1998 Graduate Seminar in Numismatics

The 1998 Graduate Seminar will begin on Tuesday, June 16 at the museum. Eleven students from North American institutions have been awarded stipends in support of attendance, and two students from foreign institutions have been admitted. One of these, Katerina Panagaopolou of University College, London, will travel to New York as the beneficiary of the International Numismatic Commission's traveling stipend. The students, with their institutions and proposed fields of study, are as follows: Mary E. Downs, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Roman; Ildar H. Garipzanov, Central European University, Medieval; Melanie D. Grunow, University of Michigan, Roman; Daniel B. Hobbins, University of Notre Dame, Medals; Rachel Kousser, New York University, Greek; Elizabeth Marlowe, Columbia University, Roman; Scott J. McDonough, University of California, Los Angeles, Islamic; Katerina Panagopoulou, University College London, Greek; Nerina Rustomji, Columbia University, Islamic; Susan E. Spinale, Harvard University, Medieval/ Medals; Alexander G. Thein, University of Pennsylvania, Greek/Roman; Christine M. Thompson, Tufts University, Greek; and Peter van Alfen, University of Texas, Greek.
The Visiting Scholar for the 1998 Seminar will be Christopher J. Howgego, who is in charge of Roman coins at the Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. Dr. Howgego is best known as the author of Greek Imperial Countermarks and, more recently, Ancient History from Coins.
Stipends in support of attendance at the Seminar are made possible by a generous donation from Mr. and Mrs. Eric P. Newman.