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Anthony
Bulloch - Professor of Classics
Tel.:
(510) 642-4001
email: abulloch@berkeley.edu
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Anthony
Bulloch is Professor of Classics in the Classics Dept. at UC Berkeley and Assistant Dean in the College of Letters and Science. He was born and brought up in London, England. He studied
Classics at the university of Cambridge, England (B.A., M.A.,
Ph.D.) and was a student also at the British School at Rome and
the University of Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany. He taught in
the Faculty of Classics, Cambridge, where he was also Fellow and
Dean of King's College, before coming to UC Berkeley. Publications
include work in the fields of Greek Poetry, language, metrics,
religion and myth. He is currently working on two books, one on ancient
Greek Cults and Festivals and one on Greek Mythology (to be published by Thames and Hudson).
Dana DePietro - Near Eastern Studies
email:
osiris555@hotmail.com
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Dana DePietro is a third year graduate student in the department of Near Eastern Studies here at Berkeley. A native Californian, Dana received his B.A. in Anthropology (with a concentration in Archaeology) and Ancient History from UC San Diego. A year abroad studying Egyptology in Cairo served to cement his interest in Egypt and the Near East, and he hasn't been able to stay away since. After graduating, Dana moved back to Egypt where he worked for the Theban Mapping Project and as a freelance travel writer before coming to Berkeley. This will be his fifth semester as a GSI in the Classics department.
In addition to his research interests in ancient state formation, Dana has excavated in Jordan's Jebel Hamamat Fidan, Egypt's 'valley of the golden mummies' at Baharia, and the Yemen, and he returns to Berkeley this fall from Tel Dor (Israel), where he was excavating during the summer. He plans to return to the sand and sun as often as funding will allow. When not busy grading papers or disturbing the dead, Dana can be found drinking coffee and smoking his sheesha (Hooka) at any one of several fine Berkeley cafes.
- Barbara Mendoza is a Candidate of Philosophy in the Near Eastern Studies Department at UC Berkeley. This means Barbara is an ABD (All But Dissertation) and is currently occupied with finishing her dissertation on the meaning and role of priest figures in bronze from ancient Egypt dating from the Middle Kingdom to the Graeco-Roman Period. A native of Santa Barbara, California, Barbara concentrated on Greek, Roman and Egyptian art when she earned her B.A. in art history from UC Santa Barbara. Upon graduation, she earned an M.L.S. from UCLA and worked as a librarian for six years. Itching to get back into academia and pursue her love of all things ancient, Barbara discovered that she could study both Greek and Egyptian art at UC Berkeley, which ultimately has become her home for the past several years. Barbara taught five semesters of NES 18, Introduction to Egyptology between 1999 and 2002, and was delighted to find out that she was selected to teach ancient Greek religion this semester.
Barbara’s academic interests are broad and varied but have always included some aspect of intercultural connections between Greece and Egypt in the ancient Mediterranean world. This sphere includes art, history, archaeology, religious practices and personal piety, trade, architecture, and languages (she’s taken two years of the ancient Greek language). Fieldwork for her dissertation included an empirical study of each bronze by first-hand visual accounts via five research trips (both domestic and abroad). Her first research trip abroad (to Turkey, Greece, Italy and England, all in 3 1/2 weeks in 2002) consisted of a whirlwind ten day road trip of the western coast of Turkey, including such important Greek religious sites as Troy, Pergamon, Hallicarnassus (Bodrum), Ephesus, Sardis, and a day trip to the Greek island of Samos, just 40 miles off the Turkish coast. From Istanbul she went on to Athens, Rome, Naples, Florence and Bologna and is all too enthusiastic to relate her travels to anyone who'll listen.
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