American Philological AssociationNewsletter LETTER FROM THE PRESIDENT Letter from the President. .1 By now you have all heard about the APA’s Capital Cam- APA News Blog. .2 paign, and many of you have already made generous con- Slate of Candidates for Summer 2010 Elections. 2 tributions. The campaign has a number of worthy goals, Nominating Committee Report. .3 but I want to use this opportunity to talk about the one Distinguished Service Award. .4 that is closest to my heart–an endowment to support the APA President’s Award. .4 American Office of the l’Année philologique. As you all C.J. Goodwin Award of Merit know, The APh is the bibliography of record in our field, 2009 Recipient. .5 the place where all of our publications are documented, Call for Nominations for 2010. .5 indexed and assigned to headings in a standard format so Previous Winners. .7 other scholars can learn about them, now and in the fu- Awards for Excellence in the Teaching of Classics ture, and we can find out about the books and articles we 2009 Recipients. .6 need for our own work. Call for Nominations for 2010. 10 Previous Winners. .8 While it is true that much research these days begins with Awards for Excellence in Precollegiate Teaching Google, professional, scholarly research never ends there. 2009 Recipient. .11 The titles of books appear, sometimes with their entire Call for Nominations for 2010. 12 contents, through the good offices of Google Books, and Previous Winners. .9 a search on JStor can lead the way to relevant articles in Outreach Prize English language journals (for the most part), but none of 2009 Recipient. .13 these services, useful as they are, can produce a com- Call for Nominations for 2010. 13 plete, reliable account of all the work a real scholar needs Previous Winners. .9 to see. The APh is the sole source of comprehensive in- Reports of Vice Presidents. .14 formation about European publications of all types, and 2010 Coffin Award. .23 simply put, we cannot do without it. In Memoriam. .24 141st Annual Meeting Report. 29 Beyond bibliography the APh is now poised become a Acknowledgements of Service to the APA. 29 much more widely-ranging and versatile research tool. Volunteers for 2011 Annual Meeting. .30 With support from the NEH for the DCB project, the Announcements. .30 APh has been online since 2002, and links to JStor di- Awards to Members. .31 rectly from citations in the APh can now be installed Meetings. .31 through OpenURL. Beyond this, the APA has funding Summer Programs. .31 from the Mellon Foundation for software and database Fellowships / Funding Opportunities. .31 development that will facilitate linking between citations 2010 Officers, Directors & Committee Members.32 of Greek and Latin texts in the APh with full texts online, Newsletter Editorial Policies. 35 and it has recently received funding from the Kress Foun- Important Deadlines. .36 dation to test the possibility of links to images. A new, Officer/Committee Survey. .37 up-to-date user-interface is also on the way. APA Office Publications Order Form. 39 141st Annual Meeting Photo Montage. .42 The APh has grown and changed over the years, yet it Capital Campaign News. Back Page retains its original spirit. It was founded in Paris in 1926 by J. Marouzeau, as a challenge to the Bibliotheca philologica classica, and it has been published annually (see PRESIDENT on page 2) The American Philological Association Newsletter (ISSN 0569-6941) is published 4 times a year (Winter, Spring, Summer, and Au- tumn) by the American Philological Association. ($3.00 of the annual dues is allocated to the publication of the Newsletter.) Send materials for publication; communications on Placement, membership, changes of address; and claims to: Executive Director, American Philological Association, 292 Claudia Cohen Hall, University of Pennsylvania, 249 S. 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6304. Third- class postage paid at Philadelphia, PA. Telephone: (215) 898-4975 / Fax: (215) 573-7874 E-mail: [email protected] / Website: http://www.apaclassics.org Winter 2010 - Volume 33 - No. 1 2 WINTER 2010 PRESIDENT (from front cover) becomes available. The advantage of this vehicle is that it since 1927. Juliette Ernst, who worked with Marouzeau permits members to subscribe to various services that will from the earliest years, and shared his view of classics as alert them when something new has been posted to the an interdisciplinary area study, succeeded him as director blog (see under "Subscribe to APA News"). We hope to in 1965. Her heroic efforts kept the bibliography alive add this capability to the APA web site itself as soon as during the Second World War when she made clandes- possible; in the interim, a subscription to the blog will tine border crossings from Switzerland into occupied alert you to new information France to bring her manuscripts to the printer and cor- rect proof. She retired in 1992, at age ninety-two, twenty- Adam D. Blistein two years after the mandatory retirement age, when her Executive Director eyesight began to fail, and died in 2001. In 1965, when the quantity of publications became too great for the Paris office to handle, Mlle Ernst convinced CANDIDATES FOR 2010 ELECTIONS T. Robert Broughton to create an American Office at Chapel Hill which took over the collecting and editing of President-Elect all of the English language publications. It is that office, Barbara K. Gold which documents your work and mine, that needs our Jeffrey Henderson support. It has been funded, since its founding, by suc- cessive grants from the NEH, which is now redirecting its Vice President for Program resources away from projects that have no definable end- Joseph Farrell point. A cumulative bibliography, like the APh, is up- William A. Johnson dated every year, and falls outside the NEH’s current guidelines. The Endowment has not abandoned us en- Board of Directors tirely, however. Far from it! It has given the APA a Chal- Fritz Graf lenge Grant of up to $650,000 to help the Association Jonathan M. Hall raise the funding it needs to ensure that the American Leslie Kurke Office can continue its work. Kathryn A. Morgan Charles Platter The NEH will give us one dollar for every four we con- tribute, so we need a total of 2.6 million dollars to achieve Education Committee our goals. We have already made great progress toward Keely Lake our goal, but we still need $600,000 by July 31, 2010, Nigel Nicholson and then $500,000 more by July 31, 2011 to fully fund the American Office and support classics in other Goodwin Award Committee crucial ways. Please help by visiting this web site: https:// James I. Porter app.etapestry.com/hosted/AmericanPhilologicalAssociat/ James E. G. Zetzel OnlineDonation.html, and giving what you can. Nominating Committee Dee L. Clayman Laurel Fulkerson Richard P. Martin Paul Alan Miller Joseph D. Reed APA NEWS BLOG Professional Matters Committee As announced in the October-December 2009 Newslet- Ruby Blondell ter, the APA will publish only four newsletters each year Mary T. Boatwright but will issue more frequent updates in electronic form. These updates will appear on the APA web site and in e- Program Committee mails to members as we have done for a number of years. Antonios Augoustakis In addition, we will take advantage of a news blog created Kirk Freudenburg by Web Editor Robin Mitchell-Boyask (http:// Corinne O. Pache apaclassics.blogspot.com/). APA Officers (as well as Peter T. Struck Robin and myself) will post information on this blog as it APA NEWSLETTER 3 Publications Committee by the committee members were considered. After thor- John Bodel ough, sometimes lengthy, discussion, each committee Helma J. M. Dik member ranked the names on agreed lists of possible nomi- nees, which ranged in number from 16 names to 24. Members are reminded that it is possible to nominate The final rankings were determined by the cumulative additional candidates by petition. Nominations of candi- scores assigned by the entire Committee. After the vot- dates not proposed by the Nominating Committee shall ing, we discussed possible conflicts and imbalances in the require the signature of twenty members in good stand- voting results, e.g., contests for any office between two ing (2010 dues must be paid) and must be reported to members of the same department, or between members the Executive Director by April 15, 2010. A current who have a recognized conflict of interest. We also kept curriculum vitae of the candidate, who must also be a in mind problems of balance in disciplinary interests, types member in good standing, should be submitted by the of institutions, etc. where relevant to particular commit- same deadline. tees. To the extent that it was possible to do so, we sought to avoid slates with a significant imbalance in name recog- nition. NOMINATING COMMITTEE REPORT After each meeting the Co-Chairs contacted proposed candidates in the order of the Committee’s ranking. We The 2009-2010 Nominating Committee met for two had notable success this year, winning agreement from full days, first on November 7, 2009 in Philadelphia, our first choices for every single office, and filling the and then on January 6, 2010 in Anaheim. The slate in all but four instances with candidates who were committee’s deliberations and subsequent conversations among our top five choices. We feel, therefore, that the of the co-chairs with nominees produced a slate of twenty- slate is a strong one and reflects reasonably well the five candidates for twelve vacancies in nine offices to run Committee’s efforts to balance the roster of candidates in the 2010 elections.