Joshua D. Sosin
| Title: | Assistant Professor, Classical Studies |
| Office Location: | 236 Allen Building |
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| Email Address: | joshua.sosin@duke.edu |
Education
- Ph.D Duke University, 2000
- BA, summa cum laude Mary Washington College, 1994
Research Interests
History from documents; papyrology, epigraphy, numismatics, palaeography. Economic history; money, land and the state; banking; civic finance. Latin poetry, especially satire; literary allusion; ancient scholia and commentaries
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- Andrew W. Mellon Associate Professor, Duke University, 2006/2007
- Thomas Langford Lectureship Award, Duke University
- Harrington Faculty Fellow, Classics Dept., UT Austin, 05/06
- Fellowship, Center for Hellenic Studies, 2002-03
- Class of '51 Fund for Excellence in Education, the Class of '55 Fund for Excellence in Teaching and the Class of '72 Fund for Educational Innovation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2001
- Dean’s Fund for Faculty Development, MIT, 2000
- Provost’s HASS Fund, MIT, 2000
- Lawrence Richardson jr Named Instructorship in Classical Studies, Duke University Gaduate School, 1999-2000
- Graduate Seminar (Summer) Fellowship, American Numismatic Society, 1997
- Graduate Fellowship in Classical Studies, Duke University, 1994-2000
- Phi Beta Kappa, Mary Washington College, 1994
- CLST 153.01, GREEK HISTORY
Synopsis
- Carr 240, MWF 10:20 AM-11:10 AM
- CLST 136S.01, GREEK AND ROMAN LAW
Synopsis
- Allen 326, TuTh 01:15 PM-02:30 PM
- CLST 196S.01, JR-SR SEMINAR (TOPICS)
Synopsis
- Perkins 2-070, TuTh 10:05 AM-11:20 AM
Representative Publications
Books- John F. Oates, Roger S. Bagnall, Sarah J. Clackson, Alexandra A. O’Brien, Joshua D. Sosin, Terry G. Wilfong, and Klaas A. Worp, Checklist of Editions of Greek, Latin, Demotic and Coptic Papyri, Ostraca and Tablets (David Brown, 2001).
- "Unwelcome Dedications: Public Law and Private Religion in Hellenistic Laodicea by the Sea." Classical Quarterly 55 (2005): 130-139.
- "Alexanders and Stephanephoroi at Delphi." Classical Philology 99 (2004): 191-208.
- "Grain for Delos." Museum Helveticum 60 (2003): 65-79.
- "Grain for Andros." Hermes 130 (2002): 131-145.
- "Accounting and Endowments." Tyche: Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik. 16 (2001): 161-175. appeared 2003
- "Ausonius’ Juvenal and the Winstedt Fragment." Classical Philology 95 (2000): 199-206.
- "Lucretius, Seneca and Persius 1.1-2." Transactions of the American Philological Association 129 (1999): 281-299.