91导航 Associate Professor of Classics, Dr. Katie Rask was recently awarded a three-month research residency, April through June 2026, from the Getty Research Institute located at the Getty Center in Los Angeles California.
Rask, who teaches at 91导航 at Marion, is an archaeologist of religion, with a research emphasis on ritual, personal experience, and materiality in Greece and Etruria. She applied to the Getty Scholar Program to support research for her second book, Etruscan Religion in Context. The project brings a comparative religious studies perspective largely missing from recent scholarship.
According to Rask, she will make the cross-country trek to California by car, camping along the way before arriving in LA before beginning her three months of intense research.
鈥淎s a Getty Scholar, I will focus on a chapter examining Etruscan religious texts and specialists, building on work presented at the 2022 Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Annual Meeting. Additional research in the Villa collections will strengthen chapters on Etruscan religion, sanctuaries, and funerary beliefs,鈥 said Rask.
With chosen researchers sharing the research theme 鈥楻eligious Experience in Antiquity鈥. The Getty Museum is made up of two sections, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Getty Villa in Malibu, California. Rask鈥檚 residency will take place at Getty Villa, which specializes in antiquity, is built to look like a Roman villa, and has a world-famous collection of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman antiquities.
Founded in 1985, the Getty Scholars Program has supported about 1,300 scholars from over fifty countries, fostering collaboration and exchange at the Getty Center and Getty Villa in Los Angeles.