BARBARA SAYLOR RODGERS

Born:  29 July 1946 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA

Education:  American Community School, Beirut, Lebanon 1960-1964
  Brown University 1964-1965, 1966-1969, A.B. Greek 1969
  University of California, Berkeley, 1971-1978
   M.A. Greek, 1974 M.A. Latin, 1976
   C.Phil. Classics, Dec. 1976
   Ph.D. Classics, 1978

Employment: UC Berkeley: Teaching Assistant, 1972-1976
    Acting Instructor, 1976-1977;  Lecturer, 1978-1979
    Visiting Professor, Spring 1985
    Visiting Scholar, Spring 1994
   University of Vermont: Assistant Professor 1979-1985
   Associate Professor 1985-97, Professor 1997- Chair 1995-2001

Books:

(with C.E.V. Nixon): In Praise of Later Roman Emperors. The Panegyrici Latini: Introduction, Translation and Historical Commentary.  UC Press 1994 (1995)

In progress:
"If History is Rhetoric, Is Rhetoric History? Cicero, Sulla, and the Defense of Roscius"

"Cicero's Humanity", a monograph on the meaning of humanitas, the adjective humanus, and their opposites, to Romans before Cicero's time and, especially, to Cicero himself, and the influence of his conception on subsequent generations.

Articles:
"Constantine's Pagan Vision," Byzantion 50 (1980) 259-278

"Merobaudes and Maximus in Gaul," Historia 30 (1981) 82-105

"Divine Insinuation in the Panegyrici Latini," Historia 35 (1986) 69-104

"Great Expeditions: Livy on Thucydides," TAPA 116 (1986) 335-352

"Eumenius of Augustodunum," Ancient Society 20 (1989) 249-266

"The Metamorphosis of Constantine," Classical Quarterly 39 (1989) 233-246

"Latin Prose Composition," NECJ 33 (2006) 36-38

In progress: "What Catulus Said (and when he said it)"

Reviews:
M. Grant, From Alexander to Cleopatra, in New England Classical Newsletter  11:3  (1984) 35

J. Lehner, Poesie und Politik in Claudians Panegyrikus auf das vierte Konsulat des Kaisers Honorius. Ein Kommentar, in American Journal of Philology 107 (1986) 445-446

Pat Southern, The Roman Empire from Severus to Constantine in New England Classical Journal 29.4 (2002) 266-269

Theodora Hantos (ed.), Laurea internationalis. Festschrift für Jochen Bleicken zum 75. Geburtstag in Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews 2005 (web publication)

Michael Peachin, Frontinus and the curae of the curator aquarum in Classical Review (forthcoming)

Papers:
Vermont Seminars, October 1980, "The Deified Emperor"
UVM Classics Dept. Translation Seminar, October 1981
UMBRA Seminar at UVM, Nov. 1982, "Forgers and Carbon-Copyists"
UVM Religion Department Seminar, April 1983, "Divine Insinuation in the Panegyrici Latini"
APA Panel, December 1983, "Treatment and Mistreatment of Tradition in Fourth- and Fifth-Century Latin Literature"
UVM Vermont Seminars, September 1985, "The Ruler-Cult in Late Antiquity"
University of Oregon, February 1987, "Tomorrow is Yesterday: The Invention of Tradition in Late Antiquity"
University of Chicago, February 1987, "Tomorrow is Yesterday: The Invention of Tradition in Late Antiquity"
CANE Annual Meeting, March 1991, "The Importance of Being Trajan"
UC Berkeley April 1994, "The Importance of Being Trajan" (revised)
UC Santa Barbara May 1994, "The Importance of Being Trajan" (further revised)
CANE Annual Meeting, March 1995, "E-Mail and Lists as Aids to Scholarship"
VCLA Annual Meeting, October 1995, "Hidden Epigrams and Winged Words"
UC Berkeley, December 1995, Co-organizer and Moderator of "Sources and Source-Criticism: A Conference in Honor of Paul J. Alexander"
APA panel, January 2006, "Redundancy and Interpolation in the Orations of Symmachus"

College/University Service:
First- and second-year student adviser, 1980-present
Faculty adviser for Eta Sigma Phi 1981-1998
COBE Sub-Committee, Spring 1980
Latin Day planning meetings and participation every year
Ad hoc committee to review Classics Department chair, Fall 1981
Ad hoc committee to choose department chair (Romance Languages), Spring 1984
Arts & Sciences Curriculum Committee, 1984-1987 (Chair, 1986); fall 1992
Arts & Sciences Faculty Standards Committee, 1987-1990    Chair, 1989-1990
Chair, Ad hoc committee to review Religion Department chair, Spring 1989
Ad hoc committee on computers in Arts and Sciences, 1990
Dean's committee to recognize excellence in teaching & scholarship, Summer 1990-Spring 1993
Ad hoc committee on salary compression, Fall 1990- Spring 1991
Committee to review Living/Learning Program 1990-1991
Chair, Ad hoc committee to choose department chair (Sociology), 1990-91
Committee to review submissions for UVM Computer Conference, 1992
Arts & Sciences Writing Board, Chair, Spring 1992-
 ex officio member of Curriculum Task Force, Spring 1992
Arts & Sciences Representative to Presidential Search Committee, 1992-3
Presentation on Rome for grade school children in Milton VT (April 1994)
Teaching elementary Greek at the Gailer school in Middlebury VT, 1994-95
Arts & Sciences Committee on Academic Standing, 1994-5
Presentations on Alexander the Great and Roman voting assemblies at Gailer school, spring 1995
Classics department workshop on use of computer resources: PHI and TLG
  Department resource person for Perseus workshop, May 1995
Arts & Sciences orientation advisor (frequently)
Presentation on lead bullets for Essex Junction high school (November 1995)
Middle Eastern Studies Executive Committee 1995-present
PBK membership committee, chair 1995-98
Graduate Council Executive Committee 1995-98
 Graduate college standards sub-committee member 1995-98; Chair 1996-98
Teaching elementary Latin at the Gailer school in Middlebury VT, fall 1996
Creation and implementation of Vermont Latin Sight Translation Exam 1997-present
Ad hoc committee to choose department chair (History), Fall 1998
Ad hoc Graduate College committee to review Master's program in German 1998
University marshal at commencement, 1998-2000
Presentation on Roman army for Essex Junction high school (April 1999)
Presentation at Orange Center School on Greek army (May 1999)
Deaf and Disability Awareness Month committee and participant 2000
Presentation at Williston Central School on Roman Empire (February 2002)
Presentation at Mt. Abraham Union High School on Cicero (April 2002)
A&S Committee on Honors and Individual Design Majors 2003-2006; Person in charge of IDMs 2004-2005; chair of committee 2005-2006
Presentation on Roman military disasters for Essex Junction high school Latin club (November 2003)

Professional Service:
Article referee for AJP (2000), CJ (1994), CP (1987, 1989, 2003), GRBS (1995), TAPA (1984-87, 1989, 1994, 1999), IJCT (1997), Phoenix (2005)
Book referee for University of North Carolina Press (1994), University of California Press (1998), Penguin books (1998), St. Martin's Press (1998), Routledge (2000)

Professional Memberships:
 American Philological Association
 Classical Association of New England
 Vermont Classical Languages Association