Jeremy McINERNEY
Curriculum Vitae


Department of Classical Studies

201 Logan Hall

University of Pennsylvania

Philadelphia PA 19104

Tel: 215-898-8619

e-mail: jmcinern@sas.upenn.edu

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~jmcinern/

 

Position:

Davidson Kennedy Associate 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.

Articles:

“Dexippos: text, translation, and commentary." in Brill’s New Jacoby (forthcoming)

“Herakleides: text, translation and commentary,” in Brill’s New Jacoby (forthcoming)

“Interpreting Funerary Inscriptions from the City of Rome,” (Under consideration at American Journal of Ancient History)

“Arrian and the Greek Alexander Romance,” Classical World (forthcoming)

“Freedom and the Free Man,” in J. Ciprut (ed.) "FREEDOM": Reassessments and Rephrasings. Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press (forthcoming)

“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.)

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.


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


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)


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:


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