Timothy Pepper - CV

Timothy Wesley Pepper

Department of the Classics, University of California at Berkeley, 7233 Dwinelle Hall #2520

Berkeley, California94720-2520, USA

phone 1 (510) 649-1080

Education

M. A.University of California, Berkeley

Classics with emphasis in Greek, 2003. Advanced to Ph.D candidacy 2005. Dissertationdirector: Prof. Todd Hickey (); title: Patronage and Work Relationships in Early Ptolemaic Egypt

Summer Prog.Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C.

Participated in Byzantine Greek reading course, Summer 2003.

A. B.HarvardUniversity, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Summa cum Laude in Classics, June 2000.

Honors/Awards

Bancroft Library Study AwardSummer 2006; for thesis research

Berkeley Fellowship2005-2006

Center for the Tebtunis Papyri Fieldwork Grant2004, 2005

Center for the Tebtunis Papyri Conference Grant2004

Heller Summer Travel Grant2003

Javits Fellowship2001-2004

Honorary Mellon Fellowship2001-2002

Shaw Fellowship (Harvard)2000-2001; Conducted post-baccalaureate research project in Hungary, Romania, and the Vatican Library on the folk and literary sources of the 13th century Gesta Hungarorum.

RichardsonClassics Prize2000; Undergraduate Classics Prize

Bowdoin Greek Prize2000; in Greek Prose Composition

Mary Rosenthal Lefkowitz Scholar1999-2000; Scholarship in Classics

Phi Beta Kappa1999;One of 25 Juniors Selected.

Mark Schapler Book Award1998; Awarded by the Senior Classical League to a Classics Major.

Teaching Certificate1998;Massachusetts Certified Assistant Teacher

John Harvard Scholarship1997-2000; Dean's list

Detur Book Prize1997

Publications

Translation and commentaryon epsilon 2255, epsilon 3927, lambda 323, nu 450, sigma 703-706, sigma 867,upsilon 441, andzeta 196in Suda On Line,

Papers Given

"Plautus' Menaechmi and the Borders of Adaptation"; given at the 138th Annual Meeting of the APA, San Diego, California, 6 January 2007.

"Piecework and Negotiation in the Zenon Archive: a New Look at PSI VI 599"; given at the XXIV International Congress of Papyrologists, Helsinki, Finland, 2 August 2004.

"Cross-Dressing and Comedy in Plautus' Menaechmi"; given at the 96th Annual Meeting of CAMWS, Knoxville, Tennessee, 6 April 2000.

Professional/TeachingExperience

Papyrologist
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LECCEUNIVERSITY ARCHAEOLOGICAL MISSION TO SOKNOPAIOU NESOS
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Fayyum, Egypt
Assisted in excavation and survey; cataloguing, photographing, and conserving ostraca and papyri found on-site; and in writing preliminary excavation report. November-December 2004, 2005
Contact: Mario Capasso ()
Instructor
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DEPARTMENT OF THE CLASSICS, UC BERKELEY
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Berkeley, CA
Courses taught:Classics 10a (Intro to Greek Civ), TA Fall 2006; Latin 15 (Ovid's Ars Amatoriaand Cicero's De Re Publica), Sum. 2006; Greek 15 (Herodotus 1 and NT), Sum. 2005; Latin Prose Comp., Spg. 2005; Greek 15 (Grammar drilling), Sum. 2005; Latin 1, Spg. 2004
Contact: Mark Griffith ()
Researcher
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CENTER FOR THE TEBTUNIS PAPYRI, UC BERKELEY
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Berkeley, CA
Responsible for preparing texts and commentaries on unpublished papyri for publication in future P. Tebt. volumes. Fall 2006, Spg. 2003
Contact: Todd Hickey ()
Publications Assistant
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UKRAINIAN RESEARCH INSTITUTE PUBLICATIONS
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Cambridge, MA

Publications Assistant and Proofreader. 1998-2000

Contact: Robert De Lossa ()

Praktikant(Intern)

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PREUSSENELEKTRA AG

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Hannover, Germany

Worked in the Human Resources Division with university recruiting, wrote English employee manual and revised German version. Set up meetings between interns and management. Summer 1999

Contact:Ulrike Lehmann ()

Kindergarten Teacher

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JUMPSTART (AMERICORPS)

/ Boston, MA
Preschool tutor during the 1996-8 school years and taught kindergarten in summer 1997. Helped plan 1997 Boston Learning Fair.
Contact: Venita Toussaint ()

Committees: Graduate Program Committee (UC Berkeley Classics Department, 2003-2004: proposed graduate minor in epigraphy/papyrology); Search committee for position in papyrology (UC Berkeley Classics Department, Spring 2004); Graduate Liaison (UC Berkeley Classics Department, 2004-2005).

Languages: German,Hungarian, Italian, Latin. Reading knowledge of French, Ancient Greek, Coptic, Demotic Egyptian.