Education

• Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley, Classics, 2003
• M.A., University of California, Berkeley, Classics, 1995
• A.B., Harvard University, Classics, magna cum laude, 1994

Employment

• Assistant Professor of Classics, Union College, 2005-
• Assistant Professor of Classics, St. Olaf College, 2004-2005
• Lecturer in Classics, Dartmouth College, 2003-2004
• Visiting Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, Indiana University, 2002-2003

Dissertation

• Practical Philosophical Politics in Plato and Isocrates

Current Research Interests

• Archaic and Classical Greek Literature
• Sociology of Greek Philosophy, Education, and Religion

Publications

• Protagoras

  in Mark Bevir, ed., Encyclopedia of Political Theory, Sage Publications, forthcoming in 2009

• Hierophantic Performances: The Syracusans’ Great Oath and other Examples

  in Alan Sommerstein and Judith Fletcher, eds., Horkos: The Oath in Greek Society, Bristol Phoenix Press, 2007, pp. 161-176 and 254-258

• Review of Isocrates and Civic Education, edited by T. Poulakos and D. Depew

  in Polis: The Journal of the Society for Greek Political Thought 22:2 (2005), pp. 328-337

Book Project

• School Creatures: Literary Competition, Philosophy, and Politics in the Generation after Plato and Isocrates

Conference Papers

• Instruction for the Polis: Aristotle’s Practice of Rhetorical Philosophy

  Northeastern Political Science Association, November 2007, Philadelphia (conference page)

• School Politics and the Monarch’s Court: Speusippus’ Letter to Philip (abstract)

  Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 2007, Cincinnati

• Genres of Philosophical Contest in the Fourth Century B.C. (abstract)

  American Philological Association, January 2007, San Diego

• Isocratean Rhetorical Education and Aristotelian Virtue

  Northeastern Political Science Association, November 2006, Boston (conference page)

• “In this Limbec and Crusible of Affliction”: Herodotean Didactics in Thucydides (abstract)

  Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 2006, Gainesville

• Panel Presider: Classical Pedagogy

  Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 2005, Madison

• The Great Oath of Syracuse as a Hierophantic Performance

  International Conference on the Oath in Greek Society, July 2004, Nottingham (program)

• The Panhellenic Creed of the Eleusinian Priests (abstract)

  American Philological Association, January 2003, New Orleans

• Isocrates’ Philosophia and His Students

  American Philological Association, January 2002, Philadelphia

Invited Lectures

• Philosophical Politics, Tooth and Nail: The Students of Plato and Isocrates

  Union College (March 2005)

• The Spirit of Plato’s Philosophy: Reason’s Ensnarement in a World of Unreason

  Amherst College (March 2003), Carleton College (March 2002), Wabash College (Feb. 2002)

Teaching

Greek Literature in the Original

• Introductory Reading Course
  • Plato (Apology) and Sight Readings (Dartmouth College, Spring 2004, Union College, Spring 2006)
  • Lysias (Or. 1), Plato (Republic 1), and Sight Readings (Union College, Spring 2007)
  • Lysias (Or. 1), Plato (Crito), and Sight Readings (Union College, Spring 2008)
• Homer, Odyssey (Dartmouth College, Fall 2003)
• Thucydides (Dartmouth College, Spring 2004)
• Speeches in Classical Greek Literature (St. Olaf College, Spring 2005)
• Greek Tragedy: Euripides, Bacchae (Union College, Winter 2006)
• Greek Comedy: Aristophanes, Birds (Union College, Spring 2007)

Latin Literature in the Original

• Literature and Culture of the Latin Middle Ages (Union College, Fall 2007)

Literature and Culture Courses

• Survey of Greek Literature in Translation (intensive writing course, primarily for Classical Studies majors and minors, Indiana University, Fall 2002)
• First Year Seminar: Victory and Defeat (Dartmouth College, Winter 2004)
• Poetry and the Cosmos (Union College, Spring 2006)
• Greek and Roman Tragedy (Sophocles, Seneca, and Shakespeare) (Union College, Winter 2008)

Philosophy Courses

• The Philosophy of Aristotle (Union College, Spring 2008)

Civilization Surveys

• Introduction to Greek Civilization (lecture-discussion, U.C. Berkeley, Summer 2001)
• Ancient Greek Culture (large lecture course, Indiana University, Fall 2002)
• Classical Mythology (large lecture course, Indiana University, Spring 2003)
• Classical Mythology (large lecture course, Union College, Fall 2006)

Introductory Greek Language

• 10 regular terms
• several intensive formats: Berkeley summer workshop (2000), Dartmouth reading section (Winter 2004), complete accelerated course at Union (Winter 2007)

Theses and Projects Advised

• Reader for a Senior Thesis, Dartmouth College, 2003-2004 (Matthew Kenney, The Military Nike)
• Director of a Senior Honors Project, St. Olaf College, Spring 2005 (Christopher Schifani, Plato in the World: A Translation of Selected Platonic Epistles with Commentary and Notes)
• Advisor of Union College theses:
  • 2006-2007: Kelley Irmen, Suicide in Antiquity: Literary, historical, and philosophical perspectives; Doris Lo, Herodotus, the Achaemenid Empire, and Ancient Israel
  • 2007-2008: Jennifer Hough (with Julius Barbanel of the Department of Mathematics)
• Other Union College student research advised:
  • Summer 2008: Regina Chiuminatto, Greek, Latin, German, French, and English Metrics: The Problem of Equivalence in Translation (Union College Summer Research Fellowship)

Introductory Latin language

Assistant, discussion leader, and guest lecturer for courses in Plato and Aristotle and in Classical Mythology

Union College Service

• Union Coalition for Inclusiveness and Diversity, 2007-present
• Discussion Panelist, Academic Excellence Panel (Division I Representative), Admissions Open House, 2007
• General Education Board, Division I Representative, 2006-present
• Cluster Coordinator, Theater Studies, 2006-present
• Search Committee for Information Technology Services Analyst (Division I contact), Division I Representative, 2007
• Discussion Panelist, "Culture and Academic Life at Union College," Multicultural Weekend, 2006
• Faculty Sponsor, Eta Sigma Phi, Eta Phi Chapter (Union College), 2005-present

Professional Memberships

• American Philological Association
• Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies
• Classical Association of the Middle West and South
• Classical Association of New England
• Aristotelian Society for the Systematic Study of Philosophy
• Society for Greek Political Thought

Fellowships and Awards

• Union College Humanities Development Fund grant (Fragmentary Greek Historians and Classical Greek Science, Rhetoric, and Poetics), 2008-2009
• Union College Humanities Development Fund grant (The "Lost Years" of Fourth-Century Intellectual and Literary History), 2007-2008
• John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Assistant Professorship, 2006-2007
• Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities, University of Michigan, 2004 (declined)
• Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, 1999
• Berkeley Fellowship, 1994

Undergraduate Honors

• Phi Beta Kappa, 1993
• Detur Prize

References

• References are available upon request.