GRADUATE STUDENTS WIN PRESTIGIOUS FELLOWSHIPS

Andrea Umberto De Giorgi, a 5th-year student in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, has won an American Research Institute in Turkey/Samuel H. Kress Foundation Predoctoral Fellowship for 2004-05 to conduct research for his dissertation on the socio-economic model of the territory of Antioch in late antiquity. The study comprises a spatial and economic analysis of 350 sites that will enable Andrea to "resuscitate" a landscape characterized by rational economic behavior and substantial investment of capital for the exploitation of varied resources. His project investigates the scale, the beneficiaries and the actors in this landscape and aims ultimately to contribute to the larger discourse of the ancient Roman economy. Most of his research will be conducted in Antakya. Advising his work are Professors Peter Magee in the Archaeology department and Darby Scott of the Department of Greek, Latin and Classical Studies.

Marie Gasper-Hulvat, in the Department of History of Art, begins her second year on a Jacob K. Javits Fellowship awarded by the U.S. Department of Education. Gasper-Hulvat earned her B.A. degree at Xavier University in 2002 with a double major in French and theology. Javits Fellowships are awarded to "students of superior ability" to undertake graduate study in selected fields in the arts, humanities and social sciences. They provide full financial support for up to four years of graduate education.

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