Classical Summer 2025
Program Instructors
Director, Art History/Italian Instructor, and Chaperone:
Ann Maclean is the Classical Languages Department Chair and Director of Global Studies at Highland School in Warrenton, VA. There she teaches Latin I, II, III, IV Honors and AP Latin. She was the Priscilla Payne Hurd Master Teacher at The Madeira School where she taught for over ten years. She attended Connecticut College as an undergraduate and has a Masters in Latin and Greek from the University of Maryland, College Park. She has Italian-American heritage and speaks Italian. In 2006 Mrs. Maclean was a SchoolTeacher Fellow at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland with a concentration in Roman Britain. Her experience working on and traveling to archeological digs throughout Italy/Sicily, Britain, Greece and Crete, along with two summers studying under the chief Latinist at the Vatican, have influenced her decision to bring this extensive program to her high school students. A former student of the American Academy in Rome and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Mrs. Maclean has led many trips for students at DC area schools. She has taken students to Italy ten times and has been planning and executing all aspects of the Classical Summer Program since 2011.
Art/Art History Instructor and Chaperone:
Elizabeth Campbell has been teaching Latin at all levels for 21 years and is in her 17th year at Robinson Secondary School. She received her undergraduate degree in Classical Studies from Virginia Tech and a master’s degree in education from George Mason. While an undergraduate she was fortunate enough to study abroad in both Greece and Italy and even spent a summer working on an archaeological excavation located on the small island of Despotiko (which is now open to the public). She is an active member of the Latin community in Virginia and has spent numerous hours developing curriculum, writing assessments and fostering the next generation of Latin learners. Beth has traveled extensively throughout the United States and Europe and loves seeing new places. Her enthusiasm for travel carries over into the classroom and she frequently leads students on trips to Richmond, VA (for a Classics convention), to New York City (to see the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and to Europe to explore both Greece and Italy. This will be her 12th time traveling with students to Europe and she is thrilled to be joining the Classical Summer Program this summer.
Archaeology Instructor and Chaperone:
Antonio Leonardis directed and coordinated educational and travel programs for 12 years while teaching at Landon school in Bethesda, Maryland and while at St. Richard’s School in Indianapolis, Indiana. For the past few years Antonio has been working on his PhD in England at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London, ranked the best Archaeology program in the country with Cambridge. He is doing his research on the Messapians, working with Drs. Ruth Whitehouse and Corrina Riva, both experts in Italian Archaeology, and focusing on the pre-Roman peoples in central and south Italy. Antonio is an Italian citizen and has many close friends and relatives in Italy. He conducts his research each summer in southern Italy and Tuscany as part of writing his dissertation and continuing research which interests him. He is especially interested in the interaction between the native, Italic peoples of Italy and the Greek and Roman colonists, especially in south Italy, and how this is part of the development of a unique, ethnic identity. Antonio currently teaches Latin at Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith, London.
Archaeology Instructor and Director of Archaeological Dig:
Francesco Meo is an archaeologist and cultural manager, PhD in Ancient History at the University of Salento. His research aims at the reconstruction of breeding and textile activities along the Ionic Arc through archaeological data and historical and epigraphic sources until the Roman arrival. After several years on Egyptian and Italian archaeological sites, he now works on Greek towns of the Magna Graecia and Messapian indigenous settlements, trying to define daily life and productive activities. He is the curator of two exhibitions of archaeological material from the Messapian site, co-editor of their catalogues, and site supervisor of the excavation in the town teaching methodologies of archaeological excavation on the site. He is author of the book L’attività tessile a Herakleia di Lucania tra III e I secolo a.C.(Rome 2014), co editor of the book Siris Herakleia Polychorion: città e campagna tra antichità e medioevo (Proceendings of the Conference, Bari 2014) and co-organizer of the International Workshop Treasures from the Sea. Sea-silk and Shell purple dye in antiquity (Lecce – Italy, May 26–28, 2013). He teaches excavation to BA, MA, and post-MA archaeology students, and he is the Director of the Site, where we will be digging.
Program Instructors
Director, Art History/Italian Instructor, and Chaperone:
Ann Maclean is the Classical Languages Department Chair and Director of Global Studies at Highland School in Warrenton, VA. There she teaches Latin I, II, III, IV Honors and AP Latin. She was the Priscilla Payne Hurd Master Teacher at The Madeira School where she taught for over ten years. She attended Connecticut College as an undergraduate and has a Masters in Latin and Greek from the University of Maryland, College Park. She has Italian-American heritage and speaks Italian. In 2006 Mrs. Maclean was a SchoolTeacher Fellow at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland with a concentration in Roman Britain. Her experience working on and traveling to archeological digs throughout Italy/Sicily, Britain, Greece and Crete, along with two summers studying under the chief Latinist at the Vatican, have influenced her decision to bring this extensive program to her high school students. A former student of the American Academy in Rome and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Mrs. Maclean has led many trips for students at DC area schools. She has taken students to Italy ten times and has been planning and executing all aspects of the Classical Summer Program since 2011.
Art/Art History Instructor and Chaperone:
Elizabeth Campbell has been teaching Latin at all levels for 21 years and is in her 17th year at Robinson Secondary School. She received her undergraduate degree in Classical Studies from Virginia Tech and a master’s degree in education from George Mason. While an undergraduate she was fortunate enough to study abroad in both Greece and Italy and even spent a summer working on an archaeological excavation located on the small island of Despotiko (which is now open to the public). She is an active member of the Latin community in Virginia and has spent numerous hours developing curriculum, writing assessments and fostering the next generation of Latin learners. Beth has traveled extensively throughout the United States and Europe and loves seeing new places. Her enthusiasm for travel carries over into the classroom and she frequently leads students on trips to Richmond, VA (for a Classics convention), to New York City (to see the Metropolitan Museum of Art) and to Europe to explore both Greece and Italy. This will be her 12th time traveling with students to Europe and she is thrilled to be joining the Classical Summer Program this summer.
Archaeology Instructor and Chaperone:
Antonio Leonardis directed and coordinated educational and travel programs for 12 years while teaching at Landon school in Bethesda, Maryland and while at St. Richard’s School in Indianapolis, Indiana. For the past few years Antonio has been working on his PhD in England at the Institute of Archaeology at University College London, ranked the best Archaeology program in the country with Cambridge. He is doing his research on the Messapians, working with Drs. Ruth Whitehouse and Corrina Riva, both experts in Italian Archaeology, and focusing on the pre-Roman peoples in central and south Italy. Antonio is an Italian citizen and has many close friends and relatives in Italy. He conducts his research each summer in southern Italy and Tuscany as part of writing his dissertation and continuing research which interests him. He is especially interested in the interaction between the native, Italic peoples of Italy and the Greek and Roman colonists, especially in south Italy, and how this is part of the development of a unique, ethnic identity. Antonio currently teaches Latin at Latymer Upper School in Hammersmith, London.
Archaeology Instructor and Director of Archaeological Dig:
Francesco Meo is an archaeologist and cultural manager, PhD in Ancient History at the University of Salento. His research aims at the reconstruction of breeding and textile activities along the Ionic Arc through archaeological data and historical and epigraphic sources until the Roman arrival. After several years on Egyptian and Italian archaeological sites, he now works on Greek towns of the Magna Graecia and Messapian indigenous settlements, trying to define daily life and productive activities. He is the curator of two exhibitions of archaeological material from the Messapian site, co-editor of their catalogues, and site supervisor of the excavation in the town teaching methodologies of archaeological excavation on the site. He is author of the book L’attività tessile a Herakleia di Lucania tra III e I secolo a.C.(Rome 2014), co editor of the book Siris Herakleia Polychorion: città e campagna tra antichità e medioevo (Proceendings of the Conference, Bari 2014) and co-organizer of the International Workshop Treasures from the Sea. Sea-silk and Shell purple dye in antiquity (Lecce – Italy, May 26–28, 2013). He teaches excavation to BA, MA, and post-MA archaeology students, and he is the Director of the Site, where we will be digging.
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