IPAMAA Newsletter
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Here are some updates submitted by Dr. Ann Olga Koloski-Ostrow on her recent accomplishments:
Published The Archaeology of Sanitation in Roman Italy: Toilets, Sewers, and Water Systems. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2015.
Promoted to full professor in the Department of Classical Studies at Brandeis University in October 2013, where she has also served as departmental chair since 2003 (and will continue to do so until 2018).
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A team from The Foundation for Calabrian Archaeology and the University of Kentucky led by Dr. Paolo Visonà has recently located a series of Greek fortifications on the mountains in the hinterland of ancient Locri Epizephyrii (please see details in last chapter of an essay to appear in Notizie degli Scavi this summer or fall). The most promising of nearly a half a dozen sites includes what may be a frontier sanctuary (a rectangular [?] building covering an area of c. 900 square meters) and a large fort (?) ringed by a massive wall circuit. The latter has been surveyed preliminarily in June 2015; it covers an area of c. 2000 square meters. Surface finds include Greek rooftile and bronze arrowheads. The presumed sanctuary has yielded diagnostic Greek pottery datable to the classical and Hellenistic periods, roof tiles, and prehistoric lithic tools; all are surface finds.
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After a two-and-a-half-year “interlude with the digital humanities” as manager of the Federated Archaeological Information Management Systems eResearch Project at the University of New South Wales, Dr. Adela Sobotkova has taken a new position as a Research Fellow in the Department of Ancient History at Macquarie University. In her new position she will be able to pursue fieldwork and publication relating to her research in Bulgaria.
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Here are some updates submitted by Dr. Steven Tuck about his work and publications in the last few years:
Promoted to Professor and Chair of Classics at Miami University in 2013.
Honored with the Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching Award from the Archaeological Institute of America in 2014.
Published the following books and articles:
A History of Roman Art. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2015.
“Epigraphy and Patronage.” In The Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture, edited by E. A. Friendland and M. G. Sobocinski with E. K. Gazda. 407-422. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014.
“Nasty, Brutish and Short? The Facts of Life in the Roman Imperial Navy.” In Ancient Documents and Their Contexts: First North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy (2011), edited by J. P. Bodel and N. M. Dimitrova. 212-229. Boston: Brill, 2014.
“Imperial Image-making.” In A Companion to the Flavian Age of Imperial Rome, edited by A. Zissos. Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, in press 2015.
“Ludi and Factions: Organizations of Performers in Roman Spectacle.” Oxford Handbook on Sport and Spectacle in the Ancient World, edited by T. F. Scanlon and A. Futrell. New York: Oxford University Press, in progress.
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Congratulations to Dr. Marcello Mogetta (IPCAA PhD 2013) and Dr. Diana Ng (IPCAA PhD 2007) on their recent articles published in the Journal of Roman Studies! Both articles are currently available through Cambridge Journals Online.
Marcello Mogetta. “A new date for concrete in Rome.” JRS. Published online 24 April 2015.
Diana Ng. “Commemoration and elite benefaction of buildings and spectacles in the Roman world.” JRS. Published online 17 April 2015.
Marcello recently accepted a tenure-track position in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at the University of Missouri, and Diana is an Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Michigan-Dearborn.
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