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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 RIFE/3 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 RIFE/5 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