Philip Kaplan

Phone: 904-620-1863 Department of History Fax: 904-620-1018 University of North Florida 4567 St. Johns Bluff Road South pkaplan@unf.edu Jacksonville, FL 3224-2645 www.unf.edu/~pkaplan

Current Position

Associate Professor, Department of History, University of North Florida, 2006-present

Teaching Experience

Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of North Florida, 2000-2006

Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of North Florida, 19992000

Instructor, Department of Classics, University of Pennsylvania, 1997-1999

Teaching Assistant, Department of Classics, University of Pennsylvania, 1993-1994

Courses

Core I: Western Civilization to 1648

Ancient Greece Ancient Rome The Ancient Near East Alexander the Great From Homer to Herodotus: Greece in the Archaic Age Readings in European History I Greek and Roman Mythology Slavery, Ancient and Modern (Honors) Freedom and Slavery Persuasion and Power: Ancient and Modern Rhetoric The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World

Education

Ph.D. in Ancient History, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, August 1999 Dissertation: "Multiple Geographies: The Greek View of Asia in the Archaic Period" Readers: A.J. Graham, J.D. Muhly, J. McInerney

M.A. in Ancient History, University of Pennsylvania, May 1997 M.Phil. in Classical Archaeology, Lincoln College, Oxford University, 1990 Thesis: "The Development of Gold Jewellery at Lefkandi on the Island of Euboea" Supervisors: Mervyn Popham, Sir John Boardman B.A. summa cum laude, College Scholar in Ancient Mediterranean History,

Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., 1988

Senior thesis: "Relations Between Cyprus and Ugarit in the Late Bronze Age" Supervisors: John Coleman, David Owen

Regular Member, American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Greece, 1994-5

Latin/Greek Institute, The Graduate School of the City University of New York, JuneAugust 1988

Fellowships and Awards

UNF Summer Research Grant, 2004 UNF Summer Research Grant, 2001 Chimicles Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1998-9 Dissertation Fellowship, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania, 1996-7, 1995-6 Fulbright Fellowship, Greece, 1994-5 William Penn Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania, 1990-4 Telluride-Lincoln Fellowship, Lincoln College, Oxford University, 1988-90 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship (honorary), 1988 Phi Beta Kappa, 1988 Harry Caplan Travel Scholarship, Classics Department, Cornell University, 1987

Research Interests

Contacts between Greece and the Near East Greek geography, travel and exploration Greek colonization in the Archaic Period Ethnicity and culture in the Greek historical tradition Archaeology and social history

Publications

Dedications to Greek Sanctuaries by Foreign Kings in the Eighth Through Sixth Centuries BCE, Historia 55/2 (2006), 129-152

Cross-cultural contacts among mercenary communities in Saite and Persian Egypt, Mediterranean Historical Review, Vol. 18, No. 1 (June 2003), 1-31

The Social Status of Mercenaries in Archaic Greece, in Oikistes: Studies in Constitutions, Colonies, and Military Power in the Ancient World Offered in Honor of A. J. Graham. Eric Robinson and Vanessa B. Gorman, eds. (Leiden: Brill, 2002), 229-244

Review of E. Dusinberre, Aspects of Empire in Achaemenid Sardis (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), in Near Eastern Archaeology (forthcoming)

Review of J. Mikalson, Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003) in The Historian (forthcoming)

Review of W. Burkert, Savage Energies: Lessons of Myth and Ritual in Ancient Greece. Peter Bing, translator (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2001) in Journal of American Folklore Vol. 117 (2004), 220-221

Review of P. Briant (ed.), Irrigation et drainage dans lAntiquit, qants et canalizations souterraines en Iran, en gypte et en Grce, sminaire tenu au Collge de France sous la direction de Pierre Briant (Paris 2001) in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2002.05.34

Works in Preparation

The Masks of Odysseus: Survival and Identity in Early Greece, book in preparation

Various entries for the Biographical Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists, Paul Keyser and Georgia Irby-Massie, eds. (London: Routledge)

Entry on Skulax of Caruanda for Brills New Jacoby, Ian Worthington, ed. (Leiden: E. J. Brill)

Misunderstandings Between Friends: Xenia, Interstate Relations, and the Ring of Polycrates, paper to be delivered at the American Philological Association Annual Meeting, January 6, 2007

Papers Read

Sojourner in the Land: A Comparative Perspective on the Resident Alien in Late Period Egypt, paper delivered at the conference Walls of the Ruler: Fortifications, Police Beats, and Military Checkpoints in Ancient Egypt, University of Wales Swansea, May 22-24, 2006

The Function of the Early Periploi, paper delivered at the Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Midwest and South, April 6, 2006

Did a Greek Invent the First True Alphabet?, Annual Meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians, Columbia, MO, May 2005

Geographical Ekphrasis in the Odyssey, Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Midwest and South, Madison, WI, March 2005 Dedications to Greek Sanctuaries by Foreign Kings in the Seventh and Sixth Centuries BCE, American Philological Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 5, 2003

Herodotus and the Measurement of Distance, American Philological Association Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, January 6, 2002

Greeks in Mixed Communities in the Eastern Mediterranean in the Early Iron Age, Association of Ancient Historians Annual Meeting, Lubbock, TX, May 3-6, 2001

"The Mercenary in Archaic Greece," American Philological Association Annual Meeting, Washington, D.C., December 27-30, 1998

"Strabo and Homer," American Philological Association Annual Meeting, New York, December 27-30, 1996

Field Experience

Trench supervisor, American School Excavations at Corinth, May-July 1995 Chief excavator: Charles K. Williams III

Assistant surveyor, Corinth Computer Project, June-August 1992, 1993 Chief investigator: David Romano

Volunteer, excavations at Tel Jezreel, Israel, June-August 1990, 1991 Participating institutions: British School at Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University Chief excavators: David Ussishkin, John Woodhead

Other Work Experience

Assistant Editor, Jewish Quarterly Review, April-August 1997

Editorial Consultant, Time-Life Books, June-August 1997

Lab assistant (volunteer), Museum Applied Science Center for Archaeology, U. of Pennsylvania, 1990-91

Research assistant for Mervyn Popham, Eretria Museum, Greece, summer 1989

Academic and Other Service

Curriculum Committee, College of Arts and Sciences, UNF, 2005General Education Council, UNF, 2003-5 Coordinator, Classical Civilization minor, UNF, 1999Member, Core Committee, Department of History, UNF, 1999UNF Head Librarian Search Committee, 2002-03 Member, Graduate Committee, Department of History, UNF, 2002-03 Member of Telluride Association, a foundation dedicated to promoting educational projects for high-school and college students, 1986-

Languages

Ancient: Ancient Greek, Latin, Biblical Hebrew, Aramaic and Phoenician Modern: French, German, Modern Greek

References

Dale Clifford, Associate Professor and Chair, Department of History, University of North Florida, 4567 St. Johns Bluff Road S., Jacksonville, FL 32224

James D. Muhly, Director Emeritus, American School of Classical Studies, 54 Odos Souidias, Athens 106 76 Greece

Jeremy McInerney, Associate Professor of Classical Studies, 201 Logan Hall, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104

David G. Romano, Senior Research Scientist, Mediterranean Section, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, 3260 South Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6324