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JONATHAN SCOTT PERRY
Department of History, CAS, C257 University of South Florida—Sarasota-Manatee 8350 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota FL 34243 U.S.A. 941-359-4248 (vox) / 941-359-4489 (fax) [email protected] http://usfsm.edu/faculty-members/dr-jonathan-scott-perry/
Education
Ph. D: University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (May 1999), Department of History Dissertation Title: ‘A Death in the Familia: The Funerary Colleges of the Roman Empire’. Committee: Richard J. A. Talbert (director), Jerzy Linderski (principal reader), George W. Houston (reader), Michael McVaugh (reader), Donald Reid (reader), Mary T. Boatwright (Duke University, reader).
M.A.: UNC-CH (May 1994) Thesis: ‘The Provincial Centonarii of the Early Roman Empire: Mat-Producers or Firefighters?’ Committee: R. J. A. Talbert (director), J. Linderski (reader), W. McCoy (reader).
B.A.: Ohio University, Honors Tutorial College (June 1992) Major: History Thesis: ‘Lorenzo Valla on the Donation of Constantine’ B.A.: Ohio University, College of Arts and Sciences (June 1992) Major: Latin.
Employment history
Associate Professor, University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, FL, Department of History, July 2012—present.
Assistant Professor, University of South Florida Sarasota-Manatee, FL, Department of History, August 2007—June 2012. Sixteen Courses Taught or in Progress: See below.
Sessional Assistant Professor, York University, Toronto, Ontario, Department of History, July 2006—July 2007. Courses Taught: See below.
Assistant Professor, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, Department of History, August 1999—May 2006. Courses Taught: See below.
Instructor, Division of Social Sciences, Brevard College, Brevard, NC, August 1998—May 1999. Courses Taught: History of Western Civilization, to 1648 CE History of Western Civilization, 1648-1999.
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Instructor, Department of History, UNC-CH, Spring Term 1998. Course Taught: History of Rome.
Teaching Assistant, Department of History, UNC-CH, Fall 1995—Fall 1997. Courses Taught: History of Western Civilization; History of Greece; History of Rome; History of Medieval Europe
Research
BOOKS
1. The Roman Collegia: The Modern Evolution of an Ancient Concept, Brill Academic Publishers, Supplements to Mnemosyne 277, Leiden, The Netherlands: 2006. ISBN: 90- 04-15080-3.
Website: http://www.brill.nl/roman-collegia Reviews: Torrey Seland, Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews 2007.01.20: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2007/2007-01-20.html; Dorothea Rohde, Sehepunkte 8.1 (2008): http://www.sehepunkte.de/2008/01/11693.html; Monique Dondin-Payre, Anabases 7 (2008): http://anabases.revues.org/2574
2. Now Playing: Studying the History of Ancient Greece and Rome Through Film, Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-19-998804-4.
3. Now Playing: Studying Western Civilization Through Film, Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN: 978-0-19-996988-3.
4. Now Playing: Studying World History Through Film, Oxford University Press, 2013. ISBN 978-0-19-998958-4.
ARTICLES AND BOOK CHAPTERS
5. ‘Ancient Collegia, Modern Blackshirts? The Study of Roman Corporations in Fascist Italy,’ International Journal of the Classical Tradition 8 (2001): 203-214.
6. ‘Clinopale Wrestling and Erotic Humor in the Roman Empire,’ Nikephoros: Zeitschrift für Sport und Kultur im Altertum [English title: Nikephoros: Journal for Sport and Culture in Antiquity] 14 (2001): 83-89.
7. ‘CIL 6.16932: The Creation of a Detached Signum?’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik [English title: Journal for Papyrology and Epigraphy] 138 (2002): 245-248.
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8. ‘In honorem Theodori Mommseni: G. B. de Rossi and the collegia funeraticia,’ in Augusto augurio: Rerum humanarum et divinarum commentationes in honorem Jerzy Linderski Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004, pp. 105-122.
9. ‘“An Olympic Victory Must Not Be Bought”: Oath-Taking, Cheating and Women in Greek Athletics’, Horkos: The Oath in Greek Society, edited by Alan Sommerstein and Judith Fletcher, Exeter: Bristol Phoenix Press, 2007, pp. 81-88 and 238-240.
10. Chapter 23: ‘Organized Societies: Collegia,’ Oxford Handbook of Roman Social Relations, edited by Michael Peachin, Oxford University Press, 2011, pp. 499-515, http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/ClassicalStudies/AncientHistory/Roma n/?view=usa&ci=9780195188004
11. Chapter 3: ‘Engaging with Ancient Slaveries: From Wallon to the Present’, for S. Hodkinson, M. Kleijwegt and K. Vlassopoulos, eds., Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Slaveries, Oxford University Press (forthcoming), 31 pp.
12. ‘“Con beffarda irriverenza”: Graves’ Augustus in Mussolini’s Italy,’ to be published in a volume entitled Classics and Robert Graves: a relationship in literature, translation and adaptation, edited by Alisdair Gibson (University of St Andrews, UK), 29 pp.
13. ‘“L'état intervint peu à peu”: State Intervention in the Ephesian “Bakers’ Strike”,’ to be published in a volume entitled Private Associations and the Public Sphere in the Ancient World, edited by Vincent Gabrielsen and Christian A. Thomsen (University of Copenhagen, Denmark), 25 pp.
14. Chapter 32: ‘Sub-elites’, for Alison Cooley, ed., A Companion to Roman Italy, Wiley- Blackwell, 36 pp.
15. ‘The Lex Julia de senatu habendo: A View from the 1930s,’ for Ancient World Views, Brill Academic Press, 22 pp.
16. ‘From Frankfurt to Westermann: Forced Labor and the Early Development of Finley’s Thought’, American Journal of Philology 135 (2014): 221-241.
BOOK REVIEWS
17. Commissioned book review: Maria Wyke, Caesar in the USA (University of California Press, 2012), L’Antiquité Classique (forthcoming).
18. Commissioned book review: Monique Dondin-Payre & Nicolas Tran, Collegia: Le phénomène associatif dans l’Occident romain (Ausonius, 2012), L’Antiquité Classique (forthcoming).
19. Online review: Heinz Heinen (Hrsg.), Antike Sklaverei: Rückblick und Ausblick, Neue Beiträge zur Forschungsgeschichte und zur Erschließung der archäologischen Zeugnisse (Steiner, 2010), for Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2011.07.46, at http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2011/2011-07-46.html.
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20. Commissioned book review: Margret Dissen, Römische Kollegien und deutsche Geschichtswissenschaft im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert, Historia Einzelschriften 209 (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2009), L’Antiquité Classique 80 (2011): 303-306.
21. Commissioned book review: S. Price and P. Thonemann, The Birth of Classical Europe: A History from Troy to Augustine (Allen Lane, 2010), Classical Review 61.2 (2011): 501-503.
22. Online review: Judith Swaddling, The Ancient Olympic Games (2nd ed., revised and updated (University of Texas Press, 2008), Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2009.06.42, at http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009-06-42.html.
23. Online review: Maria Wyke, Caesar: A Life in Western Culture (Chicago, 2008), Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2009.05.11, at http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009-05-11.html.
24. Review article: ‘“A INCIVILIRE L’EUROPA”: Historical Memory and Cultural Politics in Fascist Italy,’ a review of Claudia Lazzaro and Roger J. Crum (edd.), Donatello among the Blackshirts: History and Modernity in the Visual Culture of Fascist Italy (Cornell University Press, 2005) and D. Medina Lasansky, The Renaissance Perfected: Architecture, Spectacle, and Tourism in Fascist Italy (Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005), International Journal of the Classical Tradition 13 (2006): 450-463.
25. Review article: Beat Näf, ed., Antike und Altertumswissenschaft in der Zeit von Faschismus und Nationalsozialismus (Cambridge, 2001), International Journal of the Classical Tradition 9 (2003): 661-665.
26. Online review: W. Jongman and M. Kleijwegt, edd., After the Past: Essays in Ancient History in Honour of H. W. Pleket (Leiden, 2002), Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2003.4.21, at http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2003/2003-04-21.html.
27. ‘Last Laughs,’ a review of Erich Segal, The Death of Comedy (Harvard, 2001), Washington Post Book World (16 December 2001). [Excerpts printed in The New York Review of Books (18 December 2003) and The New York Times Book Review (15 February 2004).]
28. Online review: G. J. Oliver, ed., The Epigraphy of Death (Liverpool, 2000), Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2001.10.17, at http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2001/2001-10-17.html.
29. ‘As the Romans Did,’ a review of Keith Hopkins, A World Full of Gods (New York, 2000), Washington Post Book World (13 August 2000).
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
30. Textbook: Contributor of substantial new content: 2nd edition of Peter von Sivers, Charles A. Desnoyers, and George B. Stow, Patterns of World History, Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
31. Textbook: Content editor and contributor: 5th edition of Allen M. Ward, Fritz M. Heichelheim, and Cedric A. Yeo, A History of the Roman People (previous editions in 1962, 1984, 1999, and 2003), Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2010. ISBN: 0-205-69526-4, 5
http://www.pearsonhighered.com/educator/product/History-of-the-Roman-People-A- 5E/9780205695263.page
32. Textbook: Jonathan S. Perry, Blaine T. Browne, and Robert C. Cottrell, Lives and Legacies: Biographies in Western Civilization, Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2008. Volume 1, ISBN: 0-205-64915-7, http://pearsonhighered.com/educator/academic/product/0,3110,0205649157,00.html; Volume 2, ISBN: 0-205-64914-9, http://pearsonhighered.com/educator/academic/product/0,3110,0205649149,00.html.
33. Textbook: Jonathan S. Perry, Sara E. Chapman, and Derek Hastings, Primary Source: Documents in Western Civilization (a multimedia reader, in CD-Rom, web and print formats, accompanying all Western Civilization textbooks), Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2008. ISBN: 0-13-175583-8, http://pearsonhighered.com/educator/academic/product/0,3110,0131755838,00.html.
34. Textbook supplement: Co-author and co-designer, Primary Source: Documents in Global History (a multimedia reader, in both CD-Rom and web formats, accompanying all World Civilization textbooks), Pearson Prentice-Hall, 2007.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Book project: Five chapters in preparation, concerning scholarly publications on the Emperor Augustus in the 1930s.
Book chapter on the legal standing of Roman collegia, commissioned for an Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society.
PAPERS PRESENTED
Refereed, International Conferences
‘“Augusto non è morto”: Celebrating the Saeculum Augustum in 1937,’ XIV A. D. Saeculum Augustum Conference, University of Lisbon, Portugal, 24-26 September 2014.
‘The Constitutional Structure of the Roman State: Collegia in Roman Law,’ Oxford Handbook of Roman Law and Society Conference, University of Edinburgh, Scotland, UK, 14 June 2014.
‘“Except for those of ancient foundation”: Revisiting Numa’s Collegia,’ Classical Association of Canada Annual Meeting, McGill University, Montréal, Québec, 8 May 2014.
‘From Frankfurt to Westermann: Tracing the Margins of M.I. Finley’s Early Thought,’ Classical Association of the Canadian West Conference: ‘On the Margins of Antiquity’, Edmonton, Alberta, 24 March 2013.
‘The View from Vichy?: Jérôme Carcopino and “Daily Life” in Mussolini’s Rome,’ Classical Association of the Canadian West Conference: ‘Visualizing Antiquity’, Victoria, B.C., 16 March 2012.
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‘Muleteers at the Gates: Transport Worker Associations at City Gates in Roman Italy,’ Urban Dreams and Realities: An Interdisciplinary Conference on the City in Ancient Cultures, Edmonton, 22 October 2011.
‘Lower-Class Political Consciousness and the Ephesian Bakers’ Strike,’ Classical Association of the Canadian West Conference: ‘Peasants, Potters and Prostitutes: Lower Classes in Greek and Roman Antiquity,’ Calgary, 12 March 2011.
‘“L'état intervint peu à peu”: Collegia and State Intervention in the Century since Waltzing and Poland,’ for an international symposium entitled ‘Private Associations and the Public Sphere in the Ancient World,’ The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, 9 September 2010.
‘“Come radicate alla nostra terra”: Giuseppe Bottai on Race and Romanità,’ for the panel ‘Innovations and Investigations: New Work on Italian Fascism,’ chaired by Marla Stone, 17th International Conference of the Council for European Studies, Montréal, 15 April 2010.
‘“Con beffarda irriverenza”: Graves’ Augustus in Mussolini’s Italy’, for the Research Workshop entitled, ‘Classics and Robert Graves: a relationship in literature, translation and adaptation,’ University of St. Andrews, St. Andrews, UK, 19 September 2009.
‘“Oh, the mildness of the gods!”: Patristic Discourses on the Violent Athlete,’ for the panel ‘Contests and Competition’, Annual Meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, 15 May 2009.
‘A Canadian Princeps?: John Buchan’s Augustus and Canada in the 1930s,’ Classical Association of Canada annual meeting, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 12 May 2009.
‘“Oh, the mildness of the gods!”: Patristic Discourses on the Violent Athlete,’ Violence in Greek and Roman Antiquity Conference, Classical Association of the Canadian West, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, 7 March 2009.
‘“An Olympic Victory Must Not Be Bought”: Women, Cheating, and the Olympic Ethos,’ 7th International Symposium for Olympic Research, International Centre for Olympic Studies at the University of Western Ontario, 21 October—23 October 2004.
‘Oath-Taking, Cheating and Women in Greek Athletics,’ for an international conference entitled, ‘The Oath in Greek Society,’ University of Nottingham, 2 July 2004. [Read in my absence by Prof. Alan H. Sommerstein.]
Refereed, National Conferences
‘The Go-Between(s): Transportation Workers, Status, and Burial in Roman Italy’, Annual Meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians, Ohio State University, 17 May 2013.
‘“The New Frontier”: Lily Ross Taylor’s Roman Voting Assemblies and American Democracy,’ Annual Meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians, Princeton University, 5 May 2007.
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‘“The Only Woman in All of Greece”: Kyniska, Money, and Arete in Greek Athletics,’ American Philological Association meeting, Boston, 9 January 2005. [Read in my absence by Prof. Hanna Roisman.]
‘“The Invincible Character of the Race”: The Appropriation of Ancient Art in the Context of Fascist Italy,’ panel paper for ‘Appropriations of Ancient Art: Political Contexts,’ The Association of Ancient Historians meeting, Ann Arbor, 8 May 2004.
‘“Dum Ne Quid Ex Publica Lege Corrumpant”: The Study of Ancient Religious Associations in Fascist Italy,’ for a conference entitled ‘Neve Posthac Inter Sed Coniourase: Ancient Religious Associations in Context,’ University of Pennsylvania, 25 October 2003.
‘Roman Associations on Display: Collegia in the Mostra Augustea della Romanità, 1937/8,’ panel paper for ‘Fascism and the Misappropriation of the Classical Past,’ American Philological Association meeting, New Orleans, 4 January 2003.
‘Clinopale Wrestling and Erotic Humor in the Roman Empire,’ American Philological Association meeting, Philadelphia, 4 January 2002.
‘Collegia Funeraticia in the Inscriptional Record: A Reconsideration of Mommsen’s Dissertation,’ American Philological Association meeting, Chicago, 28 December 1997.
‘Making Revolution in Silk Gloves: Law and Society under the Emperor Julian,’ international conference entitled ‘Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity II,’ University of South Carolina, March 1997.
Refereed, Regional Conferences
‘Corporations and Corporativismo in Medieval Italy,’ New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 7 March 2014.
‘“Caesar’s Fanfare”: Composing Julius Caesar’s Image in the Late 1940s,’ Southeast Conference for Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Film, University of South Florida, 21 February 2014.
‘“A page in the history of education”: A Humanist educator in the “service” of Fascist Italy,’ New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, 9 March 2012.
‘Teaching Fascist Racism through Dystopian Fantasy,’ panel presentation for ‘Teaching Race through International Fantasy and Science Fiction,’ International Association for the Fantastic in the Arts Conference, Orlando, 18 March 2010.
‘“I Am Innocent of This Man’s Blood”: Interpretations of Pilate’s Responsibility in the Twentieth Century,’ for a national conference entitled, ‘Sacred Text, Sacred Film?: Responsible Interpretations of Scriptures in Film and Popular Media’, UCF, 5 April 2005.
‘The African Continent in Classical Geography,’ Classical Association of the Midwest and South conference, Nashville, April 1996.
‘Were the Provincial “Mat-Men” Really Firefighters?’ CAMWS Conference, Atlanta, April 1994.
Non-Refereed, Invited Lectures 8
Invited lecturer: Beauregard-King Lecture Series, Department of History, University of Dayton (Ohio), ‘“The Most Perfect Expression of the Mediterranean Spirit”: The Foro Mussolini and Sport in Fascist Italy,’ 15 March 2011.
New Faculty Research Presentation, ‘“After I had extinguished civil wars”: Views of the Roman Emperor Augustus in the 1930s,’ USF Humanities Institute (Tampa), 14 October 2009.
‘“Postquam bella civilia extinxeram”: Views of Augustus in the 1930s,’ invited lecture, Ave Maria University Departments of History and Classics (Naples, FL), 22 February 2008.
‘“Pax et Princeps”: John Buchan’s Augustus,’ invited lecture, COLPAH Research-in-Progress Series, University of Toronto—York University joint program, 1 February 2007.
‘“Pax et Princeps”: Syme’s The Roman Revolution in Context,’ invited lecture, University at Buffalo Department of Classics, 7 December 2006.
‘“To Civilize Europe”: Fascism and the Manipulation of Ancient Sport in the Twentieth Century’, Spring 2006 Malcolm Wynn Lecture, Stetson University, 21 February 2006.
‘The Piazza Augusto Imperatore: Race and Romanità,’ invited lecture, Rollins College Department of Art and Art History, 22 April 2005.
‘Collegia and Corporativism: Ancient Roman Associations on Display in Fascist Italy, 1937/8,’ University of Florida Classics Department, 4 October 2002.
‘Defending a Lady: The Case of the Arretine Woman in Cicero’s Early Career,’ University of Florida Classics Department, 11 July 2002.
‘The Classical Tradition, as Reflected in Pound, Eliot, and Kavafis,’ UCF English Department, 31 January 2000.
‘The “Mat-Men”: Firefighting in the Provinces of the Roman Empire,’ UCF History Department, 18 November 1999.
‘A Death in the Familia: Slaves in the Funerary Colleges,’ Department of Classics, New York University, April 1997.
GRANTS AND AWARDS FOR RESEARCH
USF New Researcher Grant, USF Faculty Senate Research Council, for research travel to the UK and Italy, 2009-10------$3222.00
USF CAS Matching International Travel Award, for paper presentation at the ‘Violence in Greek and Roman Antiquity’ Conference, Winnipeg, Canada, March 2009------$538.50
The Roman Collegia: Nominated for the James Henry Breasted Prize in Pre-1000 CE History, awarded by the American Historical Association, 2006.
The Roman Collegia: Nominated for the Jacques Barzun Prize in Cultural History, awarded by the American Philosophical Society, 2006. 9
Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, American Academy in Rome, June/July 2004------$3250.00
Travel Grant, Association of Ancient Historians, May 2004------$275.00
Travel Grant, University of Pennsylvania, Department of Classical Studies, October 2003------$187.50
Dean’s Start-Up Travel Grant, 2001 and 2002, CAS, UCF------$2734.00
Teaching
Courses Taught and in Progress at USFSM:
Undergraduate Upper-Level Courses, 4.0 Credits: EUH 3412: The Roman Republic HIS 3930: Fascist Italy: Consensus, Culture, and Conflict HIS 4104: Theory of History (required course for History majors at USF) EUH 3188: Medieval Society EUH 3402: Alexander the Great HIS 3930: Hitler and the Nazis: Kampf, Kultur, Krieg HIS 3930: Ancient Greek Athletics EUH 3401: Classical Greece EUH 3413: The Roman Empire HIS 3930: Fascism in 20th-Century Europe HIS 3930: The Ancient World in Film IDH 4000: Honors Seminar, Humanism, the Reformation, and Shakespeare (co-taught with Dr. Suzanne H. Stein, Department of English) EUH 3142: Renaissance and Reformation Europe EUH 3202: History of 17th and 18th Century Europe HIS 4936: Proseminar on Early Christian History HIS 4936 / 6939: Slaves and Slavery in Antiquity (blended graduate and undergraduate course, taught at USF-Tampa)
Courses Taught at York University:
Undergraduate Courses, 6.0 Credits HIST 2100: Ancient Greece and Rome (co-taught with Prof. J. Trevett) HIST 3130: The Roman Revolution HIST 4010: Classical Archaeology and Ideology in the Modern World
Courses Taught at UCF:
Undergraduate Courses, for GEP Credit EUH 2000: History of Western Civilization, to 1648 CE EUH 2001: History of Western Civilization, 1648—present Undergraduate Courses, for GEP Credit, Burnett Honors College EUH 2000H: History of Western Civilization, to 1648 CE EUH 2001H: History of Western Civilization, 1648—present 10
Undergraduate Courses, Upper-Level EUH 3411: History of Rome EUH 4400: History of Greece EUH 4674: Sport and Society in the Ancient World EUH 4932: The Early Middle Ages HIS 4150: History and Historians [required for History majors] Graduate Courses, Colloquia EUH 5937: Rome and Early Christianity EUH 5937: Roman Women Graduate Course, Seminars EUH 6938: Seminar on Early Christianity EUH 6939: Seminar on Roman Women
Invited lectures, regarding teaching
Guest lectures for ENL 4341: Milton, an English Literature course taught at USFSM, Fall 2009, and ENL 3230: British Literature, 1616-1780, Spring 2011.
‘Athletics in the Ancient World,’ Teaching Academy Social Studies Seminar Series, UCF College of Education, February 2004.
Five lectures to Burnett Honors College (UCF) students, in their dormitories, 2002-2004.
Two teaching demonstrations for prospective CAS students and their parents, March 2001 and April 2002.
Five guest lectures for UCF courses, in the Departments of History, English, and Humanities.
AWARDS FOR TEACHING
Teaching Incentive Award, CAS, UCF: $5000 base salary raise, commencing AY 2003-2004.
Nominated for CAS Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award, UCF, 2003 and 2004.
Co-recipient of the History Department Award for Outstanding Teaching by a Teaching Assistant, UNC-CH, May 1996.
Service
To a department
Member of Subcommittee addressing the European History Curriculum (Fall 1999). Member, Graduate Curriculum Committee (Fall 1999 and Spring 2000). Member, Speakers’ Subcommittee for the ‘Sunbelt Symposium’ (Spring 2000 and Spring 2001). Member, American Historian Search Committee (Fall 2000 and Spring 2001). Member, Russian Historian Search Committee (Fall 2002 and Spring 2003). Library liaison for the Department, Fall 2001—Spring 2006. Phi Alpha Theta Chapter Advisor, Fall 2003—Spring 2006. 11
*Duties included assistance in programming, fundraising, and securing Student Government funding; arranging a sponsored event for Diversity Week (October 2003); helping students present papers at the national conference (January 2004) and regional conference (March 2004 and April 2005); accompanying students to the regional conference and conducting an initiation ceremony at the Orange Regional History Center (April 2004, April 2005, and April 2006). Member, Graduate Committee, Fall 2004—Summer 2005. Member, French Historian Search Committee, Fall 2004—Spring 2005.
To a university
USFSM Academic Programs Committee, CAS Representative, 2013- . USFSM University Promotion and Tenure Committee, At-Large Member, 2013. Member, Search Committee, Early Modern English Literature, USFSM, 2012-3. Lectures in celebration of Alan Turing Centennial, USFSP, “Breaking the Code”: Alan Turing, Cryptanalysis, and Intellectuals in WWII’, 10 April and 11 October 2012. Member, Search Committee, Dean of Student Services/ Student Affairs, USFSM, Summer-Fall 2011. USF System Faculty Council, USFSM At-Large Representative, 2011-3. Supervising five students in Liberal-Arts Honors Program moving to successful completion of Honors theses and participation in Honors Colloquium, Summer 2010- Spring 2011. Organization of a Public Lecture, Paul A. Shapiro, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, held at Jane Bancroft Cook Library, 28 March 2011. Member, Search Committee, Systems Librarian, Cook Library, Spring 2011. Member, Search Committee, Interdisciplinary Social Sciences Assistant Professor, USFSM, chaired by Dean Rose, Spring 2010. USF President’s Committee on Issues of Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (CISOGI), USFSM Representative, 2010- . Organization of a Public Lecture, Scott Miller, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, entitled ‘New Projects at the USHMM’, held at USFSM, 22 March 2010. Organization of a Public Lecture, Ann Mann Millin, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, entitled ‘What is Propaganda?’, held at USFSM, 23 March 2009. Creation of a Proposal: Liberal-Arts Honors Program at USF Sarasota-Manatee, jointly with Drs. Jane Rose and Suzanne Stein, Spring 2009. Panel Presentation, ‘History and Literature’, USF Humanities Institute, USF Library, 10 November 2008. Panel Presentation, shared with Prof. Stephen L. Carter, Yale University Law School, ‘Civility in Politics and Society’, USF-SM Institute for Public Policy and Leadership, 8 October 2008. Member, Search Committee, Research Librarian, USFSM, Fall 2008. Organization of a Public Lecture, John Prevas, Eckerd College, held at USFSM, 29 February 2008. Two lectures to the Classical Studies Students Association, York University, November 2006 and March 2007. Member, Departmental Committee for Institutional Effectiveness, 2000, 2002, 2003, and 2004. Member, Judaic Studies Academic Advisory Committee, Fall 2001—Spring 2006. Member of CAS TIP Award Committee, Spring 2003. 12
Member, Jewish History Search Committee, Judaic Studies Curriculum, Spring 2004. Assistance to the Honors College, in securing fellowships for students. Member, CAS Delegate, University Honors Committee, Burnett Honors College, Fall 2004—Spring 2006. Mentor, National Merit Finalist Retention Program, Burnett Honors College, Fall 2004—Spring 2006. Member, GEP Assessment Committee, Social and Cultural Foundations, Fall 2004— Spring 2006.
To a discipline
Consultative reviews for publishers and academic journals, including Habis (Universidad de Sevilla), The Historian, Cambridge University Press, University of Toronto Press, Oxford University Press, Thames & Hudson (UK), Houghton Mifflin, Pearson/Prentice Hall, Pearson Longman, and Wadsworth. Assistance to undergraduate and graduate students at Columbia University, the University of British Columbia, the University of Akron, and the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Panel chair, ‘The Transmission and Reception of Classical Authors’, New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, 8 March 2012. Panel chair, ‘Religion’, ‘Peasants, Potters, and Prostitutes: Lower Classes in Greek and Roman Antiquity’ Conference, University of Calgary, 12 March 2011. Panel chair, ‘Renaissance Tombs’, New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, 11 March 2010. Panel chair, ‘Roman Republican History’, Classical Association of Canada annual meeting, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 14 May 2009. Panel chair, ‘Roman History’, ‘Violence in Greek and Roman Antiquity’ Conference, University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, 6 March 2009. Program committee, Association of Ancient Historians Annual Meeting, Tampa, April 2008. Conference website: http://www.cas.usf.edu/history/aah-2008. Panel co-chair, ‘Echoes of Antiquity’, AAH Annual Meeting, 12 April 2008. Panel chair, ‘Issues in Textual Transmission’, New College Conference on Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Sarasota, 7 March 2008. Reader, Advanced Placement Examination in European History, Fort Collins, CO (June 2007 and June 2008) and Kansas City, MO (June 2011, June 2012, and June 2013). Professional organizational memberships: American Philological Association, Association of Ancient Historians, the American Historical Association, and the International Society for the Classical Tradition.
To a community
Panelist, ‘Countdown to Election 2012’, moderated by Bonnie Greenball Silvestri, Half Shell Oyster House, Sarasota, 3 November 2012. Public Lecture on the ‘Foro Mussolini’ in Rome, Lakewood Ranch History Club, Lakewood Ranch, Florida, 25 April 2012. Panelist, ‘Art for Social Change Dialogue: Living in a Material World’, moderated by Bonnie Greenball Silvestri, Sarasota Art Center, 19 December 2011. Guest appearances and Host, ‘USF Magazine’ television program, METV. 13
Public Lecture: ‘“To Civilize Europe”: Fascism and the Manipulation of Ancient Sport in the Twentieth Century’, The Yale Club, Sarasota Yacht Club, Sarasota, Florida, 18 October 2007. Public Lecture to the University Club of Winter Park, Florida, April 2003, on the 1936 Berlin Olympic Games. Consultation with and instruction of students at Riverview High School, Sarasota High School, Celebration High School, and Jones Middle School (Melbourne, Florida), 2000- 2013. Publication in the Orlando (Fla.) Sentinel, radio, and several local television appearances, 1999-2009.
Languages
Classical Latin (reading fluency) Classical Greek (reading fluency) French (reading fluency) German (reading fluency) Italian (reading fluency)