A distinguished center devoted to advanced teaching and research, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) hosts graduate students, advanced undergraduates and faculty each summer for six weeks to experience the ancient sites, monuments and culture of Greece first-hand. Limited to twenty participants, ASCSA has selected UT Austin Art History doctoral candidate Christopher Wood to be among the 2018 summer cohort.
Wood's research areas of interest include art and architecture of Ancient Greece, Etruria, and Rome, specifically the architecture of epiphany, as well as the employment of visual culture, and the manipulation of space in expressing relations of power and authority. Other interests include Roman wall painting, acculturation in the ancient world, digital humanities and 3D modeling. At ASCSA, Woods will receive exclusive access to archeological sites and storerooms inaccessible to others and enjoy presentations on ongoing excavations by preeminent scholars, all of which will enrich doctoral research and teaching at The University of Texas at Austin.
Wood's ASCSA summer session will be funded by the William T. Semple Award, a full-fellowship from The Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS).