Sara Forsdyke

Associate Professor, Department of Classical Studies; Adjunct Associate Professor, History Department

Scholarly Interests

Greek Historiography, especially Herodotus and Thucydides
Greek political thought, law, and political history; Athenian democracy
Greek social and cultural history; ritual; popular culture; ancient slavery

Degree

Ph.D., Princeton University

Selected Publications

• "From Aristocratic to Democratic Ideology and Back Again: The Thrasybulus Anecdote in Herodotus' Histories and Aristotle's Politics." Classical Philology  94 .4 (1999) 361-372
• "Exile, Ostracism and the Athenian Democracy" California Studies in Classical Antiquity  19.2 (2000) 232-263
• "Athenian Democratic Ideology and Herodotus' Histories" American Journal of Philology  122.3 (2001) 333-362
• "Herodotus on Greek History, 525-480 " in Irene de Jong, Egbert Bakker and Hans van Wees eds. A Companion to Herodotus edited by. (Leiden, 2002) 521-549
• "Revelry and Riot in Archaic Megara: Democratic Disorder or Ritual Reversal?" Journal of Hellenic Studies  125 (2005) 73-92
• Exile, Ostracism and Democracy: The Politics of Expulsion in Ancient Greece. Princeton University Press (2005)
• "Herodotus, political history and political thought" in C. Dewald and J. Marincola eds. The Cambridge Companion to Herodotus. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, (2006) 224-241
• "Land, Labor and Economy in Solonian Athens: Breaking the Impasse between History and Archaeology" J.H. Blok and A.P.M.H. Lardinois eds., Solon of Athens: New Historical and Philological Approaches, Leiden: Brill, (2006) 334-350
• "Street Theater and Popular Justice in Ancient Greece" Past and Present 201 (2008) 3-50
• "The Uses and Abuses of Tyranny" for R.Balot ed. The Blackwell Companion to Ancient Political Thought. Wiley-Blackwell, (2009) 231-246
• "Civic Institutions" in G. Boys-Stones, B. Graziosi and P.Vasunia eds. The Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies. Oxford, (2009) 197-210
• “Exile” in M. Gagarin et al. eds. Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Oxford University Press (2009)
• Politics and Popular Culture in Ancient Greece. (under contract with Princeton University Press; revised manuscript submitted, June 2010).
• "Pigs, Asses and Swine: The Cultural Politics of Cleisthenes of Sicyon" in N.Fisher and H. van Wees eds. Competition in the Ancient World. Wales Classical Press (in press).
• “Change and Continuity: The Impact of Democracy on Communal Life” in J.P.Arnason, K.Raaflaub and P. Wagner eds. The Greek polis and the invention of democracy: a politico-cultural transformation and its interpretations. Blackwell. (in press).

E-mail: forsdyke@umich.edu
Telephone: 936-6098

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Ian Moyer

Assistant Professor of History, Department of History

Scholarly Interests

Ancient Greek history, especially of the Hellenistic period; Late Period, Ptolemaic, and Roman Egypt; non-Greeks and Hellenism; ethnicity and culture in the ancient world; historiography and ethnography; religion and magic

Degree

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Selected Publications

• “Herodotus and an Egyptian Mirage: The Genealogies of the Theban Priests,” Journal of Hellenic Studies 122 (2002): 70-90
• “Magical Initiation: Transitions and Power in Graeco-Egyptian Ritual” in Initiation in Ancient Greek Rituals and Narratives: New Critical Perspectives, edited by David Dodd and Christopher A. Faraone (London & New York: Routledge, 2003): 219-38
• “Miniaturization and the Opening of the Mouth in a Greek Magical Text (PGM XII.270-350)” with Jacco Dieleman, Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 3 (2003): 47-71
• “Golden Fetters and Economies of Cultural Exchange,” Journal of Ancient Near Eastern Religions 6 (2006): 225-256
• “Notes on re-reading the Delian Aretalogy of Sarapis (IG XI.4 1299),” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 166 (2008): 101-107

E-mail: ianmoyer@umich.edu
Telephone: 647-7946

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David Potter

Professor of Greek and Latin, Department of Classical Studies

Scholarly Interests

Greek and Roman Asia Minor, Greek and Latin historiography and epigraphy, Roman public entertainment

Degree

Ph.D., Oxford University

Selected Publications

• Prophecy and History in the Crisis of the Roman Empire (1990)
• Prophets and Emperors: Humans and Divine Authority from Augustus to Theodosius (1993)
• Literary Texts and the Roman Historian (1999)
• Life, Death and Entertainment in the Roman Empire (co-editor, 1999)
• The Roman Empire at Bay (2000)
• A Companion to the Roman Empire (2006)
• Emperors of Rome (2007)
• articles on textual criticism, Greek and Roman history and epigraphy

E-mail: dsp@umich.edu
Telephone: 936-2249

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Janet Richards

Associate Professor of Egyptology, Department of Near Eastern Studies;
Associate Curator for Dynastic Egypt, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology; Project Director, University of Michigan Abydos Middle Cemetery Project, Abydos, Egypt 

Scholarly Interests

Ancient Egyptian and Nubian culture, archaeology, and history; texts and archaeology; mortuary studies; sacred and political landscapes; the archaeology of individuals; the politics of biography; the disciplinary history of Egyptology.

Degree

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania

Selected Publications

• "Conceptual landscapes in the Egyptian Nile Valley," Archaeologies of Landscape: Contemporary Perspectives (1999)
• Preserving Eternity: Modern Goals, Ancient Intentions. Egyptian Funerary Artifacts at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (co-ed., 2000)
• Order, Legitimacy and Wealth in Ancient States (co-ed., 2000)
• "Text and context in late Old Kingdom Egypt: the archaeology and historiography of Weni the Elder," Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt 39 (2002)
• Society and Death in Ancient Egypt: mortuary landscapes of the Middle Kingdom  (2005)
• The Archaeology and Art of Ancient Egypt:  Essays in honor of David B O’Connor  Vols. I and II (co-ed., 2007)

E-mail: jerichar@umich.edu
Telephone: 647-4672

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Carla Sinopoli

Professor of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology; Director, Museum of Anthropology; Curator, Asian Archaeology, Museum of Anthropology 

Scholarly Interests

Complex societies craft specialization, ceramics. Political economy of early states and empires; archaeology and history; material culture -- use, technology, and social meaning, ethnoarchaeology, gender; South Asia.

Degree

Ph.D., University of Michigan

Selected Publications

• Empires: Comparative Perspectives from Archaeology and History (co-ed., 2001)
• The Political Economy of Craft Production: Crafting Empire in South India, c. 1350-1650 (2003)
• "Echoes of Empire: Vijayanagara and historical memory, Vijayanagara as historical memory," Archaeologies of Memory (2003)
• Archaeology of History: South Asia (co-ed., 2004)
• "Wrapped in Beauty: The Koelz Collection of Kashmir Shawls" (co-author, 2005)
• "Regional Survey of Vijayanagara, South Asia: New World methodologies in Old World contexts," Settlement, Subsistence and Social Complexity: Essays Honoring the Legacy of Jeffrey R. Parsons (2006)

E-mail: sinopoli@umich.edu
Telephone: 764-0484

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Paolo Squatriti

Associate Professor of Medieval History, Departments of History and Romance Languages

Scholarly Interests

Late antique and early medieval cultural and environmental history, especially of the western Mediterranean and Italy, land use and landscape change, rural technologies and their impact

Degree

Ph.D., University of Virginia

Selected Publications

• Working with Water in Medieval Europe (ed., 2000)
• "Digging Ditches in Early Medieval Europe," Past and Present (2002)
• Natures Past: The Environment and Human History (ed., 2007)
• The Complete Works of Liudprand of Cremona (ed., 2007)

E-mail: pasqua@umich.edu
Telephone: 647-4897

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Laurie Talalay

Associate Director, Kelsey Museum; Curator, Kelsey Museum; Adjunct Associate Professor of Classical Archaeology

Scholarly Interests

Aegean prehistory, gender, neolithic figurines

Degree

Ph.D., Indiana University

Selected Publications

• Deities, Dolls, and Devices: Neolithic Figurines from Franchthi Cave, Greece (1993)
• "A Feminist Boomerang: The Great Goddess of Greek Prehistory" (1994)
• “Archaeological Ms.conceptions: Contemplating Gender and the Greek Neolithic” (2000)
• "Sexual Ambiguity in Early-Middle Cypriot Plank Figures" (co-authored; 2002)
• “What These Ithakas Mean.” Readings in Cavafy (co-edited; 2002)
• "Heady Business: Skulls, Heads, and Decapitation in Neolithic Anatolia and Greece" (2004)
• "The Past as Commodity: Archaeological Images in Modern Advertising" (2004)
• Prehistorians Round the Pond: Reflections on Aegean Prehistory as a Discipline (co-edited; 2005)
• "The Gendered Sea: Iconography, Gender, and Mediterranean Prehistory" (2005)
• “Prehistoric Occupation of Southern Euboea” (co-authored; 2005)
• “A Day’s Journey: Constantinople, December 9, 1919” (co-authored; 2006)
• In the Field: The Archaeological Expeditions of the Kelsey Museum (co-authored; 2006)

E-mail: talalay@umich.edu
Telephone: 647-0441

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Ray Van Dam

Professor of History, Director of Interdepartmental Program in Greek and Roman History, Professor of Near Eastern Studies

Scholarly Interests

Roman history, especially Roman empire and later Roman empire. Currently working on memory, empire, and environment. Also religion, society, culture, and inscriptions.

Degree

Ph.D., Cambridge University

Selected Publications

• Leadership and Community in Late Antique Gaul (1985)
• Saints and their Miracles in Late Antique Gaul (1993)
• Kingdom of Snow: Roman Rule and Greek Culture in Cappadocia (2002)
• Families and Friends in Late Roman Cappadocia (2003)
• Becoming Christian: The Conversion of Roman Cappadocia (2003)
• The Roman Revolution of Constantine (2007)
• Rome and Constantinople: Rewriting Roman History in Late Antiquity (2010)

E-mail: rvandam@umich.edu
Telephone: 763-1193

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Arthur Verhoogt

Associate Professor in Papyrology and Greek, Department of Classical Studies

Scholarly Interests

Greek papyrology; socio-economic, administrative and cultural history of Greek and Roman Egypt; Fayum villages; onomastics

Degree

Ph.D., Leiden

Selected Publications

• Berichtigungsliste der griechischen Papyrusurkunden, 11. Band, with H.-A. Rupprecht (2002)
• Regaling Officials in Ptolemaic Egypt: A Dramatic Reading of Official Accounts from the Menches Papers (2005)
• Documents from Berenike Volume II: Texts from the 1999-2001 Seasons (co-authored with Roger Bagnall and Christina Helms, 2005)

E-mail: verhoogt@umich.edu
Telephone: 936-6101

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Terry Wilfong

Associate Professor of Egyptology, Department of Near Eastern Studies and Associate Curator for Graeco-Roman Egypt, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology

Scholarly Interests

Pharaonic, Graeco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt; archaeology of Graeco-Roman Egypt; social history of ancient Egypt; ancient Egypt in the work of contemporary artists.

Degree

Ph.D., University of Chicago

Selected Publications

• Women and Gender in Ancient Egypt: From Prehistory to Late Antiquity. An Exhibition at the Kelsey Museum (1997)
• "Synchronous Menstruation and the 'Place of Women' in Ancient Egypt," Gold of Praise: Studies on Ancient Egypt in Honor of Edward F. Wente (2000)
• Women of Jeme: Lives in a Coptic Town in Late Antique Egypt (2002)
• "'Friendship and Physical Desire': The discourse of female hoeroticism in fifth century CE Egypt," Among Women: from the Homosocial to the Homoerotic in the Ancient World (2002)
• "Gender and Society in Byzantine Egypt," Egypt in the Byzantine World (2007)

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Henry Wright

Professor of Archaeology, Department of Anthropology and Curator of Mesopotamian and African Archaeology, Museum of Anthropology

Scholarly Interests

Origins of the state, political and economic operation of developed chiefdoms and archaic states; Middle East, Africa, Indian Ocean, Eastern USA.

Degree

Ph.D., University of Chicago

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