NAME: John Nicols
DATE: 20 October 2007 and covering the period spring 2005 until the fall of 2007 [details below]:

Scholarship:
Published: Three articles appeared, The Idea of Rome, Crisis of the 3rd Century; and Civic Ritual and Civic Patronage. Also two reviews.  Atlas Project: Two modules authored, five others edited and published.
In progress: One other article have been accepted, Hospitium is in production; the other, on Epictetus is under review; Atlas Project: one authored, one in production; four others edited and in production.

Grants: Alexander von Humboldt Senior Research Fellow[June, 2003 to 2005; renewed in June 2006], UO Educational Technology awards (significant resources) with James Mohr, May 2005, and June, 2006.

Lectures: Invited lectures (all in German, some on the Atlas Project; others on hospitum and on civic patronage) at Universities of Bonn, Cologne, Dresden, Rostock , Münster in 2005; colloquium at University of Munich , July, 2006.  Keynote speaker at Impact of Empire an international conference on the Roman Empire and held at Nijmegen , Netherlands, June 2006.

Teaching:
Typically I teach an uncompensated overload. Enrollments and evaluations continue to be strong at all levels [z-scores are consistently in the plus category when adjusted for level and size of course].
I have taught HIST 101 for years; HIST 4xx courses regularly attract 80-90 students. Although I teach HUM 254 and PHYS 361, the credits for both courses accrue to the History Department.
Rippey Teaching Award, 2005. I regularly work with three Freshmen Interest Groups each fall.
I am particularly pleased that two of my best undergraduate assistants received scholarships for graduate study one at NYU and one at London School of Economics; three others received CAS scholarships last spring.

Administration:
Serve as UO representative to Inter-institutional Faculty Senate through 2008, serve on UO Classroom Committee through 2007; UO Committee on Courses through spring 2006.  

• Continue as head of the Humanities Program and of the Independent Studies Program and was appointed June a year ago to head the CAS Society of Scholars program. I believe all these programs have been solid to excellent performers, and am in particular delighed by the progress made with the Scholars.
  
• I also serve on the [History] departmental Technology committee and on the Undergraduate/Curriculum Committee. I am particularly pleased that I was able to arrange for the acoustic upgrades in 373 and 471, and that I could add 475 McKenzie to the department's list of priority classrooms and arrange for the new equipment to be added at no cost to the department.
• Have acquired nine notebook computers for faculty and GTFs over the last two years.

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ADDRESSES:

Office:	385 McKenzie Hall.
Mail to:	1288-History, University of Oregon
	1101 Kincaid St., Suite 275 Eugene , OR 97403.1288
Phone / FAX	(541)346-4817 /(541)346-4895
Email	nic@uoregon.edu

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2006	Director, CAS Society of Scholars (through June 2009)
2003-2005	Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and Visiting Professor at the Univesität Münster
2003-->pr.	Project co-director “Mapping History”. A joint program supported by the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Research Office of the University of Oregon , and the College of Arts and Sciences and Universität Münster ( Germany ).
1991-->pr.	Director, Humanities Program and Independent Study Program (renewed through 6/2008). Department head, Classics 1991-98
1988-->pr	Professor of History and of Classics, University of Oregon
1988-89	Visiting Professor, Inst. für Alte Geschichte der Universität Heidelberg
1987	Visiting Professor, Sem. für Alte Geschichte der Universität Köln.
1980	Associate Professor of History and of Classics, University of Oregon
1980-83	Field work in Latin epigraphy with the German Archaeological Institute, Madrid , in conjunction with the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum.
1975-80	Assistant Professor of Classics, Stanford University
1977-78	Post-Doctoral Fellow, Leopold Wenger Institut für Rechtsgeschichte, Universität München = Alexander von Humboldt-Stipendiat.
1972-75	Assistant Professor (=Wissenschaftlicher Assistent), Seminar für Alte Geschichte, Universität Freiburg
1974	Ph.D. in History from the University of California , Los Angeles .
1970-72	Fellow, German Academic Exchange Service (=Deutscher Ak.Austauschdienst), Universität Freiburg
1968	Staff Member, Isthmia Excavations at Corinth , Greece , with the American School of Classical Studies at Athens .
1968	M.A. in History, University of California , Los Angeles
1966	B.A. in History, University of California , Berkeley

SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY: Most of the publications that appear in print may be found at the University of Oregon, Scholars Bank:

• ELECTRONIC PUBLICATION
• Editor (with James Mohr) and author of many modules in Mapping History an interactive atlas project. General editing and also of modules on
• Romanization
• Rome and Italy
• The Cold War
• The Crisis of the 3rd Century
• In production: modules on Greek Intellectual History, Roman Imperialism in the Late Republic.  Editing and translation of modules written by others including Medieval Centers of Learning – Martin Kintzinger and Sanctuaries and Diplomacy in the Greek World – Peter Funke, both of University of Münster .
• The USHistory Place (sponsored by Pearson Education/AddisonWesleyLongman. Modules on Pre-Columbian North America , Imperialism,
• The Interactive Historical Atlas on CD ROM (1998), about 50 maps focusing on Roman Expansion.
• Editor (with James Mohr) Historical and Cultural Atlas for the Internet (over 200 maps,1996), and frequently citied. Many of them are animated including Roman Imperialism; Ancient Empires to 1000 BC; Ancient Empires, 1000-300 BC; Trade in the Roman Empire, Greek and Phoenician Colonization; The March of the 10,000; Macedonian Expansion, Second Punic War; Roman Italy, Urbanization and Road Building; Roman Citizen Communities; Spread of Christianity; Urbanization of Gaul; Roman Frontier; Barbarian Migrations
• MONOGRAPHS:
• Civic Patronage in the Roman Empire . Text available on request.
• Vespasian and the partes Flavianae. Wiesbaden , 1978.
• ARTICLES Most of the publications that appear in print may be found at the University of Oregon, Scholars Bank::
• The Crisis of the 3rd Century: a new perspective, in Impact of Empire, 2007
• Hospitium, a chapter-essay contracted for Oxford Social History of Rome publication in early 2008.
• Epictetus and the Magistrate of Knossos, submitted June 2007.
• The Idea of Rome and the Idea of Europe, published in Engaging Europe Today, Rowan & Littlefield, 2005
• Civic Ritual and Civic Patronage, in Impact of Empire, 2006, Leiden Brill.
• Hospitium and Political Friendship in the Late Republic. Journal of Roman Archaeology, 2001
• Sallust and the Greek Historical Tradition, Text and Tradition, 1999, 329-344.
• Patrons of Provinces in the Early Principate: The Case of Bithynia , ZPE 80(1990) 101-8.
• Patrons of Greek Cities in the Early Principate, ZPE 80(1990) 81-100.
• Patrona Civitatis: Gender and Civic Patronage, Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History 5(1989) 117-142.
• On the Standard Size of the ordo decurionum, ZRG 105(1988) 712-19.
• Prefects, Patronage and the Administration of Justice, ZPE 72(1988) 201-217.
• Indigenous Culture and the Process of Romanization in Iberian Galicia , AJPh 108(1987) 129-151.
• The Caecilii Metelli: patroni Siciliae? Historia 30(1981) 238-40.
• Tabulae Patronatus: A Study of the Relationship between Patron and Client-Community, ANRW 12(1980) 535-61.
• Pliny and the Patronage of Communities, Hermes 108(1980) 365-385.
• Patronum cooptare, patrocinium deferre: Lex Malacitana, c. 61, ZRG 96(1980) 303-6.
• Zur Verleihung öffentlicher Ehrungen in der römischen Welt, Chiron 9(1979) 43-65.
• The Emperor and the patronus civitatis, Chiron 8(1978) 429-437.
• Antonia and Sejanus, Historia 24(1974) 48-58.
• The Chronology and Significance of the M. Agrippa Asses ANSMusN 19(1974) 65-86.
• MAPS, EDITORSHIPS AND TRANSLATIONS
• Map Editor for Anthony Everitt, Ancient Rome , Preiss-Penguin, 2006. Under contract with the same publisher for a similar book entitled Ancient Greece to be published in autumn / winter 2007
• Corpus inscriptionum latinarum, Supplementband 2. For the province of Gallaecia (in north-west Spain ).
• INQUIRY: The journal of the University of Oregon 's research division, 1986, 1987 and 1988.
• The Fora of Imperial Rome , P. Zanker, ed. and trans. with M. S. Nicols. Contracted with The Johns Hopkins Press. Translation has been completed, but no publication date yet set.
• MANY REVIEWS, currently and forthcoming in the Historian, of Fergus Millar, Rome, the Greek World and the East (2006); for Phoenix, of Claude Eilers, Patronage of Communties in the Roman Republic (2006).
• INVITED LECTURES: recent presentations at
• 2006: The Crisis of the 3rd Century, Nijmegen "Impact of Empire" International Congress
• 2005: in Germany at the universities of Mainz , Rostock , Dresden (summer 2005) and at Bonn and Cologne (December 2005).
• 2003-04 in Germany at the universities of Heidelberg , Munich, Berlin and Münster; and at UCLA
• 2003-02 in Germany at the universities of Wurzburg , Freiburg, Münster; at at University of Washington , Seattle .

HONORS AND RESEARCH GRANTS:

2006 2005	Alexander von Humboldt, Senior Scholar award "Teacher of the (Spring) Term" by UO students in fraternities and sororities.
2005-7; 2006 -9	UO Educational Technology awards with Professor James C. Mohr
2003	Williams Council award for “Culture and Scientific Discovery” with Professor Greg Bothun, Physics.
2002-05	Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, senior scholar award for Mapping History (see above). A joint project with the Universität Münster.
1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005	Rippey Award for Innovative Education (shared with Mary Jaeger, Classics; James Earl, English; David Dusseau, Business; and Robert Zimmerman, Physics, respectively
1997	Provost’s award for continued development of the electronic atlas
1996	Oregon State System of Higher Education Grant to develop historical and cultural atlas for the internet.
1992	NEH Summer Research Grant,
1988-89	CIES/Fulbright Senior Research Award (for Heidelberg )
1987-88	NEH Research Fellowship for University Teachers
1987	Award, Friends of the Library, Special Purchase
1987	Grant-in-Aid, American Philosophical Society
1983	Grant-in-Aid, American Council of Learned Societies
1977-78	Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship; renewed for shorter periods in 1979, 1980, 1981, 1982, 1985, 1986, 1987.
1970-73	German Academic Exchange Service Fellowship
Also	Elected Vice President, Oregon chapter of the American Institute for Archaeology for 1981 and secretary for 1982-1986, vice president for 1990-91. Faculty Research Grants from Oregon in 1981 and 1984. Publication Award from Stanford in 1977. Faculty Research Grants from Stanford in 1976, 1979, 1980. Summer Research Grant of the American Numismatic Society, 1970.

OTHER MAJOR GRANTS:

• UO Humanities Center, Development Award for program in History of Science (1990).
• Project Director and Principal Investigator of the University Forum, a $250,000 three year award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (1984-87).
• Project Director and Principal Investigator, University Forum, of a one-year grant from the Oregon Committee for the Humanities, 1984.
• Project Director and Principal Investigator, The University Forum Radio Program, a one year award from the Oregon Committee for the Humanities (1985).
• Project Associate, Humanities Institute for High School Principals. The orientation of this project was classical literature, not pedagogy (1984-5).

TEACHING / ADVISING / CURRICULUM DEVELOPMENT
Link to instructional site KLIO:

• Recent:
• PHYSICS 361: Culture and Scientific Discovery;
• HUMANITIES 254: The City ( Athens , Renaissance Florence , 20th Cent. Berlin )
• HISTORY: Roman Republic, Roman Empire, Western Civilization; Classical Greece.
• Director: Pathway in Law Science and Culture, University of Oregon, 1999-2005, a “general education” program for students interested in a career in law.
• Career: Extensive experience in all formats, large and small lecture as well as honors.
• Western Civilization and Culture:
• Curriculum consultant for the Stanford Western Culture requirement (1973-75).
• Ancient History:
• Lecture Courses: History of Greece , Classical and Hellenistic Period; the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire , the Age of Augustus.
• Undergraduate Colloquia: Historiography (Ancient and Modern), Roman Society and Early Christianity, Roman Propaganda, Civil War and Rebellion in the Roman Empire, Greek Society and Religion, Ancient Science
• Graduate Seminars: Augustus and Hitler (comparative fascist systems); Imperialism, Ancient and Modern; Ancient Science, Slavery, Augustus, Patronage in the Roman Empire, Letters of Cicero
• Language and Literature: Latin: Elementary and Second Year; advanced courses in Cicero, Sallust, Tacitus, Pliny, Latin epigraphy.

 

SERVICE AND ADMINISTRATION

International: Board of Directors, German-American Institute (USIA), in Freiburg, 1972-75.

National:

• Consultant on humanities curriculum, Spokane Community College 1986-87,
• and at three high schools in Kansas , Illinois and New York , 1984.
• Board of Directors, Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies at Rome , 1976-79.
• Organizer:
• AHA Pac. Coast Branch Meeting, 1992;
• Annual Meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians at Stanford, 1976.
• NEH Panel on Public Programs in the Humanities, May, 1985.

University of Oregon:

• University and CAS Service:
• Member, Classroom Committee, 2002-2005; University Committee on Courses, 2003-5
• Member and then Chair: Undergraduate Council, 1999-2003
• Member then Chair, CAS Curriculum Committee, 1997-2000
• Member various teams for Process for Change, 1997-99
• University Library Committee, 1997-87
• Member then chair of Senate Budget Committee, 1996-99
• Member then chair of Faculty Advisory Committee (to the President, 1996-8
• Chair, Academic Requirements Committee, 1994-6
• Committee to review the English Department (1992-3); German Department 2002
• Provost's Implementation Committee for general education requirements, 1992
• University Senate, 1991-3
• Graduate Council; 1990-92
• Other: Fulbright Selection Committee (1989-91); Board of Soc. Science Instruction Lab (1989-91); President's Committee on Humanities (1986-7); Editor, INQUIRY, the UO Research Magazine (1985, 1986, 1987); Research Committee (1984-5); Animal Welfare Committee (1984-86); Committee on the Arts and Humanities (1982-86).
• History Department:
• Chair, Undergraduate/Curriculum Committee, 1989-02
• Chair, and/or member of many search committees
• Classics Department: Numerous search committees, frequently as chair;

State of Oregon: Development; Teacher Certification for Latin in Secondary School.

Stanford University:

• Classics Department: graduate studies, library, various searches;
• University: Student Conduct Committee.

Freiburg University:

• coordinated the purchase of books on Ancient History for the Department and for the University Library;
• department supervised the work of three research assistants, organized and led three university excursions to Italy and two to Greece.

PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS: American Philological Association. Archaeological Institute of America. Association of Ancient Historians. Friends of Ancient History.