In support of its educational mission, the Etruscan Foundation offers and sponsors a broad array of programs for its members and affiliates. These have included internship opportunities at the foundation's Italian field headquarters, Tenuta di Spannocchia, fellowships and stipend awards in archeology and Etruscology, public lectures and scholarly seminars, and a variety of sponsored educational programs that have taken place in both Italy and in the United States.

For the last several years, the Etruscan Foundation has offered and supported an internship program (the Farm Program) at the 1,200-acre working organic farm at its field headquarters in Siena, Italy, providing educational opportunities for students and recent college graduates interested in traditional and organic farm practices, conservation of endangered breeds of domesticated farm animals, archeological restoration, landscaping and organic gardening. Our sponsorship of this program will continue through the end of 2002. Thereafter, the Internship Program will be offered by our sister organization, the Spannocchia Foundation. To learn more about the Internship Program and to receive an application, please send an email to: internships@spannocchia.org.

The Etruscan Foundation has a long tradition of supporting fieldwork and scholarship in Etruscology and its related disciplines for a half century. Young and developing scholars have received fellowships from the Foundation to help defray the costs of participation in a field school or in archaeological fieldwork at Etruscan and other ancient sites across Italy. Fieldwork fellowships are currently available to advanced undergraduate and graduate students enrolled at accredited North American colleges and universities. Please access the Fieldwork Fellowship link below for further details about the application process or contact The Etruscan Foundation at: office@etruscanfoundation.org.

Current Fellowships

Dates

2009

2009

2009

In tribute to the foundation's founder Count Ferdinando Cinelli and his wife Sarah, the Etruscan Foundation has established a permanently endowed annual lecture offered through the Archaeological Institute of America's Lecture Program. Professor Richard De Puma of the University of Iowa presented the inaugural lecture of the Ferdinando and Sarah Cinelli Lecture in Etruscan and Italic Archaeology on April 10, 2003. Dr. De Puma's talk focused on forgeries of Etruscan Art. The second lecture of this series was presented by Dr. Helen Nagy of the University of Puget Sound for the AIA's Madison, Wisconsin Society. Dr. Nagy's talk, entitled, "Etruscan Demons of the Underworld," took place October 28, 2003 in Madison. The third Cinelli lecture was presented by Dr. Anthony Tuck of Tufts University on March 18, 2005 entitled "Singing the Rug: Patterned Textiles in Etruria and Beyond." at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, Massachusetts. The fourth lecture in the Cinelli series was presented by Dr. Gregory Warden of Southern Methodist University on October 10, 2005 entitled the "Cult, continuity and cultural identity at the Etruscan settlement of Poggio Colla (Florence)," presented at the American University Faculty Club in Washington, D.C.

The 2009 lecture will be presented by Nancy T. de Grummond. Professor de Grummond is a specialist in Etruscan archaeology, religion and myth. She is the recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Fellowship (1962-1963); the National Endowment for the Humanities support for the museum exhibition, "Reflection on the Etruscan Mirror," (1981); the Joukowsky Lecturer, Archaeology Institute of America, Spring (1999); and the Parker Distinguished Visiting Lecturer, Brown University, Fall (1999). She is an elected member of the Istituto di Studi Etruschi. Professor de Grummond has served since 1963 as director of archaeological excavations at Cetamura del Chianti, where she discovered the Sanctuary of the Etruscan Artisans. She has produced a number of publications over the past twenty six years on Etruscan and classical archaeology topics including Etruscan Myth, Sacred History and Legend (University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology: Philadelphia 2006). She received her doctorate degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill and is currently a professor in the Department of Classics at Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida. Most recently, Dr. de Grummond has been named Distinguished Research Professor at Florida State University, for her work in excavation and interpreting Etruscan culture.

For more details about this lecture please contact the AIA Rochester Society, Helene V. Case at email address: hvcase@msn.com or telephone number 585.381.9034.