Duke Today: Where The Scholarly Work Takes Them: Summer allows Duke faculty members to follow their curiosity far from campus

For Maurizio Forte, professor in Duke’s Department of Art, Art History and Visual Studies, there is plenty to teach his students in the classroom.

But some lessons are best taught in the windblown countryside of central Italy. For the past six summers, Forte has brought Duke students to the Vulci archeological excavation site to use traditional techniques and cutting-edge technology to examine what was once an Etruscan and Roman city.

 By: Stephen Schramm July 15, 2019