Hilary Becker curriculum vitae

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1 Hilary Becker curriculum vitae The University of Mississippi, Department of Classics 26 Bryant Hall; P.O. Box 1848; University, MS EDUCATION The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology, May Dissertation: Production and Consumption in North Etruria during the Archaic and Classical Periods. The World of Lars Porsenna. Advisor, Nicola Terrenato. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. M.A. in Classical Archaeology, May Thesis: The Etruscan castellum: fortified settlements and regional autonomy in Etruria. Advisor, Nicola Terrenato. Bryn Mawr College, A.B. magna cum laude with departmental honors, May Major: Classical and Near Eastern Archaeology; Minor: Latin. Advisor, Jean MacIntosh Turfa. Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, Rome, Italy. Spring University of Texas at Austin. Summer Audited 12 hours of Ancient Greek. CURRENT POSITION The University of Mississippi. Assistant Professor of Classics PREVIOUS ACADEMIC POSITIONS Davidson College, Department of Classics. Visiting Assistant Professor American Academy in Rome, Summer Program in Archaeology. Assistant Director Oberlin College, Department of Classics. Visiting Assistant Professor Washington and Lee University, Department of Classics. Visiting Assistant Professor The College of William & Mary, Department of Classical Studies. Visiting Assistant Professor TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS Etruscan, Roman, and Greek art and archaeology; ancient economy; ancient warfare; pigment trade; Latin and Etruscan epigraphy. RESEARCH AWARDS AND GRANTS National Science Foundation Grant. State Formation and Urbanization in EIA Rome: Investigating the Role of the Exchange and Human- Environment Interactions. Co- principal Investigator, Area Sacra di Sant Omobono Project, Rome Grant no $244, The Arthur and Joyce Gordon Fellowship in Latin epigraphy at the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies at The Ohio State University. July $1,500. Summer Research Grant from the Liberal Arts College, University of Mississippi. Summer 2013 and $15,000. Faculty Travel Support, Office of Research and Sponsored Programs, University of Mississippi. $750 (Summer 2013); $1,000 (Fall 2013); $1,000 (Fall 2014). Archaeological Institute of America. Society Outreach grant for an event (Davidson chapter). Spring $600. Dean Rusk Grant for International Travel. Davidson College. Summer $1,000. Faculty Study & Research Award. Davidson College. Summer $1,500. H. H. Powers Grant for Summer Travel. Oberlin College. Summer $2,200. Etruscan Foundation Research Fellowship. ($7,500 to support a reinvestigation of the archaeological materials from the Area Sacra di S. Omobono ) Dissertation Completion Fellowship, UNC- Chapel Hill Timothy P. Mooney Fellowship, Research Laboratories of Archaeology, UNC- Chapel Hill Fulbright Full Grant to Italy for TEACHING AWARDS AND GRANTS Humanities Teacher of the Year, University of Mississippi Cora Lee Graham Award for Outstanding Teaching of Freshmen University of Mississippi. (One awarded annually). Random Acts of Kindness Award from the Student Alumni Council. University of Mississippi Faculty Summer Stipend Competition for a Course Development Grant for Who Owns the Past? : Ethics in Archaeology. Sally Barksdale Honors College, University of Mississippi. Summer $4,000. Professor Props, Favorite Mentor Nominee. Nominated by first- year students at Oberlin College

2 Hilary Becker 2 ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK Co- Principal Investigator. Area Sacra di S. Omobono, Rome, Italy. Summer present. Finds consultant and academic advisor, Gabii Project. Nicola Terrenato, project director. Summer Finds supervisor, Torre di Donoratico. Nicola Terrenato, project director Co- director, finds laboratory at Podere Cosciano. Nicola Terrenato, project director. Summer Excavator at Podere Cosciano, Italy. Nicola Terrenato, project director. Summer Field school student, University of Alberta excavations at Ossaia, Italy. Summer BOOKS (* indicates peer review) Commerce in color: Pigment shops, pigmentarii, and the concerns of supplying the Roman empire with pigments (manuscript in preparation) Co- editor with M. Gleba, Votives, Places and Rituals in Etruscan Religion. Leiden: Brill.* Reviewed by: Ingrid Krauskopf, AJA (2010); Liza Cleland, BMCR ; David Ridgway, Ancient East and West 10 (2011): ; Richard De Puma, CR 60.2 (2010): ARTICLES IN PRESS/ IN CIRCULATION (* indicates peer review) Forthcoming, fall Additions to the corpus of the mason s marks at S. Omobono In Ricerche nell area dei templi di Fortuna e Mater Matuta, I. Edited by P. Brocato and N. Terrenato. Collana del Dipartimento di Archeologia e Storia delle Arti. Cosenza. Forthcoming, December Luxuria prolapsa est: Etruscan wealth and decadence, In Blackwell Companion to the Etruscans. Edited by A. Carpino and S. Bell. London: Blackwell.* Forthcoming. Economy in the Archaic and Classical Periods, BC In Handbook of Etruscology. Edited by A. Naso. Berlin: de Gruyter.* Forthcoming. Economy in the Late Classical and Hellenistic Periods, BC In Handbook of Etruscology. Edited by A. Naso. Berlin: de Gruyter.* Forthcoming. Economy in Etruria and Rome, BC. In Handbook of Etruscology. Edited by A. Naso. Berlin: de Gruyter.* Forthcoming. Evidence for Etruscan archives: Tracking the epigraphic habit in tombs, the sacred sphere, and at home. In Etruscan Literacy in its Social Context. Accordia and the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London. Forthcoming. Roman women in the urban economy: occupations, social connections, and gendered exclusions in Women in Antiquity: Real Women Across the Ancient World. Edited by J. Turfa and S. Budin. London: Routledge R. Beeston and H. Becker. Investigation of Ancient Roman Pigments by Portable X- ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Polarized Light Microscopy In Archaeological Chemistry VIII. American Chemical Society Symposium Series. Edited by R. A. Armitage and J. Burton, Washington, D.C.: American Chemical Society.* Etruscan Political Systems and Law. In The Etruscan World. Edited by J. Turfa, London: Routledge.* The current state of artifacts excavated at S. Omobono and a reappraisal of previously excavated materials. In Internet Archaeology.* The Written Word and Proprietary Inscriptions in Etruria. Etruscan Studies 13: * The economic agency of the Etruscan temple: Elites, dedications and display. In Votives, Places and Rituals in Etruscan Religion. Edited by M. Gleba and H. Becker, Leiden: Brill, 2009.* Urbs, oppidum, castellum, vicus: settlement differentiation and landscape nomenclature in Etruria. In La città murata in Etruria: XXV th Convegno di Studi Etruschi ed Italici, Chianciano Terme, Sarteano, Chiusi, 30 marzo- 3 aprile 2005: in memoria di Massimo Pallottino. Edited by G. Camporeale, Pisa: F. Serra [2006]. The Etruscan castellum: fortified settlements and regional autonomy in Etruria. Etruscan Studies 9: * ARTICLES IN PREPARATION Membra disiecta: a reappraisal of the inscribed Grotta Oscura blocks from S. Omobono. Numerals on Etruscan helmets. (Will submit for consideration to Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, November 2015). A pigment shop in the Area Sacra di S. Omobono (Rome). Quis furor est census corpore ferre suos!: Color costs and conspicuous consumption in ancient Rome.

3 Hilary Becker 3 ENCYCLOPEDIA ENTRY Villanovan Culture. In Wiley- Blackwell's Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Edited by R. Bagnall. BOOK REVIEW Review of Vedia Izzet, The Archaeology of Etruscan Society (Cambridge 2007). Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ( ). PAPERS Pigment Prices: Costs, Fraud, and the Concerns of Roman Pigmentarii, at the 117 th meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. San Francisco, CA. January 6-9, Communal standards: Coinage and weight systems in Etruria at the research workshop, Monetization in the Ancient World. University of Auckland. Auckland, New Zealand. August 26, The Changing Face of South Etruria: the Romanization of infrastructure at Caere and Tarquinia, in the panel New synergies? The impact of the Roman conquest of Italy on settlement and society at the Eleventh Roman Archaeology Conference (RAC). University of Reading. Reading, England. March 28 th Boundaries and integration: the social, political, and sacral mechanics of Etruscan markets, at Frontiers in the Iron Age Archaeology of Europe hosted by Magdalene College and the McDonald Institute, Cambridge. September 20 th - 22 nd, Beeston, R. and Becker, H. Roman Rainbow: Investigation of Ancient Pigments by Portable X- ray Fluorescence Spectroscopy and Polarized Light Microscopy. National Meeting of the American Chemical Society, New Orleans, LA. April 8, Colors and Commerce: Pigment Shops in the Ancient World, co- presented with Laura Wilke (Oberlin 10) at the 112 th meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. San Antonio, TX. January 08, Group identity and the preservation of kinship- based memory in Etruria, at Etruscan Literacy in its Social Context hosted by Accordia and the Institute of Classical Studies, University of London. London. September 22, The ethos of the warrior in Etruscan society, at the Eighth Roman Archaeology Conference (RAC). Ann Arbor, MI. April 5, Public, Private and Clan Property in Etruria, at the 110 th meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. Philadelphia, PA. January 10, Family Identity and Promotion in Etruria, at Communicating identity in Italic Iron Age communities. National Museum of Denmark. Copenhagen, Denmark. October 23-24, Family Identity and Heraldic Signs in Etruria, at the 109 th meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. Chicago, IL. January 4, The Economic Agency of the Etruscan Temple: Elites, Dedications and Display, at Unveiling Etruscan Ritual. Philadelphia, PA. November 17, The Case for Etruscan Markets, at the 108 th meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. San Diego, CA. January 7, Charismatic power and the private armies of Rome and Etruria: condottieri, bella privata, and mercenaries, at the 138 th meeting of the American Philological Association. San Diego, CA. January 6, Urbs, oppidum, castellum, vicus: settlement differentiation and landscape nomenclature in Etruria, at La città murata in Etruria, XXV th Convegno di Studi Etruschi ed Italici. Chianciano Terme, Italy. March 30, You can take it with you: economic implications of elite funerary consumption at Chiusi, at the 106 th meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. Boston, MA. January 7, Roman roads as indices of Romanization in Southern and Northern Etruria, at The Etruscans and the Others, colloquium of the U.S. Section of the Istituto di Studi Etruschi ed Italici. New York City. April 2-3, The Etruscan castellum: fortified settlements and regional autonomy in Etruria, at the Etruscans Now Conference, The British Museum. December 9-11, Place names: landscape nomenclature in Etruria, at Place and Space: Creation of Setting in the Roman World, McMaster University. September 28, The Etruscan castellum: fortified settlements and regional autonomy in Etruria, at the annual meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South. Austin, TX. April 6, 2002.

4 Hilary Becker 4 INVITED LECTURES The iconography of a life in arms: the Etruscan soldier at war, at home, and at the tomb. Lecture for Dr. Martha Risser s Greek and Roman architecture class at Trinity College. November 10, The science of Roman wall painting: Pliny, pigments, and polychromy. Dorinda J. Oliver Lecturer. Trinity College (Hartford, CT), Hartford chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America. November 9, The economy of color in ancient Rome: A case study of the pigment trade. Annual Humanities Teacher of the Year lecture, Mississippi Humanities Council. October 28, Contextualizing Roman pigments: ancient trade and modern science. Mississippi State. MSU Anthropology and Middle Eastern Cultures Brown Bag. October 23, The science of Roman wall painting: Pliny, pigments, and polychromy. Auckland, New Zealand. August 21, The science of Roman frescoes. Lecture followed by a fresco painting practicum. St. Andrew s Episcopal School. April 24, 2014; Millsaps College. October 4, The science of Roman wall painting: Pliny, pigments, and polychromy. Oxford Science Café. Oxford, MS. April 23, The iconography of a life in arms: the Etruscan soldier at war, at home, and at the tomb. The Seventh Annual Paul Rehak Memorial Symposium in Ancient Art. University of Kansas (Lawrence KS). March 13, A Roman Rainbow: a Chemical and Archaeological Investigation of an Ancient Pigment Shop. Talk delivered with Dr. Ruth Beeston (Chemistry, Davidson College). November 15, Introduction to Etruscan epigraphy. Lecture given for Dr. Bill Ringle s class Language Before History, Davidson College. April 28, The Written Word and Proprietary Inscriptions in Etruria. Richmond, VA, chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America. April 9, Contextualizing Etruscan Sanctuaries. University of Massachusetts at Amherst. October 15, You can take it with you: economic implications of elite funerary consumption at Chiusi. Lecture for the Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica (AIAC). Rome, Italy. May 16, Presentation on the American educational system, given at the Liceo Scientifico Statale Primo Levi in Rome, Italy, at the behest of the U.S. Department of State for International Education Week. November Highlights of the Faliscan and Etruscan collections in the Museo Nazionale Etrusco di Villa Giulia. Lecture given to the Fellows of the American Academy in Rome. November 3, Etruscan road networks: principles of construction and notes on Etruscan topography, Lecture given for Dr. Thomas Elliott s class, Roman Roads, Itineraries, and Land Travel. UNC- Chapel Hill. April CONFERENCE SESSIONS AND COLLOQUIA ORGANIZED Co- organizer of Kings, Clans and Conflict: Italic warfare in the 1st millennium B.C., at the Eighth Roman Archaeology Conference (RAC). Ann Arbor, Michigan. April 5, Co- organizer of The Etruscan objects speak: new linguistic and socio- historical approaches to Etruscan epigraphy, at the 110 th meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. Philadelphia, PA. January 10, Co- organizer of Unveiling Etruscan Ritual: an international symposium, University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. November 17, Co- organizer of Production, Goods, and Marketplaces: the Dynamics of the Etruscan Economy. at the 108 th meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. San Diego, California. January 7, ACADEMIC REFEREEING Referee for Wiley- Blackwell; Oxford University Press (2); Focus Publishing; Etruscan Studies (2); Mouseion; BABESCH. MEDIA COVERAGE Tar Heel Trifecta: Three UNC alumnae receive University of Mississippi teaching honors. teaching- honor/#sthash.pzhjm71b.dpuf Website of the College of Arts and Sciences, University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill. September 19, Who owns the past? Zac Creel, student essay about my Archaeological Ethics course. University of Mississippi Honors Report. Fall Three Receive College of Liberal Arts Teaching Honors. Press release, University of Mississippi. May 9, receive- college- of- liberal- arts- teaching- honors/ posted on HottyToddy.com. May, 16, 2015.

5 Hilary Becker 5 ole- miss- faculty- members- receive- liberal- arts- teaching- awards/ Reconnecting to the past: The Lazarus Project. Daily Mississippian. April 30, to- the- past- the- lazarus- project/ Honors College Class Explores Who Owns The Past? : Classics class visits Metropolitan Museum of Art, Christie's and other antiquities sites over spring break. Press release, University of Mississippi. March 27, ethics Ole Miss students participate in Roman dig. Clarion Ledger. August 2, UM Students Get Hands- on Experience Digging in Rome. Oxford Eagle. July 29, PROFESSIONAL SERVICE Principal faculty advisor for the reinstallation of the Greek and Roman Galleries of the Robinson Collection at the University Museum at the University of Mississippi (over 2,000 objects) Work will lead to an online and print catalog. President, Mississippi/Memphis Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America President, Central Carolinas Chapter (Davidson/Charlotte) of the Archaeological Institute of America: spring Helped increase membership from 9 to 49 members in a year. Received a competitive grant to stage a Parilia festival; this event was featured on the AIA s website: Panelist, Membership Development, 105 th annual meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America. San Francisco, CA. January 4, Program Coordinator, North Carolina Society, Archaeological Institute of America Executive member, North Carolina Society, Archaeological Institute of America SUPERVISION OF STUDENTS i. HONORS THESES a. Juliana Norton ( ): A comparative approach to infant burials in the Mediterranean b. Mary Martin ( ): Spanish olive oil and Roman trade ii. iii. ARCHAEOLOGICAL ETHICS BOWL COACH a. ( ) Coaching a three person team in preparation for the Society for American Archaeology annual meeting, April STUDENT RESEARCH ABROAD a. Collaborated with Laura Wilke (Oberlin College 11) at S. Omobono, Rome (2010). LANGUAGES Latin, Italian, German (reading knowledge), Ancient Greek, French (reading knowledge)

6 Hilary Becker 6 TEACHING EXPERIENCE University of Mississippi (2012- ) Who Owns the Past: Archaeological Ethics (Honors). Spring Roman Archaeology. Spring Ancient Cities. Fall Spring Intermediate Latin 201. Fall 2014 (2 sections); Latin 202. Spring 2015 (1 section). Archaeological Methods. Field School at S. Omobono, Rome. Summer Summer The Etruscans: archaeology, society, and urbanism. Fall Ancient Warfare. Spring Spring Advanced Latin: Cicero. Spring Introductory Latin. Fall 2012 (2 sections); Spring 2013 (1 section); Fall 2013 (2 sections); Spring 2014 (1 section); Fall 2015 (2 sections), Spring 2016 (1 section). Roman Civilization. Fall Winter Term Spring Term Davidson College ( ) The Ancient Economy. Spring Elementary Latin I- II. Fall Spring Intermediate Latin; 2 sections. Fall Roman Literature in Translation. Spring The Etruscans: archaeology, society, and urbanism. Spring Independent Research Project: Cicero in 44 B.C. Spring Greek Art and Architecture. Fall [assumed full instructional responsibility for final four weeks only] Intermediate Latin; 2 sections. Fall Roman Historians: Livy: books 21 and 22. Fall Oberlin College ( ) Ancient Warfare. Spring Intermediate Latin: Cicero. Spring Introductory Latin II. Spring Roman History. Fall Introductory Latin I. Fall Washington and Lee University ( ) Introductory Latin II. Spring Advanced Latin Prose: Livy: Early Roman History. Spring The City of Athens: Society, Culture and Archaeology. Spring Supervised Reading: Livy. Spring Advanced Latin Prose: Seneca. Fall Intermediate Latin Prose: Caesar, Cicero and Augustus; 2 sections. Fall The College of William & Mary ( ) The Archaeology of Sicily and Magna Graecia. Summer (Course taught abroad in Syracuse, Italy). Roman Archaeology and Art. Spring Latin Poetry: Catullus and Vergil. Spring Seminar on Etruscan Archaeology. Fall Latin Prose: Seneca and Pliny the Younger. Fall Advisor, Senior Research Project: Etruscan Women and Sexuality. Fall University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill ( ) Archaeology of Italy (Online course). Spring and Summer Elementary Classical Latin for Graduate Students (Full instructional responsibility). Fall Ancient Cities (Full instructional responsibility). Summer Etruscan and Roman Art (Course design and full instructional responsibility). Spring Intermediate Latin: Caesar and Cicero (Full instructional responsibility). Fall Introductory Latin I and II (Full instructional responsibility). Fall Spring Heroic Journey: Classics in translation (lead discussions for 50 students in 2 sections). Spring 2001.

7 Hilary Becker 7 Roman Civilization (lead discussions 50 students in 2 sections). Fall Ancient Cities (lead discussions 50 students in 2 sections). Spring Instruction assistant, Fall 1999.