The American Friends of Herculaneum president and board are
pleased to announce the awarding of two scholarships for the approaching
research season. Joe Sheppard a PhD candidate in Classical Studies at Columbia
University has been awarded $2500 to further at Herculaneum his photographic/archival
project entitled “Mass Spectacles in Roman Pompeii as a System of Communication.”
And Daniel Diffendale of the University of Michigan’s Interdisciplinary Program
in Classical Art & Archaeology will receive $1500 to participate as
topographer in the project entitled “Il culto di Venere a Pompei: nuove
indagini nell’area sacra (VIII.1.3).”
AFoH President, Carol Mattusch
observed that the board received a large number of highly qualified
applications at the graduate level, but none from undergraduates this year.
Thus, the board’s choice was to award the undergraduate prize to a second-place
winner at the graduate/post-doctoral level. Every application received high
marks from various jurors, and the overall differential between applicants was,
top to bottom, very narrow.
The board is grateful that
membership dues and extraordinary individual donations continue to make it
possible now for a second consecutive year to fund such exciting scholarly
activity as Mr. Sheppard and Mr. Diffendale are engaging.
