Ph.D. student Matt Winter has received a grant from the American School of Oriental Studies to carry out fieldwork at the site of Hippos-Sussita, on the Sea of Galilee in Israel. Hippos-Sussita was a site founded by Seleukid colonists in the third century BCE. It was a member of one of the ten major Greco-Roman cities in the region called the Decapolis, and functioned well into the Umayyad Caliphate until it was destroyed by an earthquake in 749 CE and subsequently abandoned. Among its notable features are a large forum complex, a basilica, a kalybe, an odeon, a theater, impressive city walls, an aqueduct system, and several Christian churches dating to the Byzantine period. Matt will join an international team led by Haifa University and will lend his expertise on the Greco-Roman Near East to the excavation as a project manager. More information about Hippos-Sussita is available here.

Graduating SoA Senior Andrew Richard will receive an Alumni Legacy Award from the Honors College at the college’s pre-Commencement Ceremony. The $500 Alumni/Giuè Scholarship Award is made possible through the generosity of donor Grace Giuè, in honor of the value of education instilled by her parents. The scholarship is intended to be used toward the expenses of graduate education.

The Social and Behavioral Sciences Research Institute has awarded Associate Professor Jennifer Roth-Gordon a Faculty Small Grant. The grant will cover a portion of research costs this summer for Dr. Roth-Gordon’s project, “Bodies of Privilege: Cultivating Wealth and Whiteness in Rio de Janeiro.” To read her abstract, click here.

Graduate student Nicole Mathwich received an honorable mention for her application to the National Science Foundation’s Graduate Research Fellowship Program. Nicole is finishing her first year of graduate studies in the School of Anthropology. She is currently conducting her M.A. research on the zooarchaeological remains from the 18th century Spanish colonial Mission Guevavi (located near Nogales, AZ), under the direction of Associate Professor Barnet Pavao-Zuckerman. Nicole completed her undergraduate studies at Santa Clara University in 2012, with a B.S. degree in Anthropology and a B.A. in Women and Gender Studies. She has extensive experience at Spanish colonial missions, having served as a crew chief for the excavations at Mission Santa Clara, as well as at Guevavi in Spring 2013.