COMINGS & GOINGS

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Carleton College welcomes a distinguished guest for the fall term: JACK PERADOTTO, retired from SUNY-Buffalo, will be the Benedict Visiting Professor of Classics.

Helping to replace the sabbatical-ing Marcia Dobson & Owen Cramer at Colorado College will be CRAIG DETHLOFF, who earned his doctorate in January from Johns Hopkins. A recent recipient of the Sterling and Elizabeth Dow Fellowship in Greek epigraphy at the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Research (Ohio State University), he has invented two courses for the upcoming year – “Violence and the Sacred: Approaches to Greek Religion”& “Tools that Talk: The Object in Greek Culture”.

LIFFEY THORPE is moving to Maine with her family, after a quarter-century at Earlham College. Meanwhile, ANDREW REECE, an Earlham grad (Ph.D., Indiana) who had spelled Liffey while she served as Dean and during her sabbatical, has accepted a tenure-track job at Olympia (state of Washington, that is), at Evergreen State College. He had spent the last year in Washington at the University of Pugent Sound. Coming to Earlham in the fall is SUSAN WISE, an archaeologist completing her doctorate at the University of Cincinnati.

Miranda Marvin of Wellesley lectured to a packed auditorium, to conclude the farewell celebrations for STEWART FLORY, who opted for early retirement from Gustavus Adolphus College. Building on his legacy will be BRONWEN WICKKISER, fresh from her grad work at the University of Texas at Austin.

While Kelly Osborne takes a year’s sabbatical, JEFFREY VEENSTRA, a doctoral student in ancient Near-Eastern History from Penn State, will help staff Hope College’s Classics Section. Jeff was Special Programs Coordinator for the just-ended exhibition of Dead Sea Scrolls at the Van Andel Museum of Grand Rapids, a ‘blockbuster’ show that shattered attendance records.

JASON MORALEE (Ph.D., UCLA) joins Illinois Wesleyan University in a new tenure-line position shared between Greek & Roman Studies and History. He will teach courses in ancient history, as well as some Latin. Quite apart from his proficiency in such languages as Syriac and modern Hebrew, Jason’s talents include playing in an Appalachian folk band.

On July 1, CLIFF WEBER retires from Kenyon College. His successor is PAOLO ASSO (Ph.D., Princeton), who hails from Naples, via a teaching stint at Swarthmore.

The retirement of Macalaster’s JEREMIAH REEDY will become official at the end of his 2003-2004 sabbatical.

JIM HELM retired in January after enjoying a leave in the fall semester. He plans to remain in Oberlin, OH while he works to raise funds for Lady Doak College (Madurai, India), where he and his wife Anne have been visiting faculty twice in the last ten years. New to Oberlin College is BENJAMIN LEE, whose text and commentary on Apuleius’ Florida will be published in December by deGruyter. Prof. Lee earned his doctorate at the University of Pennsylvania.

Wabash College was granted a Lilly Fellowship to hire a newly-minted Ph.D. for a year’s service to the Department of Classics & the Center for the Inquiry into the Liberal Arts. Filling the post is PATRICK MYERS from the University of Washington. His work on the Platonic corpus will no doubt serve him well as he teaches a sophomore core-course and devises for the spring an upper-level class of his own. He also will conduct some Latin courses.