Study Abroad in Rome Faculty

Crispin Corrado

Crispin Corrado is the founding instructor of the Brown Summer Program in Rome. She earned her Ph.D. in Roman Art and Archaeology at Brown University, and received her A.B. and A.M. at the University of Chicago. Crispin was a student in the American Academy in Rome’s Summer Program in Archaeology, and excavated for two seasons at Pompeii with a team from the University of Rome. She has worked as curatorial intern in the departments of ancient art at the Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, and the Vatican Museums, in Rome, Italy. While intern at these institutions Crispin assisted in the creation and implementation of exhibitions of ancient art, co-authored catalogs, wrote articles and presented guest lectures. During the spring semester of 2002 Crispin was Lecturer in Classical Studies at Brandeis University. Crispin is currently Adjunct Assistant Professor of Classical Archaeology at the University of California, Rome Study Center, and lives full-time in Rome.

Sarah Nix

Sarah Nix completed her Ph.D. in Classical Languages and Literature at Brown University in 2004. She has taught at Brown University (Latin and Greek), Moses Brown School, the University of Rhode Island, and the University of Massachusetts Amherst. Currently she heads the Latin program at Miss Hall's School. Her research interests include Augustan and Early Imperial Literature, Latin Epic, and Greek Tragedy. In addition to her work as a classicist, Sarah spent a summer excavating in the Roman Forum and in Tuscany with the American Academy in Rome's Summer Program in Archaeology. She has also lived and worked in Thailand, teaching English at Chiang Mai University in Chiang Mai, Thailand.