Julia L. Shear (NHC Fellow, 2021–22)
Project Title
Creating Collective Memories in Ancient Athens
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
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Fellowship Work Summary, 2021–22
Julia L. Shear finished reading about collective memory in other periods and places, as well as a number of studies in social psychology on collective memory. This work allowed her to develop and refine the methodology for her book project on collective remembering in ancient Athens. She wrote a draft of the book's first chapter and began a draft of the second.