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CURRICULUM VITAE

RABUN M. TAYLOR Department of Classics, University of Texas at Austin Mailcode C3400, Austin, TX 78712 (512) 471-0677 [email protected]

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS: September 2011–present: Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Classics. August 2007–August 2011: Assistant Professor, University of Texas at Austin, Department of Classics. July 2003–June 2007: Associate Professor, Harvard University, Department of History of Art and Architecture. July 1998–June 2003: Assistant Professor, Harvard University, Department of History of Art and Architecture. 1998: Instructor, University of Minnesota, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies. 1998: Adjunct Professor, College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, Minnesota.

ADJUNCT FACULTY POSITIONS: University of Texas-Austin: Italian Studies doctoral degree program (GSC), from 2008; School of Architecture (faculty appointment), from 2010.

EDUCATION: Haverford College, 1978–82. B.A., English, May 1982. University of Minnesota, 1990–97. Ph.D., Classical Studies, May 1997.

DISSERTATION TITLE: “Water Distribution, the Tiber River, and the Urban Development of Ancient Rome.”

SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS: Books: Life of the Average Roman: A Symposium. White Bear Lake, Minnesota: PZA Publishing. Co- editor with Mary R. DeMaine. 1999. Public Needs and Private Pleasures: Water Distribution, the Tiber River, and the Urban Development of Ancient Rome. Rome: “L’Erma” di Bretschneider, 2000. Roman Builders: A Study in Architectural Process. Cambridge University Press, 2003. Award: Choice Outstanding Academic Title, 2003. Los constructores romanos. Un estudio sobre el proceso arquitectónico. Tres Cantos, Madrid: Ediciones Akal. 2006. Translation by R. Fontes of the preceding. The Moral Mirror of Roman Art. Cambridge University Press. 2008. Rome: An Urban History. With Katherine Rinne. Under contract with Cambridge University Press. Ancient Naples. With Joseph D. Alchermes. Series: A Documentary History of Naples. Under contract with Italica Press.

Articles: “A citeriore ripa aquae: Aqueduct River Crossings in Ancient Rome.” Papers of the British School at Rome 63 (1995) 75–103. “A Literary and Structural Analysis of the First Dome on Justinian's Hagia Sophia, Constantinople.” Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 55:1 (March 1996) 66–78. “Two Pathic Subcultures in Ancient Rome.” Journal of the History of Sexuality 7:3 (January 1997) 319–71. “Torrent or Trickle? The Aqua Alsietina, the Naumachia Augusti, and the Transtiberim.” American Journal of Archaeology 101:3 (July 1997) 465–92. “Publici usus, privatae voluptates: Water and Demographics in the Ancient Metropolis.” In Life of the Average Roman (listed above) 67–83.

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“Watching the Skies: Janus, Auspication, and the Shrine in the Roman Forum.” Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 45 (2000) 1–39. “Temples and Terracottas at Cosa.” American Journal of Archaeology 106:1 (January 2002) 59–83. “Tiber River Bridges and the Development of the Ancient City of Rome.” 2002. Refereed article for “Aquae Urbis Romae: Waters of the City of Rome,” website ed. Katherine Rinne, http://jefferson.village.virginia.edu/waters. Reprint forthcoming in Urban Landscape: Critical Concepts in Built Environment (Routledge), 2014. “The Cult Statue and Other Decoration in Stone”; “Sculpture and Furniture”; “Terracottas from Temple E in Trench Forum VI.” In Cosa V: An Intermittent Town, Excavations 1991–1997, ed. Elizabeth Fentress. Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome (University of Michigan Press, 2003) 51–55, 191–213, 217–22. “Hadrian’s Serapeum in Rome.” American Journal of Archaeology 108:2 (April 2004) 223−66. “Justinianos Ayasofya’sının (İ.S. 537−558) İlk Kubbesinin Yapısal Konfigürasyonu: Yapısal ve Yazısal Çözümlemeye Dayalı Bir Araştırma.” With Ahmet S. Çakmak and Eser Durukal. Sanat Dünyamız 94 (2004) 174−81. “Roman Oscilla: An Assessment.” RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics 48 (autumn 2005) 83−105. “Building the Image of the Urbs in Antiquity: Response.” In Common Ground: Archaeology, Art, Science, and Humanities: Proceedings of the XVI International Congress of Classical Archaeology, ed. Carol Mattusch, A. A. Donohue and Amy Brauer (Oxford: Oxbow, 2006) 205−07. “Death, the Maiden, and the Mirror: Ausonius’ Water-World.” Arethusa 42 (Spring 2009) 181−205. “River Raptures: Containment and Control of Water in Greek and Roman Constructions of Identity.” In The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance, ed. Cynthia Kosso and Anne Scott (Amsterdam: Brill, 2009) 21−42. “The Structural Configuration of the First Dome of Justinian’s Hagia Sophia (537−558 A.D.): An Investigation Based on Structural and Literary Analysis.” With Ahmet Çakmak and Eser Durukal. Soil Dynamics and Earthquake Engineering 29 (2009) 693–98. “A Grotto-Shrine at the Headwaters of the Aqua Traiana.” With Katherine Rinne, Edward O’Neill, and Michael O’Neill. Journal of Roman Archaeology 23 (2010) 358−75. “Bread and Water: Septimius Severus and the Rise of the Curator aquarum et Miniciae.” Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 55 (2010) 199–220. “Rome’s Lost Aqueduct: Searching for the Source of One of the City’s Greatest Engineering Achievements.” Archaeology 65:2 (March-April 2012) 34-40. “The Cult of Sirens and Greek Colonial Identity in Southern Italy.” In Attitudes Towards the Past in Antiquity: Creating Identities? (Stockholm University). Forthcoming. “The Temple of the Dioscuri and the Origins of Neapolis.” In Remembering Parthenope: Reception of Classical Naples from Antiquity to the Present, ed. Claudio Buongiovanni and Jessica Hughes (Oxford University Press). Forthcoming. “Movement, Vision, and Quotation in the Gardens of Herod the Great.” In Le jardin dans l’Antiquité — The Garden in Antiquity (Geneva: Fondation Hardt). Forthcoming 2014.

Book reviews: T. Mathews, The Clash of Gods (1993). Legenda, newsletter of the Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota (summer 1994). C. O’Connor, Roman Bridges (1993). Religious Studies Review 21:2 (April 1995) 139 and Journal of Roman Archaeology 8 (1995) 385–86. T.S. Burns, Barbarians Within the Gates of Rome: A Study of Roman Military Policy and the Barbarians, 375–425 A.D. (1994). Religious Studies Review 21:4 (October 1995) 329. R. Duncan-Jones, Money and Government in the Roman Empire (1994). Religious Studies Review. P.J. Aicher, Guide to the Aqueducts of Ancient Rome (1995). Bryn Mawr Classical Review 7:1 (February 1996) 1–3. Online. O.J. Brendel, Etruscan Art (1978/1995). Religious Studies Review 23:2 (April 1997) 173. M. Leiwo, Neapolitana: A Study of Population and Language in Graeco-Roman Naples (1995). Religious Studies Review 23:3 (July 1997) 295. J.W. Shaw and M.C. Shaw, eds., Kommos I.2: The Kommos Region and Houses of the Minoan Town: The Minoan Hilltop and Hillside Houses. Religious Studies Review (1998).

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La Rome impériale: démographie et logistique (1997). Bryn Mawr Classical Review (February 2000). Online. C. Williams, Roman Homosexuality: Ideologies of Masculinity in Classical Antiquity (1999). Religious Studies Review 26:1 (January 2000) 82. M. Grahame, Reading Space: Social Interaction and Identity in the Houses of Roman Pompeii (2000). Journal of Roman Archaeology 15 (2002) 439−44. R. Cassanelli, M. David, E. de Albentiis, and A. Jacques, Ruins of Ancient Rome: The Drawings of French Architects Who Won the Prix de Rome, 1786–1924 (2002); and R. Cassanelli, P.L. Ciapparelli, E. Colle, and M. David, Houses and Monuments of Pompeii: The Works of Fausto and Felice Niccolini (2002). Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians 62:4 (December 2003) 519–21. R. Loisy, Les oscilla en Gaule romaine (1999). Journal of Roman Archaeology (2003) 596−98. I.K. MacEwen, Vitruvius: Writing the Body of Architecture (2003). Classical Philology 100:3 (July 2005) 284−89. I. Nielsen, Cultic Theatres and Ritual Drama: A Study in Regional Development and Religious Interchange Between East and West in Antiquity (2002). Bryn Mawr Classical Review (September 2005). Online. L. Lancaster, Concrete Vaulted Construction in Imperial Rome (2006). Journal of Roman Studies 97 (2007) 361−64. K. Welch, The Roman Amphitheatre from Its Origins to the Colosseum (2007); F. Sear, Roman Theatres: An Architectural Study. Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians. 67 (2008) 443−45. P. Rehak, Imperium and Cosmos: Augustus and the Northern Campus Martius (2006). CAA.reviews (College Art Association online reviews), 2008. H. Massa-Pairault and G. Sauron, Images et modernité hellénistique. Appropriation et représentation du monde d’Alexandre à César (2007). Journal of Roman Archaeology 22 (2009) 466−70. E. Mayer, The Ancient Middle Classes: Urban Life and Aesthetics in the Roman Empire, 100 BC – 250 CE (2012). CAA.reviews, August 2013.

Encyclopedia and multimedia contributions: Archaeological Resources for New Testament Studies, vol. 3 (Valley Forge, PA, 2004; general eds. Helmut Koester and Holland Hendrix): Co-editor with Philip Sellew. Contributions: “Argive Monument”; “Kastalian Spring: Archaic and Classical”; “Kastalian Spring: Hellenistic and Roman”; “Knidian Leskhe”; “Pillar of Prysias”; “Roman Agora: General”; “Roman Agora: Colonnade”; “Roman Agora: Early Christian Presence”; “Terrace of Attalos I”; “Theater: Frieze”; “Theater: Performance Area”; “Theater: Spectators’ Area.” Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (Oxford University Press, 2010; ed. Michael Gagarin et al.): “Rome, City of.” Vol. 6, pp. 172−85. Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Archaeology (Oxford University Press, 2013; ed. D. Master, L. M. White, et al.): “Rome (Ostia; Portus).” Vol. 2, pp. 318−28.

Forthcoming: Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and Archaeology (Grand Rapids, MI, forthcoming; ed. Paul Corby Finney): “Aedicula”; “Aisle”; “Bema”; “Brick”; “Cornice”; “Cupola/Cupola Construction (Pendentive, Squinch)”; “Diakonikon”; “Entablature”; “Exedra”; “Fortification”; “Nymphaeum”; “Synthronon”; “Vault”; “Xenodocheion.” Joint entries: “Atrium”; Architrave”; “Bath Building”; “Ciborium”; “Column”; “Facade”; “Narthex”; “Pagan Sanctuary”; “Pier.” Oxford Handbook of Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World (Oxford University Press; ed. A. Futrell and T. Scanlon): “Naval Battle Shows and Aquacades.” Long entry. Blackwell Companion to Roman Architecture (Oxford: Blackwell; ed. C. Quenemoen and R. Ulrich): “Labor Force and Execution.” Chapter. Routledge Dictionary of Ancient Mediterranean Religions (Routledge; ed. E. Orlin): “Ara Pacis Augustae”; “Lares”; “Praeneste.” Short entries.

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PAPERS DELIVERED AND SESSIONS CHAIRED: October 27, 1990: “An Analysis of the First Dome of Justinian's Hagia Sophia.” Byzantine Studies Conference, Baltimore. October 4, 1994: “Bridges and Urban Development in the Ancient City of Rome.” Departmental Symposium, University of Minnesota. December 28, 1995: “The Aqua Traiana East of the Tiber.” Archaeological Institute of America, San Diego. Abstract: American Journal of Archaeology 100 (1996) 359. January 17, 1996: “Aqueduct River Crossings in the Ancient City of Rome.” Department of Interdisciplinary Archaeological Studies symposium, University of Minnesota. May 3, 1996: “The Diffusion of Roman Amphorae in the Mediterranean.” Minnesota Society of the Archaeological Institute of America. October 25, 1996 (with Ahmet Çakmak and Eser Durukal): “Hagia Sophia: A Possible Reconstruction of the First Dome.” Byzantine Studies Conference, Chapel Hill. January 29, 1997: “An Aqueduct and Naval Spectacle in Augustan Rome.” Department of Interdisciplinary Archaeological Studies symposium, University of Minnesota. April 4, 1997: “Roman Expropriation: Fact or Fiction?” Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota. September 8, 1997: “Changing the Way We Think About the Later Roman Empire.” Metropolitan State University, St. Paul, Minnesota. October 15, 1997: “La Cosa Nostra: Recent American Discoveries at Cosa, Italy.” Department of Interdisciplinary Archaeological Studies symposium, University of Minnesota. November 8, 1997: “Publici usus, privatae voluptates: Water and Demographics in the Ancient Metropolis.” Symposium: “Life of the Average Roman,” College of Visual Arts, St. Paul, Minnesota. December 2, 1997: “Cosa in the 1990s: The Remaking of a Roman Town.” Department of Fine Arts, Harvard University. December 29, 1997: “Could the Romans Expropriate Property?” American Philological Association, Chicago. February 26, 1998: “The Limits of Imperial Power in the Early Roman Empire.” Department of Classics, Macalester College. March 31, 1998: “Speculum explorans: Theater and Illusion in Ausonius’ Mosella.” Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota. April 2, 1998: “Water and Demographics in the Ancient City of Rome.” Midwest Art History Society, Chicago. December 30, 1998: Session chair, “Water Supply, Bathing, and Hygiene.” Archaeological Institute of America, Washington, D.C. November 5, 1999: “Janus and His Shrine in the Roman Forum.” Workshop on Ancient History and Archaeology, Harvard University. December 30, 1999: “Seeing Through the Shrine of Janus Geminus.” Archaeological Institute of America, Washington, D.C. Abstract: American Journal of Archaeology 104 (2000). March 16, 2000: “Double or Nothing: Janus and the Tradition of Bifrontality in Greek and Roman Art.” Department of History of Art and Architecture Symposium, Harvard University. May 1, 2001: “Building the Colosseum.” Southwestern University, Georgetown, Texas. May 2, 2001: “The Roman Builders.” Minnesota Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, St. Paul. December 3, 2001: “The Pantheon: Problems in Design and Construction.” Iowa State University School of Design Program in Rome. January 6, 2002: “Perfect Ten: Vaulting the Pantheon.” Archaeological Institute of America, Philadelphia. April 27, 2002: “Two-Faced Images on Greek and Roman Coins.” Society Historia Numorum, Wellesley, Massachussets. December 2, 2002: “The Bending Dome of Day: Raising the Pantheon.” Boston Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, Harvard University. January 6, 2003: Session chair, “Etruscan and Roman Italy.” Archaeological Institute of America, New Orleans. August 24, 2003: Session chair, organizer, and respondent, “Building the Image of the Urbs in Antiquity.” Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica, Harvard University.

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September 26, 2003: “Recent Archaeological Discoveries in Rome: A Primer for Teachers of Classics.” New Hampshire Classical Association, Southern New Hampshire University. January 3, 2004: Session chair, “Water Management.” Archaeological Institute of America, San Francisco. April 2, 2004: “Reflections on Reflection in Roman Art.” Silverberg Lecture, Institute of Fine Arts, New York. October 21, 2004: “The Devil in the Details: A Closer Look at Hadrian’s Pantheon.” Department of History of Art and Architecture, Middlebury College. November 20, 2004: Respondent, session on political patronage and Roman urbanism. International Association of Linguistics, Behavioral and Social Sciences, Cancun, Mexico. (Response delivered in absentia.) January 7, 2005: Session chair, “Rome: Urbs and Suburbium.” Archaeological Institute of America, Boston. January 9, 2005: “Hybridity in Roman Art.” Archaeological Institute of America, Boston. January 6, 2006: Session chair, “Water as a Cultural Force.” Archaeological Institute of America, Montréal. February 14, 2006: “The Mirror of Dionysus: Reflection and Transformation in the Art of Ecstatic Ritual.” Department of Fine Art, University of Toronto. Repeated March 9, 2006 at University of Texas-Austin. March 10, 2006: “Proposing a Survey of the Pronaos of the Pantheon.” Graduate Student Art History Association Speaker, University of Texas-Austin. April 7, 2006: “An Unknown Eminence: The Brandegee Goddess.” Symposium paper for “At Home With the Past: Boston’s Brandegee Collection of Roman Sculpture,” Tufts University. September 22, 2006: “Water, Ritual, and Representation in Roman Visual Culture.” Symposium paper for “The Romans and Water: Management, Technology, Culture,” Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University. October 5, 2006: “Cultures of Water in Mediterranean Antiquity.” Keynote address for “The Nature and Function of Water, Baths, Bathing, and Hygiene from Antiquity through the Renaissance,” Northern Arizona University. February 6, 2007: “River Raptures: Containment and Control of Water in Greek and Roman Myth and Ritual.” Department of Classics, University of Texas-Austin. May 13, 2007: Session presider, “From Roman to Early Christian Thessalonike: A Conference on Religion and Archaeology.” Harvard Divinity School. January 4, 2008: Session respondent, “Architectura Numismatica.” Archaeological Institute of America, Chicago. September 10, 2008: “New Light on Ancient Naples.” Archaeological Institute of America, Central Texas Society, University of Texas-Austin. January 11, 2009: “Their Neighbor’s Keeper: A Neapolitan Coin for Capua.” American Philological Association, Philadelphia. January 28, 2009: “Reassessing the Pantheon in Rome.” University of California at Santa Barbara. Repeated March 17-18, April 2, and April 15 at Nashville (Parthenon), Orlando (Rollins College), Lubbock (Texas Tech University), and Tempe (Arizona State University) as part of the Archaeological Institute of America Lecture Program. May 16, 2009: “The Cult of Sirens and Greek Colonial Identity in Southern Italy.” Symposium paper for “Attitudes towards the Past in Antiquity: Creating Identities?” Stockholm University, Sweden. October 24, 2009: “Rediscovering the Source of the Aqua Traiana.” Texas Classical Association, University of Texas-Austin. January 7, 2010: Session chair, “Imperial Rome.” Archaeological Institute of America, Anaheim. January 8, 2010: “Rediscovering the Source of the Aqua Traiana.” With Katherine Rinne, Ted O’Neill, and Mike O’Neill. Archaeological Institute of America, Anaheim. April 2, 2010: “Nympha rapta: The Rediscovery of the Source of the Aqua Traiana.” Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies, University of Minnesota. October 1, 2010: Session presider, “Corinth in Contrast: Studies in Inequality.” University of Texas- Austin. January 8, 2011: “Springs of the Aqua Traiana: New Discoveries and Interpretations.” With Katherine Rinne, Ted O’Neill, and Mike O’Neill. Archaeological Institute of America, San Antonio. February 20, 2011: “Recent Archaeology in Naples.” Friends of Archaeology, University of St. Thomas, Houston.

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April 25, 2011: “Two Summers in Ruins: Discovering the Sources of Rome’s Greatest Aqueduct.” James F. Ruffin Lecture in Classical Art, Rhodes College, Memphis. September 14, 2011: “Rediscovering Trajan’s Great Aqueduct to Rome.” Archaeological Institute of America, Central Texas Society, University of Texas-Austin. January 6, 2012: “New Discoveries at the Remotest Sources of the Aqua Traiana.” With Katherine Rinne, Ted O’Neill, and Mike O’Neill. Archaeological Institute of America, Philadelphia. October 4, 2012: “Blood in the Water: Aquatic Spectacle in Ancient Rome.” Rice University. January 5, 2012: Session chair, “Commercial Activities in Campania.” Archaeological Institute of America, Seattle. January 6, 2013: “The Temple of the Dioscuri and the Origins of Neapolis.” Archaeological Institute of America, Seattle. August 20, 2013: “Movement and Stasis in the Gardens of Herod the Great.” Entretiens sur l’Antiquité classique: “Le jardin dans l’Antiquité,” Fondation Hardt, Geneva. November 8, 2013: “Tracing a Roman Aqueduct to Its Source.” Baylor University.

Future: January 3, 2014: “Between Rome and Babylon: Herod’s Sunken Garden at Jericho.” Archaeological Institute of America, Chicago. April 3, 2014: “East and West in the Palace Gardens of Herod the Great.” University of Iowa.

INFORMAL SEMINARS AND LECTURES: April 6, 2009: University of Texas, UT SAGE seminar for “New Frontiers in Classical Studies”: “Old Wine in New Bottles: Modern Archaeology in Rome and Naples.” July 13, 2009: Lecture tour of Roman Naples (with Joseph Alchermes) for COMCAR (Colloquium on Material Culture and Ancient Religion, Society of Biblical Literature) Sept. 26, 2009: Lecture on the Roman aqueducts for “The 24-Hour Roman Reconstruction Project,” an event at the Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin. April 12, 2010: University of Texas, UT SAGE seminar for “Rome from Village to Empire and Beyond”: “Recent Archaeology and the Origins of Rome.” July 1, 2011: Lecture and tour of the Aqua Traiana and Acqua Paola (with Katherine Rinne) for the Classical Summer School of the American Academy in Rome. December 10, 2012: SCHOLIA, University of Texas: “Chasing Rome’s Greatest Aqueduct to the Source.”

COURSES TAUGHT: University of Minnesota, Twin Cities campus: Fall, Winter, and Spring 1993–94, 1994–95: Greek 1101, 1102, and 1103: Beginning Classical Greek and Selections from Greek Literature. Fall 1995: Classics 1043: Introduction to Greek and Roman Archaeology. Fall 1996: Latin 1101: Beginning Latin. Winter 1998: Classics 1005: Age of Augustus. College of Visual Arts, St. Paul: Spring 1998: Landscape and Roman Literature. Harvard University: Fall 1998: HAA 13k: Introduction to Roman Art and Architecture; HAA 235: graduate seminar: Water in the Roman City. Spring 1999: HAA 139x: Roman Pompeii and Herculaneum; junior tutorial. Fall 1999: HAA 35: Roman Art and Society; HAA 130: Topography and Monuments of Ancient Rome. Spring 2000: HAA 230: graduate seminar: Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli and Beyond; junior tutorial. Fall 2000: L&A C69: Pompeii; HAA 235: graduate seminar: Water in the Roman City. Spring 2002: L&A C69: Pompeii; HAA 13k: Introduction to Roman Art and Architecture. Fall 2002: HAA 130: Topography and Monuments of Ancient Rome; junior tutorial. Spring 2003: L&A C69: Pompeii; HAA 231: graduate seminar: Architect and Builder in the Premodern World. Fall 2003: HAA 13k: Introduction to Roman Art and Architecture; Freshman Seminar 35s: Roman Art and Society.

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Spring 2004: HAA 233: Monuments of Archaeology: Antiquarianism and Architectural History (with Betsey Robinson); junior tutorial. Fall 2005: HAA 130: Topography and Monuments of Ancient Rome; junior tutorial. Spring 2006: HAA 13k: Introduction to Roman Art and Architecture; HAA 235P: Roman Painting. Fall 2006: HAA 139S: Roman Sculpture; HAA 230: Hadrian’s Villa, Tivoli and Beyond Spring 2007: Freshman Seminar: Roman Art and Society; junior tutorial. University of Texas-Austin: Fall 2007: CC 302: Introduction to the Ancient World: Rome; CC 340: Topography and Monuments of Ancient Rome. Spring 2008: CC 340: Pompeii; CC 348: Art and Myth in Greece and Rome. Fall 2009: CC 307D: Introduction to Roman Archaeology; CC 380: Methods and Theory in Classical Archaeology. Spring 2010: TC 302: Roman Art and Society; CC 340: Topography and Monuments of Ancient Rome. Fall 2010: CC 307D: Introduction to Roman Archaeology; CC 340: Pompeii. Spring 2011: CC 317: Classical Archaeology: Methods and Approaches; CC 383: Greeks and Romans on the Bay of Naples. Fall 2011: CC 307D: Introduction to Roman Archaeology; UGS 303: Technology in the Greek and Roman World. Spring 2012: CC 317: Classical Archaeology: Methods and Approaches; CC 380: Ostia. Fall 2012: CC 307D: Introduction to Roman Archaeology; UGS 303: Technology in the Greek and Roman World. Spring 2013: CC 340: Pompeii; CC 380: Roman Architecture.

ADVISING:

DISSERTATIONS:

2002: Reader: Lisa Buboltz (Harvard, History of Art and Architecture): “Dance Scenes in Early Archaic Greek Vase Painting.” Director: David G. Mitten. Reader: Natalie Taback (Harvard, History of Art and Architecture): “Untangling the Muses: A Comprehensive Study of Sculptures of Muses in the Greek and Roman World.” Director: David G. Mitten.

2003: Reader: David Karmon (Harvard, History of Art and Architecture): “The Protection of Ancient Monuments in Renaissance Rome.” Director: James Ackerman.

2004: Reader: Alicia Walker (Harvard, History of Art and Architecture): “‘Insatiable Enjoyment’: The Role of Islamic Elements in the Aesthetics of Middle Byzantine Secular Art.” Director: Ioli Kalavrezou.

2005: Reader: Diliana Angelova (Harvard, History of Art and Architecture): “Gender and Imperial Authority in Rome and Early Byzantium, First to Sixth Centuries.” Director: Ioli Kalavrezou. Reader: Francesca Tronchin (Boston University, Art History): “An Eclectic Locus Artis: The Casa di Octavius Quartio at Pompeii.” Director: Fred S. Kleiner.

2009: Reader: Melissa Haynes (Harvard, Classics), “Written in Stone: Literary Representations of the Statue in the Roman Empire.” Director: Kathleen Coleman. Reader: Danny Lee Davis (University of Texas-Austin, Classics), “Commercial Navigation in the Greek and Roman World.” Director: Joseph C. Carter.

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2010: Reader: Esen Öğüş (Harvard, History of Art and Architecture): “Columnar Sarcophagi from Aphrodisias: Iconography, Self-Presentation, and Civic Identity in the Roman East.” Directors: Ruth Bielfeldt and R. R. R. Smith. Reader: Duncan Keenan-Jones (Macquarie University, Australia): “The Aqua Augusta: Regional Water Supply in Roman and Late Antique Campania.” Director: Thomas W. Hillard.

2012: Co-director (with Mirka Benes): Natsumi Nonaka (University of Texas-Austin, School of Architecture), “The Illusionistic Pergola in Italian Renaissance Architecture: Garden Culture and Society in Early Modern Italy.” Reader: Ilan Vit (University of Texas-Austin, School of Architecture), “Buildings in Time: A Reception of Architectural Essences through History.” Director: Christopher Long. 2013: Reader: Ivo van der Graaff (University of Texas-Austin, Art History), “The City Walls of Pompeii: Perceptions and Expressions of a Monumental Boundary.” Reader: Lea Cline (University of Texas-Austin, Art History): “The Altars of Rome Reconsidered: Rome’s Sacred Furniture, from Evander to Constantine.” Director: Penelope Davies.

Pending (colloquium completed): Reader: Taylor Bose (University of Texas-Austin, Classics), on Archaic architecture in Crete. Director: Paula Perlman. Director: Jacqueline DiBiasie (University of Texas-Austin, Classics), on Pompeian graffiti. Reader: Don Carlo Goduto (University of Texas-Austin, Art History) on south Italian funerary assemblages of the pre-Roman period. Director: Adam Rabinowitz. Reader: Joelle Lardi (University of Texas-Austin, Art History): “Wondrous Water: The Symbolic Imagery, Use, and Display of Water in the Imperial Palaces of Ancient Rome.” Director: Penelope Davies. Director: Ann Morgan (University of Texas-Austin, Classics), on hero cults in cities of Roman Asia Minor. Director: Jennifer Gates-Foster. Reader: Jenny Muslin (University of Texas-Austin, Art History), on monumental religious architecture in the city of Rome. Reader: Bartolo Natoli (University of Texas-Austin, Classics), on memory in Ovid’s Tristia. Director: Karl Galinsky.

MASTER’S THESES, REPORTS, OR PAPERS:

2005: Reader: Eric Olson (Harvard Extension School): “Through Many Numbers: The Search for Mathematics and Pythagoreanism in the Design of the Parthenon.” (Co-advised with Graeme Bird.) Dean’s Prize for the Outstanding A.L.M. [Master of Liberal Arts] Thesis in the Social Sciences. 2008: Reader: Ann Morgan (University of Texas-Austin, Classics). Master’s report. 2009: Reader: Allisa Stoimenoff and Miriam Tworek-Hofstetter (University of Texas-Austin, Classics). Archaeology research portfolio papers. 2012: Reader: Jacqueline DiBiasie and Abigail Turner (University of Texas-Austin, Classics). Master’s report; archaeology research portfolio paper.

SENIOR THESES:

2000: Supervisor: Sara Winkeller (Harvard, History of Art and Architecture): “Driving the Past: The Myth of Historic Route 66.”

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Reader: Molly MacKean (Harvard, History of Art and Architecture): “Modernism and Tradition: The Architecture and Work of Kenzo Tange, 1949-1964.” Reader: Bobbye Tigerman (Harvard, History of Art and Architecture). 2004: Supervisor: Joseph Keefe (Harvard, History of Art and Architecture): “A Curious Building: The Contentious Constructional History of Sant Vicenç de Cardona.” Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize. Reader: Megan Low (Harvard, History of Art and Architecture): “By Her Own Hand: Words and Hands as Personal Iconography in the Self-Portraiture of Sofonisba Anguissola.” 2006: Supervisor: Stephen Fan (Harvard, History of Art and Architecture): “Memorial Hall: Collective Memories and Constructions of Harvard’s Civil War Legacy.” Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize. Supervisor: Yvona Trnka-Amrhein (Harvard, History of Art and Architecture): “The Rhetoric of Topography: The City of Rome and the Satires of Juvenal.” Co-director: Oscar Hernandez (Harvard, History of Art and Architecture): “A Theater of Harmony: Adamo Boari’s Project for the Teatro Nacional, Mexico.” Co-directed with Christine Smith. Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize. Reader: Julia Chan (Harvard, History of Art and Architecture): “Inside Out: How Clothing Rescued the Body. The Fashion Designs of Hussein Chalayan.” 2009: Reader: Evan Rap (Arizona State University, Classics): “The Effect of Domitian’s Principate on the Reception of Colored Marble in Public Architecture.” Reader: Dawn Walker (University of Texas-Austin, Classics): “The Metamorphosis of Paris.” 2011: Supervisor: Jacob Garner (University of Texas-Austin, Classical Archaeology): “Trees and Transition Within Sacred Spaces of Early Rome.” 2012: Supervisor: Blagoje Djordjevic (University of Texas-Austin, Classics): “Perceptions of Science in Late Byzantine Theology: Geometry According to Gregory Palamas.” 2013: Supervisor: Katelin McCullough (University of Texas-Austin, Classics): “Labor and Trade in Elite Roman Society: Recording a Connection to Commerce for Posterity.” Supervisor: Patricia Neuhoff (University of Texas-Austin, Classics): “The Defended Annexes of the Antonine Wall Forts and Fortlets: How Politics and Numbers Created the Need for These Structures.”

GRANTS AND AWARDS: 1995: Graduate School Fellowship, University of Minnesota. 2004−2005: Ryskamp Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies. Summer 2008: Summer Research Assignment, University of Texas-Austin. 2008−2009: Sabbatical Fellowship, American Philosophical Society. 2008-2009: Liberal Arts Instructional Technology Grant, University of Texas-Austin. Principal Investigator with Adam Rabinowitz and Jennifer Gates-Foster for “TimeMap: An Interactive Spatial Timeline of the Ancient Mediterranean.” Spring 2009: Dean’s Fellowship, College of Liberal Arts, University of Texas-Austin. 2010-2011: Rachael and Ben Vaughn Faculty Fellowship, Department of Classics, University of Texas-Austin. 2012: Franklin Research Grant, American Philosophical Society. $5000 Spring 2013: Undergraduate Research Apprenticeship faculty grant, University of Texas-Austin. $2000. Spring 2013: Liberal Arts Council Faculty Endowment Award, University of Texas-Austin. $3000.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: American Philological Association (1995−2004, 2008−present); Archaeological Institute of America (1995−present); College Art Association (2005−2007).

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CONSULTATION: Consultant on the construction history of the Pantheon in Rome for Thomas Homer-Dixon’s book, The Upside of Down: Catastrophe, Creativity, and the Renewal of Civilization (2006). Guest expert appearing on National Geographic International / Parallax Film Production’s television show “Ultimate Engineering: Hagia Sophia.” Aired in 2009.

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