Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies

{{Original research|date=July 2009}} {{Infobox school | name = Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome | image = Iccslogo.png | alt = | caption = | motto = ''In centro crescit scientia'' | location = Rome | country = Italy | coordinates =  | established = 1965 | opened = | type = Study abroad center | district = | grades = | superintendent = | principal = | enrollment = 35 | faculty = 6 | campus_type = urban | campus_size = | mascot = | newspaper = | colors = | feeder_schools = | website = {{URL|https://thecentrorome.org}} | footnotes = }}

The '''Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome''' (ICCS) is an overseas study center located in Rome, Italy for undergraduate students in fields related to Classical Studies.<ref>{{cite book|title=University of Michigan Official Publication|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=m-qeAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA6-PA16|year=1974|publisher=UM Libraries|pages=6–|id=UOM:39015078740084}}</ref> It was first established in 1965 by ten American colleges and universities; by 2007 the number of member institutions had grown to 113.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://globaled.duke.edu/Programs/Semester/ICCS_Rome/Member_Institutions |title=Duke Global Education : ICCS Membership |accessdate=2014-02-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222031458/http://globaled.duke.edu/Programs/Semester/ICCS_Rome/Member_Institutions |archivedate=2014-02-22 }}</ref><ref name="BoatwrightMaas2015">{{cite book|author1=Mary Boatwright|author2=Michael Maas|author3=Corb Smith|title=The Centro at Fifty: The History of the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, 1965?2015|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=A1YcrgEACAAJ|date=1 May 2015|publisher=Centro Press|isbn=978-0-692-37895-3}}</ref> It is sometimes called the ''Centro'', the Italian word for center.

==Structure== Each member institution furnishes a "faculty representative" to the ''Centro''; from these, four are elected by the institutional representatives to sit on a governing board called the Managing Committee, with a fifth member provided by Duke University, which provides administrative services to the ICCS. The Managing Committee elects its chair for a five-year term; the current chair is Professor Jeremy Hartnett of Wabash College.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.wabash.edu/academics/profiles/home.cfm?site_folder=classics&vdeptid=114&facname=hartnetj |title = Academics - Classics Faculty & Staff {{!}} Wabash College}}</ref> Until 1992, administrative services were provided by Stanford University.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://globaled.duke.edu/Programs/Semester/ICCS_Rome |title=Duke Global Education : ICCS - Rome |accessdate=2014-02-17 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222030902/http://globaled.duke.edu/Programs/Semester/ICCS_Rome |archivedate=2014-02-22 }}</ref> The Managing Committee hires a Professor in Charge (PIC) for each year, and three subordinate faculty members, who are responsible for instruction and are usually drawn from American colleges and universities. The ''Centro'' offers competitive admission to North American undergraduate students to study the Ancient City, Greek or Latin literature, Italian language, or (Renaissance and Baroque) Art History. A group of normally 36 undergraduate students are competitively selected as ''Centristi'' each semester. The ''Centro'' has received financial support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation, the Corning Incorporated Foundation, the Danforth Foundation, the Old Dominion Foundation, the David and Lucille Packard Foundation, its consortium of colleges and universities, former students, and friends. One of its founders was the American Classicist Brooks Otis, in whose memory the center's library is named.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.iccsrome.it/ |title = Iccs Rome Library}}</ref>

==Faculty== Normally there are four faculty members at ICCS Rome: a senior 'Professor in Charge' (PIC), two junior professors (often an associate professor and an assistant professor), and a graduate student assistant, the 'Resident Instructor' (RI). The Professor in Charge is chosen by the Managing Committee and the remaining faculty are hired competitively at the annual meetings of the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies in January. Faculty duties vary in accordance with the organizational plans of the PIC, but the course load is nominally two courses per semester except for the RI, who teaches a 1-1 load with additional resident supervisorial duties. The professors live in ICCS-rented apartments in the neighborhood, while the RI lives on the premises of the ICCS.<ref name="globaled.duke.edu">{{cite web |url=http://globaled.duke.edu/Programs/Semester/ICCS_Rome/Academics |title=Duke Global Education : Academics |accessdate=2014-02-18 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140222031501/http://globaled.duke.edu/Programs/Semester/ICCS_Rome/Academics |archivedate=2014-02-22 }}</ref>

===Professors-in-Charge===

{| class="wikitable" |- ! Year !! Name!! Institution |- | 1967-1968 || William Anderson || University of California, Berkeley |- | 1968-1969 || [http://www.geni.com/people/Charles-Theophilus-Murphy/4099075415160021563 Charles Theophilus Murphy]† || Oberlin College |- | 1969-1970 || Edward Togo Salmon† || McMaster University |- | 1970-1971 || Edward Togo Salmon† || McMaster University |- | 1971-1972 || [http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2002/1/11/classics-professor-known-for-versatility-dies/ Charles P. Segal]<ref name="Segal1998">{{cite book|author=Charles Segal|title=Aglaia|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JSVrgar7gScC&pg=PA339|year=1998|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-8476-8617-9|pages=339–}}</ref>|| Brown University |- | 1972-1973 || [http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/faculty/faculty_profile.jsp?faculty=10 John Van Sickle] || Brown University |- | 1973-1974 || Paul MacKendrick† || University of Wisconsin |- | 1974 Fall || Charles L. Babcock† <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/Dispatch/obituary.aspx?n=Charles-Luther-Babcock&pid=161622243#fbLoggedOut|title = Charles Luther Babcock Obituary (2012) the Columbus Dispatch| website=Legacy.com }}</ref> || Ohio State University |- | 1975 Spring || Alexander McKay† || McMaster University |- | 1975-1976 || J. Arthur Hanson† || Princeton University |- | 1976 fall || John E. Stambaugh<ref>{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/06/10/obituaries/john-e-stambaugh-professor-50.html|title = John e. Stambaugh, Professor, 50|newspaper = The New York Times|date = 10 June 1990}}</ref><ref name="Briggs1994">{{cite book|author=Ward W. Briggs|title=Biographical Dictionary of North American Classicists|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=k8-uLxAnngUC&pg=PA609|date=1 January 1994|publisher=Greenwood Publishing Group|isbn=978-0-313-24560-2|pages=609–}}</ref>† || Williams College |- | 1977 spring || [https://dornsife.usc.edu/jane-cody Jane Cody] || University of Southern California |- | 1977-1978 || [http://www.wellesley.edu/classical/faculty/geffcken Katherine A. Geffcken] || Wellesley College |- | 1978-1979 || [https://www.linkedin.com/in/harry-b-evans-21445130 Harry B. Evans] || Fordham University |- | 1979-1980 || [http://art.unc.edu/art-history/faculty/mary-sturgeon/ Mary Sturgeon] || The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |- | 1980-1981 || Gerhard M. Koeppel† <ref>{{Cite web|url=http://classics.unc.edu/news-and-events/gerhard-koeppel#JUMP|title=Gerhard Koeppel | Department of Classics}}</ref> || The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |- | 1981-1982 || Jean D'Amato || University of Southern California |- | 1982-1983 || Eric Nielsen || Bowdoin College |- | 1983-1984 || Leon Fitts || Dickinson College |- | 1984-1985 || {{Interlanguage link|Herbert W. Benario|de}} || Emory University |- | 1985-1986 || [https://web.archive.org/web/20140306134759/http://cams.la.psu.edu/directory/pbh1/ Paul B. Harvey, jr.][http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/centredaily/obituary.aspx?n=paul-b-harvey&pid=171840259 †] || Penn State University |- | 1986-1987 || [https://www.wabash.edu/academics/classics/facstaff John E. Fischer] || Wabash College |- | 1987-1988 || Ann Ellis Hanson || Yale University |- | 1988-1989 || [http://www.classics.buffalo.edu/docs/DysonCV.pdf Stephen L. Dyson]{{dead link|date=December 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} || Wesleyan University |- | 1989-1990 || Gerhard M. Koeppel† || The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |- | 1990-1991 || [https://web.archive.org/web/20120428203753/http://www.cnrs.ubc.ca/user/104 James Russell] || University of British Columbia |- | 1991-1992 || Russell T. "Darby" Scott || Bryn Mawr College |- | 1992-1993 || [http://fds.duke.edu/db/aas/Classics/faculty/tboat/cv.html Mary T. Boatwright] || Duke University |- | 1993-1994 || [http://classics.uga.edu/directory/james-anderson-jr James C. Anderson jr.]|| The University of Georgia |- | 1994-1995 || [http://www.indiana.edu/~classics/faculty/franklin.pdf James Franklin] || Indiana University, Bloomington |- | 1995-1996 || [https://web.archive.org/web/20130120042114/http://www.classics.buffalo.edu/people/faculty/stephen_dyson/ Stephen L. Dyson] || University at Buffalo - SUNY |- | 1996-1997 || [https://web.archive.org/web/20081010230720/http://sitemason.vanderbilt.edu/site/b6WF3i Thomas A.J. McGinn] || Vanderbilt University |- | 1997 Fall || [http://www.indiana.edu/~classics/faculty/franklin.pdf James Franklin] || Indiana University, Bloomington |- | 1998 Spring || Gerhard M. Koeppel† || University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |- | 1998-1999 || [https://ups.academia.edu/HelenNagy Helen Nagy] || University of Puget Sound |- | 1999-2000 || [https://web.archive.org/web/20120428203753/http://www.cnrs.ubc.ca/user/104 James Russell]|| University of British Columbia |- | 2000-2001 || Harry B. Evans || Fordham University |- | 2001-2002 || [http://www.frischerconsulting.com/frischer/ Bernard Frischer]<ref name="Davis2010">{{cite book|author=Gregson Davis|title=A Companion to Horace|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=77gzgmJAQQcC&pg=PR11|date=4 February 2010|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-4443-1919-4|pages=11–}}</ref> || UCLA |- | 2002-2003 || [http://www.wesleyan.edu/archprog/faculty.html Christopher Parslow] || Wesleyan University |- | 2003-2004 || [https://web.archive.org/web/20120309033903/http://history.ucr.edu/People/Faculty/Salzman/index.html Michele R. Salzman] || University of California, Riverside |- | 2004-2005 || [http://art.unc.edu/art-history/faculty/mary-sturgeon/ Mary Sturgeon] || University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |- | 2005-2006 || [https://archive.today/20121214213216/http://history.rice.edu/Maas/ Michael Maas] || Rice University |- | 2006-2007 || [http://www.linkedin.com/pub/douglas-domingo-foraste/14/344/190 Douglas Domingo-Forasté] || California State University, Long Beach |- | 2007-2008 || [http://academic.reed.edu/classics/faculty/englert/EnglertCV2011.pdf Walter Englert]{{dead link|date=January 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} || Reed College |- | 2008-2009 || [http://www.swansea.ac.uk/staff/academic/artshumanities/oth/pollardnigel/ Nigel Pollard ]|| Swansea University |- | 2009-2010 || [http://classicalstudies.duke.edu/people?Gurl=%2Faas%2FClassics&Uil=pburian&subpage=profile Peter Burian] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120626152350/http://classicalstudies.duke.edu/people?subpage=profile&Gurl=%2Faas%2FClassics&Uil=pburian |date=2012-06-26 }} || Duke University |- | 2010-2011 || [http://www.unh.edu/languages/media/pdfs/CV/SmithCV.pdf R. Scott Smith]{{Dead link|date=January 2023 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} || University of New Hampshire |- | 2011-2012 || [http://puffin.creighton.edu/clc/faculty_page/bucher/bucherpage.htm Gregory S. Bucher] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120510034301/http://puffin.creighton.edu/clc/Faculty_page/Bucher/Bucherpage.HTM |date=2012-05-10 }} || Creighton University |- | 2012-2013 || [https://web.archive.org/web/20150402184945/http://www.cla.temple.edu/classics/faculty/daniel-berman/ Daniel W. Berman] || Temple University |- | 2013-2014 || [http://classicalstudies.duke.edu/people?Gurl=%2Faas%2FClassics&Uil=pburian&subpage=profile Peter Burian] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120626152350/http://classicalstudies.duke.edu/people?subpage=profile&Gurl=%2Faas%2FClassics&Uil=pburian |date=2012-06-26 }} || Duke University |- | 2014-2015 || Beth Severy-Hoven|| Macalester College |- | 2015-2016 || Garrett G. Fagan† || Pennsylvania State University |- | 2016-2017 || [http://historyarthistory.gmu.edu/people/cgregg Christopher A. Gregg] || George Mason University |- | 2017-2018 || [https://www.wabash.edu/academics/profiles/home.cfm?site_folder=classics&facname=hartnetj Jeremy Hartnett] || Wabash College |- | 2018-2019 || Barbette Spaeth || College of William & Mary |- | 2019-2020 || John Muccigrosso || Drew University |- | 2020-2021 || Myles McDonnell || Queens College, CUNY |- | 2021-2022 || Kathleen M. Coleman FBA || Harvard University |- | 2022-2023 || Christopher A. Gregg || George Mason University |- | 2023-2024 || Anthony Corbeill || University of Virginia |- | 2024-2025 || Sonia Sabnis || Reed College |- |2024-2026 |Andrew Goldman |Gonzaga University |}

==Coursework== The main component of the curriculum at the ICCS is the so-called "Ancient City" course.<ref name="globaled.duke.edu"/> Worth two credits and demanding an exceptional amount of time, this course teaches the history and archaeology of the city of Rome with a focus on its topography, ancient and modern.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://globaled.duke.edu/uploads/media_items/iccs-rome-city-course-introduction-spring-2015-pdf.original.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-03-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141220070822/http://globaled.duke.edu/uploads/media_items/iccs-rome-city-course-introduction-spring-2015-pdf.original.pdf |archivedate=2014-12-20 }}</ref> Although they are supplemented by a weekly lecture, field trips provide the core of the class, with two excursions per week, one a full day, and one a half day. While pedagogies vary with each PIC, students are generally expected to give one or more on-site presentations, which help further emphasize the physicality of the field.<ref name="BoatwrightMaas2015"/><ref>ICCS Rome - Academics {{cite web |url=https://globaled.duke.edu/Programs/Semester/ICCS_Rome/Academics |title=Duke Global Education : Academics |accessdate=2014-12-20 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141220022245/https://globaled.duke.edu/Programs/Semester/ICCS_Rome/Academics |archivedate=2014-12-20 }}</ref>

In addition to the ancient city course students must take two additional courses (some choose to take a third). One class must be in either the Greek or the Latin language. Currently Centro provides three electives, Elementary Italian, Renaissance and Baroque Italian art history and a course in Conservation Management. Paul Tegmeyer, a faculty member of John Cabot University, teaches the art history course.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://globaled.duke.edu/Programs/Semester/ICCS_Rome/Faculty/Paul_Tegmeyer |title=Duke Global Education : Paul Tegmeyer |accessdate=2015-06-10 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150610070123/https://globaled.duke.edu/Programs/Semester/ICCS_Rome/Faculty/Paul_Tegmeyer |archivedate=2015-06-10 }}</ref> The class consists of a weekly lecture Wednesday afternoons and a field trip Friday mornings, normally to a museum or church.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://globaled.duke.edu/uploads/media_items/art-history-sp15-pdf.original.pdf |title=Archived copy |accessdate=2015-03-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402194938/https://globaled.duke.edu/uploads/media_items/art-history-sp15-pdf.original.pdf |archivedate=2015-04-02 }}</ref> Instruction in Italian is provided by Dr. Barbara Castaldo.

==Life at the Centro== All students live in a small four-story building that previously served as a convent, located at Via Alessandro Algardi 19, in the Monteverde Vecchio section of Rome, having moved here from Via Ulisse Seni 2. Breakfast, dinner, and most lunches are eaten together on all weekdays; the bedrooms are small; the long and frequent field trips for the Ancient City course mean that class time is heavily weighted.

==Suzanne Deal Booth Scholar-in-Residence== In 2012 a program of resident scholars was announced,<ref>{{cite web|url=http://iccsnews.com/ICCS_Rome/ICCS_News.html |title=Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies |accessdate=2012-11-09 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://archive.today/20130125184519/http://iccsnews.com/ICCS_Rome/ICCS_News.html |archivedate=2013-01-25 }}</ref> funded by Suzanne Deal Booth. Booth Residents spend one week at the Centro during each academic year.

{| class="wikitable" |- ! Date of Tenure !! Name !! Institution |- | 2012-13 || Richard Talbert<ref>{{cite web |url=http://awmc.unc.edu/wordpress/blog/2012/11/29/richard-talbert-serves-as-inaugural-suzanne-deal-booth-scholar-in-residence-at-iccs-rome/ |title=Richard Talbert serves as inaugural Suzanne Deal Booth Scholar-in-Residence at ICCS-Rome | Ancient World Mapping Center |accessdate=2015-04-01 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20150926184444/http://awmc.unc.edu/wordpress/blog/2012/11/29/richard-talbert-serves-as-inaugural-suzanne-deal-booth-scholar-in-residence-at-iccs-rome/ |archivedate=2015-09-26 }}</ref> || University of North Carolina |- | 2013-14 || Susan Stevens || Randolph College |- | 2014-15 || Erich Gruen<ref>{{cite web|title=Suzanne Deal Booth Scholar-in-Residence Program Celebrates Third Year|url=http://iccsnews.com/news/suzanne-deal-booth-scholar.html|accessdate=10 December 2016}}</ref> || University of California, Berkeley |- | 2015-16 || Anthony Corbeill || University of Kansas |- | 2016-17 || Jennifer Trimble || Stanford University |- | 2017-18 || Judy Hallett<ref>{{cite web|title=Hallett awarded 2017-2018 ICCS residency|url=http://classics.umd.edu/news/hallett-awarded-2017-2018-iccs-residency|accessdate=10 December 2016|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20161221005243/http://classics.umd.edu/news/hallett-awarded-2017-2018-iccs-residency|archivedate=21 December 2016}}</ref> || University of Maryland |}

==Sources== *Mary Taliaferro Boatwright, Michael Maas, Corb Smith, et al. 2015. ''[https://books.google.com/books?id=A1YcrgEACAAJ The Centro at Fifty: The History of the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, 1965-2015]''. Centro Press. {{ISBN|9780692378953}}.

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==External links== * [http://www.iccsnews.com/ ICCS Newsletter] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517082912/http://iccsnews.com/ |date=2014-05-17 }} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20140222030902/http://globaled.duke.edu/Programs/Semester/ICCS_Rome Duke Study Abroad : ICCS - Rome] * [http://www.iccsrome.it/ The Brooks Otis Library]

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