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Finn CV September 28th, 2020 Jenn Finn [email protected]

Employment:

Associate Professor of Ancient , Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI), from August 24th, 2020

Assistant Professor of , Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI) from August 24th, 2015

Education:

Ludwig-Maximilians Universität: Ph.D., Assyriology (Hauptfach) and Ancient History (Nebenfach) (04/13-7/15)

University of Michigan: Ph.D., Greek and Roman History (09/06-03/12)

University of Michigan: M.A. in (9/06-04/10)

Columbia University: M.A. in with an emphasis in (09/05-06/06)

University of Michigan: B.A. with distinction in Classical Civilizations and Latin (09/01-08/05)

Dissertation (defended March 2012): : Forming Political Identity in a Multicultural Empire Advisors: David Potter (Classics); Margaret Root (History of Art)

Dissertation (defended July 2015): Criticizing the King: The Development of an Akkadian Literary Topos Advisors: Piotr Michalowski (Near Eastern Studies); Walther Sallaberger (Assyriology)

Particular Interests: Contacts between and the Near East; Ancient Warfare; Revisionist ; Reception of Classical/ in the Early

Publications:

Monographs:

Much Ado about Marduk: Questioning Discourses of Royalty in First Millennium Mesopotamian Literature May 2017, Berlin: de Gruyter.

Alexander the Great: Contested Pasts. Under provisional contract; submitted for peer review the University of Michigan Press (as of January 20th, 2020).

Journal Articles/Articles in Edited Volumes:

“Gods, Kings, Men: Trilingual Inscriptions and Tripartite Visualizations in the Achaemenid Empire.” Ars Orientalis 41, 2012 (219-275).

“Alexander’s Return of the Tyrannicide Statues to .” Historia 63 no. 4, 2014 (385-403).

“The Center of the Earth in Ancient Thought.” Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History 4 nos.1-2, 2017 (177-209).

“’ Poor Man of Nippur.” Classical World 112.2, 2019 (13-38).

“The Ship of Aeneas.” The Ancient History Bulletin 34.1-2, 2020 (1-24).

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Finn CV September 28th, 2020 “’s : The Serpent of Hellas.” Histos 14, 2020 (185-205).

“Persian Collections: Center and Periphery at Achaemenid Imperial Capitals.” Accepted for publication in a special issue of Studia Orientalis (Winter 2021).

“Selective Silence: Discourses in the Ancient Near East, Submerged and Submersive.” Invited contribution to an edited volume on Submerged Literature in the Ancient Near East (submitted to editor summer 2019).

“Xerxes’ Epic Gaze: A Homeric Teichoscopy at Salamis.” Submitted for peer review (Spring 2020).

“Ancient Persia at War.” Completed for anticipated publication in a volume on Ancient Military Strategy (2021?)

“Alexander’s Military Propaganda.” Commissioned for a Companion on Alexander the Great’s Military Strategy (due to the editor in 2022).

Book reviews:

Review of Stavrianopoulou, Eftychia (ed.). Shifting Social Imaginaries in the : Narrations, Practices, and Images (Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2013). Published in The Bryn Mawr Classical Review (April 2014) (http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2014/2014-03-63.html)

Review of Briant, Pierre (trans. J.M. Todd) Darius in the Shadow of Alexander (Cambridge, MA; London, 2015). Published in The Bryn Mawr Classical Review (October 2015) (http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2015/2015-10-14.html)

Review of Stoneman, Richard. Xerxes: A Persian Life (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2015). Published in the Journal of Military History vol. 80 no. 2, pgs. 514-516 (April 2016).

Review of Volker Grieb, K. Nowatka, and A. Wojciechowska (eds). Alexander the Great and : History, Art, Tradition. Philippika, vol. 74 (Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz Verlag, 2014). Published in the Journal of the American Oriental Society no. 136 vol. 2 pgs. 451-452 (July 2016).

Review of Figueira (ed.) Myth, Text, and History at (Piscataway, NJ: Press, 2016). Published in History: Reviews of New Books vol. 45 no. 6 (November 2017).

Review of A. Platias and C. Koliopoulos, on Strategy: Athenian and Spartan Grand Strategies in the and their Relevance for Today (Columbia University Press, 2010). Published in H-Net Reviews, January 2019.

Review of K. Nowatka and A. Wojciechowska (eds). Alexander the Great and the East: History, Art, Tradition. Philippika, vol. 74 (Wiesbaden: Harrasowitz Verlag, 2016). Published in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, December 2019.

Peer Reviewer for: Ancient History Bulletin Studies in Ancient Near Eastern Records Journal of Ancient Civilizations Journal of Near Eastern Studies Cambridge University Press De Gruyter

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Finn CV September 28th, 2020 Select Papers and Presentations:

“Learning kingship in the pages of : Alexander the Great and the intersections between the literary and historical Cyrus.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Philological Association, Philadelphia, PA (January 2012).

“‘The authority: whatever he said, it is not right:’ Elite and Non-elite Literary Reaction to Authoritative Regimes in the Ancient World.” Presented at the Advanced Seminar for the (Venice, Italy, November 2012) and as a brown bag lecture, The Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan (November 2012)

“The Development of the Mythological Messenger as Representative of Historical Change in Ancient .” Presented at the Congress for the International Organization for the Study of the Old Testament, Munich, Germany (August 2013).

“Rethinking The Sin of Sargon within Assyro-Babylonian Imperial Discourse.” Presented at the Near and Middle Eastern Graduate Student Association’s 19th Annual Graduate Colloquium at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada (February 2014).

“’As for a man, his days are numbered. Everything he does is wind:’ The Wind Motif in Late Akkadian Literature.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Oriental Society, Phoenix, Arizona (March 2014).

“Polemics on Polemics: Recent Scholarly Trends in the Search for Dissenting Voices in Ancient Mesopotamia.” Presented at “Building History: Forschungsgeschichte on the Ancient Near East,” Verona, Italy (May 2014).

“Sennacherib and the Semantics of Resistance in Late Period Akkadian Literature.” Presented at the Kolloquium zum Alten Orient, Munich, Germany (November 2014).

“Wars with Time: Reconstituted Battle Narratives and Social Identity in the Ancient Near East.” Presented at the annual meeting of the American Oriental Society, Boston, MA (March 2016).

“Some Unanswered Letters from the Ancient World.” Presented at “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Cuneiform Studies and Ancient Societies: The Impact of the Work of Piotr Michalowski,” Ann Arbor, MI (April 2016).

“Alexander the Great in Cities of the Biblical World.” Invited Lecture at Wisconsin Lutheran College, Milwaukee, WI (September 2016).

“The Navel of the Earth in Ancient Thought.” Invited Lecture at the conference “Hic Dracones Sunt: Creating, Defining, and Abstracting Space in the Ancient World,” Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University (October 2016).

“Counterdiscourses on Royalty in First Millennium Epistolary and Ritual.” Invited Lecture at The Distant Worlds Graduate School, Munich, Germany (January 2017).

“Wars with Time: Reconstituted Battle Narratives and Community Identity in the Ancient World.” Invited Lecture at the Midwest Regional Meeting of the American Oriental Society (February 2017).

“The of Ancient Persia.” Invited Lecture at Wisconsin Lutheran College, Milwaukee, WI (September 2017).

“Alexander at the Crossroads between East and West.” Presented at the Annual International Alexander the Great Conference, Alberta, Canada (May 2018).

“Tourist Traps in the Ancient World.” Invited Lecture presented at The University of Illinois (September 2018).

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Finn CV September 28th, 2020 “Were the Sea Peoples from ?” Invited Lecture presented at the University of Nebraska-Omaha (October 2018).

“Rebellion in the Roman Empire: Spartacus and Boudicca.” Invited Lecture at Wisconsin Latin Day (October 2018).

“One House Left Standing: Negotiating Dynastic Identity in the Conquest of Empire.” Invited Workshop Presenter at the University of Chicago (November 2018).

“The Ship of Aeneas.” Presented at the meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians (April 2019).

“Making a Third Space in Susa: Achaemenid Displays of the Periphery in the Center.” Invited Workshop Presenter for the Conference on Ancient Empires, Helsinki, Finland (August 2019).

“Near Eastern Military Empires and the Origins of Fake News in the Ancient World.” Workshop Organizer and Presenter, The Many Faces of War V, South Dakota State University (October 2019); invited lecturer at the University of Colorado- Boulder, Center for the Study of Origins (October 2020).

“What’s Left Behind: The Remnants of Destruction as (Counter)Propagandistic Messaging.” Invited workshop presenter at the annual meeting of the American Society for Oriental Research (November 2020).

“The Enigma: Ancient Persian War Strategy and its Failures.” Invited Workshop Presenter, Conference on Ancient Military Strategy at Quantico (May 2021).

Academic Honors and Fellowships

Scott R. Jacobs Fund for Young Scholars working on Alexander the Great, Spring 2018.

Way-Klingler Young Scholar Award, Marquette University, Spring 2018.

Faculty Development Grant, Marquette University, Spring 2017.

Graduate Student Fellow, Distant Worlds Program, Müncher Zentrum für Antike Welten, Ludwig-Maximilians Universität, 2013-2015.

Participant in Elamite Seminar (fully funded), Oxford University, Spring 2012.

Graduate Student Fellow, Institute for the Humanities, University of Michigan, 2011-2012.

Participant in the Advanced Seminar for the Humanities, Venice International University, November 2011.

Recipient of Field Scholarship (fully funded) for study at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Spring 2011.

Recipient of Freer Fund Scholarship for travel to Iran (fully funded), Spring 2011.

Participant in Archaeological Project: Porta Stabia field school, University of Michigan, 2007.

Teaching Experience (Marquette University; Courses Taught and Scheduled)

HIST 1001: The Growth of Western Civilization HIST 1601: Democracy and Difference: The Ancient Athenian Experiment HIST 3200: Ancient History’s Unsolved Mysteries HIST 3201: Greece and

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Finn CV September 28th, 2020 HIST 4931: Ancient Warfare HIST 4953: The Ancient Villain (seminar) HIST 4995: Preparation for a Senior Thesis in Ancient History (independent study) HIST 4995: Readings in Ancient Cultural Interactions (independent study) HIST 6525: Revisionist Histories (graduate level seminar) HISTI 4931: An Introduction to (Study Abroad; cancelled due to COVID-19) HOPR 1953H: Athletes through the Ages (Honors Course) HOPR 3954: Research Seminar for Honors in the Humanities CORE 1929H: Methods of Inquiry: The Olympics and Society (2-semester Honors Course)

Senior Thesis advisor:

*Steven Wales, “The : Carthaginian Military Campaigns and Expeditions 480-306 BC” *Eva Schons Rodrigues, “Gender and Warfare: The Echoes of Fulvia and Agrippina the Elder” *Sam Anderson, "Herodotus and the Second Greco-Persian War: A Defense of Herodotus as a Military Historian" *Brooke McArdle, in progress

Honors Thesis Advisor: *Kevin Clancy: “Shadowy Tendrils: The Death Penalty in Mesopotamia, the Bible, and America” *Wynne Thom: “Being Trans: A History of Breaking Taboo” *Eric Miller, in progress

Teaching Experience (University of Michigan):

History 200: Greece CLCIV 101: The Greek World History 201: Rome Latin 101: Introductory Latin 1 Latin 102: Introductory Latin 2 Latin 231: Latin prose Latin 232: Latin poetry *Latin courses taught as a pilot program through the Athletic department

Teaching Experience (Other):

Regular Lecturer in Ancient History at the Clement Manor Center for Community Enrichment (Milwaukee, WI) 6-week courses: “The Ancient Near East,” “The ,” “Ancient History’s Unsolved Mysteries,” The Golden Age of Greece,” “The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire,” “Alexander the Great,” “The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World”

Teaching Awards:

Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of Michigan, Winter 2010 GSI Mentor: Latin, Winter 2010 GSI Mentor: Latin, CLCIV, CLARCH Fall 2009 GSI Mentor: Latin, University of Michigan Winter 2009

Languages:

Ancient: Greek, Latin, Akkadian, Sumerian, Elamite Modern (High Level Proficiency: B2.2): German Modern (Reading Proficiency): French, Italian 5

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Service (Marquette University):

Committee for the Development of Disciplinary Honors Degrees in the Humanities (NEH Grant) Undergraduate Affairs Committee, History Department (September 2016-August 2017) Organizer for annual Casper lecture (April 2017) Executive Committee, History Department (September 2017-2018; 2020-2021) Phi Alpha Theta History Honors Society Faculty Advisor (September 2017-August 2018) Board Member, Honors in the Humanities (September 2018-) Faculty Advisor: Marquette Surf Club (April 2019-) Center for the Advancement of the Humanities Conference Committee (April 2019-) Revision of Military History Major (November 2019-December 2019) Program Director, Military History Major (September 2020-) Honors Advisory Board (September 2020-)

Service (Other)

Development of a Mentoring Program, Association of Ancient Historians (Chair August 2017-April 2019; member and mentor April 2019-) Editor, H-Net War Mentor, Kidney Donor Athletes

Professional Memberships

The American Oriental Society; The American Society for Oriental Research; The Association of Ancient Historians The Society for Classical Studies; The Classical Association of the Middle West and South; The Milwaukee Area Biblical Archaeology Society

Extracurricular Activities and Interests:

Finisher, 22 marathons; 20+ duathlons (4 National Championships, 2 World Championships, 2x State Champion, 2x “All- American”); 20+ triathlons (3 National Championships); 10+ aquabikes (2 National Championships).

References:

1) David Potter, University of Michigan ([email protected]) 2) Jeanne Reames, University of Nebraska-Omaha ([email protected]) 3) Kristen Foster, Marquette University ([email protected])

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