Summer 2011 programs successfully completed

College of the Holy Cross Maymester (Worcester, MA)
In our fifth year running, for the first time with two sessions and without Holy Cross faculty, AIRC put on a great program without training wheels or Holy Cross chaperones! Needless to say, it was our best Maymester ever, taught by Alberto and Darius and new colleague Crispin Corrado (PhD in Classical Archaeology, Brown University).

Azusa University (Sacramento, CA)
Led by Prof. Jacquelyn Winston, the program navigated the development of early Christianity, traveling from Rome to Ravenna and Milan.

Northeastern University (Boston, MA) film program
For the second year in a row the film program was led and directed by AIRC. Again, students filmed at Ostia Antica, and you can view the videos on our videos page.

Internships
Through the Global Engagement Internship Program at Wellesley College's Center for Work and Service, AIRC was pleased to have with us in Rome intern Marguerite (Margo) Sulmont. Margo summarizes her work here, which involved social media, project and online management, as well as creation of new fundraising projects which will launch this fall.
We were also pleased to have Rebekah Junkermeier conduct her research on early Christian catacombs in Rome with us through a fellowship from Dartmouth College, after the successful completion of her MA from the Harvard Divinity School.
We also thank and salute our 2011 teaching assistant and programs intern, AUR graduate Julia Elsey, who has excavated with us at Vignacce, Ostia (Porta Marina dig), and this summer in the Roman Forum.  

SVA (NY, NY)
For the third year in a row AIRC assisted the School of Visual Arts' summer course Rome-Venice with a tour-de-force in the Forum, Palatine, and Imperial Fora, as well as a critique of the work that participants produced at Palazzo delle Esposizioni.