Dr. Kevin Funderburk Department of Classics, Baylor University One Bear Place # 97352 Waco, TX 76798 (254) 710-7935 (office) (254) 755-0273 (home) Curriculum Vitae EDUCATION • PhD in Ancient History, University of Pennsylvania. Dissertation: “Defining love and duty in Roman Egypt: a relational approach to the negotiation of family obligations,” (defended May 2013). Adviser: Campbell A. Grey. • MA in Classics, University of Colorado at Boulder (May 2007). • BA with honors in Classics and History, Baylor University: Waco, TX (May 2005). Honors thesis: “Fundamentalism ancient and modern: the Zealots and the Taliban.” FURTHER EXPERIENCE AND HONORS • Postdoctoral team member in proposal to the Swiss National Science Foundation for research on families in the Eastern Mediterranean, supervisor Sabine Huebner of Basel Universität – project funding pending. Anticipated duration: April 2016 – April 2019. • Cataloguing papyrus collections: supervisor, Dirk Obbink (Oxford): summer 2014, -15. • Vetting documentary editions for the Green Papyri volume (Baylor): spring & fall 2014. • School of Arts and Sciences Dean’s Dissertation Completion Fellowship (UPenn 2012- 13) – one of fifteen selected from eighty applicants from the Graduate School. • American Society of Papyrologists summer seminar (Univ. of Michigan): summer 2009 – preliminary edition of P.Cornell II 98 and Coptic language training. • Summer intensive course, modern Hebrew (Univ. of Haifa): summer 2008. • Tel Dor, Israel – Univ. of Washington archaeological project: summer 2007. • Villa of Maxentius, Rome – CU-Boulder archaeological project: summer 2006. LIST OF PUBLICATIONS Peer-reviewed articles: • Edition of GC.PAP.000532, “Early Ptolemaic naukleros receipt,” in J. Fish (ed.) The Green Papyri, vol. 1 (Brill – in preparation). 1 • Edition of GC.PAP.000279.1-2, “Byzantine deed of surety,” in J. Fish (ed.) The Green Papyri, vol. 1 (Brill – in preparation). • “Contesting the Jerusalem Temple: James the brother of Jesus, Nazirite vows and celibacy,” in S. Huebner and C. Laes (eds.) Singles and the Single Life in the Roman and late Roman Worlds (in progress). • Edition of Oxyrhynchus collection 71/1 (c), “Application of purchase from the reign of Pescennius Niger,” in The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, vol. LXXXI (in press). • Edition of Oxyrhynchus collection 35 4B.67E (1-2)a, “Legal precedents for use in court case?” (in preparation). • Entries for the Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, ed. Oliver Nicholson (Oxford—in press), totaling 1,000 words plus bibliography: trapeza / trapezetes, oikos (household), epoikion, kome, headman (village), ktema, tax and census registers, village. Reviews: • Review for Classical Review of Violence in Roman Egypt: a study in legal interpretation, Ari Z. Bryen (Philadelphia 2013). • Review for BMCR of New Documents Illustrating Early Christianity, vol. X, eds. S.R. Llewelyn, J.R. Harrison and E.J. Budge (Grand Rapids, MI 2012). Conference papers: • Singles and the Single Life in the Roman and later Roman Worlds, May 2015 (Rome): “Contesting the Temple: Nazirite vows and primitive Christian celibacy.” • Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 2014 (Waco, TX): “Reworking petitionary vocabulary in Late Antiquity.” • 27th International Congress of Papyrology, July 2013 (Warsaw): “Priests facing the Roman regime: debt, land and the urban – rural divide.” • American Philological Association, January 2013 (Seattle, WA): “Divine birthdays and family obligations in Roman Egypt.” • Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 2011 (Grand Rapids, MI): “The Advantages of the Epistle: Egeria’s Itinerarium.” • Program in the Ancient World (PAW) conference, January 2010 (Princeton, NJ)— “Failure to Engage the Sicilian Periphery: Eryx and Motya.” 2 • Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 2006 (Gainesville, FL): “Jerome, Jews and theological incoherence.” FURTHER INTERESTS AND TEACHING EXPERIENCE Research interests: • Ancient social history, especially relational dynamics and family history. • Documentary papyrology (Greek, Latin, Coptic). • Patristic and late antique letter corpora, sermons and tractates. • Josephus within Greco-Roman historiography. • Iron Age kingship and Greek political experimentation. • Hellenistic kingship and elite Roman self-definition. Teaching interests: • Ancient social history, especially relational dynamics and family history. • Documentary papyrology (Greek, Latin, Coptic). • Patristic and late antique letter corpora, sermons and tractates. • Josephus within Greco-Roman historiography. • Iron Age kingship and Greek political experimentation. • Hellenistic kingship and elite Roman self-definition. Teaching experience: • Temporary lecturer at Baylor University, 2013-present: Introductory Latin and Greek (LAT / GKC 1301-1302 respectively); Intermediate Latin prose, Cicero (LAT 2310); Intermediate Greek Prose, Lysias, Plato’s Apology, selections from Acts of the Apostles (GKC/B 2310); Classical Greek Myth scheduled for spring 2016. • Teacher of record at the University of Pennsylvania: Ancient Roman history introduction, summer 2011; Ancient Greek history introduction, summer 2012. • TA: Ancient Roman history, spring 2008 & 2009, under J. McInerney and C. Grey. • TA: Ancient Greek history, fall 2007 & 2008, under J. McInerney. • Teaching assistant at the University of Colorado, Boulder: Roman Civilization, spring 2007 under Peter Knox. • TA: Greek Myth, fall 2006 under Susan Prince. 3 • Instructor and teacher of record at CU-Boulder: first-year Latin, fall 2005 & spring 2006; Alison Orlebeke, supervisor. • Undergraduate teaching assistant and grader: Baylor University, World History (1400- 1750) from August 2002 to May 2005 under D.E. Mungello. Skills and languages: • Social history, papyrology, Greek and Roman history and historiography, early Christian literature and classical context, comparative history. • Ancient languages: Greek, Latin, biblical Hebrew (intermediate), Syriac (advanced beginner), Coptic (advanced beginner) • Modern languages: Spanish (conversational), French (reading), German (reading), Italian (reading), modern Hebrew (beginner’s). Professional affiliations: • American Society of Papyrologists, 2009 to present. • American Philological Association, 2007 to present. • Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 2003 to present. References: Professor Campbell Grey Professor Jeremy McInerney 249 S. 36th St., Rm. 262 249 S. 36th St., Rm. 264 Logan (Cohen) Hall Logan (Cohen) Hall Philadelphia, PA 19104 Philadelphia, PA 19104 215-898-6941 [email protected] 215-898-8619 [email protected] Professor Cynthia Damon 249 S. 36th St., Rm. 227 Professor Emeritus R.A. Kraft Logan (Cohen) Hall 249 S. 36th St., Rm. 201 Philadelphia, PA 19104 Logan (Cohen) Hall 215-898-7825/7425 Philadelphia, PA 19104 [email protected] [email protected] 4 .