Why the ASCSA?

For students and scholars considering becoming Members

• The School is a vital research and training institution for classicists and classical archaeologists in the United States and Canada for over a century.
• Provides an advanced graduate program with extensive travel within Greece.
• Thirteen full predoctoral fellowships are available for the ASCSA Regular academic program.
• Nine full fellowships and several partial grants for advanced graduate students to conduct research at the School are available .
• Two world-class libraries in Athens, the Blegen and Gennadeion, serving the School community and visiting scholars.
• Teacher-Student ratio of 1:5. The faculty and associated academic staff provide teaching, advice, and mentoring to graduate students at this vital juncture of their academic career.
• Two major excavations and related study centers in Ancient Corinth and in the Athenian Agora are administered by the School.
• The Wiener Laboratory, an archaeological research laboratory, is housed within the School.
• Volunteer summer program to dig at the excavations in the Athenian Agora.
• Two intensive six-week Summer Sessions provide training for a wider assortment of students.
• Summer program presented every other year at the Gennadius Library in Medieval Greek.
• Collaborative research with other overseas research centers in the Mediterranean region.
  

For colleges and universities considering becoming Cooperative Institutions

The School offers special advantages to the colleges and universities which support the School financially and participate in its operation:

• Representation on the Managing Committee, which sets School policies and, within the guidelines given it by the Trustees, has control over the budget. (The Managing Committee meets twice each year, at annual January meetings of the American Philological Association and the Archaeological Institute of America, and in New York in May.)
• A Cooperating Institution may nominate up to three voting representatives, who are recommended by the School’s Committee on Personnel and elected by the Managing Committee.
• Two world-class libraries in Athens, the Blegen and the Gennadeion, serving the School community and visiting scholars.
• All American archaeological excavations undertaken in Greece are under the auspices of the School
• The School administers two major excavations and related study centers in Ancient Corinth and in the Athenian Agora.
• The results of ASCSA excavations are published by the School, along with its quarterly journal, Hesperia.
• The School houses the Wiener Laboratory, an archaeological research laboratory.
• Faculty, students and former students of Cooperating Institutions pay only one-half the fees for use of the facilities of the School in Greece during the academic year.
• Members of the faculty of Cooperating Institutions directly receive information and are eligible to apply for the School’s Whitehead Visiting Professors and a number of senior research fellowships.
• The School awards five scholarships to advanced undergraduate students for participation in the ASCSA Summer Sessions. These “open” scholarships are restricted to students enrolled at Cooperating Institutions.
• The libraries of Cooperating Institutions receive a special institutional subscription price for Hesperia and Managing Committee members receive a reduced price on individual rates. Currently, the Cooperating Institution subscription rate is $95 pa (vs. $150 pa full price) and the Managing Committee individual subscription rate is $45 (vs. $75 full price).
• Collaborative research with other overseas research centers in the Mediterranean region.