Daniela Banks will be attending the Archaeodig field school at Poggio del Molino in Italy; a site occupied between the second century BCE and the fifth century CE, that includes a fortress, a garum production site, and a villa with a baths complex. Alex Dorosin will be travelling to Mallorca, Spain to perform fieldwork at the Roman site of Pollentia as part of the Summer School in Roman Archaeology directed by Professor Miguel Cau, a recent Visiting Scholar in Archaeology at the Joukowsky Institute. Ingrid Mader will participate in the Proyecto de Investigación Arqueológico Regional Ancash (PIARA), led by Dr. Rebecca Bria of the University of Minnesota, where she will be conducting archaeological fieldwork with emphasis in bioarchaeology, GIS, and 3D Photogrammetry in the Ancash region of Peru.
These grants are part of an program through which the Institute hopes to make it possible for any Brown University undergraduate student to participate in fieldwork appropriate to their academic interests, as an important part of each student's education and experience in archaeology. Applications are requested annually each Spring; and, while students are asked to demonstrate that the project is integral to their overall research interests, those applying for funding need not be Archaeology and the Ancient World concentrators.