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Curriculum Vitae

Gary Reger Address and Telephone

Personal address after August 1, 2020: 820 Conway, Las Cruces, NM 88005, USA Email: gary.reger@trincoll.edu

Education

Ph.D., History. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1987. Thesis: “Studies in the Demography and Economy of Delos in the Third Century B.C.”

M.A., History. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1984. Thesis: “The Philosophical Background of Ammianus Marcellinus on Plotinus and Dream Interpretation” M.A., Greek. University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1983.

B.A., History. University of Illinois at Urbana, 1975. Professional Positions

Professor of History and Hobart Professor of Classical Languages, Emeritus, 2021-date Chair, Classics Department, Trinity College, 2013-2017. Professor of H2021istory (with tenure), Trinity College, 2000-date. Hobart Professor of Classical Languages, 2011-2021. Associate professor of history (with tenure), Trinity College, 1993-2000. Assistant professor of history, Trinity College, 1987-1993.

Awards and Honors

Fulbright Fellowship at the University of Western Australia, 2021-2022 [grant pending

due to the pandemic] National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, 2017-2018 Sara B. Aleshire Center for Greek Epigraphy, University of California-Berkeley, visiting

lecturer, March 2010 Hyde Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Department of Classical Studies, March 14-17,

2006 Dana Research Professor, Trinity College, 2005/6-2007/8 Elizabeth A. Whitehead Visiting Professor, American School of Classical Studies at

Athens, 2003-2004 Trinity College Research Leave, fall 2003 (combined with sabbatical for full year leave)

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Dr. M. Aylwin Cotton Foundation grant, 2001-2002 (for travel to Turkey) NEH Fellowship, 1997-98 [academic year leave] Trinity College Three-Year Research Grant, 1996-1999 NEH Summer Stipend, 1995 Trinity College Sabbatical Extension, 1994-1995 [academic year leave] NEH Travel to Collections Grant, 1991 Trinity College Junior Faculty Summer Grant, 1991 NEH Summer Stipend, 1990 Trinity College Junior Faculty Summer Grant, 1988 Fulbright Fellow, Germany, 1986-1987 American Numismatic Society Fellow, 1986 Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation Fellow, 1985-1986 Heinrich Schliemann Fellow, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1984-1985 University of Wisconsin History Department Fellow, 1981-1982 University of Wisconsin University Fellow, 1980-1981

Publications and Papers

a. Monographs

Regionalism and Change in the Economy of Independent Delos, Hellenistic Culture and Society series, volume 14 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994).

Reviews: Richard Hamilton, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 95.3.33 (March 1995); Brooks Kaiser, Journal of Economic History 55 (1995) 161; J.M. Williams, Choice (April 1995); R. Etienne and V. Sablé, Topoi 5 (1995) 555-560; Hans van Wees, Greece & Rome 42 (1995) 234-235; Thomas Kelly, American Historical Review 101 (1996) 161; Léopold Migeotte, Les études classiques 64 (1996) 100; Andrew Erskine, Classical Review 46 (1996) 100-102; Michèle Brunet, Revue des études grecques 109 (1996) 299-300; Michèle Brunet, Antiquité classique 65 (1996) 464-466; Theodora Hantos, Historische Zeitschrift 264 (1997) 436-437; Michael H. Jameson, Classical World 92 (1998) 60-6; Dieter Hennig, Gnomon 73 (2001) 82-85.

The Economy of the Greek and Roman World. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming. [Book

under contract.]

b. Edited volumes Reading Aridity in Western American Literature, eds. Jada Ach and Gary Reger. Lanham:

Lexington Books, 2020. Studies in Greek Epigraphy and History in Honor of Stephen V. Tracy, eds. G. Reger, F. X. Ryan,

and T. Winters. Bordeaux: Ausonius Editions, 2010.

Regionalism in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, eds. Hugh Elton and Gary Reger. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2007. Collection of conference papers from the conference of the same name

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organized by Hugh Elton and Gary Reger and held at Trinity College in August 1997. c. Articles in journals and chapters in books (published and accepted)

“Trade Secrets – Information and Networks in Ports,” in Roman Ports in Time and Space, eds. Pascal Arnaud and Simon Keay. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, in press.

“French Travelers in the Arid Southwest,” in Reading Aridity in Western American Literature,

eds. Jada Ach and Gary Reger. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020, 243-271. “Introduction. Dry Reading,” with Jada Ach, in Reading Aridity in Western American

Literature, eds. Jada Ach and Gary Reger. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020, 1-18. “Carian Frontiers, Boundaries, and Borderlands in a Regional Context,” in Karialılar.

Denizcilerden Kent Kuruculara/The Carians. From Seafarers to City Builders, eds. Olivier Henry and Ayşe Belgin-Henry. Istanbul: Yapi Kredi Kültür Sanat Yayıncılık Ticaret ve Sanat A.Ş, 2020, 2-11.

“Luxury Products – Their Role in the Economy,” in Oxford Handbook of Economies in the

Classical World, eds. Alain Bresson and Elio Lo Cascio. Oxford: Oxford University Press, in press. “Merchants and Traders on Hellenistic Delos,” chapter 14 of The Oxford Handbook of Pre-Roman Italy (1000-49 BCE), ed. Marco Maiuro. Oxford: Oxford University Press, in press.

“A Letter of Septimius Severus to the Lykian League on the Misbehavior of Soldiers. A

New Inscription from Choma (Hacımusalar Höyük), Northern Lykia,” Chiron 50 (2020) 253-285.

“In the Dark without a Light. Understanding Unmediated Sites of Dark Tourism,” in Dark Tourism in the American West, ed. Jennifer Dawes. London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2020, 181-201.

“Alexanders and the Hellenistic Economy,” in Les alexandres après Alexandre. Histoire d’une monnaie commune, eds. Sophia Kremydi and Marie-Christine Marcellesi. Athens: Centre de recherches de l’antiquité grecque et romaine, 2019, pp. 373-384. “Greeks and Romans in the Sahara Desert,” Global Environment 12 (2019), pp. 22-55. “A New Mediterranean: The Caribbean in the Euro-American Imaginary,” in Turning Tides. Caribbean Intersections in the Americas and Beyond, eds. Heather Cateau and Milla Cozart Riggio. Kingston-Miami: Ian Randle Publishers, 2019, pp. 36-54.

“New Work on Knidian Amphorae. Links to the Hellenistic Economy,” HEROM 8 (2019)

257-282.

“The Coinage of Septimius Severus and the Battle of Lugdunum,” in Concordia

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Disciplinarum. Essays on Ancient Coinage, History, and Archaeology in Honor of William E. Metcalf, eds. Nathan T. Elkins and Jane DeRose Evans. New York: American Numismatic Society, 2018, pp. 201-208. “Regionalism and Coins in the Hellenistic World,” in Second International Congress on the History of Money and Numismatics in the Mediterranean World, ed. Oğuz Tekin. Antalya: Suna-İnan Kraç Akdeniz Medeniyetleri Araştırma Enstitüsü, 2018, 119-129. “On the Border in Arizona and Greece: Border Studies and the Boundaries of the Greek Polis,” Historical Geography 45 (2017), 188-219 (https://ejournals.unm.edu/index.php/historicalgeography/article/view/3526/pdf_1). “Romans in the Egyptian Desert. From Desert Space to Roman Place,” in Économie et inégalité : ressources, échanges et pouvoir dans l’Antiquité classique, eds. Sitta Von Reden and Pascal Derron. Vandoeuvres-Geneva: Fondation Hardt, 2017, 115-149. “The Deserts of Los Angeles: Two Topologies,” Boom California, May 24, 2017: https://boomcalifornia.com/2017/05/24/the-deserts-of-los-angeles-two-topologies/. “Naked on the Deserts of Mars,” Extrapolation 57 (2016) 305-337.

“Nodes of Sea and Sand. Ports, Human Geography, and Networks of Trade,” in Ancient

Ports. The Geography of Connections, eds. Kerstin Höghammer, Brita Alroth, and Adam Lindhagen. Boreas Supplement 34. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 2016, pp. 9-36.

“Apollonios of Tyana and the Gymnoi of Ethiopia,” in Philosophy and the Ancient Novel, eds.

Marília P. Futre Pinheiro and Sylvia Montiglio. Eelde: Roelf Barkhuis, 2015, pp. 141-157. “Ethnic Identities, Borderlands, and Hybridity,” in Blackwell Companion to Ethnicity in the

Ancient Mediterranean, ed. Jeremy McInerney. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2014, pp. 112-126. “Networks in the Hellenistic Economy,” in Belonging and Isolation in the Hellenistic World, eds.

Sheila Ager and Riemer Faber. Phoenix Supplement. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014, pp. 143-154.

“Making the Desert American,” Cultural History 2 (2013) 165-181. “Economic Regionalism in Theory and Practice,” in Pottery Markets in the Ancient Greek

World (8th – 1st Centuries BC.),” eds. Didien Viviers and Athéna Tsingarida. Brussells: Université libre de Bruxelles Presse, 2013, pp. 119-131.

“A New Inventory from Mylasa in Karia,” in Stephanephoros. De l’économie antique à l’Asie

Mineure. Hommages à Raymond Descat, ed. Koray Konuk. Bordeaux: Ausonius, 2012, pp. 145-163.

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“Inter-Regional Economies in the Aegean Basin,” in The Economies of Hellenistic Societies, Third to First Centuries BC, eds. Zosia H. Archibald, John K. Davies, and Vincent Gabrielsen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011, 368-389.

“Formation of Taste and Fashion. Perfumes and Imitations in the Hellenistic and Early

Imperial World,” Marburger Beiträge zur Antiken Handels-, Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte 28 (2010) 21-44.

“Mylasa and Its Territory,” in Hellenistic Karia, eds. Riet Van Bremen and Jan-Mathieu

Carbon. Bordeaux: Ausonius Editions, 2010, 43-57.

“New Inscriptions from Choma in Northern Lykia, I. Statue Base for an Unknown Honorand,” in Studies in Greek Epigraphy and History in Honor of Stephen V. Tracy, eds. G. Reger, F. X. Ryan, and T. Winters. Bordeaux: Ausonius Editions, 2010, 87-94.

“On the Road to India with Apollonios of Tyana and Thomas the Apostle,” Mediterranean Historical Review 22 (2007) 257-271. Reprinted with minor corrections in Greek and Roman Networks in the Mediterranean, eds. Irad Malkin, Christy Constantakopoulou, and Katerina Panagopoulou London: Routledge, 2009, 249-263.

“Regions Revisited. Identifying Regions in a Greco-Roman Mediterranean Context,” FACTA. A Journal of Roman Material Culture Studies 1 (2007) 65-74.

“Traders and Travelers in the Black and Aegean Seas,” in The Black Sea in Antiquity. Regional

and Interregional Economic Exchanges, eds. V. Gabrielsen and J. Lund, Black Sea Studies 6. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 2007, pp. 273-286.

“Karia. A Case Study,” in Regionalism in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor, eds. Hugh Elton and Gary Reger. Bordeaux: Ausonius Éditions, 2007, pp. 89-96.

“Hellenistic Greece and Western Asia Minor,” Chapter 17 of the Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World, eds. Walter Scheidel, Ian Morris, and Richard Saller. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007, pp. 460-483.

“The Pseudo-Rhodian Drachms of Mylasa Revisited,” with Richard Ashton, in

Agoranomia. Studies in Money and Exchange Presented to John H. Kroll, ed. Peter Van Alfen. New York: American Numismatic Society, 2006, pp. 125-150.

“The Manufacture and Distribution of Perfume,” in Making, Moving and Managing. The New

World of Ancient Economies, 323-31 BC, eds. Zofia H. Archibald, John K. Davies, and Vincent Gabrielsen. Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2005, pp. 253-297.

“The Aegean Islands,” in Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis, eds. Mogens Herman Hansen and Thomas Heine Nielsen. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 732-793.

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“Sympoliteiai in Hellenistic Asia Minor,” in The Greco-Roman East. Politics, Culture, Society, ed. Stephen Colvin, Yale Classical Studies 31. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2004, pp. 144-180.

“The Economy,” in The Blackwell Companion to the Hellenistic World, ed. Andrew Erskine. Oxford: Blackwell, 2003, pp. 331-353.

“Aspects of the Role of Merchants in the Political Life of the Hellenistic World,” in Mercati e politica nel mondo antico, ed. Carlo Zaccagnini. Rome 2003, pp. 165-197.

“The Mykonian Synoikismos,” Revue des études anciennes 103 (2001) 157-181. Map 56, “Pergamum” (islands); Map 57 (with the Project Office); Map 58,

“Peloponnesus” (islands); Map 60, “Crete” (insets); Map 61, “Ephesus” (islands), in The Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, ed. Richard Talbert. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2000.

“Slavery and Manumission in Ancient Greece,” in Race and Racism in Theory and Practice, ed. Berel Lang. Lanham 2000, pp. 99-110.

“The Relations between Rhodes and Caria from 246 to 167 BC,” in Hellenistic Rhodes. Politics, Culture, and Society, ed. Vincent Gabrielsen, Per Bilde, Troels Engberg-Pedersen, Lise Hannestad, and Jan Zahle, Studies in Hellenistic Civilization 9. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1999, pp. 76-97.

“The Koinon of the Laodikeis in Karia,” Epigraphica Anatolica 30 (1998) 11-17.

“The Historical and Archaeological Background to the Disappearance of Koresia and Poiessa on Keos,” in Kea-Kythnos: History and Archaeology. Proceedings of an International Symposium Kea-Kythnos, 22-25 June 1994, ed. L.G. Mendoni and A. Mazarakis Ainian, Meletemata 27. Athens 1998, pp. 633-641.

“The Price Histories of Some Imported Goods on Independent Delos,” in Économie antique. Prix et formation de prix dans les économies antiques, Entretiens d'archéologie et d'histoire Saint-Bertrand-de Comminges. Saint-Bertrand de Comminges 1997, pp. 53-72. Reprinted in The Ancient Economy, eds. Walter Scheidel and Sitta Von Reden. London: Routledge, 2002, pp. 133-154.

“Islands with one Polis versus Islands with Several Poleis,” in The Polis as an Urban Centre and as a Political Community, Acts of the Copenhagen Polis Centre 3, ed. Mogens Herman Hansen. Copenhagen 1997, pp. 450-492.

“The Date and Historical Significance of I.G. XII 5.714 of Andros,” Hesperia 63 (1994) 309-321.

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“Some Boiotians in the Hellenistic Kyklades,” in Boiotia Antiqua IV. Proceedings of the 7th International Congress on Boiotian Antiquities. Boiotian (and Other) Epigraphy, ed. John Fossey, McGill University Monographs, volume 15. Amsterdam 1994, pp. 71-99.

“Two Estates of Delian Apollo on Mykonos: I.D. 452 + 467,” Hesperia 63 (1994) 105-110.

“The Political History of the Kyklades, 260-200 B.C.,” Historia 43 (1994) 32-69. “The Date of the Battle of Kos,” American Journal of Ancient History 10 (1985 [1993]) 155-177.

“The Public Purchase of Grain on Independent Delos (314-167 B.C.),” Classical Antiquity 12

(1993) 300-334.

“Athens and Tenos in the Early Hellenistic Age,” Classical Quarterly 42 (1992) 365-383.

“Private Property and Private Loans on Independent Delos (314-167 B.C.),” Phoenix 46 (1992) 322-341.

“Apollodoros of Cyzicus and his Delian Garden,” Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 32 (1991) 229-237.

“Coinage and Federation on Hellenistic Keos,” in Landscape Archaeology as Long-term History: Northern Keos in the Cycladic Islands, eds. J.F. Cherry, J.L. Davis, and E. Mantzourani, Monumenta Archaeologica, volume 16. Los Angeles 1991, pp. 305-317, with Martha Risser.

“The Family of Balakros son of Nikanor, the Makedonian, on Delos,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 89 (1991) 151-154.

“Some Remarks on `I.G. XII 8, 262 complété' and the Restoration of Thasian Democracy,” Klio 72 (1990) 396-401. “The Ceramic Database and Studies of Trade,” in Analysis and Publication of Ceramics. The Computer Data-base in Archaeology, eds. Jeffery A. Blakely and W.J. Bennett, Jr., British Archaeological Reports International Series, volume 551. Oxford 1989, pp. 67-69, with Martha Risser.

“The Delian ΧΩMA,” Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik 74 (1988) 29-30.

c. Reviews La Batanée et le Jawlan Oriental, Annie Sartre-Fauriat and Maurice Sartre, Journal of Roman

Archaeology 32 (2019) 927-935.

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Caria and Crete in Antiquity. Cultural Interaction between Anatolia and the Aegean (Cambridge 2017), Classical World 111 (2018) 596-597.

Le temps de Rhodes, by Nathan Badoud (Munich 2015). Topoi 21 (2017) 553-563. The Dance of the Islands, by Christy Constantanpoulou (Oxford 2007), Journal of Hellenic

Studies 112 (2009) 183-184. The Invention of Coinage and the Monetarization of Ancient Greece, by David Schaps. New England

Classical Journal 32 (2005) 354-356. Heritage and Hellenism. The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition, by Erich Gruen, Classical Review 50

(2000) 133-134. Athens from Alexander to Actium, by Christian Habicht (Cambridge, Mass. 1997), American

Historical Review 104 (1999) 1724.

Les archipels égéens dans l'antiquité grecque. Ve -- IIe siècles av. notre ère, by Patrice Brun, Centre de recherches d'histoire ancienne 157 (Paris 1996), American Journal of Archaeology 102 (1998) 852-853

Antigonus II Gonatas. A Political Biography, by Janice J. Gabbert, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 98.10.17 (1998).

Cities, Fortresses and Villages of Byzantine Asia Minor, by Clive Foss (Aldershot 1996); Soldier and Society in Roman Egypt. A Social History, by Richard Alston (London 1996); The Making of Byzantium, 600-1025, by Mark Whittow (Berkeley 1996), Ancient History Bulletin 11 (1997) 146-147.

The Hellenistic Settlements in Europe, the Islands, and Asia Minor, by Getzel M. Cohen, Hellenistic Culture and Society, volume 17 (Berkeley-Los Angeles-London 1995), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 98.11.19 (1998).

Hellenistic Architectural Sculpture. Figural Motifs in Western Anatolian and the Aegean Islands, by Pamela A. Webb (Madison 1996), New England Classical Journal 25 (1998) 98-99.

Cities of Alexander the Great, by P.M. Fraser (Oxford 1996), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97.4.25 (1997) = 8.6 (1997) 526-531.

Hellenism and Empire. Language, Classicism, and Power in the Greek World, AD 50-250, by Simon Swain (Oxford 1996); Rome and the Western Greeks, 350 BC -- AD 200. Conquest and Acculturation in Southern Italy, by Kathryn Lomas (London and New York 1993); Philo's Alexandria, by Dorothy I. Sly (London and New York 1996), Ancient History Bulletin 10 (1996) 148.

Hegemony to Empire. The Development of the Roman Imperium in the East from 148 to 62 B.C., by Robert Morstein Kallet-Marx, Hellenistic Culture and Society, volume 15 (Berkeley-Los

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Angeles-London 1995), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 97.2.6 = 8.2 (1997) 133-140

Schenkungen hellenistischer Herrscher an griechische Städte und Heiligtümer. Teil I. Zeugnisse und Kommentare, eds. Klaus Bringmann and Hans von Steuben (Berlin 1995) and Stadtbild und Bürgerbild im Hellenismus, eds. Michael Wörrle and Paul Zanker, Vestigia vol. 47 (Munich 1995), American Journal of Archaeology 101 (1997) 418-419.

The Gymnasium of Virtue. Education and Culture in Ancient Sparta, by Nigel M. Kennell (Chapel Hill 1995), New England Classical Journal 23.4 (May 1996) 156-157.

Athenian Democracy in Transition. Attic Letter-Cutters of 340 to 290 B.C., by Stephen V. Tracy (Berkeley 1995), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 96.4.21 (1996) = 7.4 (1996) 354-358.

Iscrizioni di Cos, by Mario Segre (Rome 1993), American Journal of Archaeology 100 (1996)

622-624.

Money and Government in the Roman Empire, by Richard Duncan-Jones (Cambridge 1994), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 6.6 (1995) 479-484.

Graecia Capta. The Landscapes of Roman Greece, by Susan Alcock (Cambridge 1993), American Journal of Archaeology 98 (1994) 576-577.

Early Hellenistic Coinage, by Otto Mørkholm (Cambridge 1991), American Journal of Archaeology 97 (1993) 809-810.

Reflections on History and Historians, by Theodore S. Hamerow (Wisconsin 1988), Wisconsin Academy Review (March 1989) 44-45. e. Editorial responsibilities Editorial Advisory Board for the Encyclopedia of Ancient History, for Places: East. Involves creating list of entries, identifying authors for them, editing and approving text, of about 350 articles total. This task has been completed,.

f. Other

Organizer of a panel called “Alien Landscapes” for the October 2017 annual meeting of the Western Literature Association.

Organizer, with John Ma (Princeton) and Guy Rogers (Wellesley), of a conference

celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the publication of David Magie's Roman Rule in Asia Minor, held at Princeton University in December 9-10, 2000.

Organizer, with Hugh Elton, of a conference on "Regionalism in Hellenistic and Roman

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Asia Minor," held at Trinity College on August 22-24, 1997. The papers were published in a volume edited by Elton and Reger (see above under “Edited Volumes”).

Organizer of a panel on "New Research in Hellenistic Karia" for the 128th Annual Meeting of the APA in New York City. Panelists: Charles Crowther, Beate Dignas, John Ma, Andrew Meadows, Reger; commentator: Richard Billows.

2. Papers Presented

“Human Beings as Desert Trash,” paper read at the 2018 meeting of the Western Literature Association.

“Knowing by Naming,” paper read March 6, 2018, at the conference Celebrating the Sonoran Desert – A Tri-National Symposium, in Ajo, Arizona.

“The Flying Saucers Have Landed. Desert Landscapes and Alien Contact in the American Imaginary.” Paper for the 2017 annual meeting of the Western Literature Association.

“Regionalism and Coins in the Hellenistic World,” paper read at the 2017 Second

International Congress on the History of Money and Numismatics in the Mediterranean World, held in Antalya, Turkey, January 5-8, 2017 (I am also a co-organizer of this conference). See above for the publication.

“Sacred Desert, Profane Desert in the American Imaginary,” paper read at the 2016 Annual Conference of the Western Literature Association, September 23, 2016.

“Control and Exploitation of the Egyptian Desert. Reconfiguring and Reimagining a Hostile Space,” paper read at the conference Economy and Inequality: Resources, Exchange, and Power in Classical Antiquity, at the Fondation Hardt, Geneva, on August 23, 2016. See above for publication.

“The Deserts of Los Angeles. Two Topologies,” paper presented at the 2015 Annual Conference of the Western Literature Association, October 2015. See above for publication.

“Greeks and Romans in the Sahara Desert,” paper presented at the conference Global

Deserts – Environmental History in Arid Lands, September 2015. See above for publication.

“A Letter of Septimius Severus to the Lykian Koinon on the Misbehavior of Soldiers,” paper to be presented at a colloquium for Michael Wörrle at the Kommission für Epigraphik in Munich, Germany, March 5, 2015. [Cancelled due to snowstorm.]

“What’s a Border Good For? Endowing a Line with Meaning,” paper delivered at the 2014

Western Literature Association Conference, November 2014. “First There Is a Mountain,” paper presented to the New England Ancient History

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Colloquium, October 30, 2014. “Alexanders and the Hellenistic Economy,” paper read at the conference Les alexandres

après Alexandre. Histoire d’une monnaie commune, held in Athens, Greece, May 2014. Conference proceedings to be published.

“Naked on the Deserts of Mars,” paper presented at the 2013 Annual Conference of the

Western Literature Association, Berkeley, California, October 11, 2013. Revised version published in Extrapolation (see above).

“Desert and Canyon, Fruit and Goats. Sexual Topography in Frances Gillmor, Fruit Out of

Rock,” paper read at the Annual Conference of the Western Literature Association, November 6, in Lubbock, Texas.

“Making the Desert American,” paper read at the conference “Envisioning Landscapes.

Adaption and Renewal,” at the University of Liverpool, June 22, 2012. [published; see above] “Borderlands,” paper read at colloquium on “Landscape, Perception, and Identity,” at the

University of Groningen, Netherlands, June 4, 2012. “Borderlands as Mediators of Freedom and Dependence,” paper read as part of seminar

series “Freedom, Dependency, and the Greek Polis” at Corpus Christi College, Oxford University, February 29, 2012. [Incorporated into “On the Border in Arizona and Greece.”]

“A Letter of Septimius Severus to the Lykian Koinon on the Misbehavior of Soldiers,”

epigraphic seminar at the Classics Center, Oxford University, February 27, 2012. [See above for publication.]

“Borderlands, Ethnic Identity, and Hybridity,” paper read at the “Conference on Ethnicity

in the World of the Ancient Mediterranean,” held at the University of Pennsylvania, January 9-10, 2012. [published; see above]

“Nodes of Sea and Sand. Ports, Human Geography, and Networks of Trade.” Paper

presented at the conference Ancient Ports. The Geography of Connections, in Uppsala, Sweden, September 23, 2010 [published; see above].

“Networks in the Hellenistic Economy,” paper written for the conference “Belonging and

Isolation in the Hellenistic World,” August 21-23, 2008, Waterloo, Ontario. [Published – see above.] NB: I had to cancel my attendance at this conference at the last minute for personal reasons.

“Apollonios of Tyana and the Gymnoi of Ethiopia,” paper written for the “International Conference on the Ancient Novel,” July 21-25, 2008, in Lisbon, Portugal [published; see above]. NB: I had to cancel my attendance at this conference at the last minute for personal reasons.

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“Economic Regionalism in Theory and Practice,” paper given at “Les marches de la céramique dans le monde grec (VIIIe – Ier s. av. J.-C.),” conference at the Université libre de Bruxelles, June 19-21, 2008. [Published – see above.]

“A New Inventory from Mylasa,” presentation at a seminar on Greek history to the

Classics Department at the University of Chicago, March 6, 2009, and as at the Sara B. Aleshire Center for the Study of Greek Epigraphy at the University of California, Berkeley, March 2010 [published; see above].

“Reconfiguring the Political Geography of Karia,” paper presented at the Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, Munich, for a symposium on sympoliteiai and other forms of centralization. October 26, 2007.

“Building Accounts of “Houses” at Epidauros. A Comparative Approach,” paper

presented at the XIII International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, Oxford, September 2007.

"Inter-regional Economies in the Aegean," paper presented at Demand Creation and

Economic Flows: Conference on Hellenistic Economies in Copenhagen, Denmark, September 8, 2006. [published; see above]

“The Greater Mylasean Sympoliteia,” paper presented at Hellenistic Karia Conference,

Oxford University, June 29, 2006. [published; see above] “To India with Apollonios of Tyana and Thomas the Apostle,” paper presented at the

Networks in the Greek and Roman World conference, Rethymno, Krete, May 25, 2006. [See above for publication.]

“Moving People, Moving Things in the Deserts of Greco-Roman Egypt,” paper presented at the World History Conference, Ifrane, Morocco, June 29, 2005

“New Approaches to the Hellenistic Economy,” paper presented at a panel on “Classical

Archaeology in the Caucasus,” AIA/APA, January 7, 2005. “A New Inventory from Mylasa.” Delivered to conferences in Athens, Greece, in November, 2003,

and in Belgium in January, 2004 (in abstentia). [published; see above]

“Hellenistic Greece,” at a conference for contributors to the Cambridge Economic History of

the Greco-Roman World held at Cambridge University, September 2002. [See above for publication] “The Manufacture and Distribution of Perfume,” in Hellenistic Economies 2, University

of Liverpool, July 2002. [See above for publication]

“Aspects of the Economic Role of Merchants in the Hellenistic World,” paper read at the conference Mercanti e politica nel mondo antico, Rome, 23-24 March 2000, organized by the Università di Roma la Sapienza. [See above for publication]

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“Sympoliteiai in the Hellenistic World,” paper read at University of Cincinnati, February

14, 2000. [published; see above] “The Mykonian Synoikismos,” paper read at a conference “Les îles grecques de la mer

Égée dans l'antiquité,” November 12-13, 1999, at Bordeaux, organized by Patrice Brun. [See above for publication.]

“A Case Study of Two Regions: Karia and the Kyklades,” presented at a conference on

"Regionalism in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor," held at Trinity College on August 22-24, 1997. [See above for publication.]

“Agriculture and the Rural Landscape of Hellenistic Mylasa,” read at the Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, December 27-30, 1996, as part of a panel, “New Research on Hellenistic Karia,” which I organized (see above).

“Islands with one Polis versus Islands with Several Poleis,” presented at the “Symposium on the Ancient Greek City-State,” sponsored by the Copenhagen Polis Centre, August 28-31, 1996. [See above for publication]

“The Price Histories of Some Imported Goods on Independent Delos,” presented at a conference on “Prix et formation de prix dans les économies antiques” (Deuxième rencontre de Saint-Bertrand-de Comminges 1996), May 3-4, 1996. [See above for publication]

“The Date of the Land-transfer Texts of Mylasa,” read at the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, December 29, 1995 (see American Journal of Archaeology 100 [1996] 363). [See above for publication]

“Rhodian Relations with the Cities of Karia,” read at the Conference on Hellenistic Rhodes in Denmark, September 1994. [See above for publication]

“The Economic and Political Background to the Disappearance of Koresia and Poiessa on Keos,” read at the International Scientific Symposium on Kea-Kythnos: Historical and Archaeological Research, June 22-25, 1994. [See above for publication]

“Some Boiotians in the Hellenistic Kyklades,” read at the Conference at McGill University celebrating the 100th anniversary of the publication of Inscriptiones Graecae VII, February 1993. (Published in revised form in Boiotia Antiqua IV.)

“The Impact of the Hiera Syggraphe (I.D. 503) on the Rents of Apollo's Estates on Delos and Rheneia,” read at the Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, December 1991. (Published in revised form in Regionalism and Change.)

“The Economic Impact of the Ptolemies in the Cyclades,” read at the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, January 1989 (see American Journal of Archaeology 93 [1989] 248).

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“The Price History of Three Commodities on Delos in the Third Century B.C.,” read at the

Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, December 1987. (Published in revised form in Regionalism and Change.)

“The Hellenistic Silver Coinage of Paros,” read at the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, December 1986 (see American Journal of Archaeology 91 [1987] 272).

“Coinage and Federation on Hellenistic Keos,” read at the Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, December 1985, with Marth Risser. (Published in revised form in Landscape Archaeology.)

3. Papers read at Trinity College

“The Greeks of Asia Minor. Constructing a Diaspora in the Modern World,” read in Lecture Series 11, April 6, 1999, of the co-curricular initiative Migrations, Diasporic Communities, and Transnational Identities.

“Strabo and Ibn Hauqal on the Geography of Iraq,” read as part of the Faculty Lecture Series, November 11, 1998.

“Slavery and Manumission in Ancient Greece,” read at conference on "The Concept of Race," organized by Berel Lang, October 14, 1998. [See above for publication]

4. Work in progress

History of the Desert. A study of human interaction with arid environments across time and space.

Mylasa in Karia. Book-length publication of over 100 new inscriptions from Mylasa

contextualized in full monographic treatment of all aspects of the city's history from c. 400 BCE to c. 700 CE. Book on the economy of the Greek and Roman world, under contract with Wiley. “First There Is a Mountain.” Long paper exploring the history of Mount Latmos in southwestern Turkey from the Bronze Age to the Byzantine period. Planned submission to Mediterranean Historical Review by spring 2021. 5. Professional Memberships

Alumni Association of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens

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American Historical Association American Society of Papyrologists Archaeological Institute of America Association of Ancient Historians Association internationale d'épigraphie grecque et latine Association internationale du papyrologue Association pour l'encouragement des études grecques en France International Plutarch Society Middle East Medievalists Society for Classical Studies (lifetime) [formerly American Philological Association] Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

6. Courses taught at Trinity College History Courses

History 101, "Introduction to the History of Europe" [course now retired] History 111, "Foundations of Greek and Roman History" [course now retired] History 115, "History of Greece, c. 1500-200 BCE" History 203, "Introduction to Greek History" [course now retired] History 203, "Magic and Medicine in Ancient Greece" History 204, "Introduction to Roman History" [course now retired] History 211, "History of the Desert (first taught fall 2004) History 225, "The Origin and Development of the Greek Polis" History 300, later 299, "Historiography" History 333, "The Roman Republic" History 334, "The Provinces of the Roman Empire" History 335, "Greece Before Alexander" History/American Studies 349, “Writing the American Desert” History 358, "The `Decline and Fall' of the Roman Empire" History 378, “The Age of Alexander the Great” History 401 or 402, "Topics in Ancient History" (topics offered have included "The

Roman Empire," "The Ancient Economy," "Ancient Sparta," and "Athenian Democracy") History 481 or 482, "Senior Research Seminar: History of the Desert" History 481, "Senior Research Seminar: The Mediterranean" History 800, "Graduate Historiography" Classics Courses Classics 401, “Senior Seminar/Special Topics” Greek 101, “Introduction to Biblical and Classical Greek I” Greek 102, “Introduction to Biblical and Classical Greek II” Greek 301, “Egypt Under the Greeks and Romans” Greek 325, “Greek Religious Texts” Greek 330, “Homer and Homeric Hymns” Latin 308, “Fall of the Roman Republic” Latin 331, “Tacitus”

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First-Year Student Program Courses Guided Studies 219, "The Classical Tradition" First-Year Seminar, “Educating Women in the Greek and Roman World” Freshman Seminar, "Ancient Slavery" First-Year Seminar, "Orientalism, Or How the West Has Seen the East" First-Year Seminar, "Women, Men, Gods, Goddesses. Religion in the Roman Empire" First-Year Colloquium, "Watching Daria" First-Year Colloquium, "Connecticut Woods" 7. Courses taught at the Trinity College Rome Campus (Spring 2013) Rome 242, “Living in the Imperial City” Rome 344, “Peoples and Places of Roman Italy” 8. Courses taught elsewhere “Greek Agriculture,” graduate seminar taught at American School of Classical Studies at

Athens, 2003-2004

Syllabuses available on request.

Service

1. College Chair, Classics Department, July 1, 2013-June 30, 2017

Co-Convener (with Dario Del Puppo) of the Classics Advisory Committee, 2010/11 (and member of the committee since its founding in 2008) Founding Co-Director (with Dina Anselmi) of the Center for Teaching and Learning, 2008/9-2010/11 Co-Chair (with Allison Read) of the Campus Climate Council, 2008-2009/10

Chair, History Department, 2004/5-2007/8, 2002/3 History Department Search Committee for Middle Eastern historian, chair, 2005/6 History Department Search Committee for Sub-Saharan African historian, chair, 2005/6 Coordinator, Middle Eastern Studies, 1998-2001 Filekeeper for First Reappointment for Jonathan Elukin History Department Search Committee for Middle Eastern historian, chair, 1998/9 History Department Interim Chair, spring 1996 History Department Search Committee for Mediaevalist, chair, 1996/7 Faculty Advisory Committee on Fraternities and Sororities, 1995-1998, 1990-1993 Dean of Faculty Search Committee, 1993/4 History Search Committees for One-year Replacement Positions, 1995-1996 for two

positions (chair), 1993-1994 (chair), 1991/2, 1989/90 History Department Committee to Review History Graduate Program, 1992/3 Faculty Advisor, WRTC-FM, 1991-August 2017

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Educational Policy Committee, 1996-1999 (chair 1998/9), 1990-1993 Ad Hoc Committee on the Sexual Harassment of Students by Faculty, 1992/3 Ad Hoc Committee to Review the Faculty Research Committee, 1991/2 Classics Search Committee, 1988/9, 1999/2000, 2004/5, 2011/12

2. Community

Prize Assessor, Noah Webster House, West Hartford, April-May 2006 Consultant, Connecticut Humanities Council, 1993 President, Hartford Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, 1992-1993 Board Member, Classical Association of Connecticut, 1992-1994 Vice-president, Hartford Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, 1991-1992

3. Professional

Served as outside examiner on dissertation defense committees at University of Pennsylvania and Columbia University.

Reviewer of book manuscripts for University of California Press, Oxford University

Press, University of Michigan Press, and Princeton University Press. Reviewer of article manuscripts for Transaction of the American Philological Association,

Hesperia, Ancient History Bulletin, American Journal of Ancient History, Historical Geography, Oxford University Press, Princeton University Press.