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Research and writing of a monograph that examines classical curricula while also compiling a searchable digital database of Greek and Latin sources on education in the classical period, from the 4th-1st centuries BCE. 

“The Classical Past in the Ancient Classroom” offers the first comprehensive account of what and how ancient students learned about the history of Classical Greece and democratic Athens in the centuries following their collapse. I analyze school texts, teaching handbooks, and rhetorical exercises composed after the fourth century BCE in order to address two questions. First, which historical figures and events from Classical Greece did (and did not) feature prominently in ancient school curricula? Second, how did ancient educators preserve the cultural memory of democracy and free expression in imperial societies that supported neither of these institutions? This project proposes that ancient schools became the most important vehicle for preserving the legacy of Classical Greece as a touchstone of democracy to the present day. I am seeking an NEH Summer Stipend to fund the early-stage primary source research for this book-length study.

12 months of stipend support (1-3 fellowships) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

The ARIT NEH fellowship program supports scholars who conduct long-term interdisciplinary research in the humanities in Turkey. Their fields of study include art, archaeology, literature, linguistics, musicology, religion, and all aspects of cultural, social, and political history. NEH fellows interact with Turkish and U.S scholars at the ARIT research centers in Istanbul and Ankara, where their intellectual exchange promotes a broad-based understanding of the ancient and modern Near East. This scholarly interaction has enabled ARIT-NEH fellows to produce groundbreaking publications that have been shared with the public through their teaching and community outreach programs. ARIT center directors in Istanbul and Ankara facilitate access to research resources and colleagues in the country. For its NEH FPIRI program, ARIT requests 12 months total fellowship funding per year. Research tenures may cover 4 to 12 months, supporting 1 to 3 fellows annually.

Preparation of a book-length study on the popular political leaders of ancient Greece known as demagogues.

My book project, “Watchdogs of the People: Demagogues and Popular Culture in Ancient Greece,” represents the first comprehensive history of the demagogue ("leader of the people") in antiquity. Along with tracing the development and practice of demagoguery, it will utilize a popular culture-based approach to illuminate the concerns of everyday people as reflected in the rhetorical appeals of the demagogues. The book will ask timely questions concerned with the common good, such as when and why polarizing political figures arise, by what cultural appeals they attract a significant following, and how democratic societies can produce responsible leadership while remaining in touch with the concerns of average citizens.

A four-week institute for twenty-five school teachers on the influence of Cicero and ancient Rome on law, government, and culture in Enlightenment-era Britain.

Dr. Ronald Weber and Dr. Jessica Sheetz Nguyen are proposing a four-week summer Institute for twenty-five teachers and graduate students in the humanities, classics, history, and social sciences. The Institute will take place in Rome. The purpose of the Institute will be to understand how in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries—the years following the break between England and the papacy—Rome served as a world intellectual center that contributed to the emerging national and global identity of the English people. To do this Institute participants will concentrate upon the intersection between the rhetoric of the Roman orator, Marcus Tullius Cicero and the rhetorical display, ceremony and instruction constructed by emperors and popes in the form of processional routes and ceremonial centers in the Roman Forum and the Campus Martius.

The equivalent of one and a half fellowships per year for three years.

The American Research Institute in Turkey requests support for its fellowship program for advanced research in the humanities affiliated with the ARIT centers in Turkey. Funds for long-term fellowships (tenures from four to twelve months) totalling 18 months per grant year, are requested from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the academic years 2010-2011, 2011-2012, 2012-2013. Also requested are funds for a portion of the costs of publicity and selection of the ARIT NEH fellows, beginning in July 2009.

The equivalent of 1.5 fellowships each year for three years.

The American Research Institute in Turkey is requesting support for its fellowship program for advanced research in the humanities in Turkey. Funds for long-term fellowships (tenures from four to twelve months) totaling eighteen months per grant period, are requested from the National Endowment for the Humanities for the academic years 2004-2005, 2005-2006, 2006-2007. Also requested are funds for a portion of the costs of publicity and selection of the NEH ARIT fellows, beginning in July of 2003.

A six-week seminar for college teachers to compare texts on law, politics, rhetoric, and public life from ancient Greece, Rome, and China.