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  • Jed Thorn

    Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics
    Office: GOE
    Office Hours: MW 2:00-4:00
    Summary: South Italy and Sicily; red-figure pottery; ancient culture contact

    Education


    2010  PhD Classical Archaeology
    University of Cincinnati, Department of Classics 
    Dissertation:  “The Italic Patronage of Early Apulian Red-Figure”
     
    2006  MA Classical Archaeology
    University of Cincinnati, Department of Classics
     
    2004  MA Ancient History
    University of Cincinnati, Department of History
     
    1997  BA Literary Studies
    Beloit College, Department of English

    Grants & Awards


    2009–2010   Distinguished Dissertation Completion Fellowship
                         Graduate School, University of Cincinnati
     
    2009              Doctoral Dissertation Improvement Grant
                          National Science Foundation
     
    2008              NSF-Sponsored Laboratory Subsidy
                          Archaeometry Laboratory, University of Missouri
     
    2008              Cedric Boulter Memorial Fellowship
                          Department of Classics, University of Cincinnati

    Publications


    Forthcoming “New Evidence for Apulian Red-Figure Production Centres,” Archaeometry                      
                           (coauthored with Michael D. Glascock, University of Missouri)
     
    2009  “The Invention of ‘Tarentine’ Red-Figure,” Antiquity 83, 174–183

    Presentations


    January 2010  Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting 
    “New Archaeometric Evidence for Apulian Red-Figure Production Centers”
     
    January 2008  American Philological Association Annual Meeting 
    “In the Bedroom: Gender and the Cubiculum in Cicero’s Pro Caelio
    Women’s Classical Caucus Annual APA Panel: “Gender and Space in the Ancient World”
     
    January 2006  Archaeological Institute of America Annual Meeting 
    “Dharma or Diplomacy? A Reassessment of Cultural Policy in the Indo–Greek Kingdoms”