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Student Planning Calendar
Grant and Fellowship Opportunities
Jobs and Internships
Grad Schools
Study Away
Alumni
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Students
Classics Student Planning Calendar -link
Grant and Fellowship Opportunities
Scholarship and Grant listings are available in the Classics Department
office in the Classics Student Resources file cabinet drawer.
Other information can be found on the Macalester College Academic
Programs Website or at the links below.
Scholarships and Grants for Juniors and Seniors and Sophomores
Keck Grants - for summer research
Jane
C. Waldbaum Archaeological Field School Scholarship - for
summer excavation
Jobs and Internships
Macalester Career Development
Center
See the CDC's Classics
page.
Macalester Internship Program
The Minnesota Historical Society,
The Science
Museum of Minnesota and The Minneapolis
Institute of Arts have had both paid work and volunteer internships
available. Archaeological
Fieldwork Opportunities Bulletin (AFOB), lists different
projects for students.
Grad Schools
We plan to add this content soon.
Study Away -link
Alumni
Alumni! We want to hear from you. What are you up to? Have news to share
with your fellow Classicists? Send us an email at pitman@macalester.edu
and we will happily include you in this section.
Sophie Lowry, '05: graduated with an MSc with distinction
in November 2006 from the University of Edinburgh's Islamic
and Middle Eastern Studies department. Her dissertation entitled "Conflict
and Conciliation: A Survey of the Relationship Between the
French State and
its Muslims" focused on the ways in which a presence of Muslim minority
throughout the EU, in particular France, challenges many existing
philosophies of citizenship, ethnicity and religiousity in
both non-Muslim and Muslim
perspectives. She is currently working for the University of
Edinburgh at the recently-formed Centre for the Advanced Study
of the Arab World.
Patrick D'Silva, '03: writes, "I am living in Boulder,
CO where I am working as a freelance Arabic translator and
teaching Arabic classes. I graduated from Harvard Divinity
School in 2005 with a Master's in Theological Studies.
My best to everyone
in the department"
Jason Schlude, '02: wrote in
June 2004 that he passed his MA exam at Berkeley.
He said, "As for what's next, I continue on here in the doctoral program
this coming
fall". He assures us that, "I have not yet, to my knowledge anyway,
completely stained the reputation of Macalester here at Berkeley. Then again, I still have plenty of
time for that next year and perhaps in the years thereafter".
Tim Wallace, '02: "I am in England now, Southampton,
doing a MA in Maritime Archaeology. The course (Maritime Archaeology MA/MSc - University of Southampton) has really started to pick
up now that we are in our second semester. I am taking courses on conservation
of underwater cultural materials, maritime geoarchaeology,
conservation of the maritime cultural zone and a class on methods in underwater
archaeology. The conservation of underwater cultural materials class is
based in Portsmouth,
at the Mary Rose Trust. [The Mary Rose was a 16th century English warship
and favorite of Henry VIII - it was excavated and raised in the late 70's
and early 80's - one of the largest (famous, expensive, etc.) maritime
archaeological investigations of our time] We will be working primarily
with artifacts from the Mary Rose. My dissertation is due in September,
which will more than likely involve a GIS investigation of a European port-city
and its changes through time through the use of historic maps, archaeological
remains and survey, etc. It's still in its 'convoluted' stage, as what
I am going to write is not too clear just yet. After my program here, I
plan to (eventually, but I don't know when - could be next spring, or the
following fall) pursue a masters in GIS. I suppose the most important thing
to say is that the course here is really great. I was a little down on
it last semester, but now that things have gotten a little more interdisciplinary
(chemistry, geology, geography, etc.) I am really loving it."
Ben Rubin, '01: " I
am currently finishing up my second year of grad school at
the University of Michigan (Ann
Arbor) in the Interdepartmental Program in Classical
Art and Archaeology and I'm having a great time. The classes
I have taken thus far have been challenging, enlightening and
extremely varied, ranging
from basic language classes like Herodotus to more exotic seminars
on topics such as Iranian Art and Archaeology, Power and Ideology
and Survey Methodology.
The wide range of material covered in these classes has helped
me to approach my main research interests (i.e. the Roman Imperial cult,Greek/Jewish
identity under the Roman empire) in new
ways. In addition to my PHD, I am working on obtaining a certificate
in Greek and Roman History, as well as masters degree
in the Greek language. This summer I will be working at the
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (Ann Arbor) doing research
in connection with a show entitled "Individual and Society in Ancient
Egypt" (March 7-August 9 if anyone's in town). I hope to finish an
article on Egyptian bronze votive dedication from the late New
Kingdom to the Hellenistic Period."
Rebecca Blom Carle, '98: "I am living
in rural Salisbury, NH, and enjoying the thrill of being a new
mom to my son born in January 2004. I continue to work part-time as Collections
Manager at the Mt. Kearsarge Indian Museum and
am really enjoying the opportunity to mentor those who are just beginning
their museum careers. I am fortunate to work at a family-friendly place
that allows me to continue pursuing my career goals while caring for my
son, something I was not certain I would be able to do when I was dreaming
about my future when I was still at Mac. I guess all things are possible
if you look hard enough.
It is great to hear about all the exciting activities going on at Mac Classics. Best
of luck to all."
Chris Dayton, '98 "I'm in my third year
of study in the Archaeology Department at Boston University.
I will be focusing on the central Andean region of South
America in my dissertation work, but my technical experience (oddly
enough) brings me back to classics now and then. For instance, last summer
I worked briefly
at a site on the Spanish island of Menorca, carrying out ground-penetrating
radar surveys for the Boston University field
school there. Most of my other fieldwork since I participated in the Macalester
Black Sea Project in 1998 has been in Peru and Bolivia.
I'll be getting married this coming summer, so further fieldwork will have
to wait, but eventually I'll be using ground-penetrating radar and other geophysical
methods to map buried structures at several South American sites."
Did we forget
something? Have alumni news to share? Contact pitman@macalester.edu
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