Curriculum Vitae - Department of Classics

CURRICULUM VITAERoger Dillard WoodardDepartment of Classics232 Lincoln Parkway MFAC 338Buffalo, NY 14216University of Buffalorwoodard@buffalo.edu Buffalo, NY 14261-0011716-465-1120 716-645-0464fax: 716-645-2225POSITIONS HELDAndrew van Vranken Raymond Chair of the Classics and Professor ofClassics, 1999-present; Professor of Linguistics, 2003-present;Professor of Anthropology, 2012-present; Department of Classics,University of Buffalo (The State University of New York), Buffalo, NY14261-0011Professor, Departments of Classics and Linguistics, University ofSouthern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, 1998-1999Associate Professor, Departments of Classics and Linguistics, Universityof Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, 1994-1998Assistant Professor, Departments of Classics and Linguistics, Universityof Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089, 1991-1994Mellon Scholar (Assistant Professor), Department of Classics, JohnsHopkins University, Baltimore, MD 21218, 1988-1991Assistant Professor, Department of Linguistics, Swarthmore College,Swarthmore, PA 19081, 1986-88OTHER AFFILIATIONSVisiting Scholar, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte,Berlin, June 2012American Academy in Rome Scholar in Residence (RAAR), AmericanAcademy in Rome, winter/spring 2012; Visiting Scholar, July 2012Visiting Scholar, Wolfson College, Oxford, Trinity Term 2011Visiting Scholar, American Academy in Rome, summer 20101

esthétique : pragmatique cultuelle des formes discursives et des imagesen Grèce ancienne. Edited by Claude Calame and Pierre Ellinger.Paris.“Greek Linguistic Thought and its Roman Reception.” Forthcomingin The Cambridge History of Linguistics. Edited by Linda R. Waugh.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.“Sacrificing the Sign: The Alphabet as an Offering in Ancient Israel.”Forthcoming in Worlds of Sacrifice: Exploring the Past and Present ofGifts for the Gods. Edited by Carrie Murray. Albany, NY: StateUniversity of New York Press.“Acca Larentia.” In The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Edited byRoger Bagnall et al. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.“Bona Dea.” In The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Edited by RogerBagnall et al. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.“Fetiales.” In The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Edited by RogerBagnall et al. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.“Floralia.” In The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Edited by RogerBagnall et al. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.“Juventas.” In The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Edited by RogerBagnall et al. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.“Salii.” In The Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Edited by Roger Bagnallet al. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013.“Labiovelar Development in Greek and an Alphabetic Repercussion.”In The Sounds of Indo-European 2: Phonetics, Phonemics, andMorphophonemics: Potsdam Linguistische Untersuchungen, pp. 299–313. Edited by Roman Sukač and Ondřej Šefčík. Munich: LincomEuropa, 2012“The Roman Regifugium: Myth and Ritual of the King’s JourneyBeyond the Boundary.” In Routes et parcours mythiques : des textesà l’archéologie, pp. 304–332. Edited by Alain Meurant. Brussels:Éditions Safran, 2011.“Phoinikēia Grammata: An Alphabet for the Greek Language.” InCompanion to the Ancient Greek Language, pp. 25–46. Edited byEgbert Bakker. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.5

“Theories of Language.” In Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome,volume 4:201–203. Edited by Michael Gagarin et al. New York:Oxford University Press, 2009.“Linguistic Theory.” In Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome,volume 4:256–257. Edited by Michael Gagarin et al. New York:Oxford University Press, 2009.“Language in Ancient Mesopotamia, Egypt and Aksum.” In TheAncient Languages of Mesopotamia, Egypt and Aksum, pp. 1–5.Edited by R. D. Woodard. Cambridge: Cambridge UniversityPress, 2008.“Language in Ancient Syria-Palestine and Arabia.” In The AncientLanguages of Syria-Palestine and the Arabian Peninsula, pp. 1–4.Edited by R. D. Woodard. Cambridge: Cambridge UniversityPress, 2008.“Language in Ancient Europe.” In The Ancient Languages of Europe,pp. 1–13. Edited by R. D. Woodard. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2008.“Language in Ancient Asia Minor.” In The Ancient Languages of AsiaMinor, pp. 1–5. Edited by R. D. Woodard. Cambridge: CambridgeUniversity Press, 2008.“Language in Ancient Asia and the Americas.” In The AncientLanguages of Asia and the Americas, pp. 1–5. Edited by R. D.Woodard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008.“Muthoi in Continuity and Variation.” In The Cambridge Companion toGreek Mythology, pp. 1-13. Edited by R. D. Woodard. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press. 2007“Hesiod and Greek Myth.” In The Cambridge Companion to GreekMythology, pp. 83-165. Edited by R. D. Woodard. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2007.“Greek Alphabet: MS108.” In collaboration with David A. Scott, etal. In Papyri Graecae Schøyen, pp. 149-160. Edited by RosarioPintaudi. Firenze: Edizioni Gonnelli, 2005.“An Early Copper Plaque from the Eighth Century BC with GreekInscription.” In collaboration with David A. Scott. In Metals 2001, pp. 138-145. Edited by I. D. Macleod, J. M. Theile and C. Degrigny. Canberra:Western Australian Museum, 2004.6

“Attic Greek.” In Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's AncientLanguages, pp. 614-649. Edited by R. D. Woodard. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2004.“Greek Dialects.” In Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World's AncientLanguages, pp. 650-672. Edited by R. D. Woodard. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 2004.“Introduction to the World's Ancient Languages.” In CambridgeEncyclopedia of the World's Ancient Languages, pp. 1-18. Edited by R.D. Woodard. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.“Indo-European.” In collaboration with Henry Hoenigswald andJames P. T. Clackson. In Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World'sAncient Languages, pp. 534-550. Edited by R. D. Woodard.Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004.“Writing Systems.” In Atlas of Languages, pp. 160-207. Revisededition. Edited by B. Comrie, S. Matthews and M. Polinsky.London: Quarto Publishing, 2003.“Aramaic.” In The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Danbury,Connecticut: Grolier, 2002.“The Disruption of Time in Myth and Epic.” Arethusa 35 (2002):83-98.“Writing Systems.” In International Encyclopedia of the Social andBehavioral Sciences, 24:16633-16640. Edited by N. Smelser and P.Baltes. Oxford: Pergamon, 2002.“The Greek Alphabet.” In Encyclopedia of Greece and the HellenicTradition, 1:58-60. Edited by G. Speake. London: FitzroyDearborn Publishers, 2000.“Greek Dialects.” In Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition,1:472-474. Edited by G. Speake. London: Fitzroy DearbornPublishers, 2000.“The Evolution of Writing Systems.” In The Grolier MultimediaEncyclopedia. Danbury, Connecticut: Grolier, 2000.“The Alphabet.” In The Grolier Multimedia Encyclopedia. Danbury,Connecticut: Grolier, 2000.7

“Greek-Phoenician Interaction and the Origin of the Alphabet.” InMediterranean Cultural Interaction, pp. 33-51. Edited by A.Ovadiah, 2000.“Linguistic Connections Between Greeks and Non-Greeks.” In Greeksand Barbarians, pp. 29-60. Edited by J. Coleman and C. Walz.Cornell: Cornell Near Eastern Studies, 1997.“On the Interaction of Greek Orthography and Phonology:Consonant Clusters in the Syllabic Scripts.” In Writing Systemsand Cognition, pp. 311-334. Edited by W. C. Watt. Dordrecht:Kluwer Academic, 1994.“The Edict of Tudhaliya IV.” In collaboration with RaymondWestbrook. Journal of the American Oriental Society 110 (1990):641-659 (linguistic and philological commentary [Woodard] andlegal commentary [Westbrook] on a Hittite text).“Dialectal Differences at Knossos.” Kadmos 25 (1986): 49-74.Republished athttp://chs.harvard.edu/wa/pageR?tn=ArticleWrapper&bdc=12&mn=3732.“The Palatalization of the Labiovelars in Greek: A Reassessment inTypological Perspective.” In collaboration with LaurenceStephens. Indogermanische Forschungen 91 (1986): 129-154.Reference Works:Consultant for Latin and Greek and contributing editor of Indo-European etymology, American Heritage Dictionary of the EnglishLanguage, 3rd ed. My work is republished in the 4th ed. Boston:Houghton Mifflin, 2000 (a project which required 15 to 25 hoursper week for approximately two and one-half years).Consultant and contributing editor of etymology, Encarta WorldEnglish Dictionary. New York: St. Martin's Press; London:Bloomsbury Publishing, 1999 (a project which required 15 to 20hours per week for approximately one and one-half years).Book Reviews and Book Notes:Review of Dumézil, Georges. Archaic Roman Religion. 2 vols. ReligiousStudies Review, 24 (1998): 413-414.8

Review of Dik, Helma. Word Order in Ancient Greek: A PragmaticAccount. Religious Studies Review, 24 (1998): 68.Review of Khan, H., ed. The Birth of the European Identity: The Europe-Asia Contrast in Greek Thought 490-322 BC. Religious Studies Review,23 (1997): 23.Review of Beekes, Robert. Comparative Indo-European Linguistics: AnIntroduction. Religious Studies Review, 23 (1997): 172-173.Review of Osborne and Hornblower, eds. Ritual, Finance, Politics.Religious Studies Review, 22 (1996): 241.Review of Yoshida, Kazuhiko. The Hittite Mediopassive Endings in -ri.Journal of the American Oriental Society 116 (1996): 126-128.Review of De Jong and Sullivan, eds. Modern Critical Theory andClassical Literature. Religious Studies Review 21 (1995): 327-328.Review of Malkiel, Yakov. Etymology. Historiographia Linguistica 22(1995): 409-414.Review of Holliday, Peter. Narrative and Event in Ancient Art. ReligiousStudies Review 21 (1995): 40.Review of Schefold, Karl. Gods and Heroes in Late Archaic Greek Art.Religious Studies Review 21 (1995): 48.Review of Senner, Wayne, ed. The Origins of Writing. The ClassicalWorld 86 (1992): 47-48.Review of Arbeitman, Yoël, ed. A Linguistic Happening in Memory ofBen Schwartz: Studies in Anatolian, Italic, and Other Indo-EuropeanLanguages. Journal of the American Oriental Society 111 (1991): 824-826.Review of Drews, Robert. The Coming of the Greeks: Indo-EuropeanConquests in the Aegean and the Near East. The American Journal ofPhilology 111 (1990): 264-268.Review of Beck, Roger. Planetary Gods and Planetary Orders in theMysteries of the Mithras. Religious Studies Review 16 (1990): 258.Review of Vennemann, Theo. Preference Laws for Syllable Structure andthe Explanation of Sound Change: With Special Reference to German,9

Germanic, Italian and Latin. The American Journal of Philology 110(1989): 524-526.Invited Public Lectures and Conference Leadership:“The Transference and Coalescence of Primitive Indo-European andNear Eastern Systems of Knowledge in Ancient Greece: The Caseof Bellerophon,” lecture presented at the symposium Transfer ofKnowledge in Systems (in the series Global Transfer ofKnowledge and the Globalization of Knowledge), Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Berlin, Germany, June 19,2012.“Alphabet and Dialect at Methone: Beginning a Typology ofMethone Alphabetic Symbols and an Alternative Hypothesis forReading hεκεσάνδρ,” lecture presented for the Centre for theGreek Language International Conference, Panhellenes atMethone: Graphê in Late Geometric and Protoarchaic Methone,Macedonia (ca 700 BCE), Thessaloniki, Greece, June 8, 2012.“Andrew v. V. Raymond and the Raymond Endowed Chair of theClassics: A Legacy of Excellence in Service to Humanity,” lecturepresented for the congregation of the First Presbyterian Churchof Buffalo, on the occasion of the 200 th anniversary of the Churchand the 90 th anniversary of the congregation’s endowing of theRaymond Chair, Buffalo, April 8, 2012.“Bellerophon and Feminine Aggression: The Conjunction ofDiachrony and Synchrony in Myth and Cult,” lecture presentedat Du récit au rituel par la forme esthétique: Pragmatiquecultuelle des formes discursives et des images en Grèceancienne, Colloque international, ANHIMA, L’École des HautesÉtudes en Sciences Sociales, Université Paris Diderot, Paris,France, February 28–29, 2012.“Sacred Space, Sacred Boundary, Sacred Sovereign: Transgressionand Restoration,” lecture presented at the American Academy inRome, Rome, Italy, January 26, 2012.“Latin rēgifugium and a Roman Priestly Crisis,” lecture presented atthe Department of Classics, Notre Dame University, South Bend,November 9, 2011.“Archaic Greeks in the East: A Case of Cultural Melding,” lecturepresented for The World Civilizations Committee Meeting,University of Buffalo, Buffalo, October 25, 2011.10

“The Diffusion of Ancient Greek Culture: A Reciprocal Process,”lecture presented for the Buffalo Hellenic Society, Buffalo,October 20, 2011.“Sotah: Elements of Magic in Ancient Jewish Ritual RegardingAdultery,” lecture presented at Jesus College, Oxford University,Oxford, UK, June 20, 2011.“Sacrificing the Sign: The Alphabet as an Offering in Ancient Israel,”lecture presented at the Fourth IEMA Visiting ScholarConference, Worlds of Sacrifice: Exploring the Past and Presentof Gifts for the Gods, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, April 16–17,2011.“Letter Variation in the Copper Plaques and its Implications forEarly Greek Alphabetic Usage,” lecture presented for theDepartment of Classics, UCLA, Los Angeles, February 24, 2011.“The Rex Sacrorum and Mamurius Veturius: Figures in Crisis at theChanging of the Roman Year,” lecture presented for theDepartment of Classics, University of Southern California, LosAngeles, February 23, 2011.“Labiovelar Development in Greek and an Alphabetic Repercussion,”lecture presented at the Second International Congress on theSound of Indo-European, The Silesian University of Opava,Opava, Czech Republic, November 18, 2010.“Performing the Alphabet,” lecture presented for the Faculty ofLinguistics and Philology, Oxford University, Oxford, UK, May 18,2010.“From the Regifugium to the Second Equirria: Indo-EuropeanPerspectives,” lecture presented for the Department of Classics,University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, October 26, 2009.“Poetic Weaving as a Cognitive Metaphor for OrthographicProduction,” lecture presented for the Department ofLinguistics, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, April 24, 2009.“The Roman Regifugium: Myth and Ritual of the King’s JourneyBeyond the Boundary,” lecture presented at the Septièmecolloque international d’anthropologie du monde indo-européenet de mythologie comparée, Université Catholique de Louvain,Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium, March 19, 2009.11

"The Weaving of Writing: The Performance of Orthography inArchaic Greece," lecture presented for the School of Classics, St.Andrews University, St. Andrews, Scotland, March 13, 2009."The Greek Alphabet on the Edges: Geographic and Cultic," lecturepresented for the Classics Faculty, Cambridge University,Cambridge, England, March 11, 2009.“Writing as Performance: An Early Greek Conceptualization of theAlphabet,” lecture presented for the Department of Classics andMediterranean Studies, University of Illinois, Chicago, November12, 2008.“Script as Sacrifice; Writing as Revelation,” lecture presented at theconference on Revelation in Ancient Greek Religion, Universityof Illinois, Chicago, November 10, 2008.“Homers Bane,” lecture presented for the Department of Classics,Williams College, Williamstown, Mass., April 16, 2008Invited discussant, Conference on The Centrality of Animal Sacrificein Ancient Greek Religion: Ancient Reality or Modern Construct.University of Chicago, Chicago, April 11-13, 2008“Chthonic Spirits and Sacred Spaces,” lecture presented for theDepartment of Classics, University of Texas, Austin, February 23,2006.Chair of Linguistics session, 138th Annual Meeting of the AmericanPhilological Association, San Diego, January 2006.“The Suovitaurilia, Manius and Roman Field Lustration,” lecturepresented for the Department of Classical Studies, DukeUniversity, Durham, March 28, 2005.Chair of Linguistics session, 137th Annual Meeting of the AmericanPhilological Association, Montreal, January 2005.“The Fayum Alphabet and Its Place in the Evolution of GreekWriting,” lecture presented for the Max-Planck-Institut fürevolutionäre Anthropologie, Leipzig, Germany, August 27, 2003.“The Earliest Greek Alphabet,” public lecture presented for theUniversity of Buffalo, Buffalo, June 2, 2003.12

“Cato’s De Agricultura 141 and the Roman Notion of Sacred Space,”paper presented for the Classical Association of the EmpireState, Buffalo, October 27, 2001.“The Earliest Greek Writing,” paper presented for the ClassicalAssociation of Western New York, Buffalo, May 31, 2001.“Terminus and Iuventas,” paper presented for the Department ofClassics, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, February 2001.Organizer of the panel session of the Society for the Study of Greekand Latin Language and Linguistics (SSGLLL) of the annualmeeting of the American Philological Association (1992-2001).Chaired session, Greek and Latin Linguistics (Panel Session ofSSGLLL), at the 132nd Annual Meeting of the AmericanPhilological Association, San Diego, January 2001.“The Disruption of Time in Greek Epic,” paper presented at theconference Epos and Mythos: Language and Narrative inHomeric Epic, University of Buffalo, Buffalo, April 2000.“Linguistic Aspects of Early Greek Writing,” paper presented for theDepartment of Linguistics, University of Buffalo, Buffalo,February 2000.Chaired session, Greek and Latin Diachronic Linguistics (PanelSession of SSGLLL), at the 130th Annual Meeting of the AmericanPhilological Association, Washington, D.C., December 1998.“The Origin of the Alphabet in Cyprus and Its Transmission to theAegean,” paper presented for the Department of Classics,University of California, Los Angeles, January 1998.Chaired session, Greek and Latin Linguistics (Panel Session ofSSGLLL), at the 129th Annual Meeting of the AmericanPhilological Association, Chicago, December 1997.“Greek-Phoenician Interaction and the Origin of the Alphabet,’paper presented at the Howard Gilman International Conferenceon Mediterranean Cultural Interaction, Rethymno, Crete, June1997.Chaired session, Trojan Writing, Greek Grammar, Latin Syntax(Panel Session of SSGLLL), at the 128th Annual Meeting of theAmerican Philological Association, New York, December 1996.13

Chaired session, Linguistic Development and Language Diversity(Panel Session of SSGLLL), at the 127th Annual Meeting of theAmerican Philological Association, San Diego, December 1995.Chaired session, Of Beginnings and Transitions (Panel Session ofSSGLLL), at the 126th Annual Meeting of the AmericanPhilological Association, Atlanta, December 1994.Chaired session, The Written Word (Panel Session of SSGLLL), at the125th Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association,Washington, D.C., December 1993.The Sixth Annual Poultney Lecture in Classics and HistoricalLinguistics, “Phoenician Fricatives and Greek Graphemes,” JohnsHopkins University, Baltimore, April 1993.“Linguistic Connections Between Greeks and Non-Greeks,” paperpresented at the Conference on Greeks and Barbarians, CornellUniversity, Ithaca, New York, April 1993.Chaired session, A Tribute to James W. Poultney (Panel Session ofSSGLLL), at the 124th Annual Meeting of the AmericanPhilological Association, New Orleans, December 1992.“Syllabic Greek Spelling and the Sonority Hierarchy,” paperpresented for the Departments of Cognitive Sciences andLinguistics, University of California, Irvine, October 1991.“The Image of Women in Indo-European Myth,” paper presented forthe Johns Hopkins University Women's Forum, Baltimore, April1990.“On the Phonology of Orthography: Evidence from Syllabic GreekInscriptions,” paper presented for the Cognitive Science Center,Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, May 1989.“A Summary and Critical Analysis of the Method of DeepReconstruction of Proto- Languages,” paper presented at theColloquium on Indo-European Origins, Johns HopkinsUniversity, Baltimore, November 1988.“Markedness, Grammatical Relations and Morphological Change,”paper presented for the Department of Linguistics, University ofPennsylvania, Philadelphia, September 1988.14

Chaired session at the Conference on Inflectional Morphology andSyntax, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NorthCarolina, February 1987.RECENT AWARDS AND HONORSVisiting Scholar, Max-Planck-Institut für Wissenschaftsgeschichte,Berlin, June 2012American Academy in Rome Scholar in Residence, winter/spring 2012Visiting Scholar, Wolfson College, Oxford, Trinity Term 2010 and 2011Visiting Scholar, American Academy in Rome, summer 2009 and 2010,June 2012CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of 2006: award made to Woodard2004, The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages.Cambridge: Cambridge University PressSustained Achievement Award, UB Exceptional Scholars Program, 2002COURSES TAUGHTUniversity of BuffaloMyth and Religion in the Ancient World, Fall 1999, Spring 2000, Fall2000, Spring 2001, Fall 2001, Spring 2002, Fall 2002, Spring 2003,Fall 2003, Spring 2004, Fall 2004, Spring 2005, Fall 2005, Spring2006, Fall 2006, Spring 2007, Fall 2007, Spring 2008, Fall 2008,Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010, Spring 2011, Fall2011, Fall 2012, Spring 2013Comparative Indo-European Linguistics (graduate course) Spring2001, Fall 2003, Spring 2007, Spring 2010, Spring 2013Greek III, Fall 2012Greek I, Fall 2001, Fall 2011Greek II, Spring 2002, Spring 2011Greek Syntax and Stylistics (graduate course), Fall 2008, Fall 201015

Euripides (Greek readings, graduate course), Fall 2009Hesiod (Greek readings in the Works and Days, graduate course),Spring 2009Sanskrit I, Fall 2004, Fall 2007Sanskrit II, Spring 2005, Spring 2008Homer (Greek readings in the Odyssey, graduate course), Fall 2006Seminar in Hesiod (seminar investigation of Hesiod and Greekreadings in Theogony; graduate course) Spring 2004Seminar in Roman Religion (graduate course) Spring 2003Hellenistic and Imperial Greek Poetry (Greek readings in variouspoets; graduate course) Fall 2001Plutarch (Greek readings in the Life of Numa and Roman Questions;graduate course) Fall 2000Apollodorus (Greek readings in the Bibliotheca; graduate course)Spring 2000University of Southern CaliforniaClassical Mythology, Fall 1992, Fall 1993, Spring 1994, Fall 1994, Fall1995, Fall 1996, Fall 1997, Spring 1998Greek Lyric Poetry (Greek readings in various lyric poets), Fall 1997Historical Linguistics (graduate course), Spring 1992, Spring 1995,Fall 1996Script and Culture (the origin and development of writing), Spring1994, Spring 1996Greeks and Barbarians (graduate seminar), Spring 1996Latin III (readings in Ovid and Virgil), Fall 1995Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin (graduate course), Fall1992, Spring 1995Latin I, Fall 199416

Greek III (readings in Homer), Fall 1993Greek I, Spring 1992History of the Greek Language (graduate seminar), Fall 1991Greek Historians (Greek readings in Herodotus), Fall 1991Johns Hopkins UniversityAdvanced Latin (readings in Ovid and Livy), Spring 1991Medical Etymology, Fall 1990Historical Grammar of Greek (graduate seminar), Spring 1990Comparative Indo-European Mythology, Summer 1989, Fall 1989 (2sections)History of the Latin Language (graduate seminar), Spring 1989Hittite I and II, Fall 1988 and Spring 1989Historical and Comparative Linguistics, Fall 1988Swarthmore CollegeSanskrit I, Fall 1987Sanskrit II, Spring 1988Historical and Comparative Linguistics, Fall 1986, Spring 1988Indo-European Culture and Society (seminar attachment toHistorical and Comparative Linguistics), Spring 1988Comparative Grammar of Greek and Latin, Fall 1987Koine Greek I, Fall 1987Koine Greek II, Spring 1988Seminar in Syntactic Theory, Spring 1987Introduction to Language, Spring 198717

Linguistics and the Human Sciences (a survey of the development ofstructuralist methodology and its application to disciplinesother than linguistics), Fall 1986Brain and Language (attachment to Introduction to Psychology), Fall1986UNIVERSITY AND OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICEEditorial Board for the Journal Nouvelle Mythologie Comparée, since 2012American School of Classical Studies in Athens, Chair of NEH FellowshipSelection Panel, 2012/13European Research Council Executive Agency Referee, 2009–2013Advisory Council to the Committee on the School of Classical Studies ofthe American Academy in Rome, since 2010Classics Search Committee, University of Buffalo, 2012/13Institutional Standing Committee on Assessment of Student LearningOutcomes, University of Buffalo, 2010/11, 2012/13Supervisor of Introductory Latin Instruction, University of Buffalo,Spring 2010, 2010/11, Fall 2011, 2012/13College of Arts and Sciences Policy Committee, University of Buffalo,2009/10, 2010/11, Fall 2011, 2012/13Jewish Studies Search Committee, University of Buffalo, 2009/10Acting Director of Graduate Studies, University of Buffalo, Spring 2008Classics Search Committee, University of Buffalo, 2007/08Linguistics Search Committee, University of Buffalo, 2007/08UB 2020 Scholars Fund: Humanities Panel, University of Buffalo,2007/2008Arts Administration Advisory Committee, University of Buffalo,2004/05, 2005/06, 2006/0718

Faculty Senate, University of Buffalo, 2002/03, 2003/04, 2004/05,2005/06Linguistics Search Committee, University of Buffalo, 2005/06Chair of Latin Search Committee, University of Buffalo, 2002/03Acting Chair, Department of Classics, University of Buffalo, Spring 2002Personnel Committee, College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Universityof Southern California, 1998/99General Education Planning Committee, University of SouthernCalifornia, 1998/99Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Classics, Universityof Southern California, 1994/95, 1995/96, 1996/97Undergraduate Studies Committee (Humanities Panel and fullcommittee), University of Southern California, 1995/96, 1996/97Foreign Language Instructional Committee, University of SouthernCalifornia, 1994/95Romance Linguistics Planning Committee, University of SouthernCalifornia, 1994/95Humanities Linguistics and Language Learning Planning Committee,University of Southern California, 1993/94Codirector of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Classics, Universityof Southern California, 1993/94Merit Review Committee, Department of Classics, University ofSouthern California, 1992/93, 1993/94General Education Committee (Western Culture Subcommittee),University of Southern California, 1991/92, 1992/93, 1993/94Freshman Writing Program Policy Committee, University of SouthernCalifornia, 1991/92, 1992/93Acting Chair, Department of Linguistics, Swarthmore College, 1986/87MEMBERSHIP IN ACADEMIC SOCIETIES19

American Philological AssociationLinguistic Society of AmericaThe Society of Fellows of the American Academy in RomeREFERENCESProf. Maurizio Bettini, Università di Siena; mailing address: Centro diAntropologia e Mondo Antico dell’ Università di Siena, Facoltà diLettere, Via Roma 47, 53100 Siena, Italy; +39 0577/234694;bettini@unisi.itProf. Anthony Boyle, Department of Classics, University of SouthernCalifornia; mailing address: Department of Classics, University ofSouthern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0352; (213) 740-3676;aboyle@usc.eduProf. Edwin Brown, Department of Classics, University of NorthCarolina; mailing address: Department of Classics, CB 3145,University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3145; (336) 585-0306; elbrown496@earthlink.netProf. Claude Calame, Directeur d’Études, École des Hautes Études enSciences Sociales ; mailing address: École des Hautes Études enSciences Sociales Centre Louis Gernet de Recherches Comparées surles Sociétés Anciennes, 2 Rue Vivienne, F-75002 Paris, France ; +311/47038410 ; Claude.Calame@unil.chProf. Diskin Clay, Department of Classical Studies, Duke University;mailing address: Department of Classical Studies, 237 Allen Building,PO Box 90103, Duke University, Durham, NC 27708-0103; (919) 684-5076; diskin.clay@duke.eduProf. Dr. Bernard Comrie, Director, Department of Linguistics, Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie; mailing address:Max-Planck-Institut für evolutionäre Anthropologie, DeutscherPlatz 6, D-04103 Leipzig, Germany; +49 (341) 3550 315;comrie@eva.mpg.deProf. Gregory Nagy, Department of Classics, Harvard University; mailingaddress: Center for Hellenic Studies, 3100 Whitehaven Street, N.W.,Washington, D.C. 20008; (202) 745-4445; gnagy@chs.harvard.edu20