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CURRICULUM VITAE

Barbara Burrell
barbara.burrell@classics.uc.edu
Department of Classics
University of Cincinnati
P.O. Box 210226
Cincinnati OH 45221
Tel. (513) 556-3180, fax (513) 556-4366

Degrees: 

Ph.D.  Harvard University 1980 - Classical Archaeology

M.A.  Harvard University 1975 - Classical Archaeology

A.B.  New York University 1973 - Classical Philology

Employment and Experience:

1994-present:  Associate Research Professor of Classics, University of Cincinnati (teaching full-time 2000-2002, 2004-2006)

2002-03:  Director, Tytus Visiting Scholars Program, University of Cincinnati

2001-02:  Graduate Chair of Classical Archaeology, University of Cincinnati

1994-2000:  Lecturer in Biblical Archaeology, the Hebrew Union College, Academy  for Adult Interfaith Studies

1992-97:  Lecturer in Archaeology, the Hebrew Union College, Cincinnati

1991-94:  Assistant Research Professor of Classics, University of Cincinnati

1984-90:  Assistant Professor of Classics, Swarthmore College

1987:  Visiting Lecturer in Classical Archaeology, The Johns Hopkins University

1981-83:  Undergraduate Chair of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania

1980-84:  Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, Member of Graduate Groups in Classical Studies and Ancient History, University of Pennsylvania

1979-80:  Graduate Research Editor, Sardis Expedition

1978-80:  Teaching Fellow, Harvard University

1974-75:  Keeper of Coins, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University

1972-73:  Assistant to the Librarian, American Numismatic Society

1971-73:  Tutor in Greek, Department of Classics, New York University

Honors and awards: 

C. Densmore Curtis Lecturer, Bryn Mawr College Department of Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology, 2006-2007

Visiting Professor of the Australian Archaeological Institute in Athens, 2002

Senior Fellow, Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies,  2002

Eugene M. Lang Fellow (Swarthmore College) 1988-89

Mary Isabel Sibley Fellow (Phi Beta Kappa) 1977-78

Fellow of the Royal Numismatic Society, elected 1977

Charles Eliot Norton Fellow to the American School of Classical Studies in Athens (Harvard University) 1975-76

Fellow of the American Numismatic Society Summer Seminar 1974

Phi Beta Kappa 1973

Magna cum Laude 1973 (A.B.)

Founder's Day Scholar of New York University 1973

Frederick B.W. Fritts Award for Academic Merit 1971

New York University Coat of Arms Society, elected 1971

James Gordon Bennett Scholarship 1969-1973

Dr. H. Britenstool Scholarship 1969-1973

New York State Regents' Scholarship 1969-1973

Publications in preparation:

With K. Gleason: The Promontory Palace at Caesarea Maritima, Israel.  Reports of the University of Pennsylvania Museum Excavations

"There was No Such Thing as the Porta Regia"

"Neokoroi: an update"

Publications submitted:

"Small Bronze Hoards at Late Fifth Century C.E. Sardis" for a Festschrift

"A Hoard of Minimi from Sardis and the Currency of the Fifth Century C.E." for Revue Numismatique

Accepted for publication:

"Reading, hearing, and looking at Ephesos" for the Semple Symposium volume, Ancient Literacies: The Culture of Reading in Greece and Rome, edited by W.A. Johnson and H.N. Parker (Oxford: Oxford University Press)

"Herod's Caesarea on Sebastos: Urban Structures and Influences" for Herod and Augustus: Conference Proceedings of the Institute of Jewish Studies, edited by D. M. Jacobson, N. Kokkinos, and G. Matthias (Leiden: Brill)

"The Dialogue between Coins and Inscriptions" for Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Boston 2003, edited by C. Mattusch and A. Donohue (London: Oxbow Books) 149-152

Publications: 

"False Fronts: Separating the Imperial Cult from the Aedicular Façade in Roman Asia Minor" in American Journal of Archaeology 110 (2006) 437-469

"Iphigeneia in Philadelphia" in Classical Antiquity 24 (2005) 223-256, illus.

Neokoroi: Greek Cities and Roman Emperors (Cincinnati Studies in Classical Antiquity n.s. vol. 9, Leiden, Brill, 2004). Reviewed by: D. Campanile in Sehepunkte 5 (2005:   http://www.sehepunkte.historicum.net/2005/02/7285.html); K. Hendrick in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.10.7 (http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2005/2005-10-07.html); M. Carter in Journal of Roman Archaeology 18 (2005) 635-637; J. König in Journal of Roman Studies 95 (2005) 255-256; M.S. Bassignano in Atene e Roma 49:2-3 (2004) 113.

"Strangers in their own land: Greeks and the Roman god-emperor" in Frogs Around the Pond: Cultural Diversity in the Ancient World, Syllecta Classica 14 (2003) 187-204

"Temples of Hadrian, not Zeus" in Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 43 (2002/3) 31-50

Angela Thirkell’s World (Wickford RI, 2001)

With K. Gleason et al.: "The Promontory Palace at Caesarea Maritima: Preliminary Evidence for Herod's Praetorium" in Journal of Roman Archaeology 11 (1998) 23-52

"'Curse Tablets' from Caesarea" in Near Eastern Archaeology61 no. 2 (June 1998) 128

"Palace to Praetorium: The Romanization of Caesarea" in Caesarea Maritima: a Retrospective After Two Millennia,eds. A. Raban and K.G. Holum (Leiden 1996) 228-247

"Two Inscribed Columns from Caesarea Maritima" in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik99 (1993) 287-295

With K. Gleason and E. Netzer: "Uncovering Herod's Seaside Palace" in Biblical Archaeology Review 19 no. 3 (May/June 1993) 50-57, 76.

"Neokoroi" in Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 85 (1981) 301-303 (summary of the following)

Neokoroi: Greek Cities of the Roman East (Ph.D. dissertation, advisor G.M.A. Hanfmann, Harvard University, 1980)

With G.M.A. Hanfmann: "Notes on some Archaeological Contexts" in Greek, Roman and Islamic Coins from Sardis, Archaeological Exploration of Sardis Monograph 7 (Cambridge MA 1981) xx-xxiv

Website:

Texts for Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies/Macquarie University website, "The Coinage of Ephesus," completed May 2004, visible at: http://online.mq.edu.au/pub/ACANSCAE/about.htm

Review Articles:

For American Journal of Archaeology:

"Out-Heroding Herod," review of E. Netzer, Die Paläste der Hasmonäer und Herodes' des Grossen; S. Japp, Die Baupolitik Herodes' des Grossen; and K. Holum, A. Raban, and J. Patrich, eds., Caesarea Papers 2  (vol. 106 no. 1, January 2002, pp. 107-110)

For Journal of Roman Archaeology:

With E. Netzer: "Herod the Builder," review of D. Roller, The Building Program of Herod the Great (vol. 12, 1999, pp. 705-715)

Reviews:

For American Journal of Archaeology:

H. von Aulock, Münzen und Städte Phrygiens Teil II;  and  I. Touratsoglou, Die Münzstätte von Thessalonike in der römischen Kaiserzeit (vol. 95 no. 2, 1991)

For American Historical Review:

S. Dmitriev, City Government in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor (vol. 110, Dec. 2005, 1574-1575)

For Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research:

A. Negev, The Architecture of Oboda: Final Report (vol. 318, May 2000)

S. Herbert, ed., Tel Anafa I: Final Report on Ten Years of Excavation at a Hellenistic and Roman Settlement in Northern Israel;  and Tel Anafa II, i: The Hellenistic and Roman Pottery: The Plain Wares, by A. Berlin, [and] The Fine Wares, by K. Slane (vol. 315, August 1999)

For Biblical Archaeology Review:

D. Roller, The Building Program of Herod the Great (vol. 24 no. 4, 1998)

For Classical World:

A. Burnett, Coins  (vol.  86 no. 4, 1993)

S. Wood, Roman Portrait Sculpture 217-260 A.D.  (vol. 82 no. 6, 1989)

D. Braund, Augustus to Nero: A Sourcebook on Roman History  (vol. 80 no. 3, 1987)

J. Spaulding, Coin of the Realm: An Introduction to Numismatics  (vol. 79 no. 5, 1986)

J. Sullivan, Literature and Politics in the Age of Nero  (vol. 79 no. 5, 1986)

S. Price, Rituals and Power: The Roman Imperial Cult in Asia Minor  (vol. 79 no. 4, 1986)

N. Waggoner, Early Greek Coins from the Collection of J.P. Rosen  (vol. 79 no. 3, 1986)

H. Troxell, The Coinage of the Lycian League  (vol. 78 no. 3, 1985)

R. Stichel, Die römische Kaiserstatue am Ausgang der Antike  (vol. 77 no. 4, 1984)

Archaeological Fieldwork:

Caesarea Maritima, Israel: Field Director, University of Pennsylvania Museum Excavations at the Promontory Palace; K. Gleason, Project Director (1990-present)

Mt. Lykaion, Arkadia, Greece: Numismatist, University of Pennsylvania Museum/University of Arizona expedition; D. Romano and M. Voyatzis, co-directors (2003-present)

Rome, Italy: Site Supervisor, Palatine East Excavations; E. Hostetter, Director (1988-89)

Sardis, Turkey: Numismatist, Epigrapher, Trench Supervisor; C. H. Greenewalt, Jr., Director (1980-84)

Research tour, bronze age sites of the Aegean: Crete, Kea, Syros, Naxos, Mykonos, Delos, Melos, Thera; with A. Brownlee (1976)

Corinth, Greece: Training Session; C. Williams, Director (1976)

Aphrodisias, Turkey: Trench Supervisor; K. Erim, Director (1972)

Alcudia, Mallorca: Field School; D. Woods, Director (1970)

Courses taught at the University of Cincinnati:

Undergraduate: Introduction to Ancient Civilization (each with honors sections): Archaic Greece: 2000. Classical Greece: 2001, 2002. Rome: 2003, 2006. Introduction to Archaeology: Mesopotamian: 2004. Greek: 2001, 2002. Roman: 2003, 2005, 2006. 

Graduate/undergraduate: Hellenistic Archaeology: 2001.  Roman Archaeology I: 2005. Roman Archaeology II: 2005.  Roman Archaeology III: 2005.  Archaeology of Israel: 2006.

Graduate Seminars: Ancient Coins: 1993, 1997, 2001, 2004. The Crisis of the Third Century C.E.: 1994.  The Archaeology of Hadrian's Empire: 2001, 2005.  Gender and Theory in Archaeology: 2002.

Greek: Herodotus, Histories: 1995.  Homer, Odyssey: 1994.

Courses taught at Hebrew Union College:

Introduction to Archaeology: 1995, 1997.

Graduate Seminar: Problems in Near Eastern Archaeology: 1995.

Adult Interfaith Institute: Biblical Archaeology: 1993, 1994, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000.

Courses taught at Xavier University:

Elementary Latin: 1994.  Roman Archaeology: 1995.

Courses taught at Swarthmore College:

 Introduction to Archaeology: 1984, 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1990.  Greek Archaeology: 1987.  Roman Archaeology: 1986, 1988, 1990.  History of Greece: 1986.

Undergraduate Seminars: Ancient Greece (with G. Rose): 1985.  Art and Science of Ancient Coins: 1985, 1986.  The Early Roman Empire: 1984, 1989.

Independent Studies in History and Archaeology: 1985, 1987, 1988, 1990.

Greek: Plato, Apology, Crito: 1986, 1987, 1988.  Homer, Iliad: 1990.

Latin:  Cicero, in Verrem, pro Archia:  1985, 1986.  Catullus and Vergil: 1989.  Prose Composition: 1984, 1985.

Latin Honors Seminar: Literature in the Age of Nero: 1985, 1987, 1988, 1989.

Courses taught at Johns Hopkins University:

Graduate Seminar: The Ancient City of Rome: 1987.

Courses taught at the University of Pennsylvania:

Greek History (to Alexander the Great): 1980, 1981, 1982.  Roman History (to Constantine): 1981, 1982, 1983, 1984. 

Undergraduate Honors Seminar: Ancient Numismatics: 1982.

Graduate Seminar: Portraits of the Roman Emperors: 1983.

Latin: Caesar, Gallic Wars: 1981.  Catullus: 1981.  Intensive Elementary Latin: 1981.

Latin Graduate Seminar: Pliny the Younger: 1982.

Greek:  Plato, Apology, Symposium: 1980, 1982.

Courses taught as Teaching Fellow at Harvard University:

For A. Grabar, Introduction to the History of Art, part 1: 1979.  For S. Freedberg, Introduction to the History of Art, part 2: 1980.  For G. Nagy, Classical Civilization: The Concept of the Hero: 1979.  For G. Nagy, Elementary Greek: 1978.

Other Professional Activities:

Chair, James R. Wiseman Book Award Committee, Archaeological Institute of America, 2000-2007

Visiting Scholar, American Academy at Rome, 1996

Visiting Scholar, American Academy at Rome, 1988-1989

Produced gallery exhibition of ancient and modern portraiture, Fogg Art Museum, 1979

Museum research tour for coins of the neokoroi, as M. I. Sibley Fellow: British Museum, London; Ashmolean Museum, Oxford; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna; Narodowe Museum, Warsaw; Bodesmuseum, Berlin, 1978-1979

Regular Member, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1975-1976

Research and training in historical numismatics on a National Science Foundation Grant to the Humanities; B. Trell, Project Director, 1973

Volunteer, Brooklyn Museum, Department of Egyptian and Classical Art; B. Bothmer, Director, 1971

Lectures:

Archaeological Institute of America Annual Convention, San Diego CA 2007: "'Exotic' Marbles for Asians: Semiotics in Stone," for the colloquium "Exploring Identity in the Roman East" (L. de Jong and D. Steen, Stanford University, Organizers)

Semple Symposium: "Constructing 'Literacy' among the Greeks and Romans," University of Cincinnati, 28 April 2006: "Reading, hearing, and looking at Ephesos"

Invited lecture for the Institute of Jewish Studies, University College London, conference on Augustus and Herod, June 21-23, 2005: "Herod's Caesarea on Sebastos: Urban Structures and Influences"

Cincinnati Art Museum, 26 Jan. 2005: "An Archaeologist Looks at Petra"

Archaeological Institute of America Annual Convention, San Francisco CA 2004: "False Fronts: Separating the Imperial Cult from the Aediculated Façade in the Roman Near East"

XVI International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Boston, 2003: "The Dialogue Between Coins and Inscriptions"

Indiana University at Bloomington, Central Indiana A.I.A.; Ohio University at Athens; the George Washington University, Washington D.C., 2003: "The Palaces of Herod the Great"

Tulane University, Department of History, 2003: "Greeks and Romans, Gods and Emperors"

As Visiting Professor, Australian Archaeological Institute in Athens 2002: "The Palaces of Herod the Great," at Australian National University, Canberra; Melbourne University; Queensland University, Brisbane; Sydney University; and Macquarie University, Sydney

Sydney University, Classical Archaeology Seminar Series 2002: "Neokoroi: Greek Cities and Roman Emperors"

As Senior Fellow, Australian Centre for Ancient Numismatic Studies, Macquarie University 2002: "Strangers in their Own Land," "Coinage and Ephesos," "Ephesos Neokoros," and "Iphigeneia in Philadelphia"

Triennial Conference of New Zealand Universities' Classics Departments, Victoria University of Wellington 2002: "Coins, Cult, and Concord in the Cities of Roman Asia Minor"

Springfield Archaeological Society, Wittenburg University 2002: "The Palaces of Herod the Great"

Archaeological Institute of America Annual Convention, San Diego CA 2001: "Iphigeneia in Philadelphia"

Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest/Classical Association of the Canadian West, Joint Meeting, Victoria BC, 2000: "Strangers in their own land: Greeks and the Roman God-Emperor"

American Popular Culture Association/Far West Popular Culture Association Joint Meeting, Las Vegas NV, 2000: "'Relic Hunter' and the Sacred Context in Archaeology"

Eleventh Annual Midwest Jewish Studies Colloquium, Cincinnati OH 1998: "The Promontory Palace in Herod's Caesarea"

Archaeological Institute of America Annual Convention, Chicago IL 1997: "The Promontory Palace at Caesarea in Israel: the 1997 Season" (with K. Gleason)

American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Convention, Napa CA 1997: "The Architectural Phases of the Promontory Palace: Preliminary Synthesis" (with K. Gleason)

Archaeological Institute of America Annual Convention, New York NY, 1996: "The Promontory Palace of Caesarea Maritima, Israel: the 1995 and 1996 Seasons" (with K. Gleason)

American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Convention, Philadelphia PA 1995: "The Recent Season at the Promontory Palace at Caesarea"

Baron Edmond de Rothschild Symposium, Caesarea, Israel, 1995: "Palace to Praetorium: the Romanization of Caesarea"

Archaeological Institute of America Annual Convention, Atlanta GA, 1994: "Excavations at the Promontory Palace of Caesarea Maritima, Israel in 1994" (with K. Gleason)

American Schools of Oriental Research Annual Convention, Chicago IL 1994: "New Finds from the Promontory Palace at Caesarea"

Ohio Classical Conference, Cincinnati OH, 1994: "The Palace of Herod in Caesarea, Israel"

Cornell Symposium on Ancient Numismatics, Ithaca NY, 1994: "Iphigeneia in Philadelphia: the Possibilities of Greek Imperial Coins"

Classics Department Graduate Workshop, State University of New York, Buffalo NY, 1993: "Numismatics: What You Need to Know"

Archaeological Institute of America Annual Convention, New Orleans LA, 1992: "Excavations at the Promontory Palace of Caesarea Maritima, Israel in 1992" (with K. Gleason and E. Netzer)

Miami University, Oxford OH, 1992:  "Archaeology at Caesarea"

University of Cincinnati Institute for Learning in Retirement, 1992: "Through the Athenian Agora with Pausanias"

Archaeological Institute of America Annual Convention, Chicago IL, 1991:  "New Excavations at the Promontory Palace, Caesarea Maritima, Israel" (with K. Gleason and E. Netzer)

University of Pennsylvania Graduate Student Association in Classical Archaeology, 1991:  "The Promontory Palace at Caesarea Maritima" (with K. Gleason)

Archaeological Institute of America, Tucson AZ Society, 1989:  "New Light on the Palatine of Rome"

Swarthmore College, Faculty Lecture Series, 1989:  "New Light on the Palatine of Rome"

Bryn Mawr Classics Colloquium, 1987:  "Temples of the Emperors"

University Museum, Philadelphia, for Agnes Irwin School, 1986: "Athens and Ur"

Archaeological Institute of America Annual Convention, Washington DC, 1985: "Late Roman Coinage and the Reforms of Anastasius"

Stockton State College, Pomona NJ, 1985:  "Classics and the New Archaeology"

Zelosophic Society, University of Pennsylvania, 1983: "Excavation and the Imagination"

Swarthmore College, 1982: "Excavation and the Imagination"

Archaeological Institute of America Annual Convention, Vancouver B.C., 1979: "Neokoroi"

Harvard Business School, 1979:  "Museums and the Market"

Archaeological Institute of America, Walla Walla WA Society, 1979:  "Ancient Buildings on Ancient Coins"

Cambridge Archaeological Seminar, Cambridge MA, 1978:  "Ancient Buildings on Ancient Coins"

Teachers of Classics of New England, Boston MA, 1978:  "Rome: City and Society"

Member of:

Archaeological Institute of America (on James R. Wiseman Book Award Committee, 1998-present)

Royal Numismatic Society

American Schools of Oriental Research

Classical Association of the Middle West and South

Hetty Goldman Society