Classical Summer 2023
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 nine times and has been planning and executing all aspects of the Classical Summer Program since 2011.
Art/Art History Instructor and Chaperone:
Marlena Beach is a watercolor painter in northern Virginia and an art educator with Loudoun County Public Schools. She attended Shepherd University and received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art Education. In 2016 she became a Peterson Young Naturalist Educator and Trainer to help connect students with nature and to teach them techniques in observational drawing and journaling. While in college and since, Mrs. Beach has made several trips to Italy, including one with Mrs. Maclean. She has traveled extensively in Europe and elsewhere, and she even named her daughter Siena, after the hilltop town she fell in love with. Mrs. Beach lives on a farm in Waterford, VA with her husband, two teenagers, horses, pigs, chickens, dogs, one cat, and a large vegetable garden. She is thrilled to be joining the Classical Summer Program this year and looks forward to bringing her knowledge of painting, sketching, and daily journaling to this study abroad program.
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 nine times and has been planning and executing all aspects of the Classical Summer Program since 2011.
Art/Art History Instructor and Chaperone:
Marlena Beach is a watercolor painter in northern Virginia and an art educator with Loudoun County Public Schools. She attended Shepherd University and received a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Art Education. In 2016 she became a Peterson Young Naturalist Educator and Trainer to help connect students with nature and to teach them techniques in observational drawing and journaling. While in college and since, Mrs. Beach has made several trips to Italy, including one with Mrs. Maclean. She has traveled extensively in Europe and elsewhere, and she even named her daughter Siena, after the hilltop town she fell in love with. Mrs. Beach lives on a farm in Waterford, VA with her husband, two teenagers, horses, pigs, chickens, dogs, one cat, and a large vegetable garden. She is thrilled to be joining the Classical Summer Program this year and looks forward to bringing her knowledge of painting, sketching, and daily journaling to this study abroad program.
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.
Watch Francesco explain to a student what she just found...
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