Jessica Homan Clark

Department of Classics 205A Dodd Hall Florida State University Tallahassee, FL 32306-1510 [email protected]

TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS

Roman historiography and history; Latin language and literature; epigraphy and material culture.

EMPLOYMENT

2013-present Assistant Professor Department of Classics, Florida State University 2008-2013 Assistant Professor Department of History, California State University, Chico

EDUCATION

Ph.D. June 2008 Princeton University, Classics and the Program in the Ancient World Dissertation: “Vestigia Cladis: The Afterlife of Defeat in the Roman Historical Imagination” (Prof. Harriet Flower, Director) M.A. 2006 Princeton University, Classics Certificate in Epigraphy, Center for the Study of Ancient Documents (CSAD), Oxford, Summer 2004 B.A. 2002 Wesleyan University, Classics & of Archaeology, High Honors Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, Rome, Italy, Spring 2001

PUBLICATIONS Triumph in Defeat: Military Loss and the Roman Republic. Oxford University Press, 2014.

“Nequiquam tanti belli: News and Politics in , Book 35.1-8.” Histos 8 (2014) 189–208.

“Roman Optimism before Cannae: The Vow of the Ver Sacrum (Livy 22.10).” Mnemosyne 67 (2014), 405-422.

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“Lucius Cornelius Sisenna,” “Gaius Licinius Macer,” and “Sempronius Asellio.” Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient History, eds. R. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. Champion, A. Erskine and S. Huebner (2012). Oxford and Malden, MA.

“Winning Isn‟t Everything: Why the Carthaginians Lost the Second Punic War.” ABC-CLIO, 2012. http://ancienthistory2.abc-clio.com

“A Lost Cause: Why Caesar's Death Could Not Restore “the” Republic.” ABC-CLIO, 2010. http://ancienthistory2.abc-clio.com

BOOK REVIEWS M. Coudry and M. Humm, eds. Praeda. Butin de guerre et société dans la Rome républicaine/ Kriegsbeute und Gesellschaft im republikanischen Rom. (Stuttgart 2009), CR 61.2, 2011.

M. Pelikan Pittenger, Contested Triumphs: Politics, Pageantry, and Performance in Livy’s Republican Rome (Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2008), BMCR 2009.07.04

PAPERS “Parva laus pro factis: Ennius, Cato and Livy on Military Tribunes.” January 6, 2012, APA Annual Meeting, Philadelphia PA

“Aedificant Nomen? Commemorating in early Latin Literature.” November 6, 2011, PAMLA Annual Meeting, Claremont CA

“Go Tell the Romans? Cato's Adaptive Historiography.” May 6, 2011, AAH Annual Meeting, Erie PA (Panel: “Greek and Roman Historiography,” John Marincola, Chair)

“What Alexander didn't see: placing defeat in Roman historical memory.” October 15, 2010, invited lecture, Program in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, University of California, Berkeley.

“Fundamental Illusions in ’ Histories.” April 1, 2010, invited lecture, Department of Classics, University of California, Davis

“Polybius on Polybius? Rewriting the defeated self.” January 7, 2010: APA Annual Meeting, Orange County CA (“Writing the Self, Writing Lives in Greco-Roman Culture,” Irene Peirano and Ornella Rossi, Organizers)

“The Ruins of Memory: Tacitus on Roman Antiquity.” October 29, 2009, Humanities Center symposium “Memory, Nostalgia, Ruins,” CSU-Chico

“Con voce imperiosa: Mussolini’s Roman History.” November 5, 2008, History Inaugural Lecture Series, CSU-Chico

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“The Paradox of Ransom in the Roman Republic.” January 6, 2008, APA Annual Meeting, Chicago IL

“The Refiguring of Ignominia in the Second Punic War.” May 4, 2007, AAH Annual Meeting, Princeton NJ

GRANTS First Year Assistant Professor Award: “Military Service and Political Competition in the Roman Republic.” Summer 2014.

CSU-Chico Center for Excellence in Learning and Teaching General Education development grant (“High-Impact Seminars”). Spring 2012.

CSU-Chico Research Award: “How We Remember: Identity and Empire in the Roman Republic.” Fall 2011.

CSU-Chico Research Foundation Summer Scholar Award: “Responding to Defeat: the commemoration and redefinition of military loss in the ancient world.” Summer 2009.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

FSU: Citizenship and Debate (Fall 2014), Historical Writing and the Roman Republic (Fall 2014), Greek and Roman Civilization (Fall 2014), , Pro Caelio (Spring 2014), (Fall 2013), Roman Republic (Fall 2013)

CSU, Chico: Ancient Civilizations (Fall 2009-Spring 2013), Introduction to Classical Civilization (Fall 2008, Spring 2009), Archaic Greece (Fall 2008, Fall 2010), Classical Greece (Fall 2009), Rise of Rome (Spring 2009, Spring 2011), Caesar and Augustus (Spring 2010, Fall 2011, Spring 2013), The Roman Empire (Spring 2012, Fall 2012), Historical Methodology (Fall 2010) Graduate Seminar in Ancient History: Tacitus (Spring 2011) Princeton University: First Semester Latin (Fall 2007) Teaching Assistantships: Other Side of Rome (Spring 2008), Greek Law (Fall 2005), The Roman Republic (Spring 2005), Roman Law (Fall 2004)

UNIVERSITY AND DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE

FSU: Advisor, Eta Sigma Phi (2013-present) Editor, Departmental Newsletter (2013-present) Departmental Committees: Conferences and Colloquia; Doctoral and Masters Language Exams; History; Philology

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CSU, Chico: General Education Pathway Coordinator and Undergraduate Advisor, “Great Books & Ideas” (2011-2013) Curriculum Advisory Board (2012-2013) Humanities Center Board (2011-2013) Faculty Advisor, ΦΑΘ History Honor Society (2011- 2012) Graduate Committee, History Department (2010-2013) Committee on Arts and Lectures (2010-2013) Credentials Committee, History Department (2009-2013) Humanities Undergraduate Advisory Board (2009-2013) Faculty Advisor, History Club (2008- 2011)

Princeton University: Advisor, Senior Thesis Writing Group, Classics Department (2007-2008) Assistant Master, Butler College (2006 –2007) Conference co-organizer, Association of Ancient Historians (May 3-6, 2007) Library Committee representative, Classics Department (2006-2007) Conference co-organizer (‘Imperial Republics? Ancient Rome and the USA’), Co- sponsored by the University Center for Human Values, the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Studies, and the Classics Department, Princeton University (March 10, 2006) Advisor for Junior Papers, Classics Department (2005-2006) Graduate representative to the faculty, Classics Department (2004-2005) Elections Committee, Graduate Student Government (2004) Classics representative, Graduate Student Government (2003-2004) Graduate Student Coordinator, Program in the Ancient World (2003-2004)

ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK

Princeton University Excavation at Polis Chrysochous, Cyprus (Directors: William Childs and Joanna Smith, Department of Art and Archaeology) Trench Supervisor, 2005 Wesleyan-Brown Monastic Archaeology Project, Soissons, France (Directors: Sheila Bonde, Brown, Clark Maines, Wesleyan) Registrar, 2001-2005, Trench supervisor, 2000, Excavator, 1999

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