Department of Classical Studies
201 Logan Hall
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia PA 19104
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Tel: 215-898-8619
e-mail: jmcinern@sas.upenn.edu
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~jmcinern/
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Position:
Davidson Kennedy Professor,
Dept of Classical Studies,
Graduate Chair, Graduate Group in Ancient History,
University of Pennsylvania
Degrees:
PhD. (University of California, Berkeley, 1992)
M.A. (University of California, Berkeley, 1986)
B.A.(Hons 1), Dip.Ed. (Macquarie University, N.S.W., Aus. 1980)
Book:
The Folds of Parnassos: Land and Ethnicity in
Ancient Phokis. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1999.
The Cattle of the
Sun: Herding and Sanctuaries in Ancient Greece. ( Princeton:
Princeton University Press, forthcoming)
Work in Progress:
Acropolis and Miyako. East and West in the Classics of Greece and Japan
(Under consideration with University of Pennsylvania Press) Coauthor
with William LaFleur
“There will be blood: the Cult of Artemis Tauropolos at Halai
Araphenides.” (forthcoming)
“Timagenes (88).” Brill's New Jacoby. Editor in Chief: Ian
Worthington, (University of Missouri - Columbia). Brill, 2008.
Brill Online. BNJ-contributors.
“Phocis.” In H. Beck and P. Funke, eds. Greek Federal States (“The New
Larsen”) (Cambridge University Press)
“Polis and koinon: the mechanics of Greek
Federalism.” In H. Beck, ed., Blackwell Companion to Ancient Greek
Government (Blackwell)
Articles:
“Interpreting Funerary Inscriptions from the City of
Rome,” (Under consideration at American Journal of Ancient History)
“Dexippos (100).” Brillʼs New Jacoby. Editor in
Chief: Ian Worthington, (University of Missouri - Columbia).
Brill, 2008. Brill Online. BNJ-contributors.
http://www.brillonline.nl/subscriber/entry?entry=bnj_a100
“Herakleides Kritikos (369A).” Brillʼs New Jacoby. Editor in Chief: Ian
Worthington, (University of Missouri - Columbia). Brill, 2008.
Brill Online. BNJ-contributors.
http://www.brillonline.nl/subscriber/entry?entry=bnj_a369A
“Freedom and the Free Man,” in J. Ciprut (ed.) "FREEDOM":
Reassessments and Rephrasings. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press 2009. pp.
31-51
“Arrian and the Greek Alexander Romance,” Classical
World 100 2007 424-430.
“Did Theseus slay the Minotaur?” BAR 32.6 2006 28-43
“On the Border: Sacred land and the margins of the
community,” in R. Rosen and I. Sluiter (eds) City, Countryside,
and the Spatial Organization of Value in Classical Antiquity.
Leiden: Brill, 2006. pp. 33-59.
““Do you see what I see?”: Plutarch and Pausanias at
Delphi” in L. de Blois (ed.) The Statesman in Plutarch’s Works.
Proceedings of the Sixth International Congress of the International
Plutarch Society, (Nijmegen/ Hernen, May 2002) vol. 1. Mnemosyne
Supplement. Leiden: Brill, 2004. pp. 43-55.
“Nereids, Colonies and the Origins of Isegoria”
in R. Rosen and I. Sluiter (eds), Freedom of Speech in Classical
Antiquity. Leiden: Brill, 2004. pp. 21-40.
“Polis” and “Agora” in K. Christensen and D.
Levinson (eds), Encyclopedia of Community: From the Village to the
Virtual World. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2003.
“Plutarch’s Manly Women” in R. Rosen and I. Sluiter
(eds), Andreia. Studies in Manliness and Courage in Classical
Antiquity. Leiden, Brill, 2003. pp. 319-344.
“Ethnic Identity and Altertumswissenschaft”,
in D. Tandy (ed.), Prehistory and History: Ethnicity, Class and
Political Economy. Montreal: Black Rose Books, 2001. pp. 85-112.
“Ethnos and Ethnicity in Early Greece”, in I. Malkin
(ed.), Ancient Perceptions of Greek Ethnicity. Cambridge,
Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2001. pp. 51-73.
“Parnassus, Delphi, and the Thyiades”, GRBS
38 3 (1997) [1999] 263-283.
“The Phokikon and the Hero Archegetes”, Hesperia 66
2 (1997) 193-207.
“An Athenian Dedication to Herakles at Panopeus”, Hesperia
66 2 (1997) 261-269.
(coauthor with J. McK. Camp III et al.)
“Politicizing the Past: the Atthis of Kleidemos”, Classical
Antiquity 13 1 (1994) 17-37.
“A Trophy from the Battle of Chaeroneia of 86 BC.”, American
Journal of Archaeology 96 (1992) 443-455. (coauthor with J. McK.
Camp III et al.)
Encyclopedia entries:
“Philomelos,” in
Wiley- Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Ancient History (forthcoming)
“Sacred Wars,” in
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (forthcoming)
“Phocis,” in The
Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (forthcoming)
“Dexippus of
Athens,” in Wiley- Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Ancient History
(forthcoming)
“Onomarchos,” in
Wiley- Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Ancient History (forthcoming)
“Phokis
region,” in Wiley- Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Ancient History
(forthcoming)
Sixteen entries for
Wiley-Blackwell’s Homer Encyclopedia (on ethnicity and ethnic groups in
Central Greece) (forthcoming)
“Polis” and “Agora”
in K. Christensen and D. Levinson (eds), Encyclopedia of Community:
From the Village to the Virtual World. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2003.
Reviews:
J. Hart, Herodotus and Greek History in Ancient Society 15.1 1985
P. Arnaud and P. Counillon, eds., Geographica Historica. Ausonius
Études 2. Bordeaux -- Nice: Ausonius, 1998 in Bryn Mawr
Classical Review 2000
Jack L. Davis (ed.), Sandy Pylos. An Archaeological
History from Nestor to Navarino Austin, TX: University of Texas Press,
1998 in International Journal of the Classical Tradition 7 2000/2001
A. Bresson, La cité marchande Ausonius.
Scripta Antiqua 2. Paris, De Boccard, 2000 in Classical Review 52.2 2002
Martin Bernal, Black Athena Writes Back. Martin
Bernal responds to his critics ed. David Chioni Moore. Durham: Duke
University Press, 2001 in History: Reviews of New Books 30.4 2002
Jonathan M. Hall, Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and
Culture. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2002 in
International History Review 2003
Andrew Wolpert, Remembering Defeat: Civil War and
Civic Memory in Ancient Athens Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University
Press. 2002 in American Historical Review 2003
Benjamin Isaac, The Invention of Racism in Classical
Antiquity Princeton¨ Princeton University Press, 2004 in Social
History 2005.
Angela Kühr, Als Kadmos nach Boiotien
kam. Polis und Ethnos im Spiegel thebanischer Gründungsmythen (=
HERMES Einzelschriften, Bd. 98), Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006
in sehepunkte 8 (2008), Nr. 4 [15.04.2008], URL:
http://www.sehepunkte.de/2008/04/13593.html
John Buckler and Hans Beck, Central Greece and the
Politics of Power in the Fourth Century BC Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press, 2008, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.08.71
Conference, Seminar and Colloquia Papers:
“Pausanias, the Phokikon and the Hero Archegetes”,
Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting, 1990.
“Foundation Myth and the Phokian Ethnos”, American
Philological Association Annual Meeting, 1991.
“The Areopagos on the Eve of Salamis”, American
Philological Association Annual Meeting, 1993.
“Roman Funerary Inscriptions”, University of
Pennsylvania Classical Studies Colloquia, Nov. 1994.
“Ethnic Identity and Altertumswissenschaft”, Joint
Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association and the
Archaeological Institute of America, 1996.
“Delphi, Parnassos and the Thyiades”, University of
Pennsylvania Classical Studies Colloquia, April, 1997.
“Ethnos, ethnicity and the polis", Center for
Hellenic Studies Colloquium on Ancient Perceptions of Greek Ethnicity,
August 1997.
“Ethnicity and Research in Greek History”, Columbia University
Colloquium on Ethnicity in the Ancient World, October, 1998
“On the Border: Sacred Land in Ancient Greece”, Princeton University
Seminar on the Ancient Economy, November 1998.
“Local Myth and Ethnic Identity: Ethnogenesis in
Early Greece”, Princeton University Program in the Ancient World,
October 1999.
“Plutarch’s Virtuous Women”, University of Sydney
Classics Colloquium, April, 2000
“Plutarch’s Manly Women”, Penn-Leiden Conference on
Andreia, Leiden, June, 2000
“Plutarch and Pausanias at Delphi”, Colloquium of
the International Plutarch Society, Nijmegen, May 2002
“Hesiod’s Nereids and the Speech of Men”, Penn-Leiden Conference on
Free Speech, June, 2002
“Do you see what I see? Plutarch and Pausanias at Delphi”, Swarthmore
College Classics Colloquium, November, 2002
“Freedom and the Free Man”, Freedom: a Cross-campus
Conversation at Penn, December 2003.
“Do you see what I see? Plutarch and Pausanias at
Delphi”, Penn Classics Colloquium, February, 2004.
“On the Border: the eschatiai and sacred land,”
Penn-Leiden Conference on City and Countryside, June, 2004.
“Arrian and the Greek Alexander Romance” Conference
of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States, October, 2004
“Ritual, Prayer and Dance in Greek Religion,”
Macquarie University Ancient History Colloquium, March, 2005
“Greek Sanctuaries: Location and function in Greek
religious topography,” Society for Biblical Literature Annual meeting,
November 2005
“Sacred Law, Sacred Money: The Problem of Authority
in the Early Greek Polis,” Penn Classics Colloquium, September, 2007.
“Ethnicity and Barbarism in the World of the Early Greek City-State,”
Princeton University Seminar on Racism and Ethnic Hatred in Classical
Antiquity, February 2008
“Does Ancient History Matter? Thinking about Antiquity in Modern World
Situations,” St Joseph’s University Philosophy Colloquium (2008)
“There will be Blood. The Cult of Artemis Tauropolos at Halai
Araphenides,” The 32nd Costas Memorial Lecture, Brooklyn College, May
2008
““A sacred place ... named from the Tauric country”: Using foreignness
to create identity in 5th century Athens,” Theoretical Archaeology
Group, University of Southhampton, Dec. 2008
“Ethnic Identity: Ancient and Modern,” Princeton University Seminar on
Racism and Ethnic Hatred in Classical Antiquity, February 2009
“Reading Thucydides in Washington,” Hauenstein Center for Presidential
Studies, Grand Valley State University, April, 2009
“Fleischgeist: Introductory remarks for Meat: Killing, Consuming and
Commodifying Animals. A Conference at the University of Pennsylvania,
May, 2009
“Cattle Markets in Classical Athens,” Meat: Killing, Consuming
and Commodifying Animals. A Conference at the University of
Pennsylvania, May, 2009
“Sacred Law, Sacred Money: The Problem of Authority in the Early Greek
Polis” Macquarie University Ancient History Colloquium, June, 2009
“Sacred Law, Sacred Money: The Problem of Authority in the Early Greek
Polis” Seminar für Alte Geschichte,
Albert-Ludwigs-Universität, Freiburg, July 2009
Talks and Responses:
“Philip's Tomb and Macedonian Archaeology”,
University of Pennsylvania Greek Students Association. (1992).
“Jews, Greeks and Romans”, Jewish Community Centers of Philadelphia
(1993).
“The Jewish community in Alexandria”, Jewish Community Centers of
Philadelphia (1993).
“Archaeology and the Macedonians”, Widener University Greek Student
Association (1993).
“Crime and Punishment in Ancient Rome”, University of Pennsylvania
Ancient Studies Group (1994).
“Dead Romans Speak”, University of Pennsylvania Ancient Studies Group
(1994).
“Delphi and the Cults of Parnassos”, University of Pennsylvania Museum
Docents Continuing Education Lecture Series (1997).
“Dinner with Trimalchio”, Bread Upon the Waters Scholarship Lecture
(1997).
“Town and Country: Lessons from the Greek
Countryside”, University Museum Docents’ Committee (1998)
“Spare the Conquered, Throw down the Proud: Rome’s
Imperial Mission”, Camden County College, New Jersey (1999)
“Alexander the Great and the Conflict of Cultures”,
The American Forum For Global Education, New York (1999)
“Homer and the Greek Hero”, Camden County College,
New Jersey (2000)
“Greece, Rome and the War with Iraq”, Penn Senior
Associates (2003)
“Collegia, Fascism and the Mistakes of the Past,”
Penn Graduate Conference on Religious Associations in the Ancient
World. (2003)
“The Patriot Act: a Classical Greek Perspective,”
Penn ACLU Forum on the Patriot Act (2003)
“On Freedom: the Greek Perspective” Waverly Estates
Guest Speaker series (2004)
“Oliver Stone’s Alexander: A modern instance of the
Alexander Romance,” Princeton Classics Department Panel Discussion of
Oliver Stone’s Alexander (2004)
“Ethics and the Undergraduate Experience,” Penn High
School Ethics Forum (2005)
“The Maccabaean Revolt,” Congregation Kesher Israel
(2005)
“What’s Greek about Greek Life,” Sigma Nu
Fraternity, U. of Pennsylvania (2005)
Response Paper to Lynn Meskell, “Figurine Worlds at
Catalhöyük: Materiality, Mobility and Process”, Ethnohistory
Program, U. of Pennsylvania (2005)
“Using PowerPoint,” U. of Pennsylvania Center for
Teaching and Learning Faculty Seminar Series (2007)
“Greeks, Persians and the Origins of the East versus West Conflict,”
Camden County College, New Jersey (2007)
“Where’s the Beef? Meat in the World of the Greek Polis,” U. of
Pennsylvania Philomathean Society (2008)
“How to use PowerPoint (and how Not to!),” U. of Pennsylvania Center
for Teaching and Learning Faculty Seminar Series (2008)
“Hanukkah and the Classics,” University of Pennsylvania Lubavitch House
(2008)
Response Paper to Richard Billows, “Thucydides’ Paradigm of Civil War”
Ancient History Colloquium of the Atlantic States (2009)
“Commerce in Ancient Athens,” Silchester Investors Annual Meeting (2009)
“Greeks and Persians. Cultures in Conflict,” Hellenic University Club
of Philadelphia (2009)
Excavation Experience:
1990 Kavousi Excavation. (East Krete).
1989 Kavousi Excavation. (East Krete).
1989 A.S.C.S. Ancient Corinth Excavations. (Greece)
1988 U.C. Berkeley /Tel Dor Archaeological Expedition. (Israel)
1988 Caesarea Ancient Harbor Excavation Project. (Israel)
Awards:
2006 Davidson Kennedy Term Professorship in the College
2002 Lindback Award for Teaching, University of Pennsylvania
2000 Ira H. Abrams Memorial Award for Distinguished Teaching
2000 University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation Grant
1994-1998 Laura Jan Meyerson Term Professor in the Humanities
1994-1995 University of Pennsylvania Research Foundation Grant
1991-1992 Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology Fellowship,
U.C. Berkeley
1989-1991 Pritchett Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley
1988-1989 Wheeler Fellowship, American School of Classical Studies,
Athens
1987-1988 Wall/Almond Fellowships, U.C. Berkeley
1986-1987 Almond Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley
1985-1986 Wall Fellowship, U.C. Berkeley