Craige B. Champion
Associate Professor of Ancient History and Classics
Department of History
Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs
310 B Maxwell Hall
Syracuse University
Syracuse, NY 13244-1020
Fax: (315) 443-2781
cbchamp@maxwell.syr.edu
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Education
Ph.D. Classics, Princeton University (Program in the History, Archaeology, and Religions of the Ancient World),
1993
M.A. Classics, Princeton University, 1989
Summer Latin/Greek Institute (CUNY), New York, NY: 1984 (Greek); 1986
(Latin)
B.A. History, summa cum laude, The College of New Jersey, 1984
Main Research and Teaching
Interests
Ancient Greek and Roman History, with particular focus on Hellenistic Greece and
the Middle Roman Republic, Religion and Politics in Ancient Greece and Rome,
Greek and Roman Historiography, Greek and Roman Political Thought, Ethnic
Identity Formation in Greek and Roman Antiquity, Politics of Culture in Ancient
Greece and Rome, Citizenship and Empire in Greek and Roman Antiquity
Publications
BOOKS
Priests, Politicians, and Potentates: Elite
Religious Practices in the Middle Roman Republic. Work-in-Progress
Cultural Politics in Polybius's Histories. Berkeley, Los Angeles,
and London: University of California Press, 2004. Hellenistic Culture and
Society Series, volume 41. (ISBN: 0-520-23764-1)
Reviews: BMCR 2004.11.27 (Paul J. Burton):
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2004/2004-11-27.html; The Classical
Outlook, vol. 82.3 (Spring 2005), 126-128 (Linda Gillison);
Classical Journal, vol.
101 (2005) 105-108 (Michael
D. Dixon); Ancient History Bulletin, vol. 19.3-4
(2005) 181-87 (Michael Fronda); Scholia
Reviews, n.s. vol. 15 (2006) 14 (Annelies Cazemier):
http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/06-14cha.htm ; Canadian
Journal of History (Spring 2006) (Vernon Provencal), Journal
of Hellenic Studies, vol. 127 (2007) 201-202 (A.M. Gowing)
EDITED BOOKS
Roman Imperialism: Readings and Sources. Oxford: Blackwell
Publishers, originally published in 2004, sixth reprint 2008. Interpreting Ancient History Series. (ISBN
0-631-23118-8 hardback; 0-631-23119-6 paperback)
Reviews: BMCR 2004.07.06 (Lee L. Brice):
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2004/2004-07-06.html; Scholia Reviews
n.s. 13 (2004) 18 (Thomas Stevenson):
http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/04-18cha.htm; Classical
Review 55 (2005) 360 (Neville Morley):
http://cr.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/reprint/55/1/360
The Encyclopedia of Ancient History (13-volume print edition and
on-line version). General Editor, with R. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, A.
Erskine, and S. Huebner (Oxford and Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers),
Forthcoming in November 2012
The Landmark Edition of the Histories of Polybius, co-edited with A.M.
Eckstein, 2 vols. (New York: Pantheon Books), Forthcoming
ARTICLES and CONTRIBUTIONS to EDITED VOLUMES
"Rome, Italy, and Beyond: Imprints of Aristocratic Social Values During
the Republic." Forthcoming in Blackwell's Companion to Greek and
Roman Participatory Communities: A Comparative Approach, D. Hammer
(ed.). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers
"Polybius on Political Constitutions, Interstate Relations, and Imperial
Expansion." Forthcoming in Blackwell's Companion to Ancient Greek
Government, H. Beck (ed.). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers
"Historiographic Patterns and Historical Obstacles in Polybius' Histories:
Marcellus, Flaminius, and the Mamertine Crisis." Forthcoming in
The World of Polybius: Essays in Honour of F. W. Walbank, B. Gibson and
Th. Harrison (eds.). Oxford: Oxford University Press
"Polybius and the Punic Wars." In Blackwell's
Companion to the Punic Wars, B.D. Hoyos (ed.). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell
Publishers, 2011: 95-110
"Imperial Ideologies, Citizenship Myths, and Legal Disputes in Classical Athens
and Republican Rome." In Blackwell's Companion to
Greek and Roman Political Thought, R. Balot (ed.). Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell
Publishers, 2009: 85-99
"Empire by Invitation: Greek Political Strategies and Roman Political
Interventions in the Second Century BCE," Transactions of the American Philological Association
137 (2007) 255-75
"Polybius and Aitolia: An Historiographical Approach." In
Blackwell's
Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography, J. Marincola (ed.). Oxford:
Blackwell Publishers, 2007: 356-62
"In Defense of Hellas: The Antigonid Soteria and Paneia at Delos and the
Aetolian Soteria at Delphi," American Journal of Ancient
History n.s. 3-4 (2004-2005) 2007: 72-88
"Polybian Demagogues in Political Context," Harvard Studies in Classical
Philology 102 (2004) 2005: 199-212
"Romans as Barbaroi: Three Polybian Speeches and the Politics of
Cultural Indeterminacy," Classical Philology 95 (2000) 425-44
"Histories 12.4b.1-4c.1: An Overlooked Key to Polybios' Views on
Rome,"
HISTOS,
vol. 4 (2000) 1-5
"The Nature of Authoritative Evidence in Polybius and the Speech of Agelaus
at Naupactus," Transactions of the American Philological Association 127
(1997) 111-28
"Polybius, Aetolia, and the Gallic Attack on Delphi (279 BC),"
Historia
45 (1996) 315-28
"The Soteria at Delphi: Aetolian Propaganda in the Epigraphical
Record," American Journal of Philology 116 (1995) 213-20
"Dialogus 5.3-10.8: A Reconsideration of the Character of Marcus
Aper," Phoenix 48 (1994) 152-63
Articles published in Ian Worthington,
ed., Brill's New
Jacoby (Leiden: Brill Publishers). New Edition of F. Jacoby, Die Fragmente der griechischen
Historiker, I-III:
FGrH 79: Eudoxus of Rhodes
FGrH 80: Pythermus of Ephesus
FGrH 174: Philinus
of Acragas
FGrH 508: Antisthenes of Rhodes
FGrH 511: Dionysius of Rhodes
FGrH 514: Eucrates
FGrH 523: Zeno of Rhodes
FGrH 561: Timonides of Leucas
FGrH 565: Antandros of Syracuse
FGrH 566: Timaeus of Tauromenium
FGrH 571: Andreas of Panormus
FGrH 574: Pisistratus of Lipara
REVIEWS for Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Die römische Republik: Von der Gründung bis
Caesar, by Martin Jehne (Munich, 2006),
BMCR
2006.10.05
The Politics of Plunder: The Aitolians and Their Koinon in the Early
Hellenistic Era, 279-217 BC, by Joseph B. Scholten
(Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, 2000), BMCR
00.10.25
State, Society, and Popular Leaders in Mid-Republican Rome, 241-167 B.C.,
by Rachel Feig Vishnia (London and New York, 1996), BMCR
97.8.2 = vol. 8, no. 2 (1997) 782-92
Contra Arma Verbis: Der Redner vor dem Volk in der später römischen
Republik, by Francisco Pina Polo, trans. E. Liess (Stuttgart, 1996), BMCR
97.3.36= vol. 8, no. 5 (1997) 456-62
Kriegerisches Rom? Zur Frage von Unvermeidbarkeit und Normalität
militärischer Konflikte in der römischen Politik, by Michaela Kostial
(Stuttgart, 1995), in BMCR
97.2.8 = vol. 8, no. 2 (1997) 146-51
Moral Vision in the Histories of Polybius, by A.M. Eckstein (Berkeley and
Los Angeles, 1995), in BMCR
95.7.6 = vol. 6, no. 5 (1995) 392-8
BOOK REVIEWS
Polybius, Histories, Books 1-4, Loeb Classical Library, vols. 1-2,
revised by F.W. Walbank and Chr. Habicht (Cambridge, Mass., 2010),
forthcoming in Classical Journal
Rethinking the Other in
Antiquity,
by Erich S. Gruen (Princeton, 2011), American Historical
Review, vol. 117, no. 2 (April 2012) 584-85
Polybius' Histories,
by B. McGing (Oxford, 2010),
Journal of Hellenic Studies, vol. 131 (2011) 194-95
Roman Imperialism and Local Identities, by L. Revell
(Cambridge, 2009), Scripta Classica Israelica, vol. 29 (2010)
133
Polybius, Histories, Books 1-4, Loeb Classical Library, vols. 1-2,
revised by F.W. Walbank and Chr. Habicht (Cambridge, Mass., 2010), Exemplaria Classica
(Universidad de Huelva, Spain), vol. 14 (2010) 341-42
Origins of Democracy in Ancient Greece, by
K.A. Raaflaub, J. Ober, and R.W. Wallace, with chapters by P. Cartledge and C.
Farrar (Berkeley, 2007), Hermathena,
vol. 186 (2009) 91-95
Philip II of
Macedonia, by Ian Worthington (New Haven and London, 2008), International History Review, vol. 31.3
(2009) 593-95
Rome Enters the Greek East: From Anarchy to Hierarchy in the Hellenistic
Mediterranean, 230-170 BC, by Arthur M. Eckstein (Oxford and Malden, Mass.,
2008), Classical Philology, vol. 104.2 (2009) 253-57
Interstate Relations in Classical Greece: Morality and Power, by Polly
Low (Cambridge, 2007),
Scholia
ns 17 (2008) 3
The Persian Empire, by L. Allen (Chicago, 2005), The Classical Outlook,
vol. 84, no. 3 (Spring 2007) 135
The Parthenon: From Antiquity to the Present, edited by J. Neils
(Cambridge, 2005), The Classical Outlook, vol. 84, no. 2 (Winter 2007) 90
Review Article:
The Greek Tradition in Republican Thought, by E. Nelson
(Cambridge, 2004), POLIS: The Journal of the Society for Greek
Political Thought (United Kingdom), vol. 23.2 (2006) 387-98
The Shadow of Polybius: Intertextuality as a Tool in Greek Historiography,
edited by G. Schepens and J. Bollansée (Leuven,
2005), Sehepunkte: Rezensionsjournal für die
Geschichtswissenschaften (Munich), vol. 6 (2006) nr. 7/8,
http://www.sehepunkte.de/2006/07/10331.html
Athenian Legacies: Essays on the Politics of Going On Together, by J.
Ober (Princeton, 2005), in The Classical Outlook, vol. 83, no.1
(Fall 2005) 40
Polybe: Histoires, Tome III, Livre III, J. de Foucault, É. Foulon, and M.
Molin, editors (Paris, 2004), in Classical Review, vol. 56, no. 1 (2006)
71-72
Review Article: The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity, by B.
Isaac (Princeton, 2004),
Scholia ns 14 (2005) 10
Rome at War: Farms, Families, and Death in the Middle Republic, by
N. Rosenstein (Chapel Hill, 2004), in Journal of
Interdisciplinary History, 36.1 (Summer 2005) 78-79
Rome, the Greek World, and the East, vol. 1: The Roman Republic and the
Augustan Revolution, by F. Millar (Chapel Hill, 2002), The International Journal of the Classical Tradition,
vol. 11.1 (Summer 2004) 114-17
Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture, by J.M. Hall (Chicago,
2002), in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 34.1 (Summer 2003) 65-66
Between Geography and History: Hellenistic Constructions of the Roman World,
by K. Clarke (Oxford, 1999), in Classical World [hereafter CW]
95.4 (2002) 455-56
Democracy, Empire, and the Arts in Fifth-Century Athens, D. Boedeker
and K.A. Raaflaub, editors (Cambridge, MA, 1999), in The Review of Communication
(National Communication Association), vol. 2, no. 2 (April, 2002)
Romanization in the Time of Augustus, by R. MacMullen (New Haven and
London, 2000), in Journal of Interdisciplinary History 32.3 (Winter 2002)
452-53
Antiochos III and the Cities of Western Asia Minor, by J. Ma (Oxford,
1999), in Classical Journal, vol. 97 (2001-2002) 198-200.
The Classical Greek Reader, ed. K.J. Atchity (New York and London, 1996),
in The Classical Outlook, vol. 79, no. 1 (Fall 2001) 33
Literary Texts and the Roman Historian, by D.S. Potter (London and New
York, 1999), in CW 94.3 (2001) 286-87
The World of Prometheus: The Politics of Punishing in Democratic Athens, by
D.S. Allen (Princeton, 2000), in The Classical Outlook 77.4
(Summer, 2000) 164
Temples, Religion and Politics in the Roman Republic, by E.M. Orlin (Leiden,
New York, and Cologne, 1997), in CW 93.3 (2000) 303-304
The Roman Historians, by Ronald Mellor (London and New York, 1999), in
Scholia
Reviews ns 9 (2000) 5
Down From Olympus: Archaeology and Philhellenism in Germany, 1750-1950,
by S. Marchand (Princeton, 1997), in CW 93.2 (1999) 213-14
JOINT REVIEW: Blood in the Arena: The Spectacle of Roman Power, by A.
Futrell (Austin, 1997); Spectacles of Death in Ancient Rome, by D.G. Kyle
(London and New York, 1998), in CW 92.6 (1999) 569-70
Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace, by J.J. O'Donnell
(Cambridge, Mass. and London, 1998), in HISTOS
vol. 3 (1999)
The Roman Family in Italy: Status, Sentiment, Space, edd. B. Rawson and
P. Weaver (Oxford, 1997), in CW 92.5 (1999) 471-72
Libri Annales Pontificum Maximorum: The Origins of the Annalistic Tradition,
2nd ed., by B.W. Frier (Ann Arbor, 1999), in
Scholia
Reviews ns 8 (1999) 27
The Returns of Odysseus: Colonization and Ethnicity, by I. Malkin
(Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London, 1998), in
Scholia
Reviews ns 8 (1999) 21
Hellenistic Constructs: Essays in Culture, History, and Historiography,
edd. P. Cartledge, P. Garnsey, and E. Gruen (Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London,
1997), in CW 92.4 (1999) 382-83
Polybe: Histoires, Tome X, Livres XIII-XVI. Collections des Universités
de France, ed. E. Foulon (Paris, 1995), in CW 92.3 (1999) 304-305
From Barbarians to New Men: Greek, Roman, and Modern Perceptions of Peoples
from the Central Apennines, by E. Dench (Oxford, 1995), in CW 92.3
(1999) 303-304
The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. X: The Augustan Empire, 43 B.C.-A.D. 69,
2d ed., edd. A.K. Bowman, E. Champlin, A. Lintott (Cambridge, 1996), in CW
92.3 (1999) 300
Athens and Persia in the Fifth Century BC: A Study in
Cultural Receptivity, by M.C. Miller (Cambridge, 1997),
Scholia
Reviews ns 8 (1999) 6
Hellenism and Empire: Language, Classicism, and Power in the Greek World, AD
50-250, by S. Swain (Oxford, 1996), in CW 92.1 (1998) 71-72
Antigonus II Gonatas: A Political Biography, by J.J. Gabbert (London and
New York, 1997), in CW 92.1 (1998) 69
Transitions to Empire. Essays in Greco-Roman History, 360-146 B.C., in Honor
of E. Badian, edd. R.W. Wallace and E.M. Harris (Norman and London, 1996),
in CW 92.1 (1998) 67
Topographies of Hellenism: Mapping the Homeland, by A. Leontis (Ithaca
and London, 1995), in CW 92.1 (1998) 54
Macedonia from Philip II to the Roman Conquest, ed. R. Ginouvès
(Princeton, 1994), in CW 91.5 (1998) 446
Talking Trojan: Speech and Community in the Iliad, by H. Mackie (Lanham,
Md. and London, 1996), in CW 91.5 (1998) 438-39
Hesiod's Works and Days: A Translation and Commentary for the Social
Sciences, by D.W. Tandy and W.C. Neale (Berkeley, Los Angeles & London,
1997), in Scholia
Reviews ns 6 (1997) 16
Tacitus the Sententious Historian: A Sociology of Rhetoric in Annales 1-6,
by P. Sinclair (University Park, PA, 1995), in CW 90.4 (1997) 303-304
MOVIE REVIEW
"300: The Use and Abuse of History," co-authored with Subho
Basu and Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn, SPIKED (on-line journal, United
Kingdom), Wednesday, October 3, 2007:
http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php?/site/article/3918/
Reprinted in The Classical Outlook, vol. 85, no. 1 (Fall 2007) 28-32
ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES
"Antiochus of Syracuse." Encyclopedia of Ancient History (Oxford and
Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers), [hereafter EAH],
forthcoming
"Flaminius, Gaius." EAH, forthcoming
"Historiography, Greek and Roman." EAH, forthcoming
"Philinus of
Acragas." EAH, forthcoming
"Philistus of Syracuse."
EAH,
forthcoming
"Polemic." EAH, forthcoming
"Sallust (C. Sallustius
Crispus)." EAH, forthcoming
"Timaeus of Tauromenium." EAH,
forthcoming
"Funeral Oration, Latin." Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome,
M. Gagarin
(ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press 2010 [hereafter OEAGR]
"Funerals, Roman." OEAGR
"Hannibal." OEAGR
"Ideology of the Roman Empire." OEAGR
"Interstate Relations." OEAGR
"Massinissa." OEAGR
"Social Organization, Roman." OEAGR
"Aetolia." Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition
(London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000), 30-1
"Columella's De Re Rustica." The Historical Encyclopedia
of World Slavery, ed. J.P. Rodriguez (Santa Barbara, Denver, and Oxford, UK:
ABC-CLIO, 1997), [hereafter HEWS], vol. 1: 174-5
"Moses Finley." HEWS, vol. I: 268-9
"Polybius and Slavery." HEWS, vol. II: 513-14
"The Law Code of Gortyn." HEWS, vol. I: 310
"The Punic Wars." HEWS, vol. II: 528-9
"The Sicilian Slave Wars under the Roman Republic (135-132 B.C., 104-100
B.C.)." HEWS, vol. II: 586-7
MISCELLANEOUS
"Polybius." Oxford Bibliographies On-Line (Oxford: Oxford University
Press)
Introduction, with A.M. Eckstein. Roman Imperialism: Readings and Sources,
C. Champion, ed. (Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2004) 1-10
"Cato the Censor (234-149 B.C.E.),"
"Macedonian Wars (215-146 B.C.E.)," "Cynoscephalae
(197 B.C.E.)," "Philopoemen (ca. 252-182 B.C.E.),"
and "Trebia (218 B.C.E.)." Entries in Magill's
Guide to Military History, 5 vols., C. Moose, ed. (Pasadena, CA: Salem Press,
2001)
Biographical Essay. "Julius Caesar," The Dictionary of Literary
Biography: Ancient Roman Writers, vol. 211 (Detroit, San Francisco, London,
Boston, and Woodbridge, Conn.: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1999) 109-17.
Reprinted in the Concise Dictionary of World Literary Biography, vol. 1:
Ancient Greek and Roman Writers (Detroit, San Francisco, London, Boston, and
Woodbridge, Conn.: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1999) 154-62
Biographical Essay. "Polybius," The Dictionary of Literary
Biography: Ancient Greek Authors, vol. 176 (Detroit, Washington, D.C., and
London: Bruccoli Clark Layman, 1997) 330-4
Retirement Eulogy (Latin). "Ovatio: T. James Luce, Jr.," in CW
vol. 89, no. 3 (1996) 213
Papers
"Priests, Politicians, and Potentates: Elite Religious Practices in the Middle
Roman Republic." Department of Classics. Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 3/30/12
"Roman Elite Religious Practices in the Military Sphere During the Middle
Republic." History Department Workshop. Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY,
10/28/11
"Priests and Politicians: Statecraft and Religion in the Roman Republic."
Religion in Scholarship Symposium. Tolley Humanities Center, Syracuse
University, Syracuse, NY, 4/9/10
"Philosophia Pragmatikē: Carneades, Pithanon
and Epochē, and the Philosophical Embassy of 155 BCE." Department of
History and the Program in Classical Studies, McGill University, Montreal,
Canada, 3/28/08
"The Perils of Paradigms: A 'Marxist' Misrepresentation of an Episode in Ancient
Greek History." Department of History, The College of New Jersey, Ewing, NJ,
10/5/07
"The Curia and the Mamertine Crisis of 264 BC: Some Polybian Interventions."
Polybius 1957-2007 (19-21 July 2007), University of Liverpool, Liverpool,
United Kingdom, 7/21/07
"Historiographical Aspects of the Roman Decision for War in 264
BC." 2007 Meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians, Princeton
University, Princeton, NJ, 5/4/07
"Imperial Ideologies, Citizenship Myths, and Legal Disputes in Classical Athens
and Republican Rome." Workshop on Citizenship, Empire, and Nation,
Department of History, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 9/22/06
"Roman Imperial Interventions in Greek Cities in the Second Century
BCE." Workshop on Citizenship, Empire, and Nation,
Department of History, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 4/28/06
"A Tale of Two Cities: Imperial Citizenship in Classical Athens and Republican
Rome." Annual Institute of the Classical Association of the Empire State,
Saratoga Springs, NY, 10/22/05
"Roman Class Biases and Greek Political Strategies in the Second Century
BC." Class Struggles in Ancient Greece,
15-16 April, 2005, Scripps College, Claremont, CA, 4/16/05
"Roman Religion and Roman Statecraft in the Second Century BCE."
Third International Conference on Hierarchy and Power in the History of
Civilizations (Russian Academy of Sciences), Moscow, Russia, 6/18/04
"Polybian Demagogues in Political Context." Workshop in the History of
Political and Social Thought, Department of History, Syracuse University,
Syracuse, NY, 4/27/04
"Religion as a Mechanism for Social Control in the Roman Republic (ca. 220-ca.
185 BCE)." Workshop in Religion and Society, Department of
History, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 3/26/04
"Barbarians at the Gates: The Antigonid Soteria and Paneia at Delos and the
Aetolian Soteria at Delphi." First International Conference on European History:
Ancient to Modern, Athens Institute for Education and Research, Athens, Greece,
12/29/03
"The Struggle for Apollo: The Aitolian Soteria at Delphi and the Antigonid
Soteria at Delos." Panel of the American Society
of Greek and Latin Epigraphy jointly sponsored by the Archaeological Institute
of America and the American Philological Association, Philadelphia, PA, 1/4/02
"Cultural Politics, the Barbarian Category, and Polybius' Views on
Rome." 2001 Meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians, Texas Tech
University, Lubbock, TX, 5/5/01
"The Culture of Politics and the Politics of Culture: Recent Directions in
Classical Studies." Paper presented in the panel Diversity and Classics:
Understanding Difference in Greek and Roman Antiquity, Spring Meeting of the
Classical Association of the Atlantic States, New Rochelle, NY, 4/27/01
"Cultural Politics in Polybius' Histories," Allegheny College
Humanities Lecture Series, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, 1/22/01
"Polybius as Prototype: Hellenism, Barbarism, and the Construction of the
Roman." Conference: Hellenism, History, and
Ethnography in the Early Roman Empire, Franke Institute for the Humanities,
University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 2/5/00
"Romans qua Barbaroi: Indirect Historiography in Some
Polybian Speeches." Department of Classics, University of Colorado at
Boulder, Boulder, CO, 4/10/98
"Three Polybian Speeches and the Politics of Cultural Indeterminacy."
Departments of Greek and Latin, Classics Colloquia Series, Bryn Mawr College,
Bryn Mawr, PA, 2/23/96
"Herodotus, Ethnicity, and the Construction of the Barbarian," Allegheny College
Humanities Lecture Series, Allegheny College, Meadville, PA, 2/12/96
"Ethnic Stereotypes in Polybius and the Speech of Agelaus at Naupactus, 217
BCE (Hist. 5.104.1-11)." 127th Annual Meeting
of the American Philological Association, San Diego, CA, 12/30/95
"Tacitus, Dialogus 5.4: Support for a Supplement." Fall Meeting of
the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, Atlantic City, NJ, 10/7/95
"Polybius, Aetolia, and the Gallic Attack on Delphi (279 BC)."
Spring Meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, Rutgers
University, New Brunswick, NJ, 4/28/95
"The Soteria at Delphi: Aetolian Propaganda in the Epigraphical
Record." 125th Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association,
Washington, DC, 12/28/93
"The Dignitas of Marcus Aper." Fall Meeting of the Classical
Association of the Atlantic States, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 9/28/87
Archaeological Field Experience
Trench Master, Princeton-Cyprus Archaeological Expedition, Polis tis Chrysochous,
Cyprus. Summer, 1989
Professional Activities, Awards, and Community
Service
General Editor, Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient History, Spring
2008-present
Editorial Board (Historiography), Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient
History,
Spring 2007-present
Reviewer/Publication Consultant for Brill Publisher’s Ancient History
List: Brill’s Companion to Roman
Imperialism,
Fall 2011
Article Referee (Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies),
Fall 2011
Reviewer for Classics List, Princeton University Press, Summer 2011
Volunteer Exhibition Judge. Liberal Arts and Technology Fair, Syracuse Academy
of Science Charter School, Syracuse, New York, 1 April 2011
Chair/Commentator. Panel on "Elites and Ethnicity." Articulations of Power
(Syracuse Graduate History Conference), 25 March 2011
Article Referee (Classical Philology), Spring 2011
Graduate
Committee, Department of History, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public
Affairs, Syracuse University, 2002-2004, 2009-2010
Article Referee (Classical Philology), Summer 2010
Group Leader and Instructor, Ancient, Medieval, and Renaissance Rome
(Syracuse University Abroad; course taught in Rome, Ostia, Naples, and Pompeii),
17 May-2 June 2010
Lecturer and Seminar Leader: Teaching Classical Civilization in the
Twenty-First Century: Technology, Themes, Influences, and Multicultural
Objectives. A Workshop for Syracuse Area Elementary, Middle School,
and High School Teachers, Eagle Hill Middle School, Manlius, New York, 24
October 2009
Group Leader, Greek Odyssey (Syracuse University Abroad; course taught
in Athens, Sounion, Epidauros, Mycenae, Bassae, Olympia, Delphi, and Naxos,
Greece), 23-30 August 2009
First-Year Forum Leader, College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University,
2002, 2004, 2005, 2009
Executive Committee, Department of History, Syracuse University, 2003/2004,
2004/2005, 2009/2010
Chair, Department of History, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs,
Syracuse University, May 2006-June 2009
Round-Table Discussant: "Dichotomies of Space and Power in the Roman Republican
World," McGill University, 18-19 August 2008
Group Leader and Instructor, Ancient Rome (Syracuse University Abroad;
course taught in Rome and Ostia, Italy), 12-21 May, 2008
Article Referee (American Journal of Philology), Spring 2008
Article Referee (Classical Philology), Summer 2007
Chapter Referee for the
Athens Institute for Education and Research (ATINER), Published Proceedings of
the 2006 Annual International Conference
Reviewer. Blackwell
Publishers, Ancient History List, Spring, 2006
Article Referee (Transactions
of the American Philological Association), Spring 2006
Instruction Committee. College of Arts and Sciences, Syracuse University, Spring
2006
Article Referee
(Classical Philology), Winter/Spring 2005-2006
Reviewer. Crossroads and Cultures: A History of the World
(Bedford/ St. Martins), Winter/Spring 2005-2006
Director. Workshop on Citizenship, Empire, and Nation, Department of History, Syracuse
University, 2004-2005, 2005-2006
Recipient. Appleby-Mosher Research Award (Syracuse University), 2005
Recipient. Campbell Public Affairs Institute Research Grant (Syracuse
University), 2005
Article Referee (Phoenix),
Spring, 2005
Selection Committee, Daniel Patrick
Moynihan Award, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse
University, 2005, 2006, 2010, 2011
Panelist. Seminar on Time Management
for Untenured Faculty Members, Syracuse University, February 22, 2005
Chair, Search Committee. Tenure-Track Professor of South Asian History,
Department of History, Syracuse University, 2004-2005
Ad Hoc Committee on Retention Issues, College of Arts and Sciences and Maxwell
School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, Fall, 2004
Recipient. Daniel Patrick Moynihan Award, Maxwell School of Citizenship and
Public Affairs, Syracuse University, 2004
Article Referee (Classical Philology), Spring, 2004
Moderator. First International Conference on European History: Ancient to
Modern. Athens Institute for Education and Research. Athens, Greece. Panels on
"Themes in Early Modern European History" and "Hellenism and Philhellenism in
the Ancient World," December 29-31, 2003
Search Committee. Tenure-Track Professor of Middle Eastern/Islamic History, Department of
History, Syracuse University, 2003-2004
Reviewer/Consultant. Houghton-Mifflin Company (Textbook: Women and Gender in
the Western Past), 2003
Article Referee (American Journal of Ancient History), Summer, 2003
Article Referee (Phoenix), Spring, 2003
Reviewer/Consultant. Houghton-Mifflin Company (Textbook: The Earth and Its Peoples),
2003
Reviewer/Consultant. Harcourt School Publishers, Chapters on Greek and Roman Antiquity
(Textbook: World History Pupil Edition),
2003
Search Committee. Tenure-Track Professor of Medieval History, Department of
History, Syracuse University, 2002-2003
Strategic Planning Committee. Department of History, Syracuse University,
2001-2003
Search Committee. Tenure-Track Professor of Modern British History, Department
of History, Syracuse University, 2001-2002
Adviser, Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society, Syracuse University, 2001-2002
Recipient. Thoburn Foundation Award for Teaching Excellence. Allegheny College,
2001
Director. Humanities Lecture Series, Allegheny College, 1999-2001
Editorial Consultant in Ancient History. Blackwell Publishers and the Oxford
University Press (2001, 2003, 2004)
Great Lakes Colleges Association. Intensive Workshop in Pedagogy for College
Professors. Hope College, Holland, Michigan, June 18-23, 2000
Search Committee. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Department of Communication
Arts/Theatre, Allegheny College, 2000
Search Committee. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Department of Geology,
Allegheny College, 2000
Presentation: "Classical Studies and the Internet." Allegheny College
Faculty Workshop, October 28, 1999
Presentation: "Teaching Latin Electronically." College Consortium Visitation
(language faculty from Ursinus and Lafayette Colleges), Allegheny College,
October 22, 1999
Discussant, Video Conference with James J. O'Donnell, Professor of Classical
Studies, Vice Provost for Information Systems and Computing at the University of
Pennsylvania, and author of Avatars of the Word: From Papyrus to Cyberspace
(Harvard UP 1998), on Teaching with Technology, Allegheny College, October 19,
1999
Ad Hoc Steering Committee, Evaluation of TEF (Teaching Evaluation Form),
Allegheny College, fall term, 1999
Article Referee (Classical Journal), Spring, 1999
Consultant, Ad Hoc Committee on Computing Needs, Allegheny College, 1998-1999
Lecturer/Classical Antiquity: Allegheny College/Crawford Central/Penncrest
Schools Collaborative. 1998/99-2000/01
Advanced Culpeper 'Teaching with Technology' Summer Institute, Educational
Computing Services and Lawrence Lee Pelletier Library, Allegheny College. July
13-17, 1998
Presentation: "Teaching Ancient History and the World Wide Web."
Culpeper Technology Institute, Educational Computing Services, Allegheny
College, May 6 and 20, 1998
Program Evaluator. Department of Classics. University of Colorado at Boulder.
April 9-10, 1998
Culpeper 'Teaching with Technology' Summer Institute, Educational Computing
Services and Lawrence Lee Pelletier Library, Allegheny College. August 11-22,
1997
Acting Chair, Department of Classics, Allegheny College, 1997/98
Ad Hoc Committee. Reevaluation of the Student Rating Instrument. Allegheny
College. Spring, 1997
Search Committee, Co-Chair. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of
Classics, Allegheny College, 1997
Search Committee. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Department of Physics,
Allegheny College, 1997
Search Committee. Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science,
Allegheny College, 1996/97
Search Committee. Tenure-Track Assistant Professor, Department of Religious
Studies, Allegheny College, 1996/97
College Judicial Board. Allegheny College. November 1996-May 1999; Chair:
September 1997-May 1999
Co-Chair, Allegheny College Association, 1996/97, 1997/98
Selection Committee, Allegheny College Kondoh Scholarship for 1996/97, 1997/98,
1998/99 to Sofia University, Tokyo, Japan
Panelist on Plato and Greek Homosexuality, NCOD Celebration, Allegheny College.
October 11, 1995
Seminar Leader, Johns Hopkins CTY Program, Reed College. May 13, 1995
Lecturer, Paideia. A Labyrinth of Learning, Reed College Community
Service Seminars, Lectures and Workshops. January 13-21, 1995
Volunteer Lecturer, Reed College Outreach to Portland High Schools Program,
1994/95
Lecturer and Seminar Leader, Reed College Latin Forum, A Conference for Oregon
High School Latin Students and Teachers, 1993-95
Compiler: Catalogue of Latin Epigraphical Squeezes in the Department of Classics
at Princeton University, Summer 1993
Moderator, Roman History Panel, Spring 1993 CAAS Meeting, Princeton University
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