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CURRICULUM VITAE
Susan H. Prince
Assistant Professor
susan.prince@uc.edu
phone: 513-556-2695
fax: 513-556-4366
room: 302 Blegen
EDUCATION
Yale University, 1982-86, B.A. in Classics (Latin) 1986 summa cum laude
Corpus Christi College, Oxford, 1986-89, B.A./M.A. in Literae Humaniores
(Greek and Latin literature and ancient and modern philosophy)
University of Basel, 1993-94, visiting student
University of Michigan, 1989-1997, Ph.D. 1997
Dissertation: "Antisthenes on Language, Thought and Culture,”
directed by James I. Porter
University of Michigan/ UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award, 1997
ACADEMIC EMPLOYMENT
Michigan State University, 1997-98, Visiting Assistant Professor
University of Colorado, 1998-2007, Assistant Professor
University of Cincinnati, 2007-present, Assistant Professor
AWARDS AND HONORS
Phi Beta Kappa, 1985
Regents' Fellowship, University of Michigan, 1989-1992
Mellon Dissertation Fellowship, Jul-Dec 1992
Rackham Pre-Dissertation Fellowship, Jan-Apr 1993
University of Michigan Basel Exchange Fellowship, 1993-94
University of Michigan Dean's Award for Goethe Insititut, 1993
Rackham Dissertation Fellowship, 1994-95
University of Michigan/ UMI Distinguished Dissertation Award, 1997
RESEARCH
Articles:
"Medical Prognostics," in P. Michigan Koenen: Michigan Texts Published in Honor of Ludwig Koenen (= P. Mich. XVIII) (Amsterdam: Gieben 1996), 53-66.
"Ajax, Odysseus, and the Act of Self-Representation," Ancient Philosophy 19 (Spec.) 1999, 55-64.
"The Organization of Knowledge," in K.H.Kinzl ed., The Blackwell Companion to Ancient History: Classical Greece, 480-323 (Oxford: Blackwell 2006) 432-455.
"Socrates, Antisthenes and the Cynics," in S. Ahbel-Rappe and R. Kamtekar eds., The Blackwell Companion to Socrates (Oxford: Blackwell 2006) 75-92.
Book reviews:
J. Allison, Word and Concept in Thucydides (1997), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 99.9.26 (1999).
L. Navia, Antisthenes of Athens: Setting the World Aright (2001), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 01.06.23 (2001).
G. Wörle, ed., Geschichte der Mathematik und der Naturwissenschaften in der Antike (1999), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 01.08.18 (2001).
E. Schiappa, The Beginnings of Rhetorical Theory in Classical Greece (1999), Classical Journal 97.3 (2002) 294-298.
G. Romeyer-Dherbey and J.-B. Gourinat edd., Socrate et les Socratiques(2001), Classical Review 55 (2005) 424-426.
Book (in progress):
“Antisthenes of Athens. Fragments, Translation and Commentary”
Professional presentations:
"Antisthenes' Ajax and Odysseus and Persuasion in a Democracy," APA convention, Dec 28, 1995, San Diego, CA
"Antisthenes and the Criticism of Homer," CAMWS convention, Apr 10, 1996, Nashville, TN
"The Material of Wisdom: Antisthenes' Theory of Knowledge and Language,"
SSIPS/SAGP Annual Conference, Oct 26, 1996, Binghamton, NY
"Τὰ δ’ἄλλα σιγῶ: Avowal and Disavowal in Euripides' Iphigeneia in Tauris," APA convention, Dec 30, 1996, New York, NY
"Ajax, Odysseus, and the Act of Self-Representation," Graduate Student Conference, "Representations of Philosophy in the Classical World," Mar 15, 1997, Pittsburgh, PA
"Xenophon's Symposium as Socratic Apologetic," CAMWS convention, Apr 3, 1997, Boulder, CO
"The Soul, the City, and the Text: Manipulations of the Reader in Isocrates' Areopagiticus," departmental Classics Seminar, Michigan State University, Nov 12, 1997
"Isocrates' Areopagiticus and the Politics of Reading," CAMWS convention, Apr 16, 1998, Charlottesville, VA
"Self-rule and self-sufficiency in Sophocles' Ajax," CAMWS convention, Apr 15, 1999, Cleveland, OH
"A Rhetorical Conversion in the Hippocratic On the Nature of Man," APA convention, panel of the Society for Ancient Medicine, Dec 28, 1999, Dallas, TX
"Some Things in Truth, Some Things in Opinion: An Ancient Theory of Allegory," departmental Classics Seminar, Universiy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Nov 14, 2003
“Focus and Refraction: Evidence from the Transmission of Antisthenes’ Dialogues on Homer,” at the conference “Books about Books: the Emergence and Development of the Greek Commentary Tradition,” University of Michigan, April 1, 2006.
"Seeing and Knowing in Lucian’s Philosophical Fantasies," APA convention, Jan 7, 2007, San Diego, CA.
"The Discourse of Philosophy in Lucian’s Fantastic Worlds," departmental lecture, University of Cincinnati, Jan 19, 2007.
Professional panels and events:
APA panel, “Lucian and Philosophy,” (organized with Karin Schlapbach), San Diego, January 7,
2007.
TEACHING
University of Cincinnati:
Greek 401, Plato, fall 2007
Greek 949, Pre-Socratics, fall 2007
University of Colorado:
Clas 1013-1023, Beginning Ancient Greek, 2002-03, 2003-04
Clas 1100, Greek Mythology, fall 1998, fall 1999, fall 2000, spring 2003 with Honors section, fall 2006 with honors section
Clas/WMST 2100, Women in Ancient Greeece, fall 1999, spring 2002, summer 2002, spring 2005, fall 2005
Clas 3014, Introduction to Latin Prose, Cicero, spring 1999
Clas 3024, Introduction to Latin Poetry, Horace, spring 2006
Clas 3113 and 3123, Intermediate Ancient Greek, fall 1998, spring 2000, fall 2005, fall 2006
Clas 4040, Seminar in Classical Antiquity (Myth and Reason), spring 2004
Clas 4023/5023 , Reading course in Attic Orators, spring 1999
Clas 4023/5023 , Reading course in Herodotus, spring 2002
Clas 4023/5023 , Reading course in Euripides, fall 2003
Clas 4023/5023 , Reading course in Homer, Iliad, spring 2005
Clas 6003, Graduate Reading in Hesoid and Homeric Hymns, fall 2000
Clas 6003, Graduate Reading in Herodotus, spring 2006
Clas 7013, Seminar in Thucydides, fall 2002
Independent graduate study in Greek prose composition (Paul Ojennus 1998, Aaron Johnson 1999; Jeremy Burgess, Benjamin Gracy, Jason Miller, David Yates 2003)
Independent graduate study in Plato (Roberta Faux 1998), Herodotus (Matthew Tindle and Jose Piza 1999); Plutarch (Rebekah Richards 2001); Epic (Rachel Cobb 2005)
Independent undergraduate study in philosophical backgrounds to the New Testament (Dax Lance 2006)
Reading Group in Greek New Testament (2003-04)
Director, M.A. thesis, Brett Miller (2006, Homer)
Member, M.A. comprehensive exam committees, Roberta Faux, Denver Graninger, Lisa Korytowski, Susan Pomerleau (1999); Denise Fichtner, Matthew Tindle, Jane Woods (2000); Jason Miller (2001); Mary France, Kerry McCutcheon, Scott Speidel (2002); David Yates (2003); Cisca Schreefel (2004); Christopher Cones (2005); Marnia Pickens (2006)
Member, Ph.D. comprehensive exam committees, Paul Ojennus (1999); Aaron Johnson (2001); Scott Farrington, Benjamin Gracy, Jason Miller (2005); Jason Miller, Brent Schmidt (2006)
Member, dissertation exam committees, Zachary Biles (Aristophanes, 1999), Paul Ojennus (Apollonius, 2001), Aaron Johnson (Eusebius, 2003)
Michigan State University:
Latin 101-02, beginning Latin, 1997-98
Latin 201, intermediate Latin, fall 1997
Roman Civilization 221 (survey), spring 1998
Greek 301-02 and 499, intermediate and advanced Greek reading, 1997-98
Greek 101-02, intensive beginning Greek, summer 1998
team-taught a 20-hr/wk, 8-wk summer course for MSU students and students from other campuses
SERVICE ACTIVITIES
University of Cincinnati:
Departmental undergraduate committee, 2007-08
Departmental library committee, 2007-08
University of Colorado:
departmental search committees, Greek historian 1998-99, Greek literature 2005
departmental lecture committee, 1998-99
departmental graduate committee, spr 1999- spr 2001, spr 2005
director of graduate studies, 1999-2000
departmental undergraduate committee, 1999-2000, 2005-07
chair, departmental library committee, 2000-04, 2005-07
associate chair for undergraduate studies, 2002-03
editorial board, Ethics in Film (Leeds School of Business) , 2005-2007
Boulder Faculty Assembly Committee on Intercollegiate Athletics, 2005-07
secretary-treasurer, Phi Beta Kappa, Alpha of Colorado, 2006-07
Institutions for Classical Studies:
Vice-president for Colorado, Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 1999-2000
Women’s Classical Caucus, Steering Committee, 2006-2009
Department
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