curriculum vitae 2010 - Emory College - Emory University

CURRICULUM VITAEJudith Evans Grubbs, Betty Gage Holland Professor of Roman HistoryDepartment of History, Emory UniversityI. EDUCATION:1987: Stanford University, PhD in Classics1978-9: American School of Classical Studies in Athens (no degree given)1978: Emory University, B.A. in Greek and English with Highest HonorsII. PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:2010 - Professor, History, Emory University2004-2010 Professor, Classics, Washington University in St. Louis1987-2004 Assistant Prof. to Professor, Classical Studies, Sweet Briar College1985-87 and 1983-84: Teaching Fellow in Classics, Stanford University, CA1984-85 Lecturer, Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in RomeIII. MAJOR HONORS AND AWARDS:2004-5: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Fellowship forCollege Teachers1997-8: NEH Fellowship for College Teachers1995: NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, American Academy, Rome1993-94: National Humanities Center Fellow (Jessie Ball Dupont Fellowship)1988: National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Summer Stipend1988: Mednick Grant from the Virginia Foundation for Independent Colleges1979-83: Graduate Fellowship at Stanford University1978-79: ITT International Fellowship for study in Greece1974-78: National Merit Scholarship, Emory University1977: Elected to Phi Beta Kappa, Emory University (junior year)IV. PUBLICATIONSBooks:Women and the Law in the Roman Empire. A sourcebook on marriage, divorce, andwidowhood. Routledge Press, 2002. (reviews: Classical Review 2003 (J. Harries);Journal of Roman Studies 2004 (M. Harlow); Bryn Mawr Classical Review2005.07.14 (M. Sigismund)1

Law and Family in Late Antiquity: the Emperor Constantine’s Marriage Legislation.Oxford University Press at the Clarendon Press, 1995 (reviews: American HistoricalReview Oct. 1997 (S. Dixon); Bryn Mawr Classical Review 96.8.12 (B. Shaw),Classical Review 1996 (G. Clark).Articles and book chapters:(2009) "Church, State, and Children: Christian and imperial attitudes toward infantexposure in Late Antiquity" in The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity, ed. A. Cainand N. Lenski, Ashgate Publishing, 119-131.(2009) “Marriage and Family Relationships in the late Roman West” in ACompanion to Late Antiquity, ed. Philip Rousseau (Blackwell), 201-219.(2008) “Christianzation of Marriage? Christianity, Marriage and Law in LateAntiquity” in Ehe-Familie-Verwandschaft: Vergesellschaftung zwischenReligion und sozialer Lebenswelt, ed. A. Holzem and I. Weber (Paderborn:Ferdinand Schoeningh), 105-119.(2007) “Marrying and Its Documentation in Later Roman Law” in To Have and ToHold: Marrying and its Documentation in Western Christendom, 400-1600,ed. P. Reynolds and J. Witte (Cambridge: Cambridge U. Press), 43-94.(2006) "The Family" in The Blackwell Companion to the Roman Empire, ed. D.Potter(Oxford: Blackwell Publishers, 2006), 312-326.(2005) “Children and Divorce in Roman Law” in Hoping for Continuity:Childhood, Education and Death in Antiquity and the Middle Ages, ed. K.Mustakallio, J. Hanska, H-.L. Sainio, and V. Vuolanto (Rome: Acta InstitutiRomani Finlandiae vol. 33), 33-47.(2005) "Parent - Child Conflict in the Roman Family: the evidence of the Code ofJustinian" in The Roman Family in the Empire: Rome, Italy, and Beyond,ed. M. George (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 93-128.(2002) "Stigmata Aeterna: A Husband's Curse" in Vertis in usum. Studies in Honorof Edward Courtney, ed. C. Damon, J. Miller, and K.S. Myer (Leipzig: K.G. SaurVerlag, München-Leipzig), 230-42.(2001) "Virgins and Widows, Show-girls and Whores: Late Roman Legislation onWomen and Christianity" in Law, Society and Authority in Late Antiquity, ed. R.Mathisen (Oxford: Oxford Univeristy Press), 220-241.(2000) "The Slave who Avenged her Master's Death" Ancient History Bulletin 14, 81-88.(1999) "Concubinage", "Divorce", and "Marriage" in Late Antiquity: A Guide tothe Postclassical World, for edited by Glen Bowersock, Peter Brown and2

In press and forthcoming:"Hidden in Plain Sight: Expositi in the Community" to appear in Children, Memory, andFamily Identity in Roman Culture, ed. Véronique Dasen and Thomas Spaeth,Oxford U. Press (2010 or 2011)."Promoting Pietas through Roman Law" to appear in A Companion to Families inthe Greek and Roman Worlds, ed. Beryl Rawson, Blackwell (2010 or 2011)."The Dynamics of Infant Abandonment: Motives, Attitudes and (Unintended)Consequences" to appear in Darker Sides of Childhood. Bridging Roman Antiquityand the Middle Ages, ed. Katariina Mustakallio and Christiam Laes. Oxbow (2010).Review of R.S. Bagnall and R. Cribiore, Women's Letters from Ancient Egypt 300 BC-AD800, in Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists (2010).Review of H. Lindsay, Adoption in the Roman World, in Classical Review (2010 or 2011)."Marriage" in The Virgil Encyclopedia, ed. R. Thomas and J. Ziolkowski (Wiley-Blackwell).Current Projects:Children without Fathers in Roman Imperial Law: Paternity, Legitimacy, and Freedom. Amonograph study of the Roman legal attitude toward children without a paterfamilias, usingthe evidence of imperial rescripts in the Codex Justinianus and the Digest. Includes chapterson guardianship, the unborn child, children after divorce, illegitimate children, infantexposure, and the sale of children by their parents. Under contract with Oxford UniversityPress (Oxford).The Oxford Handbook of Childhood and Education in the Classical World, co-editor withTim Parkin (Manchester University). A collection of articles by leading scholars of ancientchildhood, one of the Oxford Handbook series. Under contract with Oxford UniversityPress (New York).V. SCHOLARLY PAPERS DELIVERED ORALLY:2009: (by invitation) "Promoting 'Family Feeling' through Roman Law" at theUniversity of Helsinki, Finland (26 May).(by invitation) "Family Relations in the Late Roman West" at the Universityof Gothenburg (Sweden) , 15 May.(by invitation)"Infant Exposure in the Roman Empire" at the "Darker Sidesof Childhood" Symposium, University of Tampere, Finland (11 May); at4

the University of Uppsala, Sweden (13 May); and at the University ofGothenburg, Sweden (18 May); and the University of Copenhagen (20 May).2008: “The Dynamics of Infant Exposure: Motives, Attitudes and (Unintended)Consequences” at the Classical Association of the Middle West and South,Southern Section meeting held 13-15 November in Asheville, N.C.“The Dynamics of Infant Exposure: Motives, Attitudes and (Unintended)Consequences” at the conference “Cross-cultural Approaches to Familyand Household Structures in the Ancient World” at the Institute for theStudy of the Ancient World held May 9-10 in New York.2007: "Hidden in Plain Sight: Expositi in the Community" at the Vth Roman FamilyConference, "Secrets de familles, familles secre`tes: mémoire et identitéfamiliales" held 13-15 June at the Université de Fribourg, Switzerland.(by invitation) "Infant Abandonment in the Roman Empire: legal and socialattitudes," Legal Studies faculty colloquium, Dartmouth University, May 15."Wronged even by Relatives: Petitions against Family Members in Egypt,"Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Cincinnati, April 14(panel on "Family, Law, and Society in Roman and Late Antique Egypt”)."Church, State, and Children: Christian and imperial attitudes towardinfant exposure in Late Antiquity" at the conference "Shifting Frontiers inLate Antiquity VII: The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity" at the U. ofColorado at Boulder, March 22-25.(by invitation) "(Not) Bringing up Baby: Infant Abandonment andInfanticide in Roman Imperial Law" at the University of Missouri,Columbia March 1. Sponsored by the Ancient Studies Program.2006: (by invitation) "Marriage Contracts in the Roman Empire" at the ArachneSymposium on "Ancient Marriage--in Myth and Reality", Swedish Institutein Rome, October 26-28 (sponsored by Gøteburg University). One oftwo opening hour-long papers.5

"Wives and Concubines: St. Augustine and Marital Life" at the InternationalMedieval Congress, Leeds, July 10-13, 2006 (part of a session I organized on"Conflict, Emotion, and the Family in Late Antiquity", July 11.(by invitation) "Infant Exposure in the Roman Empire: the legal point ofview" seminar presentation to the Department of Classics, University ofCalgary, Canada, April 28.(by invitation) "Christianization of Marriage?" Christianity, Marriage, andLaw in Late Antiquity" (longer version of talk given in Germany March2006), for the Calgary Society for Mediterranean Studies, University ofCalgary, Canada, April 28, 2006.(by invitation) "Christianization of Marriage? Christianity, Marriage, andLaw in Late Antiquity" at a conference Ehe-Familie-Verwandtschaft:Vergesellschaftung zwischen Religion und sozialer Lebenswelt, sponsored bythe Lehrstuhl für Mittlere und Neuere Kirchengeschichte an der Katholisch-Theologischen Fakultåt der Universitåt Tübingen, March 1-4.2005: "The Dynamics of Infant Abandonment in the Later Roman Empire" at asession on "Perspectives on Childhood" sponsored by the Centerfor the Interdisciplinary Study of Religion, Emory University, atthe International Medieval Congress, Leeds, July 11-14, 2005."Children and Divorce in Roman Law" at a conference on "Ancient andMedieval Childhood Reconsidered: Comparative Perspectives" atthe Institutum Romanum Finlandiae in Rome, January 14-15, 2005.2004: (by invitation) “Conflict over Marriage and Divorce in later Roman law: theevidence of Third-century Rescripts” at the XII Finnish Symposium on LateAntiquity, Tvarminne, October 15-16."Sinner, Slave, Bishop, Saint: the Vicissitudes of St. Patrick" at the annualmeeting of the American Philological Association, San Francisco (Jan.)2003: "'The Governor shall relieve your longing': Roman Imperial Replies toPetitions on Marriage and Divorce" at Washington U. in St. Louis (March)."Patriarchy as Usual: Women, Children and the Family Tribunal in LateRoman Law" American Society for Legal History, Washington, D.C. (Nov).2002: "Children after Divorce in Roman law" at the Association of Ancient Historians,6

Savannah, GA (April).2001: "Pietas and Potestas: Parent-child conflict in the Code of Justinian" at The Fourth E.Togo Salmon Conference: Roman Famil IV: Italy and Beyond, McMaster University,Canada (September)2000 (by invitation) "Sons or Slaves? The Sale and Abandonment of Children by theirParents in the late Roman Empire" at Washington and Lee University (March)."The Slave who Avenged her Master's Death" at the Classical Association of theMiddle West and South, Knoxville, TN (April).(by invitation) "The Roman Family in Law and Reality" at the University ofRichmond (September)."The Enslavement of Freeborn Children in the Roman Empire" at theAmerican Society for Legal History conference, Princeton, N.J. (October).1999: (by invitation) keynote address at the Association of Ancient Historians, ColumbiaUniv., New York (May)(by invitation) Texas A&M University, College Station, TX (March)1998: "Whatever happened to Tutela Mulierum?", Classical Association of theMiddle West and South, Charlottesville, VA (April)"Slave and Free in the Third Century A.D." at the University of NotreDame (March) and Sweet Briar College (April)1997: "Virgins and Widows, Show-girls and Whores: late Roman legislation onWomen and Christianity", at Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity II: TheTransformation of Law and Society in Late Antiquity, held at theUniversity of South Carolina, Columbia (March)1996: (by invitation) "The Good, the Bad, and the Holy: Women and the Law inthe late Roman Empire", Randolph-Macon Woman’s College (April)"The Limits of Paternal Power", Classical Association of the Middle Westand South, Nashville, TN (April)(by invitation) Catholic University, Washington, D.C. (March)1995: Association of Ancient Historians, Nashville (May)Classical Association of Virginia (April)7

1994: American Philological Association, Atlanta, GA. (December)Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Southern Section,Chapel Hill, NC (October)(by invitation) Governor’s Latin Academy, Hollins College, VA (July)(by invitation) Duke University, Forum for Late Ancient Studies (Mar)(by invitation) University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill Law School (Feb)(by invitation) University of North Carolina-Greensboro (January)1993: American Philological Association, Washington, DC (December)(by invitation) Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN (March)(by invitation) Hampden-Sydney College, VA (February)1992: American Philological Association, New Orleans, LA (December)Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Southern Section,Richmond, VA (October)Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Austin, TX (April)(by invitation) University of Virginia, Charlottesville (March)1991: Randolph-Macon College at Ashland, Saturday Seminar for CollegeTeachers, Richmond, VA (May)1990: (by invitation) Theodosian Code Symposium, St. Andrews University(by invitation) University of Texas at Austin (March)(by invitation) Duke University, Forum for Late Ancient Studies (Feb)1988: American Historical Association, Cincinnati, OH (December)Duquesne History Forum, Pittsburgh, PA (October)1986: American Philological Association, San Antonio, TX (December)Association of Ancient Historians, Lubbock, TX (May)1983: American Philological Association, Cincinnati, OH (December)VI. PUBLIC PRESENTATIONS AT COLLEGES AND SCHOOLSPresentations at Washington University in St. Louis:8

2009-2010 (Fall) "Between Slavery and Freedom in the 3rd c. AD," Classics Dept.Colloquium, November 2009.2007-8 (Fall) “Hidden in Plain Sight: Abandoned Infants in Roman law andSociety,” Classics Department Colloquium, September 18, 2007.(Fall) “Rome: from Republic to Empire,” presentation to the freshmanHonorary Scholars Program, November 7, 2007.2004-5 (Fall) Talk at the third annual Faculty Book Celebration sponsored by theCenter for the Humanities Dec. 2 (one of two faculty authors asked to speak)Presentations at Sweet Briar College:2003-4 (Spring) Talk on "Elijah Fletcher and the Amherst Community" for theSweet Briar History series.2002-3 (Fall): Talk to Friends of the Library on "Women and the Law"2001-2 (Summer): Presentation for Summer Honors Research Program1999-2000 (Spring): TIP discussion with Dupont Fellow Carrie Bryant1998-9 (Fall): TIP discussion with Lynn Sawlivich on Roman Comedy1997-8 (Spring): Faculty Colloquium on "Slave and Free in the third century A.D."1996-7 (Fall): TIP discussion with Rebecca Massie Lane and Karla Faulconer on"Akalypta" exhibit (an exhibit of Sweet Briar's classical artifacts)1995-6 (Spring): Informal talk at Bookshop on Roman Law and Marriage(Spring): Round-Table Discussion on "Everything you always wanted to know aboutGreek Homosexuality but were afraid to ask" as part of Honors Symposium, "Imagesof Masculinity in Popular Culture"1994 (Fall): Talk at Bookshop on "Lysistrata" (sponsored by Chaplain's Office)(Fall): Panel discussion on "Look Who's Coming to College" (sponsored byPlacement Office)Presentations to Elementary and High School Students:Summer 2001: Talk to Augusta County Institute for Classical Studies Teachers'Workshop on "Bringing Classics to Third Graders on a College Campus"Summer 2000: Governor's Latin Academy on "Roman Women: Law and Reality"Spring 1999: Talk at Chatham Hall Academy on Roman womenSpring 1998: Talk to Tye River Elementary third grade class on ancient RomeFall 1997: Talk to Amherst Elementary third grade class on ancient RomeSummer 1994: Talk to Governor's Latin Academy on Roman womenOther public presentations:9

“Classical Family Values”, interview on “Soundings” (National Public Radio programhosted by Wayne Pond) broadcast week of Sept. 4, 1994.VII. COURSES TAUGHTAt Emory University (2010-2011)History 302: History of RomeHistory 304: The New Europe, 300-1000 A.D.History 585: The Later Roman EmpireLatin 487: The Conspiracy of Catiline (Sallust and Cicero)At Washington University in St. Louis (2005-2010):Classics/History 341: History of the Roman RepublicClassics/History 342: History of the Roman EmpireClassics 371: The Ancient Family (Writing Intensive)Classics 442/History 4322: Later Roman Empire: Constantine to JustinianLatin 316: Introduction to Latin Literature IILatin 317: Literature of the Roman RepublicLatin 318: Literature of the Roman EmpireLatin 401: Medieval LatinLatin 495: Topics in Republican Latin (Sallust and Cicero)Latin 4961/Latin 520: Being a Roman Governor (Tacitus and Pliny)At Sweet Briar College (fall 1987-spring 2004):Latin, all levels (including courses on Catullus, Vergil, Ovid, Pliny, medieval)Greek, all levels (including courses on Homer, Herodotus, and tragedy)Greek History and Roman HistoryGreek Literature in translation and Latin Literature in translationFrom the Bronze Age to the Persian Wars (Greek Civilization I)The Golden Age of Greece (Greek Civilization II)The Rise and Fall of the Roman Republic (Roman Civilization I)Society and Culture in the Roman Empire (Roman Civilization II)Christians in the Roman Empire, AD 112-312Roman ArchaeologyThe Ancient Novel (senior seminar)Women in AntiquityGender and Sexuality in the ancient Mediterranean (advanced level)10

Household and Family in Roman Law and Society (advanced level)The Later Roman Empire: Religion, Law, and Society (advanced level)Sexual Constructs and Gender Roles in Late Antiquity (Honors Seminar)Women and the Law in the Roman Empire (Honors Seminar)Religion and Society in the Roman Empire (Honors Seminar)Women, Law, and Family Values: a Comparative Perspective (HonorsSeminar taught with Dr. Lynn Laufenberg, SBC History Dept)VIII. SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION:Program Committee, Classical Association of the Middle West and South, 2007-2010Managing Committee of the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies inRome (representing Washington University), 2007-2009.Lionel Pearson Fellowship Committee of the American Philological Assoc., 2008-Committee on Education of the American Philological Association, 1996-2000.Committee on the Gennadion Library of the Managing Committee to the American Schoolof Classical Studies, 2000-2004.Advisory Board member for the Classics Research Network (part of the Social ScienceResearch Network)Editorial Board of the Journal of Late AntiquityAnonymous reviewer for: American Journal of Philology, Classical Journal, ClassicalPhilology, Comparative Studies in Society and History, Echos duMonde Classique/ Classical Views, Helios, Historical Relections/Réflectionshistoriques, Journal of Women’s History, Transactions of the AmericanPhilological Association, Blackwells Press, Cambridge U. Press, Cornell U.Press, Oxford U. Press, and National Endowment for the Humanities.External member of dissertation committe of University of Texas PhD studentCaroline Vandervelde (defended August 2003).External reviewer for Department of Classics at Kenyon College (spring 2004).Served on ad hoc committee to consider a candidate for a tenured position atHarvard U. (spring 2006).External reviewer for Dept. of Classical Studies at Duke University (spring 2007).IX. SERVICE AT WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS (2004-2010):Chair of Classics Department, 2009-2010Director of Undergraduate Studies for Classics Department, fall 2006-2009Undergraduate major advising, 2005-2010.11

Faculty sponsor for Eta Sigma Phi society, Wash. U. chapter, fall 2006-2009New Curriculum Review Committee, 2008-9.Biggs Chair Search Committee, 2004-5.Greek Historian Search Committee, 2006-7.Greek Literature Search Committee, 2007-8.Search Committee for position in Ancient Mediterranean Religions, 2008-9.Reader for MA Thesis of Emily Olson (Art History) and Heather Elomaa (Classics).Director for Honors Thesis of Lucia de Erausquin (2008); Philip Katz and Beth Pfohl (2010).Institutional representative to Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies (ICCS).X. SERVICE AT SWEET BRIAR COLLEGE (1987-2004):Chair, Classical Studies Department, 1994-2004 (except fall 1997 and fall 2000)Director of College Honors Program 1995-6 (half-time administrative position)Personnel Committee (promotion and tenure), fall 2003Archaeology Advisory Committee, 2000-2004Sweet Briar Museum Strategic Planning Committee, 2002-2004Eligibility Committee 2001-02Teacher Education Committee, 2001-2003Honors Program Committee, 1987-91; 1994-7; 1998-9Admissions Committee 1995-96 (ex officio as Honors Director)Enrollment Committee 1995-96 (ex officio as Honors Director)International Studies Advisory Committee, 1995-7Faculty Grants Committee, 1992-5 (on sabbatical 1993-94).Women and Gender Studies Committee, 1991-3, 1996-7 .Judicial Committee, 1992-3; spring 1998 (alternate).Interdisciplinary Studies Committee, 1991-2.Secretary-Treasurer, Sweet Briar Chapter, Phi Beta Kappa, 1990-92.Housing Committee, 1989-91.Faculty advisor to Collegium (the Classics Club) and to Eta Sigma PhiAdvisor to Classics majors, 1994-2004Advisor to freshmen/sophomores: 1988-93;1996-7; 1998-1999Director of Honors Thesis of Beth Brodie, Caroline Stark, and Becky CefarattiInstitutional representative for the Virginia Consortium to the Intercollegiate Center ofClassical Studies at Rome, 1991-2004.Institutional representative to Managing Committee of the American School ofClassical Studies, 1998-2004.12

XI. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS:American Philological AssociationAmerican Society for Legal HistoryAmerican Society of Greek and Latin EpigraphyAmerican Society of PapyrologistsAssociation of Ancient HistoriansClassical Association of the Middle West and SouthInstitute for Medieval Studies (Leeds)North American Patristics SocietySociety for the Promotion of Roman Studies (U.K.)13