Curriculum Vitae

Andrew Scholtz
Associate Professor of Classics
Department of Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies (formerly Classical and Near-Eastern Studies)
LT 509
PO Box 6000
Binghamton University
State University of New York
Binghamton, NY 13902
607-777-6709 (Departmental office)
E-mail ascholtz@binghamton.edu
Personal Website https://bingdev.binghamton.edu/ascholtz/
ORCID iD https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4615-8068
BU Open Repository Selected Works:
https://works.bepress.com/andrew-scholtz/

Academic Appointments

  • Binghamton University, State University of New York, Associate Professor of Classics, 2007-present
  • Binghamton University, State University of New York, Assistant Professor, 2000-2007
  • Yale University, Lecturer, 1999-2000
  • Wabash College, Visiting Assistant Professor, 1997-2000

Interests

  • Competition and emotion in the Roman Imperial East
  • The social psychology of Greek rhetoric
  • Literary theory

Education

  • Ph.D. 1997, Yale University
  • M.Mus. 1980, Manhattan School of Music
  • B.Mus. 1978, Boston University

Publications

Book (blind peer-reviewed)

Articles (blind peer-reviewed)

  • "The Unwelcome Guest: Envy and Shame Materialized in a Roman Villa," TAPA 151.2 (2021) 335-361. doi:10.1353/apa.2021.0013

    • A third-century CE inscribed mosaic from Kefallonia has greatly expanded our knowledge of envy’s evil eye in the Roman Mediterranean. Yet its inscription has not drawn the attention it deserves. I explore how that inscription, in tandem with the imagery it accompanies, materializes envy as actor in a drama celebrating a householder's fortune while exposing the envious to general scorn. [preprint]

  • "Friends, Lovers, Flatterers: Demophilic Courtship in Aristophanes' Knights," TAPA 134.2 (2004) 263-93. [link]
  • "Aphrodite Pandemos at Naukratis," in Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 43 (2002/3) 231-242. [link]
  • "Perfume from Peron's: The Politics of Pedicure in Anaxandrides Fragment 41 Kassel-Austin," Illinois Classical Studies 21 (1996) 69-86. [link]

Research Projects

Tangled Webs: Emotion and Competition in the Roman Imperial East (book project)

Filling a critical gap in the scholarly literature, Tangled Webs explores competitive emotion in the Roman Imperial East. Its chief contribution is to demonstrate the role of ambition, envy, and other passion in the often self-serving narratives put forth by persons invested in athletic events, legal disputes, indeed, all manner of contests and rivalries. Central to those narratives are efforts by stakeholders — contestants, spectators, anyone with "skin" in the game — to make sense of their connection to the contest and to one another in emotional terms. Emotion attribution, claims as to how others felt ("They’re just jealous!") loom large in the evidence; actor-network and materiality theory shed light on the processes involved. The approach is innovative but the questions are basic: What, exactly, did competitive emotion do? What can those webs of associations tell us about how competitive emotion mattered to the time and place in question?

  • "The Rhetoric of Identity in Athenian Oratory" — studies in the dialogical and social-psychological dimensions of classical Athenian oratory, including,

    • Panels

    • Participant: "Obscenity, Representation and Social Control: An Interdisciplinary Panel Perspective," Interdisciplinary Research Group for the Study of Sexuality and Gender, May 2012
    • Participant: "Finding a Common Language About Sexuality: Developing Discourses Across Disciplines," Interdisciplinary Research Group for the Study of Sexuality and Gender, November 2011
    • Organizer with Mark Munn (Penn State): "The Ruling Passion: The Erotics of Politics in the Ancient World," American Philological Association (APA, now SCS) Annual Meeting, January 2008

    Papers Delivered

    * SCS/APA and CAAS papers blind-peer vetted.
    • "May Poseidon Crush My Neighbor and His Guests: Emotion and Violence in Libanius' Thirtieth Declamation," paper to be delivered at the 2023 annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS)
    • "A Tattered Net, A Tangled Web: Contested sophia in Alciphron Letters 1.17-19," paper delivered at the 2022 annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS)
    • Race for Glory: Competition and Its Discontents in the Roman Imperial East," IASH presentation (Institute for the Advanced Study of the Humanities), 27-Oct 2021
    • "The Unwelcome Guest: Competition and its Discontents in a Roman Villa," BU Mediterranean Research Group presentation, 2-Sep 2021
    • "From Matters of Fact to Matters of Concern: Polemon and the Ontology of Passion," paper delivered at the 2020 annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS)
    • "Unwelcome Guest: Envy, Shame, and Materiality in a Greco-Roman Villa," paper delivered at the 2019 annual meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (SCS)
    • "Invidious Lust: Competition and its Discontents in Alciphron 3.26,"paper delivered at the 2016 meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States (CAAS)
    • "Love and Envy: Foucault's Greco-Roman Turn and the Sociality of Desire," paper delivered at The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS), Binghamton University, March 2015
    • "The Rhetoric of Manhood in Plato's Gorgias," paper delivered at the "Plato & Rhetoric" international conference, Keio University, Yokohama, Japan, April 2014
    • "Fatal Attraction: Priapus, Envy, and Desire in the Roman World," invited paper, part of the "Adventures in Antiquity" series sponsored by the University Classics Club and the Department of Philosophy & Humanities, University of Texas at Arlington, April 2014
    • "Love and Envy: Foucault's Greco-Roman Turn and the Sociality of Desire," paper delivered at the March 2014 "Michel Foucault 2014: Beyond Sexuality" conference (Sixth Annual Hofstra LGBT Studies Conference)
    • "Bad Romance: Erōs, Envy, and Leadership in Plutarch," paper delivered at the 2013 meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States (CAAS)
    • "Love and Envy: A New-Old Perspective on Ancient Mediterranean Desire," paper delivered at the 2012 meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States (CAAS)
    • "Love and Envy: A New-Old Perspective on Ancient Mediterranean Desire," Interdisciplinary Research Group for the Study of Sexuality and Gender, April 2012
    • "The Politics of Desire in Sallust's Bellum Catilinae," paper delivered at the 2011 meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States (CAAS)
    • "Frank Speech and the Psychology of Shame in Athenian Oratory," paper delivered at the 2011 meeting of the American Philological Association (APA, now SCS) — abstract
    • "The Rhetoric of Manhood in Plato's Gorgias," paper delivered at the 2010 meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States (CAAS) — abstract
    • "Frank Speech and the Psychology of Shame in Athenian Oratory," paper delivered at the 2009 meeting of the Classical Association of the Atlantic States (CAAS) — abstract
    • "A Goddess at the Helm: Marine Aphrodite and her Social Persona," paper delivered at conference "Venus and the Venereal," Binghamton University, The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS), April 2008
    • "What's in a Curse? Epigraphic Evidence for Civic Aphrodite's Emergence at Athens," American Philological Association (APA, now SCS) Annual Meeting, January 2007. Abstract
    • "He Loves You, He Loves You Not: The 'Demophilia Topos' in Attic Oratory," American Philological Association (APA, now SCS) Annual Meeting, January 2004. Abstract
    • "A Goddess at the Margins: Political and Social Resonances of Cult to Aphrodite Pandemos," Binghamton University, The Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (CEMERS), February 2002
    • "What's in a Name? Pandemic koinonia and Aphrodita Pandamos on Hellenistic Cos," American Philological Association (APA, now SCS) Annual Meeting, January 2002
    • "Socratic mastropeia: Erotic-Political Paradox in Xenophon's Symposium," American Philological Association (APA, now SCS) Annual Meeting, December 1998
    • "Friends Lovers, Flatters: Social Metaphor in Aristophanes’ Knights," American Philological Association (APA, now SCS) Annual Meeting, December 1997
    • "Andropornoi at the Court of Philip: The Rhetoric of Vituperation in Theopompus Fragments 224-225 Jacoby," American Philological Association (APA, now SCS) Annual Meeting, December 1995
    • "Perfume from Peron’s: The Politics of Pedicure in Anaxandrides Fragment 41 Kassel-Austin," American Philological Association (APA, now SCS) Annual Meeting, December 1994

    Awards, Fellowships

    • Fall 2021. Institute for the Advanced Study of the Humanities (IASH), Faculty Fellowship, Binghamton University
    • 2016. Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service
    • 1999. Center for Hellenic Studies, Summer Scholar
    • 1996. Alice Derby Lang Prize for Academic Excellence, Yale University Classics Department
    • 1990. Mary Cady Tew Prize for Academic Excellence, Yale University Graduate School

    Teaching

    Binghamton University

    Fall 2021
    Spring 2021
    Fall 2020
    Spring 2020
    Fall 2019
    Spring 2019
    Fall 2018
    Spring 2018
    Fall 2017
    Spring 2017
    Fall 2016
    Fall, Spring 2015/16, leave
    Spring 2015
    Fall 2014
    Spring 2014
    Fall 2013
    Spring 2013
    Fall 2012
    Spring 2012
    Fall 2011
    Spring 2011
    Fall 2010
    Spring 2010
    Fall 2009
    Spring 2009
    Fall 2008, on sabbatical leave
    Spring 2007
    Fall 2007
    Spring 2007
    Fall 2006
    Spring 2006
    Fall 2005
    Spring 2005
    Fall 2004
    Spring 2004
    • Elementary Greek II - GRK 102
    • Readings in Greek Literature - GRK 204
    • Studies in Greek Literature - GRK 381
    • Greek Drama in Translation - CLAS 214
    • Practicum in College Teaching - CLAS 391
    Fall 2003
    Spring 2003 (research leave)
    • Honors Latin - LAT 498 (advisor)
    Fall 2002
    Spring 2002
    Fall 2001
    Spring 2001
    Fall 2000
    • Greek Drama - CLAS 214/ENG 300G
    • Elementary Greek I - GRK 101
    • Intermediate Greek - GRK 203
    • Studies in Greek Literature 380A

    Yale University

    Spring 2000
    • Catullus and his World
    • Ancient Sexuality and Gender
    Fall 1999
    • The Age of Nero: Seneca and Petronius
    • Introduction to Latin Prose

    Wabash College

    Spring 1999
    • Introductory Latin II
    • Cultures and Traditions II
    • Ancient Sexuality and Gender
    Fall 1998
    • Introductory Latin I
    • Intermediate Latin I
    • Age of Caesar
    • Greek New Testament
    • Senior Reading

    Service

    Service to the Discipline

    • Blind peer-reviewer of article "Sex Can Kill" for Cambridge journal Classical Quarterly, summer 2018
    • Academic Program Review for the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC)'s Ancient Studies Program, spring 2015
    • Blind peer-reviewer of article "Aristophanes’ Ecclesiazusae and the Remaking of the patrios politeia ["ancestral constitution"]" for Cambridge journal Classical Quarterly, spring 2015
    • Book proposal reviewer, K. Rothwell's edition with facing-page commentary of Aristophanes' Wasps, Oxford University Press, fall 2015
    • Blind reviewer of talk proposals, annual meeting, Classical Association for the Atlantic States (CAAS), spring 2013
    • Blind peer-reviewer of article "Pederasty of the Demos? The Case of Aristophanes' Knights" for University at Buffalo journal Arethusa, summer 2012

    SUNY-Level (State University of New York)

    • Participant in joint SUNY-MLA Albany Workshop on language instruction, spring 2012

    University (BU)

    • Fall 2021, Campus Selection Committee, Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Librarianship
    • 2020-. Member, Anti-Racist Pedagogies Group
    • 2019/20. Joint Committee on Trans- and Inter-Disciplinary Issues
    • BU Faculty Senator, 2004-2009, 2017-present
      • Faculty Senate Secretary, 2018-present
      • Vice Chair, 2007-spring 2008
    • BU Faculty Senate Executive Committee, fall 2006, fall 2007-spring 2009, fall 2017-present
    • Faculty Senate Bylaws Committee, 2009-present
      • Chair, 2009-2011, fall 2019-
      Fall, 2009, drafted memorandum on key Bylaws question: should colleges of the University be exempted from Faculty Bylaws regarding personnel cases ("no").
    • Harpur College Council
      • 2019/20
      • 2009-2011
      • spring 2007
      • 2001-2004
    • Harpur College Council, 2019/20
    • Campus Review Committee, Chancellor's Award for Librarianship, fall 2019
    • Member, All University Personnel Committee (AUPC), Arts and Sciences
      • 2018/19
      • 2011-2013
    • Campus Review Committee, Chancellor's Award for Librarianship, fall 2018
    • Member, Material and Visual Worlds Steering Committee (Transdisciplinary Areas of Excellence), 2013-2017. Duties included:
      • Serving on MVW transdisciplinary search committees for hiring focused on scholars specializing in materiality. (Search committees formed of MVW steering committee members from multiple disciplines)
        • 2014/15 Digital Humanities search
        • 2014/15 History of Premodern Medicine search
        • 2013/14 German search
      • Participating in MVW events, including talks/seminars by visiting materiality scholars
    • Fall 2016, member, German and Russian Studies Initiating Personnel Committee (IPC)
      • Harald Zils tenure-promotion case
      • Nancy Tittler tenure case
    • Fall 2016, Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Librarianship Selection Committee
    • Participant, 2015/16 ancient historian search committee
    • TAE representative in History Dept. medieval medicine search, 2014/15
    • Search-committee member, Office of Institutional Research and Assessment (OIRA) Coordinator, 2013/14
    • Member, President's Road Map Team, Advancing Learning, 2012/13
    • New Student Mentoring Program, faculty mentor (advised varied group of Harpur freshmen), 2012/13
    • Harpur Chairs Steering Committee, 2010/11
    • Harpur College Council Representative, 2010/11
    • Chair, SOOTs (Student Opinion of Teaching) Task Force, 2009-2010
      • Led team that polled peer institutions on a key question: sharing student evaluations with student organizations seeking data on instructors
    • General Education Assessment Category Team (ACT) member
      • Fall-spring 2012
      • Spring 2010
    • Faculty Senate, 2004-2009
      • Vice Chair, 2007-spring 2008
      • Faculty Senate Executive Committee, fall 2006, fall 2007-spring 2009
    • Faculty Senate Bylaws Review Committee, spring 2009-
      • Chair, 2009-2011. Fall, 2009, drafted memorandum on key question: should colleges of the University be exempted from Faculty Bylaws regarding personnel cases ("no")
    • Faculty Senate Evaluation Coordinating Committee, 2007/8
    • Book Store Committee, spring 2002-spring 2006
    • Foreign Language Assessment Subcommittee "B," summer 2001

    Departmental

    • Chair, Department of Middle Eastern and Ancient Mediterranean Studies (formerly Classical and Near Eastern Studies)
      • Fall 2022-fall 2024
      • Fall 2018-fall 2021
      • January 2009-December 2014
    • Departmental website upgrade assistance, fall 2019
      Assisted CNES webmaster and web upgrade point-person Prof. Hilary Becker et al. with graphics and design input. (Am proficient in HTML, Bootstrap CSS, Photoshop, Lightroom.)
    • Chair, MEAMS/CNES Initiating Personnel Committee (IPC)
      • 2021/22
      • 2018/19
      • 2014/15
      • 2013/14
      • 2010/11
      • 2007/08
    • Departmental Webmaster, 2001-2017
    • Chair, search committees
      • Summer 2014 Arabic adjunct search
      • 2013/14 Arabic tenure-track search
      • 2013/14 Classical Archaeologist tenure-track search
      • Summer 2013 Arabic Visiting Assistant Professor search
      • 2011/12 Arabic tenure-track search
      • 2011/12 medieval Latin tenure-track search
      • 2006/7 Latin tenure-track search
    • Undergraduate Director for Classics Program, 2001-2008, January 2015-2018
    • Search committees
      • 2010/11 Arabic Visiting Assistant Professor search
      • 2001/2 Arabic tenure-track search
    • Chair, Classicist Search Committee, 2006-2007

    CEMERS (Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University Research Unit, BU), Medieval Studies (interdisc. program)

    • Fellow, 2003-present
    • Participation in committees, conference organization et sim.
    • Chaired session "Rhetoric and the Law," Boccaccio at 700: Medieval Contexts and Global Intertexts conference, April 2013
    • Medieval Studies Curriculum Committee, 2010/11
    • Co-organizer with Dora Polachek, Medieval Studies caucus, 2010/11
    • Chaired session "Byzantine and Medieval Latin Theater," CEMERS Conference, October 2006
    • Chaired session "Perceptions of/and Knowledge," CEMERS Conference, October 2004

    Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Studies (BU)

    • Affiliated Faculty, 2015-present
    • Organizer/facilitator, MENA caucus
      • spring 2018
      • spring 2015

    Women, Gender and Sexuality Studies (WGSS, BU)

    • Steering committee, 2012/13

    PhD Committee Member (BU)

    • Philosophy PhD candidate, regular committee member, 2014-present
    • Comparative Literature PhD candidate, outside examiner, dissertation defense, fall 2017
    • TRIP PhD candidate, outside examiner, dissertation defense, spring 2017
    • Philosophy PhD candidate, external reader, April 2014
    • Comparative Literature PhD candidate, external reader, 2009-2011
    • Philosophy PhD candidate, external reader, November 2010
    • Philosophy PhD candidate, external reader, 2009-2011
    • Comparative Literature PhD candidate, external reader, May 2007
    • Philosophy PhD candidate, external reader, May 2003

    Undergraduate Thesis/Honors Project Director/Reader (BU)

    • Director, honors thesis, spring 2021 (Basil of Caesarea's Appropriation of Plato in To the Young)
    • Reader, honors thesis, spring 2015 ("Non-Greco-Macedonians and non-mercenaries of Asiatic origin in the Early Seleucid Army")
    • Director, honors thesis, spring 2013 (study of Roman coinage and Gallo-Roman culture)
    • Reader, honors thesis, spring 2011 (study of the Roman Social War, 91-87 BCE)
    • Director, honors thesis, spring 2003 (study of Horace's Odes)

    Community

    • Fall 2021. Lyceum Lifelong-Learning Institute, Binghamton University. Instructor for "Race for Glory: Greek Civilization Under Rome"
    • May, 2004. Class visit to Horace Mann Elementary School, Binghamton, NY. Presented on mythology
    • 2001, 2002. Binghamton University welcomer for the New York State Junior Classical League

    Professional Enrichment

    • Participated in Ancient Language Teacher Training, Syracuse University, led by Justin Slocum Bailey and organized by Tina Chronopoulos (BU) and Matthieu van der Meer (Syracuse), fall 2019

    Professional Memberships

    Languages

    • English (native speaker)
    • Ancient Greek, Latin (principal teaching and research languages)
    • Italian (advanced-proficient, C1/C2)
    • Modern Greek (intermediate, B1)
    • French, German, Spanish (reading skills for research)

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