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Socratic literature; Xenophon; Herodotus; Hesiod.

Ph.D. UNC Chapel Hill, 1996.  Dissertation: "A Commentary on Plato's Alcibiades."

Associate Member (1995-96), Regular Member (1994-95), American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

M.A. UNC Chapel Hill, 1990.

B.A.  St. John's College, Annapolis, MD 1988.

Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Associate Professor, 2005--

Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Assistant Professor, 1999--2005.

Southern Illinois University Carbondale, Lecturer, 1998-1999.

Illinois State University, Lecturer, 1997-1998.

Phoenix College, "Distinguished Professor of Classical Studies" (sic) 1996-1997.

UNC Chapel Hill, Teaching Assistant 1989-1993.

"Xenophon at his Most Socratic (Memorabilia 4.2)."  Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy 29 (2005) 39-73.

"Persians as Centaurs in Xenophon's Cyropaedia."  Transactions of the American Philological Association 135 (2005) 177-207.

"Response to Gray." (Rejoinder to Vivienne Gray's critique of my 2003 article in Ancient Philosophy article, forthcoming in 2004).

"Xenophon's Socrates on Justice and the Law." Ancient Philosophy 23 (2003) 255-281. 

Socrates and Alcibiades: Four Texts.  (Translations, introduction, and notes.) Focus, 2003. 

"Herodotus' Storytelling Speeches: Socles (5.92) and Leotychides (6.86)." Classical Journal 97 (2001) 1-26.

"Hesiod's Descriptions of Tartarus." Phoenix 53 (1999) 8-28.

"God as the True Self: Plato's Alcibiades I."  Ancient Philosophy 19 (1999) 1-19.

Latin Laughs: A Production of Plautus' Poenulus.  Bolchazy-Carducci, 1997.  Actor, translator, commentator (a secondary author, with others).

Silvia Montiglio, Wandering in Ancient Greek Culture. Forthcoming in Classical Journal.

Adrian Rademaker, Sophrosyne and the Rhetoric of Self-Restraint: Polysemy & Persuasive Use of An Ancient Greek Value Term. Forthcoming in Ancient Philosophy.

David Gribble, Alcibiades and Athens. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 99.11.12.

Chrisotpher Gill, Personality in Greek Epic, Tragedy, and Philosophy. American Journal of Philology 119 (1998) 119–22.

"Socrates v. Aristippus, Round Two (Memorabilia 3.8)."Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) Annual Meeting, 2005. 

"Socrates' Lesson for Critobulus: A Reading of Xenophon's Oeconomicus." CAMWS Annual Meeting, 2004. 

"Xenophon's Centaurs." American Philological Association (APA) Annual Meeting, 2004.

"Socrates and Theodote: Memorabilia 3.11."  APA Annual Meeting, 2003. 

"Xenophon's Socrates on Justice and the Law." CAMWS Annual Meeting, 2002.

"Ischomachus the Model Husband? A Moderately Ironic Reading of Xenophon's Oeconomicus." APA Annual Meeting, 2002.

"Converting Alcibiades: Historical Irony in the Alcibiades I."  CAMWS Annual Meeting, 2000.

"Xenophon's Socrates on Writing."  CAMWS Annual Meeting, 1999.

"Socratic Education and Socrates' Daimonion in the Theages and the Theaetetus." CAMWS Annual Meeting, 1997.

"God as Mirror for the Soul: Plato, Alcibiades 133c."  APA Annual Meeting, 1995.

"Hesiod's Chaos."  CAMWS Annual Meeting, 1994.

"Hesiod's Tartarus."  APA Annual Meeting, 1992.

"The Speech of Socles (Herodotus 5.92) and Herodotus' Story-telling Method." CAMWS Southern Section, 1992.

The Other Socrates: Xenophon's Socratic Works.  Book manuscript in preparation.

Fellow, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, 1994-1995, 1995-1996.

Graduate School Dissertation Fellowship, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1994.

Students' Undergraduate Teaching Award, UNC-Chapel Hill, 1993.

Departmental and Classics Section webmaster, 2004-

Chair, ad hoc committee on revising the Foreign Language Dept. Operating Paper, 2004.

Chair, ad hoc committee on Foreign Language Dept. Merit Plan, 2000-2001.

Editor, Foreign Language Dept. Newsletter, 2000

College of Liberal Arts Budget and Advisory Council, 1999-2001.

Article reviewer for Ancient Philosophy, Transactions of the American Philological Association, and Classical World.