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Jennifer Finn Finn CV September 28th, 2020 Jenn Finn [email protected] Employment: Associate Professor of Ancient History, Marquette University (Milwaukee, WI), from August 24th, 2020 Assistant Professor of Ancient History, 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 Ancient Greek (9/06-04/10) Columbia University: M.A. in Classics with an emphasis in Latin (09/05-06/06) University of Michigan: B.A. with distinction in Classical Civilizations and Latin (09/01-08/05) Dissertation (defended March 2012): Alexander the Great: 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 Greece and the Near East; Ancient Warfare; Revisionist Histories; Reception of Classical/Hellenistic Greece in the Early Roman Empire 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 Athens.” 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). “Herodotus’ 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). 1 Finn CV September 28th, 2020 “Plutarch’s Themistocles: 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: Martial 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 Hellenistic Period: 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 Egypt: 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 Sparta (Piscataway, NJ: Gorgias Press, 2016). Published in History: Reviews of New Books vol. 45 no. 6 (November 2017). Review of A. Platias and C. Koliopoulos, Thucydides on Strategy: Athenian and Spartan Grand Strategies in the Peloponnesian War 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 2 Finn CV September 28th, 2020 Select Papers and Presentations: “Learning kingship in the pages of Xenophon: 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 Humanities (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 Mesopotamia.” 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 Archaeology 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). 3 Finn CV September 28th, 2020 “Were the Sea Peoples from Atlantis?” 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 Hoplite 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
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