Rebecca F. Kennedy Department of Classics, Denison University Department of Classics, Denison University

PO Box 810 Granville, OH 43023 (740) 587-8657 (office) kennedyr@denison.edu

INTERESTS

• Political, Social, and Intellectual History of Classical Athens •Greek Tragedy • Ethnicity and Identity EDUCATION The Ohio State University; Ph.D. Greek and Latin The Ohio State University; M.A. Greek and Latin UC-San Diego; B.A. Classical Studies

June 2003 June 1999 March 1997

Dissertation: Athena/Athens on stage: the goddess Athena in the tragedies of Aeschylus and Sophocles. J. Allison (director); E. Gunderson, V. Wohl (committee) and S. Constantinidis (Dept. of Theater, OSU; outside examiner) EMPLOYMENT HISTORY Denison University: Assistant Professor (2009-present) Union College: Visiting Assistant Professor (2008-2009) The George Washington University: Lecturer/Visiting Assistant Professor (2005-2008) Howard University: Assistant Professor (2003-2005) PUBLICATIONS Monographs (peer reviewed): •Athena’s Justice: Athena, Athens and the Concept of Justice in Greek Tragedy, Lang Classical Series, Vol. 16 (Peter Lang, 2009); Reviewed in Classical Review 60.2:349-351; Greece & Rome 57:390; L'Antiquite Classique 80:249 (in French); Euphrosyne 39:444-445 (in Portuguese); Listy filologické 1-2/2012:185-188 (in Czech). •Immigrant Women in Athens: Gender, Ethnicity, and Citizenship in the Classical City (forthcoming June 1, 2014 with Routledge USA). Edited Volumes (peer reviewed): •Editor, The Routledge Handbook to Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds (with Molly Jones-Lewis; Routledge UK, under contract). •Editor, Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus (Brill Academic Publishers, under contract). Translations (peer reviewed) and Textbooks: •Co-author, translator and editor, Race and Ethnicity in the Classical World: An Anthology of Primary Sources, trans. and ed. R.F. Kennedy, C.S. Roy, and M.L. Goldman (Hackett, 2013). Reviewed Ancient History Bulletin Online 3: 96-99. •Co-author for The Threshold of Democracy: Athens in 403 B.C., 2nd edition. Reacting to the Past. (with J. Ober, M. Carnes, N. Norman, K. Morrell, B. Mulligan, and L. Cox; forthcoming with W.W. Norton). Contributions: “Metics in Athens,” Women in Athens,” “The Athenian Empire,” and “Slavery in Athens.” Additional editorial duties for other sections and contributions to various character and faction roles. Journal Articles and Chapters in Edited Volumes (peer reviewed): •“Justice, Geography and Empire in Aeschylus’ Eumenides” Classical Antiquity 25: 35-72 (2006). • “A Tale of Two Kings: Competing Aspects of Power in Aeschylus’ Persians” Ramus 42: 64-88 (2013). •“Hippocrates at the Fair: Ancient Theories of Ethnicity and Ethnographic Showcases at 19th century American World’s Fairs” in E. Varto ed. Classics and Early Anthropology: A Companion (Brill Academic Publishers, under contract/in progress).

•“Airs, Waters, Places, Peoples, Bodies” in The Routledge Handbook of Identity and the Environment in the Classical and Medieval Worlds (under contract/in progress). • “Redefining the Hetaira in Classical Athens” in progress for Helios. •“The Aeschylean View of Athens in Euripides and Thucydides” in Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus (Brill Academic Publishers, under contract/in progress). Other Contributions: •“Geography in Greek Tragedy” (2000 word encyclopedia essay) in H. Roisman (ed.) The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013). Book Reviews: • Kellog, D. Marathon Fighters and Men of Maple: Ancient Acharnai (Oxford University Press, 2013) in progress for Classical Journal (invited). • Almagor (E.), Skinner (J.) (edd.) Ancient Ethnography. New Approaches (Bloomsbury Academic, 2013) in progress for Classical Antiquity (invited). • Bakewell, G. Aeschylus's Suppliant Women: The Tragedy of Immigration (University of Wisconsin Press, 2013) in progress for Polis (invited). • Skinner, J. The Invention of Greek Ethnography: From Homer to Herodotus (Oxford University Press, 2012) forthcoming, American Journal of Philology 135.2 (forthcoming, invited). •Tzanetou, A. City of Suppliants: Tragedy and the Athenian Empire (University of Texas Press, 2012) forthcoming, The Historian (invited). • Azoulay, V. and P. Ismard (edd.) Clisthène et Lycurgue d’Athènes. Autour du politique dans la cité classique (Publications de la Sorbonne, 2011) Classical Review (2013) 63.2: 496-498 (invited). • McCoskey, D. Race. Antiquity and its Legacy (I.B. Tauris, 2012) Classical Review (2013) 63.1: 260-262 (invited). • Taylor, M. Thucydides, Pericles, and the Idea of Athens in the Peloponnesian War (Cambridge University Press, 2010). New England Classical Journal (2011) 38.2: 115-17 (invited). • Scodel, R. An Introduction to Greek Tragedy (Cambridge University Press, 2011). The Ancient History Bulletin Online Reviews 2011.1.53-55 (invited). • Sowerby, R. The Greeks: an introduction to their culture, 2nd edition (Routledge, 2009). Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.02.36. • Rosenbloom, D. Aeschylus: Persians (Duckworth, 2006) Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.11.24 • Storey, I. and A. Allan A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama (Blackwell, 2005). Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.07.43. • Anderson, G. The Athenian Experiment: Building an Imagined Community in Ancient Attica, 508-490BC (Michigan, 2003). Classical Journal (2005) 100.3:316-318. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS , ORGANIZED PANELS & INVITED TALKS Refereed Papers (graduate student conferences excluded): • “Legal and ‘Sub-legal’ Violence Against Metic Women in Classical Athens” (accepted for “Forms of Violence, Forms of Hierarchy” panel, Celtic Classical Conference 2014) • “An Aeschylean Tale of Fear and Sacrifice in Ismail Kadare’s The Successor” (accepted, CAMWS 2014) • “Elpinikê and the Categorization of Citizen Women and Hetairai” (APA, Jan 2013) • “ ‘Geography Militant’ in the plays of Euripides” (CAMWS, March 2012) • “Freedom and Imperial Ideology in Aeschylus’ Persians”(APA, Jan 2011) • “Herodotus and the Politics of ethnos” (CAMWS, March 2010) • “A Culture of Justice: The Courts in Athenian Tragedy and the Visual Arts” (International Colloquium on Justice in the Ancient Greek and Roman Worlds, University of Western Ontario, March 2010) • “Unjust Athena: An Argument for a Later Date for Sophocles’ Ajax” (APA 2009) • “Redeeming the Maids and Penelope’s Guilt in Atwood’s Penelopiad” (CAMWS 2008)

• “Rethinking the Maids: Teaching Homer’s Odyssey with Atwood’s Penelopiad” (CAAS 2008) • “Dramatizing Defeat: A Tragic Messenger Speech in Thucydides’ History” (CAMWS 2007) • “Freedom and the Origins of Empire in Aeschylus’ Persians” (CAMWS 2006) • “Power, Freedom and Euripides’ Bacchae” (CAMWS 2005) • “Tragic Imperialism: Culture and Empire in 5th Century Athens” (Comparative Drama Conference 2004) • “Athenian Justice: Re-thinking the Fragments of Sophocles’ Ajax Locrus” (CAMWS 2004) • “The Problem of Athena in Sophocles’ Ajax” (CAMWS 2003) • “Ripe for Conquest: Power and Knowledge in Caesar’s Bellum Gallicum” (CAMWS 2002) • “The Problem of Marius in Sallust’s Bellum Jugurthinum” (Ohio Classical Conference, 1999) Refereed Organized Panels: • Panel Organizer and Presider: “The Reception of Aeschylus in International Film, Fiction, and Theatre” (accepted CAMWS, 2014) • Panel Organizer and Respondent: “Theories of Ethnicity in the Ancient Scientific and Technical Writers” (CAMWS, April 2013) Invited Talks: • “Educated and Liberated: Aspasia and the Myth of the Courtesan” Rhodes College (March 2013) • “Mythical Metics and the Ideology of the Metic Woman” University of Cincinnati (Feb 2013) • “Sexual Servitude or Domestic Partnership: Pallakia and Citizen-Metic Relationships after Perikles' Citizenship Law” Vanderbilt University (Feb, 2012) • “Imperial Identity and the Persian King in Aeschylus’ Persians” Ohio Classical Conference (Oct 2010) • “Tyranny, Amnesty and the Death of Socrates” SUNY-Potsdam (invited; April 2009) • “How Obama Became an American: The Rhetoric of ethnos in the 2008 Election” Dept. of Political Science, Union College (March 2009) TEACHING Interests: Greek and Latin language; Greek and Roman history; ethnicity in the classical world; ancient politics and political thought; role-playing and performance pedagogies At Denison:

• CLAS 101: Classical Cultures • CLAS 201: Ancient Greece • CLAS 301: Greek Tragedy • CLAS 301: Ancient Identities (also under the title Race and Ethnicity in Antiquity); cross-listed

with Environmental Studies • CLAS 301: Ancient Art and Politics • GREK 111-112: Beginning-Intermediate Greek (Attic and Homeric) • GREK 211: Greek Prose and Poetry (Lysias 1 and Euripides Alcestis) • GREK 341: Invention of Athens (Funeral Oratory) • GREK 322: Greek Tragedy: Medea • GREK 311: Greek Historiography: Herodotus • GREK 341: Greek Science: Hippocrates, Herodotus, Aristotle, Plato, Hanno • LAT 111-112: Beginning-Intermediate Latin (Wheelock and Oxford) • LAT 211: Latin Prose and Poetry (Catullus, Cicero’s Pro Caelio, Caesar’s Gallic Wars) • LAT 311: Roman Historiography (Caesar Civil War) • FYS 103: Engaging the Mission (Group Advising Seminar; 2011, 2013) • Summer Scholars Advisor—Inbar Scharf, “Judea and the Diaspora: Hellenization in Ancient

Jewish Tradition” and Karly Etz “’Counting Black Sheep’: Ritual Evocation and the Restless Dead in Antiquity” (Summer 2011)

• Summer Scholars Advisor—Inbar Scharf, “The Ancient Synagogue: Origins, Reasons, and Structure” and Daniel Blaze “On the Fringes of Athenian Society: Metics in Classical Athens” (Summer 2012)

• Senior Honor’s Thesis Advisor (AY 2012-2013)—Inbar Scharf, “The Parting of the Ways: Judaism and Christianity between the 1st and 4th centuries CE”; Dan Blaze “Immigrants, Bastards, and the Myth of Citizenship in Classical Athens”

Before Denison: • First-Year Greek, (Athenaze and Hanson and Quinn) • Intermediate Greek (Plato Crito, Herodotus, Homer Iliad) • Advanced Greek (Euripides’ Alcestis) • First-Year Latin (Lingua Latina, Wheelock) • Intermediate Latin (Vergil, Caesar) • Advanced Latin: Republican Prose (Caesar & Cicero) • Classical Mythology • Greeks, Romans and Barbarians (Writing Intensive) • Politics, Civil War and the Fall of the Roman Republic (Sophomore Seminar) • Greek Literature in Translation/Greek Culture and Civilization • Greek and Roman Drama • Roman Literature in Translation/Roman Culture and Civilization • Approaches to Classical Mythology (Women in Myth) • Athenian Democracy (Writing Intensive) • The Roman World to 337AD (cross-listed with History) • Early Aegean and Greek Civilizations (cross-listed with History) • Ancient Law and Politics (Writing Intensive)

SERVICE (since 2009) Professional

• Department Representative, Managing Committee, American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Jan 2011-present)

• Member, Membership Committee, Classical Association of the Middle West and South (2013-present)

• Member, Development Committee, Classical Association of the Middle West and South (2011-2013)

• Publisher referee: Bloomsbury UK (Bristol Classical/Duckworth) University:

• CARE Advisor (Spring 2014-present; training Jan 2014) • Denison Museum Advisory Board (Summer 2013-present) • University Appeals Board (2010-present) • Task Force on Anti-Harassment and Free Speech (2013) • Race and Pedagogy Research Group (Fall 2012-present) • June Orientation Faculty Advisor (Session 1, 2012; Sessions 1 & 4, 2011; Session 4, 2010) • August Orientation Faculty Speaker (2012, 2011, 2010) • Fall Faculty Symposium, discussion leader and participant (2011, 2010); participant (2013, 2012,

2009) • “What are the Liberal Arts” Workshop (August 9-13, 2010; Denison) • Denison Faculty Workshop on Liberal Education and Advising (May 18-20, 2010) • Admissions dinner for parents of accepted students (Apr 10, 2011)

Department (Classics): • Department Assessment Coordinator (2010-2013)

• Faculty Advisor: LUDUS (Classics Club), Eta Sigma Phi (Classics Honor Society) and EPHEMERIS (Undergraduate Classics Journal); 2010-present

• Set and Grade Latin Placement Exam for June-O (with Garrett Jacobsen) • Department Web Maintainer (2009-2012) • Assisted in creation of Departmental Review materials • Assisted in the development of new curricular standards for language courses, restructuring the

Senior Symposium and Comprehensive Examinations, and developed organizational materials and web resources for students

• Organize guest lectures and student events Programs (Environmental Studies):

• Environmental Studies Program Committee (Fall 2013-present) • Search Committee member, ENVS 3-year position (2013-2014)

Programs (Women’s Studies): • Women’s Studies Program Committee (Fall 2012-present)

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES, DEVELOPMENT, GRANTS & AWARDS • Visiting Senior Associate Member, American School of Classical Studies at Athens (June 2013) • DURF Grant recipient for research at ASCSA on Immigrant Women in Athens: Gender, Ethnicity, and Citizenship in the Classical City ($3100, 2012-2013 AY) • Visiting Senior Associate Member, American School of Classical Studies at Athens (May-June 2012) • Excavations at Kenchreia, Greece (mostly useless slave labor; June 2012) • Campus Coordinator and Participant: Writing Beyond Borders, Interdisciplinary Mellon Cluster Project (Middlebury College; 2010-2011 AY) • Next Generation Library Digital Projects grant for undergraduate journals Ephemeris and Episteme with Joshua Finnell and Mark Moller (Denison) • Conventiculum Dickinsoniense: Spoken Latin Teacher’s Workshop (Dickinson College; 2010) • Advising Workshop for First-Year Faculty (Denison; 2010) • Humanities Research Development Fund grant for Athena’s Justice ($2500; Union College, 2008) • Graduate Teaching Assistantship, The Ohio State University, 1999-2003 • Graduate Research Assistantship, The Ohio State University--Packard Humanities Institute Greek inscriptions Database, 1998-1999 PUBLIC OUTREACH • “Immigrant Women in Athens” (Denison University, Faculty Research Dinner, Sept. 2013) • “Creativity and Courage in 5th Century Athens: Two Case Studies” with Tim Hofmeister (Denison University, Tuesday Lunch, Sept. 2012) • “Elections, Accountability, and Democracy in Ancient Athens” (Denison University, Tuesday Lunch, Oct. 2011) • ‘Talking Head’ for Clash of the Gods episodes “Minotaur,” “Hercules,” and “Medusa” for the History Channel PROFESSIONAL ASSOCIATIONS • American Philological Association (APA) • Association of Ancient Historians (AAH) • Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) • Women’s Classical Caucus (WCC) • American Association of University Professors (AAUP)