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Hours and Location Hours Monday-Friday: 9am-5pm Closed on federal holidays and from December 24-January 1 Address 3100 Whitehaven Street, NW Washington, DC 20008 Driving Directions Directions from Maryland (I-95 south) Follow Interstate Highway 95 to the Beltway (I-495) heading west toward Bethesda/Silver Spring. Take exit 39 for River Road, heading east towards Washington. Turn right onto Goldsboro Road. Turn left at the first traffic light onto Massachusetts Avenue. After… Read more

2020 Early Career Fellows in Hellenic Studies in Greece:
Ioanna Moutafi

The Bioarchaeology of the Early Mycenaean period: An interdisciplinary study of human skeletal remains from Ayios Vasileios (Laconia) and Kirrha (Phokis) Death is a social process, associated with a series of collective acts (a.k.a. mortuary practices), which do not passively reflect reality but rather involve re-definition of identities, personhood and social relationships. Therefore, by studying the full spectrum of ancient mortuary practice, we can reach an emic understanding of complex social… Read more