Dates

  • 02/28/2019 to 03/09/2019

Inclusions

  • International air
  • Ground transportation
  • Intra-city flight
  • 8 nights hotel
  • 8 breakfasts
  • 3 lunches
  • 4 dinners
  • Guide
  • Admission fees
  • Country guidebook and pre-travel documents
  • Embedded medical insurance
  • 24/7 emergency support

Info Session

Where: Center for Intercultural Advancement, Union 2nd floor

When: October 30 2018, 5:30 pm

Formal Presentations about the trip!   ● Website information will be posted on the Expanding Your Horizons Website: http://wagner.edu/intercultural/education-abroad/eyh/ ● Students should feel free to obtain pamphlets about class anytime at the Center for Intercultural Advancement, Union 2nd floor ● Feel free to contact the professors at anytime via email.

Meet the Faculty

Dr. Sarah J. Scott

Dean, Integrated Learning
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, History of Art and Architecture B.A. Bowdoin College Sarah Jarmer Scott completed her Ph.D in the History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania in 2005, and has also held positions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Anderson Galleries (SUNY Buffalo). Trained not only as an Art Historian but also as an Archaeologist, Sarah’s research bridges these disciplines as she investigates the relationships between art, writing, and material experience in pre- and early literate Mesopotamia and the Aegean. Her scholarship has focused on both small objects such as cylinder seals (recent publication: Seals and Sealing in the Ancient World: Case Studies from the Near East, Egypt, the Aegean, and South Asia, Cambridge University Press, 2018), as well as monumental architecture and narrative (“Imagining Architectural Space: Methodological Approaches for Assyrian Palaces,” in How Do We Want the Past to Be? On Methods and Instruments of Visualizing the Ancient Reality, Gorgias Press, 2016). She has excavated in Belize, Italy, and Greece, and is very excited to share Greece and Crete with Wagner students as we visit sites that she worked on in her graduate studies.

Dr. Felicia J. Ruff

Ph.D. CUNY Graduate Center, Theatre History B.A. Rutgers University, Theatre Dr. Felicia J. Ruff received her doctorate in Theatre History from the Graduate Center of CUNY, having focused on 19th century theatre, particularly Melodrama. In 2007 she received a NEH grant to attend “The Oscar Wilde Archive” at UCLA’s Clark Library and since then her scholarship has focused on Wilde Studies, including a book chapter titled: "The Transgressive Prop; or, Oscar Wilde's E(a)rnest Signifier." Wilde was a great classicist and I've always wanted to travel Greece in his footsteps--he, of course, was trying to retrace Lord Byron's steps.

Customized Content

From the pre-literate eras, often masked in mystery surrounding the mythic culture on Crete of Theseus and King Minos, to rich textual traditions of Hellenic theatre and Aeschylus, Greece provides us with a gateway to some of the most important moments in the development of human expression. By looking at the material culture, we can more intimately understand the motivations behind the dramatic productions. Today, the country retains its pride of place in the development of civilization, and its people provide a safe, enjoyable, and dynamic stage set for our exploration.