Dr. Hans-Friedrich Mueller - Union College

Curriculum Vitae(October, 2011) 

Dr. Hans-Friedrich Mueller 

Union College 

Department of Classics 

807 Union Street 

Schenectady, New York 12308 

Personal 

Birth: Columbus, Ohio, USA, 1959. 

Marriage: Theresa L. Mueller, 1985. 

Children: Sarah, 1987; Anna, 1989; Paula, 1990; Laura, 1995. 

Interests 

Latin literature (prose, historiography), Roman institutions (religion and law), pedagogy (program 

building, outreach) 

Education 

1991-1994 Ph.D.-Classical Philology 

Dissertation directed by Prof. Jerzy Linderski. 

1987-1989 M.A.-Latin 

Thesis directed by Prof. Anna Lydia Motto. 

University of North Carolina at 

Chapel Hill 

University of Florida (Gainesville) 

1984-1985 B.A.-Latin University of Wisconsin- 

Milwaukee 

Teaching Certification in Secondary Education 

(Grades 7-12) in Latin and German. 

Note: Original teaching certification was in Wisconsin, 

but certification to teach Latin and German at 

the secondary level was continuously maintained in 

Florida 1985-2006 (Florida Department of Education 

Certificate Number: 576375). 

Office: (518) 377-8748 

FAX: (518) 388-6462 

email: muellerh@union.edu 

http://minerva.union.edu/muellerh 

1981-1983 B.A.-German University of Wisconsin- 

Milwaukee 

1978-1980 Brown University Providence, Rhode Island

1974-1978 Whitefish Bay High School Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin 

1966-1974 Henry Clay Elementary School Whitefish Bay, Wisconsin 

Professional Experience 

2006- William D. Williams Professor of Classics Union College 

Schenectady, New York 

Chair of the Department of Classics 2004-. 

Interim Chair of the Department of Modern Languages 

and Literatures 2006-2007. 

2004-2006 Professor of Classics Union College 

Schenectady, New York 

2003-2004 Associate Professor University of Florida 

Gainesville, Florida 

Distance Graduate Coordinator 2001-2004: 

Established a distance learning program in Classics 

with three graduate degree options (M.A.-Latin; 

Ph.D.-Latin and Roman Civilization; and 

Ph.D.-Classical Civilization) for high school teachers 

and college instructors. 

A courtesy appointment to the faculty of the School 

of Teaching and Learning in the College of Education 

was in effect December 2001-August 2004. 

2001-2003 Assistant Professor University of Florida 


1996-2001 Assistant Professor Florida State University 

Tallahassee, Florida 

Director of Graduate Studies 1997-2001. 

A courtesy appointment to the faculty of the Department 

of Curriculum and Instruction in the School of 

Education was in effect November 1998-August 

2001. 

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Summer 1996 Visiting Assistant Professor University of Florida 


1995-1996 Visiting Assistant Professor Florida State University 

Tallahassee, Florida 

1994-1995 National Endowment for the Humanities / 

American Philological Association Fellow 

to the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae 

1992-1994 Contributor and Assistant to L'Année Philologique 

Summer 1992 Research Assistant to Assistant to P. A. 

Stadter 

Bavarian Academy of Sciences 

Munich, Germany 

Chapel Hill, North Carolina 


1991-1992 Latin Teaching Assistant University of North Carolina 


Summer 1990 Latin Instructor University of South Florida 

Tampa, Florida 

Summer 1988 Latin Teaching Assistant University of South Florida 

Tampa, Florida 

1985-1991 Full-Time Teacher Countryside High School 

Clearwater, Florida 

Latin 1-5, Latin Club, JCL. German 1-6, German 

Club, Exchange Program (Marburg). 

Taught Latin exclusively 1988-1991 after Latin and 

German programs grew to full-time positions. 

Other Employment (for the sake of early chronology) 

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1981-1985 Wedding Photographer, Upholsterer, Cleaning Custodian (all part-time), Milwaukee, Wisconsin 

1980-1981 Full-time Security Guard, Pinkerton Security Services, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 

1978-1980 Research Assistant in Biology, Brown University; Banquet Waiter; Road Crew Assistant for the "The 

Mundanes" (all sometime or part-time); Providence, Rhode Island 

1976-1978 Part-time Office Furniture Delivery, M&M Office Furniture, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

1972-1974 Paper delivery: Milwaukee Journal, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 

Honors and Awards 

2010 Scholar-in-Residence (Faculty Resource 

Network), January-May 2010 

2000 APA Award for Excellence in the Teaching 

of Classics 

1999 University Teaching Award for Excellence 

in Undergraduate Teaching 

1999 University Teaching Incentive Program 

Award for Excellence in Teaching 

New York University 

American Philological Association 

Florida State University 


1989 Phi Kappa Phi University of Florida / South 

Florida (Tampa) 

1983 Phi Beta Kappa UW-Milwaukee 

Grants 

2009 Alternate for a Friedrich Solmsen Fellowship 

at the Insitute for Research in Humanities 

2008 Humanities Research Development Grant 

($2500) 

2005 Grant to Develop a Course in Ancient Entrepreneurship 

($12,000) 

2004 Humanities Research Development Grant 

($3000) 

University of Wisconsin, Madison 


Private Donors: Les Trachtman 

& Michael Brody 


2003 Dean's Travel Grant ($250) University of Florida 


2002 Research Stipend for Foreign Scholars (EU 

1,450) 

Martin-Luther-Universität, 

Halle, Germany 


2002 Humanities Scholarship Enhancement Grant 

($9,000) 

2001 Faculty Laptop Program (computer training 

and laptop) 

University of Florida 

University of Florida 


2001 Travel Grant for Foreign Scholars (DM 

1,500) 

2000 Council for Instruction Grant ($9,000) with 

Dr. James Sickinger 

Mommsen-Gesellschaft (Germany) 


2000 Dean's Research Grant ($1,200) Florida State University 

2000 1999-2000 Primary Source Materials Grant 

($10,704) 

2000 1999-2000 Primary Source Materials Grant 

($1,718) 




1999 Technology Grant to Implement a Web- 

Based Distance Learning Course in Comparative 

Mythology ($6,500) 




1997 First Year Assistant Professor Summer Research 

Grant ($9,000) 



1994-1995 Fellowship to the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae 

($30,000) 

1994 On-Campus Dissertation Fellowship 

($6,000) 

National Endowment for the 

Humanities / American Philological 

Association 

UNC-Chapel Hill 

1993 University Travel Grant ($300) UNC-Chapel Hill 

Professional Associations 

•American Classical League (1985-present) 

•Classical Association of Florida (1986-1991, 1995-present) 

•Florida Foreign Language Association (1986-1991, 1995-2005) 

•American Philological Association (1992-present) 

•Classical Association of the Middle West and South (1992-present) 

•International Plutarch Society (1993-present) 

•Association of Ancient Historians (1995-present) 

•American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (1997-present) 

•Mommsen-Gesellschaft, Germany (life member, joined 1998) 

•American Academy of Religion / Society for Biblical Literature (1998-1999) 

•Classical Association, UK (life member, joined 1999) 

•Asociación Mexicana de Estudios Clásicos, A. C. (2003-2004) 

•Classical Association of the Empire State (2004-present) 


•Classical Association of the Atlantic States (2004-present) 

•Classical Association of New England (2005-present) 

•Modern Language Association (2006-2008) 

Scholarship 

Books 

(sole author) 

•Roma Nocturna: Social, Legal, and Religious Aspects of Life at Night in Ancient Rome. In progress. 

•Roman Religion in Valerius Maximus, Routledge Classical Monographs (London and New York: 

Routledge, 2002, ISBN: 0415271088), pp. 266 +xv. 

(editor) 

Reviews: Jacqueline Champeaux, Latomus 64 (2005): 767-769; Caroline Février Polifemo 

5 (2005): 19-20; Jacqueline Champeaux, Gnomon 77 (2005): 23-26; Andreas Mehl, Gymnasium 

112 (2005): 72-73; Maria Lorenza Muzzolon, Maia 56 (2004): 478-479; James 

Boykin Rives, Classical World 98 (2004-2005): 353-354; Lechoslaw Olszewski, Eos 91 

(2004): 169-174; C. Robert Phillips, III, Phoenix 58 (2004): 168-171; Gregory Stephen Bucher, 

New England Classical Journal 31 (2004): 186-189; Lisa A. Hughes, Religious Studies 

and Theology 22 (2003): 75-76; William M. Calder, III, Religious Studies Review 29 

(2003): 88-89; Alex Nice, Scholia Reviews n.s. 12 (2003) 16 

(http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/03-16mue.htm); Bruno Rochette, Les Études Classiques 

71 (2003): 205-206; Jason Davies, Journal of Roman Studies 93 (2003): 400; Marie- 

Thérèse Raepsaet-Charlier, L'Antiquité Classique (2003) 72: 471-472; Frances Hickson 

Hahn, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.11.07 

(http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2002/2002-11-07.html). 

•The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, by Edward Gibbon; Edited, Abridged, and with a 

Critical Foreword by Hans-Friedrich Mueller; Introduction by Daniel J. Boorstin; and Illustrations 

by Giovanni Battista Piranesi (New York: The Modern Library [Random House]: 2003, ISBN: 

0375758119), pp. 1312. 

(translator) 


•Roman Historiography: An Introduction to its Development and Basic Aspects, by Andreas Mehl, 

translated by Hans-Friedrich Mueller (Chichester, UK, & Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming 

on May 17, 2011; ISBN: 978-1405121835), pp. 304. 

Articles & Chapters (Refereed) 

•"Spectral Rome from Female Perspective: An Experiment in Recouping Women’s Religious Experience," 

Classical World 104 (2011): 227-243. 

•"‘I will not go quietly’: Contesting Empire from Richard Nixon to Alexander the Great," Classical 

and Modern Literature 28 (2008): 149-161. 

•"Orosius and the Spectacle of Roman Religious Defeat," in Cignifiliana: Essays in Classics, 

Comparative Literature, and Philosophy presented to Professor Roy Arthur Swanson, ed. by 

C.M. Schroeder (New York: Peter Lang, 2005): pp. 122-136. 

•"Nocturni Coetus in 494 BC," in Augusto augurio: rerum humanarum et divinarum commentationes 

in honorem Prof. Jerzy Linderski, ed. by C. F. Konrad, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2004, 

pp. 77-88. 

•"La reglamentación nocturna en la antigua Roma," Nova Tellus 22 (2004): 121-139. 


•"The Extinction of the Potitii and the Sacred History of Augustan Rome," in Augustan Poetry and 

the Traditions of Ancient Historiography, ed. by D. S. Levene and D. P. Nelis (Leiden and New 

York: E.J. Brill, 2002), 313-329. 

•"Ephialtes Accusator: A Case Study in Anecdotal History and Ideology," Athenaeum 87 (1999): 

425-445. 

•"Imperial Rome and the Habitations of Cruelty," in Veritatis Amicitiaeque Causa: Essays in 

Honor of Anna Lydia Motto and John R. Clark, ed. by Shannon N. Byrne and Edmund P. Cueva 

(Wauconda, Illinois: Bolchazy-Carducci, 1999), pp. 165-196. 

•"Vita, Pudicitia, Libertas: Juno, Gender, and Religious Politics in Valerius Maximus," TAPhA 128 

(1998): 221-263. 

•"proconsulatus," in Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Vol. X, 2 (Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1998): 1546- 

1547. 

•"periculosus, periculose," in Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Vol. X, 1 (Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 

1997): 1452-1457. 

•"peripetasma," in Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Vol. X, 1 (Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1997): 1489. 

•"periucundus, periucunde," in Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Vol. X, 1 (Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 

1997): 1506.

•"perlusio, perlusorius, perlustrator, perlustris, perlustro," in Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Vol. X, 1 

(Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1997): 1522-1523. 

•"pernio, perniteo, pernitidus, pernitor, pernium, perniunculus," in Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, 

Vol. X, 1 (Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1997): 1593-1594. 

•"pernoctanter, pernoctatio, pernocto," in Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Vol. X, 1 (Leipzig: B. G. 

Teubner, 1997): 1597-1598. 

•"pernox," in Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, Vol. X, 1 (Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1997): 1599-1600. 

•"perfugio, perfugium," in Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, vol. X, 1 (Leipzig: B. G. Teubner, 1995): 

1413-1416. 

•"Images of Excellence: Visual Rhetoric and Political Behavior" in Teoria e prassi politica nelle 

opere di Plutarco, edited by Italo Gallo and Barbara Scardigli (Naples: M. D'Auria, 1995), pp. 

287-300. 

Other Publications 


•"Anna Perenna," "Arval Brothers," "Consentes, di consentes," "Dius Fidius," "Furrina and 

Furrinalia," "Genius," "Libitina," "Mater Matuta," "Neptunus," "Ops," "Pomona," "Portunus," 

"Priapus," "Quinquatrus," "Roma (goddess)," "Rumina," "Sacrilegium," "Summanus," "Tellus," 

"Terminus," "Valerius Maximus," and "Venus" in The Encyclopedia of the Ancient World, ed. by 

R. Bagnall et al. (Chichester, UK, & Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming). 

•"Ceres [2:79-80]," Juno [4:160-161]," "Saturn [5:221-222]," "Vesta [7:147-148]," and "Valerius 

Maximus [7:174-177]," in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, ed. by M. Gagarin 

et al., 7 vols. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010). 

•"The Two Cultures Problem," with Andrew Rapoff, in Symposium on Engineering and Liberal 

Education: Educating the Stewards of a Sustainable Future (Union College: Schenectady, New 

York, 2009), pp. 71-72. 

•"Julius Caesar," "Claudius," "Epictetus," "Hadrian," "Nerva," "Plotinus," "Plutarch," "Tiberius," 

"Trajan," "Virgil," and "Zeno," in The New Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, vols. 1-5, ed. by 

Katherine Doob Sakenfeld (Nashville, TN: Abingdon Press, 2006-2009). 

•"Martianus Capella [1:379]," "Ephialtes of Athens [2:502]," Aulus Gellius [2:553]," "Macrobius 

[2:748-749]," and "Valerius Maximus [3:1114-1115]," in Encyclopedia of the Ancient World, ed. 

by Thomas J. Sienkewicz, 3 vols. (Pasadena, CA, and Hackensack, NJ: Salem Press, 2002). 

•"A Ph.D. in Classics for Teachers with Jobs, Families, and Homes," American Classical League 

Newsletter 24 (2002): 11.

•"Valerius Maximus," in the Dictionary of Literary Biography: Roman Authors, ed. W. Ward 

Briggs, Jr. (Detroit: Gale Research, 1999), pp. 334-339. 

•"An Inside View of L'Année Philologique: American Office," Bryn Mawr Classical Review 5 

(1994): 264-269. 

•"Thesaurus Linguae Latinae Fellow's Report 1994-95," American Philological Association Newsletter 

(February 1996): 15. 

Reviews &Notices 


•Review of Cicero on Divination: De Divinatione Book 1. Translated with an Introduction and Historical 

Commentary by David Wardle. Clarendon Ancient History Series. Oxford: Clarendon 

Press, 2006. ISBN 0-19-929791-6. ISBN-13: 978-0-19-929791-7. Pp. 469+xii. In Acta Classica 

51 (2008): 223-227. 

•Review of "William M. Calder III, Bernhard Huss, Marc Mastrangelo, R. Scott Smith, and Stephen 

M. Trzaskoma. The Unknown Socrates: Translations, with Introduction and Notes, of Four 

Important Documents in the Late Antique Reception of Socrates the Athenian. Bolchazy- 

Carducci Publishers, Inc. (www.bolchazy.com), 2002. Pp. 304 + xvi. Paperback. $57.00. ISBN 

978-0-86516-498-7." In Amphora 7 (2008): 18-19. 

•Review of JASON P. DAVIES. Rome's Religious History: Livy, Tacitus and Ammianus on their 

Gods. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press, 2004. ix + 341. Cloth, $85. In American 

Journal of Philology 127 (2006): 313-316. 

•"Review of CICERO ON THE EMOTIONS: TUSCULAN DISPUTATIONS 3 AND 4. Translated 

with commentary by Margaret Graver. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press. 

2002. Pp. 254 + xli. $17. ISBN 0-226-30578-3 (alk. paper)." In Religious Studies Review. 

•"REVIEW OF John Briscoe, ed. Valeri Maximi Facta et dicta memorabilia. Bibliotheca Scriptorum 

Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana. Stuttgart and Leipzig: B. G. Teubner [rights acquired 

by: Munich, K.G. Sauer], 1998. Vol. I: Libri I-VI. Pp. xlii + 434. ISBN 3-519-01916-7. 

EUR 98. Vol. II: Libri VII-IX. Iuli Paridis Epitoma. Fragmentum de praenominibus. Ianuari 

Nepotiani Epitoma. Pp. 454 [i.e. 435-888]. ISBN 3-519-01917-5. EUR 94." In Classical World 

96 (2003): 452-454. 

•"Review of LIVY'S EXEMPLARY HISTORY. By Jane D. Chaplin. Oxford and New York. Oxford 

University Press. 2000. Pp. 245 + xii. $70. ISBN 0-19-815274-4 (hardback)." In Religious Studies 

Review 29 (2003): 88. 

•"Review of RÖMISCHE GESCHICHTSSCHREIBUNG: GRUNDLAGEN UND ENTWICKLUN- 

GEN: EINE EINFÜHRUNG. By Andreas Mehl. Stuttgart. Verlag W. Kohlhammer. 2001. Pp. 

232. EUR 22.80. ISBN 3-17-0152353-X (paperback)." In Religious Studies Review 29 (2003): 

87.


•"Review of CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM LATINARUM. [Volume 6, Part 8, Fascicle 3.] VOLU- 

MEN SEXTUM: INSCRIPTIONES URBIS ROMAE LATINAE. Published under the auspices of 

the Academy of Sciences of Berlin and Brandenburg. PARS OCTAVA: TITULOS ET IMAGINES 

collegit SCHEDASQUE comparavit Silvio Panciera. FASCICULUS TERTIUS: TITULOS MAG- 

ISTRATUUM POPULI ROMANI ORDINUM SENATORII EQUESTRISQUE THESAURO 

SCHEDARUM IMAGINUMQUE AMPLIATO edidit Géza Alföldy. With the assistance of Maria 

Letizia Caldelli et al. Berlin and New York. Walter de Gruyter. 2000. Pp. 628 [i.e. 4667-5294] + 

xxxii. EURO 468. ISBN 3-11-016090-0 (paper)." In Religious Studies Review 29 (2003): 87. 

•"Review of REBELLION AND RECONSTRUCTION: GALBA TO DOMITIAN: AN HISTORICAL 

COMMENTARY ON CASSIUS DIO'S ROMAN HISTORY BOOKS 64-67 (A.D. 68-96). By 

Charles Leslie Murison. American Philological Association: Monograph Series. Number 37. Atlanta, 

Georgia. Scholars Press. 1999. Pp. 291 + xxi. $ 45. ISBN 0-7885-0547-5 (cloth: alk. paper)." 

In Religious Studies Review 29 (2003): 89. 

•"REVIEW OF God and the Land: The Metaphysics of Farming in Hesiod and Vergil. By 

STEPHANIE A. NELSON. With a Translation of Hesiod's Works and Days by David Grene. 

New York NY and Oxford UK: Oxford Univ. Press, 1998. Pp. xvii and 252. Cloth, $55." In Classical 

Outlook 80 (2002): 35-36. 

•"REVIEW OF D. R. Shackleton Bailey, Valerius Maximus: Memorable Doings and Sayings. Two 

volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2000. Pp. Pp. 547; 

462. ISBN 0-674-99541-4; 0-674-99542-2. $21.50 each." In Bryn Mawr Classical Review 

2002.06.35 (electronic publication: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2002/2002-06-35.html). 

•"REVIEW OF Valerius Maximus. Memorable Deeds and Sayings, Book I. Translated with an Introduction 

and Commentary by D. Wardle. Clarendon Ancient History Series. Oxford: Clarendon 

Press, 1998. Pp. x + 301. ISBN 0-19-815016-4. US$ 70." in Classical World 94 (2001) 403-403. 

•"Review of KALENDAR UND ÖFFENTLICHKEIT: DIE GESCHICHTE DER REPRE- 

SENTÄTION UND RELIGIÖSEN QUALIFIKATION VON ZEIT IN ROM. By Jörg Rüpke. Religionsgeschichtliche 

Versuche und Vorarbeiten, Vol. 40. Berlin and New York: Walter de Gruyter. 

1995. Pp. 740. (ISBN: 3-11-014514-6), DM 338." in Religious Studies Review 26 (2000) 274. 

•"Review of P. OVIDI NASONIS TRISTIA. Ed. John Barrie Hall. Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum 

et Romanorum Teubneriana. Stuttgart and Leipzig: B.G. Teubner. 1995. Pp. xxx + 263. 

(ISBN: 3-8154-1567-5), DM 98." in Religious Studies Review 26 (2000) 275. 

•"Review of M. TULLI CICERONIS SCRIPTA QUAE MANSERUNT OMNIA, FASC. 23, ORA- 

TIONES, IN P. VATINIUM TESTEM, PRO M. CAELIO. Ed. Tadeusz Maslowski. Bibliotheca 

Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana. Stuttgart and Leipzig: B.G. Teubner. 1995. 

Pp. cxxii + 156. (ISBN: 3-8154-1195-5), DM 89." in Religious Studies Review 26 (2000) 276. 

•"Review of DER STIL IST DER MENSCH: REDNER UND REDEN IM RÖMISCHEN EPOS. By 

Martin Helzle. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Vol. 73. Stuttgart and Leipzig: B.G. Teubner. 1996. 

Pp. 349. (ISBN: 3-519-07622-5), DM 118." in Religious Studies Review 26 (2000) 275.


•"REVIEW OF Lothar Wierschowski. Die regionale Mobilität in Gallien nach den Inschriften des 

1. bis 3. Jahrhunderts n. Chr.: Quantitative Studien zur Sozial- und Wirtschaftsgeschichte der 

westlichen Provinzen des römischen Reiches. Historia: Einzelschriften, Vol. 91. Stuttgart: Franz 

Steiner Verlag, 1995. Pp. 400. DM 144. ISBN 3-515-06720-5." in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 

00.01.20 [electronic publication: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2000/2000-01-20.html]. 

•"REVIEW OF Mary Beard, John North, and Simon Price. Religions of Rome. Two volumes. 

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Volume 1: A History. Pp. 454 + xxiv. ISBN 0- 

521-30401-6 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-31682-0 (paperback). Volume 2: A Sourcebook. ISBN 0- 

521-45015-2 (hardback). ISBN 0-521-45646-0 (paperback). Pp. 416 + xiv." in New England 

Classical Journal 27 (1999): 53-55. 

•"REVIEW OF Rome and Carthage at Peace. Historia: Einzelschriften, Heft 113. Stuttgart: Franz 

Steiner Verlag, 1997. Pp. 152. DM 68, paper." The International History Review 21 (1999): 972- 

974. 

•"Review of VIRGIL AS ORPHEUS: A STUDY OF THE GEORGICS. By M. Owen Lee. SUNY 

Series in Classical Studies. Albany, State University of New York Press. 1996. Pp. xv +171. 

Coth, $44.50, ISBN 0-7914-2783-8; $14.95, paper, ISBN: 0-7914-2784-6." in Religious Studies 

Review 23 (1997): 296. 

•"Review of THEATRUM ARBITRI: THEATRICAL ELEMENTS IN THE SATYRICA OF 

PETRONIUS. By Costas Panayotakis. Leiden, New York, and Köln: E. J. Brill. 1995. Pp. xxv + 

225. (ISBN: 90-04-10229-9), $60.00." in Religious Studies Review 23 (1997): 63. 

•"Review of IMAGINARY GREECE: THE CONTEXTS OF MYTHOLOGY. By Richard Buxton. 

Cambridge, New York, and Melbourne. Cambridge University Press. 1994. Pp. 250 + xvi. 

$59.95. ISBN 0-521-32978-7 (hardback). $18.95. ISBN 0-521-33865-4 (paperback)." in Religious 

Studies Review 21 (1995): 131-132. 

•"Review of APOLLO: ORIGINS AND INFLUENCES. Edited by Jon Solomon. Tucson and London. 

The University of Arizona Press. 1994. Pp. 196 + xii. $45.00. ISBN 0-8165-1389-9 (alk. 

paper)." in Religious Studies Review 21 (1995): 132. 

•"Review of VALERIUS MAXIMUS AND THE RHETORIC OF THE NEW NOBILITY. By W. Martin 

Bloomer. Chapel Hill and London. The University of North Carolina Press. 1992. Pp. 287 + 

viii. $39.95. ISBN 0-8078-2047-4 (alk. paper)." in Religious Studies Review 21 (1995): 137. 

•"Review of PLACING THE GODS: SANCTUARIES AND SACRED SPACE IN ANCIENT 

GREECE. Edited by Susan E. Alcock and Robin Osborne. Oxford. Clarendon Press. (New York. 

Oxford University Press.) 1994. Pp. 271 + x; ills., maps. $55.00. ISBN 0-19-814947-6 (acid-free 

paper)." in Religious Studies Review 21 (1995): 324. 

•Analytical Resumés of 364 Articles Published in Philological Journals 1992-1993, in L'Année Philologique: 

Bibliographie critique et analytique de l'antiquité gréco-latine, edited by Pierre-Paul 

Corsetti, vol. LXIV (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1996), passim.

•Analytical Resumés of 332 Articles Published in Philological Journals 1991-1992, in L'Année Philologique: 

Bibliographie critique et analytique de l'antiquité gréco-latine, edited by Pierre-Paul 

Corsetti, vol. LXIII (Paris: Les Belles Lettres, 1995), passim. 

Editorial Work 

•Member of Editorial Board (Comisión Dictaminadora): Nova Tellus: Anuario del Centro de Estudios 

Clásicos 22 (2004). 

•Referee for TAPA, Hesperia, Nova Tellus, Yale University Press, Blackwell Publishing, Classical 

Journal, Routledge. 

Presentations 


•Invited Workshop: “Pius Julius: Julius Caesar and Roman Religion,” Joint Annual Meeting of the 

Classical Association of Florida and the Florida Foreign Language Association, Cape Canaveral, 

Florida (October 14, 2011). 

•Academic Paper: “Casus belli: Caesar and the Use of Force,” American Classical League, Winston 

Salem, North Carolina (June 27, 2010). 

•Academic Paper: “The Lex Poetilia Papiria: From Historiography to Law,” Ancient Historians Association, 

Salt Lake City, Utah (April 17, 2010). 

•Invited Seminar: “The Lex Poetilia Papiria in Roman Historiography,” Department of Classics, New York 

University, New York, New York (March 23, 2010). 

•Contributed Workshop: “The Defeat of Varus in Roman History: from AD 9 to AD 2009,” Classical Association 

of the Empire State, Saratoga Springs, New York (October 23, 2009). 

•Invited Lecture: “The Place of Arminius’ Defeat of Varus in AD 9 in Roman History,” Martin Luther 

College, New Ulm, Minnesota (September 19, 2009). 

•Co-Facilitator, "The Two Cultures Problem," Symposium on Engineering and Liberal Education: 

Educating the Stewards of a Sustainable Future, Union College, Schenectady, New York (June 6, 

2009). 

•Annual Carl Niemayer Lecture: "The Politics of Religious Persecution in Ancient Rome," Union 

College, Schenectady, New York (April 5, 2009). 

•Academic Paper: "Mea Parvitas: Exemplary Self-Fashioning in Tiberian Rome," Classical Association 

of New England, Boston, Massachusetts (March 20, 2009). 

•Annual Classical World Lecture: "Debt-Bondage and Sexual Politics," Skidmore College, Saratoga 

Springs, New York (March 19, 2009).


•Contributed Workshop:"Understanding Nexum," Classical Association of the Empire State, Saratoga 

Springs, New York (October 4, 2008). 

•Academic Paper: "The Lex Poetelia Papiria: Same-Sex Desire and Debt-Bondage," Classical Association, 

Liverpool, United Kingdom (March 30, 2008). 

•Invited Seminar: "Aspects of Nocturnal Religion in Ancient Rome," University of Pisa, Italy 

(March 18, 2008). 

•Invited Lecture: "Edward Gibbon and Roman Historiography," University of Pisa, Italy (March 

18, 2008). 

•Academic Paper: "Spectral Rome from Female Perspective: an Experiment in Recouping 

Women's Religious Experience," American Philological Association, Chicago, Illinois (January 

6, 2008). 

•Panel Organizer: "Plutarch as Antiquarian and Collector of Oddities," International Plutarch Society 

/ American Philological Association, Chicago, Illinois (January 5, 2008). 

•Invited Panelist: "Do Liberal Arts Colleges Deliver a Liberal Education?" Classical Association of 

the Atlantic States, Washington, D.C. (October 6, 2007). 

•Invited Lecture: "Some Crimes and Punishments in Ancient Rome," Sheffield High School, Tuscumbia, 

Alabama (August 21, 2007). 

•Invited Lectures: "Some Crimes and Punishments in Ancient Rome" & "The Impact of the Peloponnesian 

War on World History," Gloversville High School, Gloversville, New York (May 25, 

2007). 

•Invited Conference Paper: "'I will not go quietly:' From Kennedy & Mueller's The Assassination 

of Richard Nixon to Oliver Stone's Alexander," Union College (April 27, 2007). 

•Invited Lecture: "Philology, Historiography, and the Recuperation of Night in Ancient Rome," 

Cornell University, Ithaca, New York (April 6, 2007). 

•Panel Organizer: "Roma Chaeroneana: Plutarch's Reception of Rome," International Plutarch Society 

/ American Philological Association, San Diego, California (January 5, 2007). 

•Contributed Workshop:"The Manes at Night: CIL 6.18817 (= ILS 8006) and Visits from the Deceased," 

Classical Association of the Empire State, Saratoga Springs, New York (October 20, 

2006). 

•Academic Paper: "The Manes at Night: CIL 6.18817 (= ILS 8006) and Visits from the Deceased," 

Classical Association of the Atlantic States, Baltimore, Maryland (October 7, 2006). 

•Panel Organizer: "Plutarch and Rhetoric: Theory and Practice," International Plutarch Society / 

American Philological Association, Montreal, Quebec, Canada (January 8, 2006).


•Contributed Workshop: "Legal Aspects of Night in Ancient Rome," Classical Association of the 

Empire State, Saratoga Springs, New York (October 22, 2005). 

•Invited Seminar: "Alacritas: Valerius Maximus and the Emotions of Roman Religion," University 

of Rome ("La Sapienza"), Rome, Italy (June 24, 2005). 

•Invited Seminar: "Recuperating Aspects of Night in Ancient Rome: Law, Religion, and Historiography," 

University of Cassino, Cassino, Italy (June 21, 2005). 

•Invited Colloquium: "Nocturnal Rome: Law, Religion, and Subversion," Kalamazoo College Liberal 

Arts Colloquium, Kalamazoo, Michigan (May 11, 2005). 

•Academic Paper: "From Rome to Theresienstadt: Friedrich Münzer on Pliny Hist. Nat. 28.12-13," 

Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Madison, Wisconsin (March 31, 2005). 

•Academic Paper: "Nocturnal Aspects of Roman Religion in Plutarch," American Philological Association, 

Boston, Massachusetts (January 7, 2005). 

•Academic Paper: "Bondage: Nexum, Stuprum, and the Evolution of Roman Law," Classical Association 

of the Middle West and South, St. Louis, Missouri (April 17, 2004). 

•Invited Lecture: "Nocturnal Rome: Law, Religion, and Subversion," University of the South, Sewanee, 

Tennessee (April 14, 2004). 

•Invited Lecture: "Gravissimae legum poenae: Criminal Justice in Ancient Rome," Florida Junior 

Classical League State Forum, Orlando, Florida (April 2, 2004). 

•Invited Colloquium: "Religious Aspects of Roman Triumphs," CARNEVALE, KARNEVAL! Processions, 

Parades and Propaganda: An Interdisciplinary Colloquium, Program in Medieval and 

Early Modern Studies, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (March 15, 2004). 

•Invited Lecture: "Ancient Rome at Night: Law, Religion, and Restraints on Assembly," Union 

College, Schenectady, New York (January 22, 2004). 

•Public Lecture: "Roman Conspiracies," Florida Foreign Language Association/Classical Association 

of Florida, St. Petersburg, Florida (October 17, 2003). 

•Academic Paper: "La reglamentación nocturna en la antigua Roma," Nova Tellus: Colloquio Internacional 

2003, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Instituto de Investigaciones Filológicas, 

Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Ciudad Universitaria, México, D.F., September 5, 2003. 

•Academic Paper: "Legal and Religious Deterrents to Nocturnal Conspiracy in Ancient Rome," 

Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Lexington, Kentucky (April 4, 2003). 

•Panel Organizer: "Workshop for CAMWS Vice-Presidents," Classical Association of the Middle 

West and South, Lexington, Kentucky (April 3, 2003).

•Invited Lecture: "Ritus und Moral bei Valerius Maximus," Martin-Luther Universität, Halle, Germany 

(December 5, 2002). 

•Invited Lecture: "Die nächtliche Ordnung im alten Rom," Universität Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany 


•Invited Lecture: "Die nächtliche Ordnung im alten Rom," Martin-Luther Universität, Halle, Germany 


•Academic Paper: "Restraints on Assembly: Religious and Legal Aspects of Nocturnal Conspiracy 

in Ancient Rome," American Society for Legal History, San Diego, California (November 8, 

2002). 

•Contributed Lecture: "Distance Learning at the Graduate Level for Certification, Recertification, 

the MA and PhD in Classics," Florida Foreign Language Association/Classical Association of 

Florida, Orlando, Florida (October 18, 2002). 

•Invited Seminar: "Women in Roman Religion," Department of History, University of Central Florida, 

Orlando, Florida (October 17, 2002). 

•Invited Seminar: "Equality before the Law? Justinian's Institutes and the Laws of Ancient Rome," 

Levin College of Law, University of Florida (September 18, 2002). 

•Invited Lecture: "Some Crimes and Punishments in Ancient Rome," Eta Sigma Phi Initiation, 

University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida (September 16, 2002). 

•Contributed Lecture: "Distance Learning at the Graduate Level for Certification, Recertification, 

the MA and PhD in Classics," American Classical League, Madison, Wisconsin (June 28, 2002). 

•Academic Paper: "Nocturnal Regulation in Ancient Rome," Classical Association of the Middle 

West and South, Austin, Texas (April 6, 2002). 

•Public Lecture: "Some Crimes and Punishments in Ancient Rome," Leon High School, Tallahassee, 

Florida (February 25, 2002). 

•Academic Paper: "Nocturnal Regulation in Ancient Rome," American Society for Legal History, 

Chicago, Illinois (November 10, 2001). 

•Public Lecture: "Roma Nocturna: Night in Ancient Rome," Florida Foreign Language 

Association/Classical Association of Florida (October 13, 2001). 


•Invited Lecture: "Vergil and the State Religion: Themes and Politics," The University of Florida, 

Gainesville, Florida (July 13, 2001). 

•Invited Lecture: "Web-Based Distance Learning for Beginners and Sceptics," The University of 

Florida, Gainesville, Florida (July 13, 2001).


•Academic Paper: "Ritus und Moral bei Valerius Maximus," Tagung der Mommsen-Gesellschaft 

(Meeting of the Mommsen Society), Göttingen, Germany (June 7, 2001). 

•Invited Lecture: "Ritual and Morality in Valerius Maximus," The University of Florida, Gainesville, 

Florida (January 16, 2001). 

•Academic Paper: "Teaching Multicultural (or Comparative) Myth as a Web-Based Distance 

Learning Course," American Philological Association, San Diego, CA (January 2001). 

•Academic Paper: "CAMWS and State Organizations: Reaching Out to High School Teachers and 

their Students," Southern Section of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 

Athens, GA (October 27, 2000). 

•Academic Paper: "Ritual Vocabulary and Moral Imperatives in Valerius Maximus," Classical Association 

of the Middle West and South, Knoxville, TN (April, 2000). 

•Public Lecture: "Travel and Tourism in Ancient Rome," Florida Foreign Language Association/ 

Classical Association of Florida (October 15, 1999). 

•Academic Paper: "The Extinction of the Potitii and the Sacred History of Augustan Rome," International 

Conference on "Augustan Poetry and the Traditions of Ancient Historiography," University 

of Durham, Durham, United Kingdom (September 3, 1999). 

•Public Lecture: "The Criminal Law of Ancient Rome," Meeting of the National Junior Classical 

League, Tallahassee, Florida (August, 1999). 

•Academic Paper: "Hercules, the Extinction of the Potitii, and Moral Revival in Augustan Rome," 

Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Cleveland, Ohio (April, 1999). 

•Invited Lecture: "The Place of Latin in a Large State University," University of Michigan, Ann 

Arbor, Michigan (January 15, 1999). 

•Invited Lecture: "Athens, Ephialtes, and the Constitutional Crisis of 462 BC or Sex, Lies, and Assassination," 

Lawrence University, Appleton, Wisconsin (February 25, 1999). 

•Academic Paper: "Chastening Male Desire in the Age of Tiberius," American Philological Association, 

Washington, DC (December, 1998). 

•Public Lecture: "The Criminal Law of Ancient Rome," Florida Foreign Language Association/ 

Classical Association of Florida (October 16, 1998). 

•Academic Paper: "Vestae Aedem Intuens: Reading Vesta in Valerius Maximus," Classical Association 

of the Middle West and South, Charlottesville, Virginia (April 17, 1998). 

•Academic Paper: "Vestae Aedem Intuens: Reading Vesta in Valerius Maximus," Society for Biblical 

Literature (Greco-Roman Religions Section), Orlando, Florida (November, 1998).

•Invited Lecture: "Juno, Gender, and Religious Politics in Valerius Maximus," Classics Colloquium 

Series 1997-1998, The Florida State University, Tallahassee (April 10, 1998) 

•Public Lecture: "Through the Year with the Roman Calendar," Florida Foreign Language 

Association/Classical Association of Florida (October 24, 1997). 


•Panel Organizer and Moderator: "Ius ac fas: The Intersections of Law, Religion, and Latin Literature," 

American Philological Association, New York, New York (December 1996). 

•Academic Paper: "Divinitas: The Contemporary Literary View of Tiberius in Valerius Maximus," 

Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Nashville, Tennessee (April 11, 1996) 

•Academic Paper: "Divinitas: The Contemporary Literary View of Tiberius in Valerius Maximus," 

Association of Ancient Historians, Atlanta, Georgia (April 21, 1996). 

•Invited Lecture: "Lucis dira cupido: The Lighting of Vergil's Hell," Classics Colloquium Series 

1995-1996, The Florida State University, Tallahassee (January 19, 1996). 

•Panel Organizer: Looking Roman Historiography Straight in the Eye (Enargeia), American Philological 

Association, San Diego, California (December, 1995). 

•Academic Paper: "Orosius and the Spectacle of Roman (Religious) Defeat," American Philological 

Association, San Diego, California (December, 1995). 

•Academic Paper: "Orosius and the Spectacle of Roman (Religious) Defeat," CAAS, Atlantic City, 

New Jersey (October, 1995). 

•Public Lecture: "The Thesaurus Linguae Latinae: An Introduction," Classics Colloquium Series 

1995-1996, The Florida State University, Tallahassee (November 3, 1995) 

•Panel Organizer: "Rhetoric, Religion, and Politics in Valerius Maximus," American Philological 

Association, Atlanta, Georgia (December, 1994). 

•Academic Paper: "Vita, Pudicitia, Libertas: Valerius Maximus' Rhetoric of Juno," American Philological 

Association, Atlanta, Georgia (December, 1994). 

•Conference Co-Organizer: UNC Classics' Colloquium: Ancient Ceremony and Spectacle, University 

of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (March, 1994). 

•Invited Lecture: "In Iovis Sacrario: Religion and Rhetoric in Valerius Maximus," University of 

Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (January 7, 1994) 

•Academic Paper: "Ephialtes Accusator: A Case Study in Anecdotal History and Ideology," CAAS 

(Annapolis, Fall 1993); Classical Association of the Middle West and South (Atlanta, Spring 

1994)

•Academic Paper: "Images of Excellence: Visual Rhetoric and Political Behavior," International 

Plutarch Conference, Siena, Italy (June, 1993). 

•Academic Paper: "Virgil's Lighting of Hell," Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 

Southern Section, Richmond, Virginia (October, 1992). 

TEACHING at Union College 

Fall 2011 

Classics 132 Religion in the Pagan World Enrollment: 31 

Classics 498 Senior Thesis I Enrollment: 4 

Latin 491 Independent Study: Celsus Enrollment: 1 

Latin 498 Senior Thesis I Enrollment: 1 

IDM 498 Interdepartmental Senior Thesis I Enrollment: 4 

IDM 499 Interdepartmental Senior Thesis II Enrollment: 1 

Spring 2011 

Classics 497 Senior Project Enrollment: 1 

Greek 490 Homer Iliad Enrollment: 1 

IDM 497 Interdepartmental Thesis I Enrollment: 1 

Latin 341 Roman Historiography Enrollment: 16 

Winter 2011 

Classics 126 The Rise of the Roman Republic Enrollment: 141 

Classics 499 Senior Thesis II Enrollment: 2 

Greek 499 Senior Thesis II Enrollment: 2 

IDM 498 Senior Thesis I Enrollment: 1 

SRS 200 Sophomore Seminar: Caesar: a Career in 

Fact and Fiction 

Enrollment: 15 

UGC MAT Thesis II Enrollment: 1 

Fall 2010 



Greek 498 Senior Thesis I Enrollment: 2 

UGC Ovid Fasti Enrollment: 1 

UGC MAT Thesis I Enrollment: 1 

Fall 2009 

Classics 287 Ancient World Mythology Enrollment: 87 

Greek 101 Reading Greek I Enrollment: 23 

Greek 333 Euripides Bacchae Enrollment: 7 

Classics 497 Senior Project Enrollment: 2 

Spring 2009 

Greek 102 Reading Greek Enrollment: 14 

Classics 295H Classics Honors Independent Study I Enrollment: 1 

Classics 296H Classics Honors Independent Study II: "Ancient 

Apiculture in Myth and Practice" (Rachel 

Hogue) 

Classics 492 Independent Study: "Gladiatores" (Jeremy 

Potash) 

Classics 497 Senior Project: "The Parthenon: Examining 

its History, Architecture, and Art" (Matthew 

Douglas) 

Enrollment: 1 

Enrollment: 1 

Enrollment: 1 


Winter 2009 

Greek 101 Beginning Ancient Greek II Enrollment: 18 

Classics 296H Classics Honors Independent Study II: 

"Jealousy between Gods and Mortals in 

Ovid's Metamorphoses" (Suzanne Estok) 

"Antecedents to Environmentalism in Ancient 

Religion and Ovid's Metamorphoses" 

(Matthew Angelosanto) 

Enrollment: 2 


Classics 492 Independent Study: "Ancient & Modern 

Warfare" (Richard Modliszewski) 

Enrollment: 1 


Classics 497 Senior Project: "Abortion, Euthanasia, and 

Infanticide in Ancient Greece" (Shauna Keeler) 

Enrollment: 1 



Fall 2008 

Greek 100 Beginning Ancient Greek I Enrollment: 22 

Latin 447 Latin Prose Composition Enrollment: 15 


Classics 497 Senior Projects: 

"Ovid, Livy, and Shakespeare’s Lucretia" 

(Bari Krauss) 

"The Rule of (Unwritten) Law in Homer's 

Iliad" (Daniel J. LoBasso) 

Enrollment: 2 


Spring 2008 

Classics 127 History of the Roman Empire Enrollment: 95 

Classics 278 Ancient World Mythology Enrollment: 110 

Latin 102 Latin Reading Enrollment: 28 

Classics 296H Independent Honors Study II:"Nocturnal 

Plutarch" (Sam Wengrovius) 

Winter 2008 

Enrollment: 1 

Classics 295H Independent Honors Study I Enrollment: 1 


Fall 2007 

Classics 242 Entrepreneurship in the Ancient World Enrollment: 37 

FPR H100 Freshman Honors Preceptorial (Conspiracy 

& Assassination) 


Greek 235 Plato Symposium Enrollment: 7 



Spring 2007 

Latin 102 Reading Latin Enrollment: 18 

Latin 338 Lyric and Elegaic Poetry Enrollment: 10 

Classics 296H Independent Honors Study II: "Ovid & Renaissance 

Art" (Cassandra DeNefrio) 

Latin 490 Independent Study: "Night in Propertius" 

(Giancarlo Annese) 

Fall 2006 

FPR H100 Freshman Honors Preceptorial (Conspiracy 

Narratives) 

Enrollment: 1 

Enrollment: 1 


Greek 243 Greek New Testament Enrollment: 8 

Spring 2006 

Classics 125 History of Rome Enrollment: 65 


Classics 296H Independent Honors Study II: "Ancient Battle 

Strategies" (Allie Baum) 

Classics 492 Independent Study: "Ptolemaic Egypt" (Andreas 

Hadji) 

Enrollment: 1 

Enrollment: 1 


Latin 102 Reading Latin Enrollment: 16 

Winter 2006 


Classics 296H Independent Honors Study II: "Ancient 

Greek Sacrifice" (Scott Morlando) 

Enrollment: 1 



Fall 2005 

Classics 121 History of Greece Enrollment: 71 




FPR 100 Freshman Preceptorial (Night in Art, Literature, 

and Music) 


Latin 237 Ovid Metamorphoses Enrollment: 12 

Spring 2005 

Classics 25 History of Rome Enrollment: 73 


Winter 2005 

Classics 21 History of Greece Enrollment: 67 

Greek 11 Principles of Greek II Enrollment: 7 

Classics 190 Senior Project: "Parmenides" (Kelly Rathke) Enrollment: 1 

Fall 2004 

Greek 10 Principles of Greek I Enrollment: 11 

TEACHING at the University of Florida 

Summer 2004 

LNW 3320/5675 Summer Ovid Institute (Fasti) Enrollment: 4/34 

LNW 6905 Roman Religion Enrollment: 27 

Spring 2004 

LNW 2560/3390 Tibullus Enrollment: 24 

CLA 4905 Undergraduate Research: "Night in Caesar" 

(Nicholas Allen) 

Enrollment: 1 

LNW 6903 Independent Study: Roman Spain Enrollment: 1 

LNW 6940 Supervised Teaching Enrollment: 2 

LNW 6971 MA Thesis Enrollment: 2 


Fall 2003 

LNW 3360 Vergil Aeneid Enrollment: 27 

LNW 6940 Supervised Teaching Enrollment: 1 


Summer 2003 

LNW 3380/6385 Summer Livy Institute Enrollment: 9/20 

LNW 4905/6905 Ancient Historiography Enrollment: 1/18 

Spring 2003 

GRW 3501 Plato Enrollment: 8 

LNW 3660 Ovid Metamorphoses Enrollment: 26 

CLA 4905 Senior Honors Thesis Enrollment: 1 


Fall 2002 

CLA 2100 The Glory that Was Greece Enrollment: 312 

FLE 6337 Teaching Methods in Latin (web-based distance 

learning) 


CLA 4905 Senior Honors Thesis Enrollment: 1 

CLA 4905 Independent Study: Fire Protection in Rome Enrollment: 1 


Summer 2002 

LNW 3644/5535 Summer Cicero Institute Enrollment: 7/10 

CLA 4905 Senior Honors Thesis Enrollment 1 

Spring 2002 

LNW 3930 Roman Law Enrollment: 7 


LNW 6930 Latin Legal Texts Enrollment: 2 


Fall 2001 

CLA 2100 The Glory that Was Greece Enrollment: 238 


TEACHING at the Florida State University (unless otherwise noted) 

Summer 2001 

CLT 3378-01 Ancient Mythology: East & West Enrollment: 92 

CLT 3378-02 Ancient Mythology: East & West (webbased 

distance learning) 


LAT 2230 Introduction to Latin Literature Enrollment: 24 

HUM 6939 Plutarch and his Literary Legacy Enrollment: 13 

Spring 2001 

CLA 4447/5448 History of the Later Roman Empire Enrollment: 27/8 

GRW 3104 Euripides Alcestis Enrollment: 3 

ARH 5934-02 Classics Colloquium Enrollment: 23 

Fall 2000 


CLA 5936 Graduate Proseminar Enrollment: 19 





LNW 3210 Caesar Gallic War Enrollment: 10 

Summer 2000 

CLA 5448 Roman Religion Enrollment: 17 


Spring 2000 

CLA 5905-01 Directed Individual Study: Etruscan Navigation 

Enrollment: 1 


CLA 5940-03 Supervised Teaching Enrollment: 2 

Fall 1999 

ARH 5934-02 New Approaches to Classical Antiquity Enrollment: 17 







CLT 4905-01 Studies in Roman Religion Enrollment: 1 

FLE 3033 Teaching Methods in Latin Enrollment: 1 

LNW 4340/5345 Ovid's Metamorphoses Enrollment: 4/12 

Summer 1999 





LNW 4999/5392 Latin Prose Composition Enrollment: 1/1 

Spring 1999 

CLT 3378 Ancient Mythology: East & West Enrollment: 193 

EUH 4447/5448 History of the Roman Empire Enrollment: 42/8 

LNW 4380/5385 Tacitus Annals Enrollment: 8/11 

LNW 5392 Tutorial: Tacitus Annals Enrollment: 4 

Fall 1998 


GRE 2230 Introduction to Ancient Greek Literature 

(Plato) 


LNW 4999/5932 Tutorial: Ovid Metamorphoses Enrollment: 1/1 


LNW 4905 Directed Individual Study: Caesar & Cicero Enrollment: 1 


Summer 1998 

LNW 1121 Beginning Latin II Enrollment: 18 


LNW 5932 Tutorial: Pope Gelasius Enrollment: 1 

LNW 5932 Tutorial: Wulfstan Enrollment: 1 

Spring 1998 

GRE 1121 Ancient Greek II Enrollment: 18 

LNW 4380/5385 Valerius Maximus Enrollment: 3/6 

GRW 5909-02 Tutorial: Greek Sources for Roman History Enrollment: 2 

Auditors 


Fall 1997 

LNW 4999/5392 Latin Prose Composition Enrollment: 8/12 



Spring 1997 

EUH 4447/5448 History of the Roman Empire Enrollment: 38/9 

LNW 4320/5325 Ovid Fasti Enrollment: 8/7 

LNW 5932-03 Tutorial: Studies in the Roman Provinces Enrollment: 1 

CLA-4909 Honors Thesis (Ovid & Faulkner) Enrollment: 1 

Fall 1996 


LAT 2230 Introduction to Latin Literature (Apuleius 

Cupid & Psyche) 


CLT 3300 Ancient Myth East & West Enrollment: 139 


CLA 4909-02 Honors Thesis Enrollment 1 

Summer 1996 

LAT 1120 Intensive Introduction to Latin Enrollment: 29 

LNW 4905/5385 The University of Florida's Summer Caesar 

Institute 

Spring 1996 

Enrollment: 6/3 

GRE 1121 Ancient Greek II Enrollment: 16 

CLT 3300-02 Ancient Mythology East & West Enrollment: 83 

CLT 3300-03 Ancient Mythology East & West Enrollment: 35 

LNW 4905 Directed Individual Study: Valerius Maximus 

Fall 1995 

Enrollment: 1 

GRE 1121 Ancient Greek I Enrollment: 25 

LAT 2230 Introduction to Latin Literature (Apuleius 

Cupid & Psyche) 


CLT 3300 Ancient Mythology East & West Enrollment: 82 

Teaching Prior to 1995 

1991-1992 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 

Courses Taught: Latin I (Fall); Latin II (Spring). 

1990-1991 Countryside High School, Clearwater, Florida 

Courses Taught (courses are two semesters in length): 

Latin I (2 sections); Latin II (2 sections); Latin III; Latin IV. 

Summer 1990 University of South Florida (Tampa). 

Course Taught: Latin I. 




Latin I (2 sections); Latin II (2 sections); Latin III-IV (combined section). 

Summer 1989 University of South Florida (Tampa). 

Course Taught: Latin I. 



Latin I (3 sections); Latin II; Latin III-IV (combined section). 



Latin I; Latin II; Latin III-IV (combined section); German I; German II; 

German III-IV (combined section). 



Latin I; Latin II; Latin III; German I (2 sections); German II. 



Latin I (2 sections); Latin II; German I; German II. 

Spring 1984 Teaching Internship, Custer High School, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 

Courses Taught: German I-IV (3 sections; each section was a mix of various 

levels). 

OTHER TEACHING ACTIVITIES 

Director of Undergraduate Senior Thesis 


2010-2011 John King Anderson, “Historical Narratives of the Events of the Second Punic 

War,” Classics (Union). 

Danielle Beauman, “Pious Odysseus and his Legacy: Relations and Rituals 

within the Odyssey,” Classics (Union). 

Marica S. Dacey, “Guidance for Fathers and Children in the Memorable 

Deeds and Sayings of Valerius Maximus,” Classics (Union). 

Alexandra N. King, “What did Jesus Say? (ΕΙΠΕΝ, ΛΕΓΕΙ, ΕΦΗ, DICIT, 

DIXIT, AIT in the Gospels),” Classics (Union). 

2008-2009 Jacqueline S. Blonstein, "The Revealing Role of Priests in Valerius Maximus," 

Classics (Union).


Richard Caister, "In Search of a True Socrates through the Apologies: Finding 

the Man, the Myth and the Legend," Classics (Union). 

Regina Chiuminatto, "Thelo, thelo manenai: De la Traduction poétique d'après 

une étude métrique," Classics & French (Union). Charles Batson, co-director. 

Sarah M. Coleman, "Thucydides as a Model for the Writings of Sallust: Comparative 

Studies," Classics (Union). 

Charles Fontana, Jr., "Welcome to Syria: Annual Jesuit Report of 1626 from 

Latin to English," Classics (Union). 

Michael A. Glickman, " The Insults of Catullus: Their Importance and Impact 

in Ancient Rome," Classics (Union). 

Andrew J. Kehl, "Romanization in the Greek East: Religious, Historical, and 

Literary Identity," Classics & History (Union). Peter Bedford, co-director. 

Jessica Ashley Latino, "Fathers and Daughters in Ovid's Metamorphoses Mirrored 

in Augustan Society," Classics (Union). 

Andrea Leifer, "Examining the Unfamiliar: Disability in Ancient Greece and 

Rome," Classics (Union). 

Peter Brewer MacDonald, "Preserving our Ancestors' Vision: American Neoclassical 

Architecture -- its Influential Role in the Institutional Establishment 

of our Federalist Order as Exemplified in the Ramée Plan of Union College," 

Classics (Union). 

Rocio Montero, "Dido’s Tragedy: The Different Interpretations of Dido in 

Historical and Classical Text in Comparison to the Depiction of Dido in Baroque 

Art," Classics (Union). 

Shannon R. Packer, "Representations of Women Athletes in Ancient Greece," 


Jeremy D. Potash, "Roman Gladiators or Testing the Benefits of Hierarchical 

Organization in Non-Modal Radial Menus in First Person Shooters," Classics 

& Computer Science (Union). Chris S. Fernandes, Co-Director. 

2007-2008 Matthew Wentworth, "Views of the Bacchanalia from Ancient Greece to Boca 

Raton," Classics (Union). 

2005- 2006 Brendan J. Crumlish, "Ovid's Perception of the Augustan Moral Revolution 

through the Analysis of Virtue in the Metamorphoses," Classics (Union).

Rashmi Jayadevan, "A Study of Impiety in Ovid's Metamorphoses," Classics 

(Union). 

Michael J. Pape, "Down with Love: A Look at Ovid's Negative Portrayal of 

Love in his Metamorphosesand How It May Have Contributed to his Exile," 


2002-2003 Rachel Brewer, "The Evolution of an Ideal Republic: Livy's Influence upon 

Machiavelli's View of Dynamic Republicanism," Classics (UF). 

2001-2002 Stephen Ayers, "Sons of the Morning: Fathers of the Night [Turnus in the Aeneid 

and Darth Vader in Star Wars]," Classics (UF). 

1996-1997 Joshua David Steinberg, "The Fluidity of Gender in Ovid's Metamorphoses 

and Faulkner's The Wild Palms," Classics (FSU). 

Reader of Undergraduate Senior Thesis 

Winter 2011 Erica Finkelstein, “Pharaoh Akhenaten: Follower of his Father,” History (Union). 

Spring 2000 Jennifer White, "The Religions of the Ancient British Isles," Classics (FSU). 

Fall 1998 Andrew Pfrenger, "Book IV Chapter 37 of Bishop Waerfero's Translation of 

Gregory the Great's Dialogue," English (FSU). 

Spring 1998 Emily Gaskin, "A Hole in the Stars," Creative Writing (FSU). 

Director of M.A. Thesis 


2010-2011 Jennifer Armstrong, “Ovid, Augustus, and the Fasti,” Secondary Education 

(Union Graduate College). 

2009-2010 John Feliciano, “Women in Livy 1-5,” Secondary Education (Union Graduate 

College). 

2007-2008 Alicia Silver, "Mistakes and Fatal Miscalculations in Cicero's Political Career," 

Classics (Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY). Lewis Sussman, 

co-director. 

2003-2004 Jarrod Lux, "A Brief Examination of the Lemuria and the Lemures," Classics 

(UF). 

Rebecca Muich, "The Worship of Roman Divae: The Julio-Claudians to the 

Antonines," Classics (UF).

2002-2003: Jennifer Blackwell, "Castrati et spadones: Two Types of Eunuchs in Roman 

Literature and Law," Classics (UF). 

2001-2002: Oliver Morris, "Philosophy and Philosophers in the Facta et dicta memorabilia 

of Valerius Maximus," Classics (UF). 

M.A. Thesis Committees 

2003-2004 Will Bruce, "Re-tracing the Religious Topography of the Tiber Island, Ancient 

and Modern," Classics (UF). 

2001-2002 Amanda Austin, "Abortion and the Lex Iulia et Papia Poppaea," Classics 

(UF). 

Guy Earle, "Julius Caesar's Use of Psychological Warfare in his Bellum Gallicum," 

Classics (UF). 

Benjamin Hicks, "Jason as Hero in the Argonautica," Classics (UF). 

1999-2000: Amy Dill, "Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Metallurgy: An Analysis of the 

Development of Southeast European and Northern Aegean Technology," Classical 

Archaeology (FSU). 

Michael Dumbra, "The Tabula Cortonensis and the Methodology of Etruscan 

Epigraphy," Classical Archaeology (FSU). 

1998-1999: Sophia Chaknis, "The Altar of Domitius Ahenobarbus: A New Interpretation," 

Classical Archaeology (FSU). 

Ph.D. Thesis Committee 

2002: Joanna Carter, "A Study of Two Seventeenth-Century Music Primers in Hamburg: 

Critical Editions and Translations of Thomas Selle's Kurtze doch gründtliche 

Anleitung zur Singekunst (c. 1642) and Heinrich Grimm's Instrumentum 

Instrumentorum, hoc est, Monochordum (1634)," Department of Music (FSU). 

Chair of M.A. Examination Committees 

Summer 2004: Juli Fleming, Latin (UF) 

Rachel Gaston, Latin (UF) 

Paul Perrot, Latin (UF) 

Abigail Roberts, Latin (UF) 

Susan "Sam" Spaulding, Latin (UF) 


Clifford "Tom" Thorne, Latin (UF) 

Nathan Wade, Latin (UF) 

Spring 2001: Cynthia Hearn, Classics (FSU). 

Spring 2000: Ron Atchison, Classics (FSU). 

Spring 2000: John LeClair, Classics (FSU). 

Spring 2000: Roy Starling, Classics (FSU). 

Spring 1999: Bryan "Shag" Baker, Latin (FSU). 

Spring 1999: Heidi Gray, Classics (FSU). 

Spring 1999: Norman Sandridge, Classics (FSU). 

Summer 1998: Stephen Sarles, Latin (FSU). 

M.A. Examination Committees 

Spring 2001: Christy Tucker, Classics (FSU). 

Spring 1999: Ian Rubin, Classics (FSU). 

Summer 1998: P. Carola Maitland, Classics (FSU). 

Spring 1998: Ann Milner, Classics (FSU). 

Spring 1998: Mary Lou Vredenburg, Classical Civilization (FSU). 

Summer 1997: Edward Dandrow, Classical Civilization (FSU). 

Spring 1997: Timothy Stover, Classics (FSU). 

Summer 1996: Jeffery Knapp, Classics (FSU). 

Chair of Ph.D. Examination Committees 

At UF: Summer 2004 (qualifying exams in the history of Latin literature, Roman history, and 

Latin translation). 

At FSU: Spring 2001; Fall 2000; Spring 2000; Fall 1999; Fall 1999; Fall 1998 (qualifying exams 

in Latin translation). 

Departmental Service 

At Union: Chair of the Department of Classics (2004-). 

•Liaison to secondary school teachers of Latin (2004-). 

•Faculty Sponsor for Eta Sigma Phi (2004-2005, 2008-2009). 

•Faculty Sponsor of the Classics Club (2004-2005, 2008-2009). 

At UF: Distance Graduate Coordinator (2001-2004). 


•Liaison to secondary school teachers of Latin (2001-2004). 

At FSU: Director of Graduate Studies in Classics (1997-2001). 

•Graduate Admissions Committee for Classics (1997-2001). 

•Supervisor of Teaching Assistants in Classics (1997-2000). 

•Faculty Sponsor for Eta Sigma Phi (1997-1999). 

•Undergraduate Advisor for Classics (1996-1997). 

•Editor of The Latin Bulletin (1996). 

•Committee for the Promotion of Classics and High School Latin (1995-2001). 

College & University Service 

At Union: 

•Faculty Trustee (Elected) for Humanities and Social Sciences (2011-). 

•Faculty Advisor to Golub House (2011-). 

•Interim Chair of the Department of Modern Languages & Literatures (2006-2007). 

•Chair (Elected) of Division I (Humanities) and Member of the Faculty Executive Committee 

(2006-2009). 

•Member of the Programs and Priorities Planning Committee (President's Budget Committee) 

(2006-2009; 2011-). 

•Member of the Presidential Inauguration Committee (2006). 

•Member (Elected) of the General Education Board (2005-2006). 

•Member of an Ad Hoc Tenure Committee (2005-2006; 2010-2011). 

•Member of the Search Committee for the Jane and John Wold Endowed Chair in Religious Studies 

(2005-2007). 

At UF: Division of Continuing Education Advisory Committee (2002-2004). 


At FSU: Faculty Senate (2000-2001). 

•Faculty Senate Alternate (1997-1998). 

Service to the Discipline 

•Chair, Advisory Committee to the American Office of L’Année philologique; and, ex officio, Representative 

of the American Philological Association to the Société Internationale de Bibliographie 

Classique (2011-). 

•College/University Faculty Liaison for the Classical Association of the Empire State (2008-). 

•North American Section Head, International Plutarch Society (2004-2008). 

•Fellowship Committee for the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, American Philological Association 

(2004-2010). 

•Committee on Ancient History, American Philological Association (2003-2006). 

•Regional Vice President for the Southeast, Classical Association of the Middle West and South 

(2001-2004). 

•State Vice President of Florida, Classical Association of the Middle West and South (1997-2001). 

•NEH Site Report on the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae (March 1995). 


•Judge at the FJCL/CAF District Latin Forum (Spring 1995, Spring 1996, Spring 1997, Spring 

1999, Spring 2000, Spring 2001, Spring 2004). 

•Test-Writer for the FJCL State Latin Forum: Grammar II (Spring 1996, Spring 2000), Advanced 

Grammar (Spring 1996), Vergil (Spring 1997).

Dr. Hans-Friedrich Mueller - Union College

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