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The Center for Hellenic Studies is pleased to announce the students who have received internships and scholarships for summer programs in Greece and in Washington, DC.

Cultural Internship Program – Nafplion, Greece

The Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) Summer Internship Program brings together a group of American and Greek undergraduates for five weeks each summer in Nafplion where they work in teams for a variety of cultural institutions. The students participating this summer are:

• Archaeological Museum: William Dingee (Harvard University) and Georgia Dasoura (Aristotle University of Thessaloniki)


• Folklore Foundation: Alicia Mergenthaler (Harvard University) and Nikoletta Michailidou (Democritus University of Thrace)


• National Gallery, Nafplion Annex: Connor Jerow (Rhodes College) and Adonis Farchat (American College of Greece)


• General State Archives, Argolis Prefecture: Stefanie Chorianopoulos (Harvard University), Georgia Loukatou (University of Patras), and Georgia Maniati (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)


• Anthos Library (Fougaro): Alice Shen (Harvard University) and Spyros Nikolaou (Ionion University)


• The Initiative for Heritage Conservancy (IHC) Digitization Programme: Jason Light (Harvard University)

Teaching Internship Program – Nafplion, Greece

The CHS offers the opportunity for one Harvard University undergraduate student in Social Sciences and one Greek university undergraduate student to work as teaching interns and gain teaching experience alongside a Harvard professor in the High School Summer Program (HSSP) in Nafplion.

The teaching interns this summer are:

• Larson Ishii (Harvard University)


• Iliana Papangeli (University of Ioannina)

Archaeological Field School in Greece

The CHS is collaborating with Sunoikisis to provide scholarships for two Harvard students and one Sunoikisis student for the archaeological field school at Kenchreai, the port of Corinth.

The following students received awards from the CHS for the 2013 season:

• Benjamin Selden (Harvard University)


• Margaret Eichner (Harvard University)


• Samantha Kailas (Marquette University)

CHS Internship Program – Washington, DC

The Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS) Summer Internship Program offers students the opportunity to work in Washington, D.C. on projects related to Publications and Fellowships and Curricular Development (FCD).

The fellowships and curricular development interns working at the CHS this summer will be:

• Zoe Erb (Whitman College)


• Mason Johnson (Rhodes College)


• Gregory Montoya-Mora (University of New Mexico)

The publications interns will be:

• Alexandra Baro (Bard College)


• Nhut Nguyen (Agnes Scott College)


• David Williams (Kenyon College).