NIKOLAOS LAZARIDIS S CURRICULUM VITAE ACADEMIC POSITIONS 1) Associate Professor of Ancient Mediterranean History, California State University Sacramento (since 2016) 2) Assistant Professor of Ancient Mediterranean History, California State University Sacramento (2009-2016) 3) Postdoctoral fellow of the Institute for Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen (2007-2009) 4) Adjunct Assistant Professor of Egyptology, The American University in Cairo (2007) EDUCATION 1) D.Phil. in Oriental Studies (Egyptology) and Classics, Oxford University (2002-2005) 2) M.Phil. in Oriental Studies (Egyptology), Oxford University (2000-2002) 3) BA in Egyptology, The American University in Cairo (1996-2000) SELECT AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS 1) CSU Sacramento Research and Creative Activity award (2015; 2016; 2017; 2018) 2) Sacramento State s University Award for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity for Early-Career Faculty (2016) 3) National Endowment for Humanities Scholarly Editions and Translations award (2014-2015) 4) CSU Sacramento Pedagogy Enhancement award (2014) 5) CSU Sacramento College of Arts and Letters Scholarship and Creative Activity award (2013) 6) NWO (Nederlands Foundation for Scientific Research) Post-doctoral Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Veni (2007-2009) 7) Merton College Domus Graduate Scholarship (2002-2005) 8) Arts and Humanities Research Council Scholarship (2002-2005) 9) Oxford University Oriental Institute Graduate Scholarship (2001-2005)
10) Onassis Foundation Scholarship (2001-2002) FIELDWORK 1) Head epigrapher of North Kharga Oasis Survey team (since 2007) 2) Surveyor in North Kharga Oasis Survey team (2004) 3) Assistant archaeologist at a Classical and Post-classical cemetery site at Thermes, Greece (1999) 4) Student trainee at the site of Dispilio in Kastoria, Greece (1998) TEACHING 1) Undergraduate courses: History of Ancient Greece (CSUS, since 2009); History of Ancient Rome (CSUS, since 2009); History of the Ancient Near East (CSUS, since 2009); History and culture of Ancient Egypt (CSUS, since 2012); Ancient Greek language and written culture (CSUS, since 2012); Senior seminars on a variety of subjects relating to Ancient History (CSUS, since 2009); Egyptian hieroglyphs (CSUS, since 2012); Introduction to Ancient Egypt (AUC, 2007); Hieroglyphs II (AUC, 2007) 2) Graduate courses: seminars on a variety of ancient world-related subjects, such as Humor in ancient Mediterranean literature, Travel and geography in the ancient Mediterranean, or Reconstructing ancient Egyptian history ; Ancient Greek (CSUS, since 2010); Egyptian hieroglyphs (CSUS, since 2010); Oriental influences on Classical literature (Radboud University, Fall 2008) 3) Select graduate theses and exams (CSUS, since 2009): Natural disasters in ancient Mediterranean mythology ; Stoicism ; Ancient Greek novel ; Legal systems in the ancient Mediterranean ; Religion in Plautus ; Religion in early Roman empire ; Ancient Near Eastern science ; The cult of Isis. RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS, SEMINARS, AND PUBLIC LECTURES 1) Emotion in Egyptian storytelling: expressing anger in narrative literature, to be delivered at the IFAO study day Visualiser les émotions dans l Égypte ancienne: images et textes (2018)
2) Desert deviations: Massaging standard writing conventions in North Kharga s ancient graffiti, to be delivered at the Ninth International Conference of the Dakhleh Oasis Project (2018) 3) Hey, teachers! Leave them kids alone. North Kharga rock graffiti deviations from standard writing conventions, at the 2018 Annual ARCE Meeting (2018) 4) Voices from the desert: ancient travelers rock graffiti in Kharga Oasis, Egypt, for ARCE Oregon Chapter (2017) 5) Γνωριμία με το αφηγηματικό στυλ της αρχαίας αιγυπτιακής λογοτεχνίας (Introducing the art of storytelling in ancient Egyptian literature), invited lecture at the Department of Philology, University of Crete (2017) 6) A journey within a journey: The investigation of an ancient Egyptian traveller s graffito in Kharga Oasis at the University of Crete conference What to do with the fragments. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step (2017) 7) Writing in transit: a glance at Egyptian travellers graffiti north of Kharga Oasis, invited lecture at the Griffith Institute, Oxford University (2017) 8) Carved deities, protected travelers: invoking the Divine in the western desert, at the conference Environment & Religion in Ancient & Coptic Egypt (2017) 9) Action and private space in ancient Egyptian narrative, at the Université catholique de Louvain conference Time and Space in Ancient Egypt (2016) 10) Αρχαίοι ταξιδιώτες και τα χαράγματά τους στην όαση Χάργκα της δυτικής αιγυπτιακής ερήμου (Ancient travelers and their graffiti in Kharga Oasis, Egypt s Western Desert), public lecture for the Archeological Museum of Thessaloniki (2016) 11) Questioning Pharaonic power: freedom and dissidence in ancient Egyptian literature, for the One-World Initiative program (2016) 12) Daring the desert: ancient travelers and their rock graffiti in Kharga Oasis, Egypt, at Sacramento State s University Award reception (2016) 13) Plutarch s Isis and Osiris as evidence for Greco-Egyptian cultural interaction, invited seminar at UC Davis Classics Department (2016) 14) Ancient travelers inscriptions from Kharga oasis, at UC Berkeley s Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology group meeting (2015)
ONGOING AND FUTURE PROJECTS 1) Narrative techniques in the literatures of ancient Egypt and Greece 2) Epigraphic and papyrological evidence from Kharga Oasis, Egypt 3) Egyptian and Egyptianizing artifacts in the Iron Age Greek world 4) The impact of natural environment on ancient Near Eastern and Classical literatures 5) Comparative grammar of ancient Egyptian and Attic Greek 6) The religious practices of travelers in ancient Egypt 7) Ethical systems in the ancient Near East SELECT PUBLICATIONS 1) Voices from Ancient Greece: Sources on the Greek society, culture, and history, Preliminary edition (San Diego: Cognella Publishing 2018) 2) Carving out identities in the Egyptian desert: self-presentation styles and adopted by the ancient travelers of Kharga Oasis, in: Proceedings of the XI International Congress of Egyptologists, Florence, Italy 23-30 August 2015, Museo Egizio Firenze, ed. Gl. Rosati and M. Chr. Guidotti, Archaeopress Egyptology 19 (Oxford: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd 2017), 328-332 1) Hyperbole in demotic wisdom, in: Illuminating Osiris. Egyptological studies in honor of Mark Smith, ed. R. Jasnow and Gh. Widmer, Visual and Material Culture of Egypt 2 (Bristol, CT: Lockwood Press 2016), 215-220 2) Different Parallels, Different Interpretations: Reading parallels between Ancient Egyptian and Greek works of literature, in: Graeco-Egyptian Interactions Literature, Translation, and Culture, 500 BC-AD 300, ed. I. Rutherford (Oxford: Oxford U.P. 2016), 187-207 1) Proceedings of the X th International Congress of Egyptologists, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, May 22-29 2008, co-edited with P. Kousoulis, Orientalia Lovaniensia Analecta 241 (Leuven: Peeters 2015) 2) Amun-Ra, lord of the sky: A deity for travellers of the western desert, British Museum Studies of Ancient Egypt and Sudan 22 (2015): 44-60 3) Crossing the Egyptian desert: Epigraphic work at Kharga oasis, forthcoming in Maarav: a Journal of Northwest Semitic 19.1-2 (2012) [published in 2015]: 117-129
4) Time in timeless wisdom: the use of tense in Egyptian and Greek sayings (with some advice to grammarians), in: Acts of the Tenth International Congress of Demotic Studies, Leuven, 26-30 August 2008, ed. M. Depauw and Y. Broux, OLA 231 (Leuven: Peeters 2014), 123-139 5) Physical characterization in ancient Egyptian narrative literature: a case study in ancient stylistics, Égypte Nilotique et Méditerranéenne 6 (2013): 123-137 6) Education and Apprenticeship, in UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, ed. E. Frood and W. Wendrich (Los Angeles 2010) 7) Labelling Wisdom: What makes the sentences of Demotic and Greek wisdom texts proverbs and what not?, in Actes du IXe congrès international des études démotiques: Paris, 31 août-3 septembre 2005, ed. G. Widmer and D. Devauchelle, Bibliothèque d étude 147 (Cairo: IFAO 2009), 157-172 8) Notes on the forms and uses of didactic language in ancient Egyptian and Greek narrative works, Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 36 (2009): 67-87 9) Ethics, in UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, ed. E. Frood and W. Wendrich (Los Angeles 2008) 10) Wisdom in Loose Form: The Language of Egyptian and Greek Proverbs in Collections from the Hellenistic and Roman Periods, Mnemosyne, Supplements 287 (Leiden: Brill 2007)