The American School of Classical Studies and the Politics of Volunteerism

by Jack L. Davis

Hesperia, Volume 82, Issue 1
Page(s): 15-48
Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2972/hesperia.82.1.0015
Year: 2013
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ABSTRACT:

Members of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens have long been committed to addressing needs of the nonacademic Greek public. This role, however, was regarded as distinct from the School's mission as a research and teaching institution and was largely limited to programs of emergency relief. Such assistance, in particular the involvement of the ASCSA in activities of the American Red Cross in northern Greece in 1918-1919, cemented interpersonal relationships—like that between Anastasios Adossides and Edward Capps—that brought substantial benefits to the ASCSA: the ability to expand the School's physical plant, to begin excavations in the Athenian Agora, and to found the Gennadius Library.