curriculum vitae

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THOMAS F. SCANLON
Professor of Classics
Chair

Department of Comparative Literature and Foreign Languages
University of California
Riverside, California 92501

4630 Indian Hill Road
Riverside, California 92521
(909)682-5747 (res.)

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS :

(1) Greek and Latin Historical Writing; (2) Greek and Roman Athletics, Religion and Gender

EDUCATION :

University of Vienna, post-doctoral Fulbright Fellow, 1978-79

Ohio State University, Ph.D. 1978, M.A. 1975

Corpus Christi College, Cambridge University, dissertation-year fellowship, 1976-77

British School of Archaeology, Athens, Summer 1977

American School of Classical Studies, Summer Session, 1975

Duquesne University, B.A. 1972

EMPLOYMENT :

University of California, Riverside, Department of Literatures and Languages,

Professor of Classics, 1993-present; 1986-1993, Associate Professor; 1981- 86, Assistant Professor.

Graduate and Undergraduate Seminars taught at UCLA, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, and University of Southern California, 1987-present, as part of Southern California Classics Consortium exchanges.

University of California, Los Angeles, Department of Classics, 1980-81, Visiting Lecturer.

University of Maryland, College Park, 1979-80, Visiting Assistant Professor.

SELECT PUBLICATIONS :

(A) Books and Monographs

  1. Eros and Greek Athletics (Oxford Univ. Press, Jan. 2002)
  2. Olympia and Macedonia: Games,Gymnasia and Politics (Thessalonik. Soc.: Toronto,1997)
  3. Spes Frustrata: Hope in Sallust (Carl Winter: Heidelberg, 1987).
  4. Greek and Roman Athletics: A Bibliography (Ares: Chicago, 1984).
  5. The Influence of Thucydides on Sallust (Carl Winter: Heidelberg, 1980).

(B) Articles and Contributions to Books

  1. "The Dispersion of Pederasty and the Athletic Revolution in Sixth-century BC Greece", Journal of Homosexuality, In press.
  2. "Sports and Media in the aAncient World," in Handbook of Sports and Media, A.A. Raney and J. Bryant, eds (Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Inc.) in press.
  3. "'The Clear Truth' in Thucydides 1.22.4", Historia 51 (2002) 131ff.
  4. "Bull Sports, Cults, and Women's Status in Minoan Crete", Nikephoros 12 (1999) 33-70.
  5. Gymnikepaideia: Greek Athletics and the Construction of Culture, Classical Bulletin 74.2 (1998) 143-157.
  6. Reflexivity and Irony in the Proem of Sallust's Historiae, Collection Latomus, Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History 9 (1998) 186-224.
  7. Sports in Mythology, Encyclopedia of World Sports (New York, 1997) Vol. II, pp. 667-675 (double column, large format).
  8. Games for Girls, Archaeology 49.4 (July/August 1996) 32-33.
  9. Echoes of Herodotus in Thucydides: Self-Sufficiency, Admiration and Law, Historia 4 3/2 (1994), 143-176.
  10. Race or Chase at the Arkteia of Attica?, Nikephoros: Zeitschrift fuer Kultur im Altertum 3 (1990) 73-120.
  11. Virgineum Gymnasium:: Spartan Females and Early Greek Athletics, 185-216 in The Archaeology of the Olympics, ed. W. Raschke (Madison: Univ. of Wisconsin, 1988).
  12. Textual Geography in Sallust'sWar with Jugurtha, Ramus 17.2 (1988) 138-175.
  13. Combat and Contest: Athletic Metaphors for Warfare in Greek Literature, 230-244 in Coroebus Triumphs, S. Bandy, ed., (San Diego, San Diego State Univ., 1988).
  14. Ancient Sport in Art and Literature, 215-217 in Coroebus Triumphs, S. Bandy, ed., (San Diego,San Diego State Univ., 1988).
  15. Thucydides and Tyranny, Classical Antiquity 6.2 (1987) 286-301.
  16. Historia quasi fabula:: The Catiline Theme in Sallust and Jonson, 17-29 in J. Redmond, ed., Themes in Drama, vol. 8 (Cambridge, England: Cambr. Univ. Pr., 1986).
  17. The Ecumenical Olympics: The Games in the Roman Era, 37-64 in J. Segrave, ed. The Olympic Games in Transition (Champaign, Illinois, 1986).
  18. Boxing Gloves and the Games of Galienus, American Journal of Philology 107.1 (1986) 111-114.
  19. Greek and Roman Athletics, in Ancient History, S. B. Pomeroy and S. M. Burstein, eds. N.Y.: M. Wiener (1984), (2nd ed., 1986), pp. 145-160.
  20. The Footrace of the Heraia at Olympia, Ancient World 9 (1984) 77-90.
  21. Olympic Dust, The Delphic Laurel, and Isthmian Toil: Horace and Greek Athletics, Arete 1.2 (1984) 163-175
  22. Teaching Ancient Athletics, Laetaberis N.S. No II (Fall 1983), 1-11.
  23. The Vocabulary of Competition: Agon and Aethlos, Greek Terms for Contest, Arete (later, Aethlon) I:l (1983), 147-162.
  24. Greek Boxing Gloves: Terminology and Evolution, Stadion 8-9 (1982/3). 31-45.

11 book reviews in journals of classical studies or history.

 

HONORS AND AWARDS :

Fulbright-Hays Post-doctoral Fellowship (University of Vienna) 1978-79.

Dissertation-year Fellowship (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge) 1976-77.

UC Riverside Junior Faculty Fellowships (Winter 1983 and Winter 1985).

UC Riverside Academic Senate Faculty Research and Travel Grants (two per year, 1981-2001).

UC Riverside Major Grant for Instructional Improvement , 1986-87.

Teaching Assistantships in Classics, Ohio State University, 1973-78.

B.A. cum laude, Duquesne University, 1973.

Modern Language Honor Society (Phi Sigma Iota) 1972-73.

MEMBERSHIPS :

American Philological Association, 1975 to the present.

Senior Visiting Associate Member, American School of Classical Studies, Athens, Aug.-Sept. 1990.

The California Classical Association, Southern Section: 1981 to 1996 (Pres. 1982-83 and 1985-86; Vice Pres. 1981-82; Board Member 1981-87)

The Cambridge Philological Society, 1977 to the present.

Pacific Coast Philological Association, 1984-89, 1996-97.

ADMINISTRATIVE AND SERVICE EXPERIENCE :

(A) University

Chair, Department of Comparative Literatures and Foreign Languages, UC Riverside, March, 1996 to present.

Director, Tricampus Graduate Program in Classics (UC Irvine, UC Riverside, UC San Diego), 1998-2001.

Director, Comparative Ancient Civilization Program, UC Riverside, 1996-2001.

Director, Classics Program, UC Riverside, 1981-1993.

Chair, Classical Studies Major Committee, UC Riverside, 1984-present.

Vice-Chairman, Department of Literatures and Languages, UC Riverside, 1990-96.

Chair, Academic Senate Research Committee, UC Riverside, 1989-90.

Member, Themes in Drama Conference Committee, 1984- present.

Member, College Executive Committee, 1985-87, and 1988-90.

Chair, Foreign Language Requirement Committee, 1986-87.

Chair, Departmental Planning Committee, 1988-90.

Chair, Departmental Advisory Committee, 1990 - 1995.

Sixteen M.A. and Ph.D. Examination Committees, 1982 - present.

Six Dissertation Committees, 1984 - present.

(B) Professional

Chair, Classics Consortium (resource-sharing scheme for six Southern California campuses), 1988-90.

Referee, University of California Press.

Referee, University of Michigan Press.

Referee, Classical Antiquity.

Referee, American Journal of Philology.

Editor, Ancient Sport Literature Section, Aethlon (formerly Arete) : The Journal of Sport Literature, 1983 - present.

Editorial Board Member, Nikephoros (1993-present).

36 public lectures given or papers read since 1983, including four at annual meetings of the American Philological Association (1983, 1985, 1990, 1998), one invited keynote lecture at a conference on Ancient Greek Sport at Texas Tech University, April, 1990, the Ioannides Memorial Lecture at the University of Western Ontario, October, 1990, and the Annual Dimitria Lecture (University of Toronto), 1995; television interviews on 3 programs on The History Channel (1996-present)