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.

 

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Papers

 

“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

 

 

Service and Public Lectures

 

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