Classical Studies at Brandeis
Brandeis University
Classical Studies Department
MARBLE MAP OF ROME
Undergraduate Research in Classical Studies


THE EUNICE M. LEBOWITZ COHEN FELLOWSHIP IN CLASSICAL STUDIES

The Eunice M. Lebowitz Cohen Fellowship in Classical Studies is an exciting offering from our most generous donor. Classical Studies majors (and in some cases, minors) are eligible to compete for one of four slots as year-long Lebowitz Cohen Fellows. In this, the Program's third year, we will select up to 4 Fellows who will work toward completion of a Classics research or creative project, in conjunction with a Classicist Faculty Mentor (one from our current faculty or, in special cases, a classicist from another department).

You create the project; here are some possibilities, to give you a sense of how narrowly-defined, ambitious, or academic your project can be:

  • Read one writer or one work in depth, in Ancient Greek or Latin, and write a research paper
  • Design a new Classical Studies course, complete with bibliography and syllabus
  • Annotate an epic or other major work of history, science, or literature for uploading as a webpage on the Classical Studies website
  • Compile a source book on one aspect of Classical history and host a spring symposium on the topic
  • Compile a portrait of a famous Roman or Greek using all of the Classical fields: art, archaeology, architecture, drama, history, language, literature, philosophy, poetry, prose, etc.
  • Read or translate Greek and Latin poetry and put together a bi- or tri-lingual spring reading of poems for the Brandeis public
  • Create a Trojan Horse, Roman temple, or Greek theatre
  • Stage a Greek or Roman play in the original language or in English, using your own or another's translation
  • Compile a source book of modern poems with classical themes; analyze their derivation and reliance on Classics to express the Modern
  • Research a group of objects from the Ancient Artifact Study Center

Each fellow will meet with their Mentor on a monthly basis throughout the academic year, and is expected to complete a tangible project to be submitted no later than the 15th of May. Fellows and Mentors will meet as a group for dinner twice each semester to discuss the rigors of research, the serendipitous discovery, what to do when your research carries you away from your work, and academic scholarship in general. The last of these events gives fellows an opportunity to present their research to the group. The fellowship stipend is $750; reimbursement for modest research expenses will be considered. Applications are due at the end of March, with selections announced in mid-April. The program officially runs each academic year from fall through spring.

The following forms and information sheets (pdf format) are for the 2008/09 competition, which was conducted in spring 2008. Forms for the 2009/10 competition will be posted here in January 2009. For questions, please contact Janet Barry at jbarry@brandeis.edu or x6-2180. You may download these forms or pick up hardcopies of them in the Classics Department, outside Rabb 140.

  • Lebowitz Cohen Fellowship Application 2008/09
  • Lebowitz Cohen Fellowship Program Information Sheet 2008/09
  • Lebowitz Cohen Fellowship Faculty Mentor or Recommender Sheet 2008/09
  • Lebowitz Cohen Fellowship Poster 2008/09

    • A list of current Eunice M. Lebowitz Cohen Fellows can be accessed on our Prizes & Awards page.

    SCHOLARSHIP & FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES AT BRANDEIS

    Catherine Baker, Pompeii, August 2005 Most scholarships and fellowships offered to undergraduates who have matriculated at Brandeis are coordinated by the Office of Undergraduate Academic Affairs and First Year Services (UAAFYS). See their website for further information about scholarships and fellowships to support your research in Classical Studies: http://www.brandeis.edu/uaafys/scholarships/index.html.

    If you plan to conduct Classical research while in residence at Brandeis, in addition to the Eunice M. Lebowitz Cohen Fellowship program, you should consider the following programs run by Academic Services, the requirements of which are at the link above:


  • Jerome A. Schiff Undergraduate Fellows Program

  • Undergraduate Research Academic Year Program

  • Undergraduate Research Summer Program (summer only)




    Catherine K. Baker '06 [left], a double Classics major (Classics and Classical Archaeology and Ancient History), was a Schiff Undergraduate Fellow in her senior year. After researching Pompeian wall paintings with her project mentor, Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow, Catherine travelled to Italy where she photographed hundreds of wall paintings. On her return home, she created a database of Pompeian mythological wall paintings in order to study their placement and interactions. This work stood her in good stead when she planned her senior honors thesis, "Pompeian Mythological Wall Paintings: Myth, Multiformity, and Roman Virtue." In the thesis, she built on her Schiff project in a further, comparative analysis of myth, painting, and culture, for which she was awarded highest departmental honors. Catherine is now a doctoral candidate in Classics at New York University.



    RESEARCH AT BRANDEIS

    The Brandeis Libraries house much of interest to the Classical scholar. See the following website for more information: http://library.brandeis.edu/subjects/classics.html.


    Photograph: Map of Rome in 14 C.E. (the time of Augustus' death), marble, 1932, on brick wall in front of the Basilica of Constantine, Rome (Photographic Credit: Ann Raia, 1999), by courtesy of the VRoma Project: http://www.vroma.org/images/raia_images/augmap.jpg. Photograph of Catherine Baker '06 by Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow, in the House of the Epigrams (V.1.18), Pompeii, August 2005

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    Department of Classical Studies, 2008.