Students will be able to participate in a wide range of major field projects run by faculty members in Peru, Greece, Albania, South Africa, Sicily, and Turkey, as well as in the Bay Area. Funding is available from various sources at Stanford to assist students to participate in these projects or to carry out independent field research. Applicants should direct inquiries and request for application materials to the Student Program Coordinators in the individual departments. The graduate departments of Classical Studies, History of Art, and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Toronto offer a rich interdisciplinary program in Ancient Studies at the M.A. and Ph.D. levels. The departments contribute courses and provide facilities and supervision for graduate research.
Students register in one of the participating departments.
The faculty in the three departments cover a broad spectrum of Ancient Mediterranean and Mesopotamian cultures. Classical Studies and the History of Art together are concerned with the cultures of the Bronze Age Aegean and the Graeco-Roman world. Classics, with over twenty graduate faculty, offers a full range of courses in Greek and Roman history, language and literature. The History of Art Department, with a graduate staff of four in the Ancient field, includes the art and archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age through the Greek and Roman periods. Near Eastern Studies, with over fourteen staff, covers the archaeology, languages and literatures of Egypt, Syria-Palestine and Western Asia.