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Denver Graninger

Academic History

  • Ph.D., Classics, Cornell University, 2006
    Dissertation: "The Regional Cults of Thessaly," directed by Kevin Clinton
  • Regular Member, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2002-2003
  • M.A. Classics (Greek), University of Colorado, 1999
  • B.A. Classics, New College of Florida, 1997 

Academic employment

  • Rhys Carpenter Fellow, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 2008-2010
  • Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2005-present
  • Teaching Fellow, Cornell University, 2000-2004
  • Teaching Assistant, University of Colorado, Boulder, 1997-1999
  • Teaching Assistant, New College of Florida, 1996-1997

Areas of Interest

  • Greek History
  • Greek Religion
  • Greek Literature

Articles

  • "Studies in the Cult of Artemis Throsia," ZPE 162 (2007), 151-164
  • "Whither Ethnos Religion? The Case of Thessaly," in the Acta of the 1st International Congress on the History and Culture of Thessaly (eds. A. Tziaphalias, et al.), forthcoming 2008

Reviews

  • J. Connelly, Portrait of a Priestess: Women and Ritual in Ancient Greece, forthcoming in The Historian

Work in Progress

  • "Macedonia and Thessaly," chapter under contract for Blackwell's Companion to Ancient Macedonia (ed. I. Worthington, J. Roisman)
    • Minyan Dreams: Cult and Koinon in Hellenistic Thessaly, monograph
  • Review of S. Larson, Tales of Epic Ancestry for CJ Online
  • "Apollo, Ennodia and fourth-century Thessaly," article

Presentations

  • "Absent Muse, Epichoric Memory": CAMWS, Tucson, AZ, April 2008
  • "The End(s) of the Odyssey": Homer in the 21st Century--A Colloquium in Honor of John Moore, New College of Florida, Sarasota, FL, April 2007 [by invitation]
  • "The Persistence of Ethne": CAMWS, Cincinnati, OH, April 2007
  • "Artemis Throsia and Rites of Passage: A Reconsideration": APA, San Diego, CA, January 2007
  • "The Regional Cults of Thessaly: A Polycentric Model of Ethnos Religion": 1st International Congress on the History and Culture of Thessaly, Larisa, Greece, November 2006 [by invitation]
  • "Ino's New Clothes": CAMWS Southern Section, Memphis, TN, November 2006
  • "Ennodia and the Early Thessalian League": CAMWS, Gainesville, FL, April 2006
  • Prehistory of the Funeral Oration": University of Tennessee, February 2005 [by invitation]
  • "The Cult of Arkhegetai and Ktistai in Magnesia (Thessaly)": APA, Boston MA, January 2005 [by title]
  • "The Cult of Arkhegetai and Ktistai in Magnesia (Thessaly)": Cornell Symposium in Honor of Michael Jameson, Ithaca NY, November 2004
  • "The Cults of Thessaly: Athena Itonia": Cornell, Ithaca NY October 2004
  • "Contextualizing the Elegiac Inscription from Archaic Ambracia": CorHaLi--Archaic Greek Elegy and Epic: Cornell, Ithaca, June 2004
  • "Sappho and Callimachus' Hymn to Demeter": CorHaLi--The Hellenistic Reception of Archaic Greek Poetry: Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC, June 2001

Academic Honors, Fellowships and Research Awards

  • Rhys Carpenter Faculty Fellowship: ACSCA, 2008-2110
  • Professional Development Award: UT-Knoxville, 2006
  • Lane Cooper Fellowship: Cornell, 2003, 2004
  • Michele Sicca Summer Research Grant: Institute for European Studies, Cornell, 2004
  • Edward Capps Advanced Fellowship: ASCSA, 2003-2004 [Declined]
  • Oscar Broneer Travel Grant: ASCSA, 2003
  • Michael Jameson Fellowship: ASCSA, 2002-2003
  • Florence May Smith Fellowship: Cornell, 2001
  • Sage Fellowship: Cornell, 1999-2000

Archaeological Fieldwork

  • Mitrou (Lokris): Trench Supervisor, June-Aigust 2006
  • Corinth: Trench Supervisor, April-May 2003

Teaching

  • Courses offered at the American School of Classical Studies:
    Ancient History: Topography and Monuments of Central Greece (team taught), Topography and Monuments of Athens and Attica (team taught), Introduction to Greek Epigraphy
  • Courses offered at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville:
    Greek and Latin Language: Beginning Greek I-II, Intermediate Greek (Herodotus; Lysias and Xenophon), Advanced Greek (Sophocles and Euripides; Thucydides; Plutarch), Intermediate Latin Classical Civilization: Introduction to Classical Civilization (team taught), Early Greek Mythology, Oedipus Multiplex: Ancient Greece, Modern Film Ancient History: Survey of Greek History, History of Early Greece, History of Classical Greece
  • Courses offered at Cornell University:
    Greek and Latin Language: Beginning Latin II, Latin for Homeschoolers Classical Civilization: Classical Athenian Theatre
  • Courses assisted at Cornell University:
    Classical Civilization: Greek Mythology, Roman Civilization Ancient History: Periclean Athens, War and Peace in Greece and Rome Other: History of African-American Music
  • Courses assisted at the University of Colorado:
    Classical Civilization: Classical Mythology, Greek Art and Archaeology Ancient History: History of Rome
  • Course assisted at New College:
    Greek and Latin Language: Beginning Greek I-II

Professional Service

  • Managing Committee, American Research Center in Sofia, 2006-present
  • Development Committee, CAMWS, 2007-present
  • Manuscript review for NYU press, 2008
  • Referee for Hesperia, 2007

College and University Service

  • Undergraduate Council, UT, 2007-2008
  • Undergraduate Council Curriculum Committee, UT, 2007-2008
  • Dean's Advisory Council, UT, 2007-2008
  • College of Arts and Sciences Curriculum Committee, UT, 2007-2008

Departmental Service

  • Advisor to UT Classics Club/Eta Sigma Phi, 2006-2008
  • UT Classics Curriculum Committee, 2006-2007
  • UT Classics Events Committee, 2005-6, 2007-2008

Community Service

  • Supervisory Committee, UT Federal Credit Union, 2007-2008

Contact Information

Denver Graninger
American School of Classical Studies at Athens
54 Souidias Street
106 76 Athens
Greece

cgraning@utk.edu