Curriculum Vitae
Department of Classical and Modern Languages
University of Louisville
Louisville, KY 40292
2010-present University of Louisville
Professor of Classics
1997-2010 University of Louisville
Associate Professor of Classics
1991-1997 University of Louisville
Assistant Professor of Classics
1990-91 University of Southern California,
Lecturer in Classics
1984-90 University of California Irvine
Ph.D. in Classics 1990
M.A. in Classics 1986
1982-84 Talbot Theological Seminary
M.A.B.S in Hebrew Old Testament 1984, highest honors
1980-82 University of Illinois Champaign
B.A. 1982, highest distinction in Classics
1975-79 United States Marine Corps
final rank: Captain USMCR
1973-75 University of Illinois Chicago
B.A. in History 1975, honors
1971-73 Northeastern Illinois University
Books:
Thucydides on War and National Character (2nd ed.: B & B 2015)
Articles and Reviews:
"P.Oxy. XVII 2100 fr.15," BASP 27 (1990) 43.
"Othismos: the Importance of the Mass-Shove in Hoplite Warfare," Phoenix 48 (1994) 51-61.
"Ibycus 286: The Beleaguered Heart," MAIA 47 (1995) 343-347.
Leslie J. Worley's Hippeis: the Cavalry of Ancient Athens, Phoenix 49 (1995) 362-363.
"Rethinking Antiphon's PERI ALETHEIAS," Apeiron 30 (1997) 163-187.
"Thucydides' Evaluation of the Sicilian Expedition: 2.65.11," The Ancient World 28 (1997) 127-132.
"A Delightful Possession: Longus' Prologue and Thucydides," The Classical Journal 97 (2002) 233-247.
"Tyrtaeus 12 West: Come Join the Spartan Army," The Classical Quarterly 52 (2002) 405-414.
"Paragraph 3.84 and Thucydides' History," Ancient History Bulletin 16 (2003) 151-174.
"Docti Iudicent: a note on Bacchae 630-631" Dioniso n.s. 2 (2003) 32-35.
"Thucydides on Peloponnesian Strategy at Pylos," AJAH n.s. 3-4 (2004-2005 [2007]) 39-57.
"The Route of the Peloponnesian Fleet to Pylos in 425", AW 38 (2007) 5-14.
"Anonymous 849" in Brill's New Jacoby (FgrH) (2009)
"The Occasion and Purpose of Alcman's Partheneion (1 PMGF)", QUCC 92 (2009) 27-54.
"The Letter of Nicias: Document or Fiction?", in Athenaeum 103/2 (2015) 26-52.
"Alcman: P.Oxy. 2389, Fr. 23", in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 195 (2015) 10–12
"Sola means sola: The accidental re-purposing of Aeneid 4.84-85." Vergilius 62 (2016).
"Not our Thucydides? Identifying the strategos at History 1.117." C&M 71 (2022) 201-215.
"The Council of Samos in 479 and Thucydides’ Silence." Hermes 152 (2024) 3-15.
Honors, Awards and Grants:
2011 Honorary Member, Woodcock Honor Society
2010 University-wide Distinguished Faculty Award for Teaching, University of Louisville
2008 Distinguished Teaching Professor, College of Arts and Sciences, University of Louisville
2002 Honorary Member, Golden Key International Honor Society
1997 University of Louisville Research Grant
1996 University of Louisville Project Completion Grant
1996 Honorary Member, Eta Sigma Phi Classics Honor Society
1993 University of Louisville Modern Languages Fund Grant
1992 University of Louisville Dean's Professional Initiative Grant
1989 University of California Pre-doctoral Dissertation Fellowship
1988 School of Humanities Outstanding Undergraduate Teaching Award
1987 and 1988 Outstanding TA Teaching Award Department of Classics
1985 and 1986 Outstanding Essay Award Department of Classics
1985 University of California Regents Research Fellow
1984 University of California Regents Fellow
1984 Kappa Tau Epsilon Honor Society
1982 Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society