Current Students :: Graduate Program

Robert Nichols

Education

  • 2009-2010 American School of Classical Studies at Athens (Regular Program)
  • M.A. 2006, Classics, University of Colorado-Boulder
  • A.B. 2004, History, University of Nebraska

Academic Interests

  • Greek History
  • Athenian Legal and Social History
  • Greek Prose Literature

Fellowships and Awards

  • Virginia Grace Fellowship, American School of Classical Studies at Athens (2009-10)
  • Norma T. Pratt Traveling Fellowship, Department of Classical Studies, Indiana University (2009)
  • Department of Classical Studies Fellowship, Indiana University (2007-2008)
  • Edward Capps Fellowship, American School of Classical Studies at Athens (2011-12)
  • Harry Bikakis Fellowship, American School of Classical Studies at Athens (2011-12)

Courses Taught at Indiana University (2007-present)

  • CLAS-L150, Elementary Latin II
  • CLAS-L250, Second-Year Latin II
  • CLAS-G100, Elementary Greek I

Courses Asssisted at Indiana University (2007-present)

  • Ancient Greek Culture

Courses Assisted at the University of Colorado (2004-2006)

  • CLAS/HIST 1051: World of the Ancient Greeks
  • CLAS/ARTH 1509: Trash and Treasure, Temples and Tombs: Art and Archaeology of the Ancient World
  • CLAS/HIST 2041: War and Society in Ancient Greece
  • CLAS/PHIL 2610: Paganism to Christianity

Papers Presented

  • "The Rhetoric of timoria: Constituting Vengeance in Lysias 1, 3, 12 and 13," CAMWS 107th Annual Meeting, Grand Rapids, Michigan, 2011
  • "Professions of Penia by Athenian Litigants," CAMWS 104th Annual Meeting, Tucson, Arizona, 2008

Invited Lectures

  • "The Rhetoric of timoria: Constituting Vengeance in Lysias," Ancient Studies Colloquium, Indiana University, April, 2011