From the Chair Position

ClassicalDEPARTMENT OF CLASSICAL STUDIES ALUMNI NEWSLETTER Studies • VOL. 21 • SUMMER 2017 From the Chair position. We wish him the very Visiting Assistant Professor by Matt Christ best in his new endeavors. in Classical Archaeology. Nick Martin Shedd, who just has just completed a two- ur students and faculty received his Ph.D. this spring year postdoctoral teaching have enjoyed a great in the Department, will step fellowship at North Carolina Oyear in Bloomington in to cover Adam’s courses in State, which he took up after and abroad. As a special feature 2017-18 as Visiting Assistant serving three years as Assistant of this newsletter, we include Professor. Director at the American several students’ firsthand We also bid a fond farewell to School of Classical Studies accounts of the wonderful Noah Kaye, who as Visiting at Athens. His specialty is experiences they have had Assistant Professor for the the Bronze Age Aegean and over the past year in their past two years has made it Cyprus, and he is working on a studies and travels outside possible for us to offer a range monograph, Before Daedalus: Bloomington. You will also of stimulating courses in Greek Tools and Elite Stone Working find two memorial tributes, material culture. Noah has in the Mycenaean World. one to Tom Jacobsen, an also had a significant impact Archaeologists may recognize emeritus faculty member of the outside the classroom, not least him as the author of a major Department, who died this past in taking students with him article, “Making the Lion January at age 81, the other to to conduct fieldwork on Dana Gate Relief at Mycenae: Tool Derek Vint, our departmental Island in Turkey (check out the Marks and Foreign Influence,” office manager for over forty lovely photos of Dana Island in in the American Journal of years, who died in June at age this newsletter). Noah will be Archaeology (118.3 [2014] 62. We will miss both Tom and taking up a tenure-line position 451-488). Derek greatly. in the History Department at Our department owes a As in past years, there are a Michigan State in 2018-19, special debt to a number of number of faculty transitions but will spend the coming people who have helped it to to report. First, Adam year as Senior Fellow at Koç operate smoothly this past Gitner, Assistant Professor, University’s Research Center year. Jon Ready took on will be leaving IUB to take for Anatolian Civilizations the duties of DGS this year up a continuing position in Istanbul; the research while simultaneously serving at the Thesaurus Linguae project he will be pursuing is as Director of the Ancient Latinae in Munich. Adam “Overnight Empire: Attalids of Studies Program, and among held a prestigious Humboldt Pergamon and Anatolia.” his many contributions he has Postdoctoral Fellowship for This fall we will welcome recruited a strong incoming 2016-17 at the University in Noah’s place Nick class of new graduate students. of Cologne, Institut für Blackwell (Bryn Mawr, Ph.D., Cynthia Bannon served Altertumskunde, and will stay 2011), who will serve as the not only as supervisor of our on in Germany in his new department’s first Schrader elementary Latin program, but (continued on page 2) From the Chair (cont.) as DUS, a position she knows officer for the department in Highlights of the thoroughly, after thirteen place of Derek Vint since early Graduate Year years of experience in this February. Yvette Rollins 2016 - 2017 office (it should also be noted likewise deserves our gratitude that Cynthia won her fourth for her many years of service by Jon Ready Trustees Teaching Award to the department, and her Associate Professor and Director this year!). Kim Hinton, heroic efforts to keep the of Graduate Studies our undergraduate staff office operating in this time of he department’s advisor, continues to guide our transition. We wish Yvette a graduate program students expertly through their very happy retirement as she thrived in 2016–17. The course selections and timely enters this new phase of life in T graduate students returned completion of their graduation July 2017, and rides off into from their exile on the sixth requirements. the sunset on Star. floor of Ballantine Hall: now Running our department Please let us know if you have both faculty and graduate office is a major task. We any news you would like to students reside on the fifth have been fortunate to have share with your classmates and floor. A spacious three-room Carol Glaze, our neighbor in former teachers, and do look us suite, including a proper the American Studies office, up if you are in Bloomington! seminar space, allows the stepping in as acting fiscal students to work in peace. Several students were on the conference circuit. Mitch Arceneaux and Charles Castanon gave papers at the meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South in Kitchener, Ontario, and Martin Shedd delivered a talk at the Society for Classical Studies convention in Toronto. Peter Kotiuga presented at the Classical Association of New England meeting, and Ron Orr spoke on Polybius at a conference in Germany. On the fellowship front, Eric Beckman spent the year at the J. Paul Getty museum in Los Angeles (see his account of his time there in this newsletter). Sean Tandy won a Dissertation Completion fellowship from the College for 2017–18. We bid farewell to six students. Lindsay Pappas (M.A.T., 2017) will start teaching at Bedford North Lawrence High School. Sean Yvette Rollins rides into retirement on Star 2 2017–18 as Visiting Assistant Professor. The program will continue to flourish despite these departures. Tom Pappas is beginning his dissertation on how Aegean city-states survived in the period of shifting hegemonies between the end of the Peloponnesian War and the emergence of Alexander the Great. Tom seeks to bring out the importance of micro-networks of city- states that banded together to project strength and ward off aggressors, “similar to a beehive.” Sean Tandy will bring his dissertation to a close. His project argues that Sean Miranda (far left) accepts an Outstanding Future Educator Award during the Ostrogothic Era (ca. from the Indiana Association of Colleges for Teacher Education 489–554 CE), Roman elites used their poetic competence— Miranda also finished the Authority and Genre in the the reading, writing, and work for his M.A.T. this past Historia Augusta” under the performance of erudite Latin year and already has garnered direction of Professor Cynthia verse—to maintain class recognition for his skillful Bannon. Martin’s research cohesion and to exert political pedagogy: he received an explores how authors cope power: poetry did not simply Outstanding Future Educator and write under authoritarian reflect the sociopolitical Award from the Indiana regimes. He will be staying struggles of the day but played Association of Colleges for on with the department in a significant role in shaping Teacher Education. Charles them. Using both major works Castanon heads off with from the period, such as those an M.A. in Latin (2017) to of Boethius, Ennodius, Arator, teach as well, and Aleda and Maximianus, and minor Krill has accepted a position poems culled from various at American Preparatory in sources, Tandy shows how Draper, Utah. Peter Kotiuga, poetry was a medium uniquely having taken an M.A. in Greek suited for the creation of (2016), will continue his identity and propagation of graduate work in classics at ideology during the final phase Boston University. of the Western Roman Empire. Martin Shedd earned We welcome five new his Ph.D. in May 2017. Sean students who arrive in the fall: Tandy’s predecessor in holding Grace Anthony will pursue a Dissertation Completion an M.A.; Zoe Barnett and fellowship, Dr. Shedd authored Abby Pullen, the M.A.T.; a dissertation entitled and Ben Leach and Maddie “Inventing Free Speech: Martin Shedd, Ph.D., with Professor Cynthia Bannon Parrish, the Ph.D. 3 Report on the Susanna Shelton who Journal, one of the tangible Undergraduate studied Latin at IUB while rewards of his CAMWS Award Program 2016 - 17 completing her M.A.T. in for Outstanding Undergraduate Comparative Literature. Achievement in Classical by Cynthia Bannon Studies. Eleni Georgiadis Professor and Director Travel leads to academic graduates with two degrees— of Undergraduate Studies adventures. Rome was the Latin from the College of destination for both Alissa Classical Studies majors are Arts and Sciences and horn, Haas, who studied at IES all about academics and from the Jacobs School of Rome in fall 2016, and adventures, and often the Music—and next year she Samantha Feistritzer, two go together, whether in continues her music career as who was at the Intercollegiate the classroom or traveling to graduate assistant in the Horn Center for Classical Studies Greece and Rome. Department at the Cincinnati in Rome during spring 2017, Conservatory of Music. Liam Academic laurels continue to supported by a Pratt Traveling Perry plans to travel as much pile up for Classical Studies Fellowship. This summer, two as he can next year! majors. Seniors Brooke students take off for the eastern Bradley and Samuel Mediterranean. Over the Our courses are also taking Stubblefield were elected to summer, Emily Getz will join new directions, such as women Phi Beta Kappa, along with Noah Kaye’s archaeological and gender in the section of junor Samantha Feistritzer. team on Dana Island off the C360: Roman Literature in During 2016-17, six of our coast of Turkey, supported by Translation taught by Katie majors made the Dean’s list: a Schrader Grant, while Luis De Boer, Visiting Assistant Samantha Frazier, Ellie Hernandez, the winner of this Professor, and the brand-new Roach, and Richard Taylor, year’s Pratt Fellowship, will course on Ancient Athletics along with our three new participate in the Food Cultures (C211) designed by Adam PBK members.

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