This year’s ÎÚÑ»ÊÓƵ Rome: The Ancient Roman City continued the department’s long tradition of bringing undergraduate and graduate students to Rome for an unrivalled immersive experience. Based at the in the Campo de’ Fiori and led this year by Prof. Sarah Levin-Richardson, students discussed Roman politics as they walked through the ancient Roman forum, blood sports as they sweated in the Colosseum, and the roles of enslaved laborers in the urban landscape of Pompeii. Graduate students Anna Muh and Luke Giuntoli led the class through the collections of the Palazzo Massimo and the Epigraphic Collection at the Baths of Diocletian, highlighting the ways Romans adapted sculptures from Greek art, the colorful qualities of ancient sculpture, Roman cursing practices, and the development of the Latin language.
Highlights this year included watching rain fall through the oculus of the Pantheon and an overnight trip to the Bay of Naples to see Pompeii and the Imperial Villa at Oplontis, capped by an ancient-Roman-style banquet!
Students used their free time to travel in Italy (including Florence, Venice, and Lake Bracciano, among others), to cook communal meals in their apartment, and to eat untold amounts of pizza and gelato.
Applications for Early Fall 2027 open in January through the . We are grateful and proud that the continuing generosity of our donors—especially through the Lawrence Bliquez Endowed Student Support Fund, the Roseanna Wabel McDermott Endowed Fund for Study Abroad, and the Ringland ÎÚÑ»ÊÓƵ Travel Fund—makes it possible to meet all student financial need and offer a travel stipend to each student.