Past Recipients of the Matthew Wiencke Research Fund in Classics

• Kathryn Mammel '11. Kathryn Mammel received award money for a Summer excavation in 2009.
• Alexander Vespoli '09. Alexander Vespoli traveled to England for the summer of 2008 to dig at the Roman site of Vindolanda near Hadrian's Wall in Northumbria. He also interned at the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology at the University of Reading.
• Ray DiCiaccio '09. Ray DiCiaccio traveled to Greece to work in the Athenian Agora for a summer.
• Dominic Machado '09. In 2008 Dominic Machado traveled to the APA conference in Chicago to deliver a talk entitled, "Generals, Gods, and Games: Video Games and Classical Antiquity."
• Briar Teron '08. Briar Teron traveled to Pompeii in 2007 to do on-site research for her thesis about the physical structures and basic operations of Pompeian bakeries.
• Anna Sjogren '06. Anna Sjogren traveled to the eastern coast of Crete to participate in the archaeological excavation of the town of Palekastro. There, she hoped to study myths about young Zeus and his connections to Palekastro.
• Matthew R. Jedreski '05. In 2003, Matt Jedreski traveled to Perugia in Italy to study Italian for a summer. In 2005, he was awarded the Wiencke Research Fund again and took a 10-day research trip to the University of Marburg in Germany and to Greece to research depictions of Cretan religious architecture during the Late Bronze age for his honors thesis.
• Karen Zook '05. Karen Zook interned at the Ure Museum of Greek Archaeology at the University of Reading. There, she performed artifact-based research and utilized university libraries to do research for her honors thesis.