NAME: John NICOLS,

RANK: Professor Emeritus (1 July 2011), History&Classics

DATE: 12 December 2018. Preliminary Notes

• Though I enjoy emeritus status I continue to teach in the Clark Honors College and to pursue research supported by grants from the University of Oregon [for 'Mapping History'] and from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation for a monograph on Roman hospitium. All of these activities are funded through December of 2018.
• This first 'page' summarizes scholarly activity and awards covering the period spring 2007 through 2018.  On 'page two' begins the details for the career.

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Recent Awards and Prizes [2007 to 2018]:

• 2016: Alexander von Humboldt Fellow and Visiting Professor at the Kommission für Alte Geschichte, DAI-Munich, and Seminar für Alte Geschichte an der Universität Münster
• 2013: Visiting Professor = Gastprofessor in Seminar für Alte Geschichte, Universität Tübingen, 2013
• 2012: Alexander von Humboldt Fellow [renewed] and Visiting Professor at the University of Tübingen, Germany
• 2012: Appointed: DAAD ['German Academic Exchange Service'] Research 'ambassador'
• 2010: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: research fellowship.
• 2010: Visiting Professor the Universities of Münster and Munich, and at the Kommission für Alte Geschichte, DAI
• 2010: University of Oregon Senate "Wayne Westling Award" for "outstanding and long-term leadership and service to the university".
• 2009: Williams Foundation Fellowship for: "...exceptional teachers whose innovative ideas have demonstrated a commitment to undergraduate education by challenging their students academically, creating an engaged learning environment, striving to improve the learning process, and fostering interdepartmental collaboration."
• 2009: The Lorry Lokay Foundation Award for contributions to digital media (shared with Professor Gregory Bothun, Physics)
• 2007:University of Oregon, Rippey Teaching Awards.

Recent Scholarship [2007-2018]: 

• Monographs:
  • Vespasian and the partes Flavianae, Wiesbaden [Steiner, 1978]
  • Civic Patronage in the Roman Empire. Leiden [ Brill, 2014].
• The Practice of Hospitium in the Roman Empire, advanced draft under review for contract.

  

• Companion Web Site for Civic Patronage provides a full range of epigraphical material used to develop the arguments in the monograph. Aside fromt the basic list of patrons and client communities, profiles of the patron, of the client communities, of the monuments, and of benefactions may also be found.
• Articles published or in production and or contracted in refereed journals and collections over the last ten years [since 2006], for earlier publications see the full list below.

• 3 x 3000 word articles on "Vitellius", on the "Flavian Dynasty", "Vitellius, the Rise to Power" and a half dozen smaller entries [300 words each] for the Tacitus Encyclopedia for Wiley-Blackwell Press, due March 2019.
• Hospitium: Theorie und Praxis, lecture delivered at Cologne and Darmstadt, preparing for publication in German.
• Hospitium: Understanding 'ours' and 'theirs' on the Roman Frontieer, paper for Colloquium for 'Impact of Empire', NY 2013, revised and expanded as Chapter 9 of the volume in press, at Leiden [Brill, 2016?], 180-191.
• Vespasian for A Companion to the Flavian Age of Imperial Rome, Chichester [Wiley - Blackwell Publishing; 2016]. Chapter 3, 60-75.
• The Rituals of Hospitium, Ancient Documents and the Contexts, edd. J. Bodel & N. Dimitrova, Chapter 11, p. 190-198. Brill [Leiden, 2015] = Studies in Greek and Latin Epigraphy.
• Patronage [Patronus / Patronatus], for the Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum (Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaft, Stuttgart 2014), Vol 26, columns 1109-1138.
• The Practice of hospitium on the Roman Frontier, Impact of Empire 13 = Frontier of the Roman World, edd. O. Hekster & T. Keizer, Leiden [Brill; 2012], 321-334.
• Hospitality among the Romans, in The Oxford Handbook of Social Relations in the Roman World, ed. M. Peachin, 2011, Chp 20, Oxford Social History of Rome, (p 422-435).
• Epictetus, the Rhetorician from Cnossos, and the Practice of Civic Patronage in the Principate, Historia, 2009, p. 325 -335.
• Mapping the Crisis of the 3rd Century, in Impact of Empire 7, edd. O. Hekster, G. de Klejn, D. Slootjes, 2007, p 431-438.
• The Roman Concept of 'Frontier'; understanding 'ours' and 'theirs', paper for 'Impact of Empire', NY 2013, in press.
• The Practice of hospitium on the Roman Frontier, Impact of Empire 13 = Frontier of the Roman World, edd. O. Hekster & T. Keizer, Leiden [Brill; 2012], 321-334.
• Mapping the Crisis of the 3rd Century, in Impact of Empire 7, edd. O. Hekster, G. de Klejn, D. Slootjes, 2007, p 431-438.
• Reviews of six books in various journals including The Historian, Journal of Roman Studies, Gnomon, Classical Review, Phoenix. referee for various journals and presses including Classical Philology, Phoenix; Brill, CalUP, etc. Currently:
  • Jochen Alhof, Sabine Föllinger, Georg Wörrle, ed. Antike Naturwissenschaft und ihre Rezeption, for BrynMawr CR
  • Katrin Engfer, Die private Munifizenz der römischen Oberschicht in Mittel- und Süditalien for Classical Review, 2017
  • Annika B. Kuhn, ed., Social Status and Prestige in the Graeco-Roman World, Stuttgart: 2016, for the Ancient History Bulletin.
  • Andrew Wolpert, K. A. Kapparis, Legal Speeches of Democratic Athens, Sources for Athenian History, H-Net Reviews, October 2011. A. Coskun (ed.), Freundschaft und Gefogschaft in den auswärtigen Beziehunger der Römer. Frankfurt: Peter Lang, 2008. Journal of Roman Studies, 101(2011), pp. 254-255.
• Digital publication all in Mapping History, (a TransCoop Project of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung on animated historical maps
• Authored:
  • The Crisis of the 3rd Century
  • Romanization
  • Origins and Movements of Greek Intellectuals
  • The Cold War
  • Russia in the 20th Century
  • The Formation of Spain
  • South America in the 20th Century
  • Central America in the 20th Century
  • Caribbean in the 20th Century
  • Africa, toward nationhood (16th to 20th Centuries)
  • Centers of Learning from the Early Modern Period to the French Revolution
  • The formation of Italy (in production)
  • The formation of France (in production)
  • The formation of Germany (in production)
• Edited (together with Peter Funke and Barbara Stollberg, Universtät Münster, David Luebke, Oregon, Hans Hillerbrand, Duke University
  • Greek and Phoenician Colonization
  • Sanctuaries and Diplomacy in the Greek World
  • Rome and Asia Minor • Academies in the Early Modern Period
  • Communication and the Postal System in the Early Modern Period
  • Peasant Rebellions in Early Modern Europe
• Edited (together with James C. Mohr), modules on the history of public health
  • Cholera
  • Diphtheria
  • Life Expectancy
  • Polio
• Recent and Forthcoming Conference Papers and Invited Lectures:

• Hospitium: Theorie und Praxis, universities of Cologne and Darmstadt, October 2016.
• Hospitium und politische Freundschaft in der späten Republik, Universität Tübingen, Juli 2012
• Hospitium: the epigraphical corpus. Presented 5 Jan 2011 at North American Epigraphical Congress of the ASGLE.
• The Idea of Rome and the Enlightenment, faculty lecture in conjunction with the exhibition "Vasi's Rome" at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, University of Oregon, October, 2010; variations will be presented at the public libraries of Bend and Sisters Oregon in February, 2011.
• Epigraphy and Roman Architecture, presented at a meeting of American Association of Architectural Historians in Pasadena, CA in spring 09.
• The Practice of Hospitium, conference at Durham UK in April 2009.
• Invited lectures (all in German, some on the Atlas Project; others on hospitium and on civic patronage) at Universities of Bonn, Cologne, Dresden, Rostock , Münster; colloquium at University of Munich, all between 2006 and 2008.
• The Crisis of the 3rd Century: reconsidered, presented at the conference Impact of Empire held at Nijmegen, Netherlands, June 2006

Recent Teaching and Advising:

• Recent Courses include:  
  • Currently and very recently: [fall 2014 through the end of the fall term, 2018] mostly in the Clark Honors College: The City = HC434h; Science & Culture= HC 443h;
  • HIST 412 / 512 Classical Greece, Winter Term 2017; HIST 414 / 514 Roman Empire, Spring 2017.
• Earlier: 2009-2014: HIST / HUM / PHYS 361: Science & Culture;   HUM 254 and now 354: The City ( Athens , Renaissance Florence , 20th Cent. Berlin )   HIST 414/514: Roman Republic, Roman Empire, also The Punic Wars co-taught with Hartmut Blum, Tübingen; HIST 101,Western Civilization; HIST 414/512, Classical Greece; HIST 407/507 Seminars: Augustus and Hitler, comparative dictatorship; HC 431H The City.
• Hauptseminar: Universität Tübingen. Patronat in der Prinzipatzeit, spring 2013.
• Recent Theses directed / facilitated:
  • Graduate: three MA theses in HIST; one in CLAS.
  • Undergraduate: 9 honors theses in HIST, HUM, HC.

Recent Service to UO [2005-2014]

As an emeritus

• 2013-14: University of Oregon: Senate Committee on the status of Emeritus Facutly and Retired Employees
• 2012-13: University of Oregon,
  • Senate Committee on the status of Emeritus Facutly and Retired Employees
  • Senate Committee on Committee on Instructional Technology
• 2011-12: Universiity of Oregon, Senate Executive Committee,
• 2011-12: Undergraduate Advisor, History,
• 2011-13: University of Oregon,
  • Senate Committee on Emeritus Status,
  • University Committee on Retired and Emeritus Faculty Rights, Privilges and Perquisites Policy

As a member of the tenured faculty

• Faculty Advisory Council (to the President), 2010-11
• College of Arts and Sciences: Director, College Scholars Program, 2006 - 2010
• University of Oregon representative to Inter-institutional Faculty Senate 2005 - 2008,
• Served on UO Classroom Committee through 2007; 2010;
• University's Distinguished Scholarship Committee, 2008-2011
• University Committee on Undergraduate Scholarships, 2010, 2011
• University: Top Scholar [recruitment] Committeee, 2005-09
• Continued as head of the Humanities Program and of the Independent Studies Program until retirement in June, 2011.   
• I have also served on the [History] departmental Technology committee and on the Undergraduate/Curriculum Committee; director of undergraduate advising, 2011 - 2012.

 

Full CV as of February 2010:

Contact Information:  

Office:     385 McKenzie Hall until 15 August, 2011, then 301 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 [appointments, directorships, etc.]:  

• 2016: Alexander von Humbodlt Fellow and Visiting Professor at the Kommission für Alte Geschichte, DAI-Munich, and Seminar für Alte Geschichte an der Universität Münster
• 2013: Visiting Professor = Gastprofessor in Seminar für Alte Geschichte, Universität Tübingen, 2013
• 2012: Alexander von Humboldt Fellow [renewed] and Visiting Professor at the University of Tübingen, Germany
• 2012: Appointed: DAAD ['German Academic Exchange Service'] Research 'ambassador'
• 2010: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: research fellowship.
• 2010: Visiting Professor the Universities of Münster and Munich, and at the Kommission für Alte Geschichte, DAI
• 2010: University of Oregon Senate "Wayne Westling Award" for "outstanding and long-term leadership and service to the university".
• 2009: Williams Foundation Fellowship for: "...exceptional teachers whose innovative ideas have demonstrated a commitment to undergraduate education by challenging their students academically, creating an engaged learning environment, striving to improve the learning process, and fostering interdepartmental collaboration."
• 2009: The Lorry Lokay Foundation Award for contributions to digital media (shared with Professor Gregory Bothun, Physics)
• 2006-10  Director, CAS Society of Scholars (through June 2010)
• 2003-2005  Alexander von Humboldt research fellowship( renewed) 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 7/2011). 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:  

Digital publication all in Mapping History, (a TransCoop Project of the Alexander von Humboldt Stiftung on animated historical maps: at http://mappinghistory.uoregon.edu

Authored:

• The Crisis of the 3rd Century
• Romanization
• Origins and Movements of Greek Intellectuals
• The Cold War
• Russia in the 20th Century
• The Formation of Spain
• South America in the 20th Century
• Central America in the 20th Century
• Caribbean in the 20th Century
• Africa, toward nationhood (16th to 20th Centuries)
• Centers of Learning from the Early Modern Period to the French Revolution
• The formation of Italy (in production)
• The formation of France (in production)
• The formation of Germany (in production)
  
  

Edited (together with Peter Funke and Barbara Stollberg, Universtät Münster, David Luebke, Oregon, Hans Hillerbrand, Duke University

• Greek and Phoenician Colonization
• Sanctuaries and Diplomacy in the Greek World
• Rome and Asia Minor • Academies in the Early Modern Period
• Communication and the Postal System in the Early Modern Period
• Peasant Rebellions in Early Modern Europe
  
  

Edited (together with James C. Mohr), modules on the history of public health

• Cholera
• Diphtheria
• Life Expectancy
• Polio

Digital Publication with Pearson Education (1995-2005)

Authored:

• Pre-Columbian North America
• Toward Empire
• World War I
• World War II in Europe
• World War II in the Pacific

Edited with James C. Mohr,

• 22 other modules on the history of North America.
• The Interactive Historical Atlas on CD ROM (1998), about 50 maps focusing on Roman Expansion.  

Printed Media:

Monographs:

• Vespasian and the partes Flavianae. Wiesbaden [Steiner; 1978]. 
• Civic Patronage in the Roman Empire, Leiden [Brill;2014].
• The Practice of Hospitium in the Roman Empire, advanced draft under review for contract.

Articles

• Hospitium: Understanding 'ours' and 'theirs' on the Roman Frontieer, paper for Colloquium for 'Impact of Empire', NY 2013, revised ande expanded to appear as Chapter 9 of the volume in press, at Leiden [Brill, 2016?], 180-191.
• Vespasian for A Companion to the Flavian Age of Imperial Rome, Chichester [Wiley - Blackwell Publishing; 2016]. Chapter 3, 60-75.
• The Rituals of Hospitium, Ancient Documents and the Contexts, edd. J. Bodel & N. Dimitrova, Chapter 11, p. 190-198. Brill [Leiden, 2015] = Studies in Greek and Latin Epigraphy.
• Patronage [Patronus / Patronatus], for the Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum (Nordrhein-Westfälischen Akademie der Wissenschaft, Stuttgart 2014), Vol 26, columns 1109-1138.
• Hospitium: the epigraphical corpus. To be presented 5 Jan 2011 at North American Epigraphical Congress of the ASGLE.Patronus / Patronatus, for the Realenyclopedie des christlichen Altertums, 8-10000 word article (for publication in 2011)
• The Practice of hospitium on the Roman Frontier, Impact of Empire, 2010
• Hospitium, a chapter-essay contracted for Oxford Social History of Rome, Chapter 20
• Epictetus, the Rhetorician from Cnossos, and the Practice of Civic Patronage in the Principate, Historia, 2009
• The Crisis of the 3rd Century: a new perspective, in Impact of Empire, 2007
• Civic Ritual and Civic Patronage, in Impact of Empire, 2006, Leiden Brill.
• The Idea of Rome and the Idea of Europe, published in Engaging Europe Today, Rowan & Littlefield, 2005  
• 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.

Other printed materials (maps, editorships, translations)      

• Map Editor for Anthony Everitt, Ancient Rome , Preiss-Penguin, 2006.
• 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.  
• MANY REVIEWS, currently and forthcoming in the Journal of Roman Studies, and in the Historian, for Phoenix, and Gnomon.

HONORS AND RESEARCH GRANTS:  

• 2010: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation: research fellowship.
• 2010: Wayne Westling Award for for "outstanding and long-term leadership and service to the university".
• 2009 Williams Fellowship "...for innovative teaching ideas that contribute to the quality of the educational experience for undergraduate students at the University of Oregon"
• 2009 Lokey Award for "Science and Culture: Empowering Students to Better Understand the Human Condition" [with Greg Bothun, Physics], June 2009.
• 2006   2005     Alexander von Humboldt, research fellowship (renewed).   
• 2005 "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, award for Mapping History (see above). A joint project with the Universität Münster. 
• 1997, 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005   Rippey Award for Innovative Education
• 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

Teaching: 

• Link to instructional site KLIO: 
• Recent courses include:   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.          

Administration and Service

• University of Oregon]
  • Senate Committee on Emeritus Status, 2011-2; University Committee on Retired and Emeritus Faculty Rights, Privilges and Perquisites Policy, 2011-13
  • Faculty Advisory Council, 2010-11
  • University representative to Inter-institutional Faculty Senate through 2008,
  • Serve on UO Classroom Committee through 2007; 2010;
  • University's Distinguished Scholarship Committee, University Committee on Undergraduate Scholarships (2010)
  • UO Committee on Courses through spring 2006.   
  • Continue as head of the Humanities Program and of the Independent Studies Program. I believe all these programs have been solid to excellent performers, and I am in particularly delighted by the progress made with the Scholars Program (see my separate report from August 2008).   
  • I have also served on the [History] departmental Technology committee and on the Undergraduate/Curriculum Committee.
• Career / administration and service
  • 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' 2010;
    • University Committee on Courses, 2003-5  
    • Undergraduate Council, 1999-2003 Member and then Chair.
    • CAS Curriculum Committee, 1997-2000, Member then Chair  
    • Member various teams for Process for Change, 1997-99  
    • University Library Committee, 1997-87  
    • Senate Budget Committee, 1996-99, Member then chair.  
    • Faculty Advisory Committee (to the President, 1996-8) Member then chair.  Elected to second term in 2010-11
    • Chair, Academic Requirements Committee, 1994-6, Member then chair.  
    • 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.      
• Member: American Philological Association. Archaeological Institute of America. Association of Ancient Historians. Friends of Ancient History.