellowship to conduct preliminary research for his Senior Honors thesis by working on his paper Misunderstanding and Miscalculation: Roman Administration, Policy and Attitudes in Judaea, 63 BC 70 AD.
- Sarah Haley 13 won a Stipend for Summer Study to attend the American College of Thessaloniki where she studied Modern Greek and Ancient Greek Art.
- Sidney Christman 13 won a Stipend for Internships to help fund her internship at the Maryland Historical Society.
Summer 09
- Caitlin Engler 10 won a Stipend for Summer Study to attend Arcadia Universitys summer program in Greece: Of Gods and the City: History, Art, and Architecture in Archaic and Classical Greece.
Summer of 08
- Nathan Zawie 09 won a Stipend for Summer Study to attend the summer session of the American School of Classical Studies in Greece.
Summer of 06
- Irene Murphy 08 won a Stipend for Summer Study to attend the Virgilian Societys course Cumae III: Naples Bay as Melting Pot and to take an Intensive Modern Greek course on the island of Paros.
- Nate Zawie 09 won a Student Summer Fellowship to attend Fr. Reginal Fosters spoken Latin program in Rome Aestiva Romae Latinitas.
Summer of 04
- Treasa Beyer 05 won a Student Summer Fellowship to work on her project The Loves of Jupiter: Renaissance and Rococo Rekindling of Ancient Lust under the direction of Dr. Walsh.Treasa conducted her research at the National Gallery, the Walters Art Gallery and the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Summer of 03
- Miska Vincze 04 won a Student Summer Fellowship to work on the paper Who was the Goddess Nemesis? under the direction of Dr. Taylor. Miska conducted his research while attending the summer session of the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.
Summer of 00
- Lee Wilson won a Student Summer Fellowship to work on her paper Three Wise Men and a Deity: An Investigation of Isis in The Magic Flute under the direction of Dr. Walsh.
Summer of 98
- Anne Garner won a Student Summer Fellowship to work on her paper Herodotus, Politics and the Pythia: The Historians Characterization of Athens and Lacedaemonia in Oracular Episodes under the direction of Dr. Taylor
Summer of 97
- Anne Garner 98 won a Student Summer Fellowship to work on the paper The Recent Use of Pottery to Date the Agora under the direction of Dr. Taylor. Anne conducted her research at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.
Summer of 94
- William Desmond 95 won a Student Summer Fellowship to work on his project Heroic Anger in the Iliad and in Tain Bo Cuailgne under the direction of Dr. Taylor.
Summer of 92
- Kristen Gay won a Student Summer Fellowship to continue her work on her project Rural Sanctuaries on the Paximadhi Peninsula under the direction of Dr. Keller, Field Director of the Southern Euboea Exploration Project and Dr. Walsh.
Summer of 91
- Kristen Gay won a Student Summer Fellowship to continue her work on her project Rural Sanctuaries on the Paximadhi Peninsula under the direction of Dr. Keller, Field Director of the Southern Euboea Exploration Project and Dr. Walsh.
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Dr. Martha Taylor
Department Chair
Humanities Building, Room 321b
410-617-2636
mtaylor@loyola.edu
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410-617-2326
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