1 THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA Curriculum Vitae for Faculty Members Date: July 2016 1. SURNAME: De Angelis FIRST NAME: Franco 2. DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL: Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies 3. FACULTY: Arts 4. PRESENT RANK: Professor (tenured) SINCE: 2016 5. POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION D.Phil. in Ancient History, Oxford University, 1992-1997. Thesis: The Evolution of Two Archaic Sicilian Poleis: Megara Hyblaia and Selinous. Thesis supervisor: Robin Osborne. Committee members: Simon Hornblower and Sir John Boardman. M.A. in Classical Archaeology and History, McGill University, 1989-1991. B.A. Honours in Classical Languages and Literature, University of Ottawa/Université d’Ottawa, 1985-1989. Language Competencies English (read, write, speak, understand) French (read, write, speak, understand) Italian (read, write, speak, understand) German (read, write, speak, understand) “Mittelstufe” certificate obtained in August 2008 Spanish (read, understand) Ancient Greek (read, write) Latin (read, write) Modern Greek (read; some basic speaking) Awards Prior to Final Degree (a) Government Awards Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship, 1992-1996. Overseas Research Scholarship (Government of Great Britain), 1992-1995. Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 1989-1990 (relinquished to study in Québec). (b) Institutional Awards British School at Rome, Rome Scholarship, 1996-1997.
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THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
Curriculum Vitae for Faculty Members
Date: July 2016
1. SURNAME: De Angelis FIRST NAME: Franco
2. DEPARTMENT/SCHOOL: Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies
3. FACULTY: Arts
4. PRESENT RANK: Professor (tenured) SINCE: 2016
5. POST-SECONDARY EDUCATION
D.Phil. in Ancient History, Oxford University, 1992-1997. Thesis: The Evolution of Two
Archaic Sicilian Poleis: Megara Hyblaia and Selinous. Thesis supervisor: Robin
Osborne. Committee members: Simon Hornblower and Sir John Boardman.
M.A. in Classical Archaeology and History, McGill University, 1989-1991.
B.A. Honours in Classical Languages and Literature, University of Ottawa/Université
d’Ottawa, 1985-1989.
Language Competencies
English (read, write, speak, understand)
French (read, write, speak, understand)
Italian (read, write, speak, understand)
German (read, write, speak, understand) “Mittelstufe” certificate obtained in August 2008
Spanish (read, understand)
Ancient Greek (read, write)
Latin (read, write)
Modern Greek (read; some basic speaking)
Awards Prior to Final Degree
(a) Government Awards
Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada Doctoral Fellowship, 1992-1996.
Overseas Research Scholarship (Government of Great Britain), 1992-1995.
Ontario Graduate Scholarship, 1989-1990 (relinquished to study in Québec).
(b) Institutional Awards
British School at Rome, Rome Scholarship, 1996-1997.
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Oxford University Overseas Bursary, 1992-1995.
Oxford University Meyerstein Committee Fieldwork Grant, 1994.
Oxford University Craven Committee Fieldwork Grants, 1993-1994.
Lincoln College in Oxford University Graduate Research Fund Grants, 1992-1995.
McGill University J.W. McConnell Memorial Graduate Fellowship, 1989-1991.
University of Ottawa Trevor Jones Memorial Award for Department’s Top Graduating Student,
1989.
University of Ottawa Dean's Honour List, 1988-89 and 1986-87.
University of Ottawa Merit Scholarship, 1986.
6. EMPLOYMENT RECORD
(a) At UBC
Rank Dates
Professor 2016-
Associate Professor 2005-2016
Assistant Professor 2003-2005
Onassis Foundation Visiting Professorship
in Classical Greek Archaeology at
McGill University (declined)
September 1-December 31, 2011
(b) Prior to coming to UBC
University or Organization Rank or Title Dates
University of Calgary, Dept. of Greek & Roman
Studies
Assistant Professor 2000-2003
University of Lethbridge, Dept. of History Assistant Professor 1997-2000
University of Alberta, Dept. of History & Classics Adjunct Professor 1997-2002
7. TEACHING
(a) Areas of special interest and accomplishments
History, Culture, Archaeology, and Language of the Ancient Greek World
(b) Courses Taught at UBC
Session Course and Term Enrolment Level
2015-16 CLST 231 (1):
Ancient Greece
60 Undergraduate
CLST 511A (1):
Hellenizing Pre-
Roman Italy
9 Graduate
CLST 355 (2): 12 Undergraduate
3
The Athenians and
their Empire
CNRS 449:
Honours Essay
1 Undergraduate
2014-2015 CLST 231 (1):
Ancient Greece
35 Undergraduate
CLST 518A (1):
Ancient Greek State
in Comparative
Perspective: Theory
& Reconstruction
8 Graduate
CLST 356 (2):
Alexander the Great
& His Empire
28 Undergraduate
CNRS 449: Honours
Essay
1 Undergraduate
2013-2014 CLST 231 (1):
Ancient Greece
55 Undergraduate
GREK 200 (1):
Classical Greek
13 Undergraduate
CLST 511A (2):
Cultural Contact &
Interaction in Pre-
Roman Italy
7 Graduate
GREK 401A/GREK
501A (2): Herodotus
& Thucydides
6 Undergraduate/Graduate
CLST 449: Honours
Essay
1 Undergraduate
2012-2013 CLST 231 (1):
Ancient Greece
80 Undergraduate
CLST 355 (1):
The Athenians
and their Empire
30 Undergraduate
On Study Leave
Term 2
-- --
2011-2012 GREK 200 (1):
Classical Greek
13 Undergraduate
CLST 231 (1):
Ancient Greece
80 Undergraduate
CLST 401B (2):
Seminar in Classical
History: Dark Age
17 Undergraduate
4
and Archaic Greece
GREK 401E/GREK
501E (2): Herodotus
& Thucydides
4 Undergraduate/Graduate
CLST 518B (2):
Ancient Greek State:
Theory &
Reconstruction
5 Graduate
2010-2011 GREK 200 (1):
Classical Greek
10 Undergraduate
CLST 231 (1):
Ancient Greece
65 Undergraduate
CLST 519A (2):
Cultural Contact &
Interaction in Pre-
Roman Italy
15 Graduate
2009-2010 CLST 231 (1):
Ancient Greece
60 Undergraduate
GREK 200 (1):
Classical Greek
10 Undergraduate
CLST 518A/CNRS
503A (1): Ancient
Greek State: Theory
& Reconstruction
8 Graduate
CLST 360B (2):
Ancient Italy up to
the Roman Conquest
15 Undergraduate
GREK 401B/GREK
501B (2): Diodorus
Siculus & Plutarch
3 Undergraduate/Graduate
2008-2009 CLST 331 (1):
Ancient Greece
60 Undergraduate
CLST 351 (2): Dark
Age & Archaic
Greece
20 Undergraduate
GREK 200 (2):
Classical Greek
14 Undergraduate
CLST 511A/CNRS
505B (2): Ancient
Sicily
5 Graduate
GREK 401B/GREK
501B (2): Herodotus
& Thucydides
4 Undergraduate/Graduate
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2007-2008 On Study Leave -- --
2006-2007 CLST 331 (1):
Ancient Greece
60 Undergraduate
GREK 401B/GREK
501B (1): Herodotus
& Thucydides
5 Undergraduate/Graduate
CLST 511A/CNRS
505A (1): Ancient
Sicily
5 Graduate
CLST 351 (2): Dark
Age & Archaic
Greece
30 Undergraduate
GREK 545B (2):
Greek Epigraphy
4 Graduate
2005-2006 CLST 518A/CNRS
503A (2): Ancient
Greek State: Theory
& Reconstruction
7 Graduate
CLST 360B (2):
Ancient Italy up to
the Roman Conquest
20 Undergraduate
CLST 511A/CNRS
505A (1): Cultural
Contact &
Interaction in Pre-
Roman Italy
13 Graduate
CLST 331 (1):
Ancient Greece
63 Undergraduate
GREK 401B/GREK
501B (1): Diodorus
Siculus & Plutarch
4 Undergraduate/Graduate
2004-2005 CLST 511A/CNRS
505A (1): Ancient
Sicily
8 Graduate
CLST 351 (2): Dark
Age & Archaic
Greece
39 Undergraduate
GREK 401B/GREK
501B (2): Herodotus
& Thucydides
5 Undergraduate/Graduate
2003-2004 RELG 479/CLST
521: Summer
Course in Sicily
3 Undergraduate/Graduate
6
CLST 331 (1):
Ancient Greece
80 Undergraduate
CLST 505A (1):
Ancient Sicily
9 Graduate
CLST 356 (2):
Alexander the Great
& His Empire
30 Undergraduate
GREK 535 (2):
Reconstructing
Ancient Societies &
Economies
9 Graduate
Teaching in graduate proseminar CNRS 500 “Athens and Jerusalem” and “Approaches to the
Ancient City” from 2003-2008 (six three-hour sessions).
(c) Courses Taught at Calgary and Lethbridge
24 courses taught in Greek, Roman, and European history between 1997-1998 and 2002-2003.
More details available upon request.
(d) Graduate and Undergraduate Students Supervised or co-supervised (all UBC students; students
from previous posts not included)
Student Name Program Type Year Supervisory Role
Start Finish (supervisor, co-supervisor,
committee member)
Kevin Lee MA 2014 -- Supervisor
Maude Côté-Landry PhD 2014 -- Supervisor
Ryan Johnson PhD 2014 -- Supervisor
Kevin Solez PhD 2009 2014 Supervisor (now sessional instructor at
Grant MacEwan University)
Maude Côté-Landry MA 2013 2014 Supervisor
Chelsea Gardner PhD 2011 -- Co-supervisor 2011-2013
Roy Kok PhD 2011 2013 Supervisor (withdrew from program)
Carolyn Laferrière MA 2007 2009 Supervisor (now studying for PhD at Yale
University)
Megan Daniels MA 2007 2009 Supervisor (now studying for PhD at
Stanford University)
Joel Bourne PhD 2008 2011 Committee Member (withdrew from
program)
Edwin De Vries PhD 2006 2009 Supervisor (withdrew from program)
Emily Varto PhD 2004 2009 Supervisor (now on faculty at Dalhousie
University)
Christine Lane PhD 2003 2009 Supervisor (occasional sessional lecturer
at UBC; raising family)
Karen Aberle PhD 2003 2012 Supervisor 2003-2007 and then Committee
Member 2007-2012 (now Director of the
Wetaskiwin & District Heritage Museum)
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James Caprio PhD 1997 2004 Committee member
Graduate Supervision Committees
Student Name Program Type Completed
(Y/N)
Comments
Joel Bourne PhD N Withdrew from program
Karen Aberle PhD Y Supervisor and then
committee member after
September 2007
James Caprio PhD Y Now Chair of History
Department, Sage Ridge
School, Reno, NV
Undergraduate Supervisions
Name Program Type Completed
(Y/N)
Comments
Jayden Lloyd undergrad honours Y --
Gord Tycho undergrad honours N --
Duncan MacLeod undergrad honours Y Continued with Masters
studies at Oxford University
Joanna Palermo undergrad honours Y Continued with MA at UBC
and completed DPhil at
Oxford University (currently
working in administration)
(e) Visiting Students and Faculty
Name Status Institutional
Affiliation
Comments
Megan Daniels PhD student Stanford University,
USA
January-December
2015
Wang Xiuqin Associate Professor Shandong Normal
University, China
January-June 2015
Irad Malkin Professor Tel Aviv University,
Israel
August 2011
Gocha
Tsetskhaldze
Associate Professor Melbourne University,
Australia
January 2006
(f) Student Employees and Volunteers Supervised
Name Type Institution Role(s) Dates Andrei Mihailiuk RA assistant UBC Translating & editorial
assistant August 2013-
Heather Purves RA assistant UBC editorial assistant &
proofreader December
2013-January
2014
Kevin Solez RA assistant UBC editorial assistant,
proofreader, indexer May 2011-
November
2012
Odessa Cadieux-
Rey
RA assistant UBC Editorial assistant &
proofreader Sept. 2009-
August 2011
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Megan Daniels RA assistant UBC Editorial assistant &
proofreader May 2009-
August 2010
12 students Conference volunteers UBC Registration desk,
technical support,
security, etc.
January-March
2007
K. Aberle, J.
Armstrong, C.
Lane & E. Varto
Conference organizing
committee “Regionalism
and Globalism in Antiquity”
UBC Webmaster, translator,
registration, program
development
May 2005-
August 2007
10 students Excavation volunteers in
Sicily
UBC Excavation, trench
supervision, lab work,
etc.
January-
August 2004
4 students Excavation volunteers in
Sicily
U of C Excavation, trench
supervision, lab work,
etc.
January-
August 2002
23 students TAs UBC,U of
C,U of L
Administration, marking,
teaching, etc.
Sept. 1997-
(g) Continuing Education Activities
“Sicily” in “UBC Digs” Lecture Series, organized by the Department of Continuing Education,
UBC, 17 June 2005.
“Monte Polizzo: the Other Sicily” in “UBC Digs the Mediterranean” Lecture Series, organized
by the Department of Continuing Education, UBC, 27 November 2003.
“The Land of Demeter and Persephone: Some Aspects of Agriculture in Greek Sicily” in “Sicily:
an Archaeological Perspective” Conference, organized by Department of Continuing Education,
Oxford University, 24-26 March 2000.
“A Retreat from Empire: Anachronisms in Dunbabin's The Western Greeks” in “Greek
Colonisation in the Western Mediterranean” Conference, organized by Department of Continuing
Education, Oxford University, 9-11 February 1996.
8. SCHOLARLY AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
(a) Areas of special interest and accomplishments
Ancient Greek world history (Early Iron Age to Hellenistic period): writing more complex
historical accounts of the ancient Greeks, especially the relations between homeland and
overseas regions, the variety of Greek civilization, and intercultural contact between Greeks
and non-Greeks.
Migrations and diasporas; environment, urbanism, development of societies, colonization,
economics, regional identities (especially Sicily and pre-Roman Italy).
Multi- and interdisciplinary approaches, especially relationship between texts and material
culture; cross-cultural, comparative, and theoretical approaches.
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Historical contextualizations of ancient literature.
Ancient and modern historiographies regarding these areas of special interest.
(b) Research Grants: all obtained competitively; all single investigator (except one*)
Granting
Agency
Type of Award Award
Amount
Year(s) Subject
UBC Departmental
Research Support
$1,000 2015 For editorial and
illustrative work for
two book projects
SSHRC
(Institutional
Award)
HSS International
Conference Travel
Grant, UBC
$2,000 2014-2015 American Philological
Association, 146th
Annual Meeting, New
Orleans
UBC Departmental
Research Support
$1,100 2013 Subsidy for
illustrations for book
Alexander
von
Humboldt
Stiftung
Research Fellowship 9,450
Euros
(about
$12,000)
2013 Re-examination of the
Greek Miracle in the
Making of Ancient
Italy
Hampton
Research
Fund, UBC
HSS Large Grant $6,180 2013-2012 Archaeological
Reports for Sicily
UBC Departmental
Fieldwork Fund
$3,000 2012-2011 Archaeological
Reports for Sicily
SSHRC
(Institutional
Award)
HSS International
Conference Travel
Grant, UBC
$1,500 2009 17th
International
Classical Archaeology
Conference, Rome
Alexander
von
Humboldt
Stiftung
Research Fellowship 28,800
Euros
(about
$46,080)
2008-2007 Greeks in Sicily and
on the Edge
SSHRC Aid to Research
Workshops &
Conferences in
Canada
$20,000 2009-2007 Regionalism and
Globalism in
Antiquity
UBC units &
private donors
(14 in total)
Fundraising for
Conference
$14,000
2009-2007 Regionalism and
Globalism in
Antiquity
Hampton
Research
Fund, UBC
HSS Large Grant $6,000 2007-2006 Archaeological
Reports for Sicily
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Peter Wall
Institute for
Advanced
Study, UBC
Early Career Scholar
Program
$5,500 2005-2004 Interdisciplinary
Research Approaches
HSS, UBC Small Bridging
Grant
$2,000 2004-2003 Archaeological
Reports for Sicily
SSHRC Standard Research
Grant
$56,520
(incl.
Research
Time
Stipend)
2004-2001 Sicilian Greek Society
& Economy
U. Calgary Colloquium
Research Grant*
$1,450 2002 Mediterranean
Agriculture & Food
U. Calgary Career Development $3,120 2002-2000 Travel Awards
Alberta Gov.
& U. Calgary
Research Excellence
Envelope
$12,000 2001-2000 New Faculty Start-up
Grant
SSHRC
(Institutional
Award)
Internal Standard
Research Grant, U.
Lethbridge
$4,500 2000-1999 Greek Sicily
U. Lethbridge Research Fund Grant $4,500 1999-1998 Archaeological
Reports for Sicily
U. Lethbridge Research
Presentation Travel
Fund
$1,800 1999-1997 Sicilian Agriculture
and Demography
Alberta Gov.
& U.
Lethbridge
Research Excellence
Envelope
$4,000 1998-1997 New Faculty Start-up
Grant
British School
at Rome
Rome Research
Scholarship
£16,000
(about
$35,200)
1997-1996
Sicilian Agriculture
and Demography
N.B. The following award was relinquished in favour of a permanent job at Lethbridge.
U. Alberta Killam Postdoctoral
Fellowship
$64,000 1999-1997
Greek Sicily
(c) Conference and Invited Presentations
Main selection since becoming university faculty member given below. Invited presentations are
indicated by (I). Competitively obtained presentations are indicated by (C).
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“Les Conclusions,” at the “Une autre façon d’etre Grec : interactions et productions des Grecs en
milieu colonial” Conference, Amiens and Paris, France, November 18-19, 2016. Organized by
the Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne and the Université de Picardie Jules Verne. (I)
“Greek Sicily: A World Apart?,” at the British Museum Sicily Conference, to accompany the
summer exhibition on ancient and medieval Sicily at the British Museum, London, UK, June 24-
25, 2016. (I)
“Localism and Diaspora in the Megarian World: A Sicilian Perspective,” at the International
Workshop on Megara, Department of History and Classical Studies, McGill University,
Montreal, Canada, May 5-6, 2016. (I)
“The Parting of the Ways: Tracing the Origins of the Schism between Texts and Material
Culture,” at “UBC Archaeology Day Symposium—The Stuff of Life: Materiality in Culture and
Archaeology,” UBC, Vancouver, Canada, March 19, 2016. (I)
“Wine in Pre-Roman Italy: Towards a More Complex Cultural History,” at the Inaugural
Meeting of the Raven Research Group for the Comparative Study of Feasting, Cuisine, and
Aromatics in Ancient Greece, Traditional China, and Aboriginal North America, at Department
of Humanities, MacEwan University, Edmonton, Canada, January 16, 2016.
RAVENresearchgroup.wordpress.com (I)
“Modernization, Hellenization, and Not Throwing the Baby out with the Bathwater,” at the
“Colonization, Conquest, Empire, and Exchange: Modeling Processes of Cultural Change in the
Ancient World” Roundtable Discussion, Department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious
Studies, UBC, Vancouver, Canada, October 23, 2015. (I)
“The Parting of the Ways: Tracing the Origins of the Schism between Texts and Material
Culture,” at the symposium “Past Matters: Teaching History through Material Culture,”
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, March 6, 2015. (I)
“Anthropology and the Creation of the Classical Other,” as part of the panel “The Classics and
Early Anthropology,” organized by the Committee on Classical Tradition and Reception, at the
146th
Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association (now Society for Classical
Studies), New Orleans, USA, January 8-11, 2015. (C)
“Settling the West: Comparing Ancient Greek and New World Frontiers,” at lecture series of
Pharos: The Canadian-Hellenic Cultural Society, Vancouver, Canada, October 27, 2014. (I)
“Settling the West: Comparing Ancient Greek and New World Frontiers,” at departmental
seminar, UBC, Vancouver, Canada, September 4, 2014. (I)
“Hellenizing Pre-Roman Italy: Facts and Fictions,” at research seminar of Institut für Klassische
Archäologie, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, Germany, July 15, 2013. (I)