Thomas G. Palaima
July 2006

Raymond F. Dickson Centennial Professor of Classics	BIRTH: October 6, 1951 Cleveland, Ohio
Director, Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory	TEL: (512) 471-8837 or 471-5742 HOME: (512) 371-7739
University of Texas at Austin CLASSICS	E-MAIL: tpalaima@mail.utexas.edu
1 University Station C3400
Austin, TX 78712-0308	FAX: 512 471-4111   WEB: http://www.utexas.edu/research/pasp

Education/Degrees:

University of Uppsala, Ph.D. honoris causa 1994 University of Wisconsin, Ph.D. (Classics) 1980 American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) 1976-77, 1979-80 ASCSA Excavation at Ancient Corinth April-July 1977 Boston College, B.A. (Mathematics and Classics) 1973 Goethe Institute, W. Germany 1973

POSITIONS:

Raymond F. Dickson Centennial Professor and Director of PASP, Dept. of Classics, UT Austin, 1991- Chair, Dept. of Classics, UT Austin, 1994-1998 Cooperating Faculty, Center for Middle Eastern Studies 1991- Visiting Professor, University of Uppsala April-May 1992, May 1998 visitor 1994, 1999, 2004 Fulbright Gastprofessor, Institut für alte Geschichte, University of Salzburg, 1992-93 Associate Professor, Dickson Fellow and Director of PASP, Dept. of Classics, UT Austin 1986-1991 Assistant Professor, Dept. of Classics, Fordham University 1980-1986

HONORS/AWARDS/DISTINGUISHED PUBLIC LECTURES:

• MacArthur Fellowship 1985-1990
• Honorary Doctorate Faculty of Humanities University of Uppsala Sweden 1994
• Fulbright Professorship, Barcelona February-June 2007
• Chad Oliver Teaching Award, Plan II Honors Program, University of Texas at Austin 2005
  http://www.utexas.edu/cola/plan2/students/graduation/2005/05palaima_chad_o/
• Texas Exes Jean Holloway Award for Excellence in Teaching 2004
  http://www.utexas.edu/research/pasp/publications/presentations/holloway.html
• Raymond F. Dickson Teaching Fellowship 2005-2006
• Book History at A&M, Cushing Memorial Library and Archives, Annual Workshop, Texas A&M University May 25, 2005, key-note lecture: "Writing Before Books"
• Lansdowne Lecturer, University of Victoria, Canada, November 15-19, 2004 delivered three public lectures and a seminar:
  "Gods, Kings and Commoners in the Homeric Age: Linear B Records and the Reconstruction of Greek Bronze Age Society",
  "Deciphering the First European Script: The Woman in Front of the Men", 'What the Greeks Can Teach Us about War",
  "Cult, Ritual and Interpretation: What Every Classicist Should Know about the Linear B Evidence."
• 14th Annual Leventis Lecture, Leventis Foundation, Nicosia Cyprus, October 19, 2004: "The Triple Invention of Writing in Cyprus and Cypriote Sources for Cypriote History"
• "The Mycenaeans Up and Down, Inside and Out," key-note lecture at the conference "Hittites, Greeks and Their Neighbors in Ancient Anatolia," Emory University, September 17-19, 2004. http://mesas.emory.edu/anatconf/schedule.htm
• Series Speaker: The Peloponnesian War: Autumn of a Golden Age, Institute of Humanities John Carroll University, November 24, 2003
• Onassis Foundation seminar scholar, 2002-2003 (SUNY at Buffalo Department of Classics April 12-17, 2003)
• Philosophical Society of Texas elected life member 1998-
• Austin Town and Gown Society 2001-
• UT Humanities Institute fellow (spring 2002)
• Hellenic Government-Karakas Family Foundation Lecture, Center for International Studies, University of Missouri-St. Louis November 11, 2002: "War and Society in Ancient Greece and Modern Times"
• 65th Annual Josephine Earle Memorial Lecture Dept. of Classics Hunter College April 26, 2002: "Alice Elizabeth Kober: An Undeciphered Life"
• Michael Ventris Memorial Lecture, Institute of Classical Studies, University of London, May 23, 2000: "Michael Ventris and the Development of His Research Methods"
• Research Fellow and Visiting Professor University of Uppsala May 1998 (Grant from Gunvor och Josef Anére Stiftelse)
• Fulbright Research Professorship (Austria 1992-93)
• 9th Edmund G. Berry Lecturer, University of Manitoba, Department of Classics, March 9, 1997
• 1989 Guy Stanton Ford Memorial Lecturer, University of Minnesota, Graduate School, May 17, 1989: "Where and How Does Greek History Begin?"
• Fulbright Fellowship [Greece] 1979-80
• Harriet Pomerance Fellowship of the Archaeological Institute of America 1979-80
• George Henry McFadden Fellowship of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens 1976-77
• University Fellowships, University of Wisconsin--Madison 1973-75, 1977, 1978-79
• Phi Beta Kappa Boston College 1973
• Numerous grants from NEH, ACLS, Institute for Aegean Prehistory (see supplementary list at end)
• UT Austin: yearly faculty travel grants 1986 onward; University Research Institute FRA (S 99); presidential leave (F 98); dean's fellowship (F 01); Humanities Institute fellow (S 02).

MAJOR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES:

• Take 5 on-line faculty lecture http://www.utexas.edu/inside_ut/take5/palaima/
• Blanton Museum: cultural commentary audio guide on Greek sculpture “The Dying Gaul” taped December 9, 2005
• Telluride Association Seminar Program: "War, Violence and Story-Making" June 26-August 5, 2005, organized and team-taught, with a former student, Stacey Peebles, now in the Honors College at University of Houston, one of five national seminars sponsored by the Telluride Foundation for gifted high school juniors http://www.tellurideassociation.org/Austin.html
• Smithsonian Institute Resident Associates All-Day Seminar "Decoding Mycenaean Greek Heroic Culture," 09/10/05
  http://ResidentAssociates.org/otosep/decoding.asp
• Smithsonian Institute Resident Associates All-Day Seminar “Universal Truths in the Ancient and Modern Experience of War May 20, 2006
  http://residentassociates.org/otomay/war.asp
• 9^th annual Daugherty Lecture University of St. Thomas Houston, TX "Using homer the Schliemann Way" May 7, 2006
• Seminar Participant "Mission Failed? The US War in Iraq: What Now?” at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles. April 10, 2006
• Phi Beta Kappa Fellows National Lecturer http://www.pbk.org/advocacy/visitscholar/palaima.html
• College of Roanoke March 16, 2005 "Home Front and War Front in Ancient and Modern Times,"
  http://www.eiu.edu/~pubaff/headline/2005/0927200590.php
• University of Eastern Illinois, October 13, 2005 "Home Front and War Front in Ancient and Modern Times,"
  http://www.eiu.edu/~pubaff/headline/2005/0927200590.php
• St. Olaf College March 20, 2006 "Truth and Fiction in War Literature: Does It Matter Now? Did It Ever Matter?"
• Jacksonville State University April 13, 2006 "Truth and Fiction in War Literature: Does It Matter Now? Did It Ever Matter?"
• College of Roanoke Day-Long Lectures and Workshops for Humanities Program
• 8:30-9:30 10:30-11:30 War and Citizenship in ancient Greece
• 12-1 The Iliad Greek Myth of War and Peace
• 3-4:30 Faculty Seminar: Why Classical Texts Still Matter in the 21st Century
• 5-6:30 Faculty Colloquium on Feasting in the Bronze Age: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
• National Security Agency: "Linear B: The Everest of Script Decipherment" September 9, 2005
• Bellarmine Forum on Violence, Loyola Marymount University, November 7-13, 2004 participant and lecturer
  http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/bellarmineforum/schedule.htm
• Consultant, Termite Productions, Discovery Channel, Unsolved History, documentary on the Trojan War (winter-spring 03-04)
  http://shopping.discovery.com/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?storeId=10000&catalogId=10000&langId=-1&productId=56023
• Onassis Foundation seminar scholar, 2002-2003 (SUNY at Buffalo Department of Classics April 12-17, 2003)
• Regular Op Ed Contributor, Austin American Statesman (February, 1999-present)
• Specialist Commentator for the BBC Program: A Very English Genius: How Michael Ventris Cracked Linear B (2002)
• Organizer and Moderator of the Gold Medal Colloquium in Honor of Emmett L. Bennett, Jr., AIA Annual Meetings, San Diego, 01/05/01
• Co-organizer of the Exhibition "Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Writing: The Parallel Lives of Michael Ventris and Linda Schele and the Decipherment of Mycenaean and Mayan Writing" organized at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, UT Austin March 9-August 1, 2000
• Assisting in Organizing of the Exhibition "Technologies of Writing", Humanities Research Center UT Austin February-August, 2006 (selected items and coordinated with Profs. Kroll, Perlman and Armstrong pre-alphabetic and alphabetic-coins, inscriptions, clay tablets, papyri, early editions, notes and letters re decipherment processes, cartoons, art work-and wrote signage for the items and introductory wall explanations for Greek writing and the alphabet) February-present 2005
• Chief Organizer of the 11th International Mycenological Colloquium, UT Austin May 7-13, 2000
• US representative on the Comité International Permanent Pour les Études Mycéniennes = CIPEM (a UNESCO Committee) 1995-
• Mitglied of the Mycenaean Commission of the Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1-1-93 to 12-31-2003
• Comitè de Redacción, Minos Revista de Filologia Egea 1986-; Assistant editor and book review editor 1990-95; co-editor and book review editor 1995-
• Co-editor, Aegaeum monograph series, 1993-
• Grant reviewer (post-doc and field projects) Institute for Aegean Prehistory (INSTAP) 1998-
• Organizer, PASP Conference on Kingship and the Organization of Power in Greek Society, December 6-7, 1993
• Lowell Institute Lecturer, "The Origins of Mycenaean Kingship," Boston College, November 8, 1993
• Fulbright research/lecturer University of Salzburg, October 1, 1992-January 31, 1993
• Visiting lecturer, Universities of Uppsala, Göteborg, Lund, April 20-May 9, 1992 (grant from the Swedish Royal Academy of Sciences and Arts)
• Citizen Ambassador Program Archaeology Delegation to the People's Republic of China May 30-June 15, 1991
• Instructor, Vaughan Centennial Institute on Homer and Linear B, Stanford University 25 June - 7 July 1990
• Specialist Lecturer, NEH Summer Institute for College and University Professors "Modern Approaches to Ancient History," University of Washington Summer 1987
• Director of Summer Session II, American School of Classical Studies at Athens Summer, 1984
• American School of Classical Studies at Athens: Managing Committee 1980-; Committee on the Summer Session 1984; Ad Hoc Committee on Staff Positions 1986-87; Committee on Committees 1987-1989 (chair 1989); Committee on Admissions and Fellowships 1989-1993; Executive Committee 1996-2000; Publications Committee (2001- )
• Associate of University Seminar on the Archaeology of the Eastern Mediterranean, Eastern Europe and the Near East, Columbia University 1986-
• Organizer, NEH-Dickson Research Conference "Aegean Seals, Sealings and Administration," UT Austin Jan. 11-13, 1989
• Organizer, NEH-AIA International Symposium on Mycenaean Pylos, Fordham University May, 1984
• Organizing Committee, Burdick-Vary Symposium on "Problems in Decipherment," Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, April 8-9, 1988
• Texas Association of College Teachers (TACT) Public Relations Committee 1999-; Vice President At-Large 2002-
• Member of the Centro Internazionale Ricerche Archeologiche e Storiche (C.I.R.A.A.S.) 1994-
• Editorial Committee for the Classical journal Faventia, 1993-1999

TEACHING:

• Undergraduate: The Nature of Inquiry (LAH 112 Honors), Stories of War (LAH/HMN 350), Composition and Reading in World Literature (TC 603A and B), Greek and Roman Culture (Honors), Greek and Roman Mythology (Honors), Greek Myths and Our Lives, Greek Tragedy in English, Ancient Comedy in English, Historical Development of the Classical World, Society and Politics in Archaic Greece, Society in Ancient Greece, Introductory Greek, Intensive Summer Greek, Greek Grammar and Composition, Thucydides, Homer Iliad, Introductory Latin, Herodotus (GK 324), Greek Lyric Poetry, Livy, Roman Satire, Greek Bronze Age, Hittite and Mycenaean Civilization (CC 342), Greek History to the End of the Peloponnesian War (CC/HIS 354C)
• Honors Seminar: The Origins of Writing, Myths of War and Violence in Societies Ancient and Modern (Plan II Junior Honors Seminar TC 357), Reconstructing Ancient Greek Religion (TC 357 and LAH 350/CC348)
• Graduate: Mycenaean Greek; Greek Religion: Linear B; Mycenaean and Later Greece; Linear A; Greek Dialect Inscriptions and Texts; Epigraphical History of Cyprus; Greek Epigraphy; Greek Historical Survey; Herodotus; Homer; Greek Comedy; Sophocles; Xenophon; Pliny; Roman Satire
• Special Telluride Seminar for Gifted High School Juniors: Summer 2005 http://www.tellurideassociation.org/Austin.html
• Ph.D. and M.A. theses supervisor:

  Stephie Nikoloudis, Kevin Pluta (Ph.D. current)
  Dimitri Nakassis (Ph.D. S 2006) "The Individual and the Mycenaean State: Agency and Prosopography in the Linear B Texts from Pylos"
  Alicia Carter (M.A. Spring 2003) "Ancient Inventories: A Comparative Study of Temple Inventories from Athens and Delos and the Linear B inventories from Pylos and Knossos"
  David Hill (M.A. Spring 2002) "Observations on Clause Structure in the Linear B Pylos Corpus"
  Kevin Pluta (M.A. Spring 2000) "Sealings in the Archives at Pylos"
  Joann Gulizio (M.A. Spring 2000) "Hermes and Ares in the Linear B Texts: The Continuity of Their Cult from the Bronze Age to the Historical Period"
  Nicolle Hirschfeld (Ph.D. fall 1999) "Cypro-Minoan Pot Marks"
  Jason Railsback (M.A. summer 1997) "Mycenaean Theophoric Names"
  Zoe Dorton (M.A. summer 1996) "A Study of TE-KO-TO-NE and TO-KO-DO-MO"
  Kate Walsh (M.A. spring 1995) "KN V 52: A Late Minoan II Reference to Athena and Poseidon"
  Ruth Palmer, University of Cincinnati (Ph.D. Cincinnati 1989) "Wine in the Mycenaean Palace Economy"
  Kathleen Cox (M.A. 1989) "Ivory-Carving in the Bronze Age: The Evidence of the Linear B Texts and Archaeology"

• Ph.D. and M.A. theses reader and examiner:
  • M.A.: Mandy Young (History 2005); Susanne Hofstra (1993); Clifford Davis (Classics 1991); Bruce LaForse and Philip Freeman (Classics 1989)
  • Ph.D.: Stacey Peebles (English Fall 2003); Susan Lupack (Fall 2002); Peter van Alfen (Spring 2002); Susanne Hofstra (Classics 2000); Hedvig Landenius Enegren, "The People of Knossos: Prosopographical Studies in the Knossos Linear B Archives" (University of Uppsala, Sweden 1999); Bruce LaForse (Classics 1997); Ilse Schoep (Katholieke Universiteit Leuven 1996); C. Varias Garcia (Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona 1993); F. Schwink (UT Germanic Studies 1992 Edgar Polome Director).

• Honors theses supervisor:

  William Bibee: "Ancient Greek Purification Ritual: origins and Etymology" (Plan II Honors Thesis)
  Robel Beyene, "War Stories: A Study on the Literature of War," (2004-2005)
  Alex Carrell: "The Vietnam War in Literature" (Spring 2004)
  Bao Pham: "Parallels Between the Peloponnesian War and the Cold War" (Plan II Honors Thesis F 2001) Plan II model thesis
  Philip Watters: "War and Homecoming" (Plan II Honors Thesis 2001)
  Haley Moore (2000-2001): "The Notion of the Heroic in the Iliad and Later War Literature" (Plan II Honors Thesis 2000-2001)
  Seth Hickman: "Look at Where I Came From: A Biography of Frank Hickman" (Plan II Honors Thesis 2000)
  Sean Braswell: "Slouching Toward Bethlehem: The Future of Science and Religion in the Modern World" (Plan II Honors Thesis 1998-99)
  Lindsay Livingston: "Methods and Messages of the Soldier-Poets of the Great War" (Plan II Honors Thesis 1999)
  Kevin Pluta: "A Reconstruction of the Archives Complex at Pylos" (Classics Senior Thesis 1997-98)
  Jennifer Busico: "Trauma and Writing about War and Violence" (Plan II Honors Thesis 1998)
  Jeremy Martin, "Out of the Flatlands: A Survey of West Texas Music and the Lubbock Mafia" (Plan II Honors Thesis 1997)
  Michael Hanemann: "Achilles After Vietnam: Combat Trauma and Its Reconciliation Upon Homecoming" (Plan II Honors Thesis 1996)
  Samantha Bergman: "Ancient Ritual and Sacrifice" (Humanities 1994-95 with Penelope Davies in Art History)
  Matt Gonzales: "Mycenaean Kingship" (Classics 1993-94)

• Honors theses reader:

  Edward Phillip Martin: "Highway 61 Revisited: The Play" (Lance Bertelsen supervisor- Plan II Honors Thesis 2005-06)
  Jennifer Job: "Musical Characteristics of Protest and Patriotic Music During Wartime" (Glenn Richter supervisor-Plan II Honors Thesis 2003-04)
  Mandy Young, "Lost and Found: Vera Brittain, Robert Graves and Their Gendered Responses to the Great War" (Peter Jelavich Supervisor-History Senior Honors Thesis 2000)
  Sergio Moreno, "Military Government and the Military Mind: Case Study of Bolivia" (Henry Dietz supervisor-Plan II Honors Thesis 1997)
  Patrick Garvey: "The Role of Ritual Sacrifice in Augustan Rome" (Karl Galinsky supervisor-Plan II Honors Thesis 1996)

• Explore UT:

  Organizer and Presenter, THEY WROTE ON CLAY AND YOU CAN TOO! 03/01/03, 03/06/04, 03/05/05, 03/04/06
  Panelist, CROSSFIRE: THE INTERCOLLEGIATE DEBATE (with Eli Cox BUSINESS & Neal Burns ADVERTISING) 03/05/05
  Organizer and Presenter, RECONSTRUCTING A BRONZE AGE SOCIETY FROM THE AGE OF HOMER. 03/02/02
  Organizer and Presenter, DEMOCRACY DIALOGUE: QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS ON THE THEORY AND PRACTICE, STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES OF DEMOCRACY. 03/03/01
  Organizer and Presenter, STORIES OF WAR 03/04/06

• Campus-Wide Lecture/Discussion Series Organized/Co-Organized:

  Liberal Arts, Communications, Classics, PASP and Center for Middle Eastern Studies: Josh Rushing and The Control Room March 5-6, 2005: lectures, seminars, and a screening with discussion on how public information about war, past and present
  Liberal Arts Honors Colloquium Week on the Effects of War on Human lives, October 4-8, 1999 UT Austin Plan II, LAH, Humanities and PASP
  Ransom Lecturer Week "Celebrating Homer" October 26-30 1997 UT Austin Depts of English and Classics and College of Liberal Arts
  "Branching Out": Informal Interdisciplinary Faculty Discussion on the "Fragility of the Democratic State" with Pulitzer Prize Winner, Taylor Branch Tuesday April 15, 1997

• Panelist in On-Campus Events:

  Panelist and Introductory Speaker: Instruments of Freedom: Musicians and Social Change, LBJ Library 03/02/05
  Panelist: Plan II Presidential Debate Forums (with P. Burka and J. Galbraith) 09/30/04 (with Dan Hamermesh and Mark Lawrence ) 10/13/04
  Panelist: Liberal Arts Focus Group Discussion of Humanities in Modern Culture 03/19/02
  Panelist: "Preserving Knowledge in an Uncertain World," Extraordinary Colloquium Graduate School of Library and Information Science UT Austin, October 9, 2001
  Panelist: "America's New War," Plan II Seminar held at UT Law School, October 1, 2001

• Key-Note Speaker:

School of Social Work: Fallen Soldiers' Memorial Unveiling Key-Note Speaker April 20, 2006
Kappa Delta Pi School of Education Honors Society Induction Ceremony Key-Note Speaker November 9, 2003.

• Lecture/Discussion:

  Humanities Research Center Poetry on the Plaza; "Bob Dylan American Homer" March 1, 2006
  Humanities Research Center lecture connected with the exhibition "Technologies of Writing": "Why write When You Can Speak, Sing and Remember?" February 9, 2006

  Natural Science Dean's Scholars "Participatory Democracy: Ancient and Modern" September 24, 2004

  UT Anthropological Society "Reconstructing Communal Feasting in the Greek Bronze Age" 11/03/04

• Workshop: Grants Writing for Graduate Students faculty panelist Saturday February 24, 2001 Thompson Conference Center
• LAH and pre-LAH: Humanities 112 "The Nature of Inquiry" lectures yearly 1991/92 to 1998/99
• Plan II:
• Plan II Director Search Committee 2005-2006-
• Plan II Advisory Committee 1999-
• Junior Seminars 1995/96 1996/97 1997/98 1999 2003 2004 2005 various visiting lecturers brought in: Jonathan Shay, Stanley Lombardo, Charles Neider, Bill Broyles, Leon Golden, James Tatum, Wallace Terry, Lorrie Goldensohn, Joan Morrison, Michelle Kay, John Burnet, John Eberhard et al. to lecture to TC 357, TC 603A, and other courses
• Organized discussion with Undersecretary of the Navy Hultin: met with ca. 35 Plan II and LAH students 2/16/00.
• Plan II Senior Thesis Collquium session moderator Culture, Society and Religion 03/03/02; 03/02/03
• Plan II Summer reading and Voltaire's meeting 2002, 2003.

SCHOLARSHIP

Current Scholarly Interests:

• decipherment techniques and history of scholarship realting to the Ventris decipherment and the work of Alice Kober
• war and violence in ancient and modern societies (Aegean/Greek, WW I, WW II, Korean War, Vietnam, Iraq, the modern sociopath)
• Mycenaean and Minoan society (especially kingship, religion, and the process of economic organization and record-keeping),
• op ed writing and book reviewing on contemporary or modern historical cultural and educational issues; public intellectualism
• textual and sealing administration (sphragistics)
• the development, spread and use of Aegean writing and concepts of orality and literacy
• problems of historical method in prehistory

Books and Small Monographs:

• The Triple Invention of Writing in Cyprus and Written Sources for Cypriote History (Annual Lecture 2004: The Anastasios G. Leventis Foundation 2005). Pp. 64.
• [with E. Pope and F. Kent Reilly] Unlocking the Secrets of Ancient Writing: The Parallel Lives of Michael Ventris and Linda Schele and the Decipherment of Mycenaean and Mayan Writing, Catalogue of an Exhibition Held at the Nettie Lee Benson Latin American Collection, March 9–August 1, 2000 (Austin 2000) Pp. vi + 34. 24 text figures. [rev. THES (09/01/00) 25]
• edited Aegean Seals, Sealings and Administrations, Proceedings of the NEH-Dickson Conference of the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory of the Department of Classics, University of Texas at Austin January 11-13, 1989, Aegaeum 5 (Liège 1990) 247 pp. + 40 pls. [reviewed in Archaeological Review from Cambridge 9 (1990) 294-296; American Journal of Archaeology 96 (1992) 176-179; OpAth 19 (1992) 172-177]
• edited [with C.W. Shelmerdine and P. Hr. Ilievski] Studia Mycenaea (1988), Ziva Antika Monographies No. 7 (Skopje 1989) 193 + vii pp. [reviewed in Minos 25-26 (1990-1991) 455-459]
• edited [with Y. Duhoux and J. Bennet] Problems in Decipherment, Bibliothèque des Cahiers de l'Institut de Linguistique de Louvain 49 (Louvain-la-Neuve 1989) 216 pp. [reviewed in L'Antiquité Classique 59 (1990) 454-457; Journal of Classical Studies of the Classical Society of Japan 39 (1991) 103-106; Minos 25-26 (1990-91) 429-434]
• The Scribes of Pylos, Incunabula Graeca 87 (Rome 1988) 287 pp. [reviewed Ziva Antika 38 (1988) 110-113]
• edited [with J.-P. Olivier] Texts, Tablets and Scribes: Studies in Mycenaean Epigraphy and Economy in Honor of Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. [= Studies Bennett], Minos Supplement 10 (Salamanca 1988) 391 pp. [reviewed Ziva Antika 38 (1988) 103-110]
• edited [with C.W. Shelmerdine] Pylos Comes Alive: Industry and Administration in a Mycenaean Palace, Papers of a Symposium of the Archaeological Institute of America and Fordham University (New York, 1984) 107 + xix pp. [reviewed in AJA 90 (1986) 355-356; Ziva Antika 35 (1985) 143-147; SMEA 26 (1987) 358; Platon 40 (1988) 221-237]

Articles and Chapters or Appendices in Books (*=refereed journal or series)

• "FAR? or ju? and other interpretative conundra in the new Thebes Tablets," in S. Deger-Jalkotzy and O. Panagl, Die Neuen Linear B-Texte aus Theben (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften 2006) pp. 139-148.
• "Why Do Wars Begin," H. Swain ed., Big Questions in History (London: Jonathan Cape 2005) 129-134
• "Mycenaean Ideograms and Their Use," M. Perna ed., Studi in Onore di Enrica Fiandra: Contributi di archeologia egea e vicinorientale (Paris: De Bocccard 2005) 267-283
• * "Linear B Sources," in S. Trzaskoma, R. Scott Smith, and S. Brunet eds., Anthology of Classical Myth: Primary Sources in Translation (Hackett 2004), 439-454.
• "Syntax and Context as Tools for Interpreting Mycenaean Texts and Scribal Processes: Un 718, Ta 709 and K(1) 740," Analecta Homini Universali Dicata: Festschrift für Oswald Panagl zum 65. Geburtstag (Verlag Hans-Dieter Heinz 2004) 268-278
• "Mycenaean Accounting Methods and Systems and Their Place Within Mycenaean Palatial Civilization," in C. Wunsch and Micheael Hudson eds., Creating Economic Order: Record-Keeping, Standardization and the Development of Accounting in the Ancient Near East, International Scholars Conference on Ancient Near Eastern Economies Vol. 4 (Baltimore:CDL Press 2004) 269-301
• *"Sacrificial Feasting in the Linear B tablets," in J. C. Wright ed., The Mycenaean Feast, Hesperia 73.2 (2004) 217-246
  http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2005/2005-04-49.html
• *"Reviewing the New Linear B tablets from Thebes," Kadmos 42 (2003) 31-38
• * "The Texas Professoriate and Public Political Discourse Before and After 9/11," Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (Spring 2004 volume)
• * "Archaeology and Text: Decipherment, Translation and Interpretation," in J.K. Papadopoulos and R.M. Leventhal eds., Theory and Practice in Mediterranean Archaeology: Old World and New World Perspectives (Cotsen Advanced Seminars 1, The Cotsen Institute of Arcaeology, University of California, Los Angeles 2003) pp. 45-73, bibliography 319-378
• * "'Archives' and 'Scribes' and Information Hierarchy in Mycenaean Greek Linear B Records," in Maria Brosius ed., Ancient Archives and Archival Traditions (Oxford: Oxford University Press 2003) 153-194 figs. 8.1-8.9.
• "The Inscribed Bronze 'Kessel' from Shaft Grave IV and Cretan Heirlooms of the Bronze Age Artist named 'Aigeus' vel sim. in the Mycenaean Palatial Period," in Y. Duhoux ed., BRICIAKA. A Tribute to W. C. Brice = Cretan Studies 9 [2003] 187-201, pl. XXXI.
• "The Browning Version's and Classical Greek," in B. Amden, P. Flensted-Jensen, T.H. Nielsen, A. Schwartz, and Chr. G. Tortzen eds., Noctes Atticae. Studies in Greco-Roman Antiquity and Its Nachleben (Museum Tusculanum Press, Copenhagen 2002 ISBN: 87-72-89-778-3) 199-214
• "Special vs. Normal Mycenaean: Hand 24 and Writing in the Service of the King?" in J. Bennet and J. Driessen eds., A-NA-QO-TA. Festschrift for J.T. Killen (Minos 33-34: Salamanca 2002) 205-221.
• "The Modalities of Economic Control at Pylos," KTEMA 26 (2001) 151-159.
• "Religion in the Room of the Chariot Tablets," in R. Hägg and R. Laffineur eds., Potnia (Aegeaum 22: Liège and Austin 2001) 453-461 [with J. Gulizio and K. Pluta].
• "A Linear-B-Inscribed 'Herring' from Göteborg: An Ichthyomorphic Epiphany," in Potnia, 485-491.
• *"100 years of Linear B at Knossos" = Review article on J. Chadwick et al., Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos, Volumes 2-4 in AJA 105.2 (2001) 316-320 (with J.L. Melena)
• "The Palaeography of Mycenaean Inscribed Sealings from Thebes and Pylos, Their Place Within the Mycenaean Administrative System and Their Links With the Extra-Palatial Sphere," in W. Mueller ed., Minoisch-mykenische Glyptik. Stil, Ikonographie, Funktion, CMS Beiheft 6 (Mainz 2000) 219-238
• "MA Tn 249: A Linear B Tablet from Marburg with Ritual Information and Graffiti," in Minoisch-mykenische Glyptik, 361-368
• "Courage and Prowess Afoot in Homer and the Vietnam of Tim O'Brien," Classical and Modern Literature 20/3 (2000) 1-22
• * "themis in the Mycenaean Lexicon and the Etymology of the Place-Name *ti-mi-to a-ko," Faventia 22/1 (2000) 7-19
• "Transactional Vocabulary in Linear B Tablet and Sealing Administration," in M. Perna ed., Administrative Documents in the Aegean and their Near Eastern Counterparts. Proceedings of the International Colloquium, Naples, February 29-March 2, 1996 (Turin 2000) 261-276
• *"Classics: Apocalypse Now or Working Toward the Future?" Classical Bulletin 75.1 (1999) 85-97, a special issue devoted to the current state and future of Classics edited by L. Golden and K. Herbert
• "Religion in the Room of the Chariot Tablets," Journal of Prehistoric Religion 14 (2000) 24-27 [with J. Gulizio and K. Pluta]
• "Kn02 - Tn 316," in S. Deger-Jalkotzy et al. eds., Floreant Studia Mycenaea. Akten des X. Internationalen Mykenologischen Colloquiums in Salzburg vom 1.-5. Mai 1995 (Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften Philosophisch-Historische Klasse Denkschriften 274: Vienna 1999) Band II, 437-461
• (with Elizabeth Sikkenga) "Linear A > Linear B," MELETEMATA. Studies in Aegean Archaeology Presented to Malcolm H. Wiener as He Enters His 65th Year (Aegaeum 20: Liège and Austin 1999) 599-608
• "po-re-na: A Mycenaean Reflex in Homer? An I-E Figure in Mycenaean?" in Minos 31-32 (1996-97 [98]) 303-312
• "Mycenaean Militarism from a Textual Perspective. Onomastics in Context: lawos, damos, klewos," in R. Laffineur ed., Polemos: Warfare in the Aegean Bronze Age (Aegaeum 19: Liège and Austin 1999) 367-378
• "A Linear B Inscribed Galet from Liège: LIE Ga 1998 A Gaufre or 'Galet'," in R. Laffineur ed., Polemos: Warfare in the Aegean Bronze Age (Aegaeum 19: Liège and Austin 1999) 507-511
• "Remembering a Scholar: John Chadwick Was One of the Founding Fathers of Mycenaean Studies," Archaeology Odyssey (Winter 1999) 11
• "Linear B and the Origins of Greek Religion: 'di-wo-nu-so'," in N. Dimoudis and A. Kyriatsoulis eds., The History of the Hellenic Language and Writing: From the Second to the First Millennium B.C.: Break or Continuity? , Acts of the 2nd International Conference of the Society for the Study and Spreading of Hellenic History Held at Ohlstadt, Germany 03.-06.10.1996 (DZA Verlag für Kultur und Wissenschaft GmBH: Altenburg 1998 ISBN 3-9806602-0-6) 205-222; discussion 223-224
• "Linear Scripts'" in Encyclopedia Americana 1998 (Grolier 1998) 523-524
• "Potter and Fuller: The Royal Craftsmen," in R. Laffineur and P.P. Betancourt eds., Tekhne, Aegaeum 16 (Liège 1997) 407-412
• "PH Up 1996," in R. Laffineur and P.P. Betancourt eds., Tekhne, Aegaeum 16 (Liège 1997) 539-543
• "'Contiguities' in the Linear B Tablets from Pylos," in E. de Miro, L. Godart, A. Sacconi eds., Atti e memorie del secondo congresso interazionale di micenologia (Rome 1996) 379-396
• with I. Hajnal, A. Kolosimo, J.-P. Olivier, C.J. Ruijgh, "Linear B in the Bay of Naples," Atti e memorie, 1645-1648
• "Sealings as Links in an Administrative Chain," in P. Ferioli, E. Fiandra and G.G. Fissore eds., Administration in Ancient Societies, Acts of Session 218 of the 13th International Congress of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Mexico City July 29-August 5, 1993 (Turin 1996) 37-66
• Entries "Linear A and B" and "Mycenaeans" in Nancy de Grummond ed., An Encyclopedia of the History of Classical Archaeology (Greenwood Press 1996) 682-684 and 786-789
• "Monad Noir (translation of Horace Carm. 1.38)" Arion Third Series 3.2&3 (Fall 1995/Winter 1996) 177-178
• "Ten Reasons Why KH 115 = KN 115," Minos 27-28 (1992-93) 261-281
• "The Last Days of the Pylos Polity," in R. Laffineur and W.-D. Niemeier eds., Politeia: Society and State in the Aegean Bronze Age, Aegaeum 12 (Liège 1995) 623-633, plate LXXIV
• "A Linear B Tablet from Heidelberg," in Politeia, 699-670
• "The Nature of the Mycenaean Wanax: Non-Indo-European Origins and Priestly Functions," in P. Rehak ed., The Role of the Ruler in the Prehistoric Aegean, Aegaeum 11 (Liège 1995) 119-139, plates XLI-XLII
• "Seal-Users and Script-Users / Nodules and Tablets at LM I B Hagia Triada" and "Response to Paper of G. Fissore," in P. Ferioli, E. Fiandra, et al. eds., Archives Before Writing (Pubblicazioni del centro Internazionale di Ricerche Archeologiche Antropologiche e Storiche I: Turin 1994) 307-337, 355-361 (with discussions)
• "Late Bronze Age Aegean Ships and the Pylos Tablets Vn 46 and Vn 879," Minos 25-26 (1990-91) 297-317 [with Fred Hocker]
• "Michael Ventris's Blueprint," Discovery. Research and Scholarship at The University of Texas at Austin 13:2 (1993) 20-26.
• "The Knossos Oxen Dossier: The Use of Oxen in Mycenaean Crete. Part I: General Background and Scribe 107," in J.-P. Olivier ed., Mykenaika (BCH Supplément XXV: Paris 1992) 463-474
• "Mycenaean Scribal Aesthetics," in R. Laffineur and J. Crowley eds., EIKWN. Aegean Bronze Age Iconography: Shaping a Methodology, Aegaeum 8 (Liège 1992) 63-75, pls. XX-XXIII
• "The Advent of the Greek Alphabet on Cyprus: A Competition of Scripts," in C. Baurain et al. eds., Phoinikeia Grammata, Collections d'Ètudes Classiques vol. 6 (Namur 1991) 449-471
• "Maritime Matters in the Linear B Texts," in R. Laffineur and L. Basch eds., Thalassa. L'Égée prehistorique et la mer, Aegaeum 7 (Liège 1991) 273-310, pl. LXIII
• "Ideograms and Supplementals and Regional Interaction among Aegean and Cypriote Scripts," Minos 24 (1989) 29-54
• "The Purposes and Techniques of Administration in Minoan and Mycenaean Society," in T.G. Palaima ed., Aegean Seals, Sealings and Administration, Aegaeum vol. 5 (Liège 1990) 83-104, pls. VII-XV [=ASSA]
• Round-Table Comments, in ASSA, 242-247
• "Perspectives on the Pylos Oxen Tablets: Textual (and Archaeological) Evidence for the Use and Management of Oxen in the Late Bronze Age Messenia (and Crete)," Studia Mycenaea (1988), 85-124
• "Cypro-Minoan Scripts: Problems of Historical Context," Problems in Decipherment, 121-187
• "The Development of the Mycenaean Writing System," Studies Bennett, 269-342
• "Preliminary Comparative Textual Evidence for Palatial Control of Economic Activity in Minoan and Mycenaean Crete," The Function of the Minoan Palaces, Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium at the Swedish Institute in Athens, 10-16 June, 1984 (Acta Instituti Atheniensis Regni Sueciae, Series in 48, XXXV, Stockholm 1987) 301-305
• "Mycenaean Seals and Sealings in Their Economic and Administrative Contexts," in P.H. Ilievski and L. Crepajac eds., Tractata Mycenaea, Proceedings of the 8th International Colloquium on Mycenaean Studies, Held in Ohrid, 15-20 September 1985 (Skopje 1987) 249-266
• "Comments on Mycenaean Literacy," in J.T. Killen, J.L. Melena, J.-P. Olivier eds., Studies in Mycenaean and Classical Greek Presented to John Chadwick (Minos 20-22, Salamanca 1987) 499-510
• "Secondary Criteria for Identifying Scribal Hands: Interdisciplinary Considerations," Text 2 (1985) 55-67
• "Ins and Outs of the Archives Rooms at Pylos: Form and Function in a Mycenaean Palace," American Journal of Archaeology 89 (1985) 251-262 [with J.C. Wright]
• Appendix to P. Åström, K.-E. Sjöquist, Pylos: Palmprints and Palm Leaves (Göteborg 1985) 99-107 [reviewed in AJA 90 (1986) 335-336; Gnomon 58 (1986) 429-431; SMEA 26 (1987) 359; BABESCH 62 (1987) 170]
• "Inscribed Stirrup Jars and Regionalism in Linear B Crete," Studi micenei ed egeo-anatolici 25 (1984) 189-203
• "Mycenaean Archaeology and the Pylos Texts," Archaeological Review from Cambridge 3:2 (1984) 76-89 [with C.W. Shelmerdine]
• "An Inscribed Stirrup Jar of Cretan Origin from Bamboula, Cyprus," Kadmos 23 (1984) 65-73 [with P. Betancourt and G.E. Myer]
• "Scribal Organization and Palatial Activity," Pylos Comes Alive, 31-39
• "Evidence for the Influence of the Knossian Graphic Tradition at Pylos," Concilium Eirene XVI, Proceedings of the 16th International Eirene Congress, Prague, 31.8-4.9 1982 (Prague 1983) 80-84, plates I-II
• "Linear A in the Cyclades: The Trade and Travel of a Script," Temple University Aegean Symposium 7 (1982) 15-22
• "The Organization of Scribal Administration at Pylos," Acts of the Second International Congress of Peloponnesian Studies, Patras, Greece, May 25-31, 1980 [Athens, 1982] 314-320, plates 14-16
• "On the Painted Linear Sign from a Wall at Knossos," Kadmos 20 (1981) 79-82
• "Observations on Pylian Epigraphy," Studi micenei ed egeo-anatolici 21 (1980) 193-203
• Note on Vase Inscription KH Z1, Nestor 6:6 (1979) 1378-1379

Articles Forthcoming/Submitted:

• "OL Zh 1: Quousque tandem?" Minos 37-38 (2002-2003) pp. 373-385 (in publication)
• "wanaks and related power terms in Mycenaean and later Greek," I. Lemos ed., From Wanax to Basileus (Papers of the 3rd Leventis Seminar) (in editing)
• "Alice Elizabeth Kober," in Getzel Cohen and Martha Joukowsky eds., Pioneering Women Archaeologists (submitted 12/03/99)
• "Assessing the Linear B Evidence for Continuity from the Mycenaean Period in the Boeotian Cults of Poseidon (and Erinys) at Onchestos (Telphousa-Haliartos)," in John M. Fossey and Michael B. Cosmopoulos eds., Boiotia Antiqua VII-VIII: Studies in Boiotian Archaeology, History, and Institutions (including Papers Presented at the IX International Conference on Boiotian Antiquities, Winnipeg 29-31 October 1998) (Chicago: Ares accepted by press).

Articles planned for submission (delivered as conference papers):

• "Inside the Mind of a Mycenaean 'Scribe': How Hand 2 Wrote the Pylos Ta Series," delivered at the Conference: Jornadas Micénicas Held at Universities of Alicante-Orihuela, Spain, February 17-19, 1999 (to be submitted to Hesperia)
• "50 Years Ago in Mycenology: Reflections on Our Discipline," 11th International Mycenological Colloquium

Commentary: AAS=Austin American-Statesman

• "33 Million Foreign College Graduates Will Soon Be Job Hunting," AAS June 28, 2006
• "Viewing Foreign Policy through Rosy Glasses," AAS June 20, 2006
  http://www.commondreams.org/views06/0620-30.htm
• "What's the Truth of War?" AAS May 27, 2006
• "It's All About Athletics" AAS May 10, 2006
• "Confident young minds" AAS April 6, 2006
• "A new book that's both very big and very good" AAS Mar. 9, 2006
• "Put academics before athletics" AAS Feb 24, 2006
• "At UT, love of learning must become a priority" AAS Feb 22, 2006
• "The road UT has taken" AAS Feb 9, 2006
• "Do these trees really need to be cut down? AAS Jan. 25, 2006
• "UT is No. 1, UT is 52nd," AAS 01/13/06, p. A13
• "Looking back, I'm glad I didn't let that dog go," AAS 01/06/06
• "Doing the Right Thing in a World Full of Spin," AAS 12/28/05
• "Longing for an America That's No Longer With Us," AAS 12/09/05
  http://www.commondreams.org/views05/1209-26.htm
• "These UT Athletes Have Reason to Be Thankful," AAS 11/23/05, p. A 17
• "Giving Them Freedom to Find Their Own Path," AAS 11/01/05
• "For UT Donors, It Might Pay to Look Past Sports," AAS 10/20/05
• "A School's Wise Stand Against Book Banning," AAS 10/05/05
• "The Iliad Doesn't Flinch From War's Brutal Truths," AAS 09/19/05, p. A11
  http://www.commondreams.org/views05/0919-23.htm
• "The Words Matter, Even When They Are Greek," AAS 09/02/05, p. A15
• "A Grieving Mother Asks an Impossible Question," AAS 08/23/05
• "In war, we choose to see our own truths," AAS 08/10/05
• "An ideal summer job of teaching, learning," AAS 08/02/05
• "How Terrorists Use Hate to Try to Divide Us," AAS 07/12/05
• "Honoring the Fallen, Ignoring the Horror," AAS 07/01/05 p. A 13
• "Why Spinning America's Image Isn't Enough," AAS 06/10/05 see also History News Network
  http://www.hnn.us/articles/12418.html
• "Blaminmg the Little Guy for History's Big Crimes," AAS 05/24/05
• " At UT, An Education That Leaves Out the Essentials," AAS 05/21/05
• "Democaracy Isn't Perfect, But We Shouldn't Take It for Granted," AAS 04/16/05 p. A 17
  http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial/04/16palaima_edit.html
• "We Will Disagree, But Let's Not Stop Debate," AAS 03/29/05
• "Music's Soul, from Achilles to Dylan," AAS 03/17/05
• "Pinetop Perkins: Finding Joy in a Life of the Blues," AAS 02/22/05
• "Learning vs. Sports at UT: Guess Which Is Winning?" AAS 02/15/05
  http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial/02/15palaima_edit.html
• "One Election Doesn't Mean Victory in Iraq," AAS 02/08/05
• "The Danger of a Leader's Positive Illusions," AAS 01/31/05
• "What King Could Teach Us About Our Role in the World,"
  http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial/01/26palaima_edit.html
• "What It Takes to Bring Us Life's Simple Things," AAS 12/28/04
• "Military Recruiters Know Their Target Well," AAS 12/15/04 and "What Military Recruiters Are Doing to Fill Their Ranks," History News Network
  http://hnn.us/articles/9143.html
• "Their Service Is Over; Don't Make Them Fight On," AAS 12/08/04
  http://hnn.us/articles/8945.html
• "In America, We Would Rather Just Fight About It," AAS 11/29/04 p. A11
  http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1129-27.htm
• "In His Election Victory, Bush Sees a Divine Right to Soldier On," AAS 11/06/04 p. A15
• "What It Will Really take for UT to Be Excellent," AAS 10/03/04 p. A11 http://www.statesman.com/opinion/content/editorial/13palaima_edit.html
• "The Human Toll Behind the Iraq Statistics," AAS 10/04/04 p. A11 http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1004-32.htm
• "Will debates force an end to playing politics with lives?" Sacramento Bee 09/26/04 http://hnn.us/articles/7583.html
• "I'm tired of trashy politics, and I won't take it anymore," AAS 09/11/04 http://www.commondreams.org/views04/0911-01.htm
• "Authentic Songs Guide Us in Turbulent Times," AAS 09/07/04, p. A9
• "Despite Assurances, Terrorism's Dark Cloud Looms Over Athens on Eve of the Olympics," AAS 08/03/04
• "Sportsmanship, from Olympia to Omaha," AAS 07/07/04
• "What Will They Learn from These Leaders," AAS 06/29/04, p. A13
• "Young Citizens, getting Prepared to take Flight," AAS 06/15/04
• "The Iliad Gets Lost in Hollywood's Translation," AAS 05/18/04, p. A9
• "In the Name of Decency , Let Us Acknowledge How Many Are Dying for US and Who They Are" AAS 05/04/04, p. A11
• "Defending Dylan. Why I am Looking Past the Lingerie Ad" AAS 04/2404, p. A11
• "In Ancient Myths, We Find Modern Realities," AAS 04/13/04 A13
• "Laughing at Our Soldiers' Reason for Dying," AAS 04/05/04 A9
• "For These Austinites, There's Magic in Giving," AAS 03/13/04 A15
• "The unyielding psychology of war, from Troy to Tikrit," AAS 02/04/04 A15 (with John Friend)
• "War is our reality, and we shouldn't turn away from it," AAS 01/12/04 A7
• "Educating Young Minds, Nurturing a World's Dreams," AAS 12/30/03 A9
• "With Saddam Caged, the Collective Human Emotion Moves from Fear to Elation," Austin American-Statesman 12/17/03 A17
• "When real world intrudes on academia, all voices must have opportunity to be heard," Austin American-Statesman 12/08/03 A11
• "The Relationship Between God and War," Austin American-Statesman 11/12/03 A13
• "Casting the First Stone," Los Angeles Times 11/10/03 (with John Friend)
• "Archives Revive Interest in Forgotten Life," Austin American-Statesman 10/27/03 A9 (with Sue Trombley)
• "Archives Keep Us in Touch With History As It Happened, Not As It Is Imagined," Austin American-Statesman 10/15/03 A13
• "Despite World's Reminders, We Still Don't Know Terrorism," Austin American-Statesman 09/16/03 A11
• "An Apology to Those Who Fought and Were Forgotten," Austin American-Statesman 09/02/03 A9
• "The Worst Thing We Can Do Is Forget," Austin American-Statesman 08/08/03 A13
• "Keep Austin Full of Good Vibes and Good People," Austin American-Statesman 06/13/03 A13
• "Pausing to remember others' sacrifice," Austin American-Statesman 05/29/03 A15
• "The war that was, and the war that we saw," Austin American-Statesman 04/30/03 A13
• "Be mindful of the real casualties of war ," Austin American-Statesman 04/12/03 A15
• "The Only Constants in Iraq's War-Ravaged History Are Change, Uncertainty ," Austin American-Statesman 03/20/03 A19 (with Dennis Elam)
• "A Magical Visit to Mr. Faulkner's Neighborhood," Austin American-Statesman 03/08/03 A15
• "In the Final Analysis There is But One Truth: War Is Stupid," Austin American-Statesman 02/20/03 A15
• "Building Better Islands for Children," Austin American-Statesman 02/10/03 A9
• "Through the Ages, Society Has Struggled With Ultimate Penalty," Austin American-Statesman 01/14/02 A9
• "As Year Closes, A Look at History Hints at Things to Come" Austin American-Statesman 12/2902 E3
• "Smell of Money Is Merely a Matter of Perspective," Austin American-Statesman 12/02/02 A11
• "Speak Freely to This UT Turkey," Austin American-Statesman 11/20/02 A15
• "Moon, Stars, Profit, Our Loss," Austin American-Statesman 10/23/02 A15
• "A Lesson About Darkness and War in the Middle East," Austin American-Statesman 10/11/02 A13
• "A Snapshot of History Can Tell Us Much About Today ," Austin American-Statesman 09/08/02 J3
• "Some Things That Take the Cake," Austin American-Statesman 08/17/02 A11 + Abilene Reporter-News
• "Future of 'Dream Team' in Texas," Abilene Reporter-News 07/20/02 3AA
• "The Politics and Promise of the Democratic Dream Team," Austin American-Statesman 07/14 /02 H3
• "Your Freedom is in the Mail," Austin American-Statesman 07/03/02 A15
• "When Giving It That Old College Try Comes at Too High A Cost," Austin American-Statesman 06/22 /02 A15
• "2,500 Memorial Days and Counting," Austin American-Statesman 05/27/02 A 11
• "Educational Grazing on the Forty Acres," Austin American-Statesman 05/21/02 A11
• "Of Death and Academics, " Austin American-Statesman 05/11/02 A19
• "A Master Teacher," Austin American-Statesman 04/14/02 H3
• "Where's Our Iliad?" Austin American-Statesman 03/31/02 J3
• "Catch 2002: UT's Student Fee Dilemma," Austin American-Statesman 03/01/02 A15
• "Keeping Cool about Higher Ed," Austin American-Statesman 01/15/02 A11
• "2001: One Cruel Yearand Two Caring Gentlemen," Austin American-Statesman 12/30/01 D3
• "Give UT Student-Athletes a Sporting Chance," Austin American-Statesman 12/05/01 A13
• "Driving SUVs and Flying B-24s in Times of Reverence," Austin American-Statesman 11/14/01 A15
• "When Will the Terrorists Have Won?," Austin American-Statesman 10/23/01 A11
• "To Be a Citizen or Idiot: The Choice Is Ours," Austin American-Statesman 10/09/01 A15
• "God Bless Greece, God Bless the USA," Kathimerini Greece's International Newspaper 10/02/01
• "This is Retaliation, Not Justice," London Times Higher Education Supplement 09/28/01
• "American Ideals and the Rights of Others," Austin American-Statesman 09/25/01 A11
• "Brave New Electronic World," Austin American-Statesman 08/26/01 H3
• "Divided we fall into inequality gap," Austin American-Statesman 08/02/01 A19
• "Satirist wanted; no experience is necessary," Austin American-Statesman 07/08/01 E3
• "The Ivory Tower and the Economics of Knowledge: Part II," Austin American-Statesman 06/13/01 A15
• "The Sky's the Limit," Austin American-Statesman 05/24/01 A21
• "Old Wounds of Vietnam Still Haven't Healed," Austin American-Statesman 05/06/01 H3
• "Faith-Based Initiatives and Economic Realities," Austin American-Statesman 05/02/01 A13
• "The Ivory Tower and the Economics of Knowledge: Part I," Austin American-Statesman 04/15/01 H3
• "How Ivory is the University of Texas Tower?" Austin American-Statesman 04/01/01 H3
• "Shane's Technicolor Morality," Austin American-Statesman 03/11/01 H3
• "The Handwriting's on the Wall for Some," Austin American-Statesman 03/01/01 A13
• "Life Is a 50-50 Proposition," Austin American-Statesman 02/15/01 A15
• "Bunton's Humor in the Courtroom," Austin American-Statesman 02/05/01 A11
• "Imagination and History," Austin American-Statesman 01/28/01 H3
• "The Ironies of Memory," Austin American-Statesman 01/18/01 A15
• "A Christmas Gift from One of Our Own," Austin American-Statesman 12/24/00 H3
• "Movies, Political Myths and Election 2000," Austin American-Statesman 12/13/00 A19
• "The End of an Uninspiring Campaign," Austin American-Statesman 11/08/00 A23
• "Voting: The Democratic Ideal?" Austin American-Statesman 10/29/00 H3
• "A Modest Proposal," Austin American-Statesman 10/01/00 J3
• "Listen to the Songs We Sing," Austin American-Statesman 9/5/00 A9
• "Big Brother, Bullwinkle and the Daily News," Austin American-Statesman 7/12/2000 A13
• "With Open Discussion, No Protests Necessary," Austin American-Statesman 5/27/2000 A15
• "In Austin, We Have All the Answers," Austin American-Statesman 4/18/2000 A7
• "Free Speech and Higher Education," Austin American-Statesman 3/13/00 A9
• "Wealth and the Commonwealth," Austin American-Statesman 2/01/00 A9
• "The Century of Violence," Austin American-Statesman 12/19/99 H3
• "The Effects of War, On All of Us," Austin American-Statesman 10/01/99 A15 (with Paul Woodruff)
• "Engaging Our Minds Before We Engage Our Troops," Austin American-Statesman 5/19/99 A13
• "Legislators, Please Send Money," Austin American-Statesman 4/15/99 A15
• "Is Corporate Model Right for Higher Education?," Austin American-Statesman 2/17/99 A11

Featured Commissioned Articles

• "Family Leave at UT Austin," Cloelia 32.2 (2004) 14-19.
• "Lessons for leaders. In many ways, challenges have changed little since ancient times," Sacramento Bee 10/24/04 http://hnn.us/articles/8161.html
• "Epic Tale of Facing Up to Achilles Heel," THES 06/11/2004, pp. 20-21 (with Lt. Col. Ted Westhusing)
• "Why Peace Is a Conjuror's Trick," THES 12/12/03 http://hnn.us/articles/866.html#war12-21-03
• "The Missing Entries from 'A Gaza Diary'," Jerusalem Post 09/25/03 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1064470656874
• "Some Plagiarism Serious Enough to Diminish Our Faith," Austin American-Statesman 09/28/2003 E1-E5.
• "The World Has Not Changed," THES 10/26/01, p. 13 (on free speech and higher education after the WTC-Pentagon attacks)

Poetry:

• "As Told To Wallace Terry," War, Literature and the Arts 15 (2003) 171-172.

Radio:

• "Contractor corruption in Iraq and the case of Col. Ted Westhusing" On Point WBUR Boston and NPR affiliates nationwide 12/06/05: http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2005/12/20051206_a_main.asp
• "Need for a Modern-Day Iliad" on Counterpoint, Radio National Australia 10/24/05 http://www.abc.net.au/rn/talks/counterpoint/stories/s1488872.htm
• discussion of violence in America on Wisconsin Public Radio: Conversations with Joy Cardin 12/09/04 http://www.wpr.org/cardin/index.cfm?strDirection=Prev&dteShowDate=2004%2D12%2D09%2007%3A00%3A00
• commentary on ancient Greek warfare on NPR Morning Edition 08/25/04 http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3870177
• "Ancient Troy and the movie 'Troy'" On Point WBUR Boston and NPR affiliates nationwide May 21, 2004: http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2004/05/20040521_b_main.asp
• "From Camelot to Kent State" on 'Eklektikos' with host John Aielli KUT-FM 90.5 radio 09/10/01(with Joan Morrison)
• "How War Changes Lives" on 'Eklektikos' with host John Aielli KUT-FM 90.5 radio 10/04/99 (with Stanley Lombardo)
• "The Humanities in Higher Education," on 'Soul Time' with host Chuck Freeman KOOP Radio Austin Texas 4/8/99
• "Achilles in Vietnam" on 'Eklektikos' with host John Aielli KUT-FM 90.5 radio 10/29/97 (with Jonathan Shay)

Reviews: The London Times Higher Education Supplement = THES

• R. Bittlesone, Odysseus Unbound: The Search for Homer's Ithaca (2005) in THES 03/10/06
• P. Heather, The Fall of the Roman Empire (2005) in THES 01/06/06
• J.H.W. Penney ed., Indo-European Perspectives: Studies in Honour of Anna Morpurgo Davies (2004) in THES 10/28/05, p. 26
• P. Woodruff, First Democracy: The Challenge of an Ancient Idea (2005) in History Today July 2005, pp. 62-63 http://www.historytoday.com/dt_main_allatonce.asp?gid=31121&g31121=x&g30784=x&g30028=x&g20991=x&g21010=x&g19965=x&g19963=x&amid=30222934
• R. Lane Fox ed., The Long March: Xenophon and the Ten Thousand (2005) in THES 06/10/05, p. 28
• E. Bulwer-Lytton, Athens: Its Rise and Fall, edited by Oswyn Murray (2004) and G. E.M. de Ste. Croix, Athenian Democratic Origins and Other Essays, edited by David Harvey and Robert Parker (2004) in THES 03/18/05
• Simon Goldhill, Love, Sex and Tragedy, in THES 09/24/04
• Stephen G. Miller, Ancient Greek Athletics (2004) and J. Swaddling, The Ancient Olympic Games 3rd ed. (2004) in History Today (September 2004) 56 http://www.historytoday.com/dt_main_allatonce.asp?gid=19763&aid=&tgid=&amid=30209587&g19763=x&g30028=x&g20991=x&g21010=x&g19965=x&g19963=x
• Donald Kagan , The Peloponnesian War: Athens and Sparta in Savage Conflict 431-404 BC in THES 04/16/2004
• R. Pogue Harrison, The Dominion of the Dead (2003) in History Today (April 2004) 56-57 http://www.historytoday.com/dt_main_allatonce.asp?gid=19849&g19849=x&g19763=x&g30028=x&g20991=x&g21010=x&g19965=x&g19963=x&amid=19849
• B. Katovsky and T. Carlson, Embedded: The Media at War in Iraq. An Oral History (2003) in THES. 01/30/04
• J. Tatum, The Mourner's Song: War and Remembrance from the Iliad to Vietnam (University of Chicago Press, Chicago 2003 ISBN 0-226-78993-4) in the London Times Higher Education Supplement = THES June 13, 2003, p. 28
• A. Robinson, The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: The Story of Michael Ventris (Thames and Hudson, London and New York 2002 ISBN 0-500-51077-6) in American Journal of Archaeology 107 (2003) 296-297
• V.L. Aravantinos, L. Godart and A. Sacconi eds., Les tablettes en linéaire B de la Odos Pelopidou, Édition et Commentaire (Thèbes Fouilles de la Cadmée 1) (Istituti Editoriali Poligrafici Internazionali, Pisa and Rome 2001. ISBN 88-8147-228-7) in Minos.35-36 (2000-2001 [2002]) 475-486
• J.L. Melena, Textos griegos micénicos comentados (Eusko Legebiltzarra/Parlamento Vasco, Vitoria-Gasteiz 2001) in Minos.35-36 (2000-2001 [2002]) 494-496
• V.L. Aravantinos, L. Godart and A. Sacconi eds., Les tablettes en linéaire B de la Odos Pelopidou, Édition et Commentaire (Thèbes Fouilles de la Cadmée 1) (Istituti Editoriali Poligrafici Internazionali, Pisa and Rome 2001. ISBN 88-8147-228-7) in American Journal of Archaeology 107.1 (2003) 113-115.
• J. Dawes, The Language of War: Literature and Culture in the U.S. fromthe Civil War through World War II (Harvard University Press 2002), in the London Times Higher Education Supplement = THES April 12, 2002, p. 24
• P. Woodruff, Reverence: Renewing a Forgotten Virtue (Oxford University Press 2001), in The American Prospect 12:22 (December 17, 2001) 46-47
• M. Bernal, Black Athena Writes Back (Duke University Press 2001), in THES December 21-28, 2001, p. 27
• J. Chadwick et al., Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos, Volume 4, in CW 95.1 (2001) 84-85
• J. and R.K. Morrison, From Camelot to Kent State (Oxford University Press 2001) in THES October 12, 2001
• P. Cartledge, The Greeks: Crucible of Civilisation (BBC Worldwide 2001), in the London Times Higher Education Supplement = THES March 30, 2001, p. 33
• L. Tritle, From Melos to Mylai: War and Survival (Routledge 2000) and L. Freedman, Kennedy's Wars: Berlin, Cuba, Laos, Vietnam (OUP 2001), in the THES February 16, 2001, p. 30
• Kurt Raaflaub and Nathan Rosenstein editors, War and Society in the Ancient and Medieval Worlds: Asia, the Mediterranean, Europe and Mesoamerica (Harvard U Pr: Cambridge MA, 1999) in THES December 1, 2000, p. 34
• S. MacGillivray, Minotaur: Sir Arthur Evans and the Archaeology of the Minoan Myth (London 2000) in THES August 18, 2000, p. 19
• M.L. Galaty and W.A. Parkinson eds., Rethinking Mycenaean Palaces (Cotsen Institute Monograph 41: UCLA 1999) in THES June 9, 2000, p. 31
• J. Chadwick et al. eds., Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos†vol. 4 (Cambridge and Rome 1999) in THES August 20, 1999, p. 23
• J.-P. Olivier and L. Godart eds., Corpus Hieroglyphicarum Inscriptionum Cretae (Études Crétoises 31: Paris 1996) in AJA 102 (1998) 434-435
• Kevin Robb, Literacy and Paideia in Ancient Greece (New York, Oxford University Press 1994) in Minos 29-30 (1994-95) 392-397
• A. Bernard Knapp ed., Near Eastern and Aegean Texts from the Third to the First Millennia BC (Sources for the History of Cyprus 2: Greece and Cyprus Research Center, Altamont, NY 1996) in AJA 101:3 (1997) 629
• M. Lefkowitz, NOT OUT OF AFRICA (BasicBooks, New York 1996) in National Review 48:5 (3-25-1996) 54-55
• Kos. I. Gallis, Atlas proïstorikon ikismon tis anatolikis thessalikis pediadas, Larisa, Eteria Istorikon Erevnon Thessalias, 1992, pp. 240, insert maps at end, in Minos 27-28 (1992-93) 337-338
• Despina Daniilidou, Vivliografia ya tin krito-mikinaïki thriskia (Research Center for Antiquity, Monograph 2) Academy of Athens, Athens 1993, pp. 142. Minos, in Minos 27-28 (1992-93) 338-339
• J.T. Hooker, Isagogi sti Grammiki B, trans. Haralambos E. Maravelias, prologue and editorial supervision Vasilis Aravantinos, Morfotiko Idrima Ethnikis Trapezis: Athens 1994, pp. 325, in Minos 27-28 (1992-93) 339-341
• Berit Wells ed., Agriculture in Ancient Greece (Proceedings of the Seventh International Symposium at the Swedish Institute at Athens), Stockholm, Acta Instituti Atheniensis Regni Sueciae, Series in 48, XLII, 1992, pp. 178, in Minos 27-28 (1992-93) 341-343
• K.-E. Sjöquist & P. Aström: Knossos: Keepers and Kneaders with an appendix by J.-P. Olivier (SIMA Pocket-Book 82: Göteborg, Paul Aströms Förlag 1991) in Minos 25-26 (1990-91) 434-454
• J.T. Hooker intro., Reading the Past: Ancient Writing from Cuneiform to the Alphabet (Berkeley, University of California Press/British Museum 1991) in Minos 25-26 (1990-91) 434-454
• J. DeFrancis, Visible Speech: The Diverse Oneness of Writing Systems (Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press 1989) in Minos 25-26 (1990-91) 434-454
• B.B. Powell, Homer and the Origin of the Greek Alphabet (Cambridge, Cambridge University Press 1991) in Minos 25-26 (1990-91) 434-454
• M. Bernal, Cadmean Letters (Winona Lake, Eisenbrauns 1990) in Minos 25-26 (1990-91) 434-454
• J. Chadwick et al., Corpus of Mycenaean Inscriptions from Knossos, Volume 1 (1-1063) , in AJA 93:2 (1989) 294-296
• A. Morpurgo Davies and Y. Duhoux, Linear B: A 1984 Survey, and L. Godart and J.-P. Olivier, Recueil des inscriptions en linéaire A, Volume 5 in AJA 91:2 (1987) 336-337
• A.H. Bikaki, Keos IV: The Potters' Marks in AJA 89 (1985) 529-530
• E. Courtney, A Commentary on the Satires of Juvenal in CW 75 (1982) 190-191
• J.R. Jenkinson, Persius, Satires: An Annotated Translation, and R.A. Harvey, A Commentary on Persius in CW 76 (1983) 185-186

Reviews forthcoming: THES

• P. Zagorin, Thucydides: An Introduction for the Common Reader (2005)
• T. Gitlin, The Intellectuals and the Flag (2006)
• C. Gere, The Tomb of Agamemnon: Mycenae and the Search for a Hero (2006)

PAPERS and SEMINARS and WORKSHOPS: [published papers delivered at international congresses included under publications]

• "Mycenaean Society and Kingship: Cui Bono? A Counter-Speculative View," EPOS Aegaeum Conference UCLA April 21-23, 2006
• "Thebes and Other Mycenaean Kingdoms and their Foreign and Domestic Relations," Mycenaeans and Anatolians in the late Bronze Age: The Ahhijawa Question, Concordia University Montreal January 4-5, 2006
• "The Mycenaean Control of Labor," ISLET Conference Dresden, Germany April 29-May 3, 2005
• "Home Front and War Front," Roanoke College, Phi Beta Kappa Induction March 16, 2005
• "The Literature of Violence," Bellarmine Forum, Loyola Marymount University, November 7-13, 2004
• "Further Observations and Questions on the Pylos Ta Series," Craven Seminar, Cambridge University, May 28-29, 2004
• "Civilian Knowledge of War and Violence in Ancient Athens and Modern America," Achilles in Iraq Seminar, University of Missouri, St. Louis, Center for International Studies, April 16-17, 2004
• "The Education of Michael Ventris," Institute of Classical Studies 50th Anniversary of the Mycenaean Seminar, University of London, March 24, 2004
• "Alice Kober: the Woman Behind the Decipherment of Linear B," University of Uppsala, March 22, 2004
• "The Linear B Evidence for Wanaks and Basileus and Its Interpretation," From Wanax to Basileus, 3rd A.G. Leventis Conference, University of Edinburgh, January 22-25, 2003
• "FAR? or ju? and other interpretative conundra in the new Thebes tablets," Internationales Forschungskolloquium der Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna 12/05-06/02
• "The Significance of the Discovery of Linear B at Thebes: The Pioneering Years," 100 years of Archaeology at Thebes: The Pioneers and Their Successors, Archaeological Museum of Thebes 11/16-17/02
• "Observations on the Linear B Tablets from Thebes," Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium, IFA NYC 04/25/02
• "Michael Ventris, Cryptanalysis, and Universal Knowledge," Seminar on Decipherment and Ancient Writing Systems Rewley House Oxford University 04/12-14/02
• Seminar on Paul Woodruff's Reverence one of four faculty speakers 03/01/02
• Lecture: "'The Browning Version's' and Classical Greek" UT Austin British Studies Seminar 02/15/02 Classics Colloquium 03/18/02
• Lecture: "Home Front and War Front in Ancient Greece and Modern America," University of Wisconsin-Madison, 11/30/01
• Lecture: "Ritual Inventories, Heirlooms, and Connoisseurship: Some Linear B (A) Evidence," NY Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium, 11/12/01
• Lecture: "New Light on Greek Religion," Washington University St. Louis, 11/15/01
• Panelist: "Preserving Knowledge in an Uncertain World," Extraordinary Colloquium Graduate School of Library and Information Science UT Austin, October 9, 2001
• Panelist: "America's New War," Plan II Seminar held at UT Law School, October 1, 2001
• Lecture: "Problems of Cultural Background and Environment in the Experience of Warfare Ancient and Modern: Test Case Klearchos," Loyola Marymount University, Dept. of History, Los Angeles, April 18, 2001
• Lecture: "Linear B: What's in It for Us," Loyola Marymount University, Dept. of History, Los Angeles, April 19, 2001
• Lecture: "The Ta Series at Pylos: Methods for Understanding a Mycenaean Scribe," UCLA Classics and Linguistics, April 20, 2001
• Lecture: "Emotion and Non-Emotion: War, and its Impact on Him, Her, and Us," UT Austin Humanities Institute April 2, 2001
• Memorial Seminar: "The Pylos Ta Series: from Michael Ventris to the New Millennium," University of London Institute of Classical Studies May 24, 2000
• Paper: "Dialects, Idiolects, Orthography, Lexical Diffusion and Other Things That Confuse Me About Mycenaen Greek Linear B," UT Linguistics Circle November 12, 1999
• Paper: "Who Knows What We Know? The Confusion of Knowledge in Contemporary Research," MacArthur Fellows Reunion, Chicago, November 5, 1999
• Paper: "Feet of Courage," Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Midwest and South, Cleveland, Ohio April 16, 1999
• Paper: "Mycenaean Gods, Cults and Rituals," Universidad Murcia February 16, 1999; Universitat Autónoma de Barcelona February 22, 1999; Universidad Madrid February 23, 1999.
• Seminar: "Thersites in Vietnam: Homer and the Vietnam Literature of Tim O'Brien," Graduate Seminar in American Literature, English Department, University of Uppsala, February 2, 1999
• Ninth Edmund G. Berry Memorial Lecture Department of Classics University of Manitoba March 9, 1997: "Michael Ventris and an Architect's Plan for the Decipherment of Linear B"
• Paper: "An Architect's 'Plan' for Decipherment: Michael Ventris and 'Group Working'," University of Wisconsin--Madison, April 8, 1996
• Paper: "Animadversions on the Earliest Greek Religious Texts," Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Belgium, March 4, 1996
• Paper: "The Progonoi of Mycenaean Studies," University of Uppsala, Sweden, May 25, 1994
• Paper: "Dionysus, Linear B and the Formation of the Greek Pantheon," Fleming Symposium on Dionysus, Southwestern University, Georgetown, TX November 19, 1993
• Paper: "The Origin of Mycenaean Kingship," University of Heidelberg, January 26, 1993
• Paper: "The Three Most Important Mycenaean Religious Texts," Universit$eacute; de Nancy II, December 7, 1992
• Paper: "Blues and Blacks in America," Altenmarkt Fulbright Conference, November 13, 1992
• Paper: "The Economic Organization and Exploitation of a Palatial Territory of the Mycenaean Greek Bronze Age (ca. 1200 B.C.): Pylos and Messenia. Background for the Messenia Intensive Archaeological Survey Project (1991-1994)," Autonomous Mongolia Museum, Hohhot Inner Mongolia, June 8, 1991
• Dossier on Mycenaean and Aegean kingship for the First Sibley Family Symposium on World Traditions of Culture and Art, Department of Art History, University of Texas at Austin, April 18-21, 1991
• Seminar: "Cypriote Literacy," Dept. of Classics Cornell University, February 7, 1990
• Papers on Mycenaean Economy and Aegean Administration at University of Liége, Nov. 20, 1989; University of Skopje, Dec. 8, 1989; University of Salzburg, Dec. 11-12, 1989
• Seminar: "The Disappearance and Survival of Writing Systems," University of Minnesota Center for Ancients Studies, May 18, 1989
• Seminar: "The Use and Management of Oxen in Bronze Age Messenia and Crete," Bryn Mawr College, Nov. 4, 1988
• Seminar: "The Mycenaean Palace as Administrative Center," Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Université de Paris I, UA 1226 (Protohistoire Egéenne), Paris, France, February 10, 1987
• Paper: "Mycenaean Archives and Literacy," University of Athens, Athens, Greece, January 26, 1987
• Seminar: "The Development of Mycenaean Writing," Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium, Institute of Fine Arts, New York, NY, March 4, 1987; Mycenaean Seminar, University of London, Institute of Classical Studies, London, January 14, 1987; and the Centrum voor Mykeense en Archaisch-Griekse Cultuur of the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, Brussels, Belgium, January 8, 1987
• Paper: "The Written Legacy of the Minoans," The Legacy of the Minoans, University Museum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, March 28, 1985

Papers etc. at the Annual Meetings of the Archaeological Institute of America and American Philological Association:

• "You Can Be a Linear B. They Wrote on Clay (in Linear B) and You Can, Too." AIA Montreal January 2006 AIA Archaeology Fair
• "You Can Be a Linear Bee. They Wrote on Clay and You Can, Too." AIA Boston January 2005 AIA Archaeology Fair http://www.utexas.edu/research/pasp/newsa.html
• "They Wrote On Clay and You Can, Too," AIA San Francisco 01/03/04 AIA ArchaeologyFair
• "Inventing Writing in Greece," AIA New Orleans 01/04//03 AIA Archaeology Fair
• "A Linear A-Inscribed Bronze Cauldron from Mycenae Shaft Grave IV and Heirlooms of a Cretan Bronze Artist in the Late Mycenaean Palatial Period," AIA Philadelphia 0105//02 (abstract AJA 106 (2002) pp. 275-276
• "Michael Ventris 1940-1952: Alice Elizabeth Kober, Emmett L. Bennett, Jr., and the Study of Architecture," AIA San Diego 01/05/01 (abstract AJA 105 [2001] 276-277)
• "New Perspectives on Pylian Cults: Sacrifice and Society in the Odyssey," APA San Diego 01/06/01
• "Pylos Tn 316 and the Relationship Between Vase Offerings and Divinities in the Linear B Tablets," AIA San Diego 12-30-95
• "Linear A > Linear B. How?" APA Atlanta 12-29-94
• "Writing in the Service of the King: Hand 24 and Normal vs. Special Mycenaean," APAWashington, DC 12-29-93
• "Wanax, Basileus, and Mycenaean Kingship," AIA New Orleans, December 28, 1992
• "Lycian Epigaphical Survey Project," AIA Chicago, Dec. 28, 1991
• "Linear B Evidence for the Mycenaean Use of the Sea," AIA San Francisco, Dec. 30, 1990
• "There's Context, and There's Context, and There's Context: How to Interpret a (Mycenaean) Text," Joint AIA-APA Session on The Challenge of the Text: Theory and Practice, AIA-APA Baltimore 1-8-89 (AJA 90 [1989] 269-270)
• "Problems in Mycenaean Ideographical Syntax," APA New York, 12-30-87
• "Sealings and Regional Administration in LM I B Crete," AIA Washington, D.C., 12-29-85 (AJA 90 [1986] 206)
• "Ins and Outs of the Archives Rooms at Pylos," AIA Cincinnati, 12-29-1983 [with J.C. Wright]
• "Linear B Palaeography and the Destruction of the Palace of Minos," AIA Philadelphia, 12-29-1982 (AJA 87 [1983] 249-250)
• "Eteocretan Inscriptions: A New Look," AIA New Orleans, 12-30-1980 (AJA 85 [1981] 210-211)
• "Evidence for the Identification of a Master Scribe at Pylos," AIA Boston, 12-28-79 (AJA 84 [1980] 226)

ADDITIONAL LECTURES: AIA Westchester May 23, 2006, USMA West Point (10/15-19/03: Morality and Group Cohesion Ancient and Modern: 2 class lectures and 1 seminar), University of Missouri-St. Louis (11/11/02: How and Why Mycenaean Scribes Wrote on Clay), Classics Collquium UT Austin (09/27/01: The Man Who Deciphered Linear B: A BBC Broadcast with Commentary), Town and Gown (03/01/01: Bronze Age Writing and Bureaucracy), The Tuesday Club (01/16/01: Joint Discussion on the Decline of Athens and the Decline of the Weimar Republic), UT Lamp (10/26/99: "The Humanities in the UT Corporation"), Episcopal School of Dallas (4/28/99), University of Uppsala (5-18-98), University of Lund (5-11-98 / 6-2-94), University of Göteborg (5-12-98), Trinity University (3-28-96), International Greek Folklore Society Los Angeles (5-7-94), Metropolitan Museum of Art NYC (1-11 and 1-12/92), New York Aegean Bronze Age Colloquium (5-7-98/ 1-9-91 / 3-4-87 / 2-15-84 / 2-4-81), UT San Antonio (4-12-91), Cornell University (2-6-90), University of Indiana (9-27-89), Wabash College (9-25-89), ASCSA New York / Athens (11-03-88 / 4-17-80), Case Western Reserve University (2-26-87), University of Michigan (2-17-87), Fordham University FBK (5-16-86), Montclair State College (5-7-86), Smith College (4-29-86), Dartmouth College (2-20-86), University of Texas at Austin (10-29-85), New York University Institute of Fine Arts (4-26-85), Hunter College (3-27-85 and 10-17-84), New School for Social Research (3-5-85), University of Wisconsin—Madison (2-19-85), William and Mary (11-27-84), Bryn Mawr College (3-26-82)

Topics: Minoan Linear A; Bronze Age economy, trade and administration; Mycenaean epigraphy, archives, linguistics, decipherment techniques and literacy; Mycenaean-Minoan kingship and religion; methods of research in history and prehistory; syllabic-alphabetic writing and oral tradition; literaure and myths of warfare.

ARCHAEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF AMERICA Traveling LECTURER:

• 2004 (Akron, Charleston) 2003 (Oklahoma City, Madison) 1990 (Austin)
• 1987-88 (Dallas and New York) Theresa Van den Wall Bake Memorial Lecture, AIA Westchester, November 29, 1987: "The People of Pylos: A Mycenaean Society at the End of the Bronze Age"
• 1986-87 (Mississippi-Memphis, Ann Arbor, Cleveland, Austin)
• 1985-86 (Iowa, Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison, Westchester)
• 1984-85 (Princeton, Richmond, Charlottesville, E. Pennsylvania, Baltimore)
• 1983-84 (Rockford, Washington, Philadelphia, Princeton)   1982-83 (Vancouver, Seattle, Walla Walla, Spokane)
• 1981-82 (Niagara Peninsula, Finger Lakes, Rochester)    1980-81 (Westchester)

Lecture Titles: 1 "Discoveries of and through Mycenaean Texts" 2 "Mycenaean Archives and Literacy" 3 "The First European Bureaucrats: Scribes at Work in Mycenaean Palaces" 4 "Linear A: Data from an Undeciphered Script?" 5 "Materials for Mycenaean Writing" 6 "The Homeric Question: Mycenaean Studies and George Grote's 'Independent Evidence'" 7 "Cattle in the Mycenaean Landscape" 8 "Food for the Gods. What Food? What Gods?" 9 "The Human Element in the Mycenaean Bronze Age: Linear B Tablet-Writers"

CHAIR / RESPONDENT: AIA-APA Annual Meetings, San Diego, 01/05/01: Emmett L. Bennett, Jr. Gold Medal Colloquium
AIA-APA Annual Meetings, Dallas, 12-30-99: Prehistoric Aegean: "Cretan Prehistory"
AIA-APA Annual Meetings, NYC, 12-29-87: Prehistoric Aegean: "Late Bronze Age"
6th International Colloquium on Aegean Prehistory, Athens, Greece, 9-5-87: "Script and Language"
AIA-APA Annual Meetings, San Antonio, 12-30-86: Aegean Archaeology II: "Fieldwork in the Aegean"
STS International Conference, New York, 4-21-83: Plenary Session "Scholia, Marginalia and Annotation"

UNIVERSITY SERVICE:

• University of Texas:

  Faculty Council 1998- 2002, 2003-2005, 2006-2008
     Executive Committee 1999- 2002 Budget Advisory Committee 1999-2002 Research Policy 1997- 1999 Library 2003-2006
  Chair Dept. of Classics 1994-1998
  Director PASP 1986-present
  Promotion and Tenure Committee 1993-1994
  Liberal Arts Council 1991-1993
  Plan II advisory Committee 1999-
  Departmental Committees: Course 1987-88, 1999-2000; Colloquia and Visiting Lecturers 1988-90; Library Committee 1990-1993; Admissions and Fellowships 1993-94; Faculty Hiring Committee 2000-2001; Ethics Code Committee (chair) 2002-2003
  Departmental Newsletter editor 1990-1995
  Dean's committee on post-tenure review cases 1999-present
  Selection Committee UT Coop Lifetime Research Award and Best Annual Research Paper 2003

  Session Co-chair "Funding Higher Education" at the Annual Joint Meeting of the Texas A&M Faculty Senate and the University of Texas at Austin Faculty Council March 27, 2000

Summer Orientation and New and Prospective Student Colloquia:

Plan II New Student and parent Orientation July 11-12, 2006
Freshman Initiative Program 1997-98
Plan II Freshman Summer Reading group 1999 2001 2003
Freshman Liberal Arts Orientation 2003 2004
Summer Honors Colloquium taught in 1996 1997 2000

• Fordham University:
  • Phi Beta Kappa, Tau Chapter, vice president-secretary 1982-85; president 1985-86
  • Undergraduate Classics Society, moderator 1980-85
  • Eta Sigma Phi, moderator 1982-85 Honors Program, applicant interviewer, thesis examiner 1983-85

Memberships:

Archaeological Institute of America, American Philological Association, Comité International Permanent des Études Mycéniennes, Classical Association of the Midwest and South, The Philosophical Society of Texas, Town and Gown, Phi Beta Kappa, Eta Sigma Phi, Fulbright Alumni Association, ASCSA Alumni Association, Friends of CAARI, Texas Association of College Teachers (TACT)

OTHER PROFESSIONAL SERVICE: regular reviewing for journals, monograph series and books; regular promotion and tenure case reviews

COMMUNITY SERVICE:

• Trained Den Leader, Cub Scouts Pack 998 Tigers. Wolves, Bears, Webelos I and II 2002-2006
• Webelos I Showman Badge All-Day sessions on Music, Public-speaking, Theater, Playwrighting Annual Scout Day Camp June 6-10, 2005
• Longhorn Schoolbus Meeting in PASP with at-risk 5th-6th graders 03/22/02, 02/28/03
• 1 90-minute class on "writing, books and fables, " St. Francis School 12/07/04
• 1 1-hour class "Pylos in Archaeology and Homer," St. Francis School 09/24/04
• 1 1/2-hour chapel service "Greek Gods and Creation," St. Francis School 11/14/03
• 1 1-hour lecture + discussion "Preparing Men for Battle in Ancient and Modern Times," St. Stephen's School, 10/30/03
• 1 1-hour lecture + discussion "Little House on the Prairie Revisited: Thoughts About Who We Were and Who We Are," Travis County Medical Forum, 09/16/03
• 1 2-hour lecture/discussion "Violence and Our Lives," Trinity United Methodist Church 04/30/03
• 1 75-minute session for 1st graders "Hesiod's Theogony and Bob Dylan's 'Man Gave Names to All the Animals," St. Francis School , September 15, 2003
• 2 75-minute presentations/discussions of Jack Schaefer's Shane, St. Francis School, for 1st and 2nd graders, April 28-29, 2003
• 1 75-minute presentation/discussion of the Iliad Book 6 and Agamemnon, Canyon Vista Middle School 7th graders 04/09/03
• 1 75-minute session for 2nd graders 'Hesiod's Theogony', St. Francis School , February 12, 2003
• 1 75-minute session for 1st-8th graders 'Writing and Fighting', Classical Christian Institute, September 30, 2002
• 7 75-minute sessions on aspects of classical antiquity, St. Francis School , 2001-2002
• 2 60-minute sessions on aspects of classical antiquity, St. Francis School , 2001-2002
• 1 90-minute session with students in the Alternative Learning Center Austin, Mr. Billy Hardin, teacher April 26, 2000

UT-INTERNAL AWARDS AND APPOINTMENTS:

• Raymond F. Dickson teaching Fellowship 2005-2006
• University Humanities Institute Spring 2002
• Dean's fellowship Fall 2001, Fall 2004
• FRA Spring 1999
• Presidential leave Fall 1998
• Graduate Internship 1998-99
• URI Summer Grant 1991

SUPPLEMENTARY LIST OF OUTSIDE GRANTS

• Institute for Aegean Prehistory Grants for yearly periods February 1-January 31 in support of Studies in Mycenaean Inscriptions and Dialect: 2004-2005 $19,800; 2003-2004 $19,800; 2002-2003 $19,800; 2001-2002: $16,800; 2000-2001: $16,000; 1999-2000: $15,600; 1998-99: $15,000; 1997-98: $20,000; 1996-97: $20,000; 1995-96: $12,000; 1994-95: $10,000
• Institute for Aegean Prehistory Grant: 2004 $5,000 for Ventris-Kober digitization.
• Institute for Aegean Prehistory Grant: 2000 for CIPEM 2000 conference $11,000 for foreign travel; $7,000 for exhibition.
• MacArthur Foundation Institutional Grants: $15,000 yearly 1985-1990 ($75,000 total)
• Gunvor und Josef Anér Foundation May 1998 $5,000
• Institute for Aegean Prehistory Grant 1989 [to fund publication of Studia Mycenaea (1988)] $2,000
• NEH Research Conferences Grant ["Aegean Seals, Sealings and Administration," UT Austin, January 1989] 1988 $11,000
• Institute for Aegean Prehistory 1989 [matching grant for NEH Research Conference] $1,000
• UT Austin FRA Spring 1999
• UT Austin URI Summer Grant 1991
• UT Austin CAMLS travel grants [6th International Colloquium on Aegean Prehistory, Athens, Greece 8-30 to 9-5-1987; 18th International Eirene Congress, Budapest, Hungary, 8-29 to 9-2-88; Phoinikeia Grammata Conference, Liège, Belgium 11-15 to 11-18-1989; 9th International Mycenological Colloquium, Athens, Greece 10-2 to 10-6 1990 and almost yearly thereafter faculty travel grants for travel to international conferencesof the AIA-APA]
• MacArtrhur Fellowship 1985-90
• ACLS Travel Grant [8th International Mycenological Colloquium, Ohrid, Yugoslavia, 9-15 to 9-20-85] 1985
• NEH Summer Stipend [for study of Mycenaean sealings] 1985
• NEH Research Conferences Grant, International Research and Exchanges Board Travel Grant, AIA Regional Symposium Grant [for international symposium on Mycenaean Pylos, New York, May 4-5, 1984] 1984
• ACLS Fellowship for Recent Recipients of the Ph.D. [research on Pylos tablets at Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin--Madison, July, 1983 to January, 1984] 1983
• Summer Fellowship University of Wisconsin Institute for Research in the Humanities 1983
• ACLS Travel Grant [Eirene Congress, Mycenological Section, Prague, Czechoslovakia 8-31 to 9-4-82] 1982
• Faculty Research Grant Fordham University [acquisition of and research on Pylos excavation notebooks] 1981
• FASTTEX Grant 75 student hours work on transforming data base for SMID for WWW

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