Sarolta Anna Takács, Ph.D.

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Sarolta Anna Takács, Ph.D.
Department of History
Rutgers University
EDUCATION
1992 Ph.D., History, University of California, Los Angeles
1991-1992 Freie Universität Berlin: Byzantinisch-Neugriechisches Seminar
1990-1991 Universität Heidelberg: Seminar für Alte Geschichte
1989 M.A., History, University of California, Los Angeles
1984 B.A., Classics, University of California, Irvine
1981 Matura (Ancient Greek and Latin), Collège St. Michel, Fribourg, Switzerland
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
Academic
2008-present (on leave 2010-2012) PROFESSOR, History Department, Rutgers University
2007-2008 ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, History Department, Rutgers University
2001-2007 ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, Classics Department, Rutgers University
1997-2001 ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR, Department of the Classics, Harvard University
1993-1997 ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Department of the Classics, Harvard University
1993 (Winter-Spring) LECTURER, History Department, University of California, Los Angeles
1992 (Fall) VISITING ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, Classics, University of Oregon
Administrative
2015 - present DIRECTOR, Modern Greek Studies Program, Rutgers University
2010-2012 DEAN, Sage College of Albany
DEAN, School of Professional & Continuing Education, The Sage Colleges
DEAN of Global Education, The Sage Colleges
2006-2010 FOUNDING DEAN, School of Arts and Sciences Honors Program, Rutgers University
1997-2001 (on leave 2000-2001) ACADEMIC DEAN, John Winthrop House, Harvard University
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
2015-2016 Leadership and Professional Development Program, OASIS Rutgers University
PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS
General Editor Roman Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches, Lexington Books, Rowman and Littlefield Inc.,
2004-present
The Ancient World and The Modern World, M.E. Sharpe, Inc., 2005-2008
Sarolta Anna Takács

Institutional Representative American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2004-present
The American Academy in Rome, 1998-2001
Board of Directors Classical Association of the Atlantic States, 2005-2012
Officer-at-Large 2011-2012
President 2010-2011
First Vice-President 2009-2010
Second Vice-President 2008-2009
Regional Representative 2005-2008
Selection Committee Institute of International Education, Fulbright-Hays Program,
Turkey, Cyprus, and Greece, 2008-2011
Steering Committee Association of Ancient Historians of the Atlantic State, 2003-2007
Vice President Byzantine Studies Association of North America, 1998-1999
Governing Board Byzantine Studies Association of North America, 1995-1999

FELLOWSHIPS

2007-2008 Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis
Associate Fellow, 2006-2007
2000-2001 Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University, Washington, D.C.
1996-1997 Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Germany
1990-1992 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), 3 semesters

HONORS, AWARDS, GRANTS

2013 Radical Innovation Summit (National Science Foundation and Organization of
the American States; Interdisciplinary Collaboration in Innovative
Methods of Research and Education)
2012 Institute for Computing in the Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (National
Endowment for the Humanities; Workshops in the Digital Humanities)
2004 Cook College Student Leadership Award for Outstanding Contribution to
Teaching and Advising
2000 Petra T. Shattuck Excellence in Teaching Award, Harvard Extension School
2003-2004 Loeb Classical Library Foundation Grant
1996-2001 Ford Foundation Grant
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1994, 1995, 1997-2000 Loeb Faculty Research Grant, Harvard University
1997 Fondation Hardt, Switzerland
1997, 2000-2001 Cooke Fund, Harvard University
1993, 1994, 1995, 1997 Junior Faculty Grant, Harvard University
1993-1994, 2000-2001 Clark Fund, Harvard University
1986-1987 UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Research Assistantship
1986 UCLA Travel Grant
1984 UCLA Graduate Award in Classics
PUBLICATIONS
Books
The Construction of Authority in Ancient Rome and Byzantium: The Rhetoric of Empire (Cambridge University Press: London and
New York, 2009; paperback edition 2012)
Vestal Virgins, Sibyls, and Matrons: Roman Women in Religion (University of Texas Press: Austin, 2008; hardback and
paperback edition)
Isis and Sarapis in the Roman World (Brill: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World, vol. 124, Leiden, 1995)
Edited Books
The Modern World, 5 vols. (M.E. Sharpe, Inc.: Armonk NY, 2008)
The Ancient World, 5 vols. (M.E. Sharpe, Inc.: Armonk NY, 2007)
Understanding Byzantium. Studies in Byzantine Historical Sources. Translations of articles by Paul Speck,
Variorum Collected Studies Series (Ashgate: London, 2003)
Novum Millennium. Studies on Byzantine History and Culture (Ashgate: London, 2001), ed., with Claudia Sode
The Senatus Consultum de Cn. Pisone Patre (American Journal of Philology vol. 120.1, 1999), ed., with Cynthia Damon
Presence of Byzantium. Festschrift in Honor of Milton V. Anastos (Hakkert: Byzantinische Forschungen 20, Amsterdam, 1994),
ed., with Andrew R. Dyck
Book Chapters
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“Herodotus’ (After)Life in Byzantium,” in C. Soares and Th. Figueira, Ethnicity in Herodotus (Routledge, in preparation)
“Cleopatra, Isis, and the Formation of Augustan Rome,” in: M. Miles, Cleopatra: A Sphinx Revisited (Berkeley and Los
Angeles, 2011), 78-95
“Divine and Human Feet: Records of Pilgrims Honouring Isis,” in: J. Elsner and I. Rutherford, Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman
and Early Christian Antiquity. Seeing the Gods (Oxford, 2005), 353-369
“Cult, Dedicators and Dedications of Isis and Sarapis in Lydia and Mysia,” Byzas 1 (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut:
Istanbul, 2005), 155-168
“Confusión en la tierra, paz en los cielos: Galieno y los cristianos,” in: Del Coliseo al Vaticano. Claves del Cristianismo
primitivo, eds. Elena Muñiz Grijalvo and Rafael Urías Martinez (Fundación José María Lara: Seville, 2005),153-173
“Statues with Hearts,” in: The Rise and Fall of an Imperial Shrine, Roman Sculpture from the Augusteum at Narona, eds. Emilio
Marin and Michael Vickers, The Oxford Exhibition Catalogue, Arheoloski Muzej (Split, 2004), 275-280
“Estàtues amb cor,” in: Divo Augusto. La descoberta d'un temple Romà a Croàcia, ed. Emilio Marin, Arheoloski Muzej
(Split, 2004), 275-280
“Estatuas con corazón,” in: El descubrimento de un templo Romano en Croacia, ed. Emilio Marin, Arheoloski Muzej
(Split, 2004), 412-416
Augustus’ Res Gestae, translation and notes, and extended bibliography for W. Eck’s Augustus and His Time
(Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2003)
“Forging a Past: The Sibylline Books and the Making of Rome,” in: Cultures of Forgery. Making Nations, Making Selves,
eds. J. Ryan and A. Thomas (Routledge: New York and London, 2003), 15-27
“Hypatia’s Murder - The Sacrifice of a Virgin and Its Implications,” reprint in ed. G. Nagy, Greek Literature vol. 8
(Routledge: New York and London, 2002), 397-412
“A Bronze Plaque to Apollo Praenos in Boston,” (with Annewies van den Hoek) in: eds. C. Mattusch, A. Brauer,
S. Knudsen, From the Parts to the Whole, vol. 1, Acta of the Thirteenth Bronze Congress, Journal of Roman Archaeology, Supplement
Series 39.1 (Portsmouth RI, 2000), 265-271
“Pagan Cults at Antioch,” in: Antioch: The Lost Ancient City, ed. Christine Kondoleon (Princeton University Press, 2000),
198-200
“Isis and Sarapis in Ephesos,” in: eds. H. Friesinger and K. Krinzinger, 100 Jahre Österreichische Forschungen in Ephesos,
Akten des Symposions 1995, Archäologische Forschungen 1 (1999), 269-274
“Magna Deum Mater Idaea, Cybele, and Catullus’ Attis,” in: ed. E. Lane, Cybele, Attis, and Related Cults:Studies in the Memory
of M.J. Vermaseren (Brill: Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 131, Leiden, 1996), 367-386
“Hypatia’s Murder - The Sacrifice of a Virgin and Its Implications,” in: ed. K.B. Free, The Formulation of Christianity by
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Conflict through the Ages, Symposium Series 34 (E. Mellen Press: Lewiston, 1995), 47-62

Articles

“Kipovi sa srcem,” in: Vjesnik za arheologiju I historiju dalmatinsku (Courier of Archaeology and Dalmatian History) 97
(2005), 273-284
“Amicus ad Aram: A Friend unto Death – Tiberian Versions,” American Journal of Ancient History, New Series 1.2 (2002)
[2003], 109-123
“Politics and Religion in the Bacchanalian Affair,” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 100 (2000), 301-310
“Alexandria in Rome,” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 97 (1995), 263-276
“Oracles and Science - Anna Comnena’s Comments on Astrology,” Byzantinische Forschungen 23 (1996), 35-44
“The Travels of Two Men and an Obelisk,” Specimina Nova 11 (1995), 175-178
“Die Farbbezeichnung von Völkern in der byzantinischen Literatur oder das Verständnis der Byzantiner von anderen
Kulturen. Eine Gedankenskizze,” Varia 5 Poikila Byzantina 13 (1994), 513-523
“The Magic of Isis Replaced or Cyril of Alexandria’s Attempt to Redirect Religious Devotion,” Varia 5 Poikila Byzantina 13
(1994), 491-507
“What about Varna? Two Accounts of the Battle by Paraskondylos Zotikos and Michael Beheim,” Presence of Byzantium.
Festschrift for Milton V. Anastos, Byzantinische Forschungen 20 (1994), 249-261
“Manuel Philes’ Meditation on an Icon of the Virgin Mary,” Byzantinsche Forschungen 15 (1990), 277-288

Electronic Article

“Initiations and Mysteries in Apuleius’ Metamorphoses,” Electronic Antiquity 12.1 (2008), 73-87.

Enclycopedia Entries

“Isis,” in: Virgil Encyclopedia (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
“Osiris,” in Virgil Encyclopedia (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)
“Isis,” in: Encyclopedia of Religion, vol. 7, Second Edition (Macmillan Reference USA, Thomson Gale, 2005),
4557-4560
“Sabazios,” Der Neue Pauly Realencyclopädie der Altertumswissenschaften, vol.10 (2001), 1180-1182
“Sabazios,” Brill’s New Pauly. Antiquity, vol. 12
“Serapis,” Der Neue Pauly Realencyclopädie der Altertumswissenschaften, vol. 10 (2001), 446-448
“Serapis,” Brill’s New Pauly. Antiquity, vol. 13
“Ploiaphesia,” Der Neue Pauly Realencyclopädie der Altertumswissenschaften, vol. 9 (2000), 1145
“Ploiaphesia,” Brill’s New Pauly. Antiquity, vol. 11
“Irene of Athens,” in A. Commire and D. Klezmer, eds., Women in World History vol. 7 (Waterford, Conn.,
Yorkin Press, 1999–2000), 690-694, with Robert W. Cape, Jr.
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“Mater Magna,” Der Neue Pauly Realencyclopädie der Altertumswissenschaften, vol. 7 (1999), 998-1000
“Mater Magna,” Brill’s New Pauly. Antiquity, vol 8 (2002), 458-459
“Kybele,” Der Neue Pauly Realencyclopädie der Altertumswissenschaften, vol. 6 (1999), 950-956
“Cybele,” Brill’s New Pauly. Antiquity, vol 3 (2002), 1035-1040
“Isis,” Der Neue Pauly Realencyclopädie der Altertumswissenschaften, vol. 5 (1998), 1126-1132
“Isis,” Brill’s New Pauly. Antiquity, vol. 6 (2002), 966-972

Reviews

E. Gruen, Diaspora. Jews Amidst Greeks and Romans (Cambridge, MA and London, 2002), The Journal of Interdisciplinary History
34.4 (2004), 620-622
P. Chuvin, A Chronicle of the Last Pagan trans. B.A. Archer (Cambridge, MA and London, 1990),Favonius 3 (1991), 45-47
John E. Stambaugh, The Ancient Roman City (Baltimore and London, 1988), Favonius 2 (1988), 88-89
W. W. Briggs, ed. The Letters of Basil Lanneau Gildersleeve (Baltimore and London, 1988), Favonius 2 (1988), 94-95
R. Joseph Hoffmann, Celsus on the True Doctrine (New York, 1987), Favonius 1 (1987), 71-72

Selected Invited Lectures

2016 “Reading Sophocles’ Antigone Across Time and Place,” Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, 2016-17
John E. Sawyer Seminar on “Ethical Subjects: Moralities, Laws, Histories,” Rutgers University, New
Brunswick, NJ
“Herodotus’ (After)Life in Byzantium,” 9th Celtic Conference in Classics, University College Dublin,
Dublin, Ireland
2015 “Quo Vadis Teacher: Lessons from Flipping and Teaching in Blended Formats,” Rutgers Online & Hybrid
Learning Conference, Newark and East Brunswick, NJ (with John B. Davis, University at Albany)
2013 “Rethink, Reform, and Rebuild: Dare to Imagine a Paradigm Shift for Higher Education,” Radical Innovation
Summit, Washington, D.C. (with John B. Davis, University at Albany and Sage College of Albany)
2012 “The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be: New/Old Challenges for Women in Higher Education,” American
Council on Education/Office of Women in Higher Education New York State 2012 Conference,
Albany, NY
2010 “Julian the Apostate and Christians on Literature,” Sir Moses Finley Lecture, Syracuse University, NY
2006 “The Cult of Isis: Interpretatio Romana,” History of Medicine Conference, Warburg Institute,
University of London, England
2004 “Ancient Artifacts–Magical Implements,” Getty Museum, Los Angeles
“Earthly Confusions, Heavenly Peace: Gallienus and the Christians (Confusión en la tierra, paz en los
cielos),” Del Coliseo al Vaticano. Claves del Cristianismo primitivo, Universidad Pablo de Olavide,
Seville, Spain
“Cult, Dedicators and Dedications,” German Archaeological Institute International Symposium, Bergama, Turkey
2003 “Isis in the Roman World,” Mystery Cults in Magna Graeca Conference, the Vergilian Society, Italy
2000 “Amicus usque ad aras: A Friend unto Death - Tiberian Versions,” University of Heidelberg, Germany
1999 “The Assimilation of Systems and the Creation of Culture,” All Soul’s Oxford Lecture Series on “Culture and
Language in Greco-Roman Egypt” Oxford University, United Kingdom
1997 “Statues with Hearts,” UNESCO sponsored Colloquium on Imperial Worship, Pula, Croatia
“Die Selbstoffenbarung der Isis und die literarische Kunst des Apuleius,” Seminar für klassische Philologie,
Universität Trier, Germany

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Lectures, Conferences and Presentations
2016 “Master Class on Sophocles’ Antigone, Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis, 2016-17 John E. Sawyer Seminar on
“Ethical Subjects: Moralities, Laws, Histories,” Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
“Women Power – Roman Women and Religion,” American College, Thessaloniki, Greece
“Gladiators, Emperors, and Vestal Virgins, Rutgers Institute for High School Teachers, Rutgers University, NJ
2015 “Women Power - Roman Women and Religion,” James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
“The ‘Emperor’ Irene,” James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA
“The Roman Empire: Migrations and Answers to Crises, Teach Europe, Center for European Studies, Rutgers
University, NJ
2012 “The Future of a Small Liberal Arts College,” Iona College, New Rochelle, NY
2011 “Looking Beyond the Self,” Keynote Martin Luther King Jr. Day, The Sage Colleges, NY
2010 “Sibylline Books in Ancient Rome,” Classical Association of the Empire State, Union College, NY
2010 “Beyond the Classroom,” Higher Educational Resources for Outstanding Exceptional Scholars, Rutgers
University, NJ
2008 “Assessment and Undergraduate Classics Programs at Public Universities, Rutgers University,” Classical
Association of the Atlantic States, Princeton, NJ
2007 “Emperors, Paideia, and Loss of Freedom of Speech,” Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis
2006 “East Meets West, 330 CE,” Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis
“That’s a Myth! But We Love ‘Em,” Montclair State University, NJ
“Vestals, Virgin Priestesses of Rome,” Temple University, PA
2005 “Empires, Virtues, and Discourse,” History Department Faculty Forum, Rutgers University
“Catalog of Greek and Roman Inscriptions at the Museum of Fine Arts Boston,” with Annewies van
den Hoek, EpiDoc Workshop: Mark-Up for Museums, Brown University, RI
“Contemporary Popular Culture in the Mythology Course,” Classical Association of the Atlantic States,
Wilmington, DE
2004 “The Mezzogiorno: Crossroads of Cultures,” Seton Hall University, NJ
“Libri Sibyllini, Libri Fatales,” Yale University
“Virgin Priestesses of Rome,” University of California, Los Angeles
2003 “Vestals, Virgin Priestesses of Rome,” University of Georgia, Athens
“The Ancient and the New: The Beauty of the Mezzogiorno,” The NJ Commission’s Institute
of Italian and Italian-American Heritage, Trenton, NJ
“The Invention of Imperial Cult,” Emory University, GA
“Sayings Revealed: The Case of the Sibylline Books,” Bryn Mawr Classics Colloquium,
Bryn Mawr College, PA
2002 “The Initiations of Lucius the Ass,” Intolérance religieuse dans l’antiquité tardive, Hungarian
Institute, Paris
“Roman Sites in Croatia and Hungary,” Classical Assn. of the Mid-Atlantic States, Cherry Hill, NJ
“The Cult of Isis in the Roman World,” Conference on the Mysteries, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
2001 “Diversity of Religious Beliefs: Pagan, Judaic, and Christian,” Smithsonian Campus on the Mall,
Washington, DC
“Pilgrimage and the Cult of Isis,” Seeing the Gods: Patterns of Pilgrimage in Antiquity,
University of Reading, United Kingdom
2000 “The Integration of Isis and Sarapis: A Reassessment,” in: Alan Blomart’s Foreign Religions, Otherness and Identity
in Greece and Rome, Harvard Divinity School, MA
“Making and Believing Myths,” Massachusetts Junior Classical League, University of Massachusetts, Boston MA
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1999 “Founding and Forging a Rome,” University of Illinois, Chicago
“Founding and Forging a Rome,” Humanities Center, Harvard University
“The Late Antique World and Antioch,” Worcester Museum of Art, MA
“Isis ante portas: The Coming of a New Faith,” Egyptomania Conference, University of California, Irvine, CA
1998 “Greco-Roman Mythology and Religion,” Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Alumni Association,
Harvard University
“Greco-Roman Mythology,” Massachusetts Junior Classical League, University of Massachusetts, Boston, MA
1997 “Isis in Augustan Rome and Literature,” Seminar on Augustan Questions, Classics Department,
Harvard University,
“Apuleius, Isis, and the Magic of Words,” University of Texas, Austin, TX
“Endeckung des Anderen - Endeckung des Selbst,” Friedrich-Schiller-Universität Jena, Germany
“Ein narratologischer und kultureller Einblick in die Metamorphoseon libri XI des Apuleius,” Seminar
für Alte Geschichte, Universität Heidelberg, Germany
“Die Grösse Roms im Lichte der Religion: ein Überblick,” Seminar für Alte Geschichte, Universität
Heidelberg, Germany
1996 “Statues with Hearts,” American Institute of Archaeology Annual Meeting, New York, NY
“More than Meets the Eye: Julian the Apostate’s Symposion,” Nineteenth International Congress of
Byzantine Studies, Copenhagen, Denmark
“A Votive Plaque Dedicated to Apollo at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,” with Annewies van den Hoek,
Thirteenth Bronze Congress, Harvard University
“Magna Deum Mater Idaea, Cybele, and Catullus’ Attis,” University of Geneva, Switzerland
“Foreign Cults in Republican Rome,” Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
“Emperors, Kings, and Crowns: Beyond the Gesta Hungarorum,” UCLA Byzantinists’ ColloquiumVI,
“Roman Women: Fiction and Reality,” Boston University
“Isis and Sarapis in Ephesos,” Internationales Symposion 100 Jahre Österreichische Forschungen in
Ephesos,Vienna, Austria
1995 “Convergence of Silence and Articulation: Anna Komnena’s Filial Devotion and Philosophical Zeal,”
Twenty-First Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, New York
“Anna Komnena: A Funeral Oration and an Inaugural Lecture,” Center for Literary and Cultural
Studies, Harvard University
“Zeit im Wandel - Christianissimi imperatores und orientalische Mysterienkulte,” Friedrich-Schiller-
Universität Jena, Germany
“Anna Komnena,” Byzantium and Modern Greece: Reading Antiquity Backwards, Harvard University
“The Beginning of Byzantium’s Golden Age (Byzantine Culture after 843),” Janus Pannonius University,
Pécs, Hungary
“A Sketch of a Life: The Importance and Role of Julian the Apostate in a Time of Transition,” Janus
Pannonius University, Pécs, Hungary
“Anna Komnena - Astrology and Philosophy,” Pázmány Péter Catholic University, Budapest,
Hungary
“A Tormented Soul - The Making of Julian the Apostate,” Pázmány Péter Catholic University,
Budapest, Hungary
“Memoires of a Daughter: Anna Komnene and the Classical Tradition,” Intl. Society of Classical
Tradition, Boston University
1994 “The Greeks, Cicero, and the Disputed Criterion of Literary Excellence,” American Society of the
History of Rhetoric, New Orleans.
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“Oracles, Pebbles, and Science - Anna Comnena’s Comments on Astrology,” Twentieth Annual
Byzantine Studies Conference, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
“Holding Isis at Bay: A Reassessment of the Cult’s Expulsion under Augustus and Tiberius,” New
England Ancient History Colloquium, Bridgewater College, MA
“Alexandria in Rome,” Greece in Rome Colloquium, Harvard University
“Oracles and Sibylls,” Simmons College, Boston, MA
“Miracles and Inscriptions; or What Does Marcus Aurelius Have to Do with Egyptian Deities,” The
Study Group on Religion and Myth in the Ancient World, Boston University
1993 “Encounter of the Other Kind: Exotica from India in Ancient and Medieval Greek Literature,”
Department of Folklore and Mythology, University of California, Los Angeles
“Exercises in Ekphrasis: Manuel Philes’ World of Fabled Creatures,” UCLA Byzantinists’ Colloquium III,
Los Angeles, CA
“Isiacs in the Neighborhood: Scholarly Outrage over Isea in Republican Rome,” University of Oregon,
Eugene, OR
1992 “The Political Aspect of the Cult of Isis and Sarapis During the Principate,” University of Oregon,
Eugene, OR
“Provinzhauptstädte: Roms Verwaltungszentren. Eine Analyse römischer Herrschaftsausübung,”
Universität Heidelberg, Seminar für Alte Geschichte, Heidelberg, Germany
“Die Farbbezeichnung von Völkern in der byzantinischen Literatur oder das Verständnis der Byzantiner
von anderen Kulturen,” Freie Universität Berlin, Byzantinisch-Neugriechisches Seminar, Berlin, Germany
1991 “Die historische Bedeutung der sogenannten orientalischen Mysterienreligionen während der
römischen Kaiserzeit,” Universität Heidelberg, Seminar für Alte Geschichte, Heidelberg, Germany
“The Magic of Isis Replaced,” UCLA Byzantinists’ Colloquium II, Los Angeles, CA
1988 “What about Varna? Two Accounts of the Battle by Paraskondylos Zotikos and Michael Beheim,”
UCLA Byzantinists’ Colloquium I, Los Angeles CA
“Manuel Philes’ Meditation on an Icon of the Virgin Mary,” Twelveth Annual Byzantine Studies
Conference, Bryn Mawr College, PA

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

Editorial

Editorial Board The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2005-2007
The Classical Journal, 2005-2008
The Classical World, 2008-2011
Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, 2005-2010
Advisory Board International Journal of Character Education, 2010-2012
Reviewer European Research Council; Oxford University Press;
Prentice Hall Inc.; Routledge, New York;
Thames and Hudson Publishers; UCLA Classics Publications
Referee The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2005-2007
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The Classical Journal, 2002, 2004
Classical Antiquity, 1998, 2001
Harvard Studies in Classical Philology, 2005
International Journal of the Classical Tradition, 1996
Transactions of the Philological Association of America, 2003, 2004, 2014

Other Professional

Board of Directors Albany County Historical Society, 2012
Troy Savings Bank Music Hall Cooperation, 2011-2012
Consultant Mystery of the Murdered Saints, National Geographic, 2011
Gladiatrix, TV Documentary for YAP Production/Grenada TV, England, 2001
Founder/Organizer Rutgers Classics Connection Workshops for NJ High School Latin Teachers,
2003-2010
Chair Byzantine Studies Conference 2000, local arrangements committee, 2000
Selection Committee Lionel Pearson Fellowship Selection Committee (American Philological Association),
2002-2005
Brodhead Prize, 2001-2002
Cornelison Prize, Douglass College, 2001-2002
Gustave O. Arlt Award, 1995
Bunting Institute Pre-Selection Committee, 1995
Co-respondent Chariot Racing at Byzantium, Classics, 2002, Rutgers University, NJ
Panel Organizer Magic, Ritual and Ceremony, XXe Congrès International des Études Byzantines Conference,
2001, Paris
Co-Organizer The New Jersey Junior Classical League’s Certamen, Rutgers University, 2002
APA/AIA roundtable on “Myth and Methodology,” Philadelphia, 2002
APA/AIA panel on the Senatus Consultum de Cn. Pisone Patre, Chicago, 1997
APA/AIA panel on “Conceptions of the Heroic in Late Antiquity: Conflict and
Transformation,” 1995, San Diego, APA
UCLA Byzantinists’ Colloquium 1993, 1994
Session Chair Greek Tragedy on and beyond the Athenian Tragic Stage, 2011, Classical Association of the
Atlantic States, Hunt Valley, MD
Greek History and Philosophy, 2010, Classical Association of the Atlantic States,
Newark, NJ (co-chair with David Murphy)
No Laughing, Just Grief: Classical Sorrowing in Public and Private, 2009, Classical Association
of the Atlantic States, Wilmington, DE (co-chair with Nathan Costa)
Scholarship on the Horizon: Undergraduate Research in Classical Studies, 2009, Classical
Association of the Atlantic States, Wilmington, DE (co-chair with Maria Marsilio)
Komnenian Culture, 2008 Byzantine Studies Conference, Rutgers University
Religion and the Construction of Roman/Barbarian Identity, 6th Biennial Shifting Frontiers in
Late Antiquity Conference, 2005, University of Illinois at Urbana, Champaign, IL
Representing Byzantium, 2004 Byzantine Studies Conference, the Walters Art Museum and
the John Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD
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