Curriculum Vitae G. J. Oliver
GRAHAM JOHN OLIVER Department of Classics 48, College Street Box 1856 Brown University Providence, RI 02912 [email protected]
Employment
2013- Brown University, Professor of Classics (with tenure); Professor of History at Brown University (from Sept. 2014)
2011-2013 The University of Liverpool, Reader in Ancient Greek Culture
2007-2011 The University of Liverpool, Senior Lecturer in Ancient Greek Culture
1999-2007 The University of Liverpool, Lecturer in Ancient Greek Culture
1999-2004 The University of Liverpool, Senior Research Fellow
1995-1999 The University of Liverpool, Temporary Lecturer in Ancient History
1994-1995 The University of Liverpool, Research Associate
Education
1996 D.Phil. The University of Oxford, Faculty of Classics (Ancient History): The Athenian State under Threat: Politics and Food Supply, 307 to 229 B.C. (supervisor: D.M. Lewis; examiners: M.M. Austin and S. Hornblower)
1989 BA (Oxon). The University of Oxford, School of Literae Humaniores (2.I degree, Literae Humaniores, 1985-1989)
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Honors/Fellowships/Grants
2018 Chair of the Classics Department (July 1, 2018 - June 30, 2021)
2017 OVPR Research Seed Funding ($49,000; unsuccessful application; 'Culture Capitals: post-Imperial Legacies in Early States); Humanities Research Fund 2018 (Fall 2017; $800; for SCS 2018 conference); Faculty Travel Fund (Fall 2017; $1300; for AIEGL 2017 conference); C V Starr Award ($5000; for AAH 2017 Conference)
2016 Joukowsky Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, Faculty Fellow, 2016-2018, Brown University. Loeb Classical Library Foundation Award, 2016-2017, $31.375 Co-award holder (with Professor Scafuro) of Arete Foundation research grant, ‘Brown Greek Epigraphy and Law Project’, $198,000 (January 2016-December 2018). Humanities Research Fund, Brown University (Fall '16), $1000 for epigraphical publication; Brown University Faculty Travel Fund (Fall '16), $1220 for presenting a paper at the annual meeting of the American Historical Association, Denver Jan. 2017.
2015 Mellon Teaching Fellow, Haffenreffer Museum, Brown University/Rhode Island School of Design Assemblages Project, July 2015 to June 2016 Humanities Research Fund, Brown University (Jan. 2015), $1000.
2014 Faculty Travel Fund, Brown University (Oct. 2014), $700 award. Faculty Travel Fund Brown University (May, 2014), $1750.
2013 Humanities Research Fund, Brown University, $1000 award.
2012 The British School at Athens, Visiting Fellow
2011-2012 The University of Liverpool (Faculty Incubation Grant 2011/12): ‘Writing and beyond’, interdisciplinary research project, £1620.
2011 UK Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology, Epigraphy training workshop, £5000.
2010 St John’s College, The University of Oxford, Visiting Scholarship
2006 École Normale Supérieure, Paris, Visiting Professor
2004 British Academy: Joint application with Professor P. J. Rhodes (University of Durham) and Dr P. Low (University of Manchester) for
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sponsorship of a conference, ‘Cultures of Commemoration: war memorials, ancient and modern’, 16-17 July 2004 (£5,000)
1999-2004 Arts and Humanities Research Board-funded Senior Research Fellowship at The University of Liverpool/The University of Oxford (part of a grant worth £440,000 held by J. K. Davies (Liverpool)/A. K. Bowman (Oxford))
1998 The University of Liverpool, Research Development Fund, preparation for the major research grant application on Athenian epigraphy (£1420)
1997 The University of Liverpool, Research Development Fund, preparation for the major research grant application on Athenian epigraphy (£300)
1992-1993 The University of Oxford, Craven Fellow (12 months of doctoral studies spent in Athens)
1990-1993 British Academy, three-year doctoral funding award
1989 The University of Oxford, President of the Oxford University Archaeological Society
1988-1989 Lady Margaret Hall, The University of Oxford, Scholarship
1988 The University of Oxford, Charles Oldham Scholarship award
1987 The University of Oxford, Oxford University Undergraduate Essay prize in the 'New Initiative in Archaeology'
1985-1988 Lady Margaret Hall, The University of Oxford, Exhibition award
Publications
Monographs: (1) Oliver 2007: War, food and politics in early Hellenistic Athens, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2007. ISBN 978-0-19-928350-7. xxiii + 360 pages
Edited Books: (1) Oliver 2012: P. Low, G. J. Oliver, and P. J. Rhodes (eds), Cultures of Commemoration: war memorials, ancient and modern, The British Academy/OUP, 2012. ISBN 9780197264669. xiv + 199 pages + 25 figures.
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(2) Oliver2001: Z. Archibald, J. Davies, V. Gabrielsen and G. J. Oliver (eds), Hellenistic Economies, Routledge, London, 2001. ISBN 0-415-23466-2. xvi + 400 pages + 42 figures + 11 tables. (3) Oliver2000_01: G. J. Oliver, R. Brock, T. J. Cornell, and S. Hodkinson (eds), The Sea in Antiquity, International Series, British Archaeological Reports S899, Oxford, BAR, 2000. ISBN 1 84171 160 8. ix + 180 pages. (4) Oliver2000_02: G. J. Oliver (ed.), The Epigraphy of Death: Studies in the History and Society of Greece and Rome, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-85323-915-0. vi + 225 pages + 36 figures and illustrations.
Monograph/Books in Progress: (1) Inscriptiones Graecae, Volume II/III, (3rd edition) Part I fascicle III, Athenian laws and decrees 321/0-301/0 BC. Berlin: Berlin Academy and De Gruyter. (2) A Companion to the Athenian Laws and Decrees, 321/0-301/0 BC (provisional title), to be submitted to the Brill Epigraphy Series. (3) Cambridge Manual of Greek Epigraphy, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, under contract. (4) Hellenistic Athens: Economy and Society in the Greek polis (in preparation)
Chapters in Edited Monographs/Articles/Encyclopedia Entries (1) 2018a: 'People and cities: economic horizons beyond the Hellenistic polis', in H. Börn and N. Luraghi (eds), The Polis in the Hellenistic World, Stuttgart: Steiner, 159-179. (2) 2018b: 'The Alexander Romance and Hellenistic political economies', in R. Stoneman, K. Nawotka, and A. Wojciechowska (eds), The Alexander Romance in History and Literature (Ancient Narrative Supplement), Groningen, 111- 128. (3) 2016: ‘Reading Inscribed Letters from Roman Macedonia’, Manual/a resource about art and its making, Rhode Island School of Design Museum, 2016 (http://risdmuseum.org/manual/458_reading_inscribed_letters_from_roma n_macedonia) (4) 2012e: Entries s.v. “Rhamnous”, “Symmoria”, for R. Bagnall et al. (eds), The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, Malden, Ma.: Blackwell, 2012. (5) 2012d: ‘The Agoranomoi at Athens’, in L. Capdetrey and C. Hasenohr (eds), Agoranomes et édiles. Institutions des marchés antiques (Scripta Antiqua 44), Bordeaux, Ausonius, 2012, 81-100. (6) 2012b: ‘Démographie des migrations et mobilité dans la Méditerranée grecque à l’époque classique et à la haute époque hellénistique’, in L. Capdetrey and J. Zurbach (eds), Mobilités grecques. Migrations, réseaux, contacts en Méditerranée, de l’époque archaïque à l’époque hellénistique (Scripta Antiqua 46), Bordeaux, Ausonius, 2012, 137-56. (7) 2012a: ‘Naming the dead, writing the individual: classical traditions and commemorative practices in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’, in P. Low, G. J. Oliver, and P. J. Rhodes (eds), Cultures of Commemoration: war
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memorials, ancient and modern’, Oxford, The British Academy/Oxford University Press, 2012, 113-34. (8) 2012f: P. Low and G. J. Oliver, ‘Comparing cultures of commemoration in ancient and modern societies’, in P. Low, G. J. Oliver, and P. J. Rhodes (eds), Cultures of Commemoration: war memorials, ancient and modern’, Oxford, The British Academy/Oxford University Press, 2012, 1-11 (9) 2011a: Mobility, society, and economy in the Hellenistic period’ in Z. Archibald, J. K. Davies, and V. Gabrielsen (eds). The economies of Hellenistic societies, 3rd – 1st centuries BCE. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011, 345-67. (10) 2011b: ‘Before “Lycurgan Athens”: the origins of change’, in V. Azoulay and P. Ismard (eds), Clisthène et Lycurgue d’Athènes. Autour du politique dans la cité classique, Paris, Publications de la Sorbonne, 2011, 119-31 (11) 2010: ‘Foreign Names, Inter-Marriage and Citizenship in Hellenistic Athens’, in R. Catling, F. Marchand, and N. Kanavou (eds), Onomatologos. Studies in Greek Personal Names presented to Elaine Matthews, Oxford, Oxbow Books, 2010, 155-69. (12) 2009: ‘Honours for a public slave at Athens, (IG ii2 502 + Ag. I 1947; 302/1 B.C.)’ in A. A. Themos and A. Matthaiou (eds), ΑΤΤΙΚΑ ΕΠΙΓΡΑΦΙΚΑ. ΜΕΛΕΤΕΣ ΠΡΟΣ ΤΙΜΗΝ ΤΟΥ Christian Habicht, Athens, Greek Epigraphy Society, 2009, 111-24 (13) 2007b: ‘Citizenship: inscribed honours for individuals in Classical and Hellenistic Athens’ in J-Chr. Couvenhes & S. Milanezi (eds), Individus, groupes et politique à Athènes: recherches et perspectives. Actes du colloque international de Tours des 7-8 mars 2005, Tours, Presses Universitaires François-Rabelais de Tours, 2007, 273-92. (14) 2007c: ‘L’économie d’Athènes au IIIe s. av. J.-C.’, in Économies et sociétés en Grèce classique et hellénistique, Pallas 74 (2007), Presses Universitaires du Mirail, Toulouse, 277-91. (15) 2007d: ‘Space and the visualization of power in the Greek polis: the award of portrait statues in decrees from Athens’, in R. von den Hoff and P. Schultz (eds), Early Hellenistic Portraiture: Image, Style, Context, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007, 181-204. (16) 2007a: ‘Les réalités économiques’, in F. Prost (ed.), Économie et société en Grèce antique: 478-88 av. J.-C., Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2007, 45-85 (French translation of [18]). (17) 2006a: ‘History and Rhetoric’, in G. Bugh (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic Era, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2006, 113-135. (18) 2006b: A. E. Cooley and G. J. Oliver, 'Epigraphy', in E. Bispham, T. Harrison, and B. A. Sparkes (eds), The Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 2006, 262-74. (19) 2006c: ‘Polis economies and the cost of the cavalry in early Hellenistic Athens’, in P. G. van Alfen (ed.) Agoranomia: studies in money and exchange presented to John H. Kroll, New York, American Numismatic Society, 2006, 109-24. (20) 2006d: ‘The economic realities’, in K. Kinzl (ed), A Companion to the Classical Greek World, Oxford, Blackwell, 2006, 281-310 (French translation = [14]).
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(21) 2006e: ‘Hellenistic economies: regional views from the Athenian polis’, in R. Descat (ed.), Approches de l’économie hellénistique (Entretiens d’archéologie et d’histoire 7), Musée archéologique de Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, 2006, 215-56. (22) 2006f: Entries: s.v. alphabets, calendars (Greek), names and naming (Greek), writing, bilingualism, magistrates (Greek and Roman), epigraphy (Greek), choregic monuments, Parian marble, in L. Foxhall, D. Mattingly, G. Shipley (eds), The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006. (23) 2003a: ‘(Re-)locating Athenian Decrees in the Agora: IG II2 448’ in D. Jordan and J. Traill (eds), Lettered Attica. A Day of Attic Epigraphy (Actes du Symposium d'Athènes/Proceedings of the Athens Symposium 8 mars/March 2000 with a memoir by/avec un mémoire par Johannes Kirchner (Publications of the Canadian Archaeological Institute at Athens, No. 3). Toronto, Canadian Archaeological Institute at Athens and Athenians, 2003, 94-110. (24) 2003b: ‘Oligarchy at Athens after the Lamian war: epigraphic evidence for the Boule and Ekklesia,’ in O. Palagia and S. V. Tracy (eds), The Macedonians in Athens, 323-229 B.C. (Proceedings of an international conference held at the University of Athens, May 24-26, 2001), Oxford, Oxbow Books, 2003, 40-51 (25) 2002: ‘Callimachus the poet and benefactor of the Athenians’, ZPE 140, 2002, 6-8 (26) 2001b: ‘Regions and Micro-regions: grain for Rhamnous’, in Z. Archibald, J. Davies, V. Gabrielsen and G. J. Oliver (eds), Hellenistic Economies, London and New York, Routledge, 2001, 137-155. (27) 2001c: ‘The Politics of Coinage: Athens and Antigonus Gonatas’, in A. Meadows and K. Shipton (eds), Money and its uses in the ancient Greek world, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2001, 35-52 + pl. 3.1. (28) 2000a: ‘An Introduction to the Epigraphy of Death: Funerary Inscriptions as Evidence’, in G. J. Oliver (ed.), The Epigraphy of Death. Studies in the History and Society of Greece and Rome, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2000, 1-23. (29) 2000b: ‘Athenian Funerary Monuments: Style, Grandeur, and cost’, in G. J. Oliver (ed.), The Epigraphy of Death: Studies in the History and Society of Greece and Rome, Liverpool, Liverpool University Press, 2000, 59-80 (30) 2000c: ‘Images of death: inscribed funerary monuments from fourth-century Athens to neo-classical England’, in A. Cooley (ed.), The Afterlife of Epigraphy, BICS Supplement no. 75, London, Institute of Classical Studies, 2000, 125-141. (31) 2000d: Entries on ‘Agriculture’, ‘Attica’, ‘Coinage’, ‘Economy’, ‘Inscriptions’, ‘Phoenicians’, ‘Pyrrhus’, in The Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition, in G. Speake (ed.), London & Chicago, Fitzroy Dearborn, 2000, pp. 40-43, 359-361, 526-529, 811-814, 1313-1314, 1425-1426 (32) 1996: G. J. Oliver and J. K. Davies, ‘A New edition of Athenian Propertied Families’, ZPE 110, 1996, 306-308
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Articles/Chapters in preparation (1) 'Athens and the King(s): foreign relations, grain supply after the Lamian war, and IG II/III2 401' (2) G. J. Oliver and C. Keesling, ‘A ‘new’ Athenian notable and his honorific statue by Praxiteles: Lysanias son of Nikodemos of Xypete (IG ii2 552 and IG ii2 3886), (3) 'Economic Growth in the city of Athens over the (very) longue durée, c. 800 BC—c. AD 1820', in D. Warburton, Economic Growth in Antiquity Reviews: (1) Co-authored with J. G. Manning, Rev. of Ober, The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece, Princeton & Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2015, in Journal of Economic History 77 (2017) 599-601. (2) Rev. of P. Acton. Poiesis: Manufacturing in Classical Athens. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014, Classical World 109 (2016), 555-556. (3) Rev. of D. Moore, Dawn of Discovery: the early British travellers to Crete, Oxford: Archaeopress, 2010; D. W. J. Gill, Sifting the soil of Greece: the early years of the British School at Athens (1886-1919), London: Institute of Classical Studies, 2011; in Journal of Hellenic Studies 132, 2012, 303-05. (4) Review article, G. Reger, Economy of Greece and western Asia minor in the Hellenistic era, in W. Scheidel, I. Morris and R. Saller (eds), The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2007: in Topoi 17/1, 2011, 78-89 (5) Rev. of F. Prost (ed.), L’Orient méditerranéen de la mort d’Alexandre aux campagnes de Pompée. Cités et royaumes à l’époque hellénistique, Actes du colloque de la SOPHAU, Rennes, avril 2003, Presses Universitaires de Rennes/Presses Universitaires du Mirail, in Topoi 12-13, 2005, 647-59. (6) Rev. of S. G. Byrne, Roman citizens of Athens (Studia Hellenistica 40), Peeters: Leuven, 2003. Journal of Roman Studies 115, 2005, 256-7. (7) Rev. of F. Guizzi, Hierapytna. Storia di una polis cretese dalla fondazione all conquista Romana, Memorie serie ix, vol. xiii, fascicolo 3. Rome: Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei, 2000, in Classical Review 54, 2004, 471-2. (8) Rev. of C. Eilers, Roman patrons of Greek cities, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2002, in The Journal of Classics Teaching 2, 2004, 39-40. (9) Rev. of K. Buraselis, Kos: Between Hellenism and Rome. Studies on the Political, Institutional and Social History of Kos from ca. The Middle Second Century B.C. Until Late Antiquity, Philadelphia, 2000. Classical Review 53, 2003, 143-4. (10) Rev. of E. Will, Historia Graeco-Hellenistica, Paris, 1998. Classical Review 53, 2003, 153-4. (11) 2003e: Rev. of D. Knoepfler, Eretria Fouilles et recherches XI. Décrets érétriens de proxénie et de citoyenneté, Lausanne, 2001. Classical Review 53, 2003, 454-8. (12) Rev. of J. Bodel, Epigraphic Evidence. Ancient History from inscriptions, London, 2001: Classical Review 52, 2002, 354-5. (13) Rev. of G. Hutchinson, Xenophon and the Art of Command, Greenhill, London, 2000, JACT Review 30, 2001, 14-15. (14) Rev. of P. D. A. Garnsey, Food and Society in classical Greece, Cambridge, 1999, Ancient History Bulletin 14, 2000, 183.
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(15) Rev. of D. B. Small (ed.), Methods in the Mediterranean. Historical and Archaeological Views on Texts and Archaeology, Brill, 1995. Journal of Hellenic Studies 120, 2000, 192-193. (16) Rev. of C. Trümpy, Untersuchungen zu den altgriechischen Monatsnamen und Monatsfolgen, Heidelberg, 1997. Classical Review 50, 2000, 647. (17) Rev. of J. J. Gabbert, Antigonus II Gonatas: A political biography, London, 1997; G. M. Cohen, The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor, Berkeley, 1995; K. J. Rigsby, Asylia: Territorial Inviolability in the Hellenistic World, Berkeley, 1996; R. W. Wallace and E. M. Harris (eds), Transitions to Empire. Essays in Greco-Roman History, 360-146 B.C., in Honor of E. Badian, Norman, 1996. Classical Review 50, 2000, 190-193. (18) Rev. of P. Brun, Les Archipels Égéens dans l’antiquité Grecque (Ve - IIe siècles av. notre ère), Paris, 1996. Classical Review 50, 2000, 341-342. (19) Rev. of M. H. Hansen, Athenian Democracy in the Age of Demosthenes, Bristol, 1999, JACT Review 27, Summer 2000, 16-17. (20) Rev. of A. B. Bosworth, A Historical Commentary on Arrian’s History of Alexander: Vol. II. Books IV-V, Oxford, 1995, Classical Review 48, 1998, 289-291. (21) Rev. of J. Troterau and Y. Arthus-Bertrand, Greece from the Air, London, 1997. Landscape History 20, 1998, 116-117. (22) Rev. of S. V. Tracy, Athenian democracy in transition: Attic letter-cutters of 340- 290 BC, University of California Press, 1995. JACT Ancient History Broadsheet No. 36, Spring 1998, 8. (23) Rev. of T. H. van Andel and C. Runnels, Beyond the Acropolis: a rural Greek past, Stanford, 1996. Landscape History 19, 1997, 97-98.
Teaching Interests
History of the Hellenistic world, Economic and Social History, Ancient History, Epigraphy, Archaeology of Athens, Greek and Latin.
Teaching Experience
2013- Professor of Classics, Brown University Course organizer: Classics Courses: CLAS1210 (Fall 2013; Fall 2015; Fall 2017) Archaic Greek History; CLAS1220 (Spring 2014; Spring 2016 (also as HIST1200B); Spring 2018) The Fall of Empires and Rise of Kings: Greek History, 479-323 BC; CLAS1130 (Fall 2014) Society and Population in Ancient Greece; CLAS 1320 (Spring 2015) Roman History II: Empire’s Impact; CLAS 0310 (Spring 2015) Social Welfare in the Ancient Greek City (Sophomore Seminar).
Advanced Greek Language and Literature Courses: GREK1111B (Fall 2013) Polybius Bk. III; GREK1111B (Spring 2019) Polybius Bk. I; GREK 1060 (Fall 2014) Herodotus (Book V); Fall 2017 Herodotus (Book
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VIII); GREK1110S (Fall 2018) Xenophon; GREK1930B (Spring 2016) Greek Epigraphy
Graduate Seminars: CLAS2080G Hellenistic Athens (Graduate seminar; 6 students); CLAS2110I (Spring 2014) Approaches to Social and Economic Ancient History; CLAS2980 (Spring 2014);
Reading and Research: GREK2980 Reading and Research/Independent Study Courses: Xenophon the Historian (Spring 2014); Greek Epigraphy at Delphi (Spring 2015); Hellenistic Aetolia (Spring 2016)
Guest-lecture for other courses: ARCH1575 (Spring 2014) Roman Coinage (for Dr. Jimenez); ANTH1232 (Spring 2014) War and Anthropology (for Prof. Lutz) Senior Honors Thesis Supervisor: Meyer/Classics (2017-2018); O’Callahan/Classics; Weber/Archaeology (2014-2015)
2004-2013 Senior Lecturer/Reader, The University of Liverpool Undergraduate courses: Introduction to Greek history (2004/2005- 2010/2011); Introduction to Roman history (2004/2005); Politics and Culture in 5th century Athens (2004/2005-2010/2011); Augustus and Empire (2004/2005-2006/2007); Archaeology of Athens (2005/2006-2010/2011); Intermediate Latin (2004/2005); Intermediate Greek (2004/2005); Year three dissertations (averaging 6-10 dissertations per year, 2004/2005-current); MA courses: Research skills in Classics and Ancient History; Ancient Slavery; Greek Epigraphy; Kings and Polities in Hellenistic History; Polis and Individual; Ptolemaic Egypt; Society and Population ; Space and Spatiality; Ancient Greece and the 18th century: the (Re)discovery of Ancient Greece.
1999-2004 The University of Liverpool/ The University of Oxford, Senior Research Fellow Undergraduate tutor (2000/2001) in Literae Humaniores (papers in Greek History, 403-336; Athenian democracy; Alexander the Great and the Successors; Greek history 400-200 BC; Athenian democracy).
1994-99 Lecturer, The University of Liverpool Introduction to Greek history (1995/1996-1998/1999); Hellenistic Athens (Masters; 1998/1999); Sources and Methods in Ancient History (1996/1997- 1998/1999); Polis Economies (1996/1997-1998/1999); Roman History (80-31 BC) (1995/1996); Society and Population (1996/1997-1998/1999); Age of Cicero (1995/1996); Aristophanes and Athens (1995/1996); Elementary Latin (1995/1996); Catullus, Intermediate Latin class (1998/1999)
Other Teaching of Graduate Students
National
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British Epigraphy Society Graduate ‘Epigraphy workshop’, 27-28 June 2007, Caerleon; 24-26 June 2008, York; 22-24 June, 2010, Newcastle British School at Athens, Director, 2nd Postgraduate Taught Course on the archaeology, topography, and history of Athens and Attica (17 January-10 March 2000) International Co-Director International Epigraphy Summer School: University of Oxford (2-11 July, 2000; 5-15 July, 2004) Co-Director: British School at Athens, International Postgraduate course on Greek epigraphy (1st: June 14-28, 2009; 2nd: June 26-July 10, 2011; 3rd: March 24- April 7, 2013; 4th: June 7-20, 2015; 5th: June 26-July 10, 2016 [withdrew]; June 16-28, 2019.
Courses with Post-doctoral researchers and Faculty staff
National 2011 Devised and Directed on behalf of, and in collaboration, with the UK Higher Education Academy Subject Centre for History, Classics and Archaeology/British Epigraphy Society/The University of Oxford/Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, two-day program of Continuing Professional Development on using epigraphy in Higher education teaching
Service on Doctoral Dissertation Committees
PhD Dissertation
Chair of Committee Current: Luther Karper, Greece in the Roman Civil War (defense Spring 2019); Mahmoud Samori, Peace in the Classical Greek world (defense Fall 2018)
Completed: Keith Fairbank, Adriatic in the Hellenistic period (May 2018).
Co-Supervisor Current: Brown University: with Prof. John Brown, David Thomas, History Dept., ‘Networks and Roman Eleusis’ University of Groningen, Netherlands: with Professor Onno van Nijf, Dept. of History: Sjoukje Kamphorst, ‘Carving Communities in Stone: Inscriptions as a medium of early Hellenistic globalisation’ (from Sept 2015)
Completed:
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University of Wrocław, Poland: co-supervisor, with Prof. K. Nawotka (University of Wrocław): Dr Dominika Grzesik, ‘Honorific Decrees of the Polis of Delphi’ (PhD awarded June 2015).
Dissertation Committee member: Brown University Current: Sam Caldis (Dept. of History, Ancient History PhD), ‘Brotherhood, Statehood, and Violence: Brothers as Co-Rulers in the Roman Empire’ (defense Spring 2019) William Jacobs (Dept. of Classics), 'Literary Treatments of Roman Battlefields' Ferris Lupino (Dept. of Political Science), 'American Stasis: Optimism, Pessimism, and the Black Classical Reception’ Emily Drennan. ‘Goverance in New Kingdom Egypt’, (Dept. of Egyptology & Assyriology)
Completed: Tara Mulder (Dept. of Classics, Classics PhD), ‘Fetal Actors, Female Bodies: Childbirth in the Roman Empire’ (awarded April 2015) Katherine B. Harrington (Institute of Archaeology, Archaeology PhD), ‘Home Economics: Domestic Production and Household Industry in Classical and Hellenistic Greece’ (awarded March 2016) Joey Kurz, ‘The Barcid Empire? An Economic, Social, and Political Study of Imperial INterations between Carthaginians and Locals in Southern Iberia’ (Dept. of History, Ancient History PhD, awarded April 2016) Dominic Machado, ‘Community and Collective Action in the Roman Republican Army (218-44 BCE)’, (awarded May 2017) Jen Swalec (Dept. of Classics, Classics PhD), ‘Archiving the Repertoire of Ancient Greek Dress: Studies in Literature and Epigraphy (awarded May 2018)
Examiner of doctoral dissertations outside Brown:
Ph.D examiner, Université de Lyon-II, Dr Nicholas Genis, Mémoire et espace : archéologie de l’identité collective en Grèce ancienne (December 2018). Ph.D examiner, Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier, Dr Clément Sarrazanas, ‘Agonothésie, athlothésie et coregie ā Athènes. Organisation et organisateurs des concours civique aux épqoeus hellénistique et impériale’ (February 2015) Ph.D examiner, "G. d'Annunzio" of Chieti-Pescara/Doctor Europaeus, Dr Ilaria Bultrighini, ‘Demi attici della paralia’, (March 2012) Ph.D examiner, The University of Nottingham (October 2011) Ph.D examiner, University of Paris I (Sorbonne), Dr Paulin Ismard, ‘La cité des réseaux. Athènes et ses associations, VIe-Ier siècle av. J.-C.’ (November 2008) Ph.D examiner, The University of Leicester (September 2008)
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Internal examiner of doctoral dissertations, The University of Liverpool: Alexander Karafotias/Hellenistic Crete, June 1997; Joe Skinner/Greek Ethnicity, October 2009.
External Member of PhD prospectus review committee, Dept. of History, University of North Carolina (Mr. B. J. Washington; Summer 2017)
Professional Association Memberships/Service
Editorial Board, Ergasterion (new Italian e-journal for Greco-Roman epigraphy) American Society for Greek and Latin Epigraphy (2013-) Association of Ancient Historians (2013-) British Epigraphy Society (also Founding Committee Member, 1997-1999) (1997-) Association Internationale d’Épigraphie grecque et latine (1999- Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies Roman Society Joint Association of Classical Teachers Classical Association (UK) Liverpool Classical Association (Treasurer, 2011-2013) American Institute of Archaeology (2011/12-) Society for Classical Studies (2013-2016) Economic History Association (2013-2014) American History Association (2016-2017)
Conferences Organized
2018 Co-organizer with A. Matthaiou, A. Scafuro, An Attic Epigraphy Workshop in Honor of Leslie Threatte, Epigraphical Museum, Athens, October 19-21. 2017 Lead organizer, with Prof. John Bodel, Annual Meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians, Brown University, 4-6 May, 2017. 2012 Co-organizer with Dr Z. Archibald, Retail and wholesale in the Greek and Roman Eastern Mediterranean, University of Liverpool. 2009 Co-organizer with Professor C. J. Tuplin and Dr F. Hobden, Xenophon: ethical principle and historical enquiry, International conference at The University of Liverpool. 2006 Co-organizer with Professor V. Gabrielsen (Copenhagen), Professor J. K. Davies and Dr Z. Archibald (Liverpool), Hellenistic Economies III Conference, Copenhagen.
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2004 Co-organizer of ‘Cultures of Commemoration: war memorials, ancient and modern’, at The British Academy, London, with Prof. P. J. Rhodes (Durham) and Dr P. Low (Manchester). 2003 Co-organizer with Dr Z. Archibald (Liverpool), ‘The Power of the Individual: people, groups and Greek economies,’ in honor of Professor J. K. Davies, Liverpool. 1999 Co-organizer with Dr C. J. Tuplin, ‘The World of Xenophon’ at The University of Liverpool. Co-organizer, with Dr Gillian Clark, of the Annual Conference of the Classical Association, at The University of Liverpool. 1998 Co-organizer with Professor J. K. Davies and Dr Z. A. Archibald, ‘Hellenistic Economies’, Liverpool. Organizer, ‘Divine Epigraphy’, The British Epigraphy Society Spring Colloquium, one-day national conference at Liverpool. Organizer, ‘Seafaring and Seapower in the Eastern Mediterranean before 500 B.C.’, one-day national conference at Liverpool, (The Sea in Antiquity series). 1995 Organizer, ‘Funerary Inscriptions: Problems and Prospects,’ one-day international conference at Liverpool. 1994 International conference to discuss the revision and computerization of Athenian Propertied Families at Liverpool.
Service
Brown University: Member of the Committee on Grievance, Alternate Member (September 2016-June 2019) Organizer of the inter-disciplinary seminar, CRAM (Cultures and Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean): Fall 2015-Spring 2016; Fall 2017-Spring 2018 (with John Bodel) Member of the Steering Committee (S4: Spatial Structures in the Social Sciences, 2015-2017) History Graduate Student Association, Faculty Adviser and Respondent (October 2015, Graduate Student Conference) Organizing Committee Member, Land & Water Conference (September 2015) Honorary Degree Committee member, 2014-2015 and 2015-2016. Reading at Latin Carol Celebration, December 2014 and 2015 (sponsored by Dept. of Classics) Director of PhD Ancient History program (July 2014-June 2016, Fall 2017-present) Director of Modern Greek Studies (Fall 2014-Spring 2015)
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Preliminary examinations (PhD Ancient History, Brown), examiner (Greek History): Fall '14: Machado; Spring '15: Fairbank; Fall '16: Fairbank; Caldis; Spring '17: Karper; Samori; (PhD Classics, Brown, timekeeper): Spring '14: Philbrick; ReshFall '16: Hull; Spring '17: Valdivieso; PhD Prospectus Defense: Lupino (Political Science, Fall 2016) Advisor (four advisees, First Year Students, 2014-2015; five advisees, Sophomores, 2015-2016 Academic Exchange Visit to HiSoMA, University of Lyon II, France, November 2017. Hosted Invited Visiting Professor (Spring 2014) Prof. Krzysztof Nawotka (University of Wrocław); Hosted Annual Hellenistic History Group Visiting Lecturer, Christelle Fischer-Bovet (Spring 2017); Jonathan Prag (Spring 2016) Written reports on Annual Review cases (Dept. of Classics) Member of Dept. of Classics TPAC committee (for Hanink, Asst. to Assoc. Prof; for Hamilakis, appmt, as Full Professor; for Mignone, Asst. to Assoc. Prof); for Nieto- Hernandez (Lead Committee Member; for Senior Lecturer to Distinguished Senior lecturer, 2017-2018) Written references for Brown PhD Students: MacDonald, Thomas, Brinkman, Mulder, Harrington, Settle, Samori, Karper, McBride, Schultz (2014-2015); McBride, Mulder, Harrington, Swalec, Gianni, Caldis, (2015-2016); Tomkins (2016-2017) Written references for Brown Undergraduates: (2017): Alexander Cogut; Austin Meyer; (2016) Lovejoy; (2014-2015) Farrior, Pincket, Dunwell, Craig, Banta, O’Callaghan Reviewer, Salomon Research Awards (2013, 2015)
University of Liverpool: 2012-2013 Academic Lead, Student Experience, School of Histories, Languages and Cultures; Project Lead for the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Postgraduate Program Review; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Student Experience Committee; Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Curriculum Review Implementation Group (CRIG) 2011-2013 Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences Academic Quality Standards Committee 2010-2013 Deputy Academic Lead, Student Experience, School of Histories, Languages and Cultures; Academic Lead, Academic Quality Standards, School of Histories, Languages and Cultures 2010-2011 Director of Studies, MA Classics/MA Ancient History 2008-2010 Academic Quality Standards Committee, Faculty of Arts
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2008-2009 Chair, Learning and Teaching, Faculty of Arts. 2007-2009 Careers Officer, School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology. 2006-2009 Director of Learning and Teaching, School of Archaeology, Classics and Egyptology 2006-2008 Learning and Teaching Committee, Faculty of Arts; Assistant Director, 18th Century Worlds Research team 2004-2006 Director of Studies and Admissions Tutor, Ancient History and Archaeology (UG program). 2004-2005 Learning and Teaching Committee, Faculty of Arts 1996-1999 Director of Studies, MA Classics/MA Hellenistic Studies
Outside Service to the Profession
Member-At-Large, Executive Committee, American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (by election): start January 2018. Consultant for sciencemag.org article on climate change in Ptolemaic Egyt (Fall 2017; article) External Reviewer of PhD program in Post-Classical History, University of Wrocław (December 2014) External Reviewer for Tenure Committee for Full Professorships: 2014: University of Waterloo (Canada); Columbia University (NYC, USA) Anonymous Referee/Peer Review full book Manuscripts: Princeton University Press; Cambridge University Press; Brill (2017); Oxford University Press (2017) publishing proposals, Palgrave Macmillan; Oxford University Press, Routledge, Continuum Books academic journals: Antichthon, Greece & Rome (2017), Hesperia (2017), Journal of Economic History, Journal of Hellenic Studies, and Phoenix funding bodies: British Academy, Wellcome Trust; Arts and Humanities Research Council (UK; anonymous referee); Leverhulme Award (UK; named referee; Spring 2017); Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Spring 2016) Peer Review: foreign expert for the annual prize awarded by SoPHAU (Society of Professors of Ancient History in France) to the best doctoral dissertation in France, 2007. The British School at Athens, Member of Sub-Committee, Courses and Teaching (Spring 2012-2013) The British School at Athens, Member of Council (2004-2008)
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The British School at Athens, Acting Chair of sub-committee responsible for Awards and Studentships, British School at Athens (2005-6) The British School at Athens, Member of the Sub-committee for Awards and Studentships (2004-2005; 2005-2006 to 2008-2009) Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies, Member of Council (2006-2009) External examiner for the University of Manchester (Ancient History, UG and PGT; 2007/2008 to 2009/10); National University of Ireland, Maynooth (Classics and Classical Studies, UG and PGT; 2010/2011 to current); St David’s University, Lampeter (Ancient History, UG and PGT; 2012/13 onwards) ‘Epigraphy in the Classroom’, joint project with Dr Chris Ann Matteo, that developed the use of epigraphy as a way of teaching ancient language (SKYPE lessons with High School students in Virginia).
Previous Professional/Work Experience
2012 Peter Sommer Travel, expert tour guide (Carian/Lycian Coast, Turkey). 1993-1994 Oxford University Press, Oxford English Dictionary Division, Editorial Assistant to the Words Project
Conference Papers and Lectures (papers and titles for the last three years; thereafter occasions only)
2019 "150 Years, and More, of Teaching the Epigraphical Sciences (or, Epigraphical Training Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow)’, Society for Classical Studies, Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 4-6 January. 2018 ‘Shoes, Markets, and Institutions: re-thinking the ancient economy’, Rutgers University, NJ, November 12. “Report on IG II3 1, 3 fascicle’ (Oct. 20), ‘Athenian Decrees, orators, and the city’s international relations in the late fourth century B.C.’ (Oct. 21), An Attic Epigraphy Workshop in Honor of Leslie Threatte, Epigraphical Museum, Athens, October 19-21 (co-organizer of conference). 2017 ' The Economy of the Greek Polis under the Successors: Athens, 307-301 BC', 15th International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (AIEGL; quinquennial
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conference, Aug. 28-Sept. 1, 2017), Vienna, Austria (paper selected by organizing committee for presentation). '1000 years of evolution? The adaptation and survival of the Greek polis', American Historical Association, Panel on Early States, Jan. 8, 2017 (by invitation). 2016 'Athens over the Longue Durée', TOPOI Excellence Cluster, Workshop. Economic Growth in Antiquity, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, Nov. 18-21, 2016 (by invitation). Respondent, New England Ancient History Colloquium, Southern Connecticut State University, October 13, 2016, New Haven (to Michael Leese, The Intergenerational Transmission of Commerical and Financial Business Estates in Ancient Greece'; by invitation). 'A Priests’ List of Halicarnassus' (le séminaire d’épigraphie grecque et latine d’HiSoMA, Lyon, France; Oct. 4, 2016; by invitation) ‘Un- or intentional obfuscation? Hidden writing in ancient Greece’, in Hidden Writing Conference (Brown University, Providence, April 11; by invitation) ‘ShoEconomics: Market Size and the Supply of Footwear in Classical Athens’, SCS Panel Markets and the Ancient Greek Economy (Jan. 6-9; San Francisco; by invitation) 2015 ‘The Political Economy of the Hellenistic World and the Alexander Romance’ at the International Conference, The Alexander Romance: History and Literature, Wrocław (Poland; by invitation) ‘The Differential Success of Ancient Cities and our Search for Economic Growth in the Greek Polis’ (Yale; by invitation) ‘Greek Inscriptions’, RISD Museum/Haffenreffer Museum of Anthropology, Brown University, ‘To Search: Investigation of the Virtual and Material Lives of Objects’ (by invitation) ‘Correspondence royal avec les Athéniens: communication entre les rois et la polis grecque à la haute époque hellénistique’ (Montpelier, Feb. 5; by invitation) ‘Royal Correspondence with the Athenians: Communication between Kings, Successors, and the Greek Polis before and after Alexander the Great’ (Jan, 29) Dept. of Classics, Yale University (by invitation) ‘War, Profit, Loss, and the Hellenistic Greek Polis: A Balance Sheet’, Society of Classical Studies Annual Meeting, New Orleans (LA), (Jan. 11; panel member, by invitation) 2014
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‘Royal Correspondence and Athens: Communications between the Successors and the Greek polis in the Early Hellenistic period”, International Alexander Symposium (October 9-11, 2014), University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT. ‘Change and Continuity in the Economies of the Hellenistic Polis;, in Rethinking the Polis in the Hellenistic Age, International Conference (June 2-3, 2014), Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolleg, Konstanz (Germany). ‘People and cities: economic horizons beyond the Hellenistic polis’, Economic History Association 74th Annual Meeting (Sept. 12-14, 2014), Ohio State University, Columbus, OH. ‘Athenian State Finances During the Restored Democracy (307-301 BCE), International Symposium in Memory of David M. Lewis (May 30-June 1, 2014) ‘The Business of State: Public Finance in Hellenistic Athens’, New England Ancient History Colloquium, Harvard University, MA (April 11, 2014). ‘Autobiography, Lycurgus, and the shaping of history in early Hellenistic Athens’, in Lycurgus in Transition: Old and New (March 28-30, 2014), Kyoto, Japan ‘War economy, and governance in Hellenistic Athens’, (March 24, 2014, University of Tokyo; March 28, Kyoto) ‘Total recall? Lycurgus, biography, and civic honor in Athens’ (Feb. 11, 2014), Cultures & Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean, Brown University. 2013 ‘The new economies of ancient Athens: financial and institutional change in the Hellenistic polis’, Brown University (Feb. 21, 2013) 2012 Plenary paper, XIVth International Congress for Greek and Latin Epigraphy, Berlin; Menander in Contexts, The University of Nottingham; Mobilités grecques : migrations, réseaux, contacts en Méditerranée, de l’époque archaïque à l’époque hellénistique, University of Paris X (Nanterre), Paris, France; Joint APA/AIA meeting, Philadelphia, Pa., USA. 2011 Annual Classical Association Conference, University of Durham; Annual Meeting, Joint Association of Classical Teachers;British Society for Eighteenth Century Studies, Annual Conference, St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford. 2010 Classics and Class, British Academy Conference, London; Annual Classical Association Conference, University of Cardiff; Clisthène et Lycurgue d’Athènes : autour du politique dans la cité classique, University of Paris (Sorbonne), Paris. 2008
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Age of the successors 323-270 BC, Leuven, Belgium; Annual Classical Association Conference, University of Liverpool. 2007 SOPHAU: Annual Meeting of Ancient Historians in France, The University of Bordeaux III, France; Agoranomoi, International Research Project (GDRI) on the Ancient Market, University of Bordeaux III, France. 2006 The Athenian Acropolis in the Hellenistic and Roman period, University of Bonn, Germany; International Conference on Athenian Epigraphy, in honor of Professor Christian Habicht, Athens, Greece; Creating Hellenistic Worlds, University of Edinburgh
2005 The epigraphic habit: inscriptions in the polis, conference in honor of P.J. Rhodes, Rhodes, Greece; Individus, groupes, et politique à Athènes: recherches et perspectives, University of Tours, France. 2004 Approches de l’économie hellenistique, Saint-Bertrand-de-Comminges, France.; Communities within the Greek City: the Greek City after the Classical Age, Royal Holloway, London; Cultures of Commemoration: War Memorials, Ancient and Modern, British Academy, London. 2003 Conference in honor of H. D. Mattingly, The University of Cambridge 2002 Early Hellenistic Portraiture: Images, Styles and Contexts, Athens. 2001 The Macedonians in Athens, 323-229 B.C., Athens, Greece; Joint Societies, Triennial Conference, Oxford. 2000 Symposium in honor of A. Wilhelm, The Austrian Archaeological Institute, Athens with the Greek Epigraphical Society, Athens 1999 Canadian Archaeological Institute, International Conference, Athens; Annual Classical Association Conference, University of Liverpool. 1998 Epigraphy and Its Afterlife, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford; Boundaries, The University of Wales Classics and Ancient History Colloquium, Gregynog,
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1997 The Economic and Non-Economic Use of Money, Corpus Christi College, Oxford. 1996 TAG ’96 (Theoretical Archaeology Group) conference, Liverpool; Annual Classical Association Conference, University of Nottingham. 1995 History and computing conference, Selwyn College, Cambridge; Annual Classical Association Conference, University of St Andrews.
Distinguished Lectures
2012 Visiting Fellow’s Lecture, British School at Athens, Greece. ‘Boundaries within the Athenian polis: spatiality and epigraphy’, 2007 7th Dorothy Buchan Memorial Lecture, The University of Leicester. 'Femina politica: the evolution of democracy in Hellenistic Athens?'
Invited Lectures
2016 University of Pennsylvania; University of Lyon II Lumière, HiSoMA, Epigraphy Seminar, France; TOPI, Cluster of Excellence, Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. 2015 8th Roztovtzeff Colloquium, Yale University; University of Wrozław/Poland; Dept. of Classics, Yale University; Université Paul-Valéry Montpellier/France. 2014 Kulturwissenschaftliches Kolleg, Konstanz; International Symposium in Memory of David M. Lewis; New England Ancient History Colloquium; Universities of Kyoto and Tokyo, Japan. 2103 Greek Epigraphical Society/Ecole française d’Athènes, Athens; University of Nottingham. 2012 University of Turin, Italy. 2010 Collège de France, Paris; Ancient History Research Seminar, University of Manchester; Ancient History Seminar, Institute of Classical Studies, London; University of Leicester/Higher Education Teaching Academy. 2009 The University of Cambridge. 2008 Ancient History Seminar, Institute of Classical Studies, London; University of Oxford, Educational Division. 2007 Classical Association, Manchester; Joint Meeting of the Society of for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies and the British Epigraphy Society, London; The University of Oxford.
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2006 Research seminar, The University of Edinburgh; Classical Association, Nottingham. 2005 Classical Association, Leeds’ Accordia Research Institute/Institute of Classical Studies, London. 2003 Research seminar, British School at Athens. 2000 Ancient History Seminar, University of Manchester. 1999 Classical Association, Bangor, North Wales. 1998 Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, University of Oxford; Research Seminar, The University of Leicester.
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