Joseph R. Watkins Curriculum Vitae Academic interests: Historiography, Rhetoric, History, Geography, Ethnography, Traditions in Genre January, 2021 745 Commonwealth Ave, Rm 414 | Boston, MA 02215 |(404) 387-0128 | [email protected] EDUCATION Boston University Doctor of Philosophy in Classics (in progress) GPA: 4.0 2020-present The University of Kentucky Masters of Arts in Classics GPA: 4.0 2018-2020 Institutum Studiis Latinis Provehendis - Certificate in Latin Studies The University of Pennsylvania Post-Baccalaureate in Classical Languages GPA: 2.98 2014-2015 The University of Georgia Bachelors of Arts in Classical Culture Major GPA: 3.9 2010 - 2014 Bachelors or Arts in History Major GPA: 3.7 TEACHING The University of Kentucky 2018-2020t Teaching Assistant Courses taught: CLA 101: Elem.Lat. I, CLA 102: Elem.Lat. II; CLA 201: Inter.Lat. I; CLA 135: Clas.Myth -Primary instructor: paced curriculum, developed lessons, created assessments -Delivered instruction, structured class time, created materials for class and homework Assisted: CLA 131: Medical Terminology, MCL 270: Introduction to Folklore -Communicated dates and policies to students, administered exams, processed retakes -Processed accommodation letters, and implemented appropriate accommodations Ashland Elementary School 2018-2020 Aequora Instructor Courses taught: “Aequora: Teaching Literacy with Latin,” Volunteer Literacy through Latin Outreach & Coordinator -Adapted Aequora program to a 7-lesson once a week extracurricular course -Taught 4th and 5th graders preliminary Latin to promote Classics in Lexington -Created a Greek program based on ‘Aequora’ and “Eureka” (forthcoming curriculum, Paideia) Tucker High School 2015-2018 Teacher -Courses taught: Latin I-IV, AP (4th yr), Enrichment Ancient Greek -Primary instructor: developed curriculum, lessons, assessments -Designed, proposed, and implemented extracurricular Enrichment Greek program. LANGUAGES (see also WORKS READ section below) Ancient Greek Advanced 10 years German 4 semesters Beginning; Intermediate reading proficiency Latin Advanced 11 years French 2 semester2 Beginning; Advanced reading proficiency CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS “How to Read History: Meta-historiography in Sallust” CAMWS Annual Meeting, 2020 “Aequora in Lexington” CAMWS Annual Meeting, 2019 “Beginning to Speak Latin” Roundtable Discussion CAMWS Annual Meeting, 2019 “How to Read History: Meta-historiography in Sallust” UKY - MCLLC Graduate Student Conference, 2019 “Herodotean Geography in Caesar’s Bellum Gallicum” UNC - Chapel Hill, ΗΣΦ Undergraduate Conference, 2014 “Human Geography and the Ethnographic Tradition in Caesar” UT-Knoxville, Undergraduate Conference, 2014 “Classical Subsistence vs. Economic Involvement” UNC - Chapel Hill, ΗΣΦ Undergraduate Conference, 2013 OFFICES HELD and SERVICE Vice President CAMWS - Southern Section 2018-2020 Site Coordinator Aequora 2018-2019 Member-at-Large CAMWS - Southern Section 2016-2018 Joseph R. Watkins Curriculum vitae (January 2021) 2/3

HONORS, AWARDS, HONOR SOCIETIES, AND SCHOLARSHIPS SCS Outstanding Student University of Kentucky 2019 SCS Outstanding Student University of Kentucky 2018 CAMWS Award for Outstanding Accomplishment in Classics University of Georgia 2014 ΗΣΦ Classics Honors Society University of Georgia 2012-2014 Gantz prize for excellence in Greek University of Georgia 2011 Georgia Hope Scholarship University of Georgia 2010-2014 ACADEMIC WORK EXPERIENCE Research Assistant to Prof. Cynthia Damon (UPenn) 2014-2015 -Crossreferencing variations among scholarly editions for Prof. Damon’s Loeb of the Bellum Civile -Transcribing manuscripts of the Bellum Alexandrinum

STUDIES ABROAD Caesar in Gaul France The Paideia Institute 2019 -Visited sites from the Gallic Wars and Roman Gaul and read Latin accounts of them -Attended lectures about current scholarship, issues and debates on de Bello Gallico -Led by Prof. Luca Grillo (Notre Dame) and Prof. Christopher Krebs (Stanford) Celtic and Pre-Celtic Prehistory Switzerland and Scotland University of Georgia 2012 -Studied Pre-Celtic, Celtic, and Roman archaeology through site visits, and guided tours -Traveled extensively throughout Switzerland and Scotland -Led by Prof. Ervan Garrison (UGA)

CONTINUING EDUCATION

“Ancient Greek in Virginia” Intensive Immersion Spoken Anc. Greek The Polis Institute 2019 “Ὁμιλία Ἑλληνιζόντων” Spoken Ancient Greek SALVI 2019 “Conventiculum Lexingtoniense” Spoken Latin at University of Kentucky Humanitas 2018 “Rusticatio Tironum” Spoken Latin and active pedagogies SALVI 2018 “Biduum Georgianum” Spoken Latin and active pedagogies SALVI 2018 “Active Latin Pedagogy” Justin Slocum-Bailey at UNC Chapel Hill Indwelling Lang 2018 “Strategies for Building Language Proficiency” Literacy Education Services 2018 “Biduum Virginianum” Spoken Latin and active pedagogies SALVI 2017

EXTRACURRICULAR ACTIVITIES Medieval and Renaissance Society President 2013 - 2014 University of Georgia 2010-2014 Vice President 2012-2013 University of Georgia Ár Va Alda - Germanic Studies Club Founding Member University of Georgia 2012 -2014 SELECTED COURSEWORK: Greek: “Homer’s Iliad” Prof. Robert Rabel University of Kentucky 2020 “Plato’s Phaedrus” Prof. Robert Rabel University of Kentucky 2019 Latin: “Latin Composition” (intro. and adv.) Prof. Milena Minkova University of Kentucky 2018-19 “Bellum Alexandrinum” Prof. Cynthia Damon University of Pennsylvania 2014 Other: “Comparative Grammar: Greek and Latin” Prof. Jared Klein University of Georgia 2012 Joseph R. Watkins Curriculum vitae (January 2021) 3/3

REFERENCES Milena Minkova Robert Rabel Terence Tunberg Professor of Classics, Dir. of Grad. Studies Professor of Classics Prof. of Classics, Dir. of Inst. for Latin Studies [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] 1037 Patterson Office Tower 1001 Patterson Office Tower 1019 Patterson Office Tower 859-257-5710 859-257-1964 859-257-8453

SELECTED WORKS READ in ORIGINAL LANGUAGE Greek Apollonius Rhodius “Argonautika” selections from book 4 ~1,000 lines Aristophanes “Clouds” in full Diodorus Siculus “Library of History” selections from book 4 ~15 pages Euripides “Alcestis” in full “Herakles” in full Herodotus “Histories” books 1 and 9 in full selections from books 2 - 8, ~15 pages Hippocrates “On Airs, Waters, Places” in full “On the Sacred Disease” in full “Hippocratic Oath” in full Homer “Odyssey” books 11-12 in full “Illiad” Selections from all books ~7,500 lines *Homer “Homeric Hymn to Aphrodite” in full Longus “Daphnis and Chloe” in full Plato “Apology” in full “Ion” in full “Phaedrus” in full Sappho various poems ~50 lines Strabo “Geography” selections from book 4 ~6 pages Sophocles “Antigone,” in full Theocritus “Idylls” various poems ~2,000 lines Xenophon “Anabasis” in full “Cyropaideia” book 1 ~10 pages Latin See Boston University PhD Latin Translation Reading list as well Augustinus Hipponensis “de Civitate Dei” in full G. Iulius Caesar “de Bello Gallico,” (incl. bk viii by Aulus Hirtius) in full “de Bello Civile,” in full [Pseudo-Caesar] Bella:de Bello Alexandrino, de Bello Africano, de Bello Hispanico in full Q. Valerius Catullus various poems ~100 lines M. Tullius Cicero “in Catilinam,” 1st and 4th oration in full “de Oratore” selections ~15 pages “de Senectute” in full D. Iunius Iuvenalis “Satura X” in full T. Lucretius Carus “de Rerum Natura” selections from books 1-3, and 7 ~1,100 lines Q. Ennius fragments ~50 lines P. Ovidius Naso “Metamorphosis” selections, esp. bk 13-14 ~1,000 lines “Ars Amatoria” book 1 in full P. Cornelius Tacitus “Agricola” in full T. Maccius Plautus “The Menaechmi Twins” in full P. Vergilius Maro “The Aeneid” books 1, 2, 4, and 6 in full “Georgics” selections from book 1 ~400 lines book 4 in full