KEVIN PLUTA

10 1/2 Coming ST	Department of Classics	Office:(512) 471-5742
Charleston, SC 29401	University of Texas at Austin	Fax: (512) 471-4111
(843) 724-9659	Austin, TX 78712	kpluta@mail.utexas.edu

EDUCATION

UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN, Austin, TX
Ph.D. candidate in Classics.
M.A.in Classics, The Sealings in the Archives Complex at Pylos, May 2000.
B.A. in Classics, summa cum laude, 1998
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY, New York, NY
B.A. in Art History, cum laude, 1993.
UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO, Greensboro, NC
UNITED STATES COAST GUARD ACADEMY, New London, CT

TEACHING and RELATED EXPERIENCE

University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas

Assistant Instructor

Spring 2006: Cornelius Nepos' Vitae

Fall 2005: Vergil's Aeneid

Spring 2005: First-year Latin II

Fall 2004: First-year Latin II

Spring 2004: First-year Latin I

Fall 2003: First-year Latin I

Spring 2002: First-year Latin II

Teaching Assistant

Summer 2005: Greek Mythology

Fall 1999: Greek Mythology

Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory, Research Assistant, Fall 1998-present.

Assisted director Thomas G. Palaima in organizing the 11^th International Mycenological Colloquium, which took place in Austin in May 2000.

Contributed to the publication of Studies in Mycenaean Inscriptions and Dialect.

PUBLICATIONS

• "PY Ea series and Hand 43," Proceedings of the 11th International Mycenological Colloquium. Hesperia Supplement (forthcoming)
• with Dimitri Nakassis: "Linear A and Multidimensional Scaling." In Metron: Measuring the Aegean Bronze Age, Aegaeum 24, ed. K.P. Foster and R. Laffineur, (2003) 335-342.
• with Joann Gulizio and Tom Palaima: "Religion in the Room of the Chariot Tablets," in Potnia: Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age. , Aegaeum 22, ed. R. Laffineur and R. Hägg. Liège, (2001) 453-461.
• "A Reconstruction of the Archives Complex at Pylos: A Preliminary Report," Minos 31-32, 1996-97 (1998), pp.231-250.
• Studies in Mycenaean Inscriptions and Dialect: 1982-83, Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory, Department of Classics, University of Texas at Austin 1998, contributor.
• Studies in Mycenaean Inscriptions and Dialect: 1980-81, Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory, Department of Classics, University of Texas at Austin 1997, editorial assistant.

PAPERS PRESENTED

• "Mycenaean Literate Administration," 12th International Mycenological Colloquium held at the University of Rome, Italy, 20-25 February 2006.
• "The Palatial Organization in Bronze Age Thebes," 135^th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America in San Francisco, CA, 2004
• with Vanghelis Kyriakidis, "The role of Hand 2 in Administration at Pylos," Antiquitas Viva conference, held in Ohrid, FYROM, 5-7 December 2000.
• "PY Ea series and Hand 43," 11th International Mycenological Colloquium held at the Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory, University of Texas at Austin, 8-12 May 2000.
• with Joann Gulizio and Tom Palaima, "Religion in the Room of the Chariot Tablets," 8^th International Aegaean Conference, "Potnia: Deities and Religion in the Aegean Bronze Age," held at Göteborg University, 12-15 April 2000.

FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE

Iklaina Archaeological Project (IKAP)

Director: Dr. Michael Cosmopoulos, University of Missouri at St. Louis

2002-2004: Electronic Data Management

Athenian Agora Excavations,

Director: Dr. John Camp, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece.

June-July 2001-2003: Assistant Supervisor

June-July 1999, 2000: Excavator

HONORS and AWARDS

Heinrich Schliemann Fellowship, American School of Classical Studies in Athens, 2002-2003
Bruton Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 1999
Mellon Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 1998-1999
Undergraduate Research Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin, 1997-1998
Dean of Scholarship’s Award, University of Texas at Austin, 1997-1998
Kuhlman Scholarship, University of Texas at Austin, 1997
Chairman’s Choice Award, New York University, 1993

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE

Websites:

Iklaina Archaeological Project (IKAP):

(http://www.iklaina.org)

Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory (PASP):

(http://www.utexas.edu/research/pasp)

11^th International Mycenological Colloquium:

(http://www.utexas.edu/research/pasp/cipem)

Studies in Mycenaean Inscriptions and Dialect online bibliographic search

(http://paspserver.class.utexas.edu/index.html)

Nicole Hirschfeld's PASP database for the use of scripts on Cyprus

(http://paspserver.class.utexas.edu/cyprus/index.html)

WORK EXPERIENCE

THE PIERPONT MORGAN LIBRARY, New York, NY

Library Assistant

THE CLOISTERS, METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF ART, New York, NY

Library Assistant

NEW YORK BOTANICAL GARDENS, Bronx, NY

Research Assistant

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