Curriculum
Vitae
Brice L. Erickson
berickson@classics.ucsb.edu
Education
8/93 - 12/00 Ph.D. Classical Archaeology, University of Texas at Austin
Dissertation:
“Archaic and Classical Crete: Island
Pottery Styles in an Age of Historical
Transition, ca. 600-400 B.C.” Chair: Prof. Paula Perlman
M.A.
Latin, Department of Classics, 1995
8/89 - 6/93 University of Virginia, Echols Scholar
B.A.
with distinction in History
Teaching Experience
9/03 – present Assistant Professor,
University of California at Santa Barbara
Introduction
to Classical Archaeology
Greek
Painting
Greek
Cities and Sanctuaries
Greek
Myth
Intermediate
Latin
The
Rise of the Polis (graduate seminar)
8/02 – 5/03 Visiting Assistant Professor, DePauw University
Introduction to Greek
Art and Archaeology
Introduction
to Roman Art and Archaeology
Archaeology
of the Early Greek City
Advanced
Latin Prose and Poetry Courses (Cicero, Elegy)
9/01 – 6/02 Visiting Assistant Professor, Dartmouth College
Introduction
to Classical Archaeology
Greek
Prehistoric Archaeology
Greek
Archaeology from the Destruction of Mycenae to the Persian Wars
Introduction
to Latin
Intermediate
Latin
1/01 - 8/01 Lecturer, University of Texas at
Austin
Greek
Mythology
Greek
and Latin Elements in English
8/95 - 12/00 Assistant Instructor, University of Texas at Austin
Classical
Mythology
Latin
Prose Authors
Introduction
to Latin
Excavation Experience
8/01 – present Lerna Publications Team,
responsible for Post-Mycenaean
4/98
– 6/98 Trench Supervisor, Corinth
Excavations, ASCSA, Regular Season
1994,
1996 U.T. Excavations at Metaponto,
Pottery Analysis and Field Survey
1992
–1993 Excavator, Athenian Agora
Excavations, ASCSA
1991
Junior Staff Member, Excavations at Isthmia, Ohio State University
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Honors and Awards
Academic Senate Research Grant, Summer
2005
Regents Junior Faculty Research Award, Summer 2005
Academic Senate Research Travel Grants;
May 2005, January 2006
University of Texas Fellowship, with
Special Distinction, 1999-2000
1984 Foundation Research Grant, Summer
1999
Bert Hodge Hill Advanced Fellowship, ASCSA 1998-1999
Fulbright Fellowship, Greece 1997-1998
Honorary Heinrich Schliemann Fellow,
Regular Member, ASCSA, 1997-1998
AIA
Graduate Travel Awards, December 1996, 1998, 2000
Professional Developmental Award, U.T.
Austin, April 1996, May 1997, February 1998
Publications
“Public Feasts and Private Symposia in
the Archaic and Classical Periods,” in STEGA: The Archaeology
of Houses and Households in Ancient Crete
from the Neolithic Period through the Roman Era,
(conference proceedings), submitted to Hesperia Suppl. Series.
Late
Archaic and Classical Crete: Pottery
Styles and Island History, in press, Hesperia Suppl. Series
(anticipated publication date January 2008).
“Cretan Austerity in the Sixth Century
B.C.,” in Mylopotamos from Antiquity to
Today, in press.
“Archaeology of Empire: Athens and Crete in the Fifth Century B.C.,” AJA 109 (2005) 619-663.
“Eleutherna
and the Greek World in the Sixth and Fifth Centuries, B.C.,” in Crete Beyond the Palaces:
Proceedings of the Crete 2000
Conference (2004), INSTAP
Press, 199-212.
“Historical Greek Pottery from the
Excavations of the Odeion, Gortyn,” ASAtene
76-78 (2001) 235–247.
“Falling Masts, Rising Masters: The Ethnography of Virtue in Caesar’s Account
of the Veneti,” AJP
123 (2002) 601–622.
“Aphrati and Kato Syme: Pottery, Continuity, and Cult in Late Archaic
and Classical Crete,”
Hesperia 71 (2002), 41–90.
“Glass, Bone Artifacts, and Jewelry in
Terracotta,” in J.C. Carter (ed.) The Chora of
Metaponto:
The Necropoleis,
(1998), U.T. Press, 834–840.
In progress
Review of Corinth, The Centenary 1896–1996 (eds.
Charles K. Williams II and Nancy Bookidis), Bryn
Mawr Classical Review.
“Roussa Ekklesia: Archaic and Classical Cult Practices in East
Crete,” article.
Lerna: Geometric, Archaic, and Classical (Lerna, a Preclassical Site in the Argolid: Results of
Excavations Conducted by the American School of Classical
Studies at Athens), Princeton, N.J.
“Lerna
in the Peloponnese: Geometric through
Classical,” AIA 2006.
“Age
Terminology and Demographic Realities in the Miletus Citizen Lists,” APA 2006.
“Archaic
Cretan Austerity and the Spartan Connection,” AIA 2004.
“Lerna:
Excavations of a Classical Greek Village,” Reports from the Field, Santa Barbara Society of the
Archaeological Institute of America,
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, May 27th, 2004.
“The
Archaeology of Empire: Athens and Crete in the Fifth Century B.C.,” AIA 2002.
“A
New Ceramic Deposit from Aphrati:
Continuity, Trade, and Cult in Classical Crete,” AIA 2001.
“Eleutherna,
Crete and the Greek World in the Sixth and Fifth Centuries,” AIA 1999.
“Cydonia
and Western Crete in the Sixth and Fifth Centuries, B.C.,” AIA, 1998.
“Archaeological
Survey at Metaponto,” AIA workshop,
1998.
“Technology,
Virtus, and Caesar’s Defeat of the
Veneti,” APA, 1996.
“Archaeological
Survey and Ancient Land Division in the Territory of Metapontum,” AIA, 1996.
“Trimalchio’s Bath and Bathing in the Satyricon,” CAMWS, 1997.
“Lollius Rehabilitated: Horace Odes
4.9 In Its Historical Context,” CAMWS, 1996
Classics Department Representative,
Academic Senate 2005-2006
Faculty Representative, Campus Election Commission (CEC),
2004-2005, 2005-2006
Editorial service (peer review) for Hesperia and American Journal
of Archaeology, 2003-present
AIA
Education Committee, 2003-present
American School of Classical Studies at Athens Managing Committee, 2004-present
Consultant to “Ancient Furniture,” Better Homes and Gardens, forthcoming by
Ted Laos.
“Artless Crete: The
Aftermath of the Orientalizing Revolution (ca. 700-400 B.C.),” UCSB Research Focus
Group:
Borderlands, April 28, 2006
“Healthy Mind and Body:
Ancient Greek Healing Cults,” Greek Orthodox Church, March 8, 2006
“Greek Archaeology and the Humanities,” California
Undergraduate Anthropology Conference,
April 24, 2005
Organizer of Reports
from the Field, Santa Barbara Society of the AIA, May 27th, 2004