PROFESSIONAL/EDUCATIONAL INTERESTS
The Princeton/Stanford Working papers in Classics
The Princeton and Stanford Departments of Classics are pleased to announce the inauguration of a new on-line resource:
The Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics
http://www.princeton.edu/~pswpc
The Princeton/Standard Working Papers in Classics is a collaborative project of the Classics Department of Princeton University and the Classics Department of Stanford University. Its purpose is to make the results of current research undertaken by members of Princeton and Stanford Universities in the field of classics available in advance of final publication. Papers are offered in .pdf format and are downloadable. Copyright is held by the author.
Archaeology of Jordan NEH Summer Institute for Teachers
An NEH Summer Institute for teachers, June 27 to July 22, 2005, will take place at the Semitic Museum, at Harvard University in Cambridge, MA. It is designed especially for full time social studies and history teachers (grades 6-12) in schools of all types. Teachers of all grades are welcome to apply.
NEH offers a stipend of $3000 to the 25 teachers who participate in the program.
For application information see http://home.earthlink.net/~galondon/. Or contact G. London, 7701 Crest Dr. N.E., Seattle, WA 98115. Tel 206 522 6426. glondon@earthlink.net.
Application deadline March 1, 2005. (01.2005)
Between a Rock and a Hard Place
Kurt Raaflaub has published a discussion of the role of Ancient History in the modern university in The Classical Journal (98.4 [2003] 415-31) based upon his experiences as a mediator in a joint Classics-History appointment. This article is to be recommended to any department conducting a search for an ancient historian. (08.2003)
MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching)
MERLOT (http://www.merlot.org/Home.po) is a community of educators in higher education who collaborate to develop and disseminate high quality online resources for faculty to incorporate into their courses.
But, MERLOT is not just about online resources, it is also about the people who help create, use and evaluate those resources. MERLOT's members are mainly faculty and instructors, however, many campus administrators, faculty developers, librarians and other members of higher education who are concerned with online learning resources, technology, teaching and learning, and innovation have also joined MERLOT.
As an individual member, you can participate in multiple ways, most importantly, you can help contribute to the growing community of your peers who contribute learning resources to the collection, make comments about a learning resource you've used in teaching, or add an assignment to a learning resources. As a member you can develop a personal profile to help others in your community know more about you, and you can also create your own personal collection of learning materials.
You may also be interested in becoming a peer reviewer of resources associated you're your discipline. After being trained in the peer review process, you can join with other members of your discipline in reviewing materials to assure their quality and effectiveness as learning resources. To become a peer reviewer, contact the head Editor for your discipline to start the process. (04.2003)
The Association of Ancient Historians
The Association of Ancient Historians (AAH; http://www.trentu.ca/ahc/aah/welcome.shtml) had its origins in 1969, when a number of ancient historians from universities in southern Ontario as well as from the State University of New York at Buffalo gathered at McMaster University for a meeting convened by George Paul, to present papers and discuss topics of mutual interest. Over the next four years, annual meetings were organized at SUNY-Buffalo, the University of Michigan, Penn State University, and the University of North Carolina and Duke University. During this period the annual meetings were enlarged and transformed to conferences of an international character. The success of this transformation, and the recognition that ancient historians needed and were capable of supporting a major professional society, prompted at the meeting at Harvard in May of 1974 the forming of the Association of Ancient Historians and the adoption of a constitution.
Over its lifetime, and that of its informal forerunner, the AAH has organized annual meetings at more than two dozen different universities in the United States and Canada, and its membership has grown to nearly 800, including most of the ancient historians in these two countries. The AAH is the largest organization in North America that is devoted exclusively to promoting teaching and scholarship in ancient history.
In addition to electing its officers and communicating matters of common interest, the AAH works with individual universities to organize annual meetings that provide an opportunity to present and discuss research in the field. The AAH informs its members through a regular newsletter; it sponsors the publication of a series of monographs and has published two volumes of collected essays; it has also printed a directory of ancient historians in the USA and sponsors an on-line version of it. And it has organized summer institutes for college teachers under the sponsorship of the National Endowment for the Humanities. (04.2003)
The American Historical Association
The American Historical Association (AHA; http://www.historians.org/) is a nonprofit membership organization founded in 1884 and incorporated by Congress in 1889 for the promotion of historical studies, the collection and preservation of historical documents and artifacts, and the dissemination of historical research. As the largest historical society in the United States, the AHA serves as the umbrella organization for historians working in every period and geographical area. Among its 15,000 members are faculty at secondary schools and two- and four-year colleges and universities, history graduate students, independent historians, and historians in museums, historical organizations, libraries and archives, government, and business. (04.2003)
The Warring States Project of the University of Massachusetts
In a chronological parallel with Classical Greece, the Warring States period of China is the object of study of the Warring States Project (http://www.umass.edu/wsp) of the University of Massachusetts. Contributing members of the institute support generality, an active interest in the methods used by all students of antiquity, and comparative historical research based on specialist work in more than one geographical location. (12.2002)
De Imperatoribus Romanis (DIR)
The on-line encyclopedia of Roman emperors, is proud to announce that they have now completed coverage of the period from Augustus through Romulus Augustulus. They also include, with just one exception (Constantine V), essays on all emperors through the end of the 8th century.
The Board invites scholars to contact them about writing essays to complete their treatment of the Byzantine emperors.
Please visit at: www.roman-emperors.org (12.2002)
New York Times: The Gladiator Effect
Article discussing the increased popularity of the ancient world as a result of several recent popular films. (07.2002)
The Roman Empire in the First Century
The Roman Empire in the First Century is a four-episode video documentary that is currently being aired throughout the US. It was conceived by Margaret Koval and Lyn Goldberg, independent documentary film-makers who earlier made a series on World War I. As with the earlier series, this documentary tells the story through the voices of contemporary witnesses, using a socio-cultural as well as a political perspective on the first century.
This documentary offers an opportunity to encourage ancient history teachers and classicists in general to be more open to using videos as a teaching tool, while also being critical of much of the material that is available on the market.
Chief consultant on the project was Keith Bradley, among the other 'talking heads' are Karl Galinsksy, Erich Gruen, Judy Hallett, Ron Mellor, Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Karen King, Allen Callahan, and Richard Saller.
Instructors with further interest should consult News on the PBS series on Rome (from the APA home page). (07.2001)
Gladiator
Of interest and importance to those who use film in the classroom is Allen Ward's Critical Review, 'The Movie "Gladiator" in Historical Perspective', in New England Classical Journal 28.2 (2001) 112-123. (07.2001)
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