Deadline: January 15, 2010; even years; announced April 15

Amount: $11,000

Purpose: To support studies undertaken at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece for no more than a year.

Requirements: Applicant must be a citizen or permanent resident of the United States or Canada. Applicant must be at the pre-doctoral stage or have received a Ph.D within five years of application. Applicant must apply concurrently to the ASCSA for associate membership or associate student membership, but applicant may not be a member of ASCSA during the year of application. Other major fellowships may not be held during the requested tenure of the Colburn award, which is contingent upon the applicant’s acceptance by the ASCSA. At the conclusion of the fellowship tenure, the recipient must submit a report on the use of the stipend to the Chair of the AIA Fellowships Committee and the Director of the ASCSA.

Current Recipient

Yuki Furuya, University of Cincinnati
Reflections of Society in Protopalatial and Neopalatial Cretan Jewelry
Yuki Furuya is researching Cretan jewelry, its iconographical parallels, and symbolism of the Protopalatial and Neopalatial periods of the Minoan civilization. Her data will be mapped regionally and diachronically to investigate the development and dissemination of religious and political powers during these periods. Yuki is hoping to place “faces” on these Minoan jewelry owners, as jewelry characteristically provides information specific to its wearer. The effort to place “faces” in Minoan civilization is still new because, traditionally, Minoan scholarship has discussed society on a larger scale.