RESOURCE, PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT, AND PROGRAM GRANTS:

Each year CAAS offers its members grant money to strengthen the teaching of and foster public support for the languages, civilizations, and cultures of ancient Greece and Rome.

• Resource: Grants of up to $300 are awarded to individual educators to use to enhance or promote their local programs. Such grants can be used for supplies, purchasing publications, field trips, or speakers.
• Professional Development: Grants of up to $500 are awarded to individual educators to attend any program, workshop, or meeting (other than CAAS's own meeting) which has as a stated goal the improvement or expansion of the instructor’s skills as a teacher. While proposals with substantial components of teaching and learning in the Classics are encouraged, the experience need not be solely classics-related, but should provide skills that can have a direct effect on the classroom environment. The money may be used to cover tuition/fees, books, travel and meals (mileage and food reimbursed at the IRS level).
• Program: Larger grants underwrite programs that encourage the study and understanding of the Classics and classical civilization among a wider audience within the CAAS region, e.g., performances, publications, special gatherings or series.

The Grants Committee will review all applications on a rolling basis throughout the year, awarding grants based upon their merit and as funding is available. All applicants for grants must return a completed CAAS Grants Proposal Form (Acrobat file; you can also download the form in Word for ease in typing information) to the CAAS Grants Committee Chair for full consideration. Grants applicants may expect a prompt acknowledgment from the Grants Committee Chair upon receipt of their application. The Grants Committee will make every effort to render a decision on all completed applications within four weeks. If you have been a recipient of a CAAS grant, you are not eligible to receive another until the next fiscal year.

Grant recipients will be expected to submit a written report on funded activities, using this reporting form (Acrobat; also available to download in Word).

For more information on how to apply for any of these grants, contact:

Maria S. Marsilio
Department of Foreign Languages & Literatures
Saint Joseph's University
5600 City Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19131-1395
marsilio@sju.edu

2009-2010 Grant Recipients: (see also the Archive of previous grants)

• Program Grant Recipients:
  • Larissa Bonfante, New York University, for a conference on “Myth in Etruria: Images and Inscriptions,” November 20-21, 2009, in conjunction with Columbia University's Center for the Ancient Mediterranean
  • Sister Therese Marie Dougherty, S.S.N.D., the College of Notre Dame of Maryland, for “The Suspicious Cheese Lords: A concert of secular and sacred Latin music of the Middle Ages and Renaissance,” performed at the Sigma Phi anniversary, November 8, 2009
  • Michael Goyette, The Graduate Center of the City University of New York , for a graduate student conference, “Living on the Edge: Perceptions of Liminality in Classical Antiquity,” held April 10, 2010
  • Lisa Whitlatch and Ben Hicks, Rutgers University Department of Classics, for a graduate student conference, “All Roads Lead From Rome: The Classical (non)Tradition in Popular Culture,” held April 9, 2010
• Resource Grant Recipients:
  • Rebecca Ammerman (Colgate University), Dan Curley (Skidmore College), Stacie Raucci (Union College), and Carl Rubino (Hamilton College) for the “Upstate Parilia” (April 2010), a four-college conference day of undergraduate presentations
  • Elizabeth Bache, New Jersey Classical League for “Is Latin Still Alive in New Jersey?” a Latin teacher census
  • Ed DeHoratius, Wayland High School in Massachusetts, for “iPods and Education,” purchase of an iPod Touch and research on how this can enhance the teaching experience
  • Chris Ann Matteo, Stone Bridge High School in Virginia, to frame maps for her classroom
  • Mary A. Redline, Parkland High School in Allentown, PA, for “Encouraging Elementary School Students to Take Latin in High School,” for activities to promote the study of Latin at the school's Festival of Colors on March 27, 2010
• Professional Development Grant Recipients:
  • Paul Perrot, Park View High School in Virginia, to attend a workshop in the Oerberg method of teaching Latin
  • Anthony Stromoski, The Brooklyn Latin School in New York, to attend International Baccalaureate training