IIHSA Travel Bursary Awards 2022

Congratulations to the winners of this year’s IIHSA Jason O’Brien travel bursaries, Dermot Grant (TCD) and Gillian O’Sullivan (UCD).

Dermot Grant is an MLitt student at the Department of Classics, Trinity College Dublin (2021- )

His research topic is 'The Locating of Greek Coastal Sanctuaries. Enterprise Strategies and the Creation of Nodes on Networks'. The methodologies he is using for his research include social network theory, logistics of travel navigation, liminality, and the kinaesthetic experience of sailing to sanctuaries and identifying archaeology of enterprise infrastructure. He will use the bursary to gain on-site knowledge and experience of the sanctuaries he will include in his thesis.

Gillian O'Sullivan is an MA student (2021-22) at the School of Classics, University College Dublin.

Her thesis topic will focus on the site of ancient Delphi and how the use of different methodological and theoretical approaches, such as sensory studies and the study of the ‘biographies’ of artefacts, can offer a deeper, more valuable and more accurate understanding of the authentic experience of an ancient pilgrim. As an undergraduate she has studied the effectiveness of video games as a pedagogical tool, specifically through the simulation of the site of ancient Delphi in Assassin's Creed Odyssey Discovery Tour: Ancient Greece