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John Camp II |
John Camp II, the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Professor in
Classics, was honored at the 16th Annual Phidippides Award Gala Dinner on October 27, 2010. The event was held at the Yale Club of New York in Manhattan.
Sponsored by Hellenic Public Radio - Cosmos FM 91.5, the event celebrated 23 years of Hellenic Public Radio broadcasting and honored Camp, the director of the Athenian Agora Excavations of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Camp is a distinguished archaeologist, a scholar and renowned Philhellene, and is known for his passionate advocacy of Hellenism.
In 2009, Camp was named the Stavros Niarchos Foundation Professor in Classics. The Stavros S. Niarchos Foundation is an international philanthropic organization that supports charitable activities in four primary areas: arts and culture, education, health and medicine, and social welfare. Within each program category, the Foundation supports initiatives that feature strong leadership and sound management and can demonstrate a tangible impact over time. The Foundation fosters the exchange and collaboration among recipient institutions by supporting a broad range of organizations across its target program areas in locations around the world.
Each year, Camp travels to the
Agora with R-MC students, known as Stavros Niarchos Foundation Summer Fellows, who, along with undergraduate and graduate students from around the world, work for eight weeks at the site, sifting through history and honing their archaeological skills. Since 1931, the American School of Classical Studies at Athens has directed the excavation of this important site. Camp started working at the Agora in 1966, while a student at Harvard University, and he has returned there every year for the past 43 years. He began as an excavator, later became an assistant director and has served as director since 1994.
Camp was the Mellon Professor at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens from 1985-1996 and continues to teach there. He earned his B.A. from Harvard University and his M.A. and Ph.D. in classical archaeology from Princeton University. He joined the faculty at Randolph-Macon in 1996.