EDUCATION
Haverford College
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B.A. in Classics, 1978; Phi Beta Kappa, High Honors
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Princeton University
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M.A. in Classics, 1982; Ph.D. in Classics, 1988
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Hebrew University
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Lady David Doctoral Fellow, 1983-1985
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ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
1987-88
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Princeton University
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Lecturer, Classics
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1987-90
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Middlebury College
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Asst. Professor, Classics; ; chair, 1988-89
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1990-91
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Hebrew University
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Visiting Lecturer, Jewish History
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1991-92
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Tel Aviv University
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Visiting Lecturer, Classics and History
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1992-93
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Ben Gurion University
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Visiting Lecturer, Ancient History
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1992-99
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Tel Aviv University
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Senior Lecturer, Classics and History; tenure 06/99
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2000-11
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Tel Aviv University
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Associate Professor, Classics and History
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2011-
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Tel Aviv University
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Full Professor, Classics and History
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2017 -
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Tel Aviv University
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The Fred and Helen Lessing Chair of Ancient History
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ADMINISTRATION, COMMITTEES, SERVICE (Selective)
2000-2
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Tel Aviv University
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Undergraduate Advisor, History Department
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2000-2
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Tel Aviv University
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Liaison for Foreign Guests, Humanities Faculty
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2004-06
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Tel Aviv University
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Director of International Academic Relations
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2005-7
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Tel Aviv University
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Ph.D. Committee, School of History
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2006-7
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Tel Aviv University
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Steering Committee, “Melamdim” Program, TAU and Hartman Institute
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2008-11
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Tel Aviv University
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Development Committee, History Department
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2008-11
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Fulbright Foundation
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Selection Committee for Fulbright Doctoral Fellowships
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2010-14
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Tel Aviv University
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Chair, Classics Department
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2011-
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Tel Aviv University
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Chair, Oversight Committee for M.A. Program in Ancient Israel
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2012--
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Tel Aviv University
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Scholarships Committee, School of History
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2012--
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Tel Aviv University
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Thomas Arthur Arnold Scholarships Committee
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2013
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Dan David Foundation
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Selection Committee for Dan David Prize
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2013--
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Tel Aviv University
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Oversight Committee, Collaboration with Oxford U.
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2013--
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Tel Aviv University
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Appointments Committee, School of Cultural Studies
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2013-16
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Tel Aviv University
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Oversight Committee, Liberal Arts Program in English
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2015
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Dan David Foundation
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Selection Committee for Dan David Prize
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2015-18
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Tel Aviv University
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School of History Committee on Ph.D. Students
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2016-18
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Tel Aviv University
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Chair, History Department
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2016 - 23
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Tel Aviv University
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Appointments Committee, History
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2019-
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Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies
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President
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2011-
2023 -
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Chair and/or member of many promotion and search committees for all ranks within Tel Aviv University and in other universities in Israel and abroad
Tel Aviv Uuniversity University Appointments Committee
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2023-
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Zalman Shazar Center History Prize Committee
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ACADEMIC AND PROFESSIONAL AWARDS AND GRANTS
Lady Davis Graduate Fellowship, The Hebrew University (1983-85)
Whiting Fellowship, Princeton University (1985-86)
Ada Howe Kent Research Fellowship, Middlebury College (1988)
American Philosophical Society Research Fellowship (1988)
Lucius N. Littauer Foundation Research Grant, Principal Investigator (1990)
Fulbright Research Grant (1990-91)
Guastalla Fellowship (1992-95)
Ish-Shalom Prize in Jewish History, Yad Ben-Zvi, Jerusalem (1994)
Research Grant, Principal Investigator, Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture (1996, 1991)
Three-year Research Grant, Principal Investigator, Israel Science Foundation (1994-97)
Junior Fellow, The Center for Hellenic Studies (1997-98)
Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Jerusalem (2002-03)
Two-year Research Grant, Principal Investigator, Israel Science Foundation (2009-11)
Corresponding Member in the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (elected 2011)
Four-year Research Grant, Principal Investigator, Israel Science Foundation (2012-2016)
Four-year grant from Humanities Fund, Yad Hanadiv, for M.A. Program in Classics (I was author, program involves three other universities) (2013-2017)
Fellow, Princeton Institute for Advanced Study (Autumn 2014)
Dan David Foundation, Three-Year Research Grant to finish the Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae Palaestinae, 2022-2025.
Leon Levy Foundation, Three-Year Research Grant to finish the Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae Palaestinae, 2022-2025.
COURSES RECENTLY TAUGHT
Oxford-Tel Aviv joint graduate workhop in Ancient History (2016-2020); Literacy in Antiquity; Polybius and Hellenistic Historiography; The Provincial Historians of the Roman Empire; The Art of the Persuasion in Ancient Greece and Rome; Literary Patterns in Ancient Historiography; Ancient and Modern Theories of History; Tacitus and the Tyrant; The Roman Near East; The Problem of Julius Caesar; Greek Epigraphy in Greece and Rome; History and Historians from Herodotus to the Middle Ages; Internal War in the Greek and Roman Worlds; Livy and “exemplary History”; Augustus, the First Emperor; Ovid and the Concept of Metamorphosis; Life on the Periphery in the Roman Empire; Horace and Augustus; Masterpieces of Latin Prose.
Papers AND CONFERENCES (since 2001, selective)
2001 York University, Toronto, Canada: Flavian Josephus in Flavian Rome, International Conference: “Josephus’ mimesis of Thucydides: A Test Case”
2002 Barcelona, Spain: International Association of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, 12th International Conference: “Greeks, Romans, Jews and Others in the Iudaea/Syria Palaestina: ‘A Civilization of Epigraphy’: Jerusalem and Caesarea”
2002 Philadelphia, PA: American Philological Association, Annual Conference: “The Corpus Inscriptionum Iudaeae/Palaestinae”
2003 Atlanta, GA: Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Conference: “The Problem of Stasis in Josephus”
2003 Rome: Josephus Between Jerusalem and Rome, International Colloquium: “Josephus the Provincial Historian”
2003 Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies, International Conference: “Mommsen and the Jews” (Hebrew)
2003 Jerusalem: Judaisms in Antiquity, International Conference: “What is Jewish about Jewish Epigraphy?”
2003 Jerusalem: Co-Organizer of International Conference at The Institute for Advanced Studies, “A Civilization of Epigraphy”. My paper (with Shlomo Naeh): “Transcription as a Cultural Phenomenon in Antiquity”
2005 Boston: American Philological Association, Annual Conference: “Jews and Greeks in Jaffa: New Light on the Inscriptions in the Ustinov Collection, Oslo”
2005 Philadelphia, PA: Society of Biblical Literature, Annual Conference: “Unpublished Inscriptions from Beth She‘arim: Palaeography and History”
2005 Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies, International Conference: “The Ustinov Collection in Oslo”
2006 Greifswald, Germany: Josephus and the New Testament – The New Testament and Josephus. Mutual Perceptions, International Conference: “Josephus’ Place in the Dialogue on the Destruction of the Temple”
2007 Cambridge, England: International Josephus Seminar: “The Failure of Rhetoric in Josephus’ Bellum Iudaicum”
2007 Oxford, England: International Association of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, 13th International Conference: “Semitic Languages in the Epigraphy of the Graeco-Roman Near East: The Case of Judaea/Syria Palaestina”
2008 Regensburg, Germany: Thucydides – A ‘Violent Teacher’?: History and its Representations, International Conference: “Thucydides and Flavius Josephus: Stasis and Mimesis”
2008 Jerusalem: Jewish Views of the After-Life and Burial Practices in Second Temple Judaism: Evaluating the Talpiot Tomb in Context, International Conference sponsored by Princeton Theological Seminary and Mishkenot Sha’ananim: “The Mariam Ossuary in Greek”
2008 Chicago: American Philological Association, Annual Conference: “How to Read an Ossuary Inscription”
2008 University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada: Globalizing the History of Historical Writing: The Plenary Conference of the Oxford History of Historical Writing: “Josephus”
2009 Tel Aviv: Judaea/Palaestina, Babylon and Rome: Jews in the Roman, Parthian and Sassanian Empires: International Conference in Honour of Aharon Oppenheimer: “The necropolis at Jaffa and its relation to Beth She‘arim”
2010 Athens: Thucydides’ Techniques: Between Historical Research and Literary Representation, International Conference: “Difficult Statements in Thucydides”
2010 Groningen: Second Groningen Qumran Institute Symposium: “The Jewish Population of Jerusalem from the First Century B.C.E. to the Early Second Century C.E.: The Epigraphic Record”
2011 San Francisco: American Schools of Oriental Research: “The Place of Synagogue Inscriptions in the Epigraphic Culture of the Roman Near East”
2012 Aix-en-Provence, University of Aix-Marseille: Judaism and the Political and Religious Challenge of the Roman Empire: “The Perception of Rome in Greek Authors, mostly during the Imperial Period”
2012 Chicago: Society of Biblical Literature: “Jewish Synagogue Inscriptions and History” (organizer of panel)
2012 Philadelphia: American Philological Association: “The Multi-lingual Synagogue Inscriptions in Syria and Iudaea/Palaestina”
2012 Berlin: Association Internationale d'Épigraphie Grecque et Latine: “The Media and Audiences of the Aramaic and Hebrew Inscriptions in Roman Syria and Palestine”
2013 Margharita di Savoia, Italy: Ancient Literary and Visual Representations of the Roman Civil Wars of the 40s and 30s BCE: “Civil War and Empire in Appian of Alexandria”
2013 Ghent: The International Network for Theory of History: The Future of the Theory and Philosophy of History: “The Origins of the Philosophy of History”
2013 Jerusalem, Van Leer Institute: Coping with Change: Adapting Religions and Adopting Transformations in the Late Antique Eastern Mediterranean: “The Different Faces of Euergetism in Syria and Iudaea/Palaestina in Late Antiquity: The Evidence of Synagogue Inscriptions”
2013 Tel Aviv (conference organizer): The Future of Rome: Roman, Greek, Christian and Jewish Perspectives: “Three Greek Views on the Past and Future of the Roman Empire”
2014 Aix-en-Provence, University of Aix-Marseille: Citizenship(s) and Political-Religious Self-Definitions in the Roman Empire: “Greek Intellectual Communities in the Roman Empire”
2014 Yale University: Multilingualism and the Transfer of Cultures in Antiquity: “Language, Audience and Locality: The Problem of Synagogue Inscriptions”
2015 Hebrew University: Journeys in the Roman East: Imagined and Real: “Lucian’s Verae Historiae”
2015 Manchester, UK: Experiences of Sanctuaries/ Experiences of Empire (respondent)
2015 Tel Aviv University: Tel Aviv, Cambridge & Frankfurt 2nd International Conference in Interreligious Studies (respondent)
2016 Tel Aviv University: The Eighth Conference in Byzantine Studies: “The International Community in Beth She‘arim, Its Extent and Significance”
2016 Zichron Ya‘akov , Israel (conference co-organizer): Languages and Empire: “The Names of God in Jewish Inscriptions”
2017 Tel Aviv University (conference co-organizer): Language and Text: International Conference in Honor of Margalit Finkelberg
2017 Rome, l’École Française de Rome: Regarding Roman Power: Imperial rule in the eyes of Greeks and Romans, Jews and Christians, and Others: “Structural weaknesses in Rome’s power – Historians’ views on Roman stasis”
2018 Aix-en-Provence, University of Aix-Marseille: The Perception and Reception of Roman Law and Tribunals by Jews and Other Inhabitants of the Empire (respondent)
2018 Jerusalem, Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi: On Writing and Writings: “Greek and Aramaic in the Synagogue Inscriptions from Eretz-Israel” (Hebrew)
2018 Tel Aviv University, conference organizer: Networks and Changing Identities in the Ancient Greek World: In Honor of Professor Irad Malkin
2019 Tel Aviv University, conference organizer: The Varieties of Academic Experience: A Conference in Honor of Professor David S. Katz
2019 Cologne: Center and Periphery: Working with Inscriptions of Iudaea/Palaestina: “Insights into Jewish Epigraphical Idioms from the CIIP”
2019 Dead Sea Research Institute: “Literary cultures around the Dead Sea in Antiquity”
2020 Jaffa: Jaffa by the Sea: New Historical and Archaeological Discoveries (respondent)
2023 Rome: Rhetoric and Historiography: New Perspectives: “Truth as a Rhetorical Problem in Ancient Historiography”
INVITED PUBLIC LECTURES (since 2001, various on Classics, Ancient History, Epigraphy)
2001: Washington University, Princeton University, Tel Aviv University.
2002: Johns Hopkins University, Tel Aviv University.
2003: Princeton University, Tel Aviv University
2004: Washington University, Yad Ben Zvi (Jerusalem).
2005: Institute for Advanced Study (Jerusalem); Yeshiva University
2006: Haverford College, Jewish Theological Seminary, Swarthmore College, University of Pennsylvania
2007: Hebrew University
2008: Colgate University, Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Jewish Theological Seminary, New York University, Swarthmore College, Tel Aviv University, University of Toronto, Yad Ben Zvi (Jerusalem), Yeshiva University
2009: Hebrew University, New York University, Tel Aviv University, Yad Ben Zvi (Jerusalem) Yeshiva University
2010: Tel Aviv University, Yad Ben Zvi (Jerusalem).
2011: Tel Aviv University, The Rector’s Lectures (13 lectures): “From Jerusalem to Rome: Thirty Years that Changed the World”
2011: Florida State University
2014: Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Princeton University. Colgate University. Middlebury College.
2015: Tel Aviv University. The National Library of Israel.
2016: Israel Antiquities Authority.
2017: Washington University. University of Bern.
2017: Academic organizer of research/study day at Yodfat (Israel) for History students and faculty from universities and colleges in Israel. Lecture: “Yodfat Then and Now”
2019: University of London. Oxford University.
2020: The National Library of Israel. Tel Aviv University.
STUDENTS SUPERVISED
Dr. Peter Martin, Dan David postdoctoral student, “Greek and Roman Historiography”, 2022-2023.
Ayelet Peer, Ph.D., Tel Aviv University, 2005-2010: “Rewriting History: A Thematic Analysis of Julius Caesar’s Bellum Civile”.
Eva Tyrell, Ph.D., Bern University and Tel Aviv University (co-tutelle), 2013-17: “Historiographic Narratives in Bibilcal and Early Greek Tradition”
Matan Orian, Ph.D., Tel Aviv University, 2013-16: “Gentiles in the Jerusalem Temple”
Moshe Manor, Ph.D., Tel Aviv University, 2013-2020: “Meta-Rhetoric in Greek Oratory”
Steven Ben Yishai, Ph.D., Hebrew University, 2014-2019: “Josephus' Tyrants and the Aristocratic Ethos in Rome”
Barnea Levi Selavan, “Yavne and Yavneh-Yam’s City and Hinterland During the Persian, Hellenistic, Hasmonean, Early and Late Roman Periods (5th C BCE – 4th C CE) – Texts and Archaeology”, Tel Aviv University, 2023-, Co-direction with Yuval Shachar.
Ory Amitay, M.A., Tel Aviv University, 1997-98: “The Life and Works of Brasidas”
Amir Meital, M.A., Tel Aviv University, 2003: “Natural Disasters in Thucydides”
Veronese, Anna, M.A., Hebrew University, 2008-2010: “The Inscriptions of the Jaffa Necropolis”
Uriah Sack, M.A., Tel Aviv University, 2010-: “Virtus in Sallust”
Noam Ritbo, M.A, History, Tel Aviv University, 2019-, “Catch 31: L. Aelius Seianus in his Time and Ours”
Ronnie Hirsch, M.A. Classics, Tel Aviv University, 2019-, “Historiography and Rhetoric in Cicero’s Philosophical Writings”
External Referee (selective)
Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Cambridge University Press. Oxford University Press. Israel Science Foundation. Journal of Hellenic Studies. Journal of Jewish Studies. Transactions of the American Philological Society. Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research. Tarbiz. Zion. Scripta Classica Israelica.