06-21-2004, 06:02 PM
www.geocities.com/richsc5...C00303.JPG : that's me with the camera behind and to the right of Matt...<br>
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I'd probably talk to Jeremy McInerney, the undergrad chair of Classics, and David Romano, assistant curator of the Mediterranean Section at the Museum, for starters. I'd need to know a little bit more about it... I'm not really sure about the logistics, ie mainly funding. I'm not sure I'd want to bring that up without a firmer plan.<br>
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Unfortunately Brent Shaw just left the department to go to Princeton; he was the big name Roman history scholar at Penn. Coming in this fall as a Romanist is James Kerr from Harvard, I don't know him yet. Jeremy McInerney is a Hellenist, but he might be interested in the project. I'd probably also try to circulate among the grad students, there might be some enthusiasm there. Most of the rest of the faculty are more literary minded; not that that's a bad thing, but perhaps less enthusiasm for history.<br>
At the museum, one Mediterranean archaeologist just retired, and another is about to, so it's a little thin, but there might be some interest. I'm not sure that there's anyone particularly interested in military affairs, but it's possible. <p></p><i></i>
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I'd probably talk to Jeremy McInerney, the undergrad chair of Classics, and David Romano, assistant curator of the Mediterranean Section at the Museum, for starters. I'd need to know a little bit more about it... I'm not really sure about the logistics, ie mainly funding. I'm not sure I'd want to bring that up without a firmer plan.<br>
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Unfortunately Brent Shaw just left the department to go to Princeton; he was the big name Roman history scholar at Penn. Coming in this fall as a Romanist is James Kerr from Harvard, I don't know him yet. Jeremy McInerney is a Hellenist, but he might be interested in the project. I'd probably also try to circulate among the grad students, there might be some enthusiasm there. Most of the rest of the faculty are more literary minded; not that that's a bad thing, but perhaps less enthusiasm for history.<br>
At the museum, one Mediterranean archaeologist just retired, and another is about to, so it's a little thin, but there might be some interest. I'm not sure that there's anyone particularly interested in military affairs, but it's possible. <p></p><i></i>
Dan Diffendale
Ph.D. candidate, University of Michigan
Ph.D. candidate, University of Michigan
