Sunoikisis has a new home with Harvard University’s Center for Hellenic Studies (CHS), located in Washington, DC. The goal of Sunoikisis is to provide enriched opportunities for students and faculty through pooling of resources.

With generous funding provided by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Sunoikisis began in 1995 as a program of the Associated Colleges of the South. Southwestern University was a founding member. Later, under NITLE (now headquartered at Southwestern University), the program became national. Beginning with the summer of 2009, the CHS will begin providing administrative, logistical, and financial support.

1999 marked the first season of Sunoikisis student and faculty participation in an excavation in southwestern Turkey. In the fall of 2000, Sunoikisis began offering inter-institutional literature courses, with some 25 students enrolled in “The Literature of the Early Empire.” Sunoikisis students also participate in an Undergraduate Research Symposium.

Sunoikisis courses this fall focus on Greek Comedy and the literature of the Late Republic. 4th Century Greek Literature and Literature of the Early Empire will be offered in 2010. Faculty course preparation seminars are scheduled for June 13-21, 2010, at the CHS.

The CHS was founded in 1952 “exclusively for the establishment of an educational center in the field of Hellenic Studies designed to re-discover the humanism of the Hellenic Greeks.”