Ohio State 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 The Ohio State University 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.
“As 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,” said Rask.
With chosen researchers sharing the research theme ‘Religious Experience in Antiquity’. The Getty Museum is made up of two sections, the Getty Museum in Los Angeles and the Getty Villa in Malibu, California. Rask’s 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.