September 2007 (PDF) - Classical & Near Eastern Studies ...

Duane Smith, Coordinator
CLA Society and Culture Student Community
1988 Ph.D., Classics
Duane Smith completed his Ph.D. in Classics in 1988 and taught at LeMoyne College in Syracuse,
NY, and the University of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN, before returning to the University of Minnesota
in 1998 as an academic advisor in the College of Liberal Arts. In 2002 he became the coordinator of
the CLA Society and Culture Student Community, an academic advising office that serves approximately
2,400 active undergraduates.
WHERE ARE THEY
NOW?
Rabun M. Taylor
University of Texas-Austin
1997 Ph.D., Classics
After receiving his Ph.D. from CNES in 1997,
Rabun Taylor spent nine years in the Department
of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard
University, where he taught a wide variety of
courses on Roman topics. During those years he
published two books: Public Needs and Private
Pleasures: Water Distribution, the Tiber River, and
the Urban Development of Ancient Rome (2000) and
Roman Builders: A Study in Architectural Process
(2003). A third book, The Moral Mirror of Roman
Art, is forthcoming. This summer he joined the
faculty of Classics at the University of Texas-
Austin. He looks forward to participating in UT's
growing classical archaeology program and collaborating
with colleagues in art history, history
of architecture, and the various archaeological
institutes on campus. At present he is working
on a book-length history of ancient Naples in collaboration
with former CNES professor Joseph
Alchermes, now at Connecticut College.
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