Cynthia K. Kosso
Department of History NAU,
PO Box 6023 Flagstaff, AZ 86011-6023
E-MAIL# cynthia.kosso@nau.edu
EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND
BA (History) Montana State University, summa cum laude, March 1982
MA (Ancient History) University of Minnesota, September 1986
MA (Classics and Archaeology) University of Minnesota , September 1987
Ph.D. (Ancient History) University of Illinois at Chicago, May 1993
Dissertation: "Public Policy and Agricultural Practice: An Archaeological and Literary Study of Late Roman Greece."
PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
Teaching Experience
Associate Professor and Associate Chair of History, Spring 2000 - present, Northern Arizona University
Interim Director of Honors Program, Fall 1999, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff.
Associate Director of Honors Program, Fall 1998 and Spring 1999, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff.
Director, Secondary Education Lab, Department of History, Fall 1996 to Spring 1999, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona.
Asst. Professor, Fall 1995-Spring 2000, Department of History, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff.
Lecturer, Fall 1993-Spring 1995, Department of History, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff.
Instructor, Fall 1991- Spring 1993, Department of History, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff. (full-time)
At NAU I teach: History of Ancient Greece, History and Archaeology of Greece (with travel to Greece), History of Ancient Rome, Honor's Junior seminar on the Roman Republic, Women in Antiquity, the Senior Seminar on the Collapse of Complex Civilizations, and the History of Western Civilization (I teach the traditional lecture format and have developed and taught and computer assisted version of the Western Civilization course). Independent studies including, Bronze Age Greece, Greek and Roman Ancient authors in the original language (several times), Trade in the Bronze Age Mediterranean (twice), Augustus Caesar, Roman Conquest of Britain, Rome in Late Antiquity, Minoan Thera (history and archaeology), Women in Athens and Sparta, Roman Art of War.
Instructor of Archaeology and Art History, Ithaka Cultural Exchange Programs in Greece, Spring and Summer 1989; I taught Greek History, Greek Art and Archaeology.
Teaching Assistant and Instructor, 1985-1986, Dept. of Classical Studies, University of Minnesota
Teaching Assistant, 1983-1985, Dept. of History, University of Minnesota. My duties included grading and lecturing for the ancient civilization courses, Greek and Roman mythology, and teaching the Greek and Latin Technical Terms course (designed for science majors)
Research Experience
Research and Museum Assistant, Fall 1989-1990, Dept. of Classics, University of Illinois at Chicago and Nemea Valley Archaeological Project
Research Assistant, Winter 1988-1989, Professor Jack Davis, University of Illinois at Chicago
Research Assistant, 1987-1988, Dept. of History and Philosophy, Montana State University
Research Assistant, 1985-1986, Dept. of History, University of Minnesota
Research Assistant, 1981-1982, Dept. of History and Philosophy, Montana State University
Field and Related Experience
Director, Palaiochora-Karystian Basin Project (responsibilities included all preparation for archaeological field work and publication of material).
Associate, Pylos Archaeological Project, 1991-2 (responsibilities included, among other duties, all preliminary dating of pottery and artifacts; leading survey teams in the field; organizing crew member activities; liaison with the Pylos excavation project).
Associate Field Director, Southern Euboea Exploration Project, Summer 1989-present (responsibilities have included leading and planning survey seasons in the field, publication of the early Iron Age and Roman and Byzantine period artifacts)
Museum and Field Associate, Nemea Valley Archaeological Project, Summer 1989, 1990 (responsibilities in Nemea included preliminary dating of historic period [Greek geometric through modern] artifacts from the 1988, 1989, 1990 field seasons, data entry of the material, cross checking both dating and comperanda; in the US, responsibilities included acting as a reader for the publication, mapping sites and other artifact locations, data entry and statistical analysis).
Southern Euboea Exploration Project, 1986-1988: Summer 1986 as a Survey "Team Leader", summer 1987 as excavation "Trench Master", summer 1988 Study Season (preliminary analysis of all survey data)
PUBLICATIONS
PUBLICATIONS
Manuscript submitted:
The Archaeology of Public Policy in Late Roman Greece. Under review.
Manuscript in progress:
Fear and Its Representations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance (co-edited with Anne Scott). In progress, and contract signed with Brepol Publishers.
Articles:
"Report on "Fear and Its Representations in the Middle Ages and Renaissance": Links to Antiquity"(with Anne Scott) accepted for publication by Classical Traditions, in press.
"Achaea." In Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic World, 2000
"Chalkis." In Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic World, 2000
"Euboea." In Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic World, 2000
"Roman Greece: Cultural History from 30 BC to AD 330." In Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic World, 2000.
"Roman Greece: Political History from 30 BC to AD 330." To Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic World, 2000.
"Democratizing Professional Development: Reflections on Interdisciplinary Collaboration by Untenured Female Scholars at Northern Arizona University," (with J. Boreen, L. Gray-Rosendale and S. Gruber) In a volume of essays on collaboration between English Studies and English Education. 1999.
"A Late Roman Complex at Palaiochora near Karystos in Southern Euboia, Greece." Echos du monde classique (XL - NS 15, 1996, pp. 201-230).
"Catalogue-Red and Black Figure." In E. Stern (ed.), Excavations at Dor, Final Report, Volume IB, Areas A and C: The Finds (Qedem Repots, The Institute of Archaeology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1995: 162-173).
"Central Place Theory as Middle Range Theory." (With Peter Kosso), Philosophy of Science (Dec. 1995).
Booklets:
Mapping World History, Volumes 1 and 2. 2000. Wadsworth Publishing Company. This is a map workbook that is intended to stand-alone and is not associated with any particular World history textbook. (In press)
Mapping Western Civilization, Volumes 1 and 2. 1999. Wadsworth Publishing Company. This is a map workbook that is intended to stand-alone and is not associated with any particular Western civilization textbook.
New Edition of World History Map Workbook for Duiker et al, Vol. 1, 1998, Wadsworth Publishing Co. (formerly West Educational Publishing).
New Edition of World History Map Workbook for Duiker et al, Vol. 2, 1998, Wadsworth Publishing Co. (formerly West Educational Publishing).
Revised edition, Western Civilization Map Workbook, Vol. 1, 1997, West Educational Publishing: St. Paul.
Revised edition, Western Civilization Map Workbook, Vol. 2, 1997, West Educational Publishing: St. Paul.
Western Civilization Map Workbook, third edition, Vol. 1 1997, West Publishing: St. Paul (72 pages).
Western Civilization Map Workbook, third edition, Vol. 2, 1997, West Publishing: St. Paul (72 pages).
World History, Vol. 1 (Map workbook to accompany Upshur et al.), 1995, West Publishing: St. Paul (68 pages).
World History, Vol. 2 (Map workbook to accompany Upshur et al.), 1995, West Publishing: St. Paul (68 pages).
Mapping World History, Vol. 1, 1994, West Publishing: St. Paul (70 pages).
Mapping World History, Vol. 2, 1994, West Publishing: St. Paul (70 pages).
Western Civilization Map Workbook Vol. 1, 1993, West Publishing: St. Paul (72 pages).
Western Civilization Map Workbook Vol. 2, 1993, West Publishing: St. Paul (72 pages).
Book Reviews:
Book Review of: Judith P. Hallett. Fathers and Daughters in Roman Society: Women in the Elite Family. Princeton University Press, 1984. In WHOM newsletter 13:2 (May 1985) 14-15.
Presentations:
"Public Women in Ancient Greece" 1997, Women's Studies Lecture Series, NAU, April, 1997.
"Greek Sanctuaries in the Geometric Period (ca. 900-700 BC)," presented to the Department of History (Phi Alpha Theta), November 15, 1995.
"Roman and Byzantine Sites on the Paximadhi Peninsula," presented to The First Joint Archaeological Congress, Baltimore, Maryland, January 7, 1989.
"Athenian Imperialism: Textual and Archaeological Evidence," presented to the College of Arts and Sciences, Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, April 23, 1991.
"Greek Rural Religion," presented to the Department of History and Philosophy, Bozeman, Montana, December, 1991.
"An Early Byzantine complex in Southern Euboea, Greece," presented to the Department of History (Phi Alpha Theta), Northern Arizona University, Flagstaff, Arizona, September, 1993.
"An Early Byzantine Villa Complex at Palaiochora, Southern Euboea," presented to the Annual Conference of the Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Association, May 13, 1994.
HONORS AND AWARDS
S.S. Oviatt Award, Montana State University, 1981-2.
Advanced Honors Scholarship, Montana State University, 1981-2.
Graduate School Tuition Grant, University of Minnesota, 1984.
Summer Research Grant, Dept. of History, University of Minnesota, 1985.
Summer Research Grant, Dept. of Classical Studies, University of Minnesota, 1986.
Graduate School Fellowship, Dept. of History, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1990.
Tuition Fellowship, Dept. of Classics, University of Illinois, Chicago, 1991.
Outstanding Honor's Professor, Northern Arizona University, 1992
President's Honor for Commitment and Dedication, 1993.
Letters of commendation for being and "Outstanding Educator" from ASNAU, 1996.
Louie Award: Best History Teacher, 1997
Provost's Award for Outstanding Service to Honors, 1999
Honors Award for Exceptional Leadership, 1999