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2010 Classicsf-Web.Pdf FALL 2010 STANFORD UNIVERSITY DEPARTMENT of Classicslassics NEWSLETTER 2010 From the Chair Faculty and Staff List . 2 RIVIA TIME . What do the fol - disciplines of Classics. Our majors—over Comings and Goings . 3 lowing figures have in common: 50 and counting—consequently emerge baroness and brain scientist with the widest possible appreciation of Commencement . 5 STusan Greenfield; former Secretary of antiquity. Visitors . .6 State James Baker; Harry Potter creator Filling in this year for our continuing Aetia . 7 J.K. Rowling; Tim O’Reilly (founder of tech chairman Walter Scheidel (now on a well- publishers O’Reilly Media); the poets A.E. Events . 8 deserved sabbatical after two years in Stallings and Ann Carson; Boris Johnson, Faculty Updates . 10 office), I can only hope to keep up the the mayor of London; public intellectual momentum of departmental accomplish - Binchester . 14 Martha Nussbaum; and Jerry Brown, once ments over which he has pre sided. This Student Stories . 16-23 and future governor of our splDendid state? past year (2009-10) saw us Alumni Updates . 24 It may not be obvious, but graduate nineteen majors and SCIT . 25 they all studied Classics. Then four minors; award three PhD Graduate Student Updates . 26 again, perhaps it’s not so sur - degrees and one Master’s; cel - prising. As we continue to tell ebrate the many fellowships Graduate Placement and Prizes . 28 our students each year, learning and job garnered by our out - Summer Theatre . .29 accurately about the ancient standing graduate students Recent Books . 30 world—its histories, languages, (for the full list see page 28); literatures, arts and philoso - and welcome a long line of lec - phies—is absolutely fundamen - turers and conference speak - tal for anyone who wants to ers (page 8). We taught, in RICHARD MARTIN EXCAVATING A ROMAN FORT understand the modern world, total, over 900 undergradu - BINCHESTER anyone who aims to be an articulate, sym - ates, including those in language courses, pathetic and fulfilled citizen of it, a true translation courses, Freshman and Soph - PAGE 14 cosmopolitês . omore seminars, and the two Introduction to Humanities Winter-Spring sequences The Department puts this vision into that we maintain (Inventing Classics; action through a broad range of courses, Human History). At the graduate level, we covering everything from beginning Latin continue to attract some of the very best to Greek art, Athenian trial procedure to talent internationally, students who come Late Antique martyr narratives, Aeschy - to specialize in philology, history, archae - lus to Ovid. Poetry and politics, war and ology, ancient science or philosophy. (Cur - economics, ceramics and syntax—no mat - rently there are 30 in the overall program). ter what aspect of the ancient Mediter - ranean world we study and teach, the goal My faculty colleagues make it a privi - http://classics.stanford.edu is always to maintain a double-vision: lege, as well as a shamefully light burden, http://www.facebook.com /stanfordclassics while acknowledging its inherent differ - to slide back into the Chair for a year. The email: classic [email protected] ence and innate value, we try to place it close collaboration among our 21 faculty in context and look at continuities. As a members is reflected in ongoing team- Classics Department glance at this year’s course roster will teaching efforts, at both undergraduate Main Quad, Building 110 show, Stanford has maintained an ad - and graduate levels. Such synergies make Stanford, CA 94305-2145 mirable balance among the various sub- CONTINUED ON – PAGE 2 (650) 723-0479 FROM THE CHAIR — FROM PAGE 1 things constitute the real glue that holds of the highlights will be—the Eitner lec - together the enterprise, and every Chair ture, for instance, generously supported it possible for our students to look at has to be deeply grateful for all that invest - by Peter and Lindsay Joost, which will this ancient economy or ancient warfare from ment. year by given by John Ma (Corpus Christi, the standpoint of individual experts on Oxford); and the annual May production I am particularly delighted that our out - both Greek and Roman sides, or at ancient of an Aristophanic comedy by the Stan - standing Directors, of Undergraduate Stud - Greek music as viewed by an expert on ford Classics in Theater troupe. But I ies (Maud Gleason) and Graduate Studies harmonic theories and one on perform - expect, too, to get pride and satisfaction (Jen Trimble), have been persuaded to con - ance. You can catch up on the faculty’s lat - from the less extraordinary everyday hero - tinue their enormously hard work this year est publications and peregrinations by ics one encounters in Building 110: seeing during the interregnum. In addition, I must scanning their individual updates in this our students and their teachers patiently make special mention of the solid-gold newsletter. What you won’t find there— working their way through paradigms, administrative roster that has made the since my colleagues are so modest—is texts and problems, engaging in dialogues lives of students and faculty so much eas - any indication of how much time they (Socratic as well as occasionally eristic) ier: our departmental administrator Ryan spend each week on advising, on informal and discovering anew the wisdom and Johnson; his associate and general prob - instruction, on directed readings, on cur - challenges of the ancient world. That in lem-solver Margo Keeley; and our student riculum planning, on mentoring students itself is a rewarding vision, even if not all services officer Lori Lynn Taniguchi. They and on socializing with them...all this, our graduates turn out to be metropolitan make it a joy to come into the office. along with their committee assignments, mayors or billionaire novelists. supervision of graduate exams and dis - With such a dream team of staff, fac - sertations, direction of undergraduate ulty and students, it’s difficult not to expect Honors Theses, and service to the more a fruitful and successful academic year. I Richard Martin general University community. These can guess from this distance what a few Richard Martin, Chair Classics Department Faculty and Staff EMERITI: PROFESSORS: ASSOCIATE PROFESSORS: LECTURERS: Mark Edwards Alessandro Barchiesi Jody Maxmin Maud Gleason Marsh McCall, Jr. Andrew Devine Grant Parker John Klopacz (Recalled for 2010-11) Richard Martin Jennifer Trimble Edward Spofford Ian Morris RESEARCH SCHOLAR: Susan Treggiari Reviel Netz ASSISTANT PROFESSORS: Adrienne Mayor Michael Wigodsky Andrea Nightingale Giovanna Ceserani Josiah Ober Christian Kaesser ADMINISTRATIVE STAFF: CHAIR: Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi Ryan Johnson (Department Richard Martin (2010-2011) Rush Rehm COURTESY PROFESSORS: Manager) Richard Saller (Dean, Chris Bobonich Lori Lynn Taniguchi (Student DIRECTOR OF Humanities & Sciences) Ian Hodder Services Officer) GRADUATE STUDIES: Walter Scheidel Bissera Pentcheva Margo Keeley (Administra - Jennifer Trimble Michael Shanks Yiqun Zhou tive Associate) Susan Stephens DIRECTOR OF UNDERGRADUATE STUDIES: Maud Gleason 2 STANFORD UNIVERSITY Comings & Welcome Goings In 2010-2011, The department In addition to his work as an AP Latin reader, Klopacz has extends a warm welcome to JOHN served as president of the California Classical Association-North KLOPACZ , who as a Lecturer in for three years and remains a board member. In 2004, he served Classics will teach beginning and alongside Richard Martin as local co-chair, coordinating volun - intermediate Latin and coordinate teers for the APA annual meeting in San Francisco. In an earlier the undergraduate Latin program. affiliation with Stanford, Klopacz was the supervising teacher Though an undergraduate clas - for a STEP Latin student teacher who went on to found a char - sics major at Brown, Klopacz did ter school in New Mexico. his graduate work in mediaeval studies in the Department of Eng - KLOPACZ ««« lish and Comparative Literature at Columbia. Atypically for a student in that department, he sub - The department was delighted to welcome LORI LYNN stituted Vergil for the more usual Shakespeare or Milton as his TANIGUCHI to its administrative staff in October, 2009. As “major author.” His interest in things mediaeval remains, and Student Services Officer, Lori Lynn employs both her welcoming from time to time he sings Gregorian chant in the schola canto - smile and her technical knowledge to provide administrative rum of a San Francisco church. services to all Classics undergraduate and graduate students Klopacz was looking for a position teaching English in 1976, and to faculty in support of advising but thanks to all the Latin on his transcripts, he found himself and academic programs. She han - hired as a Latin teacher instead. In northern California, he spent dles graduate admissions, degree ten years at Los Altos High School where, in addition to Latin, progress, financial aid, curriculum he taught English, coordinated an AVID college bound program management, course scheduling, for underrepresented students, and worked on an interdiscipli - and commencement. Lori Lynn work - nary team that created a course on globalization in 1994. After ed in Stanford’s Division of Litera - moving to Castilleja in Palo Alto, he taught all levels of Latin and tures, Cultures and Languages as the was the only faculty member to teach some of the students in Department Administrator for Com - every one of their seven years at the school (grades 6-12). parative Literature before coming to Classics. TANIGUCHI Ancient History track major Taylor Goodspeed follows the path of Alexander the Great by studying Greek history, art and architecture at Arcadia University in Greece. Ancient History track major Stephanie Marcy explores Roman monuments with the Lorenzo de Medici Institute in Rome. Sttudentt rresearrch ttrravell DEPARTMENT OF CLASSICS 3 Comings & Farewell Goings WILL SHEARIN received his undergraduate degree in Classics from Stan - ford (B.A., Greek and Latin, with honors and distinction, 2000) and his M.A. (Latin, 2003) and Ph.D. (Classics, December 2007) from the University of Cal - ifornia, Berkeley.
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