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Cornell University
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• Fellow, American School of Classical Studies
• Ph.D., The Johns Hopkins University

Employment:

• Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Cornell University, 1970-1975
• Associate Professor, Department of Classics, Cornell University, 1975-81
• Professor, Department of Classics, Cornell University, 1981ñpresent
• Acting Chairman, Department of Classics, Cornell University, Fall 1975
• Chairman, Department of Classics, Cornell University, 1976-83
• Visiting Professor, American School of Classical Studies at Athens,1983-84
• Visiting Professor, Department of Classics, University of California at Berkeley, 1986
• Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1987-88
• Director, Religious Studies Program, Stanley Krusen Professor of World Religions, 1996-97
• Director, NEH Summer Seminar for College Teachers, "Religion, Literature, and Politics in Classical Athens," June 15-July 24, 1998
• Member, Institute for Advanced Study, 1999-2000
• Acting Chaiman, Department of Classics, Cornell University, Spring 2003

• Classics 101: Elementary Ancient Greek I
• Classics 216: Virgil
• Classics 333 Greek and Roman Myster Cults and Early Christianity (also Religious Studies 333)
• Classics 341: Latin Prose Composition
• Classics 103: Attic Greek
• Classics 310: Greek Undergraduate Seminar: Herodotus

• Myth and Cult: the Iconography of the Eleusinian Mysteries (Acta Instituti Regni Sueciae, Series in octavo, Stockholm, 1992): the publication of the 1990 M. P.Nilsson Lectures.
• Eleusis. The Inscriptions on Stone. Documents of the Sanctuary of the Two Goddesses and the Public Documents of the Deme, I, Texts, II, Commentary, Archaeological Society at Athens, in press.
• Review Article: "A New Lex Sacra from Selinus: Kindly Zeuses, Eumenides, Impure and Pure Tritopatores, and Elasteroi," Classical Philology 91 (1996) 159-179.
• "The Thesmophorion in Central Athens and the Celebration of the Thesmophoria in Attica," in The Role of Religion in the Early Greek Polis, Proceedings of the Third International Seminar on Ancient Greek Cult, organized by the Swedish Institute in Athens (Stockholm, 1997) 111-125.
• "Eleusis and the Romans: Late Republic to Marcus Aurelius," in The Romanization of Athens, Proceedings of an International Conference held at Lincoln, Nebraska (April, 1996), S. Rotroff & M. Hoff, eds., 161-181.
• "Eleusis from Augustus to the Antonines: Progress and Problems," in Acta, XI Congresso Internazionale di Epigrafia Greca e Latina, 18-24 Settembre 1997 (Rome, 2000) 93-102.
• "Pigs in Greek Rituals," in International Seminar: "Greek Sacrificial Ritual, Olympian and Chthonian", Göteborg, 25-27 April 1997, R. Hägg, ed (in press).
• "Initiates in the Samothracian Mysteries, September 4, 100 B.C.," Chiron (in press)

• Book on the Eleusinian Mysteries.
• Volume on the cult of the Great Gods in Samothrace for the series Samothrace, Excavations Conducted by the Institute of Fine Arts of New York University.
• Supervisor, "Computerization of Greek Inscriptions"
• Principal Investigator, Images of Eleusinian Inscriptions

• M.P. Nilsson Lectures, Swedish Archaeological Institute, Athens, November, 1990
• "Thracian Royalty in Samothrace" (Yrãkew BasileÄw sth Samoyrãkh), University of Komotini, May 29, 2000.
• "The Eleusinian Mysteries: The Experience and the Secret," M.I. Finley Memorial Lecture, Syracuse University, October 26, 2000.