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Department Head:
Tamara M. Green
Division Head:
Tamara M. Green
Division Advisors:
Tamara M. Green (Day)
William J. Mayer (Evening)
Website Compiler:
Adele J. Haft
Department Secretary:
Millie Arias
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CURRICULUM VITAE
Tamara
M. Green
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Education
PhD
Classics New
York University
1974
MA Classics New York University
1970
BA Classics
New York University
1966
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Teaching Experience
- Hunter College,
CUNY 1970-present
Department of Classical and Oriental Studies
1990-present: Professor and Chair
1980-1990: Associate Professor and Chair
1974-1980: Assistant Professor
1970-1974: Lecturer
- Graduate Center,
CUNY 1990-present
Department of Classics
- New York
University 1978-1993
Graduate School
of Arts and
Sciences
1984-1993: Adjunct Professor
1978-1984: Adjunct Associate Professor
Non-Academic
Experience
- Coward-McCann
Publishers (Assistant to Editor-in-Chief) 1969
- Federation
of Jewish Philanthropies (Associate Editor) 1967-1969
- Meredith
Publishing Company (publicity assistant) 1966-1967
ACADEMIC AND
PROFESSIONAL AWARDS
- Classical
Association of the Empire
State
Outstanding Latin Program, 1998
- Sabbatical
Fellowship, 1988
- American
Philological Association Award for Excellence in the Teaching of
Classics, 1987
- Disabled
Students' Association of Hunter
College Award,
1986
- NYU School
of Continuing Education Award for Outstanding Teaching, 1986
- Hunter College
Presidential Award for Excellence in Teaching, 1985
- Hunter College
Schuster Fund Summer Grant, 1978
- Social
Science Research Council Fellowship (for research in Harran), 1977
- ACLS
Study Fellowship (to study the sociology of religion with Peter
Berger), 1976
PUBLICATIONS
Books
- The
City of the Moon God: Religious Traditions of Harran
(Brill, 1992)
- The
Greek and Latin Roots of English (Ardsley
House, 1990; 2nd. ed., 1994)
Articles (last ten years only)
- Articles
in Encyclopedia of Women and Religion (Macmillan, 1998):
"Priestesses," "Goddesses in Greek Religion,"
"Zoroastrianism," "the Muses."
- "The
Presence of the Goddess in Harran,"
in Cybele, Attis
& Related Cults, ed. Eugene
Lane (E.J. Brill, 1996)
- "Response
to "Classics: a Profession in Crisis?" " Classical
World, Spring 1995
- "The
Ghosts of Homer," Journal of the Gardiner Museum,
Spring 1995.
- "Pluralism
and Diversity in the Ancient World," CAES Newsletter, Winter 1993; rpt. in CAAS Newsletter, Spring 1993.
- "Between
Scylla and Charybdis: Sailing on the
Academic Deep," ADFL Bulletin, Fall 1991
- "What's
a Sesquipedalian?", CUNY Journal on
Teaching, 1989.
"Black Athena and Classical Historiography," Arethusa , 1989.
Scholarly Papers And Addresses
(last five years only)
- "Islam
and the Esoteric Sciences," International Conference on the
History of Philosophy and Religion, May 1998.
- "Harran, the Sabians, and Esoteric Islam," International
Conference on the History of Philosophy and Religion, May 1997.
- "Hephaistos, the Crook-Foot God," Society for
Disability Studies, June, 1996. "Democracy and Plato's
Text," Conference on the Uses of Plato's Republic, Hunter College (1994)
- "The
Ghosts of Homer," Symposium on Myth and Allusion, Gardiner Museum,
1994 "The City of the Moon God," Haverford College,
1993
- "Pluralism
and Diversity in the Ancient World," CAES Conference, Poughkeepsie, NY, 1992
- "Black
Athena and Classical Historiography, Presidential Panel of the APA,
1992.
Public
Lectures (selective list: last ten years only)
- "The
Epic of Gilgamesh," Staten Island
AIA (April 1999)
- "The
Journey in Greek Myth," Westchester
AIA (February 1998)
- "The
Darkness of Heaven: Demonology in the Ancient Near East," Westchester AIA (April, 1996)
- "Dangerous
Women," Biblical Archaeology Study Group (October 1995)
- "Josephus
and Jewish History," Biblical Archaeology Study Group (April
1993)
- "Tamar
and Miriam," Biblical Archaeology Study Group (October, 1992)
- "Prophets
and Seers in Biblical Judaism," Biblical Archaeology Study Group
(April, 1991)
- "The
Land of No Return: Near Eastern Views
of the Afterlife," Caldron Productions (February, 1991)
- "Medieval
Islam," CUNY
Graduate Center Medieval Studies Seminar
(December, 1989)
- "Parents
and Children in Canaanite Myth," Biblical Archaeology Study Group
(December, 1989)
- "The
Chronicles of Nabonidus, " Biblical
Archaeology Study Group (June, 1989)
- "Homer
and the Oral Tradition," Jung Institute (November, 1988)
- "Classical
Myth in Modem Literature and Art" (four lectures), NYU School of
Continuing Education (1988, repeated 1989 and 1990)
Pedagogy
(last ten years only)
- workshop
of seminar, BASF Pharmaceuticals, "The Greek and Latin Roots of
Medical Terminology," June 1999.
- Co-leader,
"Italy Before the Romans," a study tour of southern Italy and Sicily (summer 1997, 1998, 2004)
- "Linked
courses and ESL instruction," CUNY Conference of Writing
Supervisors, 1997.
- Project
Director, FIPSE grant, "Enhancing Success Rates of Bilingual
Students through Paired Courses," ($164,000 over three years,
commencing FaIll 1994).
- "Dealing
with Diversity in the Classics Classroom," Faculty Delegate
Assembly Seminar (September, 1993).
- "Between
Scylla and Charybdis: Sailing on the
Academic Deep," Eastern ADFL
Conference (June, 1991).
- Consultant
on Writing Across the Curriculum, Tisch
School of the
Arts, NYU (1990).
- Seminar
Leader, NEH Summer Institute for Secondary School Teachers. "Teaching
Classical Civilization." Skidmore College,
1986, 1987.
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