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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 Loyola 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 鈥15

  • Joshua Ziesel 鈥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 鈥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 鈥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 鈥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 鈥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 鈥14

  • Natalie Tsottles 鈥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 鈥16 won his second Stipend for Internship to intern at St. Ignatius Loyola 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 鈥13

  • Mitch Corwin 鈥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 鈥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 鈥16 won a Stipend for Internship to intern at St. Ignatius Loyola 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 鈥12

  • Sidney Christman 鈥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鈥 Ecclesiazusai and Sophocles鈥 Antigone

Summer of 鈥11

  • Gavin Blasdel 鈥12 won a Student Summer Fellowship to conduct preliminary research for his Senior Honors thesis by working on his paper 鈥淢isunderstanding and Miscalculation: Roman Administration, Policy and Attitudes in Judaea, 63 BC 鈥 70 AD.鈥
  • Sarah Haley 鈥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 鈥13 won a Stipend for Internships to help fund her internship at the Maryland Historical Society.

Summer 鈥09

  • Caitlin Engler 鈥10 won a Stipend for Summer Study to attend Arcadia University鈥檚 summer program in Greece: 鈥淥f Gods and the City: History, Art, and Architecture in Archaic and Classical Greece.鈥

Summer of 鈥08

  • Nathan Zawie 鈥09 won a Stipend for Summer Study to attend the summer session of the American School of Classical Studies in Greece.

Summer of 鈥06

  • Irene Murphy 鈥08 won a Stipend for Summer Study to attend the Virgilian Society鈥檚 course 鈥淐umae III: Naples Bay as Melting Pot鈥 and to take an Intensive Modern Greek course on the island of Paros.
  • Nate Zawie 鈥09 won a Student Summer Fellowship to attend Fr. Reginal Foster鈥檚 spoken Latin program in Rome 鈥淎estiva Romae Latinitas.鈥

Summer of 鈥04

  • Treasa Beyer 鈥05 won a Student Summer Fellowship to work on her project 鈥淭he Loves of Jupiter: Renaissance and Rococo Rekindling of Ancient Lust鈥 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 鈥03

  • Miska Vincze 鈥04 won a Student Summer Fellowship to work on the paper 鈥淲ho was the Goddess Nemesis?鈥 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 鈥00

  • Lee Wilson won a Student Summer Fellowship to work on her paper 鈥淭hree Wise Men and a Deity: An Investigation of Isis in The Magic Flute鈥 under the direction of Dr. Walsh.

Summer of 鈥98

  • Anne Garner won a Student Summer Fellowship to work on her paper 鈥淗erodotus, Politics and the Pythia: The Historian鈥檚 Characterization of Athens and Lacedaemonia in Oracular Episodes鈥 under the direction of Dr. Taylor

Summer of 鈥97

  • Anne Garner 鈥98 won a Student Summer Fellowship to work on the paper 鈥淭he Recent Use of Pottery to Date the Agora鈥 under the direction of Dr. Taylor. Anne conducted her research at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens.

Summer of 鈥94

  • William Desmond 鈥95 won a Student Summer Fellowship to work on his project 鈥淗eroic Anger in the Iliad and in Tain Bo Cuailgne鈥 under the direction of Dr. Taylor.

Summer of 鈥92

  • Kristen Gay won a Student Summer Fellowship to continue her work on her project 鈥淩ural Sanctuaries on the Paximadhi Peninsula鈥 under the direction of Dr. Keller, Field Director of the Southern Euboea Exploration Project and Dr. Walsh.

Summer of 鈥91

  • Kristen Gay won a Student Summer Fellowship to continue her work on her project 鈥淩ural Sanctuaries on the Paximadhi Peninsula鈥 under the direction of Dr. Keller, Field Director of the Southern Euboea Exploration Project and Dr. Walsh.

Contact Us

Dr. Martha Taylor
Department Chair
Humanities Building, Room 321b
410-617-2636
mtaylor@loyola.edu

Nadine Fenchak
Program Assistant
Humanities Building, Room 322A
410-617-2326
nfenchak@loyola.edu