1 Christelle Fischer-Bovet Curriculum vitae

Christelle Fischer-Bovet
Curriculum vitae
Department of Classics, THH 256, University of Southern California
3501 Trousdale Parkway, Los Angeles CA 90089-0352
[email protected], website @ http://fischer-bovet.info, April 2014.
Research and Teaching interests
• Hellenistic History, Greek & Roman Egypt, Papyrology & Epigraphy, Ancient Historiography.
• Social-Scientific Theory, State Formation, Institutions, Military History, Ethnicity
& Colonization, Demography, Ancient Economy.
Current and Past Positions
2010 – current Assistant Professor of Classics, University of Southern California, Los Angeles and
Participating Faculty in the Middle East Studies Program
Education
2008
2006
2001
Doctor of Philosophy in Classics, Department of Classics, Stanford University.
Dissertation: Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt
Master of Arts in Classics, Department of Classics, Stanford University.
Licence ès Lettres, Université de Neuchâtel, Switzerland.
Ancient Greek, History, French (mention très bien).
Awards, Honors and fellowships
2014 – 2015
Solmsen Fellow at the Institute for Research in Humanities, University of WisconsinMadison.
2008 – 2010
Post-Doctoral Fellow of the Swiss National Science Foundation at the University of
California, Berkeley, Center for the Tebtunis papyri.
2007 – 2008
Geballe Dissertation Prize Fellowship, Stanford Humanities Center.
2006 Summer Dissertation Research Grant, Graduate Research Opportunity Funds, School of
Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University.
2002 – 2007
Five-year Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University, Department of Classics.
Publications
Book
April 2014
Army and Society in Ptolemaic Egypt, 323-30 BC, Cambridge University Press,
Cambridge. (www.cambridge.org/9781107007758).
Journal articles and Book Chapters
Forthcoming
“Security and border policy. Army and police. I. Ptolemaic Egypt”, in Vandorpe, K. (ed),
2015
Blackwell Companion. Greco-Roman and Late antique Egypt.
Forthcoming
“Est-il facile de conquérir l’Egypte? L’invasion d’Antiochus IV et ses conséquences” in
2014
Feyel, C., Graslin, L. (eds) Le projet politique d’Antiochos IV”, Nancy (France).
Forthcoming
“Ethnic identity and status: comparing Ptolemaic and Early Roman Egypt”, in Ziche, H.
2014
(ed), Identity and Identification in Antiquity, Cambridge Scholars Press, available on
Academia.edu.
2014
“Un aspect des conséquences des réformes de l'armée lagide : Soldats, temples Egyptiens
et inviolabilité (asylia)”, in Véïsse, A.-E., Wackenier, S. (ed.), Cahiers de l'Atelier
Aigyptos 2. L'armée en Egypte aux époques perse, ptolémaïque et romaine, Paris, EPHE.
2013
“Egyptian warriors: the machimoi of Herodotus and the Ptolemaic army”, in Classical
Quarterly, CUP, 209-236.
2012
“A military reform before the battle of Raphia?” with Willy Clarysse, in Archiv für
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2011
2003
2000
Papyrusforschung 58, 26-35
“Silver and bronze standards and the date of P. Heid. VI 383” with Willy Clarysse, in
Archiv für Papyrusforschung 58, 26-35
“Counting the Greeks in Egypt: immigration in the first century of Ptolemaic rule”, in
Holeran, C., Pudsey, A. (eds), Demography and the Graeco-Roman World: New Insights
and Approaches, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, p. 135-154.
*Translation of “Cadmos et les Labdacides (4.1-5.9)” in P. Schubert (ed.), Apollodore,
La Bibliothèque. Un Manuel antique de mythologie, Editions de l'Aire, 2003, 133-143.
*Translation of Papyri (# 21, 25, 58, 59, 68) in P. Schubert (ed.), Vivre en Egypte GrécoRomaine, Editions de l'Aire, 2000.
Note: All publications are refereed unless marked with an *
Editions of Papyri
2013
“Greek Papyri of the Classics Department at Stanford” (P. Stan. Class.). Part I, with
Willy Clarysse, in The Journal of Juristic Papyrology (57 pages with plates).
2009
“Letter Requesting Medical Tools (PStrasbCopte inv. 563)”, in I. Andorlini (ed.), Greek
Medical Papyri II, Firenze, 157-165.
2006
“Retour sur SB XX 14070 : les affaires de la famille d’un vétéran dans le nome
arsinoïte”, in Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 155, 200-206.
Encyclopedia entries
2014
“Ptolemaic Egypt”, in MacKenzie, J. (eds), Encyclopedia of Empire, Wiley-Blackwell,
Forthcoming
Oxford, (1,000 words).
2012
“Ethnicity in Greco-Roman Egypt”, “Egyptian revolts”, “Katoikoi”, “Colossi of
Memnon”, in Bagnall, R. et. al., Encyclopedia of Ancient History, Wiley-Blackwell,
Oxford, (3,500 words).
2011
“Herwennefer and Ankhwennefer”, in Gates, H. L., Akyeampong, E. (eds),
The Dictionary of African Biography, Oxford University Press (1,000 words).
Book Reviews
2014
2013
* Moyer, (I.) Egypt and the Limits of Hellenism, Cambridge, Cambridge University
Press, 2011, x + 347 p. in European Review of History 20.6
* Kelly (B.) Petitions, Litigation, and Social Control in Roman Egypt. Pp. xx + 427,
maps. Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2011, in Classical Review 63.1
Working Papers (online)
2007
“P. Tebt. VI 1169: Copy of a Judicial Proceeding (P.Tebt. UC 1589-91)” in Hickey,
T., Verhoogt, A. (eds.), The Tebtunis Papyri VI (P.Tebt. VI), University of Berkeley,
California, available on Academia.edu.
2007
“Army and Egyptian temple building under the Ptolemies”, Conference Paper, XXV
International Congress of Papyrology, The University of Michigan, Ann Arbor,
Version 1.0 October, Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics.
Work in progress
• Book project, The Ptolemaic Empire. State formation in Egypt after Alexander for Oxford Studies
in Early Empires (under contract with Oxford University Press).
• “The concept of decline in the historiography of Hellenistic Egypt”, for Topoi.
• “The Ptolemaic army”, article for The Oxford Handbooks Online in Classical Studies.
• “Early Ptolemaic naval activities in the Mediterranean”, article project.
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“Les Egyptiens dans la flotte et l’armée de terre sous les trois premiers Lagides” in Derda, T. (ed),
Proceedings of the 27th International Congress of Papyrology, Warsaw, submitted 02/2014.
“Social unrest in Ptolemaic Egypt and in the Seleucid Empire: balancing ethnic and socioeconomic solidarities”, submitted 04/2014.
Selection of recent conference papers and lectures
2013 August
“Egyptians in the early Ptolemaic army and naval activities in the Mediterranean, 27th
International Congress of Papyrology”, Warsaw.
2013 June
“Est-il facile de conquérir l’Egypte? Causes et conséquence de l’invasion d’Antiochus
IV d’après les sources papyrologiques et littéraires”, (invited lecture), Le projet
d’Antiochos IV, Colloque franco-allemand, Université de Lorraine (France).
2013 May
“A reevaluation of the revolts in the Ptolemaic and Seleucid Empires. Balancing ethnic
and socio-economic solidarities”, Meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians,
Columbus, The Ohio State University.
2012 December “Demography and Ethnicity in Ptolemaic Egypt”, (invited lecture), Egypt in the days of
Cleopatra. A study day on Ptolemaic Egypt, UCLA.
2011 March
“Historical Papyrology and Population Genetics”, USC-France: Encounters in Sciences
and Humanities, French Office for Science & Technology, USC (Los Angeles).
Other Relevant Professional Activities and Accomplishments.
2011-current
Co-organizer of the Pre-Modern Mediterranean seminar of USC-Huntington Early
Modern Studies Institute (with Professors C. Moatti and J. Glenn).
2012-current
Reviewer for the new Journal History Research, David Publishing Company.
Teaching at USC
2013 Fall
Warfare, State and Society in the Ancient World (CLAS 338)
2013 Spring
Intermediate Greek, Greek Historians (GRE 354)
2013 Spring
Cleopatra’s World: at the Crossroads of Ancient Egypt, Greece and Rome
(Arts and Letters Program)
2012 Fall
Ptolemaic and Early Roman Egypt: an introduction to papyrology (CLAS 510),
Graduate Seminar in Classics.
2012 Fall
Directed Research (HIST 490), From Ptolemaic to Roman Egypt, the effect of the
transition on the Egyptian priesthood and (CLAS 590), Herodotus Book VII.
2011 Fall
Beginning Latin, third semester (LAT 222)
2011 Spring
Intermediate Greek, Greek Tragedy (GRE 354), Sophocles’ Antigone.
2011 Spring
Special topics in Classics: State & Society in Ptolemaic Egypt (CLAS 499).
2010-13, Fall
The Ancient World (HIST 101), General Education class, Department of History.
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