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Andrew M Riggsby Lucy Shoe Meritt Professor in Classics Professor of Art History • University of Texas at Austin

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University of Texas at Austin My current work focuses on (a) the history of 2210 Speedway C3400 information (its production, organization, and Austin TX 78712 storage) in the Roman world (and the broader 512.471.7442 ancient Mediterranean), (b) applications of cognitive science, and (c) Roman law. I also [email protected] continue to do some work in my original area orcid.org/0000-0003-0869-7060 of specialization, the cultural history of Roman political institutions.

Professional Appointments Historische Zeitschrift 2012.753-4; Potier, From Sept. 2015. University of Texas at Cambridge Law Journal 2012.446-7; Tuori, Austin. Lucy Shoe Meritt Professor in Classics Arctos 2010.367; Hawkins, Ancient History and (by courtesy) Professor of Art History. Bulletin 2011.141-3; Peachin, Mnemosyne Sept. 2013-June 2014. Princeton University. 2012.866-8; Meyer, Religious Studies Review Stanley Kelley, Jr. Visiting Professor for 2011.278; Bannon, CR 2012.247-8; Metzger, Distinguished Teaching. JRS 2012.354-6; Levick, G&R 2012.139-40; Frier JRA 2011.564-6; Mazurek, NECJ Aug. 1993–August 2015. University of Texas 2011.130-3; Coşkun, Mouseion at Austin. Assistant Professor to Professor of 2010.307-11] Classics, and (from June 2006, by courtesy) of Art and Art History. Caesar in Gaul and Rome: War in Words (University of Texas Press, 2006) [2006 Association of American Publishers, Education Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division University of California, Berkeley, M.A. Award for Excellence, Classics and Ancient (Greek) 1988, Ph.D. (Classics) 1993. History; NetLibrary e- of the Month, Dissertation: “Criminal Defense and the April 2006] rev. Melchior BMCR 2006.09.32; Conceptualization of Crime in Cicero’s Kulikowski, Historian 2007.838; Bilts, Review Orations.” of Politics 2007.293-6; Adler, CJ Harvard College, A.B., summa cum laude, 2007.310-12; Krebs, JRS 2007.41-3; Levick Classics (Latin and Greek) 1987. G+R 2008.134; Le Bohec, Latomus 2008.853] Crime and Community in Ciceronian Rome (University of Texas Press 1999) [rev. McGinn, Mosaics of Knowledge: Representing CO 2000.165-7; Bucher, BMCR 2000.10.23; Information in the Roman World (Oxford Steel, CR 2001.114-5; Vasaly, Ann. Amer. University Press 2019). Acad. Pol Soc. Sci. 2001.174-175; Dyck, CW Roman Law and the Legal World of the 2001.94-5; Craig, JRS 2002.230-1; Laursen, Romans (Cambridge University Press, 2010) Intnl. Crim. Just. Rev. 2002.134-5; Wallinga [rev. McGinn, BMCR 2010.12.39; Möller, ZRG 2003.398-402] Riggsby CV 2

Articles/Chapters “Cicero,” pp. II.125-135 in M. Gagarin (ed.), “What do Cicero’s Letters Count as Evidence Oxford Encyclopedia of and for?,” forthcoming in Hermathena. Rome (Oxford Univ. Press 2010). “Cognitive Aspects of Information Technology “Space,” pp. 152-165 in A. Feldherr (ed.), in the Roman World,” pp. 57-70 in Anderson, Cambridge Companion to Roman Cairns, and Sprevak, (edd.), History of Historiography (Cambridge Univ. Press 2009). Distributed Cognition (University of “For Whom the Clock Drips,” Arethusa 42 Edinburgh Press 2018). (2009) 271-278. “Cicero’s Use of Documentary Evidence,” pp. “Memoir and in Republican 257-75 in K. Sandberg & C. Smith (edd.), Rome,” pp. 266-74 in J. Marincola (ed.), Omnium Annalium Monumenta. Historical Blackwell Companion to Greek and Roman Writing and Historical Evidence in Republican Historiography (Blackwell 2007). Rome (Brill 2017). “Guides to the Wor(l)d,” pp. 88-107 in J. “Politics and Geography,” pp. 68-80 in L. König and T. Whitmarsh (edd.), Ordering Grillo and C. Krebs (edd.), Cambridge Knowledge in the Roman Empire (Cambridge Companion to the Writings of Univ. Press 2007). (Cambridge Univ. Press 2017). “Response,” in B. Severy-Hoven (ed.), special “criminal law, Roman,” in S. Goldberg (Ed.). issue on Reshaping Rome, Arethusa 40 (2007) Oxford Classical Dictionary5 (Oxford Univ. 93-99. Press), DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/ “Character in Roman Oratory and Rhetoric,” 9780199381135.013.8153. pp. 165-85 in J. Powell and J. Paterson (edd.), “Public and Private Criminal Law,”, pp. Cicero the Advocate (Oxford Univ. Press 310-21 in P. du Plessis, C. Ando, and K. Tuori 2004). [rev. Kaster BMCR 2005.07.23] (edd.), Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and “Pliny in Space (and Time),” Arethusa 36 Society (Oxford Univ. Press 2016). (2003) 167-86. “Vitruvius and the Limits of Proportion,” “The Post Reditum Speeches,” pp. 159-195 in Arethusa 49 (2016) 281-297. J. May (ed.), Brill’s Companion to Cicero (Brill “Tyrants, Fire, and Dangerous Things,” pp. 2002). [rev. Dyck, BMCR 2003.01.17; Berry, 111-28 in G. Williams and K. Volk (edd.), CR 54 (2004) 90; Zetzel, Phoenix (2004) 373] Roman Reflections (Oxford Univ. Press 2015). “Clodius/Claudius,” Historia 51 (2002) “Legal Education," pp. 444-51 in W. M. 117-123. Bloomer (ed.), Blackwell Companion to “Law, Politics, and the Military,” in J. Kirby Ancient Education (Blackwell 2015). (ed.), World Eras: The Roman Republic and “Divination” and "Dionysius of Empire (264 BCE - 476 CE) (Gale Press Halicarnassus"” in R. Thomas and J. 2001). Ziolkowski (edd.) The Virgil Encyclopedia “,” “P. Nigidius Figulus,” “Res (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013). Gestae,” and “M. Tullius Tiro,” in “Rhetoric,” pp. 389-402 in A. Barchiesi and Encyclopedia of the Ancient World (Salem W. Scheidel, Oxford Handbook of Roman Press 2001). Studies, (Oxford Univ. Press, 2010). “Iulius Victor on Cicero’s Defenses de “Form as Global Strategy in Cicero, II Cat.,” Repetundis,” Rheinisches Museum für pp. 92-104 in D. Berry and A. Erskine (edd.), Philologie 142 (1999) 427-429. Form and Function in Roman Oratory (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2010). Riggsby CV 3

“Self and Community in the Younger Pliny,” (with Christopher Krebs) “Artistic and Arethusa 31 (1998) 75-97. [Reprinted in Intellectual Life,” for Oxford History of the Classical and Medieval Criticism 62 Roman World. c. 25,000 words. (2004) 368-80 and Oxford Readings in Commentary on Cicero, de Haruspicum Classical Studies: the Epistles of Pliny (Oxford Responsis (with Tony Corbeill). Univ. Press 2015)] “‘Public’ and ‘Private’ in Roman Culture: the Case of the Cubiculum,” Journal of Roman Invited Presentations Archaeology 10 (1997) 36-56. [rev. Bradley, “Standardization as Economic Institution,” EMC 17 (1998) 132] Univ. of Toronto, Apr. 2021. “Did the Romans Believe in their Verdicts?,” TBD, Cornell University, Apr. 2021. Rhetorica 15 (1997) 235-51. “Space and Cognition,” Spatial Turn “Lenocinium: Scope and Consequences,” conference, Durham University, June 2020. Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung für TBD, Keynote lecture for workshop on Rechtsgeschichte, romanistische Abteilung “Reading Space: urban landscapes through 112 (1995) 423-27. multidisciplinary and dialogues,” “Appropriation and Reversal as a Basis for University of Helsinki, May 2020. Oratorical Proof,” Classical Philology 90 “Could there be argentariae?” Space Law (1995) 245-56. Seminar, University of Helskinki, May 2020. “Self-fashioning in the Public Eye: Pliny on “What is ‘close enough’?”, Stanford Cicero and Oratory,” American Journal of University, Feb. 2020. Philology 116 (1995) 123-35. “Locating the Private in the Roman World,” “Homeric Speech Introductions and the Keynote lecture, Danish National Research Theory of Homeric Composition,” Foundation Centre for Privacy Studies Transactions of the American Philological (University of Copenhagen), Dec. 2019. Association 122 (1992) 99-115. “A World in Pieces,” Rutledge Memorial “Elision and Hiatus in Latin Prose,” Classical Lecture, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Antiquity 10 (1991) 328-43. Oct. 2019. “Fear Itself,” Columbia University, Oct. 2019. Work in progress “Criminal and Pericriminal Offenses,” Think Like a Rome: Essays in Cognitive Seminari romanistici, Università degli studi di History (under contract, Johns Hopkins Press; Padova, Sept. 2019. c. 80,000 words). “The Gender of Banking,” University of “Learning the Language of God,” for Ayres, et Colorado, Apr. 2019. al., edd., Modes of Knowing and the Ordering Roundtable on Kapust’s Flattery, Southern of Knowledge in Early Christianity (under Political Science Association meeting, January review, CUP). 2019. “Not in the Last Instance,” for edited volume “When does I + I = II? Quantification as on the Rule of Law, ed. E. Cowan (under Performance,” George B. Walsh Memorial review OUP). 9200 words. Lecture, University of Chicago, Apr. 2018. “Divide and Conquer,” for edited volume on UMBC, May 2018. Representations of War, ed. A. König and N. “Archival Organization and the Image of Wiater (under review CUP). 7000 words. Power,” University of Chicago Rhetoric and Poetics Seminar, April 2018. Riggsby CV 4

"Hiding in Lists," Logic of Lists Conference, “‘Can I get a table?’ or ‘What Anthony Center for Hellenic Studies, Jan. 2018. Grafton won’t tell you about Eusebius,’”Yale “Chinese Room Jurisprudence,” Johns Univ., April 2014. Hopkins, Dec. 2017. “Where is ‘where’ in Roman Art?,” Columbia “Data, Information, and the Authority of Univ., April 2014 Archives,” Humanities and Information “Uncertainty Principle: Roman Metrological Conference, Penn State University, Sept. 2017. Culture,” Princeton Univ., Feb. 2014. “Learning the Language of God,” seminar on “Cicero’s Use of Documentary Evidence,” Modes of Knowing and the Ordering of British School at Rome conference “Omnium Knowledge in Second and Third Century Annalium Monumenta,” Oct. 2013. Christian Thought, Rome, July 2017. “Romans, Tables, and ‘Progress,’” NYU, Oct. “Divide and Conquer,” St. Andrew’s 2013. University (Scotland), June 2017. “Vitruvius and the limits of Proportion,” “Learning to Organize—by Organizing,” conference on “Vitruvius in the Round” at MATERIA seminar, MIT , June 2017. Humboldt-Universität, Berlin, July 2013. ”How Did Jurists Think?” Harvard University, Response to panel on "Truth and March 2017. Historiography" at APA annual meeting, Jan. “Not in the Last Instance,” symposium on the 2013. Rule of Law, University of Sydney, Feb. 2017. “Tyrants, Fire, and Dangerous Things,” “Illustrated Texts and Ancient Sex Manuals,” Columbia University, Mar. 2012. colloquium in honor of Gold Medal awardee “Quae pondere numero mensura consistunt: John Clarke, Archaeological Institute of Is there any such thing?,” University of America meeting, Jan. 2017. Pennsylvania, Jan. 2012. “Republic of Laws, Republic of Men,” Ninth “Over the River and Through the Wood: Celtic Conference in Classics, University Roman Multimedia Landscapes,” Brown College Dublin, June 2016. University, Nov. 2011. “99 Columns and a Niche in Each One,” “Memory, Houses, and the Myth of the Texas Tech University, March 2016. Memory House,” American Academy in “Maps as Information Technology.” University Rome, Nov. 2010, University of Texas at of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Feb. 2016. Austin, Sept. 2011. “Why Cicero Couldn’t Leave Crime to the “Roman Metrology,” Circolo Gianicolese Lawyers,” University of Iowa, Oct. 2015. meeting at Finnish Institute in Rome, Apr. 2011. “Tell Me What to Do: Rules vs. Authorities in ,” delivered on behalf of “Biting the Hand that Fed Him: Cicero and Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies at the Courts,” Symposium on “Justice in the American Classical League Summer Institute, Ancient World,” University of Western June 2015. Ontario, Mar. 2010. “What do Cicero’s Letters Count as Evidence “The Lexicon of Fear,” symposium on for?,” plenary discussion leader, Latin ”Fear in the Ancient World,” Center for the Epistolography Network, Univ. of Manchester, Humanities and the Public Sphere, University June 2014. of Florida, Nov. 2009. “Public and Private Criminal Law,” University “Cicero’s ‘Gentleman’s Guide to Lynching,” of Edinburgh, June 2014. colloquium on “Legitimating Violence,” NYU, Sept. 2009. Riggsby CV 5

“Hiding in Plain Sight,” Amherst College, Mar. “Culture and the Value of Land in the Roman 2009. Republic,” Society for Critical Exchange “In a Different Voice? Speech and Agency in conference “Culture and Economics,” July de Bello Gallico” colloquium on 1998. “Representations of the Alien,” Getty Villa, “Where Were the Gallic Wars? Place in Mar. 2008; University of Georgia, July 2012. Caesar’s de Bello Gallico,” Edson Memorial “Local vs. global motivation in rhetorical Lecture, Dept. of History, Univ. of Wisconsin strategy in Cicero’s Second Catilinarian,” —Madison, March 1998. University of Edinburgh, Mar. 2007. “Building a Better Enemy: Ethnographic “Playing the Blame Game,” University of Representation in Caesar, de Bello Gallico,” Southern California, Feb. 2007; NYU Dec. Dept. of Classics, Univ. of Wisconsin— 2007. Madison, December 1997. “Accelerated History,” University of Chicago, Refereed Presentations Feb. 2006; Institute of Classical Studies “Ambiguities of Space in Roman Landscape (London) Latin Seminar, March 2007. Painting?,” Ambiguities. Frames and Affordances of Ancient Images, FU-Berlin, “Caesar Writes Between the Lines,” CAWMS- Nov. 2018. SS presidential panel, Oct. 2004. “Learning the Language of God,” North “The Politics of Parallel Worlds,” UCLA American Patristics Society, May 2018. conference on Temporalities, Apr. 2004. “Roman Jurisprudence as Collective “Database Design in Roman Antiquity,” Johns Memory,” Roman Cultural Memory, Hopkins University, May 2003, University of Universidade de São Paulo (Brazil), March Minnesota, Nov. 2003, Duke University, Oct. 2018. 2006. “Roman Artificial Memory as Distributed “The Past and the Other Past,” Baylor System,” Classics and Cognitive Theory, Oct. University, Oct. 2002, Macalister College, 2016. Nov. 2003. “How to Think about Maps,” Association of “What Caesar Doesn't Need to Tell You: The Ancient Historians annual meeting, May Rhetoric of the Unspoken in Caesar's Gallic 2016. Wars,” Distinguished Haines-Morris Visiting Lecture, University of Tennessee, November “State Standards and Metrological Culture in 2001. Imperial Rome,” Archaeological Institute of America/Society for Classical Studies Annual “Pliny in Space,” University of Manchester, Meetings, joint session, Jan. 2016. November 2000. “ as Argument,” International “Laws without Courts?,” Oxford University, Conference on the Ancient V, Sept. November 2000. 2015 “Building a Better Barbarian,” New York “Roman Epitaphs and the Poetics of Classical Club, October 2000. Quantification,” [poster session] American Response to colloquium on “Propagation, Philological Association Annual Meeting, Jan Dissemination, and Evaluation of Information 2014. in the Ancient World,” 1999 APA Annual “Roman Rhetoric: a Source for Roman Law?,” Meeting. International Society for the History of “Where Was the Gallic War?,” Carvey Rhetoric, July 2007. Memorial Lecture, University of Texas at “Back to the Future: Legal and non-Legal Arlington, February 1999. Mechanisms of Control in Cicero, de Riggsby CV 6

Legibus,” Association of Ancient Historians Project on Rhetoric of Inquiry conference annual meeting, May 2004. “New Economic Criticism,” Oct. 1994. ”The Limits of Lists in the Latin World,” 2004 “Violence, the State, and Cicero’s pro American Philological Association Annual Milone,” 1993 APA Annual Meeting. “Pliny’s Meeting. Self-fashioning and the Editing of Cicero’s “Fear of Public Speaking,” International Orations,” 1992 APA Annual Meeting. Society for the History of Rhetoric Meeting, “Homeric Speech Introductions and the July 2003. Theory of Homeric Composition,” 1991 APA “On the Non-Contract of Barter,” 2002 Annual Meeting CAMWS Annual Meeting. Book Reviews “Pliny in Space,” 2002 APA Annual Meeting. F. Naiden and R. Talbert, Mercury’s Wings: Exploring Modes of Communication in the “Fear of Public Speaking,” 2001 CAMWS Ancient World. Classical World 111 (2018) Annual Meeting (organized panel 581-2. “Performance and Performativity in Roman Oratory”). R. Talbert, Roman Portable Sundials: The Empire in your Hand. Bryn Mawr Classical “When Did the Romans Invent Homicide?,” Review 2017.09.56. American Society for Legal History, October 2000. David Johnston (ed.), Cambridge Companion to Roman Law, Journal of Roman Studies “Building a (Better?) Roman: De Bello Gallico (2017), http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/ as Ideological Instrument,” conference on S007543581700024 7. “Negotiating Ideologies,” University of Toronto, October 1999. Charles Guérin, La voix de la vérité: Témoin et témoignage dans les tribunaux romains du “(Solely) Between Men: Dangerous Liaisons Ier siècle avant J.-C., Bryn Mawr Classical in Plautus and Catullus,” 1999 Classical Review 2016.09.46. Association of the Midwest and South Annual Meeting. Alessandro Garcea, Caesar’s De Analogia, Exemplaria Classica 19 (2015) 331-333. “Courts and State in Cicero’s Laws,” 1998 American Political Science Association Carlos F. Noreña, Imperial Ideals in the Annual Meeting. Roman West: Representation, Circulation, Power, Bryn Mawr Classical Review “Tabular Organization in Roman Culture,” 2012.11.52. 1997 APA Annual Meeting. R. Kaster, Emotion, Restraint, and Community “The Farmer’s Daughter”, 1996 APA Annual in Ancient Rome, Classical Journal 102 (2007) Meeting (co-organized APA/Archeological 389-91. Institute of America joint panel “The Social Life of Things”). J. Dugan, Making a New Man: Ciceronian Self-fashioning in the Rhetorical Works, “Taking the Roman Courts Seriously,” 1995 American Journal of Philology 127 (2006) APA Annual Meeting. 473-6. “Towards a New Lexicography,” 1994 APA R. Morstein-Marx, Mass Oratory and Political Annual Meeting (organized panel “Semantics, Power in the Late Roman Republic, Bryn Cognition, and the Politics of the Roman Mawr Classical Review 2005.03.10. Lexicon”). O. Tellegen-Couperus (ed.), Quintilian and the “Fields, Economies, and the pro Roscio Law. The Art of Persuasion in Law and Politics, Amerino,” Society for Critical Exchange/ Rhetorica 22 (2004) 301-4. Riggsby CV 7

S. Hales, The Roman House and Social Rachel and Ben Vaughan Faculty Fellowship Identity, New England Classical Journal 31 in Classics (UT) 2006 (2004) 338-40. Big XII Fellowship 2006 Greg Rowe, Princes and Poltical Cultures: The Faculty Fellowship in Classics #2 (UT) 2003 New Tiberian Senatorial Decree, American Historical Review 109 (2004) 956-7. Solmsen Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, G. Hutchinson, Cicero’s Correspondence: A Madison 1997-98 Literary Study, Classical Philology 96 (2001) 98-101. National Humanities Center Fellow 1997-98 [declined] L. D. Reynolds (ed.), Cicero, De Finibus Bonorum et Malorum Libri Quinque, University Research Institute Summer Religious Studies Review 26 (2000) 275. Research Award, UT Austin 1994 Annapaolo Zaccaria Ruggiu, Spazio privato e Mellon Research Fellowship 1991; Mellon spazio pubblico nella città romana, Journal of Dissertation Fellowship 1992-93 Roman Archaeology 12 (1999) 555-558. Hesperian Fellowship, UC Berkeley Classics Kathryn Welch and Anton Powell (edd.), Julius Department 1987-89 Caesar as Artful Reporter: The War Commentaries as Political Instruments, Bryn Ph.D. Supervisions Mawr Classical Review 99.4.16. Vera Leh, Placing the Corpus Caesarianum in Richard Enos, Roman Rhetoric: Revolution the Social and Political Discourse of the Post- and the Greek Influence, Rhetorica 16.3 Republic (in progress). (1998) 315-19. Margaret Clark, Laying the Groundwork: Steven Cerutti, Cicero’s Accretive Style: Farmland in the Roman Agricultural Imaginary Rhetorical Strategies in the Exordia of the (2019). Judicial Speeches, Religious Studies Review Andrea Pittard, Players and Spectators: 23 (1997) 404. Exemplary Performance, Audience Reaction, M. L. Clarke, Rhetoric at Rome: A Historical and Gender in Ancient Rome (2018). Survey, Religious Studies Review 23 (1997) Paul Jerome Hay, Saecularity in Roman 403. Culture (2017). Andrew Dyck, A Commentary on Cicero, De Laura Brooke Rich, Ridicule, Emotion, and Officiis, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97.7.8. Community in Ancient Rome (2015). Bernardo Santalucia, Studi di diritto penale Steven Lundy, Language, Nature, and the romano, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 7.1 Politics of Varro’s De Lingua Latina (2013). (1996) 69-77. Chris Lovell, The Overburdened Earth: Landscape and Geography in Homeric Epic Awards (2011). National Endowment for the Humanities/ Dan Hanchey, Imitation and Community in Roger A. Hornsby Post-Doctoral Rome Prize. Cicero’s Philosophica (2009). 2010-2011 Grant Nelsestuen, Varro the Agronomist: Association of American Publishers, Political Philosophy, Satire, and Agriculture in Professional/Scholarly Publishing Division the De Re Rustica (2008). 2006 Award for Excellence, Classics and Caroline Vandervelde, Allegory and Ancient History Interpretation in Eusebius’ Life of Constantine (2003). Riggsby CV 8

Michael de Brauw, The Rhetoric of Litigiousness and Legal Expertise in Cicero and the Attic Orators (2003, co-supervised with Michael Gagarin). Kimberly Barber, Rhetoric in Cicero’s pro Balbo (1997, co-supervised with M. Gwyn Morgan).

Principal Professional Service •Society for Classical Studies (formerly American Philological Association) *Program committee 2017-20 *Publications & Research committee 2012-6 *Committee on Ancient History 2003-7 •American Academy in Rome *Executive committee of the Advisory council 2018-20. *Advisory council, School of Classical Studies 2011- *Rome Prize Juror, Ancient Studies 2008-9 •Referee for Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Cambridge University Press, University of Texas Press, American Philological Association Monograph Series, Journal of Roman Archaeology, American Political Science Review, Classical Antiquity, Rhetorica, Transactions of the American Philological Association, Classical Philology, Classical Journal, Phoenix, Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, Melbourne Historical Journal, Historia, Mnemosyne. •Referee for tenure/promotion cases at Amherst, Bates, Boston University, California (Berkeley), Columbia, Connecticut, CUNY Graduate Center, Florida State, Harvard, Maryland, MIT, North Carolina, NYU, Princeton, Rutgers, Stanford, Texas (San Antonio), Texas Tech, Trinity (San Antonio), Washington University in St. Louis, Vanderbilt, Yale. •Eminent Scholar Mentor (for Prof. Melissa Kutner), University of Maryland Baltimore County, 2017-19. •External Assessor, Durham University Junior Research Fellowship Scheme, 2018.