The American Academy in Rome
The Classics Department

The American Academy in Rome offers two summer sessions. One, a Classical Summer School, provides participants with a well-rounded introduction to the city of Rome and its environs. The Summer School involves daily visits to sites and museums in Rome as well as field trips to important sites nearby Rome such as the Etruscan sites of Cervetri and Tarquinia, Roman Palestrina, etc. The second, a Summer Program in Archaeology, offers three weeks in residence at the American Academy to study the monuments of Rome, followed by four weeks on site at an archaeological excavation. Students at the Academy often have a chance to experience the ancient sites in way unavailable to tourists. When Dr. Taylor's husband was on the Academy summer session, students were encouraged to climb the outside of the dome of the Pantheon and peer inside the building through the oculus!

A limited number of scholarships to the Academy's programs are available from various Classical associations. Eta Sigma Phi, the National Classics Honors Society awards a scholarship to the Academy's program available to Seniors for the summer after graduation and for several subsequent years. See the Eta Sigma Phi Scholarship student's Description of her Summer 2001 tour.