Information and Donations
for the CCAC

HOW TO SUPPORT THE CENTER FOR CLASSICAL ARCHAEOLOGY AND CIVILIZATIONS

Over the years the Center has received financial support from long time friends and now from a growing number of new friends.   We greatly appreciate this help and look forward to the continuing partnership that supports our projects and programs.   We are most grateful for the generous support that enables us to offer our unique and quality educational experiences to our students and for scholarship assistance that is given to them.     

Below are brief descriptions of our projects and programs.  If any of our activities interest you, we welcome your contributions and please feel free to make inquiries by contacting us.   

Contact information:
Farland Stanley Jr.
Director: The OU Center for Classical Archaeology and Civilizations
The University of Oklahoma
Norman, Oklahoma, 73019
(405) 325-7667
FAX (405) 325-7713

HOW TO HELP

All of the activities that the Center sponsors are part of its
 “Ancient STEP Programs” (Study, Travel, Excavate the Past).

            There are a number of projects, programs, and areas of support that a contributor may consider to support. 

• Archaeology Travel-Study Scholarships
• Student Expenses with the summer archaeology project
• Archaeology Field School Activities
• Campus Projects and Programs
• Lecture Series on Campus and in Italy
• Sponsoring or assisting our excavation project     

ARCHAEOLOGY TRAVEL-STUDY SCHOLARSHIPS

Scholarships include, but are not limited to, the following student scholarships.

“Ancient STEP Travel-Study Scholarship:” $500 to $1,000
“Archaeology Field School Scholarship;” $1,000 - $2000
“Student Mentor Scholarship:” $2000 and above.

The Center’s scholarships defray, in part or in whole, the expenses of students who participate in our Archaeology Field School in Italy where the Center has an archaeological project called the “Via Nova Traiana Project.”  The scholarships have been very effective in helping students participate who may otherwise have missed the opportunity without financial assistance.

The ways that one may support us vary.   Contributors may wish to remain anonymous and have their scholarship issued in the name of one of the Center’s scholarships listed above.  Other donors prefer to establish scholarships in their own name or as a memorial scholarship.   Donors may also wish to give a single one-time scholarship, a number of one-time multiple scholarships, or they may wish to establish one or more annual scholarships.

STUDENT EXPENSES (For the summer archaeological program in Italy)

Scholarships are very important to help students participate in our annual summer Archaeological Field School in Italy. The Field School in Italy is a five week program and the fee for participation is $2,950.   Our students stay in a comfortable hotel near our archaeological site. The fee pays for “on-site” housing and meal expenses for each day and night over the five week period of the program.  The fee pays for the study tours of the Center (travel, admission tickets).  The fee does not include airfare, tuition, the elective study tour to Naples, or personal spending money.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELD SCHOOL ACTIVITIES

The activities of the Field School are several and include the following:   

• The excavation project
• Regular evening lectures (some that feature guest scholars)
• Study-tour excursion to visit ancient monuments in Rome
• Tour of the Vatican and the Vatican Museum
• Study tour of the Capitoline Museum, and other museum in Rome
• Study tours to other nearby Roman and Etruscan sites and museums which include tours to the famed Etruscan ruins at Crocifisso del Tufo (The “City of the Dead”), the necropolis and archaeological museum at Tarquinia, and the immense Etruscan and Roman cave system at Orvieto
• Visits to other nearby archaeological sites
• An optional 3-day study tour to Naples and the ruins at Pompeii and Herculaneum (there is a small extra fee for this tour)

CAMPUS PROJECTS AND PROGRAMS

A donor may be interested in supporting one or more of the “on campus” activities of the Center.  These include the following: 

• Our annual “Undergraduate Colloquium on Classical Antiquity”
• Our annual “OU Classical Antiquities Week”
• Our “Classical Archaeology Society” (a student organization)
• The Center’s  plans for a colloquia, symposia, and conferences
• On Campus lecture Series

LECTURE SERIES ON CAMPUS AND IN ITALY

On Campus:     We currently have two very successful lecture series on the OU campus, “The Barnett Lectures on Classical Antiquity” and the Lectures provided from the Archaeological Institute of America through the Oklahoma chapter of the AIA.   Some donors may wish to help us to expand our campus lectures by establishing a new lecture series.

In Italy:    A donor may also have an interest in supporting the lecture series that are associated with our Field School in Italy.  One popular feature of the Field School’s evening lectures is the appearance of a prominent guest speaker who gives a set number of lectures.  These speakers are sponsored in the name of a donor and are open to the local communities and all interested parties. 

Colloquium:  The Center also has a strong interest in creating an international colloquium that will be part of the Center’s activities in Italy.  This will be an annual event that features scholars who will focus on topics related to Etruscan and Roman archaeology, history and culture.  It will be open to our students and to Italian students, academics, and other interested parties.   A donor may have an interest in supporting one or more speakers for this project.   

SPONSORING OR ASSISTING OUR EXCAVATION PROJECT

Some individuals may have an interest in supporting all or a part of our excavation project in Italy (our “Via Nova Traiana Project” at Castel Viscardo near Orvieto.    

Archaeological expeditions are labor intensive enterprises and include a broad range of expenses for equipment, transportation, staff and specialists.  As an example of these varied expenses, they include the costs for vehicles (vans, bus, fuel), and staff support.  There is also the expense for essential excavation equipment such as surveying equipment, shovels, buckets, wheel-borrows, trowels, hoes, tent materials, hammers, axes, rope and string, wood, sheet metal, fence materials, nails, and large earth moving vehicles when needed.   There is also the expense of storage facilities, computers, and the expenses and materials needed for the preservation, storage and preservation of artifacts.

We again express our appreciation to all who have helped in the success of the Center’s programs and projects.  We look forward to your continuing help and we cordially invite others to be our partners in offering quality educational experiences to our students.

The Center is very grateful to all of the students and professors who have participated in our projects.  We also extend our appreciation for the help that we have received from the offices of the Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and the offices of the President and Provost of the University of Oklahoma.