Research Fellowship
A Fellowship Program for PhD Candidates (ABD), PhD Independent Researchers and PhD Untenured Faculty
The Etruscan Foundation Research Fellowship is designed to support research in all areas of research on Etruscan and indigenous cultures of non-Greek Italy dating from the Neolithic through the 1st Century BCE. The fellowship is open to Canadian and U.S. citizens and those affiliated with U.S. institutions who are PhD candidates (ABD), PhD independent researchers and PhD untenured faculty. The Research Fellowship may be used for archaeological fieldwork, site surveying, collection analysis, museum study or archival research at sites in Italy whose primary focus is Etruscan and/or indigenous cultures on non-Greek Italy dating from the Neolithic through the 1st Century BCE. The Fellowship may only be used for materials whose acquisition conforms to the Archaeological Institute of America’s Code of Ethics.
Application
The Etruscan Foundation Research Fellowship carries an award of $7,500. This fellowship is intended to support travel to and from Italy, travel within Italy, meals and lodging during research activity, and ancillary materials and equipment for the Etruscan Foundation Fellow. Recipients are expected to seek other sources of funding for all additional research expenses. (Honorary Advisory members of The Etruscan Foundation are ineligible to apply) Applications will be evaluated by The Etruscan Foundation Fellowship Review Committee. The recommendations of the Committee will be forwarded to the Board of Directors for final approval.
The application deadline is March 1st.
All application materials must be received by the foundation office by this date.
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| 2025 | Giacomo Fontana, PhD, Assistant Professor (T-T) Texas Tech University Lubbock, TX The Angela Caveness Weisskopf Research Fellowship | Unveiling Monte Pallano: New Data, New Questions, New Models | ||
| 2024 | Erin O’Donoghue, Assistant Professor (T-T) Brandeis University Waltham, MA The Angela Caveness Weisskopf Fund Award | Investigating the Hinterlands of Poggio Civitate, Murlo | ||
| 2023 | Amelia Eichengreen University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI The Ferdinando & Sarah Cinelli Award | The Study of Archaic Domestic Architecture in Central Italy | ||
| 2023 | Kevin Lee University of Texas at Austin Austin, TX The Angela Caveness Weisskipf Fund Award | 15 pre-Roman Fortifications (350 – 250 BCE) in Southern Italy | ||
| 2023 | Christina Monroe Oxford University Oxford, UK The Ferdinando & Sarah Cinelli Award | Mapping of Cuniculi in the 1st Millenium BCE Italy | ||
| 2022 | Mattia D’Acri University of Missouri Columbia. MO The Ferdinando and Sarah Cinelli Fund Award | Pottery Production and Social Complexity in Archaic Rome and Latium | ||
| 2022 | Antonio LoPiano Duke University Durham, NC The Angela Caveness Weisskopf Fund Award | Mapping the Ancient City of Doganella through Remote Sensing Technologies | ||
| 2021 | Leah Bernardo-Ciddio University of Michigan Ann Arbor, MI The Angela Caveness Weisskopf Fund Award | Ceramics, Craft Communities, and Cultural Interactions in the First Millennium Adriatic: Production and Trade of Apulian Matt-Painted Pottery | ||
| 2020 | Matthew Harder University of Missouri Columbia, MO The Angela Caveness Weisskopf Fund Award | Ameria: The Transition from a non-Roman Polity to a Roman Town | ||
| 2019 | Brian van Oppen Columbia University New York, NY The Angela Caveness Weisskopf Fund Award | Radiant Bodies: Animating Etruscan Bronze Candelabra | ||
| 2018 | Jacqueline K. Miller Ortoleva University of Birmingham United Kingdom The Angela Caveness Weisskopf Fund Award | A Neuroarchaeological Perspective on Etruscan Tomb Paintings | ||
| 2018 | Giuseppe Carlo Castellano, II University of Texas at Austin Austin, Texas The Ferdinando and Sarah Cinelli Fund Award | pXRF Metallurgical Analysis of Etruscan Coinage | ||
| 2017 | Alexander Mazurek University at Buffalo Buffalo, New York The Angela Caveness Weisskopf Fund Award | Dynamic Reciprocity and Embellished Decline: Warfare and Society in the Etruscan City-States | ||
| 2016 | Daniel Diffendale University of Michigan Ann Arbor, Michigan The Angela Caveness Weisskopf Fund Award | An Architectural Study of the Sanctuary of Fortuna and Mater Matuta at Sant’Omobono | ||
| 2015 | Andrea Brock University of Michigan The Angela Caveness Weisskopf Fund Award | Coring Survey of the Forum Boarium: Environmental Changes Landscape Modifications in Prehistoric Rome | ||
| 2014 | Angela Trentacoste University of Sheffield Sheffield, England The Angela Caveness Weisskopf Fund Award | Beyond Sacrifice: Re-evaluating the Ritual Use and Deposition of Animals in Etruscan and Early Roman Italy | ||
| 2013 | Katharine Kreindler Stanford University The Angela Caveness Weisskopf Fund Award | American Academy in Rome Poggio Civitate | ||
| 2012 | Theresa R. Huntsman Ph.D Candidate (ABD) Art History and Archaeology Washington University in St. Louis Campus Box 1189 One Brookings Drive St. Louis, Missouri 63130 The Angela Caveness Weisskopf Fund Award | Eternal Personae: Chiusine Cinerary Urns and the Construction of Etruscan identity | ||
| 2011 | Jeffrey A. Becker, Ph.D. RPA Visiting Assistant Professor of Archaeology Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology & the Ancient World Brown University Box 1837 / George Street Providence, RI 02912 The Angela Caveness Weisskopf Fund Award | Tracing Indigenous Urbanism in Latium Vetus | ||
| 2010 | Gretchen E. Meyers, Ph.D. Franklin & Marshall College Department of Classics PO Box 3003 Lancaster, PA 17604 The Angela Caveness Weisskopf Fund Award | Weaving as Worship: Women and Ritual in Etruscan Society | ||
| 2009 | Hilary Becker, Ph.D. Oberlin College Classics Department King Building 105A 10 N. Professor St. Oberlin, Ohio 44074 The Angela Caveness Weisskopf Fund Award | A Reinvestigation of the Material Excavated from the Twin Sanctuaries of Fortuna and Mater Matuta | ||
| 2008 | Sara Bon-Harper, Ph.D. Archaeological Research Manager The Monticello Dept. of Archaeology Thomas Jefferson Foundation, Inc. P.O. Box 316 Charlottesville, Virginia 22902 The Angela Caveness Weisskopf Fund Award | Investigating Etruscan Ceramic Production at the Podere Funghi | ||
| 2007 | Emma Blake, Ph.D. Tufts University Department of Classics 321 Eaton Hall Medford, MA 02155 The Angela Caveness Weisskopf Fund Award | The Marsala Hinterland Survey Trapani Province Sicily, Italy |
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Voices of Our Fellows
“The research fellowship granted to me was crucial for me to gather the necessary data for my PhD project on pre-Roman cuniculi […] Some of the cuniculi I was able to view were still providing water today. Their continued functioning after millennia speaks to their incredible engineering and to their worth and value outweighing the time and effort needed for their creation. […] This was all possible thanks to the generosity of The Etruscan Foundation’s Research Fellowship […]”
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