Josephine Shaya
Marian Senter Nixon Chair in Classical Civilization; Chair of Classical Studies
Classical Studies, Archaeology
Biography
Courses Taught
- First Year Seminar: Who Owns the Past?
- Latin 101: Beginning Latin Level I
- Latin 102: Beginning Latin Level II
- Latin 201: Seminar in Latin Literature (Intermediate Latin Level I)
Ovid, Rome, and the Classical Tradition
Slavery and Literature in Ancient Rome
Backroads, Witchcraft, and Romance: The Ancient Novel - Latin 202: Seminar in Latin Literature (Intermediate Level II)
Empire and Late Republican Literature
Race and Ethnicity in Latin Literature
Autobiography in Roman North Africa - Latin 301: Seminar in Latin Literature (Advanced Level I)
- Latin 302: Seminar in Latin Literature (Advanced Level II)
- Latin 400: Tutorial
- AMST 261: Studies in Ancient History
- HIST 204: Ancient Greek History: The World of the Greeks
- HIST 205: Roman History: Rome and the Impact of Empire
- CLST 401: Junior Independent Study
- CLST 451-451: Senior Independent Study
Selected Publications & Presentations
- "Sanctuaries, the Ever-Accumulating Past, and the Arval Acta." Jane Fejfer and Troels Kristensen, eds., Inscribing and Collecting Art in Greek and Roman Sanctuaries, Routledge (forthcoming).
- "Museo ArqueolĂłgico Nacional de EspaĂąa Revisited." American Journal of Archaeology 122.2 (2018): 339-341
- "A Letter from the Museum Review Editor." American Journal of Archaeology 122.1 (2018): 3-4
- "Communicating Context: Spain's Newly Renovated Museo ArqueolĂłgico Nacional." American Journal of Archaeology 121.2 (2017).
- "Greek Temple Treasures and the Invention of Collecting." Maia Wellington Gahtan and Donatella Pegazzano, eds., Museum Archetypes and Collecting in the Ancient World, Brill (2015), 24-32
- "Ancient Analogs of Modern Museums." Elise Friedland, Melanie Grunow Sobocinski, and Elaine Gazda, eds., The Oxford Handbook of Roman Sculpture, Oxford (2015), 622-637
- "The Public Life of Monuments: The Summi Viri of the Forum of Augustus." American Journal of Archaeology 117.1 (2013): 83-110
- "The Greek Temple as Museum. The Case of the Legendary Treasures of Athena from Lindos." American Journal of Archaeology 109:3 (2005): 423-442
- "An Archaeologist's Vision of the Holy Land: Sepphoris 1931." In Elaine Gazda and Elise Friedland, eds., Leroy Waterman and the University of Michigan's Excavations at Sepphoris, 1931: 'The Scientific Test of the Spade' (Ann Arbor, 1997): 12-16
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