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| muccigrosso@icloud.com | Via Basilio Bricci 21 |
| http://jmuccigr.github.io/ | 00152 Rome, Italy |
| VIAF, ORCID, Academia.edu | Citizenship: USA |
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| 1998 | University of Michigan, Ph.D., Classical Studies |
| 1994 (Summer) | American School for Classical Studies, Summer Program |
| 1990–1993 | University of Minnesota, Center for Ancient Studies |
| 1990 | Massachusetts Institute of Technology, M.S., chemistry |
| 1987 | Amherst College, B.A., ΦΒΚ, classics and chemistry |
| 1986 (Spring) | Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, Rome |
| 1983 | Regis High School |
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| 2025- | Lecturer, History and Humanities Department |
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| 2022-2024 | Dean of Academic Affairs |
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| 1998–2022 | Department of Classics |
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| 2020-2022 | Director of Baldwin Honors |
| 2021-2022, 2017–2018 | Co-Director, Mellon Digital Humanities Grant |
| 2009–2014 | Associate Dean, College of Liberal Arts |
| Budget & salary; retention; management of physical resources; scheduling; college IR; admissions outreach; special projects | |
| 2011–2014 | Director of Institutional Research |
| Internal & external reporting; survey administration; retention analysis; budget-preparation assistance |
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| 2019-2020 | Professor in Charge |
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| 2018-2019 | Provost and Vice President of Academic Affairs (interim) |
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| 2021–2022 | Digital Humanities Advisory Committee |
| 2016–2018 | Digital Humanities Working Group |
| 2015–2018 | Super-advisor to incoming students |
| 2016–2017 | Faculty Associate, Brown First-Year Residence Hall |
| 2015–2017 | Baldwin Honors Committee |
| 2006–2008 | Chair, Committee on Academic Policy and Curriculum |
| 2004–2005 | Mellon Foreign-Language Grant steering committee |
| 2000–2006 | College Space Committee (chair from 2004) |
| 2002–2006 | University Space Committee |
| 2004–2005 | Co-Chair, Foreign-Language Council |
| 2002 | Student Life Advisory Board |
| 2000–2001 | University Technology Committee |
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| 2012–present | Bryn Mawr Classical Review, editorial board |
| 1995–present | Owner of Greekarch, an e-mail list for Greek archaeology |
| 2007–2010 | APA Committee on the Status of Women and Minority Groups |
| 1992-1993 | Program Coordinator, Minnesota chapter, AIA |
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| 2011–2014 | Net Tuition Revenue |
| 2010–2014 | Leader, Banner-Transition Student Catalog Team |
| 2013–2014 | Drew2017 Prioritization Project, Steering Committee |
| 2013–2014 | Chair, Academic Readiness Subcommittee, Student Success Committee |
| 2012–2014 | Risk Assessment |
| 2009–2014 | Academic Standing Committee; Academic Computing Advisory Committee |
| 2011–2013 | Provost’s Council |
| 2011–2012 | Facilities Utilization Team, Organizational Review |
| 2009–2012 | Co-Chair, Enrollment Management and Retention Committee |
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| 2022, ’21, ’18 | Drew Digital Humanities Summer Institute faculty grant |
| 2011–2013 | NEH Institute for Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities: Linked Ancient World Data Institute, Co-Principal Investigator |
| 2013, ‘07, ‘06, ‘04 | Summer Faculty Research/Development Grant |
| 2006 | Presidential Initiative Fund Grant |
| 2005 | DuPont Fellow, National Humanities Center (Space: Familiar, Sacred, Contested, Compulsory, led by Annabel Wharton, Department of Art and Art History, Duke University) |
| 1998–1999 | Faculty Research Grants |
| 1997–1998, 1996 | Mellon Fellow, University of Michigan |
| 1993–1994 | Regents Fellow, University of Michigan |
| 1990–1991 | University Fellow, University of Minnesota |
| 1990 | Amherst Memorial Fellow in Archaeology, Amherst College |
| 1983–1987 | Amherst College Classics Prizes: Bertram, Billings Ancient Greek, Crowell Freshman Latin, Harry DeForrest Smith entering-freshmen Greek-language |
Italian archaeology, Roman history, Digital Humanities, Latin paedagogy
Director: Vicus Martis Tudertium Field School (2008–2017)
Supervisor: Paestum (Italy, 1995, ‘97, ‘99)
Participant: Duos Nuraghes (Sardinia, Italy, 1992); Roman Forum (Rome, Italy, 1991); Son Mas Sanctuary (Mallorca, Spain, 1990); Poggio Civitate (Murlo, Italy, 1987–88)
Native: English Full professional proficiency: Italian Reading ability: Latin, Ancient Greek, French, German
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| 2023 | “What Happened to the Vicus Martis Tudertium? (Massa Martana, PG),” BollArchOnline 14 (Supplemento 1), 275–285 |
| 2021 | “A New Dedication to Mercury at S. Martino ai Monti (Rome),” ZPE 220, 303-305 |
| 2020 | Fide non ficta. Essays in honor of Paul B. Harvey, jr., co-edited with Celia Schultz, Spirito: Casa Editrice Edipuglia |
| “Populus as army and the preservation of Roman legal language,” in Fide non ficta. Essays in Honor of Paul B. Harvey, Jr., 13–32. Spirito: Casa Editrice Edipuglia | |
| 2016 | “The Apsidal building of the Vicus Martis Tudertium (PG),” with Sarah Harvey, Elena Lorenzetti, Jill A. Rhodes, and Stefano Spiganti FOLD&R 366 |
| 2015 | “The 2011 Excavation Season at the Site of the Vicus Martis Tudertium (PG),” with Rangar Cline, Sarah Harvey, Elena Lorenzetti, and Stefano Spiganti FOLD&R 327 |
| “A Speculative Note on the Golden Calf,” self-published, 2015-06-10 | |
| 2014 | Current Practice in Linked Open Data for the Ancient World, issue ed., with Thomas Elliott and Sebastian Heath, ISAW Papers 7 |
| 2012 | “Re-Interpreting the Robinson Skyphos,” SHT 13.A.1, 1–15 |
| “Report on the Linked Ancient World Data Institute,” with Thomas Elliott and Sebastian Heath, ISQ 24, 2–3, Spring/Summer | |
| 2011 | “A New Archaic Dipinto from Poseidonia,” with James Higginbotham, ZPE 178, 191–194 |
| “The 2010 Excavation Season at the Site of the Vicus ad Martis Tudertium (PG),” FOLD&R 227 | |
| 2010 | “Excavations along the Via Flaminia: the Vicus ad Martis Tudertium,” Etruscan News 13, Winter, p. 16 |
| “The 2008 and 2009 Excavation Seasons at the Site of the Vicus ad Martis Tudertium (PG),” FOLD&R 185 | |
| 2009 | “Excavations at the Vicus ad Martis Tudertium,” Etruscan News 11, Winter, p. 15 |
| 2006 | “Religion and Politics: Did the Romans scruple about the placement of their temples?,” Religion in Roman Italy in the Mid- and Late Republican Eras (“Yale Classical Studies”), 181–206, Cambridge University Press |
| 2004 | “Frequent vocabulary in Latin textbooks,” CW 97(4), 409–433 |
| 2003 | “The Brindisi Elogium and the Rejected Lectio Senatus of Appius Claudius Caecus,” Historia 52.4, 496–501 |
| 1999 | “Critical thinking and reflective learning in the Latin classroom,” with D. Pennell Ross, in Language learners of tomorrow: Process and promise, p. 232–251, M. A. Kassen, ed., NECTFL Conference Reports, National Textbook Co., Lincolnwood, Illinois |
| 1990 | “Synthesis and infrared spectroscopic investigations of substance P and isotopically labelled analogues,” MS Thesis, MIT |
| 1989 | “Benzylhydrazine as a pseudo-substrate of bovine serum amine oxidase,” with L. Morpurgo et al, Biochem. J. 260, 19–25 |
| 1988 | “Amine oxidases as biological regulators,” with E. Agostinelli, et al., in Perspectives in polyamine research, p. 11-15, A. Perin, et al., ed., Wichtig Editore, Milan |
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| 2025 | Alessandro Launaro, ed. Roman urbanism in Italy: recent discoveries and new directions, BMCR 2025.08.10 |
| 2024 | Seth Bernard, Lisa M. Mignone, and Dan-el Padilla Peralta, eds. Making the Middle Republic: New Approaches to Rome and Italy, c.400-200 BCE, BMCR 2024.02.53 |
| 2020 | Giovanna Battaglini, ed., Fregellae: il tempio del Foro e il tempio suburbano sulla via Latina. Monumenti antichi. Serie miscellanea, Volume 23, BMCR 2020.09.03 |
| 2015 | Filippo Canali De Rossi, Le relazioni diplomatiche di Roma, Volume IV. Dalla ‘liberazione della Grecia’ alla pace infida con Antioco III (201–194 a. C.), BMCR 2015.03.47 |
| 2014 | Massimiliano Di Fazio, Feronia: spazi e tempi di una dea dell’Italia centrale antica, BMCR 2014.10.25 |
| 2013 | Michael L. Thomas, Gretchen E. Meyers, Ingrid E. M. Edlund-Berry, ed. Monumentality in Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture: Ideology and Innovation, BMCR 2013.03.11 |
| 2012 | Ramsey MacMullen, The Earliest Romans: a character sketch, BMCR 2012.02.10 |
| 2010 | Fik Meijer, Chariot racing in the Roman Empire, BMCR 2010.11.26 |
| Nigel B. Crowther, Sport in Ancient Times, CJ 106(2), 242–243 | |
| 2008 | Matthew Hartnett, By Roman Hands: Inscriptions and Graffiti for Students of Latin, CB 84.2 |
| 2007 | Keith Hopkins, Mary Beard The Colosseum, Choice |
| 2005 | Christopher S. Mackay, Ancient Rome: A Military and political history, CO 83.1 |
| Filippo Canali De Rossi, Le relazioni diplomatiche di Roma, Vol. I: dall’età regia alla conquista del primato in Italia (753–265 a.C), BMCR 2005.02.19 | |
| 2004 | Nathan Rosenstein, Rome at war: Farms, families, and death in the Middle Republic, BMCR 2004.07.56 |
| Thomas F. Scanlon, Eros and Greek athletics, CO 81.2 (Winter) | |
| Peter J. Holliday, Origins of pictorial representation in Roman art, NECJ 31.1 (February) | |
| 2003 | Guy Bradley, Ancient Umbria, CW 96.2 (Winter), 228–229 |
| 2002 | Serafina Cuomo, Ancient Mathematics, CO 80.1 (Fall) |
| Christer Bruun, The Roman middle republic: Politics, religion, and historiography c. 400–133 B.C., CW 95.4 (Summer), 460–461 | |
| 2000 | Richard C. Beacham, Spectacle entertainments of early imperial Rome, CO 78.1 (Fall) |
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| 2022 | “Umbria nunc revocat. Landscape, History, and Archaeology of a Territory in Ancient Times” conference, University of Perugia, March 10-11 |
| 2018 | Keynote at opening ceremony of the Digital Liberal Arts Collaboratory, William Patterson University, December 6 |
| “Populus as ‘army’ and the preservation of Roman legal language,” Pennsylvania State University, April 14 | |
| 2016 | “Recent work along the Flaminian Way,” AIA lecture program, University of Alberta, March 10 |
| 2012 | “Excavations at the Vicus ad Martis in Umbria,” NJ Classical Association, October 13 |
| 2010 | “New Excavations on the Flaminian Way: A Field School at the Vicus ad Martis,” Fairfield College, March 17 |
| 2008 | “Report on first season of excavations at the Vicus ad Martis Tudertium,” Museum of S. Maria della Pace, as part of the “Giornate Europee del Patrimonio” program, September 28 |
| 2007 | “Instructional technology and the teaching of Latin: Where we’ve been and where we’re going,” Glenn M. Knudsvig Memorial Symposium at the University of Michigan, Keynote speaker, 9 July |
| 2005 | “Quirites and the preservation of early Latin texts,” Classical Humanities Society of South Jersey, at the Richard Stockton College of NJ, 10 April |
| 2003 | “Religion and Politics: Did the Romans scruple about the placement of their temples?,” Yale University, 1 March |
| 2001 | “Paestum,” Amherst College, 4 October |
| 2000 | “Gladiators and Political Competition in Republican Rome,” New Jersey Classical Association Spring Meeting |
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| 2025 | “The Ogulnii and the Gens Fabia: Etruscan and Roman Elites Collaborating in Rome,” Etruscan Landscapes conference |
| 2021 | “A Database of (Italian) Temples,” Digital Italy conference |
| 2021 | “Creating and Maintaining a Linked Online Database (on your own),” Association of Computers and the Humanities biennial conference |
| 2018 | “A New Database of Roman Temples,” a lightning talk at NYCDH Week 2018 |
| “The Northern Roman-Period Burial Area at the Vicus Martis Tudertium,” AIA, with Dr. Sarah Harvey | |
| 2017 | Introduction to “Digital Approaches to Latin Vocabulary Learning,” Classical Association of the Atlantic States, Fall meeting, organized session with Dr. Patrick Burns |
| “Rome Research Project: Students and Digital Faculty Research,” Online Learning Consortium Collaborate with Emerging Learning Design, with Dr. Louis Hamilton | |
| “Developing an On-line Database of Roman Temples,” poster, CAA | |
| “A New On-line Database of Roman Temples,” poster, AIA | |
| 2016 | “A Database of Roman Temples,” at the NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World’s LAWDNY 2016 Digital Antiquity Research Workshop |
| “The Late Antique/Early Medieval Cemetery at the Vicus Martis Tudertium,” AIA, with Dr. Sarah Harvey and Dr. Jill A. Rhodes | |
| 2015 | “Seventh Season of Excavation at the Vicus Martis Tudertium,” AIA, with Dr. Sarah Harvey and Dr. Jill A. Rhodes |
| “An Unusual Interment of Dismembered Legs and Hands: A Roman Umbria burial puzzle,” poster, American Association of Physical Anthropologists Annual Meeting, with Dr. Jill A. Rhodes (presenter) | |
| 2014 | “Sixth Season of Excavation at the Vicus Ad Martis Tudertium,” AIA, with Dr. Sarah Harvey |
| 2013 | “Fifth Season of Excavation at the Vicus Ad Martis Tudertium,” AIA |
| 2012 | “Fourth Season of Excavation at the Vicus Ad Martis Tudertium,” AIA |
| 2011 | “Third Season of Excavation at the Vicus Ad Martis Tudertium,” AIA |
| 2010 | “Second Season of Excavation at the Vicus Ad Martis Tudertium,” AIA |
| 2009 | “Results of First Season of Excavation and Geo-magnetic Survey at the Vicus ad Martis Tudertium,” with Tommaso Mattioli, Departimento Uomo & Territorio, University of Perugia, AIA |
| 2006 | “Depictions of Workshops in Ancient Art: Too Many Potters?,” poster, AIA (2nd Prize Winner) |
| 2005 | Invited Facilitator for panel discussion: “Davus and Grumio Go To College: workshop and discussion on creating the ideal college-level Latin textbook,” CAAS, fall meeting |
| 2003 | “Frequent Latin vocabulary,” ACL Institute |
| 2002 | “Political Competition in urban building in Mid-Republican Rome,” AAH |
| 2000 | “Creating and using a Latin-vocabulary database,” Michigan-Latin Symposium |
| 1999 | “Preliminary results of a survey of classical-language students,” ACL Institute (session organizer) |
| 1999 | “The Reflective practitioner in the Latin classroom,” with D. Ross, NECTFL |
| 1998 | “Appius Claudius Caecus and the Brindisi elogium,” APA |
| 1998 | “(Mis)Reading Livy,” CAMWS |
| 1997 | “Political rivalry and monuments in the Roman Republic,” APA |
| 1997 | “Courseware on the Internet: Recent work at the University of Michigan,” ACL Institute |
| 1996 | “Using the Internet for teaching,” AIA |
| 1992 | “Sardinia and off-island contacts,” Chacmool |
Classical Humanities; Archaeology of Greece and Rome; Introduction to Roman history; Ancient Sport & Spectacle; Space and Power in the ancient world; Science & technology in the ancient world; Greek and Roman literature in translation; Introduction to ancient drama; introductory Latin sequence; intermediate Greek; advanced Latin: Catullus, Vergil, Livy; First-year seminars: The Hero, Dead Men Do Tell Tales; as graduate assistant: Virgil’s Aeneid; Sport and Daily Life in the Roman Empire; introductory chemistry; organic chemistry laboratory
“Factional Competition and Monumental Construction in Mid-Republican Rome,” D. S. Potter, advisor
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| Learning Management Systems | Canvas; Moodle |
| Other Software | Microsoft Office 365 (and older); R; SQL; Leaflet; jekyll |
| Projects & Roles | Greek-Arch list manager; Drew Classics-Department Image Database, Latin Noun Morphology Drill program; Michigan-Latin Vocabulary Project; Courseware developer, University of Michigan Classical Civilization program (1995); computing consultant: American Classical League (1995–1999), University of Michigan Classical Studies (1994–1998) |
| Web sites (now defunct) | Papyrology, Ancient-Mediterranean list archives |
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