RESEARCH INTERESTS Greek historiography, Greek literature and culture, Mythology, Women in Antiquity

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1 EMILY BARAGWANATH Department of Classics CB# 3145, 320 Murphey Hall The University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, NC phone: website: RESEARCH INTERESTS Greek historiography, Greek literature and culture, Mythology, Women in Antiquity EDUCATION DPhil (Classics), University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom, September D.Phil. thesis: Studies in Motivation and Narrative Technique in Herodotus. Supervisor: Prof. C.B.R. Pelling (Oxford). MA (Ancient History), University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, February 2001, First Class Honours. Masters Thesis: Xenophon s Women. Supervisor: Prof. V.J. Gray (Auckland). BA (double majors in Ancient History and English, minor in Italian), University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand, December PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Associate Professor (Greek Prose), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, July 2013 Affiliate Faculty Member of the Curriculum in International and Area Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, Assistant Professor (Greek Prose), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, July Christopher Tower Junior Research Fellow, Christ Church, Oxford, United Kingdom, October 2004 June 2007 Tutor, Visiting Student programme, Mansfield College, Oxford, 2006 Tutor, Advanced Studies in England, Bath, United Kingdom, Instructor, Intercollegiate Language Teaching, Faculty of Classics, Oxford, Tutor in Classics, University College, Oxford, 2003; Magdalen College, Oxford, 2003; Lincoln College, Oxford, 2004; Oriel College, Oxford, ; Trinity College, Oxford, Lecturer, Centre for Continuing Education, University of Auckland, New Zealand,

2 Tutor, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Auckland, HONORS (FELLOWSHIPS & AWARDS) Hettleman Prize (2013) for Artistic and Scholarly Achievement by Young Faculty at UNC-Chapel Hill ($5000) Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers (to spend January 2013 June 2014 in the Seminar für Klassische Philologie, Ruprecht-Karls- Universität Heidelberg) William M. Calder III Fellowship (2012) ($6160) CAMWS (Classical Association of the Middle West and South) Award for Outstanding Publication, for Motivation and Narrative in Herodotus, 2010 One-year Residential Fellowship at Harvard s Center for Hellenic Studies (Washington, D.C), September 2009 May 2010 Faculty Fellowship at the Institute of Arts and Humanities, UNC-Chapel Hill, Fall semester 2009 (declined) Research and Study Leave, College of Arts and Sciences, UNC-Chapel Hill, Spring semester 2009 Junior Faculty Development Award, UNC-Chapel Hill ($7500), January 1 December 31, 2009 Conington Prize (University of Oxford; awarded triennially for best Oxford dissertation in classical literature, textual criticism, and Philology. 1000), 2008 Christopher Tower Junior Research Fellow in Greek Mythology, Christ Church, Rhodes Scholar, University of Auckland Senior Scholarship in Ancient History, 1999 University of Auckland Masters/ Honours Scholarship, University of Auckland Senior Prize in English Literature, 1998 University of Auckland Senior Prize in Greek, 1998 BOOKS 1. Myth, Truth, and Narrative in Herodotus, eds. E. Baragwanath and M.P. de Bakker (2012, Oxford University Press), xi pp. Also published in Oxford Scholarship Online. 2. Motivation and Narrative in Herodotus, Oxford Classical Monographs Series (2008, Oxford University Press), xii pp. Also published in Oxford Scholarship Online. Paperback edition Winner of Conington prize 2008 and of CAMWS Award for Outstanding Publication

3 Reviews: M. Heath, Greece and Rome 56 n. 1 (2009), 99 M. A. Flower, Bryn Mawr Classical Review ( C. Schubert, H-Soz-u-Kult February 2009 ( showrev.php?id=24144) P. I. McMullen, Ancient Narrative 8 (2009), 1-7 A. Griffiths, Journal of Hellenic Studies 129 (2009), F. Toscano, Mediterraneo Antico 12 (2009), H.-M. Tamiolaki, Αριάδνη 15 (2009), R. Friedman, New England Classical Journal 36.4 (2009), K. Geus, Sehepunkte 10.2 (2010), ( /2010/02/14901.html) A. D. Morrison, The Classical Review 60.2 (2010), C. J. Dewald, Hermathena 187, winter issue (2010) H.-J. Kim, Prudentia 39 (2010), P. Payen, Anabases 12 (2010), J. David, Phoenix (2010), R. V. Munson, Mnemosyne 64.1 (2011), W. Blösel, Klio 94 (2012), P. Ceccarelli, Gnomon 85 (2013), in progress: 3. Book under contract: Xenophon (Greek & Roman New Surveys in the Classics, The Classical Association with Cambridge University Press) (manuscript due September 2017) 4. Special Issue of Histos in progress, co-edited with Edith Foster: Clio and Thalia 5. Women, Narrative, and Agency in Xenophon (Monograph) 6. Speeches in Xenophon (Monograph) CHAPTERS 1. Herodotos and the Avoidance of Hindsight, for A. Powell and K. Brodersen (eds.), Hindsight in Greek and Roman History (2013, Classical Press of Wales), (invited) 2. The Wonder of Freedom: Xenophon on Slavery, for C. Tuplin and F. Hobden (eds.), Xenophon: Ethical Principle and Historical Enquiry (2012, E.J. Brill), (refereed) 3. Myth, Truth, and Narrative in Herodotus Histories, co-written with M.P de Bakker, for E. Baragwanath and M.P. de Bakker (eds.), Myth, Truth, and Narrative in Herodotus (forthcoming September 2012, Oxford University Press), (refereed) 3

4 4. Returning to Troy: Herodotus and the Mythic Discourse of his Own Time, for E. Baragwanath and M.P. de Bakker (eds.), Myth, Truth, and Narrative in Herodotus (2012, Oxford University Press), (refereed) 5. The Mythic Plupast in Herodotus, for C.B. Krebs and J. Grethlein (eds.), Time and Narrative in Ancient Historiography: The Plupast from Herodotus to Appian (2012, Cambridge University Press), (conference paper invited; subsequent proceedings refereed) 6. A Noble Alliance: Herodotus, Thucydides, and Xenophon s Procles, for E. Foster and D. Lateiner (eds.) Thucydides and Herodotus (2012, Oxford University Press), (invited) 7. The Non-Combatant Contingent of the Army, Appendix for S. Brennan and D. Thomas (eds.), Landmark Edition of Xenophon's Anabasis (forthcoming Pantheon Books, New York) (invited) in progress or submitted: 8. Staging Other Perspectives: history and drama in Aeschylus, for P. Burian (ed.), Blackwell s Companion to Aeschylus. (submitted. 28 pp.) 9. Knowing Future time in Xenophon s Anabasis, for A. Lianieri (ed.), Knowing Future Time in and through Greek Historiography, Trends in Classics Supplementary volume. (submitted) 10. Set Speeches in Xenophon for M. Flower (ed.) The Cambridge Companion to Xenophon (2016, Cambridge University Press) (in progress) REFEREED PAPERS/ ARTICLES 1. Panthea s Sisters: Negotiating East-West Polarities through Gender in Xenophon, Classical World, invited for special section on Gender, East and West. (conference abstract refereed; journal contribution invited; submitted. 16 pp.) 2. History, Ethnography, & Aetiology in Herodotus Libyan logos, for C. Constantakopoulou and M. Fragoulaki (eds.), Bulletin of Institute of Classical Studies (London) Supplement, The Shaping of the Past: Greek Historiography, Mythography, and Epigraphic Memory. (submitted) 3. Herodotus, in Oxford Bibliographies Online: Classics, edited by D.L. Clayman (New York: Oxford University Press, launched April 2010: co-written with M.P. de Bakker. (invited; peer reviewed. 51 pp.) 4. Xenophon s Foreign Wives Prudentia 33 no. 2 (2002), , republished in V. Gray ed., Xenophon, Oxford Readings in Classical Studies (Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010), (original journal article peer reviewed; book contribution invited) 4

5 BOOK REVIEWS 1. Review of S. Hornblower, A Commentary on Thucydides: Volume III: Books (Oxford: OUP, 2008), for Exemplaria Classica (2011). 2. Review of A. Ward, Herodotus and the Philosophy of Empire (2008) for The European Legacy: Toward New Paradigms 15 n. 2 (2010), Review of J. Marincola, A Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography (2 vols.) (2007) for New England Classical Journal 35 n. 4 (2008), Review of Τ.Ε. Duff, The Greek and Roman Historians for Prudentia 36 no. 2 (2004), Review of D. Hamel, Reading Herodotus: A Guided Tour through the Wild Boars, Dancing Suitors, and Crazy Tyrants of The History (Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2012), for Classical Journal Online (3 pp.) (invited) 6. Review of J. Alaux, Hérodote. Formes de pensée, figures du récit. (Under preparation for BMCR.) OTHER PUBLICATIONS 1. Herodotus entry for Encyclopedia of Conflict in Ancient Greece and Rome, edited by D. Kelly, P. Londey, and I. Spence, ABC-CLIO (2015). (submitted) REFEREED UNPUBLISHED ORAL PRESENTATIONS 1. Authority and Intertextuality in Xenophon s Historical Narrative: the Battle of Mantinea, for Greek Historiography panel, CAMWS (Classical Association of the Middle West and South) Annual Conference, Baton Rouge, LA, March 30, 2012 (refereed) PRESENTATIONS/PAPERS DELIVERED Reading the Future in Xenophon s Anabasis : For APA panel on Xenophon on the Challenges of Leadership (referreed), Chicago, 4 January Serenade on a Blue Guitar: the character and function of speeches in Xenophon : Invited guest lecture at the School of Classics, St Andrews, 8 November Speeches in Xenophon : Invited guest seminar at University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 3 October By Design: History, Ethnography, & Aetiology in Herodotus Libyan logos : Invited guest lecture at University of Crete, Rethymnon, 1 October Invited guest lecture at University of Cyprus, Nicosia, 3 October Knowing Future Time in Xenophon s Historiographical Works : 5

6 Invited speaker for conference on Knowing Future Time in and through Greek Historiography (organized by Alexandra Lianeri, Jonas Grethlein, and Antonis Rengakos) at the University of Thessaloniki, 7 June Intertextuality and Plural Truths in Xenophon s Historical Narrative : Invited speaker for panel on Pluralizing the Past: Truth, Belief and Fictionality in Tragedy and Historiography at the Celtic Classics Conference, Bordeaux, 5-8 September Respondent to papers on panel on Greek Historiography and Attic Comedy, Association of Ancient Historians annual meeting, UNC/ Duke, May 6, Athletes and Oracles at Ancient Delphi : Talk for North Carolina Junior Classical League State Convention (for middle and high school Classics students), UNC-Chapel Hill, April 21, Authority and Intertextuality in Xenophon s Historical Narrative: the Battle of Mantinea : For Greek Historiography panel, CAMWS (Classical Association of the Middle West and South) Annual Conference, Baton Rouge, LA, March 30, 2012 (refereed) (note that this entry appears above in the category of refereed unpublished oral presentations ) Graduate pro-seminar on Narratology : UNC-Chapel Hill Classics Department, Fall 2010 and Spring Exploring Responsibility: Historical Aetiology in Herodotus Libyan Logos : Invited guest lecture at the Department of Classics, NYU, December 15, Invited talk at TOPOI Herodot-Workshop IV, Freie Universität Berlin, April 1-2, Invited talk at conference on Ancient Explanation, Stanford Humanities Center, April 17, The Roads Not Taken: unrealized possibilities in Herodotus Histories : Invited guest lecture at Cornell University Classics Department, April 14, Invited guest lecture at the department of Classical Studies at the College of William and Mary, November 11, Invited guest lecture at the Department of Classical Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington, September 30, Invited speaker for Untold Narratives panel, organized by KYKNOS (Swansea and Lampeter Centre for Research on the Narrative Literatures of the Ancient World) for the Celtic Conference in Classics, Edinburgh University, July 28-31, Putting Xenophon in his Place : Center for Hellenic Studies Fellows talks series, March 18,

7 Minding the Gap: Herodotus and the Mythic Past : Invited guest lecture at the University of Texas at Austin Classics colloquium, February 5, Invited guest lecture at the Penn Classics Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania, November 12, The Wonder of Freedom: Xenophon on Slavery : Invited guest lecture at the Columbia University Classical Civilization Seminar, February 18, For Xenophon: Ethical Principle and Historical Enquiry, International Xenophon Conference (refereed), University of Liverpool, July 8-11, Panthea s Sisters: Negotiating East-West Polarities Through Gender in Xenophon : For WCC (Women s Classical Caucus) panel on Gender, East and West (refereed), American Philological Association Annual Conference, Anaheim, January 9, Memorializing Thermopylae: putting κλέος in context : Invited guest lecture at the University of Virginia, November 6, Invited guest lecture at the University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 24, Invited guest lecture at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, January 26, Returning to Troy: Tragic Allusion and Elusive Truths in Herodotus' Histories : For Australasian Society for Classical Studies Conference (refereed), University of Sydney, February 5, For CAMWS (Classical Association of the Middle West and South), Southern Section (refereed), Asheville, November Mystifying Myth: Herodotus Trojan Wars : Invited talk and discussion-leader (with M.P. de Bakker) at Oxford/Cambridge Classics Triennial, University of Oxford, July Through the lens of Delphi: Understanding the Divine in the Fifth Century B.C. : Invited talk at Humanities Seminar on Religious Tolerance and Intolerance from Antiquity to the Middle Ages, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, June The Persian Fabric of Xenophon s Stories: weaving in the women of Iranian tradition : For Advanced Seminar in the Humanities : Literature and Culture in the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece, Rome, and the Near East (invited: competitive seminar), Venice International University, Sept Mythic Allusion as Fiction in Herodotus Ninth Book : For conference on Herodotus and Myth, University of Oxford, UK, Sept Career Development Seminar: 7

8 Invited presentation at Department of Classics, University of Oxford, UK, May Futures Past: Mythic Allusion in Herodotus Histories : For Classical Association Annual Conference (refereed), Birmingham, UK, April For Better, For Worse : Alternative Motivations in Herodotus Histories : For American Philological Association Annual Conference (refereed), San Diego, January Reader Response Theory : Invited talk at Literary Theory Graduate Seminar, University of Oxford, October Herodotus Mythic Plupast : Invited talk at The Plupast: Embedded Images of the Past in Greek and Roman Historiography, DFG (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft) colloquium, University of Freiburg, Germany, August Women of Mass Destruction: mythological justifications and authorial counteroperations in Herodotus : Invited talk at Myth and Society Conference, UWICAH (The University of Wales Institute of Classics and Ancient History), Gregynog, Wales, May Self-imitation in Herodotus : For Imitation in the Greek Historians panel, Classical Association Annual Conference (refereed), Reading, UK, April Response to paper on Death and the Nile: Herodotus and Egypt : For Oxbridge Graduate Colloquium, University of Oxford, November Herodotean Strategies in depicting Peisistratid Tyranny : For Europaeum Graduate Colloquium, University of Oxford, November Xenophon s Women: Theodote the Courtesan : Invited talk at Auckland Classical Society, Auckland, Xenophon s Tyrant Wives and their Relationships : New Zealand Postgraduate Classics Conference, Canterbury University, Xenophon s Tyrant Women : For departmental seminar, Department of Classics and Ancient History, University of Auckland, September 14, Xenophon s Royal Wives and Herodotean Precedent : New Zealand Postgraduate Classics Conference, Victoria University, Royal Women of Achaemenid Persia : Invited lecture, Greek History Stage 1, University of Auckland,

9 Future papers: Reading the Future in Xenophon s Anabasis : For Australasian Society of Classical Studies in Palmerston North, New Zealand, 29 January Journeying and Arriving home in Xenophon (title tbc): Invited speaker for conference on Home and Away: The Epic Journey, Yale, 25-6 April Myth and History Entwined: Female Agency and Fraternal Strife in the Greek Historians : Invited speaker for conference on Historical Consciousness and Historiography (3000 BC - AD 600), Merton College, Oxford (17-19th September 2014). Paper titles tbc for invited talks at Basel (April 2014), Newcastle (May 2014), Manchester (May 2014), Giessen (May 2014), Hamburg (June 2014). TEACHING RECORD At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill: CLAS 121 The Greeks (Classics, undergraduate): Fall 2010, Fall 2012 GREK 763 Greek Historical Literature: Herodotus (Greek, graduate): Fall 2010 CLAS 409 Greek and Roman Historical Literature (Classics, undergraduate): Fall 2008, Spring 2012 GREK 351 Classical Greek Prose: Xenophon and Thucydides (Greek, advanced undergraduate): Fall 2008 GREK 891 Greek Special Reading (Greek, graduate): Fall 2008 CLAS 089 First Year Seminar: Writing the Past (Classics, undergraduate): Spring 2008, Fall 2011 CLAS 391 The Junior Seminar: Delphi (Greek, Latin, Archaeology, & Classics majors): Spring 2008, Spring 2012 GREK 765 Thucydides (Greek, graduate): Fall 2007, Fall 2011 GREK 351 Classical Greek Prose: Herodotus (Greek, advanced undergraduate): Fall 2007 CLAS 362 Tragic Dimension of Classical Literature (Classics, undergraduate): Fall 2012 GREK 396 Special Readings in Greek Literature: Herodotus (Greek, advanced undergraduate): Fall

10 At the University of Oxford: Tutor, Greek Literature of the Fifth Cent. (Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Thucydides, Herodotus): Trinity College (2006), Lincoln College (2004), University College (2003) Tutor, Herodotus, Visiting Student programme: Mansfield College (2006) Instructor, Intercollegiate Language Teaching, Greek Syntax: Faculty of Classics ( ) Tutor, Euripides: Oriel College ( ) Tutor, Thucydides and the West: Trinity College (2005) Tutor, Greek Language: Magdalen College (2003) At Advanced Studies in England, Bath: Tutor, Greek Language (Poetry: selections from Sophocles Oedipus Tyrannus; Prose: Lysias On the murder of Eratosthenes, selections from Herodotus Histories book I, Xenophon Hiero), At the University of Auckland: Continuing Education: Lecturer, Pot Stories: Mythology in the Vase Painting of Archaic and Classical Greece, 2001 Department of Classics: Tutor, Greek History Stage I, ADVISING/ SUPERVISION Doctoral thesis director, Sarah Miller (UNC), (2012-, in progress) Doctoral dissertation committee member, Ross M. Twele (UNC History department), Sacred War : Religious stimulus for political action in Archaic and Classical Greece (2011-, in progress) Doctoral dissertation committee member, John Esposito (UNC), Hetaireia from Homer to Alexander the Great (2011-, in progress) Doctoral thesis director, Mark Mash (UNC), Humor and Ethnography in Herodotus (completed April 2010) Read and commented on the dissertation prospectus of Derek Smith, Fear, Terror, and Horror in Euripides Hecuba, Heracles, and Bacchae (2010) Greek 891 (graduate Special Reading) advisor, Fred Zimmerman (UNC), Thucydides Presentation of Atrocity in War ( ) M.A. thesis director, Sarah Miller (UNC), Myth, History, and Audience in Thucydides: Harmodius and Aristogeiton (completed Fall 2008; accepted for presentation at the Johns Hopkins Biennial Graduate Classics conference on Aere Perennius: Memory and Posterity in Antiquity, October 2009) 10

11 M.A. thesis director, John Esposito (UNC), Maintaining the boundaries of nomos: phthonotic responses to sociopolitical perturbations in Herodotus' Histories (completed Fall 2008) Doctoral dissertation committee member, Amanda Mathis (UNC), Characterization and Caricature in Apollonius of Rhodes (in progress) M.A. thesis committee member, Misty Joyner (East Carolina University Department of History), Elements of Deception in the Hostilities of the Greco-Persian Wars Doctoral dissertation committee member, Sydnor Roy (UNC), Political Relativism in Herodotus (completed February 2010) Corpus Christi College, Oxford: Supervisor of Third Year Classics Dissertation (Cordula Bachmann), Female Mediators in Herodotus (completed Fall 2007) TEACHER TRAINING Center for Teaching and Learning, UNC, Effective College Teaching Workshop, 2007 Intercollegiate Language Teaching Training (Greek Syntax), Apr. June 2005 Tutorial Teaching Training Day follow-up session, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford, 2005 Tutorial Teaching Training Day, Faculty of Classics, University of Oxford, 2004 Tutor Training Certificate, Centre for Professional Development, University of Auckland, 1999 CONTRACTS AND GRANTS RECEIVED Grant from UNC Johnston Center for Undergraduate Excellence, August 2012, for Greek Tragic Masks for CLAS 362 ($100) Global Studies Conference Presentation Award, ($1000) Departmental Research Support Grant, June 2011-July 2012 ($2000) Center for Hellenic Studies Research Grant, September 2009 ($1000) Small Grant Program, University Research Council Grant, UNC December November 2010 ($2000) Cassas Support, December 2008 ($400) Grants secured for Herodotus and Myth conference, September 2007 (total 9500): British Academy Grant John Fell OUP Fund Grant Craven Committee Grant University of Oxford Classics Faculty Board Grant Christ Church Grant Hellenic Society Grant towards graduate bursaries Christopher Tower Fund grant 11

12 University of Amsterdam grant Venice International University grant for attending Advanced Seminar ( ) Christ Church Conference and Research grants ( ) Classics Faculty Board Travel Grants ( ) Classics Faculty Graduate grant (Apr. 2005) Magdalen College travel grant (Apr. 2003) The Rhodes Trust Conference, Travel and Language grants ( ) PROFESSIONAL SERVICE TO DISCIPLINE Ambassador, APA Development Committee, Jan Member of Advisory Board for The Herodotus Encyclopedia, ed. C. Baron, Wiley Blackwell. Co-organizer with Edith Foster of panel for CAMWS (Classical Association of the Mid West and South) annual meeting on Clio and Thalia: Reconsidering the relation of Attic Old Comedy and Historiography, Iowa City, April 17-20, Co-organizer with Edith Foster of panel for Association of Ancient Historians annual meeting on Greek Historiography and Attic Comedy, UNC/ Duke, May 4-6, 2012 Member of CAMWS (Classical Association of the Mid West and South) Outstanding Publication Committee, Chair of panel on Empire at the Margins at Empire without End Conference, Duke University, Nov. 1, 2008 Admissions interviewing for Classics, Christ Church, Oxford, December 2006 Referee/ reviewer of manuscripts for: Oxford University Press Cambridge University Press Classical Quarterly American Journal of Philology Classical Journal Journal of Hellenic Studies Greece and Rome MEMBERSHIP IN SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS American Philological Association Association of Ancient Historians Australasian Society of Classical Studies (Australia and New Zealand) Classical Association (United Kingdom) Classical Association of the Middle West and South 12

13 Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies (United Kingdom) Women s Classical Caucus PROFESSIONAL SERVICE WITHIN UNC-CHAPEL HILL Departmental: Greek Prose Search committee, Fall 2013-Spring 2014 Committee to revise personnel policies, Fall 2012 Latin Prose Search committee, Fall 2011 Spring 2012 Classics Department Summer School Administrator, 2011 Graduate Examinations committee, , Graduate Admissions committee, 2011, 2012 Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome representative to UNC-Chapel Hill, M.A. committee (committee member), Fall 2008-Spring 2009 UNC Classics department online history project (co-producer with K. Sams and L. de Jong), 2008: please see the fruits of our labours at: Teaching Visitations, Fall present Keeper of Departmental Library, Fall 2007 Spring 2009, Fall 2011-Fall 2012 University Library Representative (together with Prof. emeritus J. Linderski), Fall 2007 Spring 2009, Fall 2011-Fall 2012 Outcomes Assessment Committee (committee chair), Fall 2008 Outcomes Assessment committee, Fall 2007 Spring 2009 Medieval Latin Search committee, Fall 2007 Spring 2008 University: UNC Rhodes Scholarship Committee, Fall 2008, Fall 2010-Fall 2011 OTHER COLLEGIAL/ UNIVERSITY SERVICE Christ Church Senior Common Room Catering Representative, Jan June 2007 University of Auckland Alumni Association invited talk, London, March 2006 Christ Church Senior Common Room committee, Christ Church Junior Research Fellow Representative, Organiser, Herodotus discussion group, University of Oxford, 2005 Organiser, Magdalen College Rhodes Scholarship Centenary Celebration, July 2003 Organiser, Europaeum Graduate Classics conference, University of Oxford, Nov

14 Vice-President, Graduate Common Room, Magdalen College, Oxford, 2002 Executive Committee Member, New Zealand Federation of Graduate Women (Auckland Branch), 2000 OTHER PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE Organized together with Mathieu de Bakker (Amsterdam) an international conference on Herodotus and Myth, held at Christ Church, Oxford, 24-5 Sept (reviewed in Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung Oct ) Participant, Advanced Seminar in the Humanities : Literature and Culture in the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece, Rome, and the Near East, Venice International University, Nov Sept OUTREACH & ACTIVITIES CONNECTED WITH WIDER COMMUNITY Talk on Athletes and Oracles at Ancient Delphi for North Carolina Junior Classical League State Convention (for middle and high school Classics students), UNC-Chapel Hill, April 21, 2012 Co-facilitator of discussion on Ancient Art & Aesop s Fables in the Art and Literature series, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, August 4, 2011 (invited) Adviser to Compton Verney Textile Myths Exhibition, May 2006 Jan Adviser to project for Isis UK Classics Outreach publication on Ancient Fashion, 2006 Talk on Heracles Changing Representation on Greek Vases for School s Day, University of Auckland,