EDUCATION

University of Pennsylvania, Graduate Group in Ancient History1997-2003.
Ph.D. in Ancient History, 19 December 2003.
M.A. in Ancient History, August 1999.

Brigham Young University, Marriott School of Management 1983-1986.
B.S., Cum Laude in International Finance,
Dual Minor in Accounting and Economics, August 1986.

DISSERTATION

"Popular Power in Action: Tribunes of the Plebs in the Later Republic."

• Director: Brent D. Shaw.
• Committee Members: Brent D. Shaw, T. Corey Brennan and Jeremy McInerney.

RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS

Roman History and Historiography; Topography and Numismatics; Latin Literature and Epigraphy.

UNIVERSITY TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Temple University, 2004 -

Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics

Race in Antiquity (GHR H192, Honors Seminar)
Spring 2005.

An exploration of the conceptualization and articulation of ethnicity and "other", racial stereotypes and racism in antiquity as seen in a variety of Greek, Roman and Judaeo-Roman sources in translation.

Ancient Roman Historians (GHR 0161/History 0236)
Spring 2005.

Roman history and historiography, using sources in translation (Sallust, Livy, Tacitus, etc.). Other types of evidence are also used (e.g., art, coins).

Elements of Latin 2 (Latin 52: second-semester Latin)
Spring 2005.

Ancient Greek Historians (GHR 0160/History 0235)
Fall 2004.

Greek history and historiography, using sources in translation (Homer, Herodotus, Thucydides and Xenophon). Other types of evidence are also examined (e.g., art, pottery, coins).

Introduction to the Ancient City (GHR C077)
Fall 2004.

A survey of the evolution and articulation of urban societies, including their cultures and institutions, in the Middle Eastern and Mediterranean worlds from the Neolithic to Late Antique eras.

Elements of Latin 1 (Latin 51: first-semester Latin)
Fall 2004.

University of Pennsylvania, 1998-2004

Course Developer, Instructor

Ancient Rome: City, Space and Society (Ancient History 210/Classical Studies 210)
Spring 2004.

An examination of the city of Rome from two perspectives. The first half of the course surveys the evolution of Rome's physical topography--including the creation, use and abuse of its public spaces--and its changing urban image from hut village to imperial capital. The second half of the course explores a variety of urban-historical issues: city administration; population and housing; economy and production; and political, religious and cultural practices. Students give short presentations on individual structures or monuments illustrating the city's changing image of the city; they also prepare and present longer case studies illustrative of the urban-historical problems under discussion in later class sessions.

Politics and Propaganda: Roman Coinage as an Historical Source
Fall 2001.

A special four-week lecture course for Penn's College of General Studies (CGS) and the University Museum, focusing on the use of Roman coinage in the Late Republic as a means of political self-promotion and commemoration, and in the Imperial period as a way to communicate, and thereby establish and maintain, the emperor's power. It also surveys the early history of coinage, the sources of metal and the technology for making coins in the ancient world, and the development and use of the symbolic types stamped on coins by the Greeks and Romans.

Instructor

Intensive Elementary Latin (Latin 112)
Summer Session II, 2004.

A six-week intensive course encompassing two semesters of University-level Latin instruction (Latin 101 and 102) covering all 40 chapters of Wheelock's 6th edition.

Intermediate Latin II: Poetry (Latin 204)
Spring 2004.

Reading and translation course utilizing Ovid's Metamorphoses and Juvenal's third satire.

Intermediate Latin I: Prose (Latin 203)
Fall 2003.

Reading and translation course (including a review of Latin grammar) using Caesar's Bellum Gallicum with an emphasis on the ethnographic sections.

Intensive Elementary Latin (Latin 112)
Summer Session II, 2003.

See above for course description.

Ancient Greece (Ancient History 026)
Summer Session I, 2002

Survey course, from the Paleolithic era to Alexander the Great, with emphasis on the archaeology of Bronze Age and Iron Age Greece, and on the political and social culture of 5th-century Athens.

Splendor of Rome(Ancient History 120/Classical Studies 120)
Spring 2002.

Survey of Rome's physical development in its historical and social context. Includes an examination of the archaeology of Rome from Cola di Rienzo to the present day; it also explores various ways of viewing Rome's monuments through, e.g., contemporary visual quotations in historical reliefs and coins, the Forma Urbis Romae, the engravings of du Perac, Piranesi and Rossini, and modern computerized reconstructions.

Wonders of the Ancient World(Ancient History 118/History 110)
Fall 2001.

Archaeological and historical survey of the great civilizations of the Mediterranean and Middle East. Explores canonical and non-canonical "wonders" as a means of understanding various social-historical aspects of the civilizations that created them.

Ancient Rome(Ancient History 027)
Summer Session II 2001

Survey course, from the Bronze Age to Late Antiquity. Includes an examinination of the archaeological evidence for the Bronze Age and Villanovan antecedents of Rome to elucidate Rome's place in the greater culture of Latium down to the 5th c. B.C.E.

Teaching Assistant/Recitation Instructor and
WATU (Writing Across the University) Fellow (Fall 1998 only)

Ancient Rome(Ancient History 027)
Spring 1999, Spring 2000 (two sections each semester).

Ancient Greece (Ancient History 026)
Fall 1998, Fall 1999 (two sections each semester).

PUBLICATIONS

"The Column and Coinage of C. Duilius: Innovations in Iconography in Large and Small Media in the Middle Republic." Scripta Classica Israelica 23 (2004) 1-39.

Explores the apparent linkages between Rome's first 'coins' (aes signatum) to bear marine and rostral imagery and the first-ever naval triumph and distribution of naval booty by C. Duilius, victor at Mylae over the Carthaginians in 260 B.C. and recipient of an honorific rostral column at the behest of a grateful Roman populace.

"Mapping Augustan Rome." Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 50, January 2003.

Penn's project, headed by Lothar Haselberger and David Romano, to reconstruct Rome's transformation under Augustus by mapping out Augustan and pre-Augustan structures. The map is accompanied by a comprehensive catalogue of all Republican and Augustan buildings standing in 14 C.E. As a member of this project, I contributed numerous articles/entries for areas, buildings, roads and other topographical features, mostly located in the Central and Southern Campus Martius.

"A previously unknown die-link between the gold and silver coinage in Octavian's 'Caesar Divi F.' series." The Celator 7.6 (Jun. 1993) 41.

An important die-link that illuminates the production sequence of Octavian's coins issued between 32 and 27 B.C.E., not found in C.H.V. Sutherland's extensive 1976 die study.

"Historical Link Misrepresented: Legion X and the Judaean Connection." The Celator 6.3 (Mar. 1992) 12-27; The Best of The Celator 5 (Dec. 1992) 24-36.

Debunks the popular connection of Antony's LEG X denarii and Vespasian's 'sow and piglets' denarii with the Legio Decima Fretensisthat served in Judaea. In connection with the Vespasianic type, it also explores a different interpretation of Vespasian's 'agricultural' coin types issued in the last years of his reign as relating to the propagation of a bucolic image of his newly 'refounded' Rome.

"A Misattributed 'Augustan' Denarius of the Civil War of 68-69." The Celator 6.3 (Mar. 1992) 40.

An 'Augustan' portrait denarius type of 19 B.C.E. is proved on stylistic and metrical analysis to be a rare coin of the rebel Vindex, who reissued Augustan types in 68 C.E.

"Identification of the Gemma Tiberiana Figures Reveals Its Importance as a 'Political' Document." The Celator 4.11 (Nov. 1990) 6-20; The Best of The Celator 3 (Dec. 1990) 62-72.

This article was awarded the Numismatic Literary Guild's Clement F. Bailey Memorial Award for Best New Writer of 1990, at the ANA Centennial Convention in Chicago, August 1991. Based on historical and iconographic evidence, it suggests that the Gemma Tiberiana was created ca. 24-26 C.E., during the brief ascendancy of Nero and Drusus Caesares.

"Coins of the Roman Procurators in Judaea." Journal of the Pacific Coast Numismatic Society 19 (Apr. 1989) 7-12 (received a Pacific Coast Numismatic Society Literary Award, 1989); The Celator 3.8 (Aug. 1989) 10, 28, 30; The Best of The Celator 2 (Dec. 1989) 48-50.

"A Unique Sestertius of Hadrian." The Celator 3.3 (Mar. 1989) 21.