CURRICULUM VITAE: DEBORAH BOEDEKER UPDATED 1/13/10 (2009 ITEMS IN BOLD) 1. Name, position. Deborah Boedeker Professor, Department of Classics 2. Address. 495 Lloyd Avenue Providence RI 02906 Email address: [email protected] 3. Education Wellesley College, B.A. (Latin) 1966 St. Louis University, M.A. (Latin) 1967, Ph.D. (Greek) 1973 Dissertation: “Aphrodite’s Entry into Greek Epic” (Director: Gregory Nagy, Harvard Univ.) 4. Professional Appointments St. Louis University (Teaching Associate), 1968-70 Wellesley College (Instructor), 1973 Georgetown University (Assistant Professor), 1974-76 Brooklyn College, CUNY (Assistant Professor), 1977-79 Wellesley College (Assistant Professor), 1979-81 College of the Holy Cross, Assistant Professor to Professor, 1981-92 Joint Director, Center for Hellenic Studies (Harvard University), 1992-2000 Brown University, Professor of Classics, 1992- ; Chair, 2002-05; 2006-08 5. Scholarly Publications a. Books/Monographs/Edited Volumes 1. Aphrodite's Entry into Greek Epic. Mnemosyne Supplement 32. Leiden (Brill) 1974 2. Descent from Heaven: Images of Dew in Greek Poetry and Religion. American Classical Studies 13. Chico, Calif.: Scholars Press, 1984 3. Herodotus and the Invention of History (editor) =Arethusa, vol. 20 (1987) 4. The New Simonides (co-editor) = Arethusa, vol. 29.2 (1996) 5. The World of Troy: Homer, Schliemann, and the Treasures of Priam (editor). Washington D.C.: Society for the Preservation of the Greek Heritage, 1997. (Revised proceedings of a symposium held at the Smithsonian Institution.) This volume was also published as a special issue of Classical World (1998) 6. The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Real World (editor). Washington D.C.: Society for the Preservation of the Greek Heritage, 1998. (Revised proceedings of a symposium held at the Smithsonian Institution) 7. Democracy, Empire, and the Arts in Fifth-Century Athens (co-editor). Center for Hellenic Studies Colloquium Series. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1998 (Paperback edition: Harvard Univ. Press, 2003) 8. The New Simonides: Contexts of Praise and Desire (co-editor). Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001 b. Chapters in books: 1. “Sappho and Acheron,” in Arktouros: Hellenic Studies presented to Bernard M. W. Knox, ed. G. W. Bowersock, W. Burkert, M. C. J. Putnam (Berlin 1979), pp. 40-52. 2. “The Two Faces of Demaratus,” in Herodotus and the Invention of History, ed. D. Boedeker = Arethusa 20 (1987), 185-201. 3. “Amerikanische Oral-Tradition-Forschung. Eine Einführung,” in Vergangenheit in mündlicher Überlieferung, ed. J. von Ungern-Sternberg and H. Reinau (Stuttgart 1988), 34-53. 4. “Comment: Fate and Futurity in the Greco-Roman World,” in Proceedings of the Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy 5, ed. J. Cleary and D. Shartin (Washington, D.C. 1991), 312320. 5. “Hero Cult and Politics: The Bones of Orestes,” in Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece, edd. L. Kurke and C. Dougherty, (Cambridge 1993), 164-177. 1

6. “Heroic Historiography: Simonides and Herodotus on Plataea,” in The New Simonides, = Arethusa 29 (1996: see 5a.4 above), 223-242. Revised version in The New Simonides: Contexts of Praise and Desire (see 5a.8 above), pp. 120-134. 7. “Becoming Medea: Implicit Assimilation in Euripides,” in Medea. Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy and Art, edd. S. I. Johnston and J. Clauss (Princeton 1997), 127-148. 8. “Heroizing History: Simonides and Herodotus,” in Proceedings of the Hellenic Society for Humanistic Studies, ed. J. Papademetriou (Athens 1997), 121-135. 9. “Introduction” to The World of Troy: Homer, Schliemann, and the Treasures of Priam (Washington D.C. 1997: see 5a.5 above) 10. “The New Simonides and Heroization at Plataia,” in Archaic Greece: New Approaches and New Evidence, edd. Nick Fisher and Hans van Wees (Cardiff and London 1998), 231-249 11. “Introduction,” in The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Real World (Washington, D.C. 1998: see 5a.6 above) 12. “Using the Past in Fifth-Century Athens,” in Democracy, Empire, and the Arts in Fifth-Century Athens (1998: see 5a.7 above), 185-202 13. “Introduction” (with K. Raaflaub), ibid., 1-13 14. “Reflections and Conclusions: Democracy, Empire and the Arts in Fifth-Century Athens” (with K. Raaflaub), ibid., 319-344 15. “Herodotus’ Genres,” in Matrices of Genre: Authors, Canons, Society, edd. M. Depew and D. Obbink (Cambridge, Mass. 2000), 97-114 16. “Paths to Heroization at Plataea,” in The New Simonides: Contexts of Praise and Desire (see 5a.8 above), 148-163 17. “Epic Heritage and Mythical Patterns in Herodotus,” in Brill’s Companion to Herodotus, edd. Egbert J. Bakker, Irene J. F. de Jong, and Hans van Wees (Leiden 2002), 97-116. 18. “Drinking from the Sources: John Barton’s Tantalus and the Epic Cycle,” in Gestures: Essays in Ancient History, Literature, and Philosophy presented to Alan L. Boegehold, edd. Geoffrey Bakewell and James Sickinger (Oxford 2003) pp. 27-39. 19. “Pedestrian Fatalities: The Prosaics of Death in Herodotus,” in Herodotus and His World, edd. Peter Derow and Robert Parker (Oxford 2003), pp. 17-36. 20. “Homer’s Virgil and the Games for Anchises,” in O Qui Complexus et Gaudia Quanta Fuerunt (Festschrift for M. C. J. Putnam), edd. Joseph Pucci and Jeri DeBrohun (Providence 2003), pp. 1737. 21. “Tragedy and City,” co-authored with Kurt A. Raaflaub, in the A Companion to Tragedy, ed. Rebecca Bushnell (Blackwell, Oxford 2005), 109-127. 22. “Athenian Religion in the Age of Pericles,” in the Cambridge Companion to the Age of Pericles, ed. L. J. Samons (Cambridge 2007): 46-69. 23. “The View from Eleusis: Demeter in the Persian Wars,” in Cultural Responses to the Persian Wars: Antiquity to the Third Millennium, edd. Emma Bridges, Edith Hall, and P.J. Rhodes (Oxford 2007): 65-82. 24. “Sappho Old and New,” forthcoming in Archaic Lesbos: Sappho, Alcaeus, Pittacus, ed. Apostolos Pierris (Oxbow 2008) 25. “Family Matters: Domestic Religion in Classical Greece,” in Household and Family Religion in Antiquity, edited by John Bodel and Saul Olyan (Blackwell Malden MA and Oxford 2008): pp. 229-247. 26. “No Way Out? Aging in the New (and Old) Sappho,” in The New Sappho on Old Age, edited by Ellen Greene and Marilyn Skinner (Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge MA 2009) 27. “The Speaker’s Past: Herodotus in the Light of Elegy and Lyric,” in The Historians’ Plupast, edited by Jonas Grethlein and Christopher Krebs. Volume under review. 28. “Early Greek Poetry and/as History,” forthcoming in The Oxford History of World Historiography (expected to appear in 2010). 29. “Harems and Harridans? Gender Relations among Herodotus’ Persians,” forthcoming in Herodot und das Perserreich, edited by Robert Rollinger and Brigitte Truschnegg (Innsbruck 2010). c. Refereed journal articles: 1. “Hecate: A Transfunctional Goddess in the Theogony?” Transactions of the American Philological Association 113 (1983), 79-93. 2. “Protesilaos and the End of Herodotus’ Histories,” Classical Antiquity 7 (1988), 30-48. 2

3. “Euripides’ Medea and the Vanity of Logoi,” Classical Philology 86 (1991), 95-112. 4. “Simonides on Plataea: Narrative Elegy, Mythodic History,” ZPE 107 (1995), 217-229. e. Book reviews: 1. W. Scott, The Oral Nature of the Homeric Simile, in American Journal of Philology 96 (1975), 306-308. 2. M. Detienne, The Gardens of Adonis, in Classical World 72 (1978), 178-181. 3. J. deRomilly, A Short History of Greek Literature, in Religious Studies Review 12 (1987), 288. 4. B. Lincoln, Myth, Cosmos, and Society, in Classical Assoc. of New England Newsletter 14 (1987), 34-35. 5. N. Loraux, Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman, in Religious Studies Review 15 (1989), 260. 6. J. Snyder, The Woman and the Lyre: Women Writers in Classical Greece and Rome, in Classical Outlook 69 (1991), 106. 7. E. Vandiver, Heroes in Herodotus: The Interaction of Myth and History, in Classical Outlook 69 (1992), 140. 8. T. Harrison, Divinity and History. The Religion of Herodotus (Oxford 2000), in Classical World 96 (2003), 217-8 9. D. Mastronarde, Cambridge Univ. Press edition and commentary on Euripides’ Medea, Classical Review n. s. 54 (2004), 34-36. 10. J. Mikalson, Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars, in Polis 21 (2004), 181-185. 11. J. Clay, Hesiod’s Cosmos, in American Journal of Philology 126 (2005), 135-138. 12. J. Redfield, The Locrian Maidens, in Classical Review 55 (2005), 608-610. 13. C. Sourvinou-Inwood, Tragedy and Religion, in Ordia Prima 5 (2006), 207-209. 14. B. Currie, Pindar and the Cult of Heroes, in Journal of Hellenic Studies 127 (2007): 158-159. 15. E. Irwin and E. Greenwood, ‘Reading’ Herodotus: A Study of the Logoi in Book 5 of Herodotus’ Histories, in Journal of Hellenic Studies 129 (2009). g. Invited lectures: “The Etymology and Epic Contexts of Greek choros” Harvard University, 1973 “The Origins of Aphrodite” Haverford College, 1978 “Contexts of Words for ‘Dew’ in Pindar” Princeton University, 1979 “Beauty’s Ruin: Helen of Troy” Smithsonian Association lecture series, 1980 “Male and Female Dew” Brown University, 1980 “And there rain’d a ghastly dew...” Holy Cross College, 1981 “A Transfunctional Goddess in the Theogony?” University of Chicago, 1982 “Heroic Force: Achilles and Athens” Smith College, 1982 “Dumézil’s Three Functions and Hesiod’s Theogony” Wheaton College, 1983 “Hero Cults in Herodotus” Brown University, 1984 Brooklyn College, 1984 Univ. of California at Los Angeles, 1986 “Panhellenic Heroes in Herodotus” Univ. of Southern California, 1986 “Herodotus’ Protesilaos and the End of the Histories” Princeton University, 1986 Univ. of California at Berkeley, 1987 Wesleyan University, 1987 Free University of Berlin, West Germany, 1987 “Euripides’ Medea and the Vanity of Logoi” Univ. of Bielefeld, West Germany, 1990 Free University of Berlin, West Germany, 1990 3

Hellas Series: Univ. of Basel, Switzerland, 1990 Univ. of Munich, West Germany, 1990 Univ. of Tübingen, West Germany, 1990 Brown University, 1990 Harvard Univ., Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, 1991 “How Herodotus Made History” Rhode Island Colloquium on the Humanities, April 1992 College of the Holy Cross, 1992 Georgetown University, 1992 University of Crete, Rethymon, Greece, 1993 St. John’s College, Annapolis, 1994 “Democracy through the Looking Glass: Women on Stage” Smithsonian Institution lecture series, 1993 “Catullus Palliatus: A Roman Poet in Drag” CANE Summer Institute, Dartmouth College, 1993 “Women in Athenian Drama” George Washington University, 1993 George Mason University, 1993 NEH Summer Institute, Tufts University, 1994 “Jason and Medea in Euripides’ Athens” NEH Summer Institute, Tufts University, 1994 “The Medea Tradition Before and After Euripides” American University, 1994 “Using the Past in Fifth-Century Athens” George Washington University, 1995 Brown University, 1995 Sydney University, 1996 University of Ioannina [Greece], 1997 “The New Simonides: Heroic Poetry and the Persian Wars” Sydney University, 1996 “Simonides’ New Elegy on the Battle of Plataea: Mythodic History” University of Toronto, 1995 University of New Brunswick, 1995 Washington Classical Society, 1997 “Hero Cults and History” Society for the Preservation of the Greek Heritage, 1995 University of New Brunswick, 1995 Melbourne University, 1996 University of New England [Australia], 1996 Johns Hopkins University, 1997 “Nets and Veils: Women in the Theater of Dionysos” University of New Brunswick, March 1995 University of New England [Australia], 1996 Macquarie University [Australia], 1996 “Songs for the War Dead” University of Maryland, 1997 Loyola University, Baltimore, 1998 “What ‘Lies’ Behind the Histories of Herodotus?” George Washington University, 1997 “Heroic Poetry and the Persian Wars” Brown University, 1998 “The New Simonides and Heroization at Plataea” Tulane University, 1998 “Homer’s Vergil and the Games for Anchises” Tufts University (NEH Summer Institute), 1998 George Washington University, 2000 University of Iowa, 2002

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University of Cincinnati, 2002 “Hero Cults and History” Creighton University, 2002 “Drinking from the Sources: John Barton’s Tantalus and the Epic Cycle” University of Iowa, 2002 “How Democratic Was Athenian Religion?” University of California, Berkeley, 2002 University of California, Davis, 2003 “The Origins of History-Writing in Greece: Where Herodotus was coming from and where he was going” (with Kurt Raaflaub) Kirk Lecture, Brown University, October 2004 “Greek Gods in Home and Heart?” Bryn Mawr College, April 2005 “The View from Eleusis: Demeter and the Persian Wars” CUNY Graduate School, May 2005 Brown University, September 2005 University of Pennsylvania, October 2005 University of Calgary, October 2005 Netherlands Institute of Archaeology, Athens, Greece, June 2006 “Vergil’s Homer and the Funeral Games for Anchises” Brooklyn College, May 2005 “Sappho Old and New” (in various versions) University of Calgary: Calgary Society for Mediterranean Studies Lecture, October 2005 Brown University, October 2006 University of Durban, South Africa, August 2008 University of Pietermaritzburg, South Africa 2008 South Africa Classical Association (at the University of Stellenbosch) 2008 “The Past Within the Past” University of South Africa, Pretoria, August 2008 “How Democratic Was Athenian Religion?” University of Cape Town, South Africa, August 2008 Kenyon College, April 2009 “Early Greek Poetry as/and History” Brown University, Cultures and Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean seminar, April 2009 “Harems and Harridans? Gender Relationships among Herodotus’ Persians” University of Heidelberg, June 2009 Yale University (Brown/Yale seminar), October 2009 h. Papers read at conferences, etc. “Woman as Weaver in Aristophanes’ Lysistrata” Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, Vassar College, 1981 “Shifting Signs in Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazousai” APA annual meeting, San Francisco, 1981 “A Transfunctional Goddess in the Theogony?” APA annual meeting, Philadelphia, 1982 “Early Perspectives on the Will to Power” College of the Holy Cross, Forum on War and Peace, 1982 “The Two Faces of Demaratus” Conference on “Herodotus and the Invention of History,” College of the Holy Cross, 1986 Comment on papers dealing with Ancient Greek women’s poetry, Berkshire Conference of the History of Women, Wellesley College, 1987 Comment on “Fate and Futurity in the Greco-Roman World,” Boston Area Colloquium in Ancient Philosophy, 1989 “American Research in Oral Traditions: An Introduction,” Colloquium Rauricum I: Oral Tradition/Oral History, Basel, 1987 “Hero Cult and Politics: The Bones of Orestes” APA annual meeting (panel), San Francisco, 1990 5

“Becoming Medea: Implicit Assimilation” APA annual meeting (panel), Chicago, 1991 “The New Simonides and Herodotus: Myth and History Again” Hellenic Society for Humanistic Studies conference, Athens, 1994 APA annual meeting (panel), Atlanta, 1994 “Using the Past in Fifth-Century Athens” Colloquium on “Democracy, Empire, and the Arts in Fifth-Century Athens,” Center for Hellenic Studies, 1995 “The New Simonides: Heroic Poetry and the Persian Wars” Conference on “Archaic Evidence and Its Limitations,” Cardiff, Wales, 1995 Conference on “Poetry and History,” University of New England, Armidale, Australia, 1996 “Author or Genre: The Case of Herodotus’ Histories” Colloquium on “Matrices of Genres: Authors, Canons, and Society”, Center for Hellenic Studies, 1996 Keynote speaker, Conference “Texts Authors Contexts: Reflecting Interpretive Practice in the Field of Classics,” Princeton University, 1998 “Epic and Mythic Patterns in Herodotus” Classical Assoc. of the Atlantic States meeting (panel), 2000 “Pedestrian Fatalities: the Prosaics of Death in Herodotus,” Conference “Herodotus and His World,” University of Oxford, 2000 Brown University, faculty seminar Cultures and Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean, 2000 “Drinking from the Sources: Tantalos, Epic and Myth” Symposium on John Barton’s 10-play cycle Tantalus, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, 2000 “Athenian Religion and Democracy” University of Crete (Rethymnon, Greece): conference on “Democratic Deliberation in and out of Attica,” 2002 Brown Univ.: faculty seminar Cultures and Religions of the Ancient Mediterranean, 2002 “How Democratic Was Athenian Religion?” University of California, Berkeley, 2002 University of California, Davis, 2003 “The New Simonides” (a retrospective view) Presidential Panel, Classical Assoc. of the Middle West and South, St. Louis, April 2004 “The View from Eleusis: Demeter in the Persian Wars” Soc. of Bibl. Literature meeting, San Antonio, Nov. 2004 “Women and Magic in Ancient Greece” (comment on Christopher Faraone’s paper) Domestic Religion Conference, Brown University, February 2005 “Sappho Old and New” Conference on Poetry, Wisdom and Politics in Archaic Lesbos Molyvos, Lesbos, Greece, August 2005 “P. Köln 21351 and 21376, and P.Oxy. 1787” Colloquium on the “New Sappho”: New York Univ./CUNY Graduate School, Dec. 2005 “Focalizing the Plupast: Elegy and Lyric in the Light of Herodotus” Conference on the Historical Plupast: University of Freiburg, August 2006 “Accentuating the Negative? Blame (and Praise) in Establishing Persian War Traditions” Conference on Intentional History: European Network for Archaic Greek History, University of Freiburg, September 2006 Colloquium in honor of Charles Fornara, Brown University, October 2006 “No Way Out? Aging in the New (and Old) Sappho” Invited panel on the “New Sappho” at APA meeting, San Diego, Jan. 2007 Formal response to panel at the conference “Herodotus Now: the Personal and the Political” NYU Center for Ancient Studies, New York, March 2007 “A Century of Developments in Classical Scholarship and Pedagogy,” presider Roundtable discussion, Classical Association of the Atlantic States centennial meeting, Washington DC, Oct. 2007 “Power Behind the Throne? Gender Relationships among Herodotus’ Elite Persians” Conference on “Herodot und das Perserreich,” Innsbruck, Austria, November 2008 “Shady Pasts in Early Greek Lyric” Leventis Conference: History without Historians: Greeks and their Past in the Archaic and 6

Classical Ages, University of Edinburgh, November 2009 j. Work in progress Essay on Euripides’ Helen for the Brill Companion to Euripides Gender and Narrative in Herodotus’ Histories (book project) First-Person and Third-Person Pasts in Greek Lyric Poetry (essay) 7. Service (i) to the Department and University Member, search committee for Sanskrit and Classics position, 1984-85 Co-sponsored a Brown graduate proctorship in Classics at Center for Hellenic Studies, 1992-2000 Chair, reappointment committee for Pura Nieto-Hernandez, 2000 Participated in interviews for candidates for Classics positions, 1994, 2001, 2002 Chair, joint search committee for Ancient Philosophy position, 2000-01 Chair, Department of Classics, 2002-05, 2006-08 Organizer/M.C. of the Latin Carol Celebration, 2000-2004 Dean of Faculty search committee, 2003-04 Organizing committee for conference on ancient religions, Brown University, Feb. 2005 Managing and search committee for Institute for Archaeology and the Ancient World, 2004-05 University-wide Academic Administrative Review committee, 2004-05 Search committee for Byzantinist, 2004-05 Chair, tenure committee for René Nuenlist, 2005-06 Honors committee, Classics Department, Spring 2006 Chair, promotion committee for Pura Nieto-Hernandez, 2006-07 Co-sponsored with JIAAW and commented on the film “300,” Sept. 2007 Oversight, search for a historian of ancient exact sciences, 2006-08 Member, promotion committee for Elsa Amanatidou, 2007-08 Initiated/conducted fund-raising campaign in honor of retiring Prof. Michael Putnam, 2007-08 Oversight, search for senior Latinist, 2007-08 Chair, Classics Department Lecture Committee, Spring 2009Faculty Organizer, Prospective Graduate Students Weekend, Spring 2009 Promotion committee for Joseph Pucci, 2009-10 Annual review for Stratis Papaioannou, 2009-10 Set and marked Greek sight examinations: May, September, and December 2009 (ii) to the profession Contributor to Project MENTOR, bibliographical database on ancient Greek religion, University of Liège, Belgium, 1988-94 Howard Foundation Evaluation Committee (at Brown Univ.): reviewed applications for research fellowships in the humanities, 1989 Evaluated candidates for tenure, promotion and/or honorary chair at Bates College, University of Chicago, Brooklyn College/CUNY, Creighton University, Duke University, College of the Holy Cross, Florida State University, Harvard University, Howard University, Hunter College (CUNY), Johns Hopkins University (2009), Kent State University, Lehman College/CUNY (2X), Northwestern University, Ohio State University (2X), Princeton University (2X), Rochester University, Stanford University, Swarthmore College, Temple University, University of Arizona, University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign), University of Indiana, University of Iowa, University of Maryland (2X), University of Michigan, University of Minnesota, University of Montréal, University of Pennsylvania, University of Rhode Island, University of Southern California, UC Berkeley (3X), UCLA, Washington University in St. Louis, Wellesley College, Wesleyan University, Willamette University Organized international scholarly conferences: “Herodotus and the Invention of History,” Holy Cross College, 1986 “Democracy, Empire and the Arts in Fifth-Century Athens” (co-organized), Center for Hellenic Studies, 1995 Advised and assisted organizers of conferences held at the Center for Hellenic Studies, 1994, 1996, 1997, 1999, 2000 7

Organizing committee: comparative conference on domestic religion in the ancient world, Brown University, 2005 American Philological Association (life member): Editorial Board for Monographs (appointed) 1989-91 Committee on Publications (elected) 1989-92 Nominating Committee (elected) 1993-96 (Chair, 1995-96) APA Presidential Panel, “Archaeology, Classics and the New Millennium” (presenter), 1995 Board of Directors Executive Committee (allotted), 2001, 2002 Chair, Advisory Committee for L’Année philologique, American Office, 2001-05 Vice-President/Division of Research (elected), 2001-05 APA Website Committee, 2001-05 Advisory Committee, Database of Classical Bibliography (2001-09) Ms. evaluator for Blackwells, Cambridge University Press, E.J. Brill, Norton Press, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press, Rowman and Littlefield, University of California Press, Yale University Press, and numerous classical journals Gildersleeve Prize Committee (awards prize for best article published each year), American Journal of Philology, 1992-94 Editorial Boards: Classical World, 1993-2000; American Journal of Philology, 2002Outside Evaluation Committees for Classics or Ancient Studies programs: Smith College (chair), 1993 Princeton University (Advisory Council, Dept. of Classics), 1995-99 Haverford College, 1996 Bryn Mawr College, 1996 Wellesley College (chair), 1997 Stanford University, 2001 Wheaton College, 2005 Columbia University, April 2006 The Ohio State University, October 2006 University of Michigan, November 2009 City University of New York graduate program in Classics, December 2009 Boston College, January 2010 Member, planning group for an Electronic Encyclopedia of the Ancient World, 2001 Managing Committee, Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies (at Duke University), 2001-4 Assessor, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, 2002 Panelist: NEH Fellowships in Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies, 2003 Assessor: MacArthur Foundation fellowships (intermittently) Assessor: research team initiatives, Finnish National Academy, 2004 Ad Hoc appointment committee, Harvard University (Classics), 2004 Panelist: NEH Fellowships for Scholarly Editions in Classical, Medieval, and Early Modern Texts, 2006 “Core committee”: Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song (an international research group for ancient Greek poetry, based in the Netherlands), 2007Session chair, conference on The Look of Lyric (sponsored by the Network for the Study of Archaic and Classical Greek Song), Delphi, Greece, July 2009 (iii) to the community Member, Washington Collegium on the Humanities, 1992-2000 Society for the Preservation of the Greek Heritage, Board of Directors, 1994-2000 Organizer/presider of Smithsonian Institution full-day colloquia: “Troy, Schliemann, Homer,” 1997 “The Iliad, the Odyssey, and the Real World,” 1998 Organized and presided at annual Latin Carol Celebration, 2000-04 8. Academic Honors, Research Grants, Fellowships, Awards National Merit Scholar, 1962-66 Phi Beta Kappa, 1966 Durant Scholar (highest honors, Wellesley College), 1966 Wellesley College Alumnae Association Graduate Scholarship, 1966-67 8

F. B. Workman Graduate Fellowship (awarded by Wellesley College), 1971-73 Center for Hellenic Studies Junior Fellowship, 1976-77 Faculty Summer Fellowship, Holy Cross College, 1982 National Endowment for the Humanities, Research Conference Grant, 1986 Faculty Fellowship (research year), Holy Cross College, 1986-87 American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant, 1995 Visiting Research Fellowship, University of New England, Armidale, Australia, Summer 1996 Brown University course development grant, summer 2001 Ida Cordelia Beam Distinguished Visiting Professor, University of Iowa, 2002 Sackler Institute for Advanced Studies, Tel Aviv, Israel, resident fellowship (deferred), 2002 Agnes Michels Visiting Scholar, Bryn Mawr College, 2005 Director (“Master,” together with Kurt Raaflaub) for the annual Master Class conducted by OIKOS, the association of Dutch doctoral students in Classics, Athens, 2006 Fink Memorial Lecture, Kenyon College, April 2009 9. Teaching and Advising (Spring 2005-Fall 2009) Greek 210 (Spring 2005): Making Memory: Simonides, Herodotus, and Greek Identity (graduate seminar: 9 students) Fall 2005: sabbatical leave Classics 52 (Spring 2006): Religion and Magic in Ancient Greece (55 students) Independent Reading in Greek (Spring 2006): 1 grad. student Greek 30 (Fall 2006): 10 students (1 grad, 9 undergrad) Greek 191 (Fall 2006): independent study, Herodotus and Euripides: 2 students (1 grad, 1 undergrad) Senior Thesis Director (2006-07): “Hippocratic Medicine and Women” (Anita Mazloom) Greek 291 (2006-07): Graduate student special author: Euripides (Jenni Lewton) Classics 1 (Spring 2007): 7 students Greek 0300 (Fall 2007): 6 students Classics 0520 (Spring 2008) 42 students Fall 2008: research leave Greek 1060 (Spring 2009): Herodotus (10 students) Greek 2910 (2008-09): Graduate student special author: Herodotus (Leo Landrey) Independent Reading in Greek (Spring 2009): Bryan Brinkman Greek 0300 (Fall 2009): Intermediate Greek (13 students) Greek 2050 (Fall 2009): Euripides (12 students) Greek 2910 (2009-10): Graduate student special author: Sophocles (Karen Kelly) Independent Reading in Greek (Fall 2009): Tara Mulder Academic advising (undergraduates) Sophomore advisor in 2000-01 and 2001-02 (one student each year). Volunteered for CAP advising in 2002-03, but had no first-year students in my class. Freshman/CAP advisor (2003-04): three advisees. Sophomore advisor (2004-05): three students Co-advisor of undergraduate Royce Fellow (Ari Hilliard: Spring 2006) Brown’s ICCS representative (2002-2007): advise and recommend Classics students considering study in Rome First-year advisor in 2009-10 (four students) Supervision of Graduate Students At Brown: Reader for Ph.D. dissertation of Geoffrey Bakewell (Greek tragedy and politics, 1993) Reader for Ph.D. dissertation of Carolin Hahnemann (Sophoclean fragments, 1994) Reader for Ph.D. dissertation of Edward de Boo (literary study of Plato, 2001)

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Orals committee (chair), William Tortorelli, Spring 2002 Orals committee, Bret Mulligan, Summer 2002 Orals committee: Christopher Trinacty, Summer 2003 Chair, dissertation committee: William Tortorelli, 2002Directed study (see Greek 291 above): Kevin Patterson, Fall 2003 Directed study (see Greek 291 above) Keeley Schell, Spring-Summer 2004 Philip Walsh, Summer-Fall 2004 Orals committees in 2004: Carrie Thomas, Kevin Patterson, Peter Lech (all in Classics); Philip Walsh (Comp. Lit.) Orals committees in 2005: Keeley Schell, Jennifer Thomas, Wendy Teo Reader for Ph.D. dissertation of Bret Mulligan (poetics of Claudian, 2005) Director, Ph.D. dissertation of William Tortorelli (gnomic poetry, 2002- ): under revision in 2009-10 Reader for comparative project in Comparative Literature Dept.: Ariane Helou (2006-) Reader, Ph.D. dissertation of Jennifer Yates (novel/tragedy, 2007- ) Mentor: Karen Kelly (2008- ) ongoing Orals committees in 2008: Jennifer Yates (Spring ‘08), Robin McGill (Fall ‘08) Orals committees in 2009: Lauren Donovan, Timothy Haase Director, MA thesis of Warren Petrofsky (Herodotus, 2009- ) Director, Ph.D. dissertation of Wendy Teo (Athenian tragedy and philosophy, 2006- ) Director, Ph.D. dissertation of David Yates (local memories of Persian Wars, 2008- ) Reader, Ph.D. dissertation of Asya Sigelman (Pindar, 2009-10) External: Reader and examiner, Ph.D. dissertation: James Marks, University of Texas at Austin (Homer), 2001 External examiner , Ph.D. dissertation: Kelly Anne MacFarlane, University of Alberta, Canada (Poetry of the Persian Wars), 2002 External reader, Ph.D. dissertation: Peter Mazur, Yale University (Apatê: Deception in Archaic Greek Culture), 2006 “Co-referent” (dissertation reader/advisor): Katharina Wesselmann, University of Basel (Herodotus and myth), 2008-10 10. Date of this update: 1/13/10

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