SARAH A. JAMES Department of Classics University of Colorado Boulder Eaton Humanities 340, UCB 248 Boulder, CO 80309-0248 (303) 492-0252 sarah.a.james[@]colorado.edu EDUCATION 2010 Ph.D., Classical Archaeology, The University of Texas at Austin 2003-2004 Regular Member, American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2003 M.A., History of Art, University of Toronto 2001 Hon. B.A., Anthropology, University of Toronto, Trinity College EMPLOYMENT 2012-present Assistant Professor, University of Colorado Boulder 2011 Lecturer, The University of Texas at Austin PUBLICATIONS Books 2017 Corinth VII.7: The Hellenistic Fine Wares, ASCSA Princeton. 2017 Corinth Excavations Archaeological Manual, co-authored with G. Sanders and A. Carter Johnson, UND Digital Press Journal Articles 2014 G. Sanders, S. James, I. Tzonou-Herbst, and J. Herbst, The Panayia Field Excavations at Corinth: The Neolithic to Hellenistic Phases, Hesperia 83.1, 1-79. 2010 W.R. Caraher, D.K. Pettegrew, and S. James, Towers and Fortifications at Vayia in the Southeast Corinthia, Hesperia 79.3, 385-415. 2006 The Thebes tablets and the Fq series: A Contextual Analysis, Minos 37-38 (2002 2003), 397-418. Edited Volumes 2014 D. Nakassis, J. Gulizio, and S. James, editors. KE-RA-ME-JA: Studies Presented to Cynthia W. Shelmerdine (Philadelphia: INSTAP Academic Press). 2013 S. Friesen, S. James and D. Schowalter, editors. Corinth in Contrast: Studies in Inequality, Novum Testamentum Supplement 155 (Leiden/Boston: Brill). 1
Book chapters 2015 New Hellenistic Pottery Deposits from the Panayia Field, Corinth, in 8 th Scientific Hellenistic Pottery Conference, Ioannina, eds. S. Drougou et al., Athens, 529-534. (written in modern Greek) 2014 Bridging the Gap: Reconsidering local pottery production in Corinth 146 44 BC, in Pottery, Peoples, and Places, eds. P. Bilde and M. Lawall, Black Sea Studies 16, Aarhus, 47-64. 2013 The Last of the Corinthians? Society and Settlement from 146 to 44 B.C.E., in Corinth in Contrast: Studies in Inequality, eds. S. Friesen, S. James and D. Schowalter, Leiden, 17-37. 2013 S. Friesen, S. James and D. Schowalter, Inequality in Corinth, in Corinth in Contrast: Studies in Inequality, eds. S. Friesen, S. James and D. Schowalter, Leiden, 1-13. Book Reviews Review of Rotroff (S.) Industrial Religion: the Saucer Pyres of the Athenian Agora, AJA October 2016 (AJA online) Review of Dixon (M.D.) Late Classical and Early Hellenistic Corinth: 338-196 B.C., Classical Review 66.1, April 2016, 1-4. Forthcoming publications New Excavations in the South Stoa at Corinth, Hesperia (forthcoming 2018/9) Stratified Assemblages: The Hellenistic Ceramics, in Sikyon I: The Urban Survey, Y. Lolos ed., MELETEMATA series (in press) Kraters and Drinking Practices in Hellenistic Corinth Proceedings of the 2 nd Conference of the International Association for Research on Pottery in the Hellenistic Period, Lyon France, Nov. 5-9, 2015 (forthcoming) Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic Shipwrecks along the Eastern Adriatic Coast: 2007-2012 Seasons in Albania and Montenegro of the Illyrian Coastal Exploration Program, (submitted) Trade and Interactions based on the imported pottery from Hellenistic Corinth, Proceedings of the 3 rd Conference of the International Association for Research on Pottery of the Hellenistic Period, Kastela, Croatia, June 1-4, 2017 (submitted) 2
AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2017 GCAH Special Event Grant, CU Boulder 2015-2016 NEH Fellowship, American School of Classical Studies at Athens (ASCSA) 2015-2016 Kress Publication Fellowship, ASCSA 2015 Kayden Research Grant, CU Boulder 2015 GCAH Research Award, CU Boulder 2014 GCAH Special Event Grant, CU Boulder 2011-2012 Kress Publication Fellowship, ASCSA 2011 Mediterranean Archaeological Trust Grant 2011 Dickson Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin 2010 Henry Robinson Corinth Research Fellowship, ASCSA 2008-2009 William S. Livingston Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin 2008 American Philological Association, Outstanding Student Award 2007-2008 Dorothy B. and Homer A. Thompson Fellowship, ASCSA 2007-2008 David Bruton Award, University of Texas at Austin 2001 Kenneth A. Hemblen Award in Aegean Studies, University of Toronto RECENT TALKS 2016 The Western Argolid Regional Project: Results of the 2016 Season. AIA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 9-11 2016 Late Hellenistic to Early Roman Corinth: Tradition and Transformation after 146 BC, University of Oxford, Roman Archaeology Seminar, April 25. 2016 The Western Argolid Regional Project: Results of the 2015 Season. AIA Annual Meeting, San Francisco, January 9-11 2015 Kraters and Drinking Practices in Hellenistic Corinth 2 nd Meeting of the International Association for Research on Pottery in the Hellenistic Period, Lyon France, Nov. 5-9 2015 The Western Argolid Regional Project: Results of the 2014 Season. AIA Annual Meeting, New Orleans, LA, January 9-11 2014 Don t Believe Everything You Read: Texts, Archaeology, and the Destruction of Corinth in 146 BC. AIA Lecture Series, Boulder, CO, April 16, 2014 2014 From Shipwrecks to Pirates: Maritime Archaeology in the Ancient Mediterranean. McClanahan Lecture, Boulder CO, April 10, 2014 (given in November 2015 for the AIA Denver Society) 3
2013 Late Hellenistic Corinth: New Finds from the Panayia Field. Canadian Institute in Greece, Athens, Greece, November 27, 2013 2013 Hellenistic Pottery from Sikyon: Regional Patterns and Local Innovations in the northeast Peloponnese. International Association for Research on Pottery of the Hellenistic Period, Berlin, Germany, November 7-10 2012 Hellenistic Imports from Corinth: An examination of trade networks in the late Hellenistic period. 9 th Scientific Hellenistic Pottery Conference, Thessaloniki, Greece, December 5-8, 2012 ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIELDWORK 2017-present 2012-present Director: Southern Croatia Archaelogical Regional Project (SCARP) Co-director: Western Argolid Regional Project (WARP) 2010-present Sikyon Archaeological Project: Assistant director (2013-2004-present present), Ceramics specialist (2010-present) Corinth Excavations: Field director: New Apotheke Excavations (2016); Field director: Special Project South Stoa (2015); Senior Researcher (2010-present); Assistant lab director (2008-2012); museum curator and assistant director (9/2009-1/2010); Field director (2005-2007); Area supervisor (2004) 2012-2016 Illyrian Coast Exploration Project: Ceramics specialist 2012-2014 Diros Project: Ceramics specialist 2001-2002 Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: Team leader and finds processor (2002); Field walker (2001) 2001 Iklaina Archaeological Project: Field walker and ceramics processor 1999 Stymphalos Excavations: Excavator 1998 Ashbridge Excavations, Toronto, Ontario: Excavato TEACHING ACTIVITIES Courses Taught CLAS/ANTH 2009/3009 Modern Issues, Ancient Times: Greco-Roman Drinking and Dining (Spring 2013, Spring 2015) CLAS/ARTH 3039/2039 Greek Art and Archaeology (Spring 2014, Fall 2014, Spring 2017, Fall 2017) CLAS/ARTH 4149/5149 Greek Cities and Sanctuaries (Fall 2012, Fall 2017) 4
CLAS/ARTH 4169/5169 Topics in Greek Art and Archaeology: Greek Sculpture (Fall 2012, Spring 2014, Fall 2015) CLAS/ARTH 4159/5159 Greek Vase Painting (Fall 2014, Spring 2017) CLAS/ARTH 4169/5139 Hellenistic Archaeology (Spring 2013, Spring 2015) CLAS/ARTH 4209 Classical Archaeological Field Methods (Summer 2014, 2015, 2016) CLAS/ARTH 5179 City of Athens (Fall 2015) Thesis Supervision Undergraduate Fall 2015 Fall 2015 Honors thesis: Timothy Barham, A Renewal of Systems Theory: Using Modern Dynamical Systems as a Qualitative Methods for Understanding Relational Power in Late Bronze Age Greece, (awarded summa cum laude) Honors thesis: Alexandra Heller, From Architecture to Graves: The Development of Emotion in Ancient Greek Sculpture, (awarded magna cum laude) Spring 2015 Honors thesis: Leslie Fowler, Territory, Terracottas, and Tombs: The Evidence Against Argive Hegemony in the 8 th c. BC. (awarded summa cum laude) Spring 2014 Honors thesis: Elizabeth M. Cummings, Contextualizing Crete within the Hellenistic Aegean: The Cretan Mirage, Commerce, and Piracy. (awarded summa cum laude) M.A. Committees Spring 2014 First-Year review committee member: Nicole Krou, Department of Art and Art History, Sculpture and Post-Studio Art Practice program Spring 2013 M.A. thesis committee: Jonathan Gress, The Coinage of the Peloponnese under Septimius Severus, (supervisor Noel Lenski, Department of Classics) Ph.D Committee Spring 2016- present Ph.D Supervisor: Giorgos Giannokopoulos The Classical Pottery from Sikyon, University of Crete, Department of Archaeology 5
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE AND MEMBERSHIPS 2013-present International Association for Research on Pottery of the Hellenistic Period: Secretary (2015-present); Member (2013-present) 2013-present American School of Classical Studies: Managing Committee member 2011-present Canadian Institute in Greece: Member 2003-present Archaeological Institute of America: President of Boulder Society (2014-present); Graduate Student Paper Committee (2014- present); Member (2003-present) DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE 2015-present Undergraduate Advisory Committee, Member 2015-present Boulder Faculty Assembly, Department Representative 2012-present M.A. Art and Archaeology Exam Committee, Member 2015-2016 ARPAC Committee, Member 2015-2016 McClanahan Prize Committee, Member 2015 Colorado Classics Day Committee, Member 2014-2015 Graduate Advisory Committee, Member 2014-2015 Honors Council, Department Representative 2014-2015 Fountain Symposium Committee, Member 2012-2015 Diversity Committee, Chair 6