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Department of Classics

Curriculum Vitae

Education

  • PhD, University of Florida, 2008
  • MA, Florida State University, 2002
  • BA, Florida State University, 1995

Dissertation

The Complete Fragments of Ctesias of Cnidus: A Translation And Commentary With An Introduction
(Director: K. Kapparis)

Employment

  • Visiting Lecturer of Classics, University of Florida, 2008-Preseent

Publications

Books

  • Ctesias: On India.  Translation and Commentary, Bristol Classical Press (2011)

Articles

  • ‘Varia Epidaurica’, Forthcoming in ZPE
  • ‘Minima Epidaurica’, ZPE 158 (2006)
  • ‘Three Perirrhanteria from the Epidaurian Asclepieum’, ZPE 155 (2006)
  • ‘Scientific Inquiry in the Works of Ctesias’ (Actas del Primer Congreso de
    Estudios Clásicos, Ciudad de México 2005    : forthcoming)

Reviews

  • Stronk, J.P., Ctesias’ Persian History. Part 1: Introduction, Text,
    and Translation, Wellem Verlag, 2010 (In Preparation for CR)
  • Llewellyn-Jones, L., and Robson, J., Ctesias’ History of Persia. Tales of
    the Orient    , Routledge, 2010 (In Preparation for CR)

Presentations

International

  • ‘New Epigraphical Discoveries from the Tiber Island’
    (XIII International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, Oxford, 2007)
  • ‘Scientific Inquiry in the Works of Ctesias’
    (First International Congress on Classical Studies, Mexico City, 2005)

National

  • ‘On a Thessalian Rock-Cut Pattern’
    (The Archaeological Institute of America, Philadelphia, PA, 2012)
  • ‘A Lost Cave of the Nymphs on Mt.Ossa’
    (The Archaeological Institute of America, Anaheim, CA, 2010)
  • ‘On the Cave of the Nymphs near Pharsalus’
    (The Archaeological Institute of America, Chicago, IL, 2008)
  • ‘Asclepius on the Tiber: New Inscriptions from the Tiber Island’
    (The Archaeological Institute of America, San Diego, CA, 2007)
  • ‘Moles Manuque Adiutum: On the Embankment Walls of the Tiber Island’ (Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Gainesville, FL, 2006)
  • ‘Between Two Ports: On the Early Function of the Tiber Island’
    (Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Madison, WI, 2005)
  •  ‘Ctesias of Cnidos: Scientist and Historian’
    (The Southern Association for the History of Medicine and Science, 2005)
  • ‘Invectives Against Women in Antiphon, Apollodorus and Cicero’
    (Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Southern Section 2004)
  • ‘The Ship Motif on Tiber Island’
    (Classical Association of the Middle West and South, St.Louis, MI, 2004)

Courses

Civilization Courses

  • Classical Mythology (University of Florida, Fall 2011)
  • The Ancient Word in Film (University of Florida, Fall 2011)
  • Ancient Egypt (University of Florida, Fall 2010)
  • Greek History (University of Florida, Fall 2010)
  • Greece and the East (University of Florida, Spring 2010 Distance Program)
  • Roman Civilization (University of Florida, Summer 2009 Program in Rome)
  • Greece and the East (University of Florida, Spring 2009)
  • The Glory That Was Greece (University of Florida, Fall 2008)

Reading Courses in Greek and Latin

  • Plautus (University of Florida, Fall 2011)
  • Plutarch’s Life of Alexander (Spring 2011)
  • Latin Elegy (University of Florida, Fall 2008)
  • Introduction to Vergil’s Aeneid (University of Florida, Spring 2008)
  • Survey of Greek Literature – Greek Prose (University of Florida, Fall 2007)
  • Readings in Greek Literature – Euripides’ Alcestis (University of Florida, Fall 2004)

Greek and Latin Introductory Level

  • Beginning Greek I (University of Florida, Fall 2010)
  • Intensive Beginning Greek I (University of Florida, Summer 2010)
  • Intensive Beginning Greek II (University of Florida)
  • Beginning Greek I (University of Florida, Summer 2006)
  • Accelerated Beginning Latin II (University of Florida, Spring 2005)
  • Beginning Latin III (University of Florida, Spring 2004)
  • Beginning Latin II (University of Florida, Fall 2003)
  • Beginning Latin I (University of Florida, Spring 2003)
  • Beginning Latin I (University of Florida, Fall 2002)
  • Beginning Greek II (University of Florida, Fall 2002)
  • Greek and Latin Word Origins (Florida State University, Spring 2002)

Awards and Scolarships

  • O’Neil Dissertation Fellowship 2008
  • Philip Lockhart Fellowship, American School for Classical Studies at
    Athens 2006 – 2007
  • Rothman Scholar in Classical Studies 2005 – 2006
  • George and Liberty Perry Award for Study in Greece 2005
  • Nadyezhda Lazarovna Semerdjieff Award for Study Abroad 2005