Fields of Interest

Ancient Mediterranean History (Ethnography and Geography); Ancient Colonization; Early Alphabetic Writing; Archaeology of the Central Mediterranean

Education

1991-present

University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
PhD candidate — Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World

9/92-9/93

Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Exchange Scholar Program — Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations

9/89-8/91

University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
MA (8/91) — Department of History

1981-1983,
1984-1987

Santa Clara University, Santa Clara, CA
BA (3/87) — Departments of History and Classics (double major, cum laude)

9/85-6/86

Doctoral Dissertation (in progress)

The Use of Phoenician Human Sacrifice in the Formation of Ethnic Identities: Historical Interpretations of the Classical, Biblical and Archaeological Sources (supervisor, Ian Morris)

Academic Distinctions

1998-1999

Samuel H. Kress Joint Athens/Jerusalem Fellowship — American School of Classical Studies at Athens and Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem

1996-1998

Samuel H. Kress Predoctoral Fellowship (Rome Prize) — American Academy in Rome

1996-1997

Samuel Kress Joint Athens/Jerusalem Fellowship (declined)

1996

Ryerson Travel Fellowship — University of Chicago

1991-1995

University Fellowship — University of Chicago

Teaching Experience

9/02-6/03

University of Santa Clara — Classics Department
lecturer
HISTORY 11 — Western Civilization: Ancient
HISTORY 12 — Western Civilization: Medieval
CLASSICS 110 — Roman Republic
CLASSICS 111 — Roman Emppire

3/95-6/95
9/93-12/93

University of Chicago — History Department
teaching assistant
HIST308 — Ancient Mediterranean World III: The Roman Empire
(Prof. Richard Saller)
HIST306 — Ancient Mediterranean World I: Greece to Alexander
(Prof. Ian Morris)

1/91-5/91
9/90-12/90
9/89-12/89

University of Wisconsin — Integrated Liberal Studies Program,
History Department, Classics Department
teaching assistant
CLASSICS 322 — Civilization of Ancient Rome
(Prof. Jeffrey Wills)
ILS 203 — Western Culture: Literature and the Arts I
(Profs. John Bennett, Barry Powell)
HISTORY 110 — Greek Civilization
(Prof. Kenneth Sacks)

9/87-6/89

Thomas Edison High School (aka Tree of Learning H.S.), Portland, OR
instructor
English, Math, Economics, Social Studies teacher of the learning disabled

Archaeological Experience

3/93-present

Sicilian-Scandinavian Archaeological Project, Monte Polizzo, Sicily
Soprintendenza BB.CC.AA Trapani, Göteborgs Universitet, Universitetet i Oslo, Northern Illinois University, Stanford University (I. Morris)
assistant director
trench supervisor, responsible for Phoenician finds

6/01-present

ASOR Punic Project, Carthage, Tunisia
The Semitic Museum, Harvard University (J. A. Greene, L. E. Stager)
research assistant
responsible for creating a relational database and the burial-urn and stelae typologies for the final archaeological report of the American Schools of Oriental Research excavations at the Carthaginian tophet (1976-79)

11/00, 10/98

Biblical Archaeological Society
tour guide
led archaeological tours of Malta and Tunisia, and of Southern Italy and Sicily

10/00

Bir Messaouda Excavations, Carthage, Tunisia
Universiteit van Amsterdam, Carthage (R. Docter)
excavation assistant

6/97-7/97
6/98-7/98

Projet Jerba, Tunisia
University of Pennsylvania, American Academy in Rome, Institut National du Patrimoine (L. Fentress, R. Holod, A. Drine)
assistant manager
field survey team leader, responsible for maintaining database of field notes and registries

Publications

in prep.

"Micah's Mother (Judges 17:1-4) and a Curse from Carthage (KAI 89): Evidence for the Semitic Origin of Greek and Latin Curses against Theives?" (with C. Faraone and C. Lopez Ruiz)

forthcoming

"From Infant Sacrifice to the ABC's: Ancient Phoenicians and Modern Identities," Stanford Journal of Archaeology 1

Panels Organized

1/03
1/02

"Phoenicians in the West: The Archaeology of Identity and Ethnicity"
Annual Meeting, The Archaeological Institute of America, Workshop ['02] and Colloquium ['03] sponsored by the AIA Near Eastern Archaeology Committee

Papers Presented

1/02

"Interpretations of the Carthaginian tophet since 1987," Annual Meeting, The Archaeological Institute of America

2/01

"From Infant Sacrifice to the ABC's: Ancient Phoenicians and Modern Identities," Past Narratives | Narrative Pasts conference, Stanford University

3/99

"What, Where and When is a tophet? Three Potential Sites in the Eastern Mediterranean," The W. F. Albright Institute of Archaeological Research in Jerusalem

12/98

"The Myth of Heracles and Busiris: The Ethnography, Geography and Art of Human Sacrifice," Annual Meeting, The American Philological Association

2/98

"Burning Babies: A Preliminary Report of the A.S.O.R. Punic Project tophet excavations," The American Academy in Rome

4/97

"The Murder of Dorieus and the Greek Invention of the Barbarian in Sicily and North Africa," The American Academy in Rome

3/96

"Sardonic Laughter: Infants as Offerings in the Mediterranean West," Classics Department, University of Wisconsin
[repeated 6/97, The British School at Rome]

5/95

"Funerary Cult or Child Sacrifice? Infants as Offerings in the Phoenician West," Workshop on Ancient Societies, University of Chicago

1/95

"Barbarians at the Borders: The Maintenance of Boundaries among Indigenous Peoples, Phoenicians and Greeks in Ancient Sicily," Workshop on Ancient Societies, University of Chicago

3/94

"Reading Semata: Epic Poetry and Local Dialect in Tomb Inscriptions," Workshop on Ancient Societies, University of Chicago

Additional Teaching and Employment

12/99-5/00

St. Vincent de Paul Elementary School, Houston, TX
substitute teacher (all subjects)

3/94-6/96

The Blue Gargoyle, Chicago, IL
adult literacy tutor and computer instructor

8/95-6/96

National Parent Teacher Association (PTA), Chicago, IL
assistant archivist, database manager
created database of archival holdings in preparation for 100th anniversary of the PTA

8/95-6/96

University of Chicago, Department of Classical Languages and Literatures
read texts in English, Latin and Classical Greek to blind professor

10/93, 10/94, 10/95

University of Chicago, Department of Classical Languages and Literatures
led one-day workshops on Pandora and Perseus computer programs

Computer Skills

hardware

Mac and Windows/Intel platforms; scanners; digital cameras

systems

MacOS 9; Microsoft Windows 2002

programs

MS Office 2002 (all programs)
other databases: Claris FileMaker Pro 5.5; EndNote 5
graphics: Adobe Photoshop 6; Illustrator 10
web authoring: DreamWeaver 4.0; BBEdit 6.5

URLs

http://humanities.uchicago.edu/camw/
http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~amc/

References

Ian Morris, Stanford University (principal advisor)
Christopher Faraone, University of Chicago
Jonathan Hall, University of Chicago
Dennis Pardee, University of Chicago
Lawrence E. Stager, Harvard University