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Robert A. KASTER December 2020 Department of Classics 141 East Robert A. KASTER December 2020 Department of Classics 141 East Pyne Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544-5264 e-mail: [email protected] http://scholar.princeton.edu/kaster Born 6 February 1948 (New York, NY) Married (22 June 1969), with two children DEGREES A.B. ( ) Dartmouth College June 1969 summa cum laude M.A. Harvard University June 1971 Ph.D. Harvard University June 1975 (Dissertation: ) The Tradition of the Text of the “Aeneid” in the Ninth Century HONORS AND AWARDS Scholastic: Rufus Choate Scholar (Dartmouth College), 1967-69 Phi Beta Kappa, May 1968 Class of 1846 Latin Prize, June 1968 Dartmouth General Fellowship, June 1969 Professional: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (Category A), 1980-81 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, 1991-92 Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit (American Philological Association), for the book , 1991 Guardians of Language President of the American Philological Association, 1996 Visiting Fellow, Oriel College, Oxford University, 1999 National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship (University Teachers), 2003-04 Visitor, Institute for Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, 2003-04 Behrman Award for Distinguished Achievement in the Humanities at Princeton, 2007 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (declined), 2008-09 Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship (declined), 2008-09 R. A. Kaster Page 2 Old Dominion Professor, Princeton University Humanities Council, 2008-09 Visiting Scholar, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, 2012 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2013- American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2014-15 Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship, 2014-15 President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, Princeton University, 2017 TEACHING POSITIONS Harvard University: Teaching Fellow in Classics, 1972-73 Colby College: Instructor in Classics, 1973-74 The University of Chicago: Assistant Professor, 1975-82; Associate Professor, 1982-89; Professor, 1989-97; Avalon Foundation Distinguished Service Professor in the Humanities, 1996-97 Princeton University: Professor of Classics and Kennedy Foundation Professor of Latin Language and Literature, 1997-2018 (transferred to emeritus status 30 June 2018) ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICE University of Chicago Chair, Department of Classical Languages and Literatures, 1994-97 Associate Dean, Division of the Humanities, 1993-94 Master of the Humanities Collegiate Division, Associate Dean of the College, Associate Dean of the Division of the Humanities, 1988 University and College Committees: Provost’s Committee on Instructional Media, 1995-96 Provost’s Task Force on Academic Computing, 1994 Humanities Technical Oversight Committee, 1993-96 Committee on the Divisional M.A. Program in Humanities, chair, 1993-94 Dean of Humanities Search Committee, chair, 1989 Board of University Athletics, 1988-91 Council of the University Senate, 1985-1988, 1993-96 College Council, 1979-80, 1986-88, 1989-91 Dean of Students in the College Review and Search Committee, 1985-86 Committee on Policy and Personnel (Humanities Division), 1983-86 Humanities Collegiate Division Governing Committee / Personnel Section, 1983-85; chair, 1984-85 Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Classics, 1979-80 R. A. Kaster Page 3 Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Classics, 1990-91; 1993-94 (co-director) Princeton University Director of the Program on the Ancient World, 1998-2000 Chair, Department of Classics, 2000-2003 Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Classics, 2004-2007, 2011-14 University Priorities Committee, 2005-2008 Committee on Conference and Faculty Appeal, 2008-11 Faculty Advisory Committee on Appointments and Advancements, 2009-10, 2013-14 Dean of the College Search Committee, 2010 Policy Subcommittee, Faculty Committee on the Graduate School, 2011-13 Faculty – Student Advisory Committee on Sexual Misconduct, 2014-2016 EDITORIAL AND RELATED SERVICE : editor, 1981-90; associate editor, 1990-97; member, editorial board, 1978- Classical Philology 81, 1998- (Pisa): member, editorial board, 2009- Studi Classici e Orientali , edited with C. A. Stray (Swansea), a special issue of the journal Reinterpreting the Classics vol. 10.1 (1993) Annals of Scholarship, : member, executive committee, 1997-2012; Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum associate editor, 1999-2012; volume VIII published 2003, volume IX published 2011. Volume editor, , translated by M. R. Salzman and M. The Letters of Symmachus: Book One Roberts, with introduction and commentary by M. R. Salzman. Writings from the Greek and Roman World vol. 30. The Society for Biblical Literature. (forthcoming) Co-editor, with David Konstan, of the series Emotions of the Past, published by Oxford University Press, 2008- , ed. R. F. Thomas and J. Ziolkowski: editorial board, 2008-13 The Virgil Encyclopedia Oxford University Press-USA: Classics Delegate, 2002-2017 (Bavarian Academy of Sciences): Fahnenleser, 2012-15 Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (Austrian Academy of Sciences): Editorial Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum Board, 2013- Service as referee for: ; ; ; ; American Journal of Philology Classical Bulletin Classical Journal Classical Quarterly ; ; Classical World Critical Inquiry; Harvard Studies in Classical Philology Materiali e ; ; discussioni per l'analisi dei testi classici Phoenix Rivista di Filologia e di Istruzione Classica; ; ; Transactions of the American Philological Association Mnemosyne Philologus American Council of Learned Societies R. A. Kaster Page 4 Cambridge University Press; Harvard University Press; Oxford University Press; Princeton University Press; Society for Biblical Literature; University of California Press; University of Chicago Press Institute for Advanced Study: School of Historical Studies National Endowment for the Humanities (Translation Project; Research Tools Project; Interpretive Research Project; Conference Programs; Collaborative Research Project) National Humanities Center Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada MEMBERSHIP IN PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS Society for Classical Studies (formerly the American Philological Association): Board of Directors, 1989-92, 1995-97, 2007-11; Program Committee, 1989-93; President-elect, 1995, President, 1996; Goodwin Award of Merit selection committee, 2001-3, chair 2003; Vice President for Program, 2007-11; Committee on Professional Matters / Committee on Professional Ethics, 2016-2019 Association of Ancient Historians Women's Classical Caucus PUBLICATIONS AND RESEARCH Books: , Guardians of Language: The Grammarian and Society in Late Antiquity TheTransformation of the Classical Heritage, volume 11 (Berkeley-Los Angeles- London: University of California Press, 1988) (reviews: 26 [1989]: 934; Choice Times April 14-20 [1989]: 399; Winter [1988]; Literary Supplement Envoi Greece and Rome 36 [1989]: 254; 46 [1989]: 253-54; 63 Museum Helveticum Revue de Philologie [1989]: 351; [U.K.] 75 [1990]: 98-99; 95 [1990]: History American Historical Review 145; 4 [1990]: 95-100; 65 [1990]: 1002-5; Ancient History Bulletin Speculum Les 58 [1990]: 404-5; 41 [1991]: 97-101; Études Classiques Classical Review Mnemosyne 44 [1991]: 271-73; 16 [1991]: 146-60; Liverpool Classical Monthly Journal of Roman 81 [1991]: 246-48; 69 [1991]: 184-87; Studies Revue Belge de Philologie et d’Histoire Studies 1 [1991]: 185-89; Byzantinische 84-85 [1991- Journal of Medieval Zeitschrift 92]: 515-17; 107 [1992]: 423-24; English Historical Review Echos du Monde Classique 36 [1992]: 89-94; 74 [1992]: 551-52; 52 [1993]: 732-33). Paperback Klio Latomus edition published 1997; available online at http://content.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft8v19p2nc/?&query=&brand=ucpress . Harvard Dissertations in The Tradition of the Text of the “Aeneid” in the Ninth Century, the Classics (New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 1990) (reviews: 41 Classical Review [1991]: 59-60; 70 [1992]: 309-10 52 [1993]: 470-2) Revue des Études Latine Latomus The American Studies on the Text of Suetonius “De Grammaticis et Rhetoribus,” Philological Association: American Classical Studies, vol. 28 (Atlanta: Scholars Press, R. A. Kaster Page 5 1992) (reviews: 21 [1994]: 202-6; 45 Historiographia Linguistica Classical Review [1995]: 449-50; 64 [1995]: 334-36; 91 L'Antiquité Classique The Classical Journal [1996]: 346-47; 98 [1996]: 230-31; Revue des Études Anciennes Les Études Classiques 64 [1996]: 397-98) edited with introduction, translation, and Suetonius: “De Grammaticis et Rhetoribus,” commentary (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1995) (reviews: Times Literary Supplement Sept. 22 [1995]: 32; 95.12.12 http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/ Bryn Mawr Classical Review bmcr/1995/95.12.12b.html; 91 [1996]: 346-47; The Classical Journal Les Études 64 [1996]: 397-98; 53 [1996]: 330-31; Classiques Museum Helveticum The Classical 46 [1996]: 372-73; 90 [1996-97]: 446; Review Classical World American Journal of 118 [1997]: 475-478; 87 [1997]: 308; Philology Journal of Roman Studies Les Études 66 [1998]: 398; 4.3 [1998]: Classiques International Journal of the Classical Tradition 400-405) (New York: Oxford University Press, Emotion, Restraint, and Community in Ancient Rome 2005) (reviews: April 6 [2006]; 56 Times Literary Supplement The Classical Review [2006]: 429-31; 96 [2006]: 234-36; 6 [2006] nr. Journal of Roman Studies Sehepunkte 12 http://www.sehepunkte.de/2006/12/8529.html; 53 [2006]: 270; Greece & Rome 69 [2007]: 154–155; 2007.04.10 The Historian Bryn Mawr Classical
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