Bryn Mawr College

Graduate Group in Archaeology, Classics, and History of Art

The Graduate Group fosters and facilitates collaboration between the departments of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology; Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies; and History of Art, each of which has its own distinguished intellectual tradition and awards its own PhD degrees.

The Graduate Group is distinctive for its:

• Group Seminars, team-taught by faculty from different disciplines, and tied in to a Distinguished Visitors program: topics include 'History and Memory' and 'War and Peace'
• Multi-Disciplinary Fellowships and Arete Fellowships, generous stipends for top Graduate Group applicants
• Curatorial Internships, offered to students in partnership with Bryn Mawr's Special Collections and six premier institutions in the Philadelphia area: the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, the American Philosophical Society, the Institute of Contemporary Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, and the Historical Society of Pennsylvania
• use of the resources of Bryn Mawr College, e.g. the collection of 50,000 rare books and manuscripts, including 1200 incunables; the art and artefact collections, comprising some 60,000 objects; and the Rhys Carpenter Library, which is dedicated to the Graduate Group's subject areas
• regular Graduate Group Gatherings, offering students, staff, and faculty an opportunity to socialize and hear about the latest work sponsored by the Graduate Group
• • biennial Graduate Group Symposium, organized entirely by students of the Graduate Group: recent themes have included "Thievery: The Anxiety of Influence and Appropriation" and "To the Ends of the Earth: Journeys Ancient to Modern".
  

Graduate Admissions are handled by the individual departments, but the Director of the Graduate Group, Professor Catherine Conybeare, welcomes general enquiries: cconybea@brynmawr.edu The Graduate Group gratefully acknowledges support from the NEH in the form of a Challenge Grant, and the generosity of some two hundred private and public donors who have helped us to meet the challenge and who continue to support us.