Joanne Murphy

Instructor, Classical Studies

SPECIAL INTERESTS

Religion and Ritual in archaeology and literature, Prehistoric Greek Archaeology, Archaeological Methods and Theory

EDUCATION

Ph.D., Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati, USA, 2003 Dissertation title: “Changing location and role of religion in Prepalatial and Protopalatial Crete” Supervisor: Professor Jack L. Davis University of Oxford, England, Keble College, Visiting Student, 2000-2002

M. A., Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati, USA, 2000 Greek and Roman Art, Archaeology, History and Ancient Greek Language

M. A., University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland, 1994 Thesis title: “Tholoi and House-tombs in Prepalatial Crete” University of Rethymnon, Crete, Visiting Student, 1993-1994

B. A., (Honors) University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland 1992

PUBLICATIONS

Invited publication. "Ideology, Rites, and Rituals: A View of Prepalatial Minoan Tholoi," in K. Branigan (ed.) 1998

Cemetery and Society in the Aegean Bronze Age, Sheffield: Sheffield Academic Press, Pp.27-40.

"Private Life, Public Death: Contrasts in Minoan Prepalatial Society." in 2001 Proceedings of the Cretological Conference, Heraklaion 9-14 September 1996,Vol A2; Pp. 405-411.

INVITED PAPERS

“Our ethical obligation?: Postmodernism in archaeology” 2003 University of Cincinnati, Seminar,

“Ideologies, Rites and Rituals: A View of Prepalatial Minoan Tholoi” 1997 University of Oxford, Institute of Archaeology Reading University, Department of Archaeology

“Tombs, Topography, Ideology: A View of Prepalatial Minoan Tombs” 1996 University of Sheffield, Archaeology Department, Round Table Conference

“Tholoi and House Tombs in Prepalatial Crete: A Study of Prepalatial Society in Bronze Age Crete Through its Tombs” 1994 Trinity College Dublin, Classics Department University College Dublin, Department of Greek and Roman Civilization PAPERS DELIVERED AND IN PREPARATION FOR PUBLICATION

"Religion and Wealth: Aspects of the Social Dynamic in Prepalatial and Protopalatial Crete" EAA Conference, St. Petersburg, Russia 2003

“Whose Tomb is it Anyway: Ancestors and Rights in Prepalatial Crete” at From Sumer to Caesar Conference, Cincinnati 2000

“Rituals, Gradations, Transformations: Rites of Passage in Prepalatial Tombs on Crete” at Edinburgh Symposium on Mediterranean Archaeology 1997 INVITED PUBLIC LECTURES

“Religions of Greece” Institute for Learning in Retirement, Cincinnati, 1996 “The University of Cincinnati and the Study of Nestor’s Palace, Pylos” Institute for Learning in Retirement, Cincinnati , 1995

“Who Makes the Past: Archaeological Methods and Artifacts” Dominican Convent, Sion Hill, Dublin, 1994

“The Greatness that was Greece” Mount Sackville, Dublin, 1992

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

Post-Doctoral Fellow in Archaeology, University of Cincinnati, Fall 2003.

Museum Worker, Aghios Vasilios Valley Survey, Rethymnon, Crete 1998

Assistant Editor, NESTOR. A bibliographical database for the Prehistoric Aegean 1995-1996

Figurines Analyst, Atsipadhes Korakias Project, Rethymnon, Crete, 1992, 1993, 1995

Ceramic Analyst, Minnesota Archaeological Researches in the Western Peloponnese 1995

Team Leader, Aghios Vasilios Valley Survey, Rethymnon, Crete, 1994

Field Walker, Pylos Regional Archaeological Project, Pylos, Greece 1993, 1994

Museum Worker, Stratigraphical Museum, Knossos, Crete, 1993-1994

Library Assistant, Cataloguing photographs British School at Athens, Knossos, 1993-1994