BERNARD FRISCHER
Curriculum Vitae (September, 2003)
Age: 54
Home Address-USA: 3441 Butler Avenue, Los Angeles, California 90066-2117, U.S.A.
Home Address-Italy: Via F. Ozanam 75, 00152 Rome, Italy
Work Address: c/o Dept. of Classics, UCLA, 405 Hilgard Ave., Los Angeles, CA 90095-1417, U.S.A.
Telephone/Fax-USA: (310) 825-1867 (office), 313-3739 (home); (310) 266-6935 (mobile); 391-1460 (fax)
Telephone/Fax-Italy: 011-39-06-537-3951 (home tel. and fax); 011-39-349-473-6590 (cell)
E-mail: frischer49@aol.com
WWW Home page: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/classics/faculty/frischer/home.html
EMPLOYMENT
Loeb Classical Library Research Fellow, 2003-04
Professor-in-Charge, Intercollegiate
Center for Classical Studies in Rome, 2001-02
Director, UCLA Cultural VR Lab, 1998—present
Director, Horace’s
Villa Project of the American Academy in Rome and the Archaeological Superintendency for Lazio of the
Italian Ministry of Culture, 1997—present
Paul Mellon Senior Fellow, Center for
Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (CASVA), National Gallery of Art, Washington,
D.C., 1997
Resident in Classical Studies, American
Academy in Rome, Fall Semester, 1996
Visiting Professor, University of
Pennsylvania, Fall Semester, 1994
Visiting Professor, University
of Bologna, Fall Semester, 1993
Full Professor, Classics, UCLA, July 1, 1991—present
Director, University of California
Education Abroad Program, UCLA Campus Office, July 1, 1992—1996
Director, University of California
Education Abroad Program in Italy, July 1, 1988—June 30, 1990
Director, UCLA Humanities Computing Facility, July 1, 1987—June 30, 1988
Chair, Classics, UCLA, August 1, 1984—June 30, 1988
Associate Professor, Classics, UCLA, July, 1980—June 30, 1991
Assistant Professor, Classics UCLA, July, 1976—June, 1980
Fellow, American Academy in Rome, 1974—76
Junior Fellow, Michigan Society of Fellows, 1971—74
EDUCATION/DEGREES
FAAR in Classical Studies, 1976
Ph.D. in Classical Philology, Universität Heidelberg, 1975 (Supervisor: Prof. Viktor Pöschl)
B.A. in Classics, Wesleyan University (CT), 1971
HONORS/AWARDS
Loeb Classical Research Fellow, 2003-04; Paul Mellon Senior Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts, National Gallery, Washington, D.C. (2 semesters, 1997); ACLS Fellowship, 1996-97; UCLA Classics Department Nominee for UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award, 1995; University of California Exchange Professor to the University of Bologna, Fall, 1993; ACLS Fellowship, 1981-82; Rome Prize Fellow in Classics, 1974-76; Ph.D. summa cum laude (1975); Junior Fellowship, Michigan Society of Fellows (1971-74); Woodrow Wilson Fellow (declined), 1971; B.A. summa cum laude, 1971; Phi Beta Kappa, 1970 (junior year); National Merit Semi-Finalist, 1967
PUBLICATIONS (*=refereed; †=invited conference paper)
*“Concordia Discors and Characterization in Euripides’ Hippolytus,” Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies 11 (1970) 85-100
*AT TU AUREUS ESTO: Eine Interpretation von Vergils 7. Ekloge (Rudolf Habelt Verlag, Bonn, 1975), 280 pp.
Fototeca Unione Photographic Archive of Roman Topography on Microfiche, vol.1, co-author with K. Einaudi and I. Bragantini (Rome 1977, first edition; Munich 1979, second edition; Chicago 1982)
Review of D. Lemke, Die Theologie Epikurs (Munich 1974) in Classical Philology 72 (1977) 356-60
*“On Reconstructing the Portrait of Epicurus and Identifying the Socrates of Lysippus,” California Studies in Classical Antiquity 12 (1979) 121-54
*The Sculpted Word. Epicureanism and Philosophical Recruitment in Ancient Greece (Berkeley and Los Angeles 1982) 340 pp. + 15 plates
Review of R.D. Williams, Virgil, Eclogues and Georgics (New York 1979) in Classical Philology 78 (1983) 77-81
†“A Socio-Psychological and Semiotic Analysis of Epicurus’ Portrait,” Arethusa 16 (1983) 247-65
*“Burying Latin Cenotaphiolum,” American Journal of Philology 104 (1983) 444-45
*“Monumenta et Arae Honoris Virtutisque Causa: Evidence of Memorials for Roman Civic Heroes,” Bullettino della Commissione Archeologica di Roma 88 (1982-83) 51-86 + 7 plates
*“Inceptive Quoque and the Introduction Medias in Res,” Glotta 61 (1983) 236-51
*“Horace and the Monuments: A New Interpretation of the Archytas Ode (c.1.28),” Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 88 (1984) 71-102
The UCLA Conference on Classics and Computing, Favonius Supplementary Volume 1, edited with contribution (1987)
“The Structure of Virgil’s Georgics,” in Enciclopedia Virgiliana , vol.2 (Rome, 1988) 688-691
†“Project Cicero,” a chapter in the Microsoft CD-ROM Library, vol. 3, ed. S. Ambron (1988) 145-156.
"The UCLA Classicist's Workbench," Computing and the Classics, 5.3 Supplement (1989) 1-4.
*Shifting Paradigms. New Approaches to Horace’s Ars Poetica, American Philological Association Monograph Series 27 (1991) xiii + 158 pp. + 3 plates
†“Horace and the End of Renaissance Humanism in Italy: Quarrels, Religious Correctness, Nationalism and Academic Protectionism,” Arethusa 28 (1995) 265-288.
*“La Villa dei Papiri: Modello per la Villa Sabina di Orazio?” Cronache Ercolanesi 25 (1995) 211-229.
†”Horazens Sabinum: Dichtung und Wahrheit,” in Römische Lebenskunst, the acts of a conference in honor of the 85th birthday of Prof. Viktor Pöschl (Heidelberg, 1996) 31-46.
†“Rezeptionsgeschichte and Interpretation: The Quarrel of Antonio Riccoboni and Nicolò Cologno about the Structure of Horace’s Ars Poetica,” in Helmut Krasser and Ernst A. Schmit (editors), Zeitgenosse Horaz. Der Dichter und seine Leser seit zwei Jahrtausenden (Tübingen 1996) 68-116.
*“‘Sentence’ Length and Word-type at ‘Sentence’ Beginning and End: Reliable Authorship Discriminators for Latin Prose? New Studies on the Authorship of the Historia Augusta,” co-authored by Bernard Frischer (UCLA), Donald Guthrie (UCLA), Emily Tse (Univ. of Pennsylvania), and Fiona Tweedie (Univ. of the West of England), Research in Humanities Computing 5 (Oxford University Press 1996) 110-142.
†*“How To Do Things With Words/Stop: Two Studies on the Historia Augusta and Cicero’s Orations,” Papers from the Seventh International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, Jerusalem, April 19-23, 1993, in the Innsbrucker Beiträge zur Sprachwissenschaft. ed. H. Rosén (Innsbruck 1996) 585-599.
†“Notes on the First Excavation of Horace’s Villa near Licenza (Roma) by the Baron de Saint’Odile,” in Roma, Magistra Mundi. Itineraria culturae medievalis. Mélanges offerts au Père L. E. Boyle à l’occasion de son 75e anniversaire. Fédération Internationale des Instituts d’Études du Moyen Âge, ed. J. Hamesse (Louvain L-Neuve 1998) 265-289.
*“Unravelling the Purple Thread: Function Word Variability and the Scriptores Historiae Augustae,” by E. K. Tse, F. J. Tweedie, and B. D. Frischer in Literary and Linguistic Computing 13 (1998) 141-149.
*“Word-Order Transference between Latin and Greek: The Relative Position of the Accusative Direct Object and the Governing Verb in Cassius Dio and Other Greek and Roman Prose Authors,” by B. Frischer, R. Andersen, S. Burstein, J. Crawford, R. Gallucci, A. Gowing, D. Guthrie, M. Haslam, D. Holmes, V. Rudich, R. Sherk, A. Taylor, F. Tweedie, B. Vine, Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 1999, 373-406.
*“The Analysis of Classical Greek and Latin Compositional Word-Order Data, by F. J. Tweedie and B. D. Frischer, The Journal of Quantitative Linguistics 1999, 1-13.
*“Notes on the New Excavations at Horace’s Villa near Licenza (Roma), Italy,” by B. Frischer, K. Gleason, et al. Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 45 (2000) 247-276
*Allan Ramsay and the Search for Horace’s Villa, edited by B. Frischer and I. G. Brown with introductory essays by B. Frischer, I. G. Brown, P. Andrewes, J. D. Hunt, M. Goalen (Ashgate, London:
2001) 183 pp.
*†B. Frischer, D. Favro, P. Liverani, S. De Blaauw, “Virtual Reality and Ancient Rome: The UCLA Cultural VR Lab’s Santa Maria Maggiore Project,” Virtual Reality in Archaeology, British Archaeological Reports International Series S 843, ed. J. A. Barcelo, M. Forte, and D. H. Sanders (ArcheoPress, London 2000), 155-162; available online at:
www.cvrlab.org/research/research.html#publications
*†B. Frischer, F. Niccolucci, N. Ryan, "From CVR to CVRO: The Past, Present, and Future of Cultural Virtual Reality," forthcoming in British Archaeological Reports special volume on the Arezzo, Italy conference on "Virtual Reality and Archaeology" (November, 2000), British Archaeological Reports 834 (ArcheoPress, Oxford 2002) 7-18; available online at:
www.cvrlab.org/research/research.html#publications
*B. Frischer, et al. The Horace’s Villa Project, 1997-2003. Report on New Fieldwork and Research Sponsored by the American Academy in Rome, the Soprintendenza Archeologica per il Lazio, and UCLA, forthcoming, edited by B. Frischer, J. Crawford, M. DeSimone, 1303 pages in ms. I am Editor-in-Chief and am author of reports totaling over 300 pages. There are 24 co-authors. The volume is expected to be published in 2004.
*†B. Frischer, et al., “The Digital Roman Forum Project of the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory, International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Sptial Information Sciences, 5 pp. in ms. available online at:
www.cvrlab.org/research/research.html#publications
†B. Frischer and P. Stinson, “Scientific Verification and Model-making Methodology: Case Studies of the Virtual Reality Models of the House of Augustus (Rome) and the Villa of the Mysteries (Pompeii),” forthcoming in the Conference Papers of Heritage, New Technologies & Local Development, The Ename Center, Ghent 11-13 September 2002, 20 pp. in ms. available online at:
www.cvrlab.org/research/research.html#publications
*†”The Ultimate Internet Café. Reflections of a Practicing Digital Humanist about Designing a Future for the Research Library in the Digital Age,” in press for publication by the Council on Library and Information Resources, 28 pp. in ms.; available online at: www.cvrlab.org/research/research.html#publications
WORK IN PROGRESS
Horace’s Sabine Villa, a book ca. 300 pp. long under contract to Yale University Press
"Image|architettura in movimenti," Florence, Italy, November, 1998
WEB SITES
In 1994-95, I created the first Web sites for: The American Academy in Rome, the Academic Senate of UCLA, the UCLA Department of Classics.
ARCHAEOLOGY
Photographer, Cosa Excavations, 1974-75
Photographer, Fototeca Unione, 1974-1976
Assistant Professor, Summer School in Roman Topography of the American Academy in Rome, 1975-1976
Member, Advisory Committee, Interdepartmental Program in Archaeology, UCLA, 1985-1991
Professor, Graduate Seminar in Roman Topography at UCLA, 1978, 1981, 1984, 1988, 1994, 1999, 2000, 2001
Director, The Horace’s Villa Excavation, 1997-2001, sponsored by the American Academy in Rome, the Archaeological Superintendency for Lazio, the Vincenzo Romagnoli Group, the Kress Foundation, and the Steinmetz Family of Los Angeles. I defined the research goals, successfully solicited the institutional sponsorships, recruited over 100 volunteers and a team of 29 scholars, and raised over $400,000 to cover the costs of the project. I am now editing and contributing to the final report, which will be published in 2002 in the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome.
Lectures at the Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, 1977, 1980, 1999 (for details, see below under LECTURES)
EDUCATIONAL
VIDEOS/CD-ROMs
“A Roman Villa in Malibu: A Tour With Prof. Bernard Frischer,” 30 minutes, produced by the UCLA Department of Classics and the Donn Sigerson Foundation (1988)
“Perspectives on ‘I, Claudius,’” a 45-minute video produced by the UCLA Department of Classics in 1994
“S.P.Q.R.” an educational CD-ROM published in 1996 by GTI and Time-Warner (I was the historical consultant)
“Horace’s Villa near Licenza. A Guided Tour by Dr. Bernard Frischer” (1997), 20 minutes
“The Temple of Antoninus and Faustina in the Roman Forum. A Virtual Tour by Prof. Bernard Frischer” (1998), 9 minutes
“The Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore in Rome: A Virtual Tour by Prof. Bernard Frischer” (1998), 12 minutes
“The Roman Forum: A Virtual Tour with Prof. Bernard Frischer,” (1999), 17:30 minutes
"The Basilica of Santa Maria Maggiore: A Gem of Early Christian Art and Architecture," produced by Bernard Frischer (2000), 9:00 minutes (versions in Italian and English)
Discovery Channel, interview about the UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory, March 6, 2000; available online at:
Discovery Channel, “Unsolved History: The Colosseum,” March 15, 2003. Available on DVD from The Discovery Channel, DVD 684209
MEDIA COVERAGE
-The UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality : major stories available online at:
-The Horace’s Villa Project: clippings file from Italian newspapers includes over 15 stories; major article in International Herald Tribune, July 25, 2001; available online at:
www.humnet.ucla.edu/horaces-villa/Resources/HoraceIHT.pdf
LECTURES
“On Reconstructing the Statue of Epicurus,” Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Atlanta, Ga., December, 1977
“Epicurus and Megalopsychia,” Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, New Orleans, La., December, 1980
“The Romans and the Civic Pride Movement in the Greek East during the Second Century A.D.,” Annual Meeting of the American Classical League, San Marino, Ca., October, 1981
“Epicureanism and Stoicism in the Roman Empire,” University of Judaism (Los Angeles, Ca.), November, 1981
“A New Interpretation of Horace, Odes 1.28,” APA, San Francisco, Ca., December, 1981. Expanded version given at: (1) University of Cincinnati in October, 1982; (2) the Johns Hopkins University in February, 1983; (3) Brown University in April, 1983; and (4) Harvard University in April, 1983
“Horace’s Ars Poetica as a Parody of the Poetics of Neoptolemus of Parium,” Pacific Coast Philological Assoc., Santa Barbara, Ca., November, 1983
“Horace’s Ars Poetica and the Traditions of Roman Grammatical Parody,” Cornell University in January, 1984
“Recent Work on Horace’s Ars Poetica,” USC, February, 1987; Stanford University, May, 1987
“The UCLA Classicist’s Workbench,” University of Michigan, March, 1988; Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, Baltimore, 1989.
“Roman Writers and Their Villas: The Case of Horace,” J. Paul Getty Museum, May 11, 1991; Annual Meeting of the California Classics Association—Southern Section, November 9, 1991.
“Statistical Tests and the Question of Single or Multiple Authorship of the Historia Augusta,” USC-UCLA Latin Seminar, March 4, 1992
“Getting to the Bottom of the Lapis Niger in the Roman Forum,” American Academy in Rome, June 24, 1992.
“Does the Ars Poetica Have a Structure? The Riccoboni-Cologno Quarrel of 1591 and Its Aftermath,” Arethusa Conference on Horace, State University of New York at Buffalo, November 12, 1992; Universität Tübingen, October, 1993 (in German); Università di Bologna, December, 1993 (in Italian); Accademia dei Concordi, Rovigo, December, 1993 (in Italian)
“Horace’s Villa: Image vs. Reality,” Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, New Orleans, December 30, 1992; Yale University, March 24, 1993; Università di Firenze, December, 1993 (in Italian); Università di Bologna, December, 1993 (in Italian); Scuola Normale Superiore, December 1993 (in Italian); University of Pennsylvania, October 20, 1994; Loyola University of Chicago, October 21, 1994; Swarthmore College, November 16, 1994; Rutgers University, November 30
“Antonio Riccoboni and the Inquisition at Rovigo,” Loyola Marymount University, March 31, 1993
“‘Sentence-Length’ and the Problem of Authorship of the Historia Augusta,” Seventh International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics,” Jerusalem, April 19-23, 1993
“‘As If Sent from Heaven’: Roman Medicine from Aesculapius to Asclepiades,” Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, Washington, D.C., December 28, 1993
“The Inquisition and the End of the Renaissance in Italy,” Meeting of the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, February, 1994
“Horace and the End of Renaissance Humanism in Italy,” Bryn Mawr College, September 16, 1994
“New Stylometrical Research on the Historia Augusta,” annual meeting of the ALLC-ACH (Association for Literary and Linguistic Computing and the Association for Computing and the Humanities), Santa Barbara, Ca., July 14, 1995.
“Horazens Sabinum: Dichtung und Wahrheit,” at the international conference in honor of the 85th birthday of Prof. Viktor Pöschl, Akademie der Wissenschaften, University of Heidelberg, Feb. 1995.
“‘Sentence-length and Word-type at ‘Sentence’ Beginning and End: Reliable Authorship Discriminators for Latin Prose? New Studies on the Authorship of the Historia Augusta,” Annual Meeting of the Assoc. for Linguistic and Literary Computing and the Association for Computing and the Humanities, Santa Barbara, Ca., July, 1995.
“Word-order Transference between Latin and Greek,” Annual Meeting of the Assoc. for Linguistic and Literary Computing and the Association for Computing and the Humanities, Bergen, Norway, June, 1996.
“Allan Ramsay at Horace’s Villa in the Age of the Grand Tour,” American Academy in Rome, December, 1996; CASVA, December, 1997
“Lavori in Corso sulla villa Sabina di Orazio,” University of Rome (December, 1996)
“Horace’s Villa: Digging in the Archives, Excavating the Site, 1997-98” Princeton University (October, 1998), University of Southern California (February, 1999), Loyola Marymount University (April, 1999)
“Varro’s Word Order,” with F. Tweedie and R. Maltby, Ninth International Colloquium on Latin Linguistics, Paris, France, April, 1999
“The UCLA Cultural VR Lab,” ENTERTECH Conference, San Diego, CA, April, 1999.
“The Moncure Biddle Collection of Horatiana,” Free Public Library, Philadelphia, May, 1999.
“Cultural Heritage and Virtual Reality Technology,” Young Presidents’ Organization, Rome, Italy, June, 1999
“La première excavation de la villa d’Horace près de Licenza (Rome) par le baron de Saint’Odile,” Château Haroué (Nancy, France), July, 1999 (in French)
“Horace’s Villa: Results of the 1999 Campaign,” Archaeological Associates of Greenwich (Ct.), November, 1999; Archaeological Institute of America, Dallas, TX, December, 1999; Istituto di Cultura Italiana, Los Angeles, January, 2000; Istituto di Cultura Italiana, London, March, 2000, Free Public Library, Philadelphia, May, 2000; University of Pittburgh, October, 2000; Rennert Jerusalem Study Center of Bar-Ilan University, March, 2001; American Academy in Rome, March, 2001
"Cultural Virtual Reality: Prospects and Projects," Annual meeting of the American Association of History and Computing, Baylor University, April, 2000; University of Caen, France, September, 2000; VAST, an International EuroConference held in Arezzo, Italy, Nov. 24-25, 2000; New Media Conference at the University of Victoria, Feb. 12, 2001; Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design (Vancouver), Feb. 14, 2001
“UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality Laboratory: Mission and Projects,” University of Trento, Dec., 2001; University of Naples, Feb., 2002; annual meeting of CAA in Heraklion, Greece, April, 2002; University of Pescara, May, 2002; North Dakota State University, Fargo, Feb. 2003; annual meeting of CAA in Vienna, Austria, April, 2003; University of Virginia, June, 2003
COURSES TAUGHT
UNDERGRADUATE: Roman Civilization, Roman Religion, Roman Literature in Translation, Cinema and the Ancient World, The Ancient City, Intermediate Greek, Euripides, Plato, Lucretius, Cicero, Horace, Tacitus, Catullus, Virgil, Roman Elegy, Roman Epistolography, Livy, Petronius, Senior Paper, Virtual Reality and Cultural Heritage
GRADUATE: History of Latin Literary (Archaic Age and Golden Age), Euripides, Sophocles, History of Greek Literature in the Fourth Century B.C., History of Greek Literature in the Hellenistic Period, Hesiod, Menander, Euripides, the Presocratics, Theocritus, Cicero’s Orations, Cicero’s Philosophica, Virgil, Horace, Lucretius, Roman Satire, Roman Historiography, Roman Topography, Tacitus, Neolatin, Classics and Computing
DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE
Chair, Development Cmte., 1995—1996. Successfully solicited donation of an ancient
coin collection which was sold at auction for $63,000
Webmaster, UCLA Classics World Wide Web
home page (1995)
Author, UCLA-Tübingen Classics Faculty
Exchange, 1994
Author, UCLA Post-Baccalaureate Program in
Classics, 1995
Chair, August 1984 to June 30, 1988 (majors increased from ca. 25 to 80; graduate students from ca. 10 to 25; faculty FTE grew from 10.5 to 16.0 authorized; teaching assistants increased from 2.5 FTE to 7.5 FTE; graduate fellowship endowed ($120,000); over $200,000 raised from J. Paul Getty Trust and intramural sources to create computerized system of Classical literature; organized national Classics Computing Conference, held at UCLA in July, 1985; increased number of guest lectures to ca. 30 per year (from 3-5); department ranking moved from 16th in U.S. in 1980 to among top ten, according to External Reviewers, Ludwig Koenan [Chair, Classics, U. Mich.] and Richard Tarrant [Chair, Classics, Harvard U.]; eliminated budget deficit)
Principal Investigator of “The UCLA Classicist’s Workbench,” a UNIX-based computer system for using online texts of Classical authors at UCLA and the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities, 1985-1988; raised over $200,000 in intramural and extramural funding
Undergraduate Advisor, 1981, 1985 to June 30, 1987
Graduate Advisor, 1977-81, 1992—1993
Chair or co-chair of six doctoral dissertation committees
Author of the UCLA major in Classical Civilization, 1979
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Director, UCLA Cultural Virtual Reality
Laboratory, founded in 1998; raised over $1.8 million in gifts and contracts
from 1998-2003
Member, Committee on Planning and Budget, 1998—2000
Member, Committee on Research, 1995-96
Member, Committee
on the Education Abroad Program, 1994-1996
Secretary, Academic Senate of the
University of California, Los Angeles Division, 1994—1996 (created LA
Divisional World Wide Web home page)
Departmental Representative, Legislative Assembly, UCLA, 1993—1995
Member, Computing
Cmte., UCLA Academic Senate
Director, Education Abroad Program office at UCLA, 1992—1998 (reorganized office; hired new campus coordinator; increased student participation from ca. 175 to over 325; created scholarship fund with intramural funding of over $100, 000 in 1994-95; created UCLA-EAP World Wide Web home page; helped to create new major in European Studies with EAP requirement
Member, Dean’s Task Force on Foreign Language, 1991-92 (in the Task Force Report on Language Teaching at UCLA had primary responsibility for researching and writing Part II, “Effectiveness of Foreign Language Instruction at UCLA: A Quantitative Analysis”)
Member, Academic Senate Cmte. on Computing, 1992—1994
Member, Center for Medieval and
Renaissance Studies, 1992—present
Director, Padua Study Center, University of California Education Abroad Program in Italy, July 1, 1988-June 30, 1990 (brought program into complete conformity with Italian law; helped increase number of UC students from 47 to 85 with no increase in staff; finalized negotiations for and implemented new exchange program with University of Bologna; solicited gift of computer system for the Padua Study Center from the Banca Antoniana di Padova e Trieste; solicited gift of the De Italia videodisc from the Giovanni Agnelli Foundation; started program newsletter [UC ITALIA]; reformed Intensive Language Program, and Study Center Courses; reformed and relocated Summer Pre-Intensive Language Program, increasing course contact hours from 75 to 130 with no additional staff expense; persuaded University of Bologna to give the program a Study Center facility; organized public Conference on the U.S. Presidential Election in Padua [November, 1988] and a public concert of baroque lyric music by Judith Nelson at the Accademia Filarmonica di Bologna to celebrate the first year of the UC-University of Bologna student exchange agreement [April, 1990]; initiated idea of expanding program to Scuola Normale Superiore [Pisa] and the Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi [Milan]; eliminated budget deficit)
Member, Interdepartmental Archaeology Program, 1986-91
Chair, Humanities Computing Cmte., July 1, 1987-June 30, 1988
Member, Executive Cmte., College of Letters and Science, 1984-86
Chair, Sub-Cmte. of the College of Letters and Science for Implementing the New Foreign Language Requirement, 1984-85
Chair, Sub-Cmte. of the College of Letters and Science for Studying Duplication of High School Courses for College Credit at UCLA, 1985-86
Chair, Sub-Cmte. of the UCLA Humanities Forum Cmte. for Studying Relations between the Forum and the Getty Center for the History of Art and the Humanities
CONFERENCES AND
PANELS ORGANIZED
•UCLA Conference on Classics and Computing, UCLA, July, 1986
•Conference on the U.S. Presidential Election, Padua, Italy, November, 1988
•The Horace Bimillennium: The Reception of Horace’s Poetry Since the Seventeenth Century, UCLA Clark Library, November, 1993
•New Light on the Ancient World from Herculaneum and Malibu, J. Paul Getty Museum, May, 1994
•A Funeral Elegy, Attributed to William Shakespeare, UCLA, February 9. 1996.
•Panel on the Stylometry of Latin Prose held at the 1996 conference of the Association for Linguistic and Literary Computing—Association for Computing in the Humanities in Bergen, Norway
•Fora on ROME REBORN and the Jubilee Year; a series of four parallel fora held in Rome, Italy on January 10, 1997; participants included the superintendents of the major archaeological superintendencies of Rome, Lazio, Pompeii, and Sicily. Hosted by the American Academy in Rome and UCLA; sponsored by Alitalia, Creative Kids Educational Foundation, Stream, and Tecnark.
•GIS-based Computerized Databases for Archaeology, UCLA, Feb. 1, 1999
•Horace’s Villa, 1997-99, Cineto Romano, Italy, Sept. 24, 1999
PROFESSIONAL
ASSOCIATIONS/SERVICE
Chair, Software Cmte. of the American Philological Assoc., 1988
Member, American Philological Assoc., 1971—present
Member, Archaeological Institute of America, 1977—present
Member, Advisory Cmte. of the American Academy in Rome, 1976—present
Member of Editorial Board of Classical Antiquity, 1981—1987
Member, Advisory Cmte., Project Perseus, 1987—1996
Member, Classics Selection Cmte. Fullbright Exchange Commission, 1984-88
Member, Education Committee of the Archaeological Institute of America, 1999—present
Member , Classics Discipline Review Committee of the American Council of Learned Societies, 1996—present
Member , DCB/L'Année Philologique Advisory Committee of the American Philological Association, 1993-99
Chair, Cmte. to Review the Summer School in Roman Topography and Archaeology of the American Academy in Rome, 1983
PUBLIC SERVICE
Trustee, Franklin Israel Living Trust, 1996—2003