Student Research Partnership in Archaeology
23 September 2025
Ellie Simon, Natalie Tatar, and I were SRPs with Professor Jake Morton on a two week trip to Greece. The broader focus of the project was the history of the…
Student Research Partnership in Archaeology
23 September 2025
Operating as a semi-autonomous tribal confederation around the Pindus Mountains of Greece, the Athamanians, a group (or ethnos) of ancient inhabitants of this mountainous region, maintained fierce independence throughout periods…
Summer Research Partnership in Archaeology
23 September 2025
This past summer I spent two weeks in Greece with Ellie Simon and Eila Planinc under the guidance of Professor Jake Morton. Our research focused on the Athamanians, a Greek…
Summer Reading Circle in Classics
17 September 2024
Once again those Classics faculty in Northfield for some chunk of the summer enjoyed and profited from the opportunity to read selected articles and discuss them with each other. While…
Interdisciplinary Summer Research Circle
16 October 2023
This research circle began from the premise that despite our very different disciplines and associated methodologies, the three of us (Chloe Fandel, Geology; Jake Morton, Classics; Andrea Mazzariello, Music) could…
Student Research Partnership in Archaeology – Fieldwork in Greece
13 October 2023
In the summer of 2023, a team of student researchers accompanied Carleton Classics Professor Jake Morton and University of Pennsylvania Professor Emerita of Classical Studies Cynthia Damon to the mountainous…
Racial Identity and Ethnicity in the Ancient World
8 October 2020
The Classics Department’s initial application for a summer research circle was to explore current trends in the study of race and ethnicity in the ancient world. Classics (like many traditional…
