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Curriculum Vitae
Carla M. Antonaccio

Department of Classical Studies
Duke University, Box 90103
233H Allen Bldg
Durham, NC 27708-0103

919 684 3013 (office)
canton@duke.edu (email)

Personal

May 29, 1958; White Plains, New York

Education:: Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology, Princeton University, 1987; M.A. in Classical Archaeology, Princeton University, 1983; B.A. in Classical Archaeology, Wellesley College, 1980; Senior Associate Member, 1989, 1992 American School of Classical Studies, 1998; Student Associate Member, American School of Classical Studies, 1985; Zertifikat, Deutsch als Fremdsprache, Goethe Institut, Rothenburg o.d.Tauber, 1984; 12 College Exchange (Foreign Study in Europe), Dartmouth College, 1979

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University

Wesleyan University

Princeton University

Ithaka Cultural Study Programs

American School of Classical Studies

Visiting Positions

Excavation and Archaeological Experience

Morgantina Project, (with Malcolm Bell, University of Virginia), Co-Director, Sicily, 1990 to present

Princeton Cyprus Expedition, (Princeton University), Polis Chrysochou, Cyprus, 1983

Agora Excavations, (American School of Classical Studies), Athens, Greece, 1982

Halieis Excavations, (Indiana University), Study Assistant, Porto Cheli, Greece, 1980

Halieis Excavations, (Indiana University), Trenchmaster, Porto Cheli, Greece, 1979

Publications

Books

An Archaeology of Ancestors: Greek Tomb and Hero Cult. Rowman & Littlefield, (1995).

Articles

"Colonization: Greece on the Move." in The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece. Edited by H.A. Shapiro. Cambridge University Press (2007) 201-224.

"Elite mobility in the west." in Pindar's Poetry, Patrons and Festivals: from Archaic Greece to the Roman Empire. Edited by S. Hornblower, C. Morgan. Oxford University Press (2006) 265-285.

"Religion, basileis, and heroes." From Wanax to Basileus. Edited by I. Lemos, I. Deger-Jalkotzy. University of Edinburgh Press (2006) 381-395.

"Votive Offerings as Sacrificial Behavior." in Chthonic and Olympian Sacrifice. Edited by R. Hagg, B. Alroth. Stockholm (2005) 99-112.

"Excavating Colonization." in Ancient Colonizations: Analogy, Similarity and Difference. Edited by H. Hurst, S, Owen. Duckworth (2005) 97-113.

"Siculo-geometric and the Sikels: Identity and Material Culture in Eastern Sicily." in Greek Identity in the Western Mediterranean. Edited by K. Lomas. E.J. Brill Leiden (2004) 55-81.

"Hybridity and the Cultures within Greek Culture." in The Cultures within Greek Culture: Contact, Conflict, Collaboration. Edited by C. Dougherty, L. Kurke. Cambridge University Press (2003) 57-74.

"Warriors, Traders, Ancestors: the 'Heroes' of Lefkandi." in Images of Ancestors (Arhus Studies in Mediterranean Archaeology. Edited by J. Munk Hotje. vol. 5 Arhus (2002) 13-42.

"Colonization and Acculturation." Ancient Perceptions of Greek Ethnicity. Edited by I. Malkin. Harvard University Press (2001) 113-157.

"Building Gender into Greek Houses." Classical World vol. 93.5 (2000) 517-33.

"Kypara, a Sikel Nymph?." Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik vol. 126 (1999) 177-185.

"An Archaic Stele from Morgantina." Kadmos vol. 38 (1999) 87-96.

"Colonization and the Origins of Greek Hero Cult." Ancient Greek Hero Cult. Edited by R. Hagg. Jonsered (1999) 109-121.

"Urbanism at Archaic Morgantina." Acta Hyperborea vol. 7 (1997) 167-193.

"Sicily." The Oxford Companion to Archaeology. Edited by B. Fagan. 1996 Oxford University Press (1996) 645-646.

"Hadrianic Sculpture." World Dictionary of Art. Edited by J. Turner. vol. 27 Grove Press/Macmillan (1996) 37-39.

with Jenifer Neils. "A New Graffito from Archaic Morgantina." Zeitschrift fur Papyrologie und Epigraphik vol. 101 (1995) 261-77.

"Lefkandi and Homer." Homer's World, Fiction, Tradition, Reality. Edited by O. Andersen, M. Dickie. Bergen (1995) 5-27.

"Contesting the Past: Tomb Cult, Hero Cult, and Epic in Early Greece." American Journal of Archaeology vol. 98 (1994) 389-410.

"Placing the Past: the Bronze Age in the Cultic Topography of Early Greece." Placing the Gods: Sanctuaries and Sacred Space in Ancient Greece. Edited by S. Alcock, R. Osborne. Oxford University Press (1994) 79-104. (paperback ed. 1996)

"Tomb and Hero Cult in Early Greece: the Archaeology of Ancestors." Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece. Edited by C. Dougherty, L. Kurke. Cambridge University Press (1993) 46-70. (paperback ed. 1999)

"Style, Reuse, and Context in a Roman Portrait at Princeton." Archaologische Anzeiger (1992) 441-452.

"Terraces, Tombs, and the Early Argive Heraion." Hesperia vol. 61 (1992) 85-105.

Forthcoming

"The Western Mediterranean". The Blackwell Companion to the Ancient World (Basil Blackwell). Edited by K. Raaflaub, H. van Wees. Blackwell .

Papers Accepted

"Ethnicity Reconsidered." in Crossing Cultures. Edited by T. Hodos, S. Hales. Cambridge University Press (2007).

In Preparation

Review: M. Gras et al., Mégara Hyblaea 5. La ville archaïque. American Journal of Archaeology (2008).

Review: F. Veronese, Lo spazio e la dimensione del sacro. Santuari greci e territorio nella Sicilia arcaica. Classical Review (2008).

Review: A. Snodgrass, Archaeology and the emergence of Greece : collected papers on early Greece and related topics (1965-2002). Journal of Hellenic Studies (2008).

"(Re) Defining Ethnicity". in Words Elide. Edited by P. Euben, K Bassi. Lexington Press (2008). (in preparation)

Morgantina Studies: The Archaic Settlement on the Cittadella. Princeton University Press . (in preparation)

Archaeologies of Homer. Companions to the Ancient World, Basil Blackwell (2008). (manuscript submission 2008, under contract)

’A Land then Almost Unknown to Americans:’ a lost chapter in the early history of the American School. Hesperia (2008).

"The Argive Heraion Revisited". The Dark Ages Revisited. Edited by A. Mazarakis-Ainian. (Due Jan. 2008).

Excavating Colonization. Under contract, University of Texas Press .

Book & Monograph Reviews

T. Hodos, Local Responses to Colonization in the Iron Age Mediterranean [Routledge 2006]. Antiquity 81 313 (September, 2007) 805-806. [htm]

The Archaeology of Ethnicity [Getty Research Institute, 2002]. Bryan Mawr Classical Reviews 2003.09.43 .

G. Ekroth, The Sacrificial Rituals of Greek Hero-Cults [Kernos Suppl. 12, Liege 2002]. Revue Archeologique 2004.1 13-15.

J.M. Redford, The Locrian Maidens. Love and Death in Greek Italy [Princeton 2003]. American Journal of Philology 126 (2005) 285-288.

F. De Angelis, Megara Hyblaia and Selinous. The Development of Two Greek City-States in Archaic Sicily [Oxbow 2003]. Phoenix .

Peloponnesian Sanctuaries and Cults (Proceedings of the 9th International Symposium at the Swedish Institute at Athens) [Stockholm 2002]. American Journal of Archaeology 109 (2005) 308-311.

J. Hall, Hellenicity. Between Ethnicity and Culture [Chicago 2002]. Mediterranean Historical Review 19 2 71-76.

J. Camp and H. Rupprecht Goette, The Archaeology of Athens [Yale University Press/Thames and Hudson 2001] and Athens, Attica and the Megarid: An Archaeological Guide [Routledge, 2001]. New England Classical Journal 30 (2003) 99-104.

R. Leighton, Sicily before History [Cornell 1999]. Bryan Mawr Classical Review (2000).

B. Eder, Argolis Lakonien Messenien: Vom Ende der mykenischen Palastzeit bis zur Einwanderung der Dorier [Vienna 1998]. American Journal of Archaeology 104 (2000) 613-614.

I. Malkin, The Returns of Odysseus: Colonization and Ethnicity [Berkeley 1998]. American Journal of Philology 127 (2000) 637-641.

D. Tandy, Warriors into Traders [California 1997]. New England Classical Journal 26 (1999) 53-55.

Aegean Strategies: Studies of Culture and Environment on the European Fringe [Rowman and Littlefield 1997]. Journal of Anthropological Research (1999) 468-470.

Ancient Sicily (Acta Hyperbores 6) [Copenhagen 1995]. Classical World 91.4 (1998) 286-287.

New Light of a Dark Age [Wisconsin 1996]. American Journal of Archaeology 102 (1998) 630-631.

J. Larson, Greek Heroine Cults. Journal of Hellenic Studies 117 (1997) 225-226.

J. Lesley Fitton, The Rediscovery of the Greek Bronze Age. New England Classical Journal 24 (1996) 32-33.

Proceedings of the Danish Institute at Athens. American Journal of Archaeology 1 100 (1996) 809-810.

From Pasture to Polis, Art in the Age of Homer. American Journal of Archaeology 99 (1995) 361-362.

Seung-Og Kim, Burials, Pigs, and Political Prestige in Neolithic China. Current Anthropology 35 133.

with Jenifer Neils, From Pasture to Polis: Art in the Age of Homer. Bryn Mawr Classical Review symposium, Museum of Art and Archaeology4.6 (1993) 499-504.

D. Pancucci, M. Naro, Mt. Bubbonia, Campagne di scavo 1905, 1906, 1955 (Rome 1992). Archaeological News 18 (1993) 11-12.

D. Hughes, Human Sacrifice in Ancient Greece (Routledge 1991). American Journal of Archaeology 96 .

Early Greek Cult Practice (Uppsala 1988). American Journal of Archaeology 94 348-49.

I. Morris, Burial and Ancient Society (Cambridge 1987). American Journal of Archaeology 93 (1989) 296-97.

Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

William A. McDonald Lecturer, Archaeological Institute of America, October, 2007

M.A. ad eundem gradum (honorary), Wesleyan University, May 2001

NEH Fellow, National Humanities Center, RTP, NC, 1999-2000

Grants-in-Aid, American Philosophical Society, 1991, 1997

Project Grants, Wesleyan University, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994, 1995, 1997

Faculty Technology Mentor, W.M. Keck Foundation, National Humanities Center, RTP, NC, 1996

Junior Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies (Harvard University), Washington, DC, 1995-96

Visiting Fellow, Program in the Ancient World, Princeton University, Oct. 1995

Fund for the Improvement of Post-Secondary Education Grant, within Perseus Project, 1994-95

Summer Stipend, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1994

Travel to Collections Grant, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1992

Princeton University Tuition Fellowship, Princeton University, 1980-87

William R. Berry Fellow, Princeton University, 1982-87

Finalist, Charlotte Newcombe Dissertation Fellowship, 1986

Stanley J. Seeger Fellow, Princeton University, 1982, 1985

Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst Stipendium, 1984

Wellesley College Scholar, Wellesley College, 1980

Freshman Honors, Wellesley College, 1977

Conferences Organized

Invited Participant, "Classics and Archaeology in the New Millennium," Presidential Form, AIA/APA Annual Meeting, AIA, December, 2005

Archaeological Institute of America, Annual Meeting, workshop on the ancient city, February, 2002

Co-organizer, with Erich Gruen, AIA/APA Annual Meeting, December, 1998

Professional Lectures

Invited Lectures:

Early Greek Hero Cult and Homer, Case Western Reserve University, Emory University, University of Georgia, University of Richmond, February, October and November 2007

Cultural Patrimony and Repatriation: can the Past be Present?, colloquium Past Knowing/Future Knowledge: Museums and Archaeology in the 21st Century, D. Sherman, J. Waldbaum, organizers, Center for Twenty-First Century Studies, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, October, 2007

The First City at Morgantina, 1955-2005, Richmond, VA, Archaeological Institute of America, May, 2007

Archaeology, Ethnicity, and Culture: Some Thoughts on Ancient Identity, University of Texas, Austin, April, 2007

Achieving Ancestorhood in Ancient Greece, colloquium Ancient Ancestors in Global Perspective, E. Hill, J. Hageman, organizers, Society for American Archaeology, Austin, TX, April, 2007

“Morgantina at 50 and Virginia at 25”, American Academy in Rome, June, 2006

“The First City at Morgantina, 1955-2005”, McIntyre Department of Art Lecture Series, University of Virginia, November, 2005

Early Greek Hero Cult and Homer, Princeton University, October, 2004

Early Greek Hero Cult and Homer, College of William & Mary, September, 2004

“Archaeology, Ethnicity, and Culture: Some Thoughts on Ancient Identity”, University of North Carolina, March, 2004

"Ethnicity, Hybridity, and Creolization in Greek Colonizations", University of Chicago, graduate workshop, March, 2004

"Early Greek Hero Cult and Homer", AIA (Nashville, TN), 1 October 2003

"Elite mobility in the West", University College London, November, 2002

"From Barbarians and Mixo-Hellenes to Hybridity and Creolization: About 'ethnicity' in Greek antiquity", Columbia University Seminar in Classical Civilization, 2002

"The Archaeology of basileia", Duke University, Department of Classical Studies, 2002

"Excavating Colonization", University of North Carolina at Greensboro, 2000

"Colonization and Acculturation", Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC, 1997

"Reading between the Lines: Language at Morgantina.", Classical Association of New England, October, 1996

"The Archaeology of Myth", Fairfield University, November 1993

"Romans and Greeks at Morgantina", Classical Association of Connecticut, Annual Meeting, University of Connecticut, Storrs, November 1992

"Greeks and Sikels at Archaic Morgantina", Archaeological Institute of America, University of Virginia, March 1992

"The Uses of Greek Memory", Archaeological Institute of America, Trinity College, Hartford, November 1990

Tomb and Hero Cult in Early Greece: the Archaeology of Ancestors", Wellesley College, Symposium on Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece, February 1989

"The Worship and Worshippers of Hera", Wellesley College, 1989

Conference Papers:

“The Argive Heraion Revisited”, Volos, Greece, June, 2007 [asp]

"Sikels and Sikeliotes: about style in western Greek art", Columbia University, Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, 1 February 2003

"Religion, basileis, and heroes", University of Edinburgh, January, 2003

"Hybridity and the Cultures within Greek Culture", Wellesley College, "The Cultures within Greek Culture: Contact, Conflict, Collaboration conference", November 2000

"Siculo-geometric and the Sikels: Identity and Material Culture in Eastern Sicily", State University of New York at Buffalo, "Greek Identity in the Western Mediterranean" conference, October 2000

"Warriors, Traders, Ancestors: the 'Heroes' of Lefkandi", University of Arhus, "Images of Ancestors" conference, 1999

"Siculo-geometric and the Sikels: Identity and Material Culture in Eastern Sicily", University of Newcastle, "Greek Identity in the Western Mediterranean" in conference, July, 1999

"Votive Offerings as Sarificial Behavior", Goteborg University, Sixth International Seminar on Ancient Greek Cult, April, 1997

"Colonization and the Origins of Hero Cult", Goteborg University, Fifth International Seminar on Ancient Greek Cult, April, 1995

"Building Gender into Greek Houses.", Florida State University, "The Organization of Space in the Ancient Mediterranean World" conference, March, 1994

"The Archaic Settlement at Morgantina, Sicily" and "Urbanization in the Mediterranean in the 9th to 6th Centuries", University of Copenhagen Conference, (Helle Damgaard Andersen et al., organizers), 1994

"Homer and Lefkandi: Homer's World: Fiction, Tradition and Reality", Norwegian Institute at Athens, December 1993

Meetings:

“Achieving Ancestorhood in Ancient Greece”, Society for American Archaeology (Austin, TX), April, 2007

Professional Service

Departmental Committees/Service

Curriculum committee, 2007 - present

Early Greek Literature position, Search Committee, Chair

Department Chair, July 01, 2007 - present

Service to the Profession

Archaeological Institue of America (Annual Meeting), with R. Leighton, "Early Colonial Morgantina: Recent Fieldwork and Research" in panel "Polis axiologos: Morgantina at 50", January, 2005
Co-organizer with Barbara Tsakirgis (Vanderbilt),

Archaeological Institute of America (Annual Meeting), "Pottery as Cultural Artifact: Greeks, Natives, and Pottery in Interior Sicily, 700-450 B.C." in colloquium Pottery 2001, January, 2001

Archaeological Institute of America (Annual Meeting), with S. Thompson, "Sanctuaries and Social Organization in the Sicilian Interior during the Archaic Period" in colloquium Exploration of the Sikel Hear, January, 2001

College Art Association (Annual Meeting), "Ethnicity and Ceamics in Post-Colonial Sicily" in panel Art in Postcolonial Periods in the Ancient Mediterranean World, February, 1998

Center for Humanities, "The Genealogy of Gifts in Early Greece", April, 1993

College Art Association (Annual Meeting), "The Genealogy of Gifts in Early Greece" in panel Princely Gifts from Antiquity to 1832, February, 1993

Archaeological Institute of America (Annual Meeting), "Writing and Naming at Archaic Morgantina" in panel Archaic Morgantina, also organizer, December, 1992

Archaeological Institue of America (Annual Meeting), "Territory, Competition, Community and the Early Argive Heraion" in panel Sanctuaries in Outer Space, December, 1991

American Philological Association (Annual Meeting), "Kleos, time poetry, cult: Archaeology and Heroes" in panel Immortal Mortals: Heroic Ideology in Greek Myth and Cult, co-organized with D. Lyons, December, 1990

College Art Association (Annual Meeting), "Early Greek Art and the East: Beyond Stylistic Analysis" in panel on Exoticism, Orientalism, Primitivism: Modes of 'Other-ness' in Western Art and, February, 1990
F. Bohrer, organizer

Archaeological Institute of America (Annual Meeting), "The Mycenaean Tombs of the Argolid and Geometric 'Hero Cult'", December, 1986

Archaeological Institute of America, President, North Carolina Society, 2006 - present

Archaeological Institute of America, Representative, American Philologial Association Placement Committee, 2004

American Association of University Professors, Delegate-at-Large to the Connecticut State Conference, 2001

Managing Committee, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1992 - present

Ithaka Cultural Studies Program, Board of Trustees and Secretary, 1996

Intercultural Action Learning Program, Board of Trustees, 1985

Archaeological Institute of America, Gold Medal Committee, 2004 - 2010

Executive Committee ex officio, Secretary and Member, 1998 - 2008

Archaeological Institute of America, Representative, Coalition on the Academic Work Force, 1998 - 2002

Archaeological Institute of America, Committee on Professional Responsibilities, 1996 - 2002

Archaeological Institute of America, Annual Meeting, Session on Greek Cult, Chair, February, 2002

Session on Archaic Crete and the Aegean, Chair, January, 2002

Search Committee for Director, 2000 - 2001

External Review Team, Department of Classical Studies, March, 2000

Open Session on Ancient Art, College Art Association Annual Meeting, Chair, February, 2000

Annual Ancient Studies Colloquium, Respondent, October, 1999

Committee on Committees, 1994 - 1996

Perseus Project, Advisory Committee on Education, 1993 - 1995

Archaeological Associates of Greenwich (CT), Speaker, 1990, 1995-1996

Archaeological Institute of America, Gold Medal Committee, 2004 - 2010

Getty Villa Seminar, Respondent, December 06, 2007
Produced a ten page response paper and participated in a full day seminar on "Cultural Identity and the Peoples of the Ancient Mediterranean" organized by E. Gruen

Session on Greek sacred space, Chair, January, 2007

Joint AIA/APA workshop, "Ancient & Modern Imperialisms", Panelist, January, 2005

Colloquium, "The Politics of Religious and Secular Archaeology: Contemporary Uses of the Ancient and Medieval Pasts", Panelist, April, 2004

External Review, UNC Department of Classics, February, 2004

Third Graduate Conference in the Classics, Panelist, February, 2001
"House and Home in the Greco-Roman World"

"Saving Italy's Treausres," Casa Italiana, Panelist, April, 1999

North Carolina Chapter, Archaeological Institute of America, President, 2006 - 2008

Managing Committee, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Secretary, 1998 - 2008
I have served two five year terms back to back as Secretary, one of three officers of the Managing Committee of the American School, which makes me an ex-officio member of the Executive Committee.

Community Service

Chapel Hill Zen Center, Fundraising Chair, 2003 - present

Chapel Hill Zen Center, Chair, Bylaws Subcommittee, 2003

Chapel Hill Zen Center, Board of Directors, 2003

Chapel Hill Zen Center, Participating Member, 1999 - present

Chapel Hill Zen Center, President, Board of Directors, 2006 - 2008

Middletown Conversational Club, Member, 2000 - 2007

Other Service

Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, Speaker, 1990, 1993-1995

Professional Affiliations

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