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Education and Degrees

Ph.D. 2004: Ancient History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH)

M.A. 1997: Ancient History, UNC-CH. Second field: Spatial Analysis

B.S. 1989: Computer Science, Duke University, cum laude. Second major: Classical Studies

1985: Graduated high school from The Randolph School, Huntsville, Alabama

Positions Held

2/2008 - present: Associate Director for Digital Programs, Institute for the Study of the

Ancient World, New York University

2/2006 - 1/2008: Pleiades Project Director, Ancient World Mapping Center, University of

North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH

)

8/2000 - 2/2006: Director, Ancient World Mapping Center, UNC-CH

8/1995 - 1/2004: Multiple part-time positions while a graduate student in the Department

of History, UNC-CH

1996 - 1998: Graduate Teaching Assistant, Department of History

1999 - 2000: Research Assistant, Classical Atlas Project

1999 - 2000: Graduate Assistant

: Digital Library Project

1998 - 2000: Project Manager: Interactive Ancient Mediterranean

Summer 1997: Web Information Coordinator: Ancient Roman Technology, Department of

Classics

Summer 1998: Technology Advisor: Technology in the Undergraduate Survey, Department of

History

11/1992 - 8/1995: Computer Scientist, AEgis Research Corporation, Huntsville, Alabama

Lead Developer: Computer Simulation for Guidance-aided Fuzing [sic] Experiments

Project Manager: Computer Simulation Testbed and Gunner Trainer for the Avenger Weapon

System

6/1989 - 10/1992: Communications and Computer Systems Officer, United States Air Force,

Grissom Air Force Base, Indiana. In support of the 305th Air Refueling Wing of the

Strategic Air Command:

Chief of Maintenance, 1915th Communications Squadron

Chief of Operations, 1915th Communications Squadron

Base Closure Planning Officer, 305th Communications Squadron

Honors

External fellow: Institute for Advanced Technology in the Humanities, University of

Virginia, 2005

Morehead Fellow, UNC-CH College of Arts and Sciences, 1995 - 1997

US Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps Scholarship, Duke University, 1985 - 1989Research Awards

At New York University:

Co-Principal Investigator with John Muccigrosso (Project Manager Sebastian Heath): Linked

Ancient World Data Institute (LAWDI), $217,081, National Endowment for the Humanities,

Office of Digital Humanities, Institutes for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities (HT-

50048-11), 10/1/2011 - 9/30/2013. LAWDI Website. Twitter hash tag: #lawdi.

Principal Investigator: Pleiades: Content and Community for Ancient Geography, $298,457,

National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and Access, Humanities

Collections and Reference Resources (PW-50557-10), 5/2010 - 4/2013. Pleiades Website.

Twitter hash tag: #adfines.

Project manager and proposal co-author: Integrating Digital Papyrology 3, $373,848, Duke

University subcontract under grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (11-AMF-1063),

1/2011 - 12/2011. IDP Website.

Project manager and proposal co-author: Integrating Digital Papyrology 2, $140,377, Duke

University subcontract under grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation (09-SC-AMF-1048),

9/2008 - 12/2010.

Project manager and proposal co-author: Concordia, $129,828, National Endowment for the

Humanities, Office of Digital Humanities, JISC/NEH Transatlantic Digitization

Collaboration Grant (PX-50003-08), 4/2008 - 3/2010.

At the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill:

Project manager and proposal primary author: Pleiades: An Online Workspace for Ancient

Geography, $389,883, National Endowment for the Humanities, Division of Preservation and

Access, Research and Development Grant (PA-51873-06),

1/06 - 6/08

.

List of Courses

Publications

Online Resource: demarc: Epigraphic Evidence for Boundary Disputes in the Early Roman

Empire, Department of History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 2004;

github.com 2012-, https://github.com/paregorios/demarc.

Online Resource: "Peutinger Map Names and Features, With Commentary and User's Guide,"

with R. Talbert, 2010, Cambridge University Press, 2010,

http://www.cambridge.org/us/talbert/talbertdatabase/prm.html (= Appendix 7 to R. Talbert,

Rome's World, The Peutinger Map Reconsidered, Cambridge, 2010).

Journal Article: Digital Geography and Classics, with S. Gillies, in Digital Humanities

Quarterly 3.1 (Winter 2009), http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/3/1/000031.html.

Book Chapter: Constructing a Digital Publication for the Peutinger Map, R. Talbert and

R. Unger (eds.), Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Fresh Perspectives, New

Methods, Brill, 2008.

Book Chapter: Bringing an Ancient Map of the Roman World into Modern GIS: Cartographic

and Historical Perspectives Revealed, with R. Talbert, in A. Knowles and A. Hillier

(eds.), Placing History: How Maps, Spatial Data, and GIS are Changing Historical

Scholarship, ESRI Press, 2008.

Published Conference Paper: "New Classroom Maps for Ancient Geography," The Occasional

Papers of the American Philological Association's Committee on Ancient History 3 (2006),

61-80.

Book Chapter: Mapping the Ancient World with Richard Talbert in Anne Knowles (ed.),

Past Time, Past Place: GIS for History, ESRI Press, 2002.

Numerous original map designs and digital map production for publication in monographs,

journal articles, and educational games, as well as educational use, under the auspices of

Classical Atlas Project and AWMC, 1999-2005 (samples available from the AWMC map room).

Web publication: Abbreviations in Latin Inscriptions, American Society of Greek and

Latin Epigraphy (ASGLE) (www.case.edu/artsci/clsc/asgle/abbrev/latin/), June 1998.

Papers

Conference paper and panel participation: "Pleiades URIs: Bridging Digital Publications

with Geography" with Sean Gillies, Geospatial Studies in Classical Archaeology: A Survey

of Approaches and Methods, organized by Ulrike Krotscheck and James Newhard, 2013 Joint

Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and the American Philological

Association, Seattle, 3-6 January 2013. Accepted.

Conference paper and panel participation: "Digital Epigraphic Resources for Research and

Teaching," Teaching History and Classics with Inscriptions, a panel of the Committee on

Ancient History, organized by Georgia Tsouvala, 2013 Joint Annual Meeting of the

Archaeological Institute of America and the American Philological Association, Seattle, 3-

6 January 2013. Accepted.

Conference panel: The Publication and Study of Inscriptions in the Age of the Computer,

co-organizer with Paul Iversen, 2009 American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy Joint

AIA/APA Panel, 2009 Joint Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America and

the American Philological Association, Philadelphia, PA, 8-11 January 2009.

Conference paper (session keynote): Heterogeneity, Space and Time: Methods in

Geospatial Computing for Mapping the Past, E-Science Institute, Edinburgh, 23-24 July

2007.

Conference paper: pleiades.stoa.org: open collaboration and the enhancement of

historical geodata, workshop onWeb-based research tools for Mediterranean archaeology,

2008 Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Chicago, IL, 3-6 January

2008

Conference paper: Of lighthouses and bridges: the maturation of digital publication in

epigraphy, 13th International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, Oxford, 2-7

September 2007

Panel commentator: The Future is Now?: Digital Library Projects and Scholarship and

Teaching in Classics, organizer: Donald Mastronarde, 2008 Annual Meeting of the American

Philological Association, Chicago, IL, 3-6 January 2008

Workshop participation: Digital Coins Network workshop, London, 19-20 April 2007

Workshop participation: Kickoff meeting for the Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica Project,

London, 19 April 2007

Conference paper: Beyond the Barrington Atlas: An Online Workspace for Ancient

Geography, Ancient Geography: New Discoveries and Perspectives, Annual Meeting of the

American Philological Association, San Diego, CA, 4-7 January 2007

Workshop participation: Digital Gazetteer Research and Practice, Santa Barbara, CA, 7-9

December 2007

Workshop participation: EpiDoc interoperability sprint, Chapel Hill and Durham, NC, 2-6

December 2007

Workshop participation: Digital Coins Network workshop, British Museum, London, 27-28

October 2007

Conference paper: Epigraphic Documents in TEI XML (EpiDoc): Toward a P5 Customization

with Zaneta Au and Gabriel Bodard, Digital Humanities 2006, Paris, France, 5-9 July 2006

Workshop participation: Web services code sprint, Center for Hellenic Studies,

Washington, DC, 22-23 May 2006

Workshop leadership: EpiDoc "Sandstorm" Sprint 2006, King s College, London, 20-24 March

2006

Workshop participation: Digital infrastructure for humanities (epigraphy forum), Stanford

University, 9 May 2006

Workshop participation: Technology Summit for the Next Generation of the Duke Databank of

Documentary Papyri, Duke University, 16-17 April 2005

Conference presentation: Agenda for Digital Epigraphy: Asynchronous Collaboration and

Temporal Compatibility, Inscriptions of Aphrodisias: Digital Epigraphy Workshop, British

School, Rome, September 2004

Conference presentation: Epigraphy and Context in Digital Publication, Inscriptions of

Aphrodisias: Digital Epigraphy Workshop, Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, June

2004

Conference paper: Bringing an Ancient Map of the Roman World into Modern GIS:

Cartographic and Historical Perspectives Revealed, with Richard Talbert, History and

Geography: Assessing the Role of Geographical Information in Historical Scholarship, The

Hermon Dunlap Smith Center for the History of Cartography, The Newberry Library, Chicago,

25-27 March 2004

Conference paper: The EpiDoc Aphrodisias Project, with Gabriel Bodard, 12th

International Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, Barcelona, 3-8 September 2002

Conference paper: Developing Standards for Digital Epigraphic Publication, Digital

Epigraphy Workshop, King s College London, 11-14 July 2002 (co-convenor with Charlotte

Roueche)

Conference paper: The EpiDoc Aphrodisias Project, with Gabriel Bodard, Colloquium on

Ancient Greek Lexicography, Cambridge University, 7-9 July 2002

Conference paper: Semantic Markup for Epigraphy, Digital Epigraphy Workshop, UNC Chapel

Hill, 29-30 April 2002 (co-convenor with Charlotte Roueche)

Conference Paper: Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, with Richard Talbert,

Keith Winters and Dave Stong, North American Cartographic Information Society Conference,

Oct 2000.

Presentations on the Interactive Ancient Mediterranean project at the Classical

Association of the Midwest and South, Southern Section, Waco, TX, October 1998 and APA/AIA

Joint Meetings, Washington, DC, December 1998.

Conference paper: You Can t Always Get What You Want: iuga, iugera and IG XII.3, 343,

North Carolina Classics Graduate Colloquium, UNC-CH, March 1998

Conference paper: Diocletianic Census Inscriptions of the Aegean Islands and Asia

Minor, 22nd Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, UNC-CH, October 1996

Conference paper: Simulation for Guidance-Aided Fuze System Analysis, Southeast

Simulation Conference,Huntsville, AL, September 1994

Lectures

Seminar: The future of digital publishing with EpiDoc: epigraphy, papyrology and web-

enabled interoperability, Universita di Bologna, Facolta di Lettere e Filosofia,

Dipartimento di Storia Antica (Bologna Italy), 21 June 2008

Workshop teaching: EpiDoc Training, co-taught with Gabriel Bodard and Charlotte Tupman,

Libera Universita di Lingue e Comunicazione IULM (Milan, Italy), 16-20 June 2008.

Workshop presentation: Cyrenaican archaeology, epigraphy and geography: an approach for

webfeed-based interoperability (delivered via Skype), Inscriptions of Roman Cyrenaica:

First International Workshop, British School at Rome, 28-29 February 2008.

Guest lecture: Simple EpiDoc XSLT Customization, EpiDoc Summer School 2007, King's

College, London, 13 June 2007

Presentation: Pleiades: Beyond the Barrington Atlas, London Ancient History Seminar, 27

October 2007

Presentation: Toward a digital publication for the only surviving Roman world map, IEEE

Region 3 Huntsville Section, Huntsville, AL, 16 May 2006

Presentation: The World According to Rome?: Konrad Peutinger s Roman Map, North Alabama

Society of the Archaeological Institute of America, Huntsville, AL, 20 February 2006

Presentation: Pleiades: Toward a Secure, Public, and Collaborative Workspace for Ancient

Geography, Invited lecture at the Center for Computational Science, University of

Kentucky, February 2001

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