Curriculum vitae, August 2016

JOSEPH LEE RIFE [email protected]

Mailing:: Office: Department of Classical Studies 214 Cohen Memorial Building Vanderbilt University Peabody Campus PMB 0092 , 230 Appleton Place Office telephone: (615) 322-2516 Nashville, TN 37203-5721 Fax: (615) 343-7261

I. AREAS OF INTEREST

• Greek history, especially Roman to Early Byzantine • Imperial Greek and Late Latin literature • Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean • Greek and Latin epigraphy • Anthropology of death and burial; bioarchaeology

II. EDUCATION

1999 Ph.D. in Classical Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor • Dissertation: “Death, Ritual and Memory in Greek Society during the Early and Middle Roman Empire” (D. Potter, Chair; J. Cherry, A. Hanson, L. Koenen, R. Lindner) • Preliminary exercises: Lucian; Apuleius; mortuary analysis 1995-6 Regular Member, American School of Classical Studies at Athens 1995 M.A. in Classical Studies, University of Michigan 1992 A.B. summa cum laude, Kenyon College (Gambier, Ohio) • Classics with highest honors • Anthropology with highest honors 1990 Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies at Rome (fall) 1988 High School Diploma, St. Paul Academy (St. Paul, Minnesota)

III. ACADEMIC POSTS

2016- Associate Professor of Classical and Mediterranean Studies, Vanderbilt University • Founding Program Director, 2016- • Affiliated Faculty in Anthropology, 2016- • Affiliated Faculty in Gradaute Department of Religion, 2016- RIFE/2

2008-2016 Associate Professor of Classics, Vanderbilt University • Affiliated Faculty in Anthropology, 2008-2011, 2012-2015 • Affiliated Faculty in Graduate Department of Religion, 2013-2016 • Director of Graduate Studies in Classics, 2010-2013 2002-2008 Assistant Professor of Classics, Macalester College 1999-2002 Townsend Assistant Professor of Classics, Cornell University 1996-1999 Graduate Student Instructor of Classical Studies and History, University of Michigan 1994-1995 Teaching Assistant in the Great Books Program, University of Michigan

IV. HONORS, AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2015 Chancellor’s Research Award (for Isthmia IX), Vanderbilt University 2013 Outstanding Publication Award (for Isthmia IX), Classical Association of Middle West & South 2010 Publication Subvention Award (for Isthmia IX), Archaeological Institute of America 2008-2009 Junior Fellowship, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University (accepted) 2006-2007 Junior Fellowship, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University (declined) 2005-2006 Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 2006 Solow Research Fellowship, American School of Classical Studies 1997 Mellon Dissertation Grant, University of Michigan 1995-1996 James Rignall Wheeler Fellowship, American School of Classical Studies 1995 Robert Goheen Prize in Classical Studies, Woodrow Wilson Foundation 1992-1994 Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities, University of Michigan 1991, 1992 Elected to ΦΒΚ and ΣX National Honors Societies 1989-1992 Kenyon College Departmental Awards • Margaret Mead Award for excellence in Anthropology (1992) • Carl Diehl Award for excellence in Classics (1990, 1991, 1992) • George Brain Prize for excellence in Beginning Greek (1989) 1988-1992 Kenyon College Honors Scholarship 1987-1988 St. Paul Academy Commencement speaker and recipient of The Headmaster’s Bowl and The Harvard Book Prize

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V. PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

V.A. Departmental and Institutional Service

2012-2013 Graduate Education Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, Vanderbilt University 2010-2011 Grants Committee, International Office (VIO), Vanderbilt University 2010-2012 International Strategy Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, Vanderbilt University 2009- Study Abroad Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, Vanderbilt University • Committee chair, 2011-2013 2007-2008 Digital Image Archives Working Group, Wallace Library, Macalester College 2006-2007 Scholarly Communications Task Force, Wallace Library, Macalester College 2006, 2007 Fulbright Interviews, Office of Academic Programs, Macalester College 2006-2008 Study Abroad Review Committee, International Center, Macalester College 2003-2004 Internationalism Award Committee, International Center, Macalester College 2002-2008 Library Representative, Department of Classics, Macalester College 2000-2002 Honors Committee, Department of Classics, Cornell University 1998-1999 Co-Librarian, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan 1995-1997 Co-Librarian, Department of Classical Studies, University of Michigan

V.B. Professional Service

2014-2016 First Book Award Committee, Classical Association of the Middle West and South 2013- Managing Committee, American School of Classical Studies at Athens • Publications Committee, 2014-2015 • Search Committee, Director of Publications, 2014-2015 2010-2014 Advisory Committee, America for Bulgaria Foundation & American Research Center in Sofia 2010- External evaluation of four candidates for promotion and tenure at R2 universities and liberal arts colleges 2004- External evaluation of manuscripts, proposals and programs • The American School of Classical Studies, Athens and Princeton • Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C. and Nafplio • Freie Universität-Berlin • The Austrian Science Fund, Vienna • Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, London • The University of Michigan Press • Edinburgh University Press RIFE/4

• University Press of Florida • American Journal of Archaeology • Ancient Society (Katholieke Universiteit, Leeuwen) • Hesperia • International Journal of Osteoarchaeology • Journal of Hellenic Studies • Journal of Roman Archaeology

2004-2008 Managing Committee, American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2004-2008 Founder and representative, Consortium of Minnesota Liberal Arts Colleges, Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies at Rome, Duke University

V.C. Professional Affiliations

• Society for Classical Studies • Archaeological Institute of America • Classical Association of the Middle West and South

VI. PUBLIC SERVICE

2011 Public lecturer, Osher Lifelong Learning Institute, Vanderbilt University 2009-2012 Appointee under Governor Phil Bredesen, Tennessee Archaeological Advisory Council 2004, 2007 Public lecturer and video presenter, Minnesota Chapter, Archaeological Institute of America 2002-2008 Supervisor of seven internships in collections, conservation, historic preservation, and public education, Science Museum of Minnesota and Minnesota Historical Society

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VII. PUBLICATIONS

VII.A. Books

1) Isthmia IX: The Roman and Byzantine Graves and Human Remains (Princeton: American School of Classical Studies 2012): xlviii + 512 pages, 267 figures, 61 tables, ISBN 9780876619391 • Won 2015 Vanderbilt Chancellor’s Research Award • Won 2013 CAMWS Outstanding Publication Award • Won 2010 AIA Publication Subvention Grant • Reviews: E.M. Schoolman, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2013.4.21; S. Garvie-Lok, American Journal of Physical Anthropology 151.4 (2013): 668-669, DOI: 10.1002/ajpa.22306; C. Eger, Journal of Roman Archaeology 26 (2013): 827-838; C.L. Sulosky-Weaver, Classical Journal On-Line 2014.02.02; M. Perry, American Journal of Archaeology 120.1 (2016), AJA Open Access 2569, DOI: 10.3764/ajaonline1201.Perry

2) with E. Korka, eds., The Greek-American Excavations at Corinthian Kenchreai, 2007-2009 (for Hesperia Supplements; Princeton: American School of Classical Studies): in preparation for submission fall 2016, ca. 2,500 pp. MS, 500 figures, 50 tables

VII.B. Articles and Chapters

25) “Christianity, landscape, and society in the Roman to Early Byzantine Corinthia: historical and archaeological perspectives,” in C. Breytenbach and J. Ogereau, eds., Emerging Christianities in Greece and Asia Minor (Leiden: Brill): in preparation, spring 2016 24) and M.M. Morison, “Object, space and process in the Early Roman cemetery at Kenchreai, Greece,” in J. Pearce and J. Weekes, eds., Death as a Process (Oxford: Oxbow): ca. 35 pp. MS: final revisions, fall 2012 * * * * 23) S. Heath, , J.J. Bravo III, and G. Blasdel. 2015. “Preliminary Report on Early Byzantine Pottery from a Building Complex at Kenchreai (Greece),” ISAW Papers 10 (2015), 30 pp.; on-line article (ISSN 2164-1471) 22) E. Korka and , “Systematic excavations undertaken by the Ministry of Culture and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens for promoting the Roman cemetery on the Koutsongila Ridge at Kenchreai,” in K. Kissas and W.-D. Niemeier. eds., The Corinthia and the Northeastern Peloponnese: Topography and History from Prehistoric Times until the End of Antiquity (Munich: Deutsches Archäologisches Institut & Hirmer 2013), pp. 285- 296 21) D.H. Ubelaker and , “Skeletal analysis and mortuary practice in an Early Roman chamber tomb at Kenchreai, Greece,” International Journal of Osteoarchaeology 21.1 (2011): 1-18; on-line, DOI: 10.1002/oa.1102 20) “Religion and society at Roman Kenchreai,” in S.J. Friesen, D.N. Schowalter, and J.C. Walters, eds., Corinth in Context: Comparative Studies on Religion and Society (Novum Testamentum suppl. 134; Leiden: Brill 2010), pp. 391-432 19) “An Early Christian epitaph from the Panathenaic Stadium in context,” Horos: Journal of the Greek Epigraphical Society 17-21 (2004-2009 [2010]): 267-278 18) “The deaths of the sophists: Philostratean biography, mortuary behavior, and elite identity,” in E. Bowie and J. Elsner, eds., Philostratus (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2009), pp. 100-129 17) “The burial of Herodes Atticus: elite identity, urban society, and public memory in Roman Greece,” Journal of Hellenic Studies 128 (2008): 92-127 RIFE/6

16) “Leo’s Peloponnesian fire-tower and the Byzantine watch-tower on Acrocorinth,” in W. Caraher, L. Jones Hall and R.S. Moore, eds., Archaeology and History in Roman, Medieval and Post-Medieval Greece: Studies on Method and Meaning in Honor of Timothy E. Gregory (London: Ashgate 2008), pp. 281-306 15) D.H. Ubelaker and , “Approaches to commingling issues in archaeological samples: A case study from Roman era tombs in Greece,” in B.J. Adams and J.E. Byrd, eds., Recovery, Analysis and Identification of Commingled Human Remains (Totowa, N.J.: Humana 2008), pp. 97-122 14) “A Roman epitaph from the Eastern Corinthia,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 164 (2008): 131-135 13) D.H. Ubelaker and , “The practice of cremation in the Roman-era cemetery at Kenchreai, Greece: the perspective from archaeology and forensic science,” Bioarchaeology of the Near East 1 (2008): 35-57; on-line article (ISSN 1898-9403) 12) C.A. Faraone and , “A Greek curse against a thief from the North Cemetery at Roman Kenchreai,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 160 (2007): 141-157 11) , M. Morison, A. Barbet, R.K. Dunn, D.H. Ubelaker, and F. Monier, “Life and death at a port in Roman Greece: The Kenchreai Cemetery Project 2002-2006,” Hesperia 76.1 (2007): 143-181; JSTOR 10) A. Sarris, R.K. Dunn, , N. Papadopoulos, E. Kokkinou, and C. Mundigler, “Geological and geophysical investigations at Kenchreai (Korinthia), Greece,” Archaeological Prospection 14.1 (2007): 1-23; DOI: 10.1002/arp.280 9) “Inhumation and cremation at Early Roman Kenchreai (Corinthia) in local and regional context,” in A. Faber, P. Fasold, M. Struck, and M. Witteyer, eds, Körpergräber des 1.-3. Jh. in der römischen Welt: Internationales Kolloquium Frankfurt am Main 19.–20. November 2004 (Schriften des Archäologischen Museums Frankfurt 21, Frankfurt 2007), pp. 99-120 8) A. Barbet and , “Un Tombeau peint de la nécropole de Cenchrées-Kenchreai, près de Corinthe,” in C. Guiral Pelegrín, ed., Circulación de temas y sistemas decorativos en la pintura mural antigua: Actas del IX Congreso internacional de la «Association Internationale pour la Peinture Murale Antique» (Calatayud 2007), pp. 395-399 7) T. Tartaron, T.E. Gregory, D. Pullen, J.S. Noller, R.M. Rothaus, , L. Diacopoulos, R. Schon, W. Caraher, D. Pettegrew, and D. Nakassis, “The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: integrated methods for a dynamic landscape,” Hesperia 75.4 (2006): 453-523; JSTOR 6) “Greek fiction,” in D.S. Potter, ed., Blackwell Companion to the Roman Empire (Oxford: B. Blackwell 2006), pp. 453-476 5) “Officials of the Roman provinces in Xenophon’s Ephesiaca,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 138 (2002): 93-108 4) “The human remains from Site 250; Catalogue of burials from Site 250,” in L.M. Stirling, D.J. Mattingly, and N. Ben Lazreg, eds., Leptiminus (Lamta [Tunisia]), Report no. 2 (Journal of Roman Archaeology suppl. 41, Portsmouth 2001), pp. 325-358 3) “Excavations adjacent to the House of the Venus Mosaic (Site 250),” in L.M. Stirling, D.J. Mattingly, and N. Ben Lazreg, eds., Leptiminus (Lamta), Report no. 2 (Journal of Roman Archaeology suppl. 41, Portsmouth 2001), pp. 293- 324 2) P.N. Kardulias, , H. Gayheart, A. Kindon, and E. Eggers, “Recent archaeological investigations in Knox County, Ohio: the Acton site (33KN245),” Pennsylvania Archaeologist 65.2 (1995): 19-40 1) and M.J. Giesen, “Regional population diversity and the Archaic to Early Byzantine cranial remains from Isthmia, Greece,” in P.N. Kardulias, ed., Beyond the Site: Regional Studies in the Aegean Area (Lanham, Maryland: University Press of America 1994), pp. 223-263 RIFE/7

VII.C. Encyclopedia Entries

5) “Κεγχρεές” in A.G. Vlachopoulos, ed., Αρχαιολογία: Πελοπόννησος (Athens: Melissa 2012), pp. 102-103 1-4) “Africa,” “Apollonius of Tyana,” “India,” and “Thule,” in M. Gagarin, ed., The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (New York: Oxford University Press 2009): ca. 12 pp. MS (2,000 words)

VII.D. Short Reports on Research

• Bulletin de correspondance hellénique: Chronique des fouilles en ligne (2014) 4880; (2013) 4446, 4447; (2012) 2966; (2012) 2490, 2491; (2011) 1885; “Chronique des fouilles” BCH 128-129 (2004-2005): 1310-1311; 127 (2003): 746-747, figs. 50-51 • Archaeological Reports 56 (2010): 22-23, fig. 20; (2009): 11-15, figs. 11-17; 54 (2008): 19-23, figs. 21-26; 53 (2007): 10-13, fig. 10; 52 (2006): 19-21, figs. 32-35; 51 (2005): 15-16; 50 (2004): 16-17, fig. 24; 49 (2003): 17-18, fig. 30 • ASCSA Newsletter (December 2012): 4-5; Ákoue 56 (2006): 21, 26 • Αρχαιο-Τηλεπισκοπικά Νέα 7 (June 2005): 9-10 (with Apostolos Sarros) • Old World Archaeology Newsletter 20.2 (1997): 1-5 (with T.E. Gregory and P.N. Kardulias)

VII.E. Book Reviews and Review Articles

10) K. Demoen and D. Praet, eds., Theios Sophistes: Essays on Flavius Philostratus’ Vita Apollonii (Mnemosyne suppl. 305: Leiden/Boston: Brill 2009), American Journal of Philology, in preparation 9) “Surveying Sikyon from the State to the Land” (Y. Lolos, The Land of Ancient Sikyon [Hesperia suppl. 39; Princeton: American School of Classical Studies 2011]), Journal of Roman Archeology (2016), forthcoming * * * * 8) G. Parker, The Making of Roman India (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2008), American Journal of Philology 135 (2014): 672-675 7) “Late-antique furniture with ivory and bone relief plaques from the harbor at Kenchreai” (W.O. Stern and D.H. Thimme, Kenchreai VI: Ivory, Bone and Related Wood Finds [Brill 2007]), Journal of Roman Archaeology 23 (2010): 736- 740 6) W. Hutton, Describing Greece: Landscape and Literature in the Periegesis of Pausanias (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2005), Classical Journal 105 (2010): 282-285; CJ Online 2009.08.02 5) J. Pearce, M. Millett, and M. Struck, eds., Burial, Society and Context in the Roman World (Oxford: Oxbow 2000), American Journal of Archaeology 110.4 (2006): 676-678 4) P.G. Themelis (ed.), Πρωτοβυζαντινή Ελεύθερνα (Τόμεας I) 2 (Rethimno: Panepistimio Kritis 2000), American Journal of Archaeology 106.3 (2002): 504-506 3) “Mediterranean religions and Christian death” (J. Davies, Death, Burial and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity [London: Routledge 1999]), Journal of Roman Archaeology 14.2 (2001): 667-670 2) M. Parker Pearson, The Archaeology of Death and Burial (College Station: University of Texas Press 1999), American Journal of Archaeology 105.1 (2001): 110-112 RIFE/8

1) J.M.C. Toynbee, Death and Burial in the Roman World (repr. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 1996), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 8.6 (1997): 582-594

VII.F. Scholarship in Progress

• “Food and urban society in Middle Byzantine Greece” (ca. 17 pp. MS) • J.L. Rife, A. Barbet, R. K. Dunn, A. Coutelas, O. Cristini, P. Karkanas, and F. Monier, “The construction of Roman chamber tombs in the Koutsongila cemetery at Kenchreai: analysis of materials and techniques” (ca. 30 pp. MS) • S. Garvie-Lok and J.L. Rife, “Stable isotope analysis of human bone from Kenchreai and Isthmia and dietary variation in the Roman to Early Byzantine Corinthia, Greece” (42 pp. MS) • C.A. Farone and J.L. Rife, “More magical materials from the Roman cemetery at Kenchreai” • “The Roman landscape of the Isthmus of Corinth: sources, concepts, and history” • “The Christian readers of Achilles Tatius” RIFE/9

VIII. PRESENTATIONS

VIII.A. Conference Presentations

2016 “The Northeast Peloponnese,” panel chair (Archaeological Institute of America, San Francisco) 2013 “Roman Asia Minor,” panel chair (Archaeological Institute of America, Seattle) 2012 “Ανασκαφική έρευνα στη θέση «Ράχη Κουτσογκίλλα» Κεγχρεών Κορινθίας,” paper with E. Korka (International Conference on the Peloponnese, Tripoli) 2012 “The worlds of the Greek novel,” panel co-chair and respondent (American Philological Association, Philadelphia) 2012 “Roman trade in the Mediterranean,” panel chair (Archaeological Institute of America, Philadelphia) 2009 “Kenchreai in the Roman Period” (International Conference on the Corinthia, Loutraki) 2008 “Corinthian Horizons,” panel respondent (Archaeological Institute of America, Chicago) 2006 “Life and death at a Roman port in Greece: the Kenchreai Cemetery Project 2002-2005,” paper with A. Barbet, M. Morison, R. K. Dunn, and D. H. Ubelaker (Archaeological Institute of America, Montreal) 2005 “Geology of the Koutsongila ridge and the Roman cemetery of Kenchreai, eastern Corinthia, Greece,” paper with R. K. Dunn and M. Kelley (Geological Society of America meetings, Salt Lake City) 2004 “Influence de la peinture romaine occidentale dans le tombeau no 4 de la nécropole de Cenchrées (Kenchreai) près de Corinthe”, poster with Alix Barbet (IX Congreso internacional de la «Association internationale pour la peinture murale antique», Universidad Nacional de Calatayud, Calatayud and Saragossa, Spain) 2001 “The deaths of the sophists: the biographical representation of elite funerary customs by Philostratus” (Classical Association of the Atlantic States, New Rochelle) 1999 “The preface to Macrobius’ Saturnalia, the aesthetics of discontinuity, and Late Roman cultural identity” (Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Cleveland) 1997 “Roman and Byzantine mortuary practices in rural Greece: the case of Isthmia” (Archaeological Institute of America, Chicago) 1997 “Death in Apuleius: some social-historical and literary considerations” (American Philological Association, Chicago) 1996 “Rolling the cask: the poetics of Lucian’s Historia conscribenda” (Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Nashville) 1995 “Kenchreai excavations 1993-1995,” with R. Rothaus (Archaeological Institute of America, San Diego) 1995 “Roman land-use and settlement on the Dahar Slima ridge: a preliminary report on the excavations at Site 250, southern Leptiminus (Lamta), Tunisia,” with N. Ben Lazreg (Central States Anthropological Society, Indianapolis) 1994 “Lakes of nectar: the literary, metaphysical and natural landscapes of India in Apollonius of Tyana’s travels” (Chacmool Conference, Calgary)

1994 “Towards an archaeology of historical ethnography in the Corinthia, ca. AD 585-805” (Byzantine Studies Conference, Ann Arbor) 1992 “Population diversity and the Classical to Early Byzantine occupation of Isthmia” (Society for American Archaeology, Pittsburgh) 1992 “A preliminary report on the Acton Site, Knox County, Ohio (33KN345)” (Central States Anthropological Society, Cleveland) RIFE/10

VIII.B. Invited Lectures

“The Bioarchaeology of Rituals and Communities: Human Skeletal Remains from the Roman-Early Byzantine Corinthia" • Institute for Archaeology and Ancient Culture, Stockholms Universitet, Sweden (May 2016)

“Christianity, Landscape, and Society in the Roman to Early Byzantine Corinthia” • Featured Lecture, Excellence Cluster Topoi-Theologische Fakultät, Humboldt-Universität, Berlin (October 2015) • Institute for Archaeology and Ancient Culture, Stockholms Universitet, Sweden (May 2016)

“Life and death at a port in Roman Greece: recent investigations at Kenchreai” • Late Antiquity Seminar, Warren Center for the Humanities, Vanderbilt University (March 2015) • Department of Classics, Universit of Vermont (February 2015) • Department of Classics, University of Maryland (October 2013) • Washington, D.C.-Baltimore Chapter, Archaeological Institute of America (October 2013) • Zarbin Memorial Lecture, Department of Classics, Dartmouth College (October 2011) • Keynote address, The Real Greek Week, Department of Classics, Millsaps College (September 2011) • Keynote address, Indiana Classical Conference, Crown Point High School (April 2011) • Department of Classics, Purdue University (April 2011) • Nashville Chapter, Archaeological Institute of America, Nashville Parthenon (October 2010)

“Life and death at a port in Roman Greece: The Kenchreai Excavations 2007” • Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota (April 2008) • Qualley Lecture, Luther College (March 2008) • Minnesota Chapter, Archaeological Institute of America, Macalester College (February 2008)

“Burial, memory and society in the Second Sophistic” • Department of Classical Studies, Vanderbilt University (February 2008)

“Daily life at Pompeii and other ancient Mediterranean cities” • Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul (November 2007)

“Burial and society in the Late Antique Corinthian countryside: the Isthmian evidence in context” • “Half a Century on the Isthmus: A Symposium to Celebrate and Reflect on over Fifty Years of Excavation and Survey on the Isthmus of Corinth,” American School of Classical Studies, Athens (June 2007)

“Life and death at a Roman port-town in Greece: the Kenchreai Cemetery Project 2002-2006” • Department of Classics, Gustavus Adolphus College (April 2007) • Shohet Lecture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (March 2007) • Department of Anthropology, George Washington University (March 2007) • Department of Classics, Amherst College (February 2007)

“Religion and society at Roman Kenchreai” • Colloquium: “Corinth in Context,” University of Texas, Austin (January 2007)

“Life and death at a Roman port-town in Greece: the Kenchreai Cemetery Project 2002-2005” • Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA (May 2006) • Department of Anthropology, Yale University (April 2006) • Classics Colloquium, Bryn Mawr College (February 2006)

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“Elite persona and public memory in the ‘Second Sophistic:’ the burial of Herodes Atticus” • Classics Seminar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (February 2006) • Department of Classics, University of Washington, Seattle (February 2005)

“Life and death at a Roman port-town in Greece: the Kenchreai Cemetery Project 2002-2004” • Section d’Art et Archéologie, Ecole normale supérieure, Paris (November 2004) • Institut für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz (November 2004) • Archaeological Institute of America, Minneapolis Institute of Arts (April 2005)

“Inhumation and cremation at Early Roman Kenchreai (Corinthia) in local and regional Context” • Colloquium: “Inhumations in the Roman Empire from the 1st until the end of the 3rd century A.D.,” Archäologisches Museum, Frankfurt am Main (November 2004)

“Ancient visions of Mediterranean space: Homer, Herodotus, and the Tabula Peutingeriana” • International Week 2003: “The Ancient Mediterranean,” Macalester College (February 2003)

“The deaths of the sophists: Philostratean biography, funerary customs, elite identity” • Department of Classics, Princeton University (January 2002) • Colloquium: “Greek bodies, Roman control,” Corpus Christi College, Oxford University (May 2002)

“The mute stones speak: Corinthian epitaphs and Roman provincial society” • Department of Classics, Kenyon College (February 2002)

“Material approaches to Roman history” • Department of History, St. Mary’s College of Maryland (November 2001)

“Life and death in the Greek countryside from Rome to Byzantium: the view from the Isthmus” • Department of Anthropology, College of Wooster (October 2001) • Divisions of Social and Natural Sciences, St. Mary’s College of Maryland (November 2001) • Department of Classics, Cornell University (November 2000)

“The limits of fiction and history: three novel deaths (Ach. Tat. 3.25.4-7, Apul. M. 8.7.7, Long. 1.31.3-4)” • Symposium honoring W.E. McCulloh, Kenyon College (March 1999)

IX. RESEARCH

IX.A. Field and Laboratory Experience

2011- American Excavations at Kenchreai (harbor and port-town), under auspices of the American School • Director (May-July)

2007-2015 Greek-American Excavations at Kenchreai (Koutsongila), under auspices of the American School and The Ministry of Culture of the Hellenic Republic • Co-Director with Elena Korka, head of the Directorate of Antiquities (June-July)

2002-6, 2014- Kenchreai Cemetery Project (Koutsongila, Kenchreai, Greece) under auspices of American School • Director (June-July, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006; May-July 2004) RIFE/12

2000-2001 Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey (Greece) under auspices of American School • T.E. Gregory, D. Pullen, and T. Tartaron, directors • Specialist in mortuary landscape; architectural and field survey (June)

1998 Kelsey Museum of Archaeology Excavations at Paestum (Italy) § J. Higginbotham and J.G. Pedley, directors § Trench supervisor (May-July)

1996, 2000-6 Corinth Excavations (Greece), American School of Classical Studies § C.K. Williams, II and G.D.R. Sanders, directors § Area supervisor (May-June 1996); independent research (June 2000, 2001, 2006)

1994, 1996 Leptiminus Archaeological Project (Tunisia), University of Michigan/Institut National du Patrimoine § J.H. Humphrey and N. Ben Lazreg, directors § Area supervisor, osteologist, draftsman (May-June 1994; April 1996)

1990, 1992-8 Ohio State University Excavations at Isthmia (Greece) § T.E. Gregory, director § Trench supervisor, osteologist, draftsman (May-July 1990; July 1992; July-August 1993-1996; May-June 1997; July 1998)

1993 Athienou Archaeological Project (Cyprus), Davidson College § M. Toumazou, director § Excavator, field survey, osteologist (June)

1991, 1992 Kokosing Valley Archaeological Project (Knox County, Ohio), Kenyon College § P.N. Kardulias, director § Excavation and survey supervisor (September)

1990 Koobi Fora Field School in Paleoanthropology (Kenya), Harvard University § H.V. Merrick and C.S. Feibel, directors § Study of human evolution, osteology, archeozoology, paleoecology; excavation at Jarigole Stone Pillar Site; fossil prospection (July-September)

1989-1991 Osteology Laboratory, Department of Anthropology, Kenyon College • J. Kenneth Smail, director • Laboratory assistant (October)

1988-1989 Oliver H. Kelley Farm, Historic Sites Division, Minnesota Historical Society § J. Matson, director § Interpretive guide (June-August)

1985 Black Hills Field School (South Dakota), St. Paul Academy § D. Ertl, director § Study of regional geology and ecology (July)

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IX.B. Research Grants

Total funds awarded for proposals written as principal investigator or collaborator: $506,752

2015 White Levy Program for Archaeological Publications, The Semitic Museum, Harvard Univerity, for final study and publication of Koutsongila cemetery, $86,385 2015 Vanderbilt Discovery Grant, for research on archaeological DNA from early modern and ancient contexts and epigenetic traits in historic populations, with A. Non, T. Tung, and J. A. Capra, $119,610 2015 Vanderbilt Undergraduate Summer Research Program, for research on Late Antique pottery in the harbor area at Kenchreai, with student J. Campbell Kinnard, $6,000 2011 Research Scholars Grant Summer Stipend, Vanderbilt University, for Kenchreai Excavations 2011, $6,000 2010 Publication Subvention Grant, Archaeological Insitute of America, for Isthmia IX, $5,000 2008 Luther I. Replogle Foundation Grant, for Kenchreai Excavations 2008, $5,000 2008 Loeb Classical Library Foundation, Harvard University, Research Grant, for Kenchreai Excavations 2008, $15,000 2008 Keck Summer Collaborative Research Grant, Macalester College, for research on geology and burial taphonomy in chamber tombs at Kenchreai, with student J. Baker, $6,200 2008 Wallace Research and Travel Grants, Macalester College, for Kenchreai Excavations 2008, $5,854 2007 Luther I. Replogle Foundation Grant, for Kenchreai Excavations 2007, $5,000 2007 Loeb Classical Library Foundation, Harvard University, Research Grant, for Kenchreai Excavations 2007, $15,000 2007 Wallace Travel Grant, Macalester College, for Kenchreai Excavations 2007, $2,480 2006 Luther I. Replogle Foundation Grant, for interdisciplinary research at Kenchreai, $5,000 2006 Solow Summer Research Fellowship, American School of Classical Studies, for research on architecture and artifacts from old excavations at Kenchreai, $3,000 2006 Keck Summer Collaborative Research Grant, Macalester College, for research on Cenchrean inscriptions and Corinthian paleography, with student E. Weaverdyck, $3,260 2006 National Science Foundation, MRI grant (co-recipient with K. Wirth, J. Doyle, R. Rogers, and T. Varberg), for X-ray diffractometer to support education and research at Macalester, $147,537 2005 International Catacomb Society (Boston), Shohet Scholarship, for “Death, social structure and religion in the provincial landscape: the Roman cemetery at Corinthian Kenchreai, Greece,” $29,960 2005 Loeb Classical Library Foundation, Harvard University, Research Grant, for “Death, social structure and religion in a provincial landscape: the Roman cemetery at Corinthian Kenchreai, Greece,” $10,000 2004 National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, for “Death and social structure in the Roman cemetery at Kenchreai, Corinthia, Greece,” $5,000 2004 Wallace Research and Travel Grants, Macalester College, for Kenchreai Cemetery Project, $6,340 2004 Keck Summer Collaborative Research Grant, Macalester College, for research on human skeletal remains and formation processes at Kenchreai, Greece, with student D. Jaishankar, $4,950 2003 Wallace Research and Travel Grants, Macalester College, for Kenchreai Cemetery Project, $4,986 2003 Keck Summer Collaborative Research Grant, Macalester College, for archaeological photography in the Corinthia, Greece, with student E. Rackow, $6,090 RIFE/14

2003 Lilly Grant for Work and Ethics, Macalester College, for study of archaeological ethics and cultural resource management in the Corinthia, Greece, with student K. Krajeck, $4,000 1997 Rackham Research Grant, University of Michigan, for independent research on ancient burial customs in Greece and Turkey, $1,100

X. TEACHING

X.A. Courses Taught

Mich = University of Michigan; C = Cornell University; Mac = Macalester College; V = Vanderbilt University

GREEK AND LATIN LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE

• Elementary Greek I-II [Mac, V] o Mastronarde o Athenaze o Hansen and Quinn • Intermediate Greek I-II [Mac, V] o Herodotus o Lysias o Xenophon, Anabasis o Plato, Apology, Crito, Symposium o Acts of the Apostles o Homer, Iliad and Odyssey; Homeric Hymn to Hermes • Advanced Greek [C, Mac] o Chariton o Lucian o Euripides, Bacchae o Demosthenes o Greek historians (Herodotus) o Greek lyric (Sappho, Alcaeus, Archilochus) o Early Christian authors (Paul and Thecla, Basil of Caesarea) • Graduate-level Greek [C, V] o Survey of Greek Literature II: Thucydides to Musaeus o The Homeric Tradition: Callimachus, Apollonius Rhod., Philostratus, Neoplatonists, Clement Alex. o Lucian and the Second Sophistic o The Greek Novel (Parthenius, Xenophon of Ephesus, Longus, fragmentary novels) o Philostratus, Apollonius of Tyana o Greek lyric (Sappho, Alcaeus, Archilochus) • Elementary Latin I-II [Mich, Mac] RIFE/15

o Latin for Reading o Wheelock o Learn to Read Latin • Intermediate Latin I-II [Mich, Mac] o Pliny, Letters o Cicero, Letters o Cornelius Nepos, Atticus o Vergil, Aeneid • Advanced Latin [Mac] o Apuleius, Metamorphoses o Medieval hagiography o Ovid, Heroides, Amores

HISTORY, CULTURE AND ARCHAEOLOGY

• History of Greece: Bronze Age to Alexander [Mac, V] • History of Greece: Alexander to Constantine [V] • History of Ancient Rome [Mich] • The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity [V] • Introduction to Greek Civilization [V] • Introduction to Roman Civilization [Mac] • Alexander & the Hellenistic World [Mac] • Introduction to Archaeology [Mac] • Introduction to Classical Art [C]: Bronze Age to Early Christianity • First-Year Seminar: The Ancient Novel [C] • Great Books I-II (Homer, Herodotus, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Thucydides, Plato, Vergil, The Bible, Dante, Boccaccio) [Mich] • Ancient Fiction [C] • Death, Burial & Society in the Ancient World [Mac] • Death, Disease & Health in the Ancient World [V] • Cities & Sanctuaries in the Ancient World [Mac] • Ancient Ports [Mac] • Jr./Sr. Seminar in Classical Civilization: Conceptions of Identity [Mac] RIFE/16

X.B. Doctoral Theses

In prog. Ekaputra Tupamahu (Vanderbilt, Ph.D. in Religion): Paul’s discourses, the politics of language, and racial- ethnic construction (reader) In prog. Brian McCray (Vanderbilt, Ph.D. in Anthropology): The Moche and Chimu in the Amazonian periphery (reader) In prog. Cassandra Beth Koontz (Vanderbilt, Ph.D. in Anthropology): analysis of cranial trauma and interpersonal violence among the Wari of Peru (reader) 2016 Myrick C. Shinall (Vanderbilt, Ph.D. in Religion): miracles and divine power in the New Testament and the Roman East (reader) 2016 F. Arthur Carter, Jr. (Vanderbilt, Ph.D. in Religion): comparative studies in the poetics of diasporic discourse and early Christianity (reader)

X.C. Masters Theses

2011 Robert McFadden (Vanderbilt, Masters in Theological Studies): “Augustine’s Humanism at Cassiciacum: Cicero and the Altruistic Love of a Mother” (reader)

X.D. Undergraduate Theses

2016 Erika T. Russ (Vanderbilt, Classical Studies): “Health and Wellness Behaviors of Patients in the High Roman Empire” (reader) 2014 Aristoteles Nayfa (Vanderbilt, History): “A Stable Economy in a Fluctuating World: Tracing Byzantine Economic Policy from the Sixth to Eleventh Centuries C.E.” (reader) 2007 Eli Weaverdyck (Macalester, Classics): “From Pagan to Christian: An Archaeological Study of the Transformation of Corinth in Late Antiquity” (supervisor) 2005 Sophie Lowry (Macalester, Classics): “Conflict and Gender in the Evolution of the Franciscan Order: A Translation and Commentary on the Late Medieval Vita of Saint Agnes of Bohemia” (supervisor) 2004 Christine Wong (Macalester, Classics): “An English Grammar Tutorial for Beginning Latin Students” (reader) 2003 Katrina Pyclik (Macalester, Classics): “Zodiacs and Liturgical Tools in Synagogue Art: Piecing Together a Mosaic Jewish Identity in Late Antiquity” (co-supervisor) 2002 Christopher Hoff (Cornell, Classics): “The Relationship Between Scientific and Religious Medicine in the Classical and Early Hellenistic Eras” (reader) 2001 Daniel McFadden (Cornell, Classics): “The Fortifications of Halai: Description, Classification, and Dating” (reader) 2001 Eleni Gangemi (Cornell, Classics): “Marcus Argentarius: A Hellenistic Epigrammatist in Augustan Rome’” (reader) 2000 Vesna Mrdjenovački (Cornell, Classics): “Apollonius of Tyana: The Function and Representation of a Holy Man” (supervisor)