The American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) is the oldest and largest U.S. overseas research center. A consortium of nearly 200 affiliated North American colleges and universities, the School provides graduate students and scholars a base for the advanced study of all aspects of Greek culture, from antiquity to the present day.

Watch our latest episode featuring Trevor van Damme, Assistant Professor in the Archaeology and History of the Ancient Mediterranean at the University of Warwick.
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Michael Lindblom's The Shaft Graves and Other Late Helladic I and II Remains has been named the 2026 recipient of the Anna Marguerite McCann Award for Fieldwork Reports from the Archaeological Institute of America.
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The international conference “Music, Dance, and Soundscape in the World of Alexander the Great” (Thessaloniki, October 15–19, 2025) explored an often-overlooked dimension of antiquity: the world of sound. As Bonna D. Wescoat, Director of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, observed, we know much about the visual and material culture of Alexander’s era, yet its “soundscape” has remained silent.
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Join us for an exciting talk with esteemed archaeologist and Corinth Excavations Assistant Director Emerita Dr. Nancy Bookidis. Learn about how she got involved in the field of archaeology and some of the mentors she found along the way.
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A successful seminar at the Gennadius Library presented the preliminary findings of an interdisciplinary pilot project investigating the “material history” of a previously undocumented practice discovered at the Ottoman archive of Simonopetra monastery on Mount Athos: pasting of high-quality textile or paper linings onto the back of documents which are primarily of legal importance to the monastery.
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Watch our latest interview with Kathleen Lynch, Vice Chair of the Managing Committee of the American School
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