PENINAH WOLPO
101 South U Street #7
Lompoc,CA. 93436
(505)319-4756
EDUCATION
Ph.D. History, Ancient Mediterranean World, University of California, Santa Barbara (Expected completion July 2016).
Dissertation: “Borderlands Theory and Cultural Change in the Time of Augustus”
Committee: Elizabeth Depalma-Digeser, John Lee, Mary Hancock, James Brooks
M.A. in History, Europe to 1500, University of New Mexico, with Distinction, May, 2009.
Master’s Thesis: “Holy Men and Contested Ground: Innovations and Intellectual Frontiers”
Committee: Thomas Sizgorich, Timothy Graham, Nancy Mcloughlin
B.A. in History, University of New Mexico, Magna cum laude, with a distributed minor in Comparative Literature.
Thesis: “Satan: Conceptualizing the Emotions of God”
Advisor: Timothy Graham
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERSTS
Borderlands Theory, Hybridity, Narrative and Identity
Historiography
The Ancient City
Early Christianity, Heresy, and Communal Identity/Boundary Maintenance
Late Antiquity
Asceticism (Christian and non-Christian)
Anglo-Saxon England
Ancient North Africa
The Roman Empire
TEACHING AND GRADING EXPERIENCE
At the University of New Mexico:
Grader, Western Civilization Part One (HIST 101), with Professor Charlie Steen, Fall 2006.
Grader, Living World Religions (RLGN 105), with Professor Daniel Wolne, Fall 2007-Spring 2009.
At the University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of History:
Teaching Assistant, World History Part One (2A), with Professor Elizabeth Digeser, Fall 2010.
Teaching Assistant, World History Part One (2A), with Professor Xiao Bin Ji, Winter 2011.
Teaching Assistant, World History Part Three (2C), with Professor Paul Spickard, Spring 2011.
Teaching Assistant, World History Part One (2A), with Professor Anthony Barbieri-Low, Fall 2011.
Teaching Assistant, World History Part One (2A), with Professor John Lee, Winter 2012.
Teaching Assistant, World History Part Three (2C), with Professor Randolph Bergstrom, 2012.
Teaching Assistant World History Part One (2A), with Professor Anthony Barbieri-Low, Fall 2012.
Teaching Assistant World History Part Three (2C) with Professor Veronica Castillo-Muñoz, Winter 2013.
Teaching Assistant World History Part One with Professor Monica Orozco, Spring 2013.
Teaching Assistant African History to 1800 (Hist/ Black Studies 49A) with Professor Sarah Watkins, Winter 2015.
At the University of California, Santa Barbara, Department of Classics:
Reader, The Greek World with Professor Ralph Galluci, Spring 2015.
Teaching Assistant, Greek Mythology with Professor Francis Dunn, Fall 2015.
Reader, Pompeii with Professor Brice Erickson, Winter 2015 and Winter 2016.
Reader, Roman Civilization with Professor Robert Morstein-Marx, Winter 2016.
PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS
“Canaanite and Polytheistic Elements within the Hebrew Scriptures” Presented at the Undergraduate Research and Creativity Symposium 2005, at the University of New Mexico.
“Post-Colonial Dream? The Dream of the Rood, Beowulf, and Acculturation in Anglo-Saxon England” Presented at the Medieval Studies Student Association’s Student Colloquium, at the University of New Mexico, Nov. 2007.
“Pelagius and Augustine: Separate Understandings of Empire” Presented at the Vagantes Graduate Student Conference, at The Ohio State University, Feb. 2008.
“Holy Men and Contested Ground: Innovations and Intellectual Frontiers” Presented at the First Biennial Ancient Borderlands International Graduate Student Conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara, March 2008.
“Pelagius, Augustine, and the Formation of Imperial Identity” Presented at the National American Patristics Society Annual Meeting, in Chicago. May, 2008.
Guest Lecture: “From the Ruthwell Cross to the Frank’s Casket: the Use of Teaching Images and the Conversion of the West” given to Prof. Jessica Ambler’s Art History class at Westmont College, Spring 2010.
“Organic Cities and Man-Made Cultures in the Ancient World” Presented at Productive Geographies: IHC Graduate Student Conference University of California, Santa Barbara, April, 2011.
“The Conversion Factor: Julian the True Believer and the Birth of Paganism” Presented at National American Patristics Society Annual Meeting, in Chicago. May, 2012.
Co-Editor and Author, “Introduction” in Beyond Borders: Select Proceedings of the Second Biennial Ancient Borderlands International Graduate Student Conference (on E-scholarship, at 2012.
Guest Lecture: “Ancient North Africa: a Mediterranean Powerhouse” and “Christianity in North Africa: the Church that Never Was” delivered in Prof. Sarah Watkins History of Africa class at UCSB, Fall 2014.
“Julian Recast: Failure of a Cultural Entrepreneur” presented at the Fifth Biennial Borderlands International Graduate Student Conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara, March 2016.
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Graduate Assistant, Institute for Medieval Studies, at the University of New Mexico, Fall 2006-Spring 2008 (Maintained website, organized lecture series, managed department publications/course announcements/ media).
Member and presenter for the Medieval Outreach Program, at the University of New Mexico, 2006-2009. (Organized and delivered lectures in high-school classes about the study of Medieval manuscripts).
Co-Chair, Conference Committee for the Biennial Ancient Borderlands International Graduate Student Conference, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2009-Spring 2014. (Helped orchestrate the committee that would organize the conference, from the budget and call for papers to the keynote address).
Member, Editorial Committee for the publication of the proceedings of the Biennial Ancient Borderlands International Graduate Student Conference, at the University of California, Santa Barbara, Fall 2009-Fall 2014 (see space on the California Digital Library for “Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group”
Co-Chair, Conference Committee for Productive Geographies: IHC Graduate Conference, Winter-Spring 2011.
Member, Ancient Borderlands Multi-campus Research Focus Group.
Attendee and presenter, UCSB/AMS/Borderlands Summer 2011 Workshop in Ephesus, Turkey.
NOMINATIONS, AWARDS, AND FELLOWSHIPS
History Associates Award, 2014, University of California, Santa Barbara.
Nominee, Academic Senate Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award, University of California, Santa Barbara, 2013.
Harold and Kathleen Drake Fund Award (Ephesus workshop) 2011. University of California, Santa Barbara.
Doctoral Scholars Fellowship 2009-2014. University of California, Santa Barbara.
Graduate Fellowship, Institute for Medieval Studies, 2006-2008. University of New Mexico.
Best Honors Thesis of the Year, History. 2006. University of New Mexico.
READING LANGUAGES
Latin
Greek
Biblical Hebrew (some Aramaic and Ugaritic if transliterated from the cuneiform)
Syriac
French (+Some Spoken)
German (+Some Spoken)
Italian (+Some Spoken)
Spanish (+Some Spoken)
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