Elise Friedland Awarded an NEH Public Scholar Fellowship

Elise A. Friedland, Associate Professor in the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at The George Washington University, has received an NEH Public Scholar Fellowship for 2020-2021 to write a monograph, Classical Washington: Greece & Rome in the Art and Architecture of DC. The topic grows out of a special course with the same focus that she developed shortly after arriving at GW in 2008. For her first publication in this area, see “Pompeii on the Potomac: Constantino Brumidi’s Nineteenth-Century, Roman-Style Frescos for the Naval Affairs Committee Room in the United States Capitol,” in The Capitol Dome 56.1: 2–15 (available at https://uschs.org/engage/read-the-capitol-dome/).