CURRICULUM VITAE: Robert C. Knapp

 

Study

1968    B.A., Central Michigan University (History, Spanish)

1973    Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (Ancient History)

 

Employment

1968    Teacher of Spanish & English, Unionville Junior-Senior High School, Unionville, Michigan

1973    Taylor Lecturer in Classics, Colby College

1973-74 Assistant Professor of History, University of Utah

1974-2006 Assistant Professor to Professor of Classics, University of California, Berkeley

2006- Professor of Classics Emeritus, University of California, Berkeley

 

Administrative posts

1981-82 Assistant Dean, College of Letters and Science, University of California, Berkeley

1983-87 Associate Dean, College of Letters and Science, University of California, Berkeley

1988-92 Dean of Undergraduate Services, College of Letters and Science, University of California, Berkeley

1981, 1996, 1998: Chair, Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology

1998 Summer Chair, South and Southeast Asian Studies; Classics

1998-1999 Interim Chair, East Asian Languages and Cultures

2000-2004 Coordinating Chair, Multi-departmental Administrative Unit for Classics, South and Southeast Asian Studies, Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, Medieval Studies, and Buddhist Studies

2000-2004 Chair, Classics Department

2003-2004 Vice-Chair, Berkeley Division Academic Senate

2004-2005 Chair, Berkeley Division Academic Senate

 

Awards

1978-79 Humanities Research Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley

1982-83 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship

1987-88 Humanities Research Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley

1988    NEH Travel Fellowship

1992-93 Humanities Research Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley

1999-2000 Humanities Research Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley

2002    L&S Outstanding Undergraduate Advising Award

 

University Service

Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate, Vice-Chair (2003-2004); Chair (2004-2005)

Chancellor's Special Committee on Diversity and Inclusion (2005) (Chair)

 

Professional service

Reviewer for University of California Press, Princeton University Press, University of Oklahoma Press,  University of Michigan Press, University of Texas Press, Oxford University Press, Focus Press (London), American Journal of Archaeology, American Journal of Philology, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Classical Antiquity, Classical Journal, Classical World, Classical Philology, American Journal of Ancient History, American Historical Review, Ancient History Bulletin

Outside tenure review for University of Oklahoma, University of Utah, University of Vermont, University of Waterloo, California State University at Fresno, Michigan State University, Portland State University, Franklin and Marshall College, McMaster University, University of Oklahoma

 

Professional Organizations

American Numismatic Society Fellow

American Philological Association

Archaeological Institute of America

Association of American Historians

Friends of Ancient History

Reial Acadmia de Bones Lletres (Barcelona) Corresponding Member

Royal Numismatic Society (London) Fellow

American Numismatic Society Fellow

 

Doctoral Dissertations Supervised or Advised

Arthur Eckstein, Senate and General: Individual Decision and Roman Foreign Policy in the Middle Republic (264-197 B.C.) (1978)

Mary Hartfield,  The Roman Dictatorship: Its Character and Its Evolution (1978)

Gary Chiranci, Southern Italy before the Romans:  Sicilians and Italian Greeks in Lucania and Bruttium ca. 450-367 B.C. (1982)

Nate Rosenstein, Constaints on Competition in Second Century B.C. Rome (1982)

Joseph Scholten, Aetolian Foreign Relations during the Era of Expansion, ca. 300-217 BC (1987)

Pamela Vaughn, Hostes rei publicae (1988) (supervised)

Alison Futrell, Circles across the Land (1992) (supervised)

Marianne Nichols, Appearance and Reality: A Study of the Clientele of Pompey the Great (1992)

Michael Ierardi, Agathocles of Syracuse and the Greek West:  The Coinage (1994)

Eric Orlin, Deorum Causa:  The Politics of Republican Temple Building (1995)

Steven Ross, Toward Roman Edessa, 114-242 C.E. (1997)

Leah R. Johnson,  Roma et Italia: From the Gracchi to Cicero, 133-64 BC. (1997)

Miriam Pelikan, Home of the Brave: Aristocratic Self-Fashioning in Triumph Debates from Livy 31-45 (201-167 B.C.) (1997)

Daniel  E. Caner, Manual Labor and the Socialization of Wandering Holy Men in the Roman East from Julian to the Council of Chalcedon (361-451 C.E.) (1998)

Christopher Hoffman, The Idea of Magic in Roman Law (2002) (supervised)

Kevin Kaiser, Egyptian and Syro-Palestinian Bes-Vessels from the New Kingdom through the Graeco-Roman Period (2003)

Isabelle Pafford, (2006), Cult Fees and the Ritual of Money in Greek Sanctuaries of the       Classical and Hellenistic Periods

Walter Roberts (2006), A Reading Of De officiis (On Duties)

 

Teaching Innovation

Study Guide for Self-Paced Latin & implemented self-paced Latin course (with R. H. Rodgers) (1975-1985)

Finis Rei Publicae: Eyewitnesses to the End of the Roman Republic : with P. Vaughn; Focus Publishing, 1999, 2nd ed. 2003; a textbook for intermediate Latin

 

Publications (all books; articles since 1995)

Aspects of the Roman Experience in Iberia, 206-100 B.C. Anejos de Hispania Antiqua IX.  Valladolid 1977. [reviews: Latomus 39 (1980) 917, Alonso-Nuez; AHR 85 (1980) 1178, Badian; Athenaeum 59 (1981) 509-510, Bejar; JRS 71 (1981) 187 Mackie]

Roman Crdoba.  Berkeley and Los Angeles 1983. [reviews: CW 78 (1984) 131, Brilliant; EMC 28 (1984) 504-508, Curchin; CJ 80 (1985) 169-171, Spaar; JRS 75 (1985) 288-291, Mackie; LEC 53 (1985) 531, Rexach Aragon; BSEAA 50 (1984) 495-496, Lpez Rodrgues; Athenaeum 83 (1985) 544-545, Scuderi)]

Latin Inscriptions from Central Spain. Berkeley and Los Angeles 1992. [reviews: AEspA. 67 (1994) 275-279, Rodrguez-Almeida; JRA 8 (1995) 452-460, Gmez-Pantoja; Listy filiologick 118 (1995) 162-163, Hosek]

"Laborant in Somniis: Local Magistrates in the West and the Imperial Service," Kolaios  4 (1995): 373-380

Mapping Ancient Iberia: Progress and Perspectives, edited and introduction by R. C. Knapp, with contributions by A. Cepas, M Downs, E. Haley, S. Keay, R. Knapp, and J. Snchez-Palencia.  Special Issue of Classical Bulletin (1996)

 "Ptolemy Mapping Baetica," in Mapping Ancient Iberia: Progress and Perspectives, edited and introduction by R. C. Knapp Classical Bulletin Special Issue (1996): 29-36.

"Dogging a Forgery: CIL II 3050,"  in Homenaje a J. M. Blzquez Martnez  vol. 5: Hispania romana II, edited by J. Alvar (1998): 211-220.

Finis Rei Publicae. Eyewitnesses to the End of the Roman Republic (with P. Vaughn).  Focus Publishing, 1999.  [Reviews: Classical Outlook 77.1 (1999) 3, Kitchell; 77.2 (2000) 88-89, Buller;  Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2000-- http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2000/2000-02-15.html, Jones, with response by Knapp http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2000/2000-02-33.html]

Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World, edited by R.J.A. Talbert.  Princeton, 2000. Co-editor responsible for maps of Iberia; co-author of Map 26 (with F. Stanley).   (Review: Journal of Roman Archaeology 14 (2001) by Alcock, Dey and Parker)

"Greek Coinage, Mercenaries, and Ideology," Eulimene 3 (2002): 183-196.

"The Poor, Latin Inscriptions, and Social History" (XII International Epigraphic Congress, Barcelona, Spain, 2002) (forthcoming)

Finis Rei Publicae. Eyewitnesses to the End of the Roman Republic (with P. Vaughn) 2nd ed..  Focus Publishing, 2003.

"The New Artemidorus Fragment and the Cartography of Ancient Iberia" in Symposium Historia y mito. El pasado legendario como fuente de autoridad, Seville, Spain, 2003, edited by J.M. Candau Morn, et al. (Mlaga 2004): 277-296.

Nemea III: The Coins (with John Mac Isaac).  University of California Press.  2004.

 

Invited Lectures & Papers (since 1995)

 "Archaeo-Numismatics and the Sanctuary of Zeus at Nemea" (Coins in Sanctuaries Roundtable, Berkeley, 1995)

"Coins across the Aegean:  Festivals, Travel, and Trade" (II Berkeley-San Francisco Numismatic Conference, Berkeley, 1996)

"Maps, Geography, and Ideology" (San Francisco Archaeological Institute of America Annual Banquet, 1996; Archaeological Research Facility, Berkeley, 1997)

"Render unto Caesar: Coin Types, Ideology, Identity, and Power" (San Francisco State University, 1997)

"La Arqueo-numismtica y el Santuario de Zeus en Nemea" (Universidat Autnoma de Barcelona; Universidat de Barcelona; Universidat Rovira I Virgili [Tarragona], 1997)

"La Arqueo-numismtica: Circulacin y Tipos de Monedas" (Universitat Autnoma de Barcelona, 1997)

"Nemea: Ruins, Coins, and New Discoveries" (California Alumni Association, 1997)

"Classical Coins from the Sanctuary of Zeus at Nemea: 1924-1994" (VIII International Numismatic Congress, Berlin, 1997)

"Conquerors Conquered, Victors Vanquished:  The Negotiation of Spain into the Roman Empire" (University of Utah, 1998)

"Caesar--Monster--Savior" (California Classical Association-Northern Section, April 1999; Southern Section, November 1999)

"Subjection and Survival: The Moral Economy of the Poor in the Roman Empire" (University of Nevada, Reno, 1999)

"How Do You Keep Them Down on the Farm?: Greek Coinage, Mercenaries, and Ideology" (Ancient Economy and Numismatic Ideology Conference -- Cumae, Italy, 2000)

"External and Internal Frontiers of the Roman Empire" (California History-Social Science Project, Berkeley, 2000, Oakland 2001)

"Mapping Ancient Iberia"  for conference Mapas e Imperio.  Las Bases Geogrficas del Imperialism Grecorromano (Valencia, Spain, November 2000)

"Apuleius and the Social Life of Outlaws" (American Philological Association, San Diego, 2001)

"Outlaws in the Roman World" (University of Nevada, 2001)

"Inventing Coins--Using Coins--Making Coins" (White Hill Middle School, Fairfield, 2001)

"Taking a Stab at Caesar" (Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest, Eugene, Oregon, 2002)

"The Poor, Latin Inscriptions, and Social History" (XII International Epigraphic Congress, Barcelona, Spain, 2002)

"Horizantal Coin Scatter and Site Use at Nemea" (American Philological Association, Philadelphia, 2003)

"Latin Epigraphy and History" (University of San Francisco, 2003)

"The New Artemidorus Fragment and the Cartography of Ancient Iberia" (Symposium Historia y mito. El pasado legendario como fuente de autoridad, Seville, Spain, 2003)

"Coins from Nemea (Greece) since 1997" (XIII International Numismatic Congress, Madrid, Spain, 2003)

"The Near East Transforms the Greeks" (California Classical Association—Northern Section, November, 2004)

 

Work In Progress

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum volume II (Iberian Peninsula) (editor for central Spanish inscriptions): the volumes incorporating my inscriptions (provinces of Avila, Segovia, and Madrid--see my Latin Inscriptions from Central Spain) are currently in preparation, but production has been very slow and when it will be out is unclear.

Invisible Romans: Self-Identity, Imposed Identity, and Power in the Roman World (work underway to investigate from their own points of view the social attitudes and conditions of the non-elites in the Roman world)