J. CLAYTON FANT

Department of Classical Studies, Anthropology and Archaeology

The University of Akron

Akron OH 44325-1910

office tel. (330) 972-8069, E-mail: cfant@uakron.edu

fax (330) 972-2338

Education

Ph. D., Classical Studies, The University of Michigan, 1976. B. A., Classics (Honors) and History, Williams College, 1969. Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, Rome, 1968.

Special Interests

Roman archaeology and architecture; Roman social and economic history; Greek and Roman historiography.

Employment

Professor, Classical Studies (2003--); Assistant and Associate Professor (1984-2003), Classics and History (dual appointment), The University of Akron

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classical Studies, The University of Michigan, 1981-83

Classics Instructor, St. Stephen's School, Rome, 1979-81

Lecturer, Roman History, Tyler School of Art (Temple University), Rome, 1980-81, 1983

Instructor and Assistant Professor, Departments of Greek and Latin, Wellesley College, 1974-79.

Grants, Fellowships and Honors

University of Akron Summer Faculty Fellowship FRG # 1580 ($8000), "Fancy Countertops at Sleazy Bars: Unexpected Evidence for Roman Marble Trade from Pompeii," 2004

UA Institutional Senior Nominee, NEH Summer Stipend, 2003

Samuel H. Kress Foundation grant ($2500), "Pompeii White Marbles Project," June 2003

Ohio Humanities Council Grant ($3000), June 2000, "Pompeii on your desktop: Roman culture through digital media"

UA Arts and Sciences Summer Carnegie Teaching Scholarship grant ($1800), July 2000

Visiting Scholar, British School at Rome, March 2000

Chairs' Award for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching, Buchtel College of Arts and Sdiences (Univeristy of Akron), 1999

American Philosophical Society Research Grant ($4400), "Taste and White Marble at Pompeii,"1999

University of Akron Summer Faculty Fellowship FRG # 1435 ($8000), 1999

University of Akron Teaching Excellence grant, summer, 1997 ($4500)

University of Akron Summer Faculty Fellowship FRG # 1306 ($6000), 1995

NEH Summer Seminar "Spolia, Classical Elements in Medieval Reuse," in Rome, 1993

Rome Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Rome (Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Classical Studies), 1991-92 ($17,800 and 11 months in residence)

University of Akron Distinguished Faculty Achievement, 1991

ACLS Travel Grant to NATO Advanced Research Workshop, Pisa (Italy), 1988

University of Akron Summer Faculty Fellowship ($5500), 1988

ACLS Grant-in-Aid ($2000), 1986

American Philosophical Association Research Grant ($2500), 1986

Kress Foundation grant for a colloquium ("Marble Quarrying in the Roman World," at the 1987 Archaeological Institute of America meetings ($3200), 1986

University of Akron Research Grant, "Teos: A Roman Marble Quarry in Turkey. The Archaeology and Economics of a Unit of the Roman Imperial Quarry System" ($2000), 1986

University of Akron Summer Faculty Fellowship, "The Roman Imperial Marble Trade" ($3400), 1985

National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Stipend ($2500), 1985

other Distinctions

Editorial board, Marmora, an International Journal for the Archaeology, History and Archaeoletry of Marbles and Stones (Istituti Editoriali e Poligrafici Internazionali of Pisa and Rome; Lorenzo Lazzarini, editor in chief).

Ohio Humanities Council Speakers Bureau, 2001- present

Archaeological Institute of America Society Lecturer, 1993-2002, 2005

Chairs' Award for Outstanding Achievement, Teaching, Buchtel College of Arts and Sciences, 1999

Fieldwork

Sleazy Bars, Fancy Countertops: marble paving as status therapy in Pompeii's bars

Taste and White marble at Pompeii, 1998- present

Mons Porphyrites Project, Eastern Desert, Egypt, consultant, 1997

Anglo-French Mons Claudianus Project, Eastern Desert, Egypt, consultant, 1992

Ostia Marbles Project (with Amanda Claridge, British School at Rome), Ostia, 1989-90

Epigraphical and topographical survey in Turkey at Docimium (Afyon province) and Teos (Izmir),Turkey),1983-92

University of Michigan Expedition to Cyrene, Libya, 1973, site supervisor

Current Research

The Roman Imperial Marble trade. The research aims at a comprehensive description of the Roman Emperor's network of some 15 major groups of quarries around the Mediterranean and stockpiling yards in Italy. I aim to assess the size, economic orientation, management, political and ideological uses of the marble system in the high empire. Early fieldwork centered on two sites in Turkey, Teos west of Izmir and Docimium in west central Anatolia, but I have also looked at sites in Tunisia, Egypt, Greece, Italy and France. I am currently writing a book with the working title Marble and the Caesars: the Roman Emperors in the Marble Trade.

I am also pursuing a long-term study of aspects of marble use at Pompeii. As a typical small Italian city, Pompeii provides a good case study since preservation is excellent and chronological boundaries are usually sharply defined (damage from the earthquake of AD 62, subsequent restoration, and of course the eruption of AD 79). Pompeii offers a deep picture of how people of all social levels used marble to mark status and allude to sophisticated taste with painted finto marmo even iwhen they could not obtain prized varieties. Subjects of research incllude painted imitation marble in wall painting, marble use in public buildings of the east side of the forum being built when Vesuvius erupted, assemblages of multiple varieties of white marble objects in private houses, and marble debris countertops in streetside snackbars.

Publications

Books and Monographs

Marble and the Caesars: the Roman Emperors in the Marble Trade, in preparation.

Cavum Antrum Phrygiae: The Organization and Operations of the Roman Imperial Marble Quarries at Docimium (BAR International Series, no. 482, 1989)

Ancient Marble Quarrying and Trade (BAR International Series no. 453, 1988), edited with introduction

Articles (refereed)

J. Clayton Fant, "White Marbles in the Summer Triclinium of the Casa del Bracciale d'oro, Pompeii," in Y. Maniatis ed., Proceedings of the VII International Conference of ASMOSIA, Thassos, September 2003, supplementary volume of the Bulletin de Correspondance Hellénique, (in press).

With Cancelliere S., Lazzarini L., Preite Martinez M., Turi B.,"White Marble at Pompeii: Sampling the House of the Vettii," in L. Lazzarini ed., ASMOSIA VI Interdisciplinary Studies on Ancient Stone. Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference of the Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity, Venice June 15-18 2000). Aldo Ausilio - Bottega d'Erasmo Editore Editore (Padova), 2003: 309-316

"Rome's marble yards," Journal of Roman Archaeology 14 (2001) 167-198

"Augustus and the City of Marble," M. Schvoerer ed., Archeomateriaux, marbres et autres roches. Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity IV Actes de la Iv^ème Conférence Internationale, Bordeaux France, 9-13 cctobre 1995 (Bordeaux 1999) 277-280

"Ideology, Gift and Trade: A Distribution Model for the Roman Imperial Marbles," in W. V. Harris ed., The Inscribed Economy: Production and Distribution in the Roman Empire in the Light of Instrumentum Domesticum (Journal of Roman Archaeology supp. vol. 6 1993) 145-70

"The Imperial Marble Yard at Portus," in M. Waelkens, N. Herz, and L. Moens, eds. 1992, Ancient Stones: Quarrying, Trade and Provenance. Interdisciplinary Studies on Stones and Stone Technology in Europe and Near East from the Prehistoric to the Early Christian Period (Proceedings of the Second International Conference of the Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquiry). Acta Archaeologica Lovaniensia, Monographia 4: 115-20

"Poikiloi Lithoi: the Anomalous Economics of the Roman Imperial Marble Quarry at Teos," in The Greek Renaissance in the Roman Empire. Papers from the Xth British Museum Classical Colloquium. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies (BICS) Supplement 55 (1989) 206-18

"The Roman Emperors in the Marble Business: Capitalists, Middlemen or Philanthropists?" in N. Herz and M. Waelkens eds., Classical Marble: Geochemistry, Technology, Trade (Proceedings of the First International Conference of the Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquiry) (Dordrecht 1988) 147-58

"IRT 794b and the Building History of the Hadrianic Baths at Leptis Magna," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 75 (1988) 291-94

"Four unfinished Sarcophagus Lids at Docimium and the Roman Imperial Quarry System in Phrygia," American Journal of Archaeology 89 (1985) 655-662

"Seven Unedited Quarry Inscriptions from Docimium (Iscehisar, Turkey)," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 54 (1984) 171-82

"The Choleric Roman Official of Philostratus, Vitae Sophistarum p. 512: L. Verginius Rufus," Historia 30 (1980) 240-47

Articles (not refereed)

"Imported Marble at Pompeii, Real and Painted Imitation," in J. J. Dobbins and P. Foss eds., Pompeii and the ancient settlements under Vesuvius (London, Routledge, expected 2006)

"Pompeii on your Desktop," Humanitas (journal of the Ohio Classical Conference ) 24.2 (2001) 10

Articles "Quarrying" and "Dokimeion" for the Encyclopedia of Anatolian Archaeology, in press (since 1995)

"A Model for the Exploitation and Redistribution of the Imperial Polychrome Marbles in the Roman Empire," in R. Frankovich ed., Archeologia delle Attività Estrattive e Metallurgiche (V Ciclo di Lezioni sulla Ricerca Applicata in Archeologia, Settembre 1991) Quaderni del Dipartimento di archeologia e Storia delle Arti, Sezione Archeologica, Università di Siena (Florence 1993) 71-96

"de Groeven van de Romeinse keizers" ("Carrières des empereurs romains") in catalogue of exhibition Eeuwige Steen. van Nijl tot Rijn: Groeven en Prefabricatie (Pierre Eternelle. Du Nil au Rhin: Carrières et Prefabrication (Brussels 1990) 93-105

"New Sculptural and Architectural Finds from Docimium," VII. Arastirma sonuclari toplantisi. Ayribasim. Antalya 18-23 Mayis 1989. (Ankara 1990) 111-18

"Preliminary Report of the Teos/Karagöl Survey," V. Arastirma sonuclari toplantisi. Ankara 24-28 Nisan 1987 (Ankara, 1988) 389-401

"Three Seasons of Epigraphical Survey at the Roman Imperial Quarries at Docimium (Iscehisar)," in IV. Arastirma sonuclari toplantisi. Ankara 26-30 Mayis 1986 (Ankara, 1987) 127-132

Software

Pompeii on Your Desktop: Roman Culture through Digital Media, a Web site at archaeology.uakron.edu/archaeology/pompeii_site) in development (fall 2000) with funding from the Ohio Humanities Council

Sports and Society in Ancient Greece and Rome: an interactive course, summer 2000; 19 units covering the entire regular syllabus with interactive self-quizes, in Macromedia Authorware© format (available at www.uakron.edu/csaa/sports/aware_web.html)

Digital Pompeii: 1600 Images of the Standing Ruins and a Portfolio Database, a CD.

Ancient Sports, CD with a semester's lectures in Authorware© format with interactive exercises

Reviews

Jean Bingen et al., Mons Claudianus Ostraca graeca et latina II, O. Claud. 191-416. Institut français d'archéologie oriental, Cairo, Documents de Fouilles de l'IFAO 32, 1997 and D. P. S. Peacock and V. Maxfield, Mons Claudianus Survey and Excavation. Volume 1, Topography and Quarries. Institut français d'archéologie oriental, Cairo, FIFAO 37, 1997, for the American Journal of Archaeology,103.3 (1999) 576-577

G. Hellenkemper Salies et al. eds., Das Wrack. Der antike Schiffsfund von Mahdia. Reinisches Landesmuseum Bonn (Köln 1994), American Journal of Archaeology 101.1 (1997): 182-84

Marble in Antiquity. Collected Papers of J. B. Ward-Perkins. Edited by Hazel Dodge and Bryan Ward-Perkins (Archaeological Monographs of the British School at Rome No. 6, London 1992), American Journal of Archaeology 99 (1995) 554-555

O. F. Robinson, Ancient Rome. City Planning and Administration (Routledge 1992) and L. Keppie, Understanding Roman Inscriptions (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992) for the Classical Journal 89.4 (1994) 413-16

Marmi antichi. Problemi d'impiego, di restauro e d'identificazione. A cura di Patrizio Pensabene. Studi Miscellanei 26 (Seminario di archeologia e storia dell' arte greca romana dell' Università di Roma) Rome 1985, in the Journal of Roman Studies 79 (1989), 222-23

P. Garnsey and R. Saller, The Roman Empire: Economy, Society and Culture (Berkeley 1987) in The New England Classical Newsletter 16 (1988) 41-43

Reviews and Critical Mentions of My Work

P. Pensabene, introduction, Marmi antichi II (Studi Miscellanei 31, Rome 1998), xiii-xiv.

D. P. S. Peacock, "Roman stones," Journal of Roman Archaeology 7 (1994) at 362, on "The Imperial Marble Yard at Portus," in Waelkens et al. eds., Ancient Stones (Leuven 1992)

J. DeLaine in Journal of Roman Archaeology 7 (1994) 267 n. 37, on "Ideology, Gift and Trade: A Distribution Model for the Roman Imperial Marbles," in Harris and Panciera eds., The Inscribed Economy (Ann Arbor 1993)

H. Dodge, "Ancient marble studies: recent research," Journal of Roman Archaeology 4 (1991) 28-50

Editor's remarks in H. Dodge and B. Ward-Perkins eds., Collected Papers of J. W. Ward-Perkins. (Rome 1992), Ch. V, the second Shuffrey lecture, the incomplete text of which is fleshed out with extracts from my publications.

Journal of Roman Studies 80 (1990) 229-30, Journal of Roman Archaeology 4 (1991) 28-50, and Archéologie en Languedoc 1989.2-3, 113-114, reviews of Cavum Antrum Phrygiae: The Organization and Operations of the Roman Imperial Marble Quarries at Docimium (Oxford 1989)

Angellina Dworakowska, "Once Again on marmor Luculleum," in Marble: Art Historical and Scientific Perspectives on Ancient Sculpture (Malibu: J. Paul Getty Museum, 1990): 253-62, paper devoted to rebutting "Poikiloi Lithoi: the Anomalous Economics of the Roman Imperial Marble Quarry at Teos," in The Greek Renaissance in the Roman Empire (London 1989)

Papers and Grants Refereed

P. Jongste, revised edition in English translation of Het Gebruik van Marmer in de romeinse Samenleving, dissertation University of Leiden, 1995, for C. H. Peters, Leuven, Belgium, current

Anonymous author, "EPR and Isotopic Study of the Marbles of the Trajan's Arch at Ancona: An Example of Alleged Hymettian Provenance," for the American Journal of Archaeology, April 2002

Fred S. Kleiner, "Debating the Arch of Constantine," review article on P. Pensabene and C. Panella, Arco di Costantino tra Archeologia e Archeometria (Studia Archeologica 100, Rome 1999), submitted to Journal of Roman Archaeology for volume 14 (2001)

Mosche Fischer, Yavneh Yam Project, National Geographic Society, 1998

"Notes on the Origins of Spolia," Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, 1998

Outside reviewer for tenure decision for Prof. J. T. Peña, Department of Classical Studies, SUNY Buffalo, January 1998

British Academy grant application for site survey of Roman gold mines in Wadi Hammamat, Egypt, by Prof. D. P S. Peacock, University of Southampton (UK), 1997

Papers submitted for publication in the proceedings of the fourth Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity conference at Bordeaux, October 1995

National Academy of Sciences/National Research Council grant application, "Short-Term Development Grant to Romania," proposed by Prof. N. Herz, Department of Geology, University of Georgia, December 1993

Papers submitted for publication in the proceedings of the third Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity conference at Athens, May 1993

S. Corcoran and Janet DeLaine, "The Unit Measurement of Marble in Diocletian's Prices Edict," October 1992, published in the Journal of Roman Archaeology 7 (1994) 263-73.

J. J. Herrmann and V. Barbin, "The Exportation of Marble from the Aliki Quarries on Thasos: Cathodoluminescence of Samples from Turkey and Italy," paper submitted to the American Jouirnal of Archaeology, appeared vol 97.1 (1993) 91-103

NEH grant proposal, "A Petrographic Atlas of Ancient Egyptian Sculptural and Architectural Stones," submitted by James A. Harrell, University of Toledo. November 1989

National Geographic Society grant proposal, "Roman Quarries in the Eastern Desert of Egypt," submitted by D. P. S. Peacock, Dept. of Archaeology, University of Southampton, UK. June 1987, 1988

NEH grant proposal, "Cypriot Marble: Provenance and Trading Patterns," submitted by Norman Herz, Center for Archaeological Sciences, University of Georgia. October 1986

Manuscript submitted to the American Jouirnal of Archaeology, "Hymettiana II: An Ancient Quarry on Mt. Hymettos," Merle K. Langdon, Dept. of Classics, University of Washington. October 1986

Conference Papers

"White versus White: Taste, Status and Supplies of White Marble for Domestic Use at Pompeii," With Donato Attanasio, AIA/APA Annual Meeting, January 2007.

"Sleazy Bars, fancy countertops and reused marble at Pompeii: a Preliminary Report," Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity VIII, Aix en Provence, June 2006.

With Donato Attanasio and Rosario Platania, "White Marble at Pompeii in Domestic Contexts," Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity VIII, Aix en Provence, June 2006.

"White Marble at Pompeii: Sampling the Casa del bracciale d'Oro," Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity VII, Thasos (Greece), September 2003

"White Marble at Pompeii: the Casa dei Vettii and the Casa del bracciale d'Oro," XVI International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Boston, August 2003

"Proveniencing the Garden Furniture in the House of the Vettii," Archaeological Institute of America 2001 annual meeting, San Diego, January 2001

"Taste and White Marble at Pompeii: Sampling the House of the Vettii," with L. Lazzarini, S. Cancelliere and B. Turi, VI Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity Conference, Venice, June 2000

"Nero's Tomb," VI Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity Conference, Venice, June 2000

"Painted Marble at Pompeii and the Roman Marble Trade," Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity V, Boston, June 1998

"Pro imperii maiestate ornata: Augustus and the ideology of imported marble," Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity IV, Bordeaux France, October 1995

"Excavating an Excavation: Visconti's Emporium Project and the Marble Supplies of Ancient Rome," Association for the Study of Marble and other Stones in Antiquity III, Athens, May 1993

"John Ward-Perkins and the Roman Marble Trade," January 1993, British School at Rome, keynote speaker at the presentation of J. W. Ward-Perkins, Collected Papers (ed. B. Ward-Perkins and H. Dodge)

"Augustus, Aswan Granite and Augustan Ideology," Ohio Classical Conference, November 1992

"Un Modello per la Distribuzione Differenziale dei Marmi Imperiali," Produzione e Distribuzione nell' economia romana: il Contributo dell'Instrumentum Domesticum, conference, American Academy in Rome, January 1992

"Rationalisation, Standardisation and the Ward Perkins Model of the Marble Trade of the Roman Empire," British Museum Conference "Archaeological Stone," November 1991

"The Imperial Marble Yard at Portus," Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity II, Leuven (Belgium), October 1990

"Fine Sculpture at Docimium," Archaeological Institute of America annual meeting, December 1989

"Fine Sculpture at Docimium," VII. Arastirma sonuclari Antalya 18-23 Mayis 1989

"The Roman Emperors in the Marble Business," NATO Advanced Research Workshop: Marble in Ancient Greece and Rome (Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity I), May 1988, Lucca, Italy

"Dio Chrysostom's Poikiloi Lithoi: The Anomalous Economics of the Imperial Quarry of Africano at Teos," Xth British Museum Classical Colloquium, "The Greek Renaissance under Roman Rule," London, December 1986

"Quarry Inscriptions from the Roman Imperial Quarries at Docimium/Iscehisar in Phrygia," IV. Arastirma sonuclari toplantisi. Ankara 26-30 Mayis 1986

"Three Unfinished Sarcophagus Lids and the Roman Imperial Quarry System in Phrygia," Archaeological Institute of America annual meeting, 1984

"The Production of Marmor Luculleum in the Roman Empire," Archaeological Institute of America annual meeting, 1983

"Imperial Patronage and Polychrome Marble in Roman Asia," American Philological Association annual meeting, 1983

"L. Burbuleius Optatus and the Public Economy of Roman Maritime Cities," American Philological Association annual meeting, 1976

Invited Lectures

"The Emperor's White Marble: the Sculptor's Dilemma" invited paper at "The Getty Commodus and the Afterlife of Roman Portraiture," Getty Research Institute, April 28-29. 06

"From quarry to artifact to social history," Department of Classics Colloquium, Ohio University, October 2003

"Ostentation in Marble and Isotopic Analysis: The House of the Vettii at Pompeii," Kent-Akron Society of the AIA and Department of Classical Studies, Anthropology and Archaeology, University of Akron, January 2003

"Sampling Bourgeois Taste at Pompeii," Mesaros Fund Lecture, Kenyon College, March 2001

"Finto Marmo and Taste at Pompeii," Toledo Society Archaeological Institute of America, February 2000

"Marble at Pompeii," University of Michigan Interdepartmental Program in Classical Archaeology & Archaeological Institute of America, April 1999

"Mock Rock in Pompeian Wall Painting," Columbus Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, November 1997

"Painted Imitation Marble at Pompeii," University of Leiden (Netherlands) Department of Archaeology, May 1996

"Finto Marmo and Taste at Pompeii," University of Oxford Institute of Archaeology and Ashmolean Museum, May 1996

"Nero, Purple and Pompeii," Southampton University Department of Archaeology, May 1996

"Dressing Rome for Rule," Ohio University Dept. of Classical Languages/Eta Sigma Phi lecture, February 1996

"The Dialogue of Fresco and Stone at Pompeii," Cleveland Archaeological Institute of America Society & Cleveland Museum of Art, December 1995

"Marble in Microcosm: Early Marble Imports to Italy from the Evidence of Pompeii," Department of Classical Studies, SUNY Buffalo, November 1995

"Rome's Disappearing Marble Stockpile," Institute of Archaeology, University of London, March 1994

"Visconti's Emporium Excavation," University of Reading (UK), March 1994

"Augustus, Aswan Granite and Augustan Ideology," Kent-Akron Society Archaeological Institute of America, November 1992

"L'organizazzione dello sfruttamento delle cave imperiali," Cattedra dell' archeologia delle province romane, Dipartimento d'archeologia, Università di Roma "La Sapienza," May 1992

"A Differential Distribution Model for the Imperial Marbles: Gift and Trade," in the seminar series "Archaeology and Trade," Faculty Board of Classics, Cambridge University, January 1992

"Imported Marbles in the Roman Empire: Problems of Distribution and Control," Institute of Archaeology, Oxford University, November 1991

"A Model for the Exploitation and Redistribution of the Imperial Polychrome Marbles in the Roman Empire," invited faculty for "V. Ciclo di Lezioni sulla Ricerca Applicata in Campo Archeologico: Archeologia delle attività estrattive," University of Siena and National Research Council (Italy), September 1991.

"Deus ex Metallis: Cults of the Quarries of the Roman Empire," Ohio State University Department of History, Colloquium on Ancient History, February 1990

"From Luxury to Commodity: the Marble Trade in the Roman Empire and the Quarries in Phrygia," Society for Anatolian Studies, University of Newcastle (UK), May 1989.

"A Typology of Modes of Marble Quarrying and the Roman Imperial Marble System," Department of Classics and Center for Mediterranean Archaeology, The University of Maryland, November 1987

"Typology of Modes of Stone Production," Williams College, April 1987

"The Installations of the Marble Trade in the City of Rome," Seminar on Roman Topography, The University of Michigan, April 1986

"The Pantheon and the Roman Imperial Marble Quarries," Cleveland Archaeological Society, February 1985

"Ancient and Modern Quarrying at Docimium, Turkey," Symposium "Three Marble Studies", Oberlin College, January 1985.

"Multi-colored Marble and Roman Emperors," Dartmouth College, May 1983.

"Patrons and Pavonazzetto," Department of Classical Studies Colloquium, The University of Michigan, November 1982

Talks for more general audiences

As an Archaeological Institute of America Society Lecturer (1993-2002 ) I have given three lectures annually on a tour arranged and funded by the AIA Lecture Program for local Archaeological Institute of America groups, usually based at universities. Audiences range from wholly amateur to fully professional.

Topics have included:

"Sleazy Bars and Fancy Countertops: Marble as Status Therapy at Pompeii"

"White Marble at Pompeii: Ostentation in Domestic Architecture"

"Augustus and the City Dressed for Rule,"

"Roman Marble Quarrying"

"The Dialogue of Fresco and Stone in Pompeian Painting"

"Nero's Purple Dreams and the Porphyry Quarries of Roman Egypt"

Many classroom talks and lectures at Oberlin College, 1984- present

"Pompeii on the web," Ohio Classical Conference, October 2000

"Nero's Purple Dreams and the Porphyry Quarries of Roman Egypt," Sugar Creek Archaeological Society, May 1999

"If Pompeii had been illiterate, what difference would it make?," UA Anthropology Club, March 1999

"Roman Architecture and Marble Sources," Akron Mineralogical Society, November 1998

"Rome's marble and quarries," Cuyahoga Mineral Society, October 1998

"Nero's Purple Dreams and the Porphyry Quarries of Roman Egypt," Cuyahoga Valley Archaeological Society, February 1998

"Cons, Pros, Amateurs and Con Jobs: Writing Multimedia," Ohio Classical Conference, October 1995

"Warehouses and Docks of the Emporium Quarter of Rome," site lecture, American Academy in Rome Summer School, July 1993

"Roman Granite Quarrying in Egypt," Cuyahoga Archeological Society, March 1993

"The Technology of Granite Quarrying and the Ideology of Granite Use," Ohio Classical Converence and Kent-Akron Society Archaeological Institute of America, November 1992

"Egyptian Stone in Roman Architecture and Ideology," Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies (Rome), April 1992

"The Game of Marbles: Hard Facts and Soft Theories on the Marble Trade in the Roman Empire," American Academy in Rome, Fellow's Shop Talk, 3 March 1992

"The Architecture of Roman North Africa," Cuyahoga Archaeological Society, February 1989

"The Roman Emperor's Marble Quarries," Zoare-Bolivar Chapter, Ohio Archaeological Society, January 1987

"The Politics of Ostentation: the Marble Decoration of the Pantheon," Cuyahoga Valley Archaeological Society, December 1985

"The Pantheon and its Decoration," American Academy in Rome Summer School, July 1985; July 1992

"Emperors and Marble," Kent Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, April 1985.

"The Archaeology of Marble Quarries in Asia Minor: How and Why," Ohio Classical Conference, October 1984

Teaching

Areas of Competence

Roman and Greek archaeology and architecture

Roman history

Latin language and literature, especially historical prose

Greek language and literature; introductory languages

Outstanding Accomplishments

Awarded A&S Chairs' Award for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching,1999.

New course Sports and Society in Ancient Greece and Rome 3200:230 (BCC approval 1996, GEAC approval as Humanities option, 1997); enrollment has averaged 120.

Long-term efforts to incorporate digital media and methodology into courses, especially Roman Archaeology and Honors Colloquia, and Ancient Sports (see Software, above).

Courses Taught at the University of Akron

Honors Projects:

Kirsten Ivari (Classics major), Roman Comedy in the Age of Plautus, 1997

Henry Smith (anthropology major), The Origins of Roman Gladiatorial Combat, 2004

Kent Humrichouser (History major), Roman Imperialism in the Republic, 2004

Classics Department:

3220 Latin language at all levels; authors at Advanced level include Cicero, Catullus, Ovid, Tacitus, Vergil)

3210 Greek language at all levels; authors at Advanced level include Aristophanes, Euripides, Homer, Sophocles

Developed 230 Sports and Society in the Ancient World

3200:361 Greek Literature; 3200:289 Greek Mythology

Roman Archaeology

History Department:

Reading seminar topics include include:

Art and Ideology at Rome

History and Archaeology: the case of Pompeii

Slavery in the Roman Empire

Roman Law, Roman Bureaucrats and Civil Behavior

Resistance and Acculturation on the Roman Frontiers

Decadence and the Age of Nero

the Economy of the Roman Empire

the Writing of History at Rome

the Augustan Revolution

Studies in Roman History (404), the Age of Augustus

Roman Republic (314) and the Roman Empire (315)

Supervised PhD fields in Roman History for S. J. Lemanski (2005), Kenneth Rhodes (1998), J.-M. Vohlikda (1995), R. Schneider, 1988

MA fields in Roman History for Kurt Johnson (1996), Fred Snyder, Daniel Mack, James Jensen (all 1993), Christopher Cumo (1990), Melanie Byrd (1988), S. Hambley (1985)

Certification in Latin for graduate reading requirement: J.-M. Vohlikda, R. Schneider, M. Byrd, P. Havlik

Professional Activity

Organizations and offices held

Ohio Classical Conference Governing Council, 1999-2001

Archaeological Institute of America, Commmittee on Ancient History, 1998-2--1

Archaeological Institute of America Committee for the Pomerance Science Medal (1993-96, 1997-2000), nominated the 1995 winner and wrote citation (American Jouirnal of Archaeology 100.2 (1996) 339)

Chair of Archaeological Institute of America annual meeting sessions "Roman Greece and the Near East," 1999, and "Anatolia", 1994

Archaeological Institute of America, Kent-Akron Society, President (2004- ), Program Coordinator (1994-8 and 2000- ), President (1985-91)

Friends of Ancient History, President (1986-88), Secretary-Treasurer (1985)

Memberships

Archaeological Institute of America (AIA)

Association for the Study of Marble and Other Stones in Antiquity (ASMOSIA)

Associazione Internazionale dell'Archeologia Classica (AIAC)

Service

Department of Classical Studies, Anthropology and Archaeology 2000- , University of Akron

AAUP Liaison, 2004-present

Chair, Retention Committee for K. Flynn, fall 2005

Co-Chair, Chair Search Committee, 2004- present

Chair, Tenure Committee for T. Matney, fall 2004

Tenure committee for C. Behrman, fall 2004, fall 2005

RTP committee for K. Flynn, fall 2004

Department Liaison, Akron AAUP, 2003 --

Chair, Search Committee for Instructor in Classical Studies, fall 2003

Chair, Cultural Anthropology Search Committee, 2002

Chair, RTP committee for K. Flynn, fall 2003

Computer committee, 2001-

Curriculum and Evaluation Committees, 2001-3

Awards Committee, 2003-

Chair, RTP committee for T. Matney, fall 2003, 2002, and fall 2001

Search Committee for Archaeology, fall 2000

RTP committee for C. Berhman, fall 2001 and fall 2000

Wrote first draft of guidelines during formation of the new department

Department of Classics, (1984-2000), University of Akron

General responsibility for computer equipment, classroom implementations, and Perseus

Grants: Stoller Grant 1999 ($7450)

one-time General Studies funds from the A & S Dean's Office 1997 ($4000)

1996 House Bill 740 ($15,800)

one-time General Studies funds 1995 ($10,000)

1994 House Bill 790 ($18,900)

Developed Classics Department Web page (www.uakron.edu/classics, now www.uakron.edu/csaa/cs_index.html)

Initiated and coordinated visit of the Campus Advisory Service of the American Philological Association, 1990.

Developed and wrote occasional departmental newsletter Agenda

Buchtel College Council (1985-88, 1997-9)

Judge for Youngstown State University's Foreign Language Day competiton for high school students, April 1989, 1992; judge for Junior Classical League Certamen 2001, 1999, 1998 1997, 1993, 1990.

Department of History, University of Akron

Search Committee for a Renaissance historian, 1998-9

Search Committee for an Islamicist, 1997-8

Equipment Committee (1994- , chair 1997-99, specified and installed $20k two-platform multimedia lab)

Tenure committee for C. Bouchard (1994)

Chair, Library Committee (1994-6). Undergraduate Committee (1992- 95).

Ad Hoc Committee on the Headship (1992-4). Scholarship Committee (1990-91)

Search Committee for a Mediaeval Historian (1987-88)

Undergraduate Program Review Committee (1985)

Colloquium Committee (1985-6)

Peer Review Committees for Wainwright (1999, chair), Kyvig (1997, chair), Bouchard (1997, chair), Leonard (1995), Baker (1994), Clements (1993), Baranowski (1990), Leathers (1987), Knepper (1985).

University and Extradepartmental Service, University of Akron

College-wide Committee on Promotion to Professor, fall 2005

Tenure committee for P. Sakezles, Dept. of Philosophy, fall 2000

Retention committee for P. Sakezles, Dept. of Philosophy, fall 1999

College Appeals Committee, 2000-2001

Computing and Communications Technologies Committee of Faculty Senate (1998, resigned 9/99)

Web Policy Committee, advisory to Assoc. Provost for Information Services (1997-, resigned 9/99)

Research (Faculty Projects) Committee (1995-98, 1993-95, 1990-93)

A & S Selection Committee for the College Research Award (1997-8). A & S College Appeals Committee (1997-8, 1998-9). Diversity Week Committee (1996)

University Review Committee for the School of Art (1995)

Search Committee for Associate Vice President for Research and Graduate Dean (1988)

Graduate School Committee to review the MA program in Spanish (1987)

At Other Institutions

Committee on Faculty Awards, Wellesley College (1975-78)

Library Committee, University of Michigan (1982-83)

Study Committee on Postgraduate Programs, St. Stephen's School (1980-81)

Lecture Committee, Temple University Abroad (1980-1)

10 January, 2004