Winter 2011 Newsletter

2010 Report of the VP for Professional Matters

The Division of Professional Matters includes under its jurisdiction the Subcommittee on Professional Ethics, the Committee on Placement, the Committee on the Status of Women and Minority Groups, and the Classics Advisory Service. Here follow brief reports from each committee, covering matters that were discussed at the annual APA meeting in San Antonio.

Subcommittee on Professional Ethics. Various questions were presented for consideration by the committee; as always, our deliberations are strictly confidential. The communication of outcomes is still pending in one case that has occupied the committee for the past year.

Professional Matters Committee. The majority of the meeting of the corporate Professional Matters Committee was spent hearing reports from the committees under its purview (see below for details) and discussing more effective methods for data collection. The next version of theAPA Guide to Graduate Programs will be placed online, a move that should greatly increase its availability and use. The next APA census, scheduled for this spring, will be conducted electronically. The online version of the census form should simplify distribution, completion, as well as collection and tally of results. The Committee is hoping that it will also dramatically raise the response rate, which, for the last census, was deplorably low (below 50%). A recommendation was made to appoint ad hoc committees to reconsider in a general and comprehensive way all of our current informational surveys, their methods and purpose.

Committee on Placement(Submitted by Erich Gruen). The Placement Committee received only one seriously troublesome complaint this past year. It involved mutual charges of impropriety between members of the same department regarding the search for a senior appointment. We considered carefully the allegations made, sought additional information from both parties and from the dean, exchanged a number of e-mails, and reached a unanimous conclusion. We sent a letter of disapproval to one of the parties, while cautioning the other against registering grievances against irregularities that could not be established. This may not be altogether Solomonic, but the issue was resolved and both parties acknowledged acceptance of the verdict. The matter did, however, raise larger issues, which the committee continues to pursue. A few other, lesser points of contention or inquiries were settled through correspondence by the chair.

The Committee meeting in San Antonio produced discussion of several items that remain part of our agenda through the coming year: increased automation for scheduling of interviews, new regulations for searches that involve senior candidates, interviewing by Skype, undue pressures on candidates to make early decisions, and the continuing effort to encourage PhDs to consider careers in secondary schools. This last was the subject of our panel in San Antonio. And there is strong sentiment to continue this in another form in the next APA Annual Meeting.

Committee on the Status of Women and Minority Groups (Submitted by Stephen Trzaskoma). At its meeting in San Antonio, the Committee on the Status of Women and Minority Groups chiefly dealt with draft reports on the Placement and Journals Surveys and the Departmental Census, all of which after a delay of some years were very near to completion aside from some minor technical matters. CSWMG members had worked on Placement and Journals with members of the Placement and Publications Committees, respectively, and everyone had been charged with not only the traditional duty of analyzing the data as it had been collected but also evaluating the process from data collection to interpretation. Those who had been directly involved in the process made various recommendations based on their concerns that the bulk of the data had little to do with tracking the status of women and minorities in the profession, that the procedures for collecting data were awkward and inefficient, and that interpretation was hampered by low response rates and lack of methodological rigor.

The new Placement Report benefited greatly from the (pro bono) involvement of an outside professional consultant and points the way toward better methods. Because we will rarely have such unremunerated outside help, it was strongly urged that the APA hire consultants to analyze the data we collect and to make recommendations about what data we ought to be collecting in the first place to answer the questions we would like to have answered. Streamlining the data reporting process should allow CSWMG in the future to return to a greater advocacy role and focus its energies on its immediate charges. To those ends, the committee recommended to the Vice President for Professional Matters that he appoint three ad hoc committees to continue the process of looking into the three areas of reporting and, with input from CSWMG and the other relevant committees, to redesign completely the way in which they are handled.

Classics Advisory Service (Submitted by John F. Miller).

1. Since I took over in January of 2010 the CAS has been in contact with thirteen colleges and universities, nine in the US and three in the UK.
2. The bulk of the work has been in support of departments and programs in crisis, whether threatened with extinction or otherwise under stress. A letter from the APA President to the authorities in question is almost always part of our response but in some cases other strategies are used. We always take our lead from the wishes of the local department. In some cases a general letter-writing campaign was felt to be counter-productive because it was likely to alienate administrators, but some colleagues found this a productive strategy. Enlisting the aid of parents can be effective in some cases. Different traditions of faculty governance may recommend one or another approach to a dean or provost by the APA. In calendar 2010 we worked on eight cases, with one still ongoing. At issue was (or is) the elimination of positions—in two cases amounting to half the instructors in Classics—the closing of departments, the downgrading of a department to a program, and the cancellation of a flourishing Latin program along with terminating an Associate Professor of 30 years service. A couple of these programs—but (alas) only a couple—managed to stave off the threats.
3. The CAS also responded to requests from three colleges and one university for suggestions of suitable evaluators of their programs; two other colleges asked for assistance in developing or creating a Classics program.
4. The web page of the Classics Advisory Service will be revised during the present academic year.
5. Responses to several threatened programs were profitably coordinated with CAMWS. At the convention in San Antonio the representatives of all the regional and national organizations agreed to pool their resources for this purpose in the future.

Respectfully submitted,

James M. May

2010 Report of the VP for Publications

The Division of Publications welcomed the inaugural meeting of theAssociation's first Web Architect, Professor Samuel Huskey of Oklahoma. His presence in all our meetings and his active engagement in the coming years bode very well indeed for the Association and its ability to communicate its business and its mission to many audiences. He will take immediate charge of the Association's website, now empowered by a new "content management system" to be a more flexible and attractive tool for our various communications purposes. In conjunction with VP Hallett of the Division of Outreach, he is already exploring the possibilities of the new social media to our benefit, but he is as well taking a reflective and longer look at the future. He will be engaged during 2011 in various virtual and corporeal meetings and discussions, both within the Association, with other scholars of the ancient world, and with colleagues from the American Council of Learned Societies and its constituent organizations.

One valuable activity at the annual meetings in recent years has been an informal gathering called "the website meeting", when the Executive Director, the sitting Presidents (praesens, quondam, et futurus), and the Vice Presidents meet together with the "website editor" to discuss common issues. This has been chaired by one or another of the sitting officers, but we propose now to regularize the meeting and place it under the chairship of the Information Architect as the place where our Associations' overall communication strategy is reinterpreted, reshaped, and enacted.

The search for an editor of our monographs series has not yetsucceeded; expressions of interest and nominations are still welcome. In the meantime, outgoing editor Kathryn Gutzwiller received the warm thanks of the Committee and the Vice President. She reports that since last year's report, two manuscripts have been published: Bob Kaster, Studies on the Text of Macrobius’ “Saturnalia” (companion piece to his just-published Loeb of the Saturnalia and forthcoming OCT) and Scott Garner, Traditional Elegy: The Interplay of Meter,Tradition, and Context in Early Greek Poetry. One further manuscript has gone into production: Sean Gurd, Work in Progress: LiteraryRevision as Social Performance in Ancient Rome. Of two proposals received, one was accepted and one rejected on the basis of length. One manuscript is currently under review. As Vice President, I will be meeting with OUP representatives in New York in March to discuss the terms of our continued relationship; and will also serve adinterimas editor for all purposes of works in progress, supported by various colleagues.

Professor Katharina Volk is well in to her term as editor of TAPA. In 2010, the journal published two issues, 140.1 (spring; containing an Editor's Note and papers by Ruby Blondell, Victoria Wohl, Edwin Carawan, Rana Saadi Liebert, Kathy L. Gaca, Sara H. Lindheim, and Emma Scioli) and 140.2 (autumn; containing Josiah Ober's Presidential Address and papers by Alex Gottesman, Alex C. Purves, Owen Goslin, José M. González, William Hutton, and Dunstan Lowe). Issue 141.1 (containing papers by James I. Porter, Miguel Herrero de Jáuregui, John Heath, Mary T. Boatwright, Randall J. Pogorzelski, Tim Stover, and Giovanni Ruffini) is currently in press and expected to be published in late spring.

During the year, TAPA received 42 submissions, of which two wereresubmissions. Four were not sent out for review, 17 were rejected, 11 were accepted, four were invited to revise and resubmit, and 6 were still sub iudice at the time of our meetings. Thirty of the items were primarily literary (13 Greek, 17 Latin), seven historical (four Greek, three Roman), 2 archaeological, and 3 from the domains of philosophy and law. 25 were authored by males, 18 by females (one paper co-authored).

Professor Sander Goldberg serves as editor for textbooks, taking anambitious and appropriate view of the need to make each contribution count. He reports that George Sheets' translation of the Hausmaninger-Gamauf Casebook on Roman Property Law is now in production at OUP. In addition, Prof. Sheets has provided extensive supplementary classroom material that will be available on an accompanying website hosted by the press. A commentary on Cicero, Pro Murena is currently out with two referees. Pending submissions to the Textbook Series include Lucian's True History and an anthology of Greek lyric.

Two electronic projects are also in the active planning stage: a self-styled 'multimedia commentary' on Martial's epigrams under the auspices of APA Textbooks and a full-functioned, web-based version of T.R.S. Broughton's Magistrates of the Roman Republic under the auspices of APA Classical Resources.

In the wake of the retreat conducted with members of the PublicationsCommittee, selected VPs and other invitees in Chicago in December 2009, we continue to explore ways in which the Association can best serve the needs of the profession and the Association's members. We are more in consensus now than perhaps before on the value of editorial mentoring that our monograph series provides and have renewed our search for an editor in that spirit; but we are also well aware of ambitions for more transformative change and were glad to welcome to the Committee's meeting former editor and board member Don Mastronarde, who reported on conversations that he has been having about bringing under way a series of "California Classical Monographs". We look forward to discussing further whether and how the Association could participate in that undertaking.

In closing, I can only salute with great warmth and great butinsufficient gratitude the services to the Association of two splendid colleagues. Professor Robin Mitchell-Boyask has served for twelve years as Web Editor, seeing us through from quite primitive times to the successful transformation to "content management" mentioned above. Few members of the Association can have spent anywhere near as much time doing work in itself often repetitive and niggling and yet of the highest value to our ability to operate in a way that serves the profession and our members. I do not know whether to admire more his intelligence or his collegiality, so I will settle by simply thanking him for his friendship.

Professor Kathryn Gutzwiller, meanwhile, steps down as editor formonographs after a term extended by a year for no better reason than because we asked her and she was unaccountably generous with her time and thought. She has been an exemplary model of what an Association editor should be: learned, exacting, kind, patient, collegial -- and ever in cheering good spirits. She too has my warmest thanks.

James J. O’Donnell

2010 Report of the VP for Research

I report first on the existing committees and projects reporting to the division, then on the group of exploratory task forces appointed early in 2010 after the Directors’ approval last year.

1. American Office of L’Année Philologique. Following the discussion at the October board meeting, where concerns were expressed about the methods of producing APh, the large share of the endowment resulting from the capital campaign that will be devoted to maintaining the American Office, and changing patterns of use of APh, a small group met in New York on October 20 (the President, Dee Clayman, the Executive Director, Adam Blistein, the Director of the American Office, Lisa Carson, the director of the APh website, Eric Rebillard, and myself, with Samuel Huskey joining us by phone for part of the meeting as incoming Information Architect). We talked about every aspect of the way APh is produced, how it is made available, how we train students in using bibliographies, and how the Association promotes APh to its membership and the larger community. This discussion continued at the Advisory Committee’s meeting in San Antonio, where Margarethe Billerbeck, president of SIBC, joined us.

In the area of access, APh will now make free trial subscriptions available to both individuals and institutions (the latter has been possible in the past but poorly publicized). The committee has also suggested creating a less expensive lowest-tier institutional subscription for small colleges. The evolution of the APA web site in the coming year, as well as its use of media like Facebook, will aim at much more aggressive promotion of APh, and a display at next year’s Annual Meeting is planned to show off the recently added features of APh, which we believe are poorly known to our constituency. The low levels of subscriptions (< 1000 for institutions and individuals combined) compared to the numbers using resources like the TLG suggests there is much room for improvement.

Discussions about how APh is produced and the costs that result from these methods are at a less conclusive stage, but such obvious moves as using author abstracts from journals rather than redoing them all from scratch are at present not supported by the Paris office. There is still significant work to be done in ensuring that the funds put into APh result in enough value added to justify themselves. There is considerable diversity of opinion about the possibility of crowd-sourcing of part of the content; those inside the project are generally negative. This is not a closed conversation, however. Our committee tends to favor ending production of the now unwieldy print version, which continues to drive many practices that add time and cost to the production of the database but which now generates a minority of the income and is neither the most up-to-date version available at any given moment nor the easiest to use.

We have made still less progress on thinking about derivatives of APh that might offer added value to our membership and be made available on the Web under open access terms. The major difficulty here is simply a lack of practicable suggestions of what might be useful, and we welcome ideas from the Directors and others. We have, however, come up with some suggestions for further enhancements in the use of APh. An underlying question is whether future scholars will actually use it extensively in their research, or whether they will begin with JSTOR or Google. There is much to be said for APh, including its international and multilingual character, and we all probably need to do better at teaching our students that an English-only, online-only approach to scholarship just isn’t acceptable.

The fall meeting also produced the recommendation (acted on at the Directors’ meeting on January 6) for the creation of a position of Chair of the advisory committee, separate from the Vice President. I would be very grateful for suggestions of possible candidates for this office, who should be distinguished and well-known scholars, passionate about bibliography, wise, diplomatic, fond of Paris, and fluent in French.

In conclusion I should say that the American Office has done an excellent job of keeping up with the routine work, with its ever-increasing pace of publication, and even in erasing part of the backlog from multi-author volumes and from Canadian material, a large backlog of which was dropped into their laps unexpectedly when the Canadian Office dematerialized.

2. TLL Fellowship Committee. Not much needs to be said on this subject at present. The committee continues to do its job in an exemplary fashion. Again this year, but in contrast to the situation in the rather recent past, there was a healthy crop of applicants, 16 by the deadline and 3 more after it. Moreover, Anthony Corbeill, the chair, reports that fully eight of the applicants were of a quality that they would cheerfully award them a fellowship.

3. The Task Forces. In October I was able to report on significant work done by some of these. There is now more to be added on some of those and there are reports by some groups we did not hear from in the fall.

3.1. Translations

There was a full, largely descriptive report in October by this group, chaired by Susanna Braund. I asked the group to think further about what the APA should do, and a follow-up report received just before the meeting recommended five actions.

1. Compile as complete as possible a list of translations of classical texts and post this on the APA web site. The Committee on Research endorses this proposal and suggests additionally that the information gathered be added to relevant Wikipedia entries, with links back to the APA site. We believe that an open compilation process, soliciting community contributions, would be desirable.
2. Solicit views from the classics community about texts not now available in translation of which translations are needed.
3. In particular, identify works susceptible to team translation along the lines of the Suda On Line project and organize editorial boards for these projects. These projects could be hosted in APA webspace.
4. Develop a relationship with a print publisher for those translations that would have a print market, or for print-on-demand versions of translations designed for digital existence.
5. Digitize out of print classical translations.

It will be evident that the first few tasks are essentially research work and the latter ones essentially publication.

Action item: Create a standing Committee on Translations of Classical Authors, reporting jointly to the Research and Publication Divisions, and charge it with carrying forward the proposals of the task force in cooperation with the respective vice presidents.

3.2. Latin Textual Corpus

There has been no report from this task force, mainly because of the serious illness of the co-chair’s father. We hope in 2011 for more activity here.

3.3. Summer Programs

There was a report in October from this group. I reported back to it the contents of the Directors’ discussion and asked for further consideration. A meeting of this task force was to take place in San Antonio.

3.4. Ancient Biography/Prosopography

There was a report in October from Richard Talbert on behalf of this group, indicating that there was no scope for any APA project in this area at present. That continues to be present, although there have been more recent developments with various of the European projects in the area of prosopography, and Vice President for Publications James O’Donnell reports that a project for turning Broughton’s Magistrates of the Roman Republic into a database is under consideration.

Action item: Dissolve the Task Force on Ancient Biography and charge the Committee on Research with continued monitoring of this area.

3.5. Biographical Database of Classical Scholars

Ward Briggs has followed up his earlier report with further progress. The template, with model content, is now fully developed, and the project is prepared to start adding significant bodies of material if funding can be found for the clerical and research assistance necessary. It is now the appropriate time to create a formal framework for this project. The Center for Digital Humanities at the University of South Carolina is prepared to be the host for the database, and it seems appropriate, along the lines of previous APA projects, for the USC to be the home of the project under the supervision of an APA committee.

Action item: Turn the task force into a standing Advisory Committee for the Biographical Database of Classical Scholars, and authorize the Executive Director to negotiate an agreement with the Center for Digital Humanities of the University of South Carolina for APA sponsorship of this project under the University’s management.

3.6. Performance Archive

Following the report of this group that I presented in October, a posting on the web site invited proposals to create such an archive. Several preliminary inquiries were received, and one pre-proposal, from the Center for Ancient Studies and the Aquila Theatre at NYU. The task force received this pre-proposal favorably, and the committee now recommends that we solicit definitive proposals for a March 31 deadline, keeping open the possibility that one or more other proposals might emerge in that time.

Action item: Authorize the setting of a March 31, 2011, deadline for receipt of detailed proposals by the Task Force, and authorize the Task Force to accept a proposal and work with an institution to develop a full project based in an institution and sponsored by the APA.

3.7. Research and the Profession

Barbara McManus recruited a task force to be chaired by Michael Gagarin.

3.8. Digital Peer Review and the APA Portal

Just before the meetings I received a detailed and thoughtful report from Cynthia Damon on behalf of this task force. They took up three topics that had been raised at the Research Committee’s retreat in September, 2009.

1. Should the APA consider ranking scholarly journals, in the manner that has been undertaken in Europe (and elsewhere) by national or international bodies? The task force thought this might be useful, but they did not find it terribly interesting and did not devote much time to it or make any recommendations about it. The Committee on Research thinks that on the whole the European process represents a more centralized approach to the evaluation of research than is characteristic of North America, and thought that it was hard to see how such a ranking would avoid a unidimensional approach to scholarly publishing. The committee therefore favors dropping this subject and indeed would oppose any involvement in such rankings.
   
2. How should the APA approach the task of maintaining a list of digital resources as part of its new portal? The committee’s discussions raised a number of concerns, including whether such a list would actually be consulted, and above all the member time that would be consumed in creating it. They asked whether the APA’s site would have enough focus to be of significant use.

   The Research Committee shared these concerns, but at the same time took a more optimistic view of the utility of a list if it was accompanied by information like the target audience of web resources and the kinds of uses to which they could be put. It did not feel that any fine-grained ranking would be a good idea, but it did think that some process for deciding what to include was unavoidable. The Executive Director has received a fair number of offers of volunteer services in identifying and describing sites, but the question is who would make the final decisions and on what basis, and what legitimacy such decisions would have.

   The Committee suggested for Board discussion a model in which the six elected non-officer directors would serve as a selection panel, the legitimacy and authority of which derives from their election and seems secure. It would be charged with establishing criteria for inclusion. The larger group of volunteers would be asked to identify sites and provide descriptions of them to allow this panel to make decisions. This and other possibilities will be discussed further at the Board’s next meeting.
   

3. The task force’s third question was whether the APA should establish a procedure for reviewing large-scale digital projects, i.e., providing serious peer review for such projects, which one would distinguish from ordinary web sites. The task force thought that such reviews would serve an important purpose in validating such work on digital projects for university promotion and tenure processes. It recognized that there were a number of difficulties to be dealt with, including how to choose what to review, the time involved in carrying out such reviews, the need to keep reviews up to date as projects evolve, and the need to sort out potential conflicts of interest in dealing with APA-sponsored projects. Nonetheless, it thought that this was a promising area and deserved further investigation.

The Research Committee was not entirely of one mind in responding to this part of the report. The most important question, in my view, was whether this was the APA’s concern or belonged in the world of reviewing generally. BMCR’s attempt to do this some years ago was regarded as a failure, mainly for lack of willing reviewers. On the other hand, the world has changed quite a bit since then, and it is not self-evident that an attempt today would meet the same result, especially if it solicited reviewers in an activist fashion. It is possible that this is an area where the APA might collaborate with BMCR, combining capabilities to provide an important service to the profession and to higher education.

Respectfully submitted,

Roger S. Bagnall

January 2011

Highlights of the 142nd Annual Meeting

The APA held its 142nd Annual Meeting in conjunction with the Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) in San Antonio, Texas, from January 6-9, 2011. About 2,300 members, guests, and volunteers from both societies registered. Erwin Cook chaired the APA's Local Arrangements Committee, and with his colleagues provided extremely valuable support to the staff and made it possible to carry out the many tasks associated with the meeting.

The APA Program consisted of 58 paper sessions. Twenty-nine of these were developed by the Program Committee from submitted abstracts. Panels proposed by APA committees, affiliated groups, and individual APA members were also presented. APA once again collaborated with AIA in presenting Roundtable Discussion Sessions.

Dee Clayman’s Presidential Panel was entitled, "New Chapters in Recovering Greek and Latin Literature". The following day at the Plenary Session President Clayman gave a Presidential Address entitled "Berenice II, Lady of the Lock". The Plenary Session also featured the presentation in absentia of the APA’s first President’s Award to Garry Wills.

The Committee on Ancient and Modern Performance returned to its practice of offering a staged reading of a play with classical content; this year, under the direction of Bella Vivante, members offered an authentically bawdy version of Aristophanes’ Thesmophoriazusae. Four members won prizes consisting of books donated by exhibitors at the Minority Scholarship Committee's annual raffle.

Once again, the Executive Director's report, normally presented at the annual business meeting, was published in advance of the annual meeting and can be found on the web site and in this Newsletter. The briefer business meeting was devoted to a short report from President Clayman, the announcement of election results (see page 3 of the Summer/Autumn 2010 Newsletter), and a brief report by Executive Director Adam D. Blistein (see next item) acknowledging the contributions of both members and nonmembers to the success of the annual meeting and to the operations of the Association during the past year. The business meeting concluded with the transition of the Presidency from Prof. Clayman to Prof. Kathleen M. Coleman.

As has become traditional, the list of APA members whose deaths were reported to the Association during the past year was read at the Plenary Session. That list was published on page 35 of the Summer/Autumn 2010 Newsletter.

Acknowledgments of Service to the APA

Many people contributed to a very successful 142nd meeting of the Association here in San Antonio, and, in addition, a number of people conclude significant terms of service to the Association at this meeting. We need to thank each one.

Erwin Cook of Trinity University served as Local Arrangements Chair and recruited the volunteers that we need to run the meeting. He also prepared a wonderful guide to the city for us.

The San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter and Riverwalk provided sleeping and meeting rooms and an enthusiastic staff that made us very welcome. The staff of Experient, Inc., Linda Walter and Molly Witges, helped us and the AIA to negotiate contracts for this meeting, and they provided extremely valuable assistance in both making arrangements in advance of the meeting and in handling events here.

Andri Cauldwell, AIA meeting coordinator, successfully managed the book exhibit and organized the opening reception at the San Antonio Museum of Art.

Heather Gasda, as usual, successfully attended to all the details of the meeting.

Renie Plonski made the Placement Service as welcoming as possible in a bad job market and was again able to notify all candidates in advance of the meeting whether any institutions had requested interviews with them.

Julie Carew, our Development Director, was an extra pair of eyes and ears for me here at the meeting and has been essential to the progress we have made in annual giving and the Gateway campaigns.

This year's Program Committee consisted of Robert Kaster, Chair, Elizabeth Asmis, Maud Gleason, Steven Oberhelman, and Jeffrey Rusten. Steve and Jeff complete 3-year terms on the Committee at this meeting, and we appreciate their hard work on the last 3 programs.

Bella Vivante directed the traditional CAMP performance, a reading of her version of Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae to an enthusiastic audience.

The Presidential Panel was entitled "New Chapters in Recovering Greek and Latin Literature" Dee invited David Sider, Kathryn Gutzwiller, Richard Janko, and Dirk Obbink to give some valuable updates on their work with both new and familiar texts. Dee's Presidential Address, "Berenike II: Lady of the Lock", took us through all the disciplines available to our field to illuminate the life of a remarkable historical figure and the work of two of our favorite poets.

Two members conclude lengthy terms of dedicated service to the Association's publications program at this meeting. First, Kathryn Gutzwiller has been Editor of our monographs series for the last five years. We appreciate her efforts to produce a number of excellent books and particularly her willingness to stay in this position for an extra year as we sought her successor.

Second, Robin Mitchell-Boyask completes his term as our first Web Editor after an astounding twelve years of service. Up until very recently Robin was the only person able to add material to the site, and we in the office and the members at large owe him much gratitude for keeping the site up to date so conscientiously and for so long.

Finally, a number of officers conclude terms of service on the Board of Directors as this meeting. They are

• Josiah Ober, President (2009)
• Robert A. Kaster, Vice President for Program (2007-2011)
• Barbara Weiden Boyd, Director (2008-2011)
• Alain M. Gowing, Director (2008-2011)

We are grateful to all of them for their dedicated service.

And, thank you all for attending this meeting in a time of reduced support for travel, extreme weather, and unsettling new approaches to airport security. Please join me in thanking the people I have listed for their contributions to this meeting and to the Association.

Adam D. Blistein

Executive Director

Executive Director’s Report for 2010

This is a report on activity in the Association Office during 2010. It is intended to supplement information about Board and committee meetings and especially the reports of our very hard-working vice presidents that appear regularly on the web site and in the Newsletter. The following paragraph appears, with few changes, in each of my annual reports, but it bears repeating at least once a year if not more often.

The APA is ambitious in that it operates programs that are similar to and sometimes even more sophisticated than those of much larger learned societies. If Classics is to continue to be a core discipline of the humanities, we have to do the kinds of things that MLA, AHA, College Art, and Religion do for their fields with a third or a fifth as many members. Volunteer labor, substantial amounts of it, is the only way we can provide the kinds of essential services that our bigger sisters do, and I am grateful to the many APA members who take on our work without compensation and sometimes without reimbursement of expenses.

Financial. Our fiscal year ends on June 30 of each year, and our auditors, Briggs, Bunting and Dougherty of Philadelphia, completed their audit of our financial statements for the 2009 fiscal year last Winter. The Spring Newsletter contained a summary of that report, and you can obtain the complete report on the APA web site or from my office.

Auditors, like Classicists, have their terms of art that may seem opaque at first glance. Once deciphered, however, they can give a good picture of our operations. The three asset categories (unrestricted, temporarily restricted, permanently restricted) are good examples. Permanently restricted assets are gifts that the donor expects us to keep in perpetuity and invest so that we can use the proceeds of that investment for one or more of our programs. Temporarily restricted assets consist of the investment income generated by the permanently restricted assets plus any grants we receive from the NEH or a foundation to carry out a specific project, and unrestricted assets are funds we can use for any Board-approved purpose.

What Page 3 of the 2009 report tells you is that during the 2009 fiscal year we acquired about $676,000 in new permanently restricted assets, all of which consisted of gifts to the new Gateway endowment. In addition, the temporarily restricted column tells you that we acquired about $49,000 in new grant money (this was a grant from the Mellon Foundation to explore improvements to l'Année philologique on the Internet) and spent about $270,000 of previously received grant money or investment income to fund, for example, the American Office of l'Année (still operating on its traditional NEH year-to-year funding through June 2011) or the Pearson Fellowship (investment income from Lionel Pearson's gift). Note that in the Unrestricted column the positive figure in the row "Net Assets Released from Restrictions" equals the negative figure in the Temporarily Restricted column. Once we spend grant money or investment income in accordance with donors' wishes, it becomes ordinary income to pay expenses, and needs to be treated like dues revenue or annual meeting registration fees.

The subsequent rows show the program areas in which we spend our income, and it's no accident that most of those rows correspond to our division names and other major activities. While Page 4 of the report will tell you what we spent in typical expense categories like salaries, travel, and insurance, auditors want in the first place to show the extent to which a not-for-profit organization is using its funds for its programs as opposed to "supporting services" like fund raising, general administration, and member services. In fiscal 2009 supporting services represented about $230,000 out of $1,225,000 in total expenditures, or roughly 19%. Our auditors consider a supporting services percentage of 25% or below to be reasonable and in one year cautioned us when they thought the figure (12%) might be too low.

The expense section needs two more comments. First, as noted, you can connect the expense headings to our regular programs and divisions except that "special projects" will not immediately be clear. We use the special projects line to show expenses from one-time grants to carry out a task over a specific time period. Over the past seven years we have received a number of these grants from the Mellon Foundation and in the 2010 fiscal year, we also received them from the Packard Humanities Institute and the Kress Foundation. All of these grants had something to do with l'Année philologique, and so we might have included the expenditures funded by these grants in the Research Division line where we show, among other things, the ongoing costs of running the American Office of APh. However, the grants come and go, and they generate substantial expenditures in one year and very modest ones in the next. By segregating their expenses into the Special Projects line, we get a truer picture of ongoing operations in the Research Division.

Second, while I am your chief administrator, not all of my salary goes into the three supporting services lines (although some of it does). I estimate how much time I and my colleagues in the APA Office spend on each program area and allocate appropriate percentages of not just our salaries and benefits but items like the rent we pay to the University of Pennsylvania, photocopying expenses, and depreciation of computer equipment to those program areas. I periodically review these allocations with the auditors and the Finance Committee, and any major change in our operations (like hiring Development Director Julie Carew in 2007) generates a complete revision of those allocations. Accounting deals mainly with numbers, and its practitioners (and I consider myself a low-level accounting practitioner) try to be as scientific as possible. Sometimes, however, accounting is an art and not a science.

Because the APA is a not-for-profit organization, our "bottom line" is called "Change in Net Assets", and the way our auditors show these figures is another area where some explanation of terminology would be helpful. First, the auditors provide a figure they call (somewhat opaquely) "Change in Net Assets Before Other Changes", but which you can think of as an individual year's operating budget: i.e., all the income and expenses I have discussed above. The "other changes" to which this heading refers are investment activities in the General Fund. (As previously noted, investment activities in the Coffin, Pearson, and Research and Teaching Funds appear under Temporarily Restricted Net Assets, and when proceeds from those Funds are spent, they appear in the "Net Assets Released from Restrictions" line.) These "other changes" include money drawn down from the General Fund, dividend income, capital gain distributions, actual gains and losses on instruments bought and sold, and, perhaps most important, changes in the value of funds we continue to hold. You can see details of these calculations on pages 10 and 11 of the auditors' report.

In my opinion the section about changes in net assets are some of the most meaningful lines in the financial statements because they give a snapshot of both how we were able to fund our activities from our regular sources of income (Changes . . . before Other Changes) and how much we relied on income from the General Fund (Changes in Net Assets). And please keep in mind that the General Fund was itself produced by an NEH challenge grant campaign in the 1980's overseen by Roger Bagnall.

Of course, June 30, 2009, was just a few months after a very low point for financial markets. Like almost everyone else's, the Association's endowments began to lose value early in 2008 and the declines continued through early 2009 before starting a slow recovery. Therefore, this auditors' report shows a much greater loss than in the previous year (although I am happy to report that a preliminary draft of the 2010 audit shows a recovery of about two thirds of what was lost in 2009). In my previous report I described steps the Finance Committee and Board took in 2009 to reduce expenditures and thereby reduce our draw on the endowments when they were at a low level. We were successful in that regard. During the 2009 fiscal year we drew down only 3.4% of the average value of the General Fund over the previous three years when our general policy is to draw 5%. This left more of the Fund available to participate in the recent recovery, but you should be aware that we draw on these funds even when they are in decline. We can do this without exhausting the fund by limiting our draw to the customary 5% in years when the endowments are appreciating. When there is a positive change in net assets in the Unrestricted column (and I expect to see one in the 2010 auditors' statement), that means that the General Fund has grown in value even after withdrawals from it to pay ongoing expenses.

Finally, on Page 3 of the auditors' report, please look at the Total Expenses line. For 2008 it was $1,227,000; for 2009 it was $1,225,000; and the preliminary figure for 2010 is $1,250,000. Overall expenses declined slightly from 2008 to 2009 despite the fact that we had $44,000 in special projects expenses in 2009 versus none in 2008. Expenses appear to have increased by $25,000 in 2010, but special projects expenses have grown in that period by $57,000. You can be confident that we are doing our best to find economies wherever possible.

Capital Campaign and Annual Giving. I am very grateful to the members who came forward this year with generous gifts not only to the campaign but also to annual giving. Particularly in difficult financial times it is unpleasant to have to ask you to support two different fund-raising goals, but it is necessary. Annual giving is about our present. Unrestricted gifts reduce the deficit in the "Changes . . . Before Other Changes" figure. The current NEH grants supporting the American Office and the TLL still have matching gift requirements fulfilled by annual giving designations. The Minority Scholarship is particularly dependent on annual giving designations.

The Gateway Campaign is about our future: our ability to maintain the American Office of l'Année philologique after the current (and final) NEH grant expires in June 2011 and to fund new projects that we are only beginning to realize that we need. A few campaign donors have already made gifts designated for the other programs described in the campaign case statement and during the San Antonio meeting the Finance Committee and Board will discuss how soon we can start drawing down income from the Campaign endowment to fund those projects, and the committees that oversee those programs, especially in the Education Division, will start to think about how best to use gifts like Daniel and Joanna Rose's generous donation of $50,000 to enhance our teaching awards program, and an anonymous donor's gift at the same level to support projects to recruit and train the next generation of outstanding Classics teachers.

Also this January Samuel Huskey begins a four-year term as the APA's first Information Architect. The Search Committee that recommended this appointment thought that he would be the appropriate person to coordinate efforts to fulfill the campaign's promise to make the APA a Gateway to the highest quality scholarship about classical antiquity for the widest possible audience in the format appropriate to each segment of that audience. Sam's vision extends beyond our web site, hence the new title, and the good news is that there is much we can do in this area just by incorporating the work of volunteers who have already stepped forward to make the Gateway promise a reality.

Although we needed to ask the NEH for an extension of time to claim challenge grant matching funds.(which request was granted), the campaign has had a number of successes in the past year. These included a number of new gifts in the $40,000-$50,000 range as well as a very successful fund-raising event held at New York University this October that raised over $40,000. Many people served on a committee that contributed to the success of this event, but the real heroes were committee co-chairs Dee Clayman and Matthew Santirocco (and his staff) as well as Peter Meineck and his colleagues at the Aquila Theatre Company. Peter organized a wonderful series of readings from Greek epic and drama around the theme of homecomings for an appreciative audience that did not largely consist of Classicists. The event was a model for both an APA fund-raiser and an APA outreach effort, and we hope to do something similar in other cities during the coming year.

Another effort that has boosted contributions to the campaign were solicitations of gifts by "Friends" of a number of distinguished Classicists. The appeals currently underway honor

George Goold

George Kennedy

Mary Lefkowitz

Zeph Stewart.

The organizers of these groups felt that soliciting gifts to the campaign for our future was an appropriate way to honor these distinguished Classicists who helped the APA to flourish in the past and whose contributions to the field live on today. As you can see in the acknowledgment list published in the annual meeting Program and on the web site, donations of any amount are ascribed both to the individual donor and to the appropriate Friends group. In addition, as is our custom, a donor of $250 or more may choose to add this tribute to the listing of his or her individual gift. (Please note that not all qualifying donors chose to make such a designation.) I encourage members to start new Friends groups, and ask only that they notify me before beginning solicitations.

As a result of these successes, we now need less than $200,000 by July 2011 to claim the final installment of NEH challenge grant matching funds and an additional $500,000 by July 2012 to retain that amount. During the San Antonio meeting the combined Development and Campaign Committees will develop a plan to reach these two goals. The amphora display in the Exhibit Hall that I wrote about last week is a celebration of the fact that we have managed to raise close to $2 million for this effort and a successful end is in sight. Please visit that display and pick up a button to show your support for the campaign. If you have not yet made a pledge or if it has been some time since you last made one, now is a good time to contribute. Pledges to be paid on any schedule through July 2012 will be particularly helpful at this time.

Communication with Members. The Classical Studies Department of the University of Pennsylvania (where we are still housed - at least in spirit and by list serve) regularly brings in speakers from other institutions to give lectures on Thursday afternoon. These speakers are often people whose names I know well from our membership rolls but whom I've never met. Their response when I introduce myself is invariably the same: "Oh, you're the one who sends me all those e-mails." I appreciate that response for several reasons. First, the speaker never seems to be expressing any annoyance (there is even gratitude on occasion), and that reassures me that I'm not abusing the privilege of having your e-mail addresses. More important, it's reassuring to know that in a year when it's been difficult to publish newsletters in a timely fashion and when we've been learning to take advantage of a better but still challenging content management system for our web site, that there is a quick and reliable way for me to get in touch with most of the membership when we need to.

The word "most" appears in boldface above because, in fact, we do not have valid e-mail addresses for about 20% of the members. In some cases these are members without good access to either computer equipment or the internet (or both), and I am committed to keeping them informed as best we can. Particularly in the current financial situation, however, "as best we can" has to be less frequently than before. We obtained much of the expense savings described briefly above and in more detail in this report last year from reducing our printing and postage costs. In the majority of cases, however, we don't have valid e-mail addresses because members do not update them when they move to a different location, or because they are concerned their e-mail addresses will be shared too widely and their spam filters will be overloaded. I want to assure the latter group that the APA never shares e-mail addresses with any other organization, and I limit my e-mails to the membership to one per week, and the frequency is usually much less. It is very easy to add your e-mail address to your membership record. Just send an e-mail to the Johns Hopkins University Press which maintains our membership database (jrnlcirc@press.jhu.edu).

In 2010 we were scheduled to begin producing four newsletters per year (down from the six that we have had for many years). The Board accepted this recommendation both to save money as described above but also because e-mails and the web site have made us less reliant on the newsletter. Still I apologize for the fact that there has been no Summer or Fall newsletter to date although I expect to publish a combined issue on the web site the week after the annual meeting. I think that, thanks to e-mail, the web site, the blog that Robin Mitchell-Boyask set up last January, and the new Facebook page that Judy Hallett launched this Fall with help from Heather Gasda in my office, we've been able to keep members informed of basic activities like the annual meeting and the placement service, but we have not done such a good job of disseminating other newsletter features like officer reports and lists of future meetings, summer programs, and fellowship opportunities. I look forward to getting back on track with newsletter production in 2011 and to post immediately to the web site and some of these other venues more of the information that used to wait for a newsletter.

On the other hand, during 2010 we successfully carried out a great deal of the Association's business online: our annual elections for the second time and, for the first time, annual meeting submissions, the annual survey of placement service candidates last Summer, and collection of candidates' scheduling information this Fall. Members also are increasingly using our online giving mechanisms to make annual giving and capital campaign donations, and we're acquiring the software necessary to create PDF forms that responders can fill out on their computers. We can and will perform all of these functions more smoothly in the future, but this list demonstrates our commitment to exploiting new technologies and making it easier for members to take advantage of Association programs. In 2011 we plan to publish the next edition of our Guide to Graduate Programs on the web site and to add information and search capabilities to it that have not been available in the printed version.

Membership. As of December 31, 2010, our total membership is almost exactly same as it was on that date last year (3,139 versus 3,140). In fact, the decline in total membership represents a modest increase in individual members because the total figure includes 12 institutional subscribers lost during 2010. This is part of a trend that has been going since the beginning of my tenure in 1999, and is now much less of a concern than it once was because we know from the regular increases in royalties we receive from Project Muse and JSTOR, that a growing number of institutions are subscribing to TAPA in electronic form. Further, the number of lost institutional subscribers in 2010 is about half of the amount we've experienced in other recent years.

However, the essentially static membership figure disguises a lot of activity. In 2010 over 300 new members joined the APA, and over 300 did not renew their memberships. Some of the departures are due to "natural causes" as members leave the field or leave us entirely. But, many of the members we lose are relatively senior Classicists still very much active in the field. One of the documents I prepare annually for the Nominating Committee is a list of members who have served the Association in some way in the past. Each year I have to delete a dozen or so names from this list not because of the natural causes mentioned above but because they have either forgotten to pay dues or have decided not to.

We're working with Johns Hopkins Press to provide additional reminders for those who leave us inadvertently, but I appeal to those who leave us on purpose to reconsider. Your career may no longer depend on the placement service or on making a presentation at the annual meeting, but I think that the information in the e-mails mentioned above and access to the Members Only section of our web site where the directory of members resides and you can obtain several publication discounts still makes membership a worthwhile purchase. More important, the APA needs your knowledge of the field particularly at a time when we are likely to see more questions about the value of studying Classics. As usual this Fall, while the Nominating Committee was doing its work, four of our vice presidents were working with President Dee Clayman to fill 10 to 15 upcoming vacancies in the committees in their divisions. I think that this Fall every one of them wanted to appoint at least one person who turned out not to be a current member. I'm glad to report that in all cases the candidate agreed to rejoin the APA, but in 2011 please consider not only what you can still get from the APA at this stage of your career, but also how you can help the field by participating in our work.

I am very grateful to the 59 departments (up from 45 last year) who participated in our departmental membership program in 2010 (see page 67 of the annual meeting Program or https://classicalstudies.org/about-scs)

Interactions with Other Organizations. I continue to benefit from my participation in the ACLS' Conference of Administrative Officers (CAO) and in the National Humanities Alliance (NHA). Please see the latter organization's web site (http://www.nhalliance.org/events/2011-upcoming-events/index.shtml) to learn about NHA's Humanities Advocacy Day this coming March. This is a program designed to inform members of Congress about the NEH and other issues of importance to the humanities. I regularly participate in this event and find that it is a useful way of simply making sure that members of Congress know that the NEH exists and what it does. The Endowment's budget is, of course, very important to the APA and to many of its members, but it constitutes a minuscule portion of the entire federal budget and could easily be invisible even to a conscientious legislator. With many new members entering Congress this year, this educational function of Humanities Advocacy Day will be particularly important.). At a time when everyone has to institute budget cuts, even the $100 payments from B.A.-granting departments must have been hard to come by. We rely on the income generated by this program that the NEH will match for both the American Office of l'Année and our TLL Fellowship.

Thisyear as usual, Heather Gasda or I attended all of the other Classics meetings that are regularly on our calendar: CAAS in the Fall, CANE and CAMWS in the Spring, and the ACL Institute in early Summer. In addition, I was invited to the Centennial Meeting of the Classical Association of Virginia to bring greetings from the APA. This was extremely pleasant duty and also gave me a chance to hear some talks during the last day of the CAMWS Southern Section meeting, an event I'd never attended before.

Work of the Divisions. As noted at the beginning of this report, the reports of our vice presidents are the best places to read about the APA's many activities. Those of us in the office support that work as appropriate, and this is a brief list of programs in which we were particularly active.

The graphic designer who also prepares each issue of Amphora for us also designed Standards for Latin Teacher Preparation that we developed along with ACL. My office worked on distributing this document to state foreign language supervisors, and in San Antonio our Joint Committee (with ACL) on the Classics in American Education will talk about the best way to get this document in the hands of the right people at various schools of education. Our hope is that these standards will serve as guidelines that academic institutions can use to develop teacher-training programs specifically for Latin teachers. There are many training opportunities for foreign language teachers in general, but the specific needs of Latin teachers are rarely addressed. The lack of such training opportunities makes it harder for would-be Latin teachers to obtain certification for public schools. More training opportunities, however, will support the capital campaign's goal of eliminating the current shortage of high school teachers, and capital campaign funds will serve as a further incentive for the development of such courses by providing scholarships for participants and stipends for master teachers and scholars from outside of the host institution.

As stated last year, for financial reasons we (I hope temporarily) published only one issue of Amphora in 2010 and will do the same in the coming year. Look for that issue in late Winter or early Spring. My role in the publication is to give a quick read to all articles (as a Classicist who was out of the field for twenty years, I have some characteristics in common with the publication's ideal reader) and to work with the designer and printer. Although nonmember subscriptions remain low, discussions I have had, particularly at other Classics meetings, have convinced me that Amphora has an enthusiastic audience, mainly on the web. It was our Gateway effort before we had a Gateway Campaign, and demonstrates that the APA cares about the field beyond basic scholarship and its own membership,

The other significant work I did with the Outreach Division this year was to publicize various calls for experts. First of all we are again working with Peter Meineck and the Aquila Theatre Company to find APA members who can lead public programs held in conjunction with Company performances. Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives is the much larger follow-up to From Page to Stage: The Power of the Iliad Today. At the San Antonio meeting Peter will be conducting a roundtable discussion session about this program on January 8 from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. in the back of the Exhibit Hall. Visit him there for more information. In addition, the Division is compiling lists of Classicists who are available for consultation about issues relating to performances of Classical texts and the use of Classical themes in music.

An ongoing concern of the Professional Matters Division for many years has been the treatment of adjunct faculty in academia. During his Vice Presidency in the late 1990's Erich Gruen organized an annual meeting session on this topic and initiated APA participation in the Coalition on the Academic Workforce (CAW) (www.academicworkforce.org) which was formed at that time. CAW regularly seeks to collect useful data about the conditions in which adjuncts do their work, and we joined other learned societies in encouraging our members to complete a survey it conducted this Fall. Visit the URL in this paragraph later this Winter to see results of that survey which closed in late November.

Early in the coming year our Professional Matters Division will again conduct its triennial census of enrollments and staffing in classics departments. Current Professional Matters Vice President Jim May expects to make it possible for you to submit responses online which should make this task easier. Please make sure your department completes this census. When programs are threatened, our Classics Advisory Service, currently and ably led by John Miller, can be especially helpful if it can provide staffing and enrollment levels for a large number of departments at comparable institutions. We provide this data only in aggregates; no specific programs are ever named. Still, the more data we have, the better case we can make.

Last year I reported on the work of Eric Rebillard, Editor of the online version l'Année philologique, on a planning grant funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation to consider ways to improve APh Online's search interface and to link its citations to both ancient texts and modern scholarship. You have likely already used that new interface, and during 2010 the Mellon Foundation provided a much larger grant of $215,000 that will enable Eric to carry out the work of linking citations and texts. This is another example of APA's long-standing role as an important generator of improvements in the most important bibliography in the field. Please keep this in mind when you consider the major Gateway Campaign goal of building an endowment for the American Office of l'Année. Through its oversight of the Office, the APA not only puts most of the work produced by its members into the field's major bibliography, it is in a position to seek funding from foundations like Mellon and to bring innovative ideas to the Société Internationale de Bibliographie Classique, the governing body for APh.

My principal role on the Mellon grant as well as the grants we receive from other foundations and the NEH is to be the responsible administrator, and this year, that task included working with Tony Corbeill, Chair of the Selection Committee to submit an application to renew the NEH grant that supports our TLL Fellowship. We will learn in March whether we will again be able to offer this stipend for the academic years beginning in Fall 2012, 2013, and 2014.

While I was discussing financial matters, I referred to the "art" of estimating staff time on each of the Association's program areas. The allocation of my own time is pretty uniform across the divisions, but there is a blip upwards at the Program Division both because of the three full days I spend each year at Program Committee meetings and because of all the work that goes into preparing calls for abstracts, processing submissions, generating Program and Abstract Book copy, and dealing with meeting logistics. As a result, I get to know Program Vice Presidents pretty well, and I assure you that you have been very fortunate to have Bob Kaster in that position for the last four years. During his tenure he combined a deep and wide knowledge of our field with a commitment to both sound scholarship and broad access to the meeting program. In his final year he helped us to implement online submissions and even - because he was faster to act - did some work we in the office should have done when the "back end" of the submissions process didn't serve the Program Committee well. It has been a great pleasure to work with Bob for the last four years.

Placement Service. We again have about 40 institutions interviewing at this year's annual meeting. This number is probably the best indicator of the job market at this time of the year because it can be compared to the same number last year. (In the Spring, near the end of the academic year, I think it makes sense to compare the number of jobs posted from one year to another.). This figure is, of course, far lower than the numbers just a few years ago (over 70 in 2007 and over 80 in 2008), but at least it has not declined significantly from last year. As noted earlier, we took some first steps into making the service more electronic in the current year by issuing both registration forms and scheduling forms as PDFs that could be completed on a computer. In the process we found that we need to update our software because not everyone could use the "fill-in" feature, and we will take care of this during the next few months.

We appreciate your patience as we automate the service in small steps. Doing so presents a special challenge because it is a joint service with AIA, and only members of one or the other society can register as candidates. (Institutions posting jobs do not need to show membership so that we can make members aware of the largest possible number of opportunities.) In addition, we continue to think that the actual interview scheduling process has to be done by a human being, in large part to keep candidates and institutions from having too many interviews in a row or too close together in too distant places but also to handle special situations that might require negotiating with search committees or candidates to modify their schedules. Placement Director Renie Plonski looks out for the kinds of conflicts that might not be apparent to a computer program and works with candidates who might have interviews scheduled at both APA and AHA and - now that MLA has moved into our dates - that society as well.

Finally on this topic, I want to make my annual appeal that members look past the conventional wisdom about the placement service. The convention wisdom states that the Service only posts jobs on the web site and schedules interviews. In fact, the service sends information about those jobs to registered candidates before they are posted on the site, does all the careful scheduling described just above, and gathers data that the joint APA/AIA Placement Committee can use to monitor trends in the field and serve as a recourse if either candidates or institutions feel that they are being treated unfairly.

Annual Meeting. The meeting in San Antonio will probably attract just over 2,000 paid registrants and be a slightly larger meeting than the one we had last year in Anaheim. This is about the attendance we were expecting in light of cutbacks in travel funds, increases in airfares, and the continued low number of institutions interviewing. We appreciated members' acceptance last year of the one major cost savings we have instituted that did not involved printing or postage: to offer only minimal food service and no complimentary beverage at the President's Reception. The same policy will be in effect this year, and we are looking forward to good attendance at that event and at the preceding Plenary Session with a streamlined awards ceremony, the traditional Presidential Address, and the chance to win copies of John Miller's Goodwin Prize winning book, Apollo, Augustus, and the Muses. We have just learned that, unfortunately, Garry Wills will not be able to attend the meeting to accept the first APA President's Award, but we look forward to honoring him in absentia.

Heather Gasda and I are extremely grateful to Erwin Cook of the Trinity University who chaired the Local Arrangements Committee. Erwin's guide to San Antonio has been posted on the web site for a few weeks, and will also be available at the meeting.

Next year's meeting will take place in Philadelphia. In addition, we have done a lot of work with AIA over the last half of this year to select future meeting sites, and I can now announce the following locations that - in three cases - have always been popular with our members and in one case is a city we have long tried to put on our schedule. Those cities are Seattle (2013), Chicago (2014), New Orleans (2015), and San Diego (2016). I hope to have news about 2017 and 2018 before this Summer.

University of Pennsylvania. As members know, after several false alarms we finally did move our offices this past Summer. An association can hardly complain when its host institution is so successful that it needs its space back, and that is exactly what happened in the Penn Classical Studies Department. We owe the Department a great debt, not only for hosting us in its midst for eleven years but, especially in the last few years, for the extent to which its senior faculty shared and switched offices while one or another was on leave so that we could stay in place.

We are, of course, still at Penn, and only five blocks away from Claudia Cohen Hall. It is therefore easy for me to attend the weekly lectures as described above and to make my annual presentations about the APA and the state of affairs for Classics in American academia to the entering graduate students and postbaccalaureate students in the Department. The new space on 40th Street is - except for the lack of windows - almost ideally designed for us. The space in Cohen Hall was excellent from the point of view of being right in the Classical Studies Department, but anyone who visited us knows how tightly we were crammed in. Our new offices are much easier to work in, and we have found some friendly new neighbors, particularly in Penn's Offices of Equity and Access, who share their copier and are currently taking in our mail while we are in San Antonio.

The new offices, as predicted, come at a higher cost, and not just because they are larger. However, the rent is lower than I had anticipated, and I think it will be possible to sustain the expense of having our offices there for several more years.

Few members are likely aware that one of the many lasting benefits the APA derived from having Roger Bagnall as Secretary-Treasurer in the 1980's is that at the end of his term he set up our archives in the Columbia University Rare Book Room. However, nothing has been added to those archives since 1986, and when I became Executive Director I inherited files belonging to all my intervening predecessors. In 2009 therefore the Board set up an Ad Hoc Committee on Archives to determine what we should retain and where and in what format retained materials should be kept (in my office or in the archive). Ruth Scodel has ably chaired this Committee which met by conference call a number of times during 2010. Having preliminary guidance from the Committee about what we needed to keep was invaluable as I packed up documents for the move this Summer, and we hope that Committee members will be able to come to Philadelphia on several occasions in early 2011 to gather the material that needs to go to Columbia.

Conclusion. I want to conclude by thanking all members, especially those on committees and the Board, for their support of my office's efforts. I look forward to welcoming many of you to San Antonio this week, and I urge you to let me know if you have any questions or suggestions about Association operations.

Adam D. Blistein

Executive Director

January 5, 2011

Call for Volunteers for 2012 Annual Meeting

Members are invited to serve as volunteers at the 143rd Annual Meeting of the Association in Philadelphia, PA this coming January. Assignments include assistance in the Registration Area, monitoring session rooms, and supporting the Placement Service. Interested members should contact Heather Gasda in the Association Office by July 11, 2011. The Chair of the Local Arrangements Committee will develop a schedule of volunteer activity in late Fall.

In exchange for eight hours of service (either in one continuous or in two 4-hour assignments), volunteers receive a waiver of their annual meeting registration fees. It is not necessary to be an APA member to volunteer.

Individual Subscriptions to ACLS Humanities E-Books

The ACLS Humanities E-Book series is offering individual subscriptions to its digital collection of over 3,300 full-text, cross-searchable titles in the Humanities to members of any one of the 70 constituent societies of the American Council of Learned Societies, including the American Philological Association. While some members will have access to this important series at their home institutions, we believe that others will find it helpful to purchase annual individual subscriptions for $35. Titles in the series were produced as long ago as the 1880s and as recently as the present and have been selected for their continuing importance to students and scholars. A complete title list is available at http://www.humanitiesebook.org/titlelist.html. ACLS Humanities E-Book continues to expand, adding approximately 500 titles per year.

To subscribe, simply visit www.humanitiesebook.org/sub-ind.html, choose the ACLS constituent society of which you are a member, and indicate your membership number in the online purchase form. For inquiries about HEB, please e-mail subscriptions@hebook.org.

Winter 2010 Announcements

Literature and Culture in the Ancient Mediterranean: Greece, Rome, and the Near East, November 2011 and October 2012

Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia, in cooperation with Venice International University, will offer this advanced seminar for 20 fellows who will be either in an advanced stage of doctoral research, or recently completed Ph.D.s. The program is conceived as a two-year commitment. The first session (November 2011) will consist of lectures by scholars with a seminar approach on the origins and development of literary genres and literacy in Ancient Greece, Rome and the Near East. Some of the lectures will run simultaneously and will be devoted respectively to the interpretation of specific classical and near eastern texts, with more focus on textual analysis.

The aim of the program is firstly to investigate the relationship between themes, motifs and structures of the texts, starting with the early examples of epic poetry and of wisdom and didactic literature; secondly, to examine the processes involved in their transmission and preservation in both oral and written forms. A variety of issues concerning the history of literate cultures will also be reviewed, such as, for example, the textual traditions, the creation and organization of libraries, the classification of genres, and the relationship between literature and politics.

During the first session the fellows will identify a research project according to their own scholarly interests and under the supervision of one of the faculty. The research project will be presented in the form of an essay of about 20 pages in the second session of the seminar, which will be held in October 2012. Knowledge of Greek and Latin, and/or of some of the ancient Near Eastern languages, is expected. Lectures will be in English. A good knowledge of spoken and written English is also a prerequisite. Further information is available at http://www.univiu.org/component/content/article/58-shssnews/460-advanced-seminar-in-the-humanities, and the application deadline: April 15, 2011.

Institute For Advanced Study, School of Historical Studies, Opportunities for Scholars 2012-2013

The Institute is an independent private institution founded in 1930 to create a community of scholars focused on intellectual inquiry, free from teaching and other university obligations. Scholars from around the world come to the Institute to pursue their own research. Candidates of any nationality may apply for a single term or a full academic year. Scholars may apply for a stipend, but those with sabbatical funding, other grants, retirement funding or other means are also invited to apply for a non-stipendiary membership. Some short-term visitorships (for less than a full term, and without stipend) are also available on an ad-hoc basis. Open to all fields of historical research, the School of Historical Studies’ principal interests are the history of western, near eastern and Asian civilizations, with particular emphasis upon Greek and Roman civilization, the history of Europe (medieval, early modern, and modern), the Islamic world, East Asian studies, the history of art, the history of science, philosophy, modern international relations, and music studies. Residence in Princeton during term time is required. The only other obligation of Members is to pursue their own research. The Ph.D. (or equivalent) and substantial publications are required. Information and application forms may be found on the School's web site, www.hs.ias.edu, or contact the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Einstein Dr., Princeton, N.J. 08540 (E-mail address: mzelazny@ias.edu). Deadline: November 1 2011.

2010 Winter Announcements of Meetings

Nonnus of Panopolis in Context. Poetry and Cultural Milieu in Late Antiquity Rethymno, Crete, 13-15 May 2011

The Department of Philology of the University of Crete, Greece presents the first international conference on the late antique poet Nonnus of Panopolis. There will be nine sessions: 1. Nonnus and Late Antique Paideia (esp. rhetoric, philosophy), 2. Nonnus and Christianity, 3. Nonnus and the Literary Past (esp. Homer, Hellenistic poets, Quintus of Smyrna, Oracles, Orphic Literature), 4. Nonnus and Visual Arts, 5. The Style of Nonnus (metre, language), 6. Nonnus and Latin literature, 7. The 'School' of Nonnus (esp. John of Gaza, the Orphic Argonautica and Paulus Silentiarius), 8. Nonnus' Afterlife (esp. Simone Weil), 9. Nonnus and Contemporary Society. The Conference will pay equal attention to the Dionysiaca and the Paraphrasis of the Gospel of St. John. New readings of key-passages in both poems will be presented, novel approaches to Nonnus’ relationship with earlier and contemporary literature, new insights into the reception of Nonnus by later poets as well as an attempt to redefine the notion of the Nonnian ‘School’. The conference rather than seeing Nonnus as a ‘follower’ or ‘imitator’ explores what he has to say as an erudite late antique poet who absorbs and transforms a long and varied literary and philosophical past. Further information: spanoudakis@phl.uoc.gr

Music in Aristotle Politics Book VIII, Corfu, 4-10 July 2011

The eighth Seminar for Ancient Greek and Roman Music in the Music Department of the Ionian University at Corfu will take place this summer, 4 to 10 July 2011. This year’s proceedings will focus on Book VIII of Aristotle’s Politics, a fundamental text for our understanding of Greek views on music and education. In the course of the week, seminars on this text will be conducted by three well-known specialists in ancient musicology: Andrew Barker, Egert Pöhlmann, and Eleonora Rocconi. For those who need them there will also be preliminary classes on 3 July, designed to introduce students to relevant musical technicalities; and for Greek students there will be additional classes in the course of the week, focusing on the translation of the texts. In the evenings there will be lectures on a variety of topics connected with the music of the ancient world.

The seminar sessions will take place at the magnificent historical locations of the Mon Repos

Villa and the Ionian Academy. Participation fees amount to € 200. Student accommodation at a very low cost will be provided in the university dormitories; the number of places is limited, so booking in advance to secure participation is crucial (the deadline is the 1st of May 2011). The full program will be announced in due course. For more information contact Secretary George Fragiskos [George@ionio.gr] or the organizers: Dr Petros Andriotis [pandriot@ionio.gr] and Prof Panos Vlagopoulos [pvlag@ionio.gr].

Anatolian Society Joint Conference, July 11-12, 2011, Ioannou School, Oxford

The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names and Monumenta Asia Minoris Antiqua Projects are holding a joint conference/ The theme on July 11 will be “Naming in Anatolia” and on July 12, “Roman Phrygia”. See the conference webpage on which titles of papers will be posted as they are confirmed at http://mama.csad.ox.ac.uk. Anyone interested is most welcome to attend; nearer the time we will ask to know who will be coming as a control on numbers. There will be no registration fee. Some graduate bursaries for travel and accommodation will be offered: details of how to apply will be posted and circulated in May.

Texts and Contexts, The Ohio State University, October 7-8, 2011

The Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies is sponsoring this conference seeks to investigate the textual traditions of various texts and genres, including texts in classical Latin, mediaeval Latin, Anglo-Saxon, Middle English, and the vernaculars. Preference will be given to those abstracts which deal with newly discovered texts and their manuscript settings, or which present new perspectives on established textual traditions. We encourage graduate students and newly established scholars to submit their work. The Virginia Brown Memorial Lecture will be given by Susan L’Engle, Vatican Film Library, Saint Louis University Email abstracts to epig@osu.edu or send them to Professor Frank T. Coulson, Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies, 190 Pressey Hall, 1070 Carmack Road, Columbus, OH 43210. Deadline for submission: August 1, 2011.

Alexander the Great and Egypt: History, Art, Tradition, University of Wroclaw, Poland, 18-19 November 2011

This is a workshop organized by Krzysztof Nawotka (University of Wroclaw, Poland), Volker Grieb (Helmut Schmidt University Hamburg, Germany) with Agnieszka Wojciechowska (University of Wroclaw, Poland) as the organizing committee secretary. The aim of this workshop is to examine both the Macedonian conquest of Egypt, its consequences and its reflection in literature and art. An area of particular importance is attitudes of the local population to Alexander. The organizing committee looks forward in particular to contributions making use of both classical and Egyptian sources and to those uniting multidisciplinary approach to the sources material and research questions.

We invite papers suitable for delivery in 20-30 minutes. Please send abstracts of 300 words or less as an attachment to Agnieszka Wojciechowska (agnieszka.w4@gmail.com) by 30 May 2011. The publication of a volume containing a selection of revised conference papers is being planned.

The Reception of Rome and the Construction of Western Homosexual Identities, Durham University, 17th-18th April 2012

This conference will analyze the importance of ancient Rome in constructing Western homosexual identities. Much scholarship exists on the contribution of ancient Greek culture and literature to discourses of homosexuality, but the originary contribution of Rome has been overlooked. It matters, however, not least because of its impact and presence during the 'Latin Middle Ages' and beyond. Latin literature provides the best known versions of homosexual myths such as Orpheus, Narcissus, Iphis and Ianthe (collected in that mythological compendium, Ovid's Metamorphoses) and explores distinctively Roman homosexual relationships (for instance, Virgil's Nisus and Euryalus), to which a multitude of later artists have responded. Conversely, authors such as Juvenal and Martial censure homosexual behavior. There have also been many influential instances of homosexuality from Roman history, from allegations that the youthful Julius Caesar was the 'queen of Bithynia' to the celebrated relationship between the emperor Hadrian and Antinous.

This one-off international conference aims to bring together scholars working in a range of fields (Classics, Reception Studies, Queer Studies, Modern Languages, Comparative Literature, Art History) to assess the broad impact of Roman culture on the construction of Western homosexual identities. Exploring this previously neglected area will afford scholarship a better understanding of the ways in which the reception of Roman and Greek culture are different and the importance of Rome as a model for later artists with homosexual leanings and, conversely, the attempted erasure of Roman homosexuality in societies where Rome is idealized. It is hoped that a wide variety of media, approaches, and research interests will be represented, particularly from those working outside the discipline of Classics, and that contributions will result in a substantial publication.

Proposals for papers of 30 minutes should include a title and an abstract of no more than 500 words, and should be received by 20 May 2011; submissions from postgraduate students are particularly welcome. Proposals for papers and further enquiries should be sent to Dr. Jennifer Ingleheart (jennifer.ingleheart@durham.ac.uk), Department of Classics and Ancient History, 38 North Bailey, Durham University, Durham, UNITED KINGDOM, DH1 3EU.

2010 Winter Announcements of Funding Opportunities

American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) Public Fellows Program. ACLS is a private, nonprofit federation of 70 national scholarly organizations. It is the preeminent representative of American scholarship in the humanities and related social sciences. In 2010, ACLS awarded over $15 million to more than 380 U.S.-based and international scholars. www.acls.org

ACLS announces the inaugural competition of its Public Fellows program. In 2011 the program will place eight recent Ph.D.s in two-year staff positions at partnering agencies in government and the non-profit sector, beginning as early as September 2011. Fellows will participate in the substantive work of these agencies and receive professional mentoring. Compensation will be at the same level as new professional employees of the agency with similar experience.

This program, made possible by a grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, aims to demonstrate the value of employing skilled and accomplished young scholars in a variety of capacities, thereby broadening the academy’s conventional ideas of the Ph.D. career path. The “crisis” in academic employment has been well discussed and is to many as much a besetting condition as an urgent crisis. Validating extra-academic employment could be a significant element of constructive change. Thus ACLS has partnered with the following agencies to offer these positions (detailed descriptions are available at www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows):

• Association of American Universities (AAU), Policy Analyst
• Council on Foundations, Leadership Development Officer
• Institute for International Education (IIE), Program Officer, Scholar Rescue Fund
• National Institute for Technology in Liberal Education (NITLE), Program Officer
• New York City Department of Cultural Affairs,
  • Cultural Programs Specialist
  • Cultural Communications Specialist
• U.S. Department of State
  • A variety of positions in different bureaus are available

ACLS seeks applications from recent Ph.D.s who wish to begin careers in administration, management, and public service by choice rather than circumstance. Competitive applicants will have been successful in both academic and extra-academic experiences. Applicants may apply to only one position and must fulfill the following eligibility requirements: possess U.S. citizenship or permanent resident status; have received a Ph.D. in the humanities or related social sciences between January 2008 and March 2011; and not have applied to any other ACLS fellowship programs in the 2010-11 competition cycle. All applications must be submitted through the ACLS Online Fellowship Application system by Monday, May 16, 3pm EDT. (http://www.acls.org/programs/publicfellows/). Submitted applications will undergo ACLS’ standard rigorous peer review process, which may include interviews by ACLS reviewers and by the hosting agency.

Officers, Directors, and Committee Members for 2011

President:	Kathleen M. Coleman
Immediate Past President:	Dee L. Clayman
President-Elect:	Jeffrey Henderson
Financial Trustees:	Bruce Frier (2010-2016) S. Georgia Nugent (2007-2013)
Executive Director:	Adam D. Blistein (1999-2012)

DIVISION VICE PRESIDENTS

Education:	Ronnie Ancona (2010-2014)
Outreach:	Judith P. Hallett (2008-2012)
Professional Matters:	James M. May (2009-2013)
Program:	Joseph Farrell (2011-2015)
Publications:	James J. O'Donnell (2008-2012)
Research:	Roger S. Bagnall (2009-2013)

DIRECTORS

(in addition to the above)

• Peter Bing (2010-2013)
• Jonathan Mark Hall (2011-2014)
• Kathryn A. Morgan (2011-2014)
• John Marincola (2009-2012)
• Carole E. Newlands (2009-2012)
• Ann Vasaly (2010-2013)

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COMMITTEES ON GOVERNANCE AND ADMINISTRATION

EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE

• Kathleen M. Coleman, Chair
• Roger S. Bagnall
• Adam D. Blistein
• Dee L. Clayman
• Jonathan Mark Hall
• Jeffrey Henderson
• S. Georgia Nugent

CAPITAL CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE

• Ward W. Briggs, Co-Chair *
• Senator Peter G. Fitzgerald, Co-Chair*
• Senator Paul and Christine† Sarbanes, Co-Chairs*
• Michael C. J. Putnam, Co-Chair*
• Michael Arnush
• Victor Bers
• Deborah Boedeker
• Robert F. Boughner
• Christopher M. Brunelle
• Jenny Strauss Clay*
• Dee L. Clayman*
• Edward E. Cohen
• Kathleen M. Coleman*
• W. Robert Connor
• P. E. Easterling
• R. Elaine Fantham
• Bruce W. Frier
• Carin M. Green
• Judith P. Hallett
• Jeffrey Henderson*
• W. Gerald Heverly
• J. Samuel Houser
• G. Ronald Kastner
• David Konstan
• Eleanor Winsor Leach
• Mary R. Lefkowitz*
• Sherwin Little
• Richard P. Martin
• Matthew M. McGowan
• Helen North
• S. Georgia Nugent
• Josiah Ober*
• James J. O'Donnell
• Eric Orlin
• Lee T. Pearcy
• Christopher Pelling
• David H. Porter*
• Kurt A. Raaflaub *
• Joanna S. Rose
• Matthew S. Santirocco
• Ruth Scodel*
• Zeph Stewart†
• Allen M. Ward
• Nancy Wilkie

Honorary Advisory Committee

• Garrison Keillor
• Erich Segal†
• Leonard E. Slatkin
• Garry Wills

*Member of Campaign Steering Committee

†Deceased

DEVELOPMENT COMMITTEE

• David H. Porter (2001-2013), Chair
• Michael Arnush (2007-2013)
• Deborah Boedeker (2011-2014)
• Christopher M. Brunelle (2009-2012)
• Carin M. Green (2011-2014)
• Jeffrey Henderson (2009-2012)
• J. Samuel Houser (2006-2012)
• Mary R. Lefkowitz (2001-2012)
• Matthew M. McGowan (2011-2014)
• Bruce W. Frier, ex officio
• Adam D. Blistein, ex officio

FINANCE COMMITTEE

• S. Georgia Nugent, Chair, ex officio
• Adam D. Blistein, ex officio
• Bruce W. Frier, ex officio
• Niall W. Slater (2011-2014)

C.J. GOODWIN AWARD OF MERIT COMMITTEE

• David Sider (2009-2012), Chair
• Christina S. Kraus (2010-2013)
• James E. G. Zetzel (2011-2014)

NOMINATING COMMITTEE

• Laura McClure (2009-2012), Co-Chair
• Peter W. Rose (2009-2012), Co-Chair
• Richard P. Martin (2010-2013)
• Paul Allen Miller (2010-2013)
• Dee L. Clayman ex officio
• Two additional members to be elected in Summer 2011

OUTREACH PRIZE COMMITTEE

• C. W. Marshall (2009-2012), Chair
• Nancy Rabinowitz (2011-2014)
• Thomas J. Sienkewicz (2010-2013)

PEARSON FELLOWSHIP COMMITTEE

• Lesley Dean-Jones (2009-2012), Chair
• Sarah Nooter (2010-2013)
• Kirk Ormand (2010-2013)
• Dylan Sailor (2011-2014)
• Mira Seo (2011-2014)

AD HOC COMMITTEE ON ARCHIVES

• Ruth Scodel, Chair
• Roger S. Bagnall
• Ward W. Briggs
• Carin M. Green
• W. Gerald Heverly
• John F. Miller
• Michele V. Ronnick
• Daniel P. Tompkins

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EDUCATION DIVISION

EDUCATION COMMITTEE

• Ronnie Ancona, Chair, ex officio
• Stanley M. Burstein (2009-2013)
• Eric K. Dugdale (2010-2014)
• Jeanne M. Neumann (2008-2012)
• Nigel Nicholson (2011-2015)
• Jeffrey Henderson ex officio
• John F. Miller, ex officio
• Adam D. Blistein, ex officio
• Christopher M. Saunders, AIA Representative

ANCIENT HISTORY COMMITTEE

• Georgia Tsouvala (2010-2013), Chair
• William S. Bubelis (2011-2014)
• Carlin Barton (2009-2012)
• Serena Connolly (2009-2012)
• Emily Mackil (2010-2013)

COFFIN TRAVELING FELLOWSHIP COMMITTEE

• Eric K. Dugdale (2009-2012), Chair
• Greta Ham (2010-2013)
• Bronwen Wickkiser (2011-2014)

JOINT COMMITTEE (WITH ACL) ON THE CLASSICS IN AMERICAN EDUCATION

• Ronnie Ancona (2010-2014), Co-Chair
• StanleyM. Burstein (2009-2013)
• Eric K. Dugdale (2010-2014)
• Jeanne M. Neumann (2008-2012)
• Nigel Nicholson (2011-2015)

ACL Representatives

• Peter Howard, Co-Chair
• Robin Boots-Ebenfield
• Edmund F. DeHoratius
• Nathalie Roy
• One additional member to be appointed

COMMITTEE ON MINORITY STUDENT SCHOLARSHIPS

• Sanjaya Thakur (2009-2012), Co-Chair
• Susann Lusnia (2009-2012), Co-Chair
• Kristopher Fletcher (2011-2014)
• Chris Ann Matteo (2009-2012)
• Lisa Mignone (2009-2012)
• Mira Seo (2010-2013)

TEACHING EXCELLENCE AWARDS COMMITTEE

• Elizabeth Vandiver (2009-2012), Chair
• Gregory S. Aldrete (2011-2014)
• Mary C. English (2010-2013)

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OUTREACH DIVISION

OUTREACH COMMITTEE

• Judith P. Hallett, Chair ex officio
• Ward W. Briggs (2010-2013)
• Mary-Kay Gamel (2009-2012)
• Luca Grillo (2011-2014)
• Clara Hardy (2010-2013)
• Keely Lake (2009-2012)
• Jennifer A. Rea (2011-2014)
• Jeffrey Henderson, ex officio
• Samuel Huskey, ex officio
• T. Davina McClain, ex officio
• Niall W. Slater, ex officio
• Adam D. Blistein, ex officio

ANCIENT AND MODERN PERFORMANCE COMMITTEE

• Dorota Dutsch (2009-2012), Chair
• Ruby Blondell (2011-2014)
• Amy R. Cohen (2011-2014)
• Alison Futrell (2010-2013)
• George W. M. Harrison (2009-2012)
• Elizabeth Scharffenberger (2007-2013)
• Andrew Simpson (2011-2014)

CLASSICAL TRADITION AND RECEPTION COMMITTEE

• Thomas E. Jenkins (2009-2012), Chair
• Madeleine Henry (2011-2013)
• Paul Kimball (2010-2013)
• Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos (2011-2014)
• Yopie Prins (2009-2012)
• J. H. David Scourfield (2011-2014)

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PROFESSIONAL MATTERS DIVISION

PROFESSIONAL MATTERS COMMITTEE

The first six members of this Committee constitute the Subcommittee on Professional Ethics, which considers grievances and complaints pertinent to the APA Statement on Professional Ethics.

• James M. May, Chair ex officio
• Mary T. Boatwright (2011-2014)
• Carolyn Dewald (2009-2012)
• Sheila Murnaghan (2009-2012)
• Ralph M. Rosen (2010-2013)
• Jeffrey Henderson, ex officio
• Joy Connolly, ex officio
• Erich Gruen, ex officio
• John F. Miller, ex officio
• Adam D. Blistein, ex officio

JOINT COMMITTEE (WITH AIA) ON PLACEMENT

• Erich Gruen (2009-2012), Chair
• Michael Lippman (2010-2013)
• Ilaria Marchesi (2010-2013)
• David S. Potter (2011-2014)
• Pamela Vaughn (2011-2014)
• Joy Connolly, ex officio

AIA Representatives

• Barbara Barletta (2009-2012)
• Betsey Robinson (2010-2013)

COMMITTEE ON THE STATUS OF WOMEN AND MINORITY GROUPS

• Joy Connolly (2009-2012), Chair
• Paolo Asso (2011-2014)
• Jeri DeBrohun (2009-2012)
• Julia Hejduk (2010-2013)
• Helen Morales (2009-2012)
• Anatole Mori (2011-2014)
• Alex Purves (2011-2014)
• William G. Thalmann (2010-2103)
• Nancy Worman (2010-2013)

DIRECTOR OF THE CLASSICS ADVISORY SERVICE

• John F. Miller (2010-2013)

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PROGRAM DIVISION

PROGRAM COMMITTEE

• Joseph Farrell, Chair, ex officio
• Elizabeth Asmis (2009-2012)
• Kirk Freudenburg (2011-2014)
• Maud Gleason (2010-2013)
• Corinne O. Pache (2011-2014)
• Adam D. Blistein, ex officio
• Heather Hartz Gasda, ex officio

LOCAL ARRANGEMENTS COMMITTEE

• Jeremy McInerney

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PUBLICATIONS DIVISION

PUBLICATIONS COMMITTEE

• James J. O'Donnell, Chair, ex officio
• John Bodel (2011-2015)
• Raffaella Cribiore (2009-2013)
• Noel E. Lenski (2010-2014)
• David Levene (2008-2012)
• Jeffrey Henderson, ex officio
• Samuel Huskey, ex officio
• Sander Μ. Goldberg, ex officio
• Katharina Volk, ex officio
• Adam D. Blistein, ex officio

COMMITTEE ON TRANSLATIONS OF CLASSICAL AUTHORS

• Jeffrey Henderson (2011-2014), Chair
• Carin M. Green (2011-2014)
• Anne Mahoney (2011-2014)
• Donald J. Mastronarde (2011-2014)
• Danuta Shanzer (2011-2014)

EDITOR OF TAPA

• Katharina Volk (2010-2014)

EDITOR OF THE APA MONOGRAPHS SERIES

• To be appointed

EDITOR OF THE APA TEXTBOOK SERIES

• Sander M. Goldberg (2009-2013)

INFORMATION ARCHITECT

• Samuel Huskey (2011-2015)

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RESEARCH DIVISION

RESEARCH COMMITTEE

• Roger S. Bagnall, Chair, ex officio
• Martha Malamud (2008-2012)
• S. Douglas Olson (2011-2015)
• Barbara A. Shailor (2009-2013)
• Ineke Sluiter (2010-2014)
• Lisa D. Carson, ex officio
• Anthony P. Corbeill, ex officio
• Jeffrey Henderson, ex officio
• Maria Pantelia, ex officio
• Richard J. A. Talbert, ex officio
• Adam D. Blistein, ex officio

ADVISORY BOARD TO AMERICAN OFFICE OF L'ANNÉE PHILOLOGIQUE

• Chair to be appointed
• Kathryn S. Chew (2010-2013)
• Jeffrey Henderson (2009-2012)
• Jacquelene Riley (2011-2014)
• Roger S. Bagnall, ex officio
• Lisa D. Carson, ex officio
• William H. Johnson, ex officio
• Eric Rebillard, ex officio
• Adam D. Blistein, ex officio

TLL FELLOWSHIP COMMITTEE

• Anthony P. Corbeill (2006-2012), Chair
• Barbara K. Gold (2010-2013)
• Frances Hickson Hahn (2010-2013)
• Brian Krostenko (2010-2012)
• Matthew M. McGowan (2009-2012)
• Christopher S. van den Berg (2011-2014)
• J. Clare Woods (2011-2014)

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REPRESENTATIVES AND DELEGATES

REPRESENTATIVES

TO THE AMERICAN CLASSICAL LEAGUE

• Terence Tunberg (2011-2014)

TO THE ANCIENT WORLD MAPPING CENTER

• Mary T. Boatwright
• William A. Johnson

TO THE MODERN LANGUAGE ASSOCIATION

• Barbara Weiden Boyd

TO THE TLL

• Kathleen M. Coleman

TO THE ADVISORY BOARD OF THE TLG

• Dee L. Clayman
• Donald J. Mastronarde

DELEGATES

TO ACLS

• Jenny Strauss Clay (2008-2011)

TO FIEC

• Kurt A. Raaflaub, Delegate (2007-2012)
• Ruth Scodel, Associate Delegate (2007-2012)

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Important Dates For APA Members

(All deadlines are receipt deadlines unless otherwise indicated.)

April 15, 2011	Petitions to Nominate Alternate Candidates for Association Offices (see page XX)
May 13, 2011	Nominations for Goodwin Award (see page XX)
May 18, 2011	Nominations for Collegiate Teaching Awards (see page XX)
May 18, 2011	Individual Abstracts for 2012 Annual Meeting
June 1, 2011	Nominations for APA President's Award (see page XX)
June 3, 2011	Submission of Books for Goodwin Award (see page XX)
July 11, 2011	Nominations for Outreach Prize (see page XX)
July 30, 2011	Responses to Officer/Committee Survey (see page XX)
September 16, 2011	Nominations for Precollegiate Teaching Awards (see page XX)
January 5-8, 2012	143rd Annual Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
January 3-6, 2013	144th Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA
January 2-5, 2014	145th Annual Meeting, Chicago, IL
January 8-11, 2015	146th Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA

Capital Campaign News

To date over 750 donors have pledged $1,950,000 to the APA’s Campaign for Classics for the 21st Century. When this amount is combined with the $41,000 net proceeds from a fund-raising event at New York University last October, we are very close to a total of $2 million raised in the Gateway campaign and to the amount necessary for the next deadline for claiming NEH matching funds: $2,090,000 by July 31, 2011. Pledges of support are sufficient to meet this deadline, but all existing and new pledges must be paid, and the APA must raise an additional $500,000 (for the total of $2,600,000) by July 31, 2012, if it is to retain the matching funds it has claimed.

We are particularly grateful to Stephen Kidd for volunteering to write the Association’s most recent communication to members about the Campaign. He and his fellow graduate students in a number of different institutions have also made contributions in the last two months with the result that we can now report that more than 20% of all APA members have made a gift to the Campaign. Because the Campaign seeks to build an endowment for the future of Classics, it is very gratifying to see this participation by the future leaders of our field, and we hope all members will join them by sending in a contribution or making a gift online (https://app.etapestry.com/hosted/AmericanPhilologicalAssociat/OnlineDonation.html).

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