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Fellowships


The Ohio State University Graduate School has a competitive, University-wide, post-doctoral fellowship program which may be used for the study of epigraphy and palaeography. The Center has enjoyed remarkable success in sponsoring applicants for this fellowship. Our recent fellows include:
  • 1993-1994 - Elizabeth Kosmetatou (Ph.D. University of Cincinnati) - Stephen Tracy, sponsor
  • 1994-1995 - Abigail Firey (Ph.D. Univ. of Toronto, Center for Medieval Studies) - Frank Coulson, sponsor
  • 1995-1996 - Michael Allen (Ph.D. Univ. of Toronto, Center for Medieval Studies) (declined) - Frank Coulson, sponsor
  • 1999-2000 - Carin Ruff (Ph.D. Univ. of Toronto, Center for Medieval Studies) (declined) - Frank Coulson, sponsor
Qualified applicants should contact the Director of the Center for more information about this fellowship.

The Center offers short-term fellowships (of one to four months duration) to support visitors pursuing post-doctoral research in Greek and Latin epigraphy: The Arthur and Joyce Gordon Fellowship in Latin epigraphy; The Sterling and Elizabeth Dow Fellowship in Greek epigraphy; and The Paul E. and Sandra J. Watkins Fellowship in Greek and Latin history and epigraphy. The fellowships ordinarily pay for travel to and from Columbus and a living expense of $1,500 per month; they must be taken up between September 2007 and May 2008. Recipients are expected to be in residence during the tenure of the award and are encouraged to participate in the activities of the University. Current students, faculty, and staff of the Ohio State University are not ordinarily considered for the award.

The Center's holdings include, in addition to a comprehensive library to support the study of Greek and Latin inscriptions, Arthur and Joyce Gordon's photographs and squeezes of Latin inscriptions, J.K. Evans's photo archive of Latin inscriptions from northern Italy, J.M.R. Cormack's papers, photographs and squeezes of inscriptions from Macedonia, Sterling Dow's, Benjamin Meritt's, and A.G. Woodhead's collections of offprints, and substantial collections of photographs and squeezes of inscriptions. The focus of the Greek collection is Attica, but there are numerous squeezes from other sites.

There is no application form. Applicants are requested to submit a curriculum vitae and a brief research proposal (not to exceed three pages) to the Director, Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, The Ohio State University, 190 Pressey Hall, 1070 Carmack Road, Columbus, OH 43210-1002. The applicant should also arrange to have two letters of recommendation sent to the Director. All application materials must be received by January 31, 2007. Awards will be announced towards the end of March 2007.

Our recent fellows include:
  • Autumn 1995 - Michael Clark (Ph.D. Oxford University), Sterling Dow Fellow
  • Spring 1996 - Sara B. Aleshire (Director, Center for the Study of Greek Epigraphy, University of California at Berkeley), Watkins Fellow
  • Winter 1997 - Steven L. Tuck (Ph.D. University of Michigan), Arthur E. Gordon Fellow
  • Spring 1997 - Dennis Hughes (Grinnell College), Sterling Dow Fellow
  • Spring 1998 - Georgia Bonny Bazemore (Ph.D. University of Chicago), Watkins Fellow
  • Autumn 1998 - Silvia Orlandi (Universita di Roma "La Sapienza"), Arthur E. Gordon Fellow
  • Winter 1999 - Marietta Horster (Universitaet Rostock), Sterling Dow Fellow
  • Winter 2001 - Adela Paki (The National History Museum of Transylvania), Arthur E. Gordon Fellow
  • Autumn 2001 - Ruth Monreal (University of Tuebingen), Virginia Brown Fellow
  • Winter 2002 - Ariel Loftus (Wichita State University), Sterling Dow Fellow
  • Autumn 2002 - Aphrodite Avagianou (Research Centre for Greek and Roman Antiquity, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens), Sterling Dow Fellow
  • Winter 2003 - Leszek Mrozewicz (Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznan), Arthur E. Gordon Fellow
  • Autumn 2003 - Roland Oetjen (Ph.D. Heidelberg University), Arthur E. Gordon Fellow
  • Winter 2004 - Craig Dethloff (Colorado College), Sterling Dow Fellow
  • Spring 2004 - Jason Moralee (Ph.D. University of California, Los Angeles), Watkins Fellow
  • Spring 2004 - David Graf (University of Miami), Sterling Dow Fellow (deferred from Spring 2003)
  • Summer 2004 - Jamie Fumo (Mount Holyoke College), Virginia Brown Fellow
  • Spring 2005 - Eran Lupu (George Washington University), Watkins Fellow
  • Autumn 2005 - Marjorie Curry Woods (University of Texas at Austin), Virginia Brown Fellow
  • Winter 2006 - Elias D. Koulakiotis (University of Crete, Rethymnon), Watkins Fellow
  • Spring 2006 - David Graf (University of Miami), Sterling Dow Fellow
  • Autumn 2006 - Sara Saba (Ph.D. Duke University), Sterling Dow Fellow
  • Winter 2007 - Vanya Lozanova (Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Thracology, "Prof. Alexander Fol"), Watkins Fellow
  • Summer 2007 - Jinyu Liu (DePauw University), Arthur E. Gordon Fellow
  • Summer 2008 - Susanne Hafner (University of Texas at Austin), Virginia Brown Fellow
Current Fellows:
  • Professor Jinyu Liu
  • Professor Susanne Hafner will be working on her book, Virgilian Masculinities: Medieval Readings of the Aeneid, a study of the glosses, drawings, doodles, and other additions to Virgil's text found in medieval manuscripts. During her time at the Center, she will focus on the Old High German glosses scratched into the Vergilius Palatinus and their relationship to the Latin glosses in the same manuscript as well as their counterparts in cod. Gud. lat. 70.
The Center is continuing to raise funds in support of all of our post-doctoral fellowships.