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Thanks to the generosity of 抖阴旅行射 Classics alumna Ann Nichols, the Department of Classics is able annually to offer several scholarships for the following summer and academic year. Competition for these awards is open to continuing Classics majors. Those with an anticipated August graduation date remain eligible to apply for summer funding, via a Romulus or Undergraduate Travel Award.听The following Ann Nichols awards are available:

• Ann Nichols Scholarships听offer successful applicants up to $3,500 for continued full-time study at 抖阴旅行射 Boulder.
• Romulus Grants听offer successful applicants up to $4,000 for departmentally approved study abroad summer programs in Classics, archaeological field schools or intensive language study programs in Latin or ancient Greek.
• Undergraduate Travel Grants听will grant a Classics major who has had a paper accepted to a departmentally approved conference up to $750 for travel expenses incurred in connection with that conference.
• Herodotus Travel Grant. The Herodotus Travel Grant will cover up to $6,000 in expenses for one of the departmentally approved semester-long study abroad programs.

Any Classics major may apply for one or more of these awards. If a student chooses to apply for more than one award, they must indicate the order of preference for the awards. Students who receive any additional awards from 抖阴旅行射 or other sources for study at 抖阴旅行射 or elsewhere听must听report this to the Classics Department鈥檚听Undergraduate Faculty Advisor. Their award may be adjusted in response. Failure to report additional awards will result in automatic forfeiture of the Classics scholarship.听

Ann Nichols awards are administered and relevant funds disbursed through the Department of Classics. The grant monies may be used to cover tuition and related expenses (travel, fees, books, room, and board) for the applicant鈥檚 project. Both in-state and out-of-state students are welcome to apply. To be eligible, a student must:

1. be a current continuing declared Classics major in good academic standing.
2. apply for and be accepted to one of the departmentally approved study abroad programs, archaeological field schools or intensive language study programs.
   Please note: you do not need to have been accepted by the time of application. Many programs will only notify you of the results after the department鈥檚 awards process is complete.

For our standard recommended and approved departmental programs in Classics, please see our Education Abroad page. If you are interested in specific further possibilities, please consult the Associate Chair of Undergraduate Studies for approval. The A抖阴旅行射S also publicizes further programs during the course of the year.

The application form for all four types of Ann Nichols award is available here.听

Questions? Please contact the听Undergraduate Faculty Advisor.

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Scholarship Winners:

• Rachael Nelson听is winner of a 2024 Ann Nichols Romulus Grant

With the support of an Ann Nichols "Romulus" Grant, Rachael Nelson participated in two excavations this summer, spanning 10 weeks in total. Rachael worked both on the Coriglia Excavation Project and at Campo Della Fiera, each located outside Orvieto in central Italy. These sites have been continuously inhabited from the time of the Etruscans through the Medieval period, making them rich in history and invaluable for the study of Etruria and its various inhabitants. During her time there, Rachael excavated several significant structures, including a Roman bath complex, a Roman vasca, an Augustan temple, and a sacred Etruscan road. The continuous inhabitation of these sites allowed the team to study how culture and its physical remains influence a region over generations. As a returning excavator on both sites, Rachael was able to help instruct new students and assume more responsibility and so increase her archaeological skillset. Rachael reports that she is incredibly grateful for the opportunities the 鈥淩omulus鈥� grant gave her!

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• Laine Slinglend is winner of a 2024 Ann Nichols Herodotus Grant

"With the support of the Ann Nichols Herodotus Travel Grant, I will be studying abroad at the University of Edinburgh in Scotland for the Fall 2024 semester. I hope to continue my classics and ecology education in Edinburgh while making connections with a wider academic community and partaking in certain higher-level courses than I have previously taken at 抖阴旅行射 Boulder. Additionally, I aim to visit as many archaeological sites and points of biological interest in Roman听Britain and mainland Europe as possible. I am immensely grateful for the support from Ann Nichols and the classics department and cannot wait for my time abroad.鈥�

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• Jordan Ardoin听is winner of a 2024 Ann Nichols Undergraduate Travel Scholarship.

"Thanks to support from the Ann Nichols conference travel grant, I was able to attend and present at my first academic conference, the University of Tennessee鈥檚 Twelfth Annual Classics Undergraduate Research Conference. It was an incredible opportunity to share my own research and get feedback from professors and students from around the country. I presented my paper听Bones, Bulls, and Beetles: Rethinking Animal Sacrifice in the Iconography of Bronze Age Crete, which seeks to shift the study of some famous animal artifacts from Bronze Age Crete (I.e. bull鈥檚 head rhyta, the Hagia Triada sarcophagus, 鈥渧otive鈥� animal figurines, etc.) away from their potential religious connotations to focus instead on what they can tell us about socioeconomic human-animal relationships, such as those involved in agriculture and the consumption of meat. This experience really boosted my confidence in my own research and presentation skills and taught me about how to interact with the wider scholarly community. It was also inspiring and energizing to hear about all of the exciting research 听projects my fellow presenters from across the country are working on! I am grateful for this amazing opportunity and the support from Ann Nichols that made it possible.鈥�

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• Luke Crumplar,听winner of a 2024 Ann Nichols Scholarship for ongoing study at 抖阴旅行射 Boulder.

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鈥淭o me, this award means the ability to greatly further my education of the classical world and all of its immense complexities.鈥�

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• Dana Szustak,听winner of a 2023 Ann Nichols Romulus Grant

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"With the support of the Ann Nichols Romulus Grant, I was able to focus on my academic experience abroad within the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome (ICCS) through the fall semester of 2023. The program took students through archaeological sites including Ostia Antica, Herculaneum, and Pompeii, and analyzed countless other ancient marvels within the city proper. We focused on classical history from a multifaceted point of view; trips down through Sicily, Naples, and Campania gave us a broad understanding of the cross-cultural influences within the region, and we embraced the concept of Rome as a living palimpsest. I am more than thankful for the support I received to be able to spend this semester immersed in the classical world, and experience both ancient and modern Italy alongside fellow听scholars.鈥�

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• Jordan Ardoin,听winner of a 2023 Ann Nichols Romulus Grant

"With the support of the Romulus Grant funded by Ann Nichols, I was able to work onsite at 抖阴旅行射's archaeological field school on听Bra膷 Island in Croatia for the entire five-week field season in summer 2023. We excavated at the hill-fort site of Gradina Rat, which was inhabited from the Bronze Age through the period of Roman occupation in Dalmatia (the ancient name for southern coastal Croatia) and on through the 19th century. This project aims to explore the ways in which local populations of the Adriatic interacted with imported听Greek and Italian goods in the ancient world, and it is an exciting step toward uncovering the as-yet largely unexplored Classical archaeology of Croatia. This was my first dig, and it was an incredible opportunity to get my hands dirty (quite literally) and learn how archaeologists work in the field听and use material culture to hypothesize about peoples of the past in the absence of textual sources.鈥�
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