The Classics Department at Florida State University is a leading center of Classical Studies, with nationally and internationally distinguished faculty for both teaching and research. It provides undergraduate students the intimacy of a small liberal arts college, while providing graduate students the resources and experience of a large Research I university. With approximately 50 majors and 35 graduate students, the department is among the largest Classical Studies programs in the public university system, and it is designed to prepare its students for careers in the 21st century, with FSU Classics alumni currently holding positions in diverse fields including university academia, museums, professional archaeology, secondary education, and law.
FSU International Programs is now accepting applications for the Cetamura Field School.
The dates of digging are May 20 to June 17, 2022.
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Dr. Nancy de Grummond has been awarded the Martha and Artemis Joukowsky Distinguished Service Award from the Archaeological Institute of America.
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A new gift by longtime Florida State University donors, Suzanne Bucher and the late Robert Loewenstein, will provide annual funding for two students from the Department of Classics to learn, work, and excavate each summer in Cetamura del Chianti, Italy.
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The Tallahassee Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Student Archaeology Club at FSU present “Andromeda, Alexander, and Ascalos: Founders and Foundation Myths in the Roman Near East,” an AIA Kershaw lecture in Near Estearn Archaeology by Professor Robyn Le Blanc of the University of North Carolina, Greensboro.
Please join us on November 16th, 2022 at 4:00 PM for the first Cosa Excavations informational meeting via Zoom. Come and hear more about the opportunities available through the Cosa Field School. All interested students are welcome to attend!
For more details, contact cosaexcavations@gmail.com, or visit http://www.cosaexcavations.org/
Zoom Meeting ID: 93693863132
We’re celebrating! To kick off the 50th anniversary of FSU’s Excavations at Cetamura, Dr. Nancy de Grummond (FSU Classics Professor) and Gregg Anderson invite you to join us for an evening wine tour of Chianti. You’ll sample three wines from Badia a Coltibuono paired with appetizers while learning more about some of the fantastic archeological discoveries soon to be on permanent display at the Museum at the Origins of Chianti in Gaiole, Italy. Supervising the pouring will be our distinguished host, Emanuela Stucchi Prinetti, owner of Coltibuono and Cetamura.
