The American School of Classical Studies at Athens has announced that applications to the NEH Fellowship program are now available. Applications are due by October 31st. To read more, click here.

For teachers in New Jersey: CAAS will be offering certificates for professional development credits at this year’s fall meeting. Please see Frederick J. Booth at the meeting for details.

Tracey Cullen, Hesperia‘s editor for the past 14 years, has announced her retirement effective July 1, 2013. The ASCSA is now conducting a formal search for a new Editor of Hesperia. The job description and information on how to apply can be found here:

The newly revised Careers for Classicists booklet from the American Philological Association is now available at the link below. Please read and share with your students and colleagues. Feel free to pass along the link.

http://apaclassics.org/index.php/education/careers_for_classicists

– Ronnie Ancona, APA VP for Education, 2010-14

The deadline to apply for a travel subsidy for the 2012 Meeting in New York City is September 7th. Download the form here and send your application in soon!

August has arrived and the annual fall meeting is now just around the corner! The following documents will be useful as you prepare to join us this year in New York City:

• CAAS Fall 2012 Participant Registration Form
• CAAS Fall 2012 Exhibitors’ Registration Form
• CAAS Fall 2012 Participant Evaluation Form
• CAAS Fall 2012 Proxy Ballot Form

In addition, please see the following two letters:

•  letter from executive director Mary Brown regarding logistics for the fall meeting
• letter from CAAS President Shelley Haley

See you soon!

Competition Deadline: 1 November 2012

Extended Deadline: 15 November 2012*

The American Academy in Rome invites applications for the Rome Prize competition.  One of the leading overseas centers for independent study and advanced research in the arts and the humanities, the Academy offers up to thirty fellowships for periods ranging from six months to two years.

Rome Prize winners reside at the Academy’s eleven-acre center in Rome and receive room and board, a study or studio, and a stipend.  Stipends for six-month fellowships are $14,500 and stipends for eleven-month fellowships are $27,000.

Fellowships are awarded in the following fields:

• Architecture
• Design (including graphic, fashion, interior, lighting, and set design, engineering, urban planning, and other related design fields)
• Historic Preservation and Conservation (including architectural design, public policy, and the conservation of works of art)
• Landscape Architecture
• Literature**
• Musical Composition
• Visual Arts
• Ancient Studies
• Medieval Studies
• Renaissance and Early Modern Studies
• Modern Italian Studies

For further information, or to apply, visit the Academy’s website at www.aarome.org or contact the American Academy in Rome, 7 East 60 Street, New York, NY 10022, Attn: Programs.

Call: 212-751-7200. Email: c.jennings@aarome.org or info@aarome.org.

Please state specific field of interest when requesting information.

The Rome Prize competition is underwritten in part by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

*There is an extra fee for the later application date.

CAAS is sorry to report the death of Robert K. Sherk, on July 8, in Lockport, NY. He received his Ph.D. in 1950 from Johns Hopkins Univeristy, taught at the University of Maine, Bangor, and then, from 1962 until his retirement in 1990, at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Bob’s work in Greek and Roman epigraphy, particularly his Roman Documents from the Greek East, remains fundamental. Together with Ernst Badian, he launched the series Translated Documents of Greece & Rome, to which he contributed the volumes Rome and the Greek East to the Death of Augustus and The Roman Empire: Augustus to Hadrian. Those familiar with his teaching and scholarship alone will not know that during World War II he was a bombardier, flying 21 missions in B-24s over Germany and Austria. After his plane was shot down, he was a prisoner of war in Germany in the infamous Stalag III.

Do you know of an outstanding classics teacher at the secondary school level worthy of recognition? Consider nominating him or her for the APA Award for Excellence in Teaching at the Pre-Collegiate Level:

Read about the award here

– Ronnie Ancona, APA Vice President for Education 2010-14