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MARGARET E. BUTLER megbutler@gmail.com

+56 9 6438 2983 El Gabino 13118, Depto. 504-E

Lo Barnechea, Santiago – RM – Chile Research specialties and interests: history, archaeology, and culture of the ancient Mediterranean, especially ancient Greece, socio-political change, institutional change, state formation, growth and development of citizenship, democracy, and civic education, transformational leadership, ritual behavior, archaeological theory, historiography, narrativity and history, material culture studies, landscape archaeology, cultural heritage EDUCATION 2000-2008 Stanford University Ph.D. in Classics Department of Classics & Stanford Archaeology Center

Dissertation: “Of Swords and Strigils: Social Change in Ancient Macedon” – Ian Morris (director), Michael Shanks, Joseph Manning, and Jennifer Trimble (readers), and Ian Hodder (defense chairman) Available through ProQuest Dissertations & Theses

1996-2000 The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) B.A. in Classical Archaeology, May 2000 Highest Honors with Highest Distinction Phi Beta Kappa, Spring 1999

RESEARCH & TEACHING POSITIONS 2014-2017 Ralston College – Fellow of the College 2008-2014 Tulane University – Assistant Professor of Classical Studies 2005-2006 The Helike Project, Helike, Greece – Field Instructor, 2005-2006 2005 San Francisco State University – Adjunct Instructor 2001-2008 Stanford University – Teaching Assistant, 2001-2002 Field Instructor, 2001-2002 Graduate Instructor, 2002-2008 2000 Duke University’s Talent Identification Program – TIP in Greece,

Teaching Assistant

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CURRENT RESEARCH & WRITING PROJECTS

● Icescapes: A Narrative Archaeology of Western Antarctica

● Skua, Joy, and Discovery: An Archaeology of Recycling in Antarctica

● Go East, Young Man: Travelers’ Receptions of Alexander’s Journeys

● A Citizenship Curriculum for the 21st Century (PreK-12)

● The King’s Canvas: The Transformation of Ancient Macedon (research funded in 2012 by American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship)

ARCHAEOLOGICAL/CLASSICS FIELDWORK, LABWORK, INTERNATIONAL STUDY, & RESEARCH 2005-2011 The Helike Project, Helike, Greece, Field Supervisor, Lab Supervisor,

and Director, Hellenistic Pottery Analysis

2003-2004 Visiting Student Associate Member, The American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece

2003 Institute for Balkan Studies, Thessaloniki, Greece, International Summer School, Summer 2003

2002-2003 Stanford University Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project, Research

Assistant 2001-2002 Stanford University Monte Polizzo Project, Salemi, Sicily, Zone

Supervisor/Trench Supervisor 1999 College Year in Athens, Spring 1999 1998 North Carolina State University Roman Aqaba Project, Aqaba, Jordan,

Trench Supervisor 1998 Research Assistant, Dept. of Classical Studies, UNC-CH (compiled

indices for manuscript on Plutarch) 1997 Owens-Thomas House, Savannah, GA, Excavation Intern 1997 Georgia Historical Society, Savannah, GA, Research Intern

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ETHNOGRAPHIC FIELDWORK & CULTURAL RESEARCH PROJECTS 2007 Ethnographer/Analyst, The Changing Face of Affluence, DaimlerBenz,

Research and Technology Group, Palo Alto, CA 2006-2007 Project Member, Co-Creating Cultural Heritage, Stanford MetaMedia

Lab (Prof. Michael Shanks), Stanford, CA

2006 Ethnographer/Analyst Understanding the Third Age, DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology Group, Palo Alto, CA

2005 Ethnographer/Analyst, The Future of Media Use, Stanford Humanities

Lab for DaimlerChrysler Research and Technology Group, Stanford & Palo Alto, CA

PAST WRITING PROJECTS & LECTURES 2016 Copywriting educational content for website for International School

Nido de Aguilas, Santiago de Chile (nidocl.finalsite.com; specific material available by request)

2014 “Raising Lazarus: Death in the Classics Classroom.” Invited

contribution for peer-reviewed edited volume: F. McHardy & N. Rabinowitz, eds., From Abortion to Pederasty: Addressing Difficult Topics in the Classics Classroom. The Ohio State University Press: 39-52. Winner of Idaho State University 2015 Teaching Literature Book Award.

2011 “The logic of opportunity: Philip II, Demosthenes, and the charismatic imagination.” Syllecta Classica 21: 1-33.

2003 “Horrea Lolliana entry (Fragment 25a) & Epigraphic Conventions,”

published (as first author, with help from Tina Najbjerg) in Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project. http://formaurbis.stanford.edu/fragment.php?record=112 http://formaurbis.stanford.edu/docs/EpigraphConvent.html

Papers delivered (refereed): 2013 “Home Sweet Sacrifice: Oikos-polis tensions in Athenian democratic

ideology.” Athenian Democratic Ideology Panel, Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS) Annual Meeting. Iowa City, IA. April 19th, 2013.

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2012 “Tradition, Transition, and Transformation: An institutional perspective on the rise of Macedon.” The University of Michigan’s Theory in Greek Archaeology Conference. Ann Arbor, MI. May 5th, 2012.

2011 “King as Entrepreneur: Charisma and Opportunity in Ancient Macedon.” American Philological Association (APA) Annual Meeting. San Antonio, TX. January 6th, 2011.

2010 “Haste Makes Waste or The Early Bird Gets The Worm? Thucydides on

Timing.” CAMWS Southern Section Biennial Meeting, Richmond, VA. October 30th, 2010.

2010 “Making Macedon: Charisma and opportunity in state formation.”

Nation & Charisma, London School of Economics and Political Science. London, UK. April 13th, 2010.

2010 “The collapse of tradition: Space, time, and ritual in ancient

Macedon.” Space & Time Across Languages, Disciplines, and Cultures. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, UK. April 9th, 2010.

2009 “Coming off the Bench: Semi-peripheral states in the fourth-century

BCE Aegean.” The Association of Ancient Historians (AAH) Annual Meeting. Vancouver, BC, Canada. May 15th, 2009.

2007 “Things Ain’t Like They Used To Be: Socio-Cultural Change in

Ancient Macedon and the Greater Aegean World.” Classical Association of the Canadian West (CACW) Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC, Canada. March 16th, 2007.

2006 “The Warrior, the Citizen, and the Prince: Death-ritual in Northern Greece.” Archaeological Institute of America (AIA) Annual Meeting. Montreal, QC, Canada. January 6th, 2006.

2006 “Teaching by Destroying: The Polis and the Oikos in the Classroom.”

CACW Annual Meeting, Saskatoon, SK, Canada. February 11th, 2006. 2005 “Découpage: The Creative Negotiation of Archaeological

Temporalities.” Carnegie Mellon University Center for the Arts in Society Conference, Pittsburgh, PA. October 2005.

2003 “What Goes Around Comes Around: Ancient Macedon and the Greater

Aegean World.” UNC-CH International Colloquium on Current Issues in State Formation: The Mediterranean and Beyond. Chapel Hill, NC. October 2003.

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2003 “Community, Heritage, and Ancient Macedon.” Yale University Classics Department Graduate Conference. New Haven, CT. April 2003.

Presentations and lectures (invited):

2015 “Arqueológica en Aqaba.” Instituto Chileno Árabe de Cultura, Santiago

de Chile. 7 de Septiembre 2015. 2010 “Poseidon’s Fury: Disaster and recovery at ancient Helike.” Fridays at

Newcomb Lecture Series. Tulane University. September 3rd, 2010. 2007 “Warrior Kings and the Rise of Macedon.” Archaeological Institute of

America, Stanford University Chapter. 2005 “Assembling Assemblages: Archaeological Cohesion and Burial in

Ancient Macedon.” Stanford Archaeology Center Mellon Humanities Workshop.

2005 “The People, the Press, and the Past: The Illustrated London News.”

Stanford University Mellon Humanities Workshop on Ancients and Moderns.

GRANTS, HONORS, & AWARDS 2013 Classroom Enhancement Grant, Center for Engaged Learning and

Teaching (CELT), Tulane University (funded an interactive workshop on military history facilitated by military historians from The National WWII Museum)

2012 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship (funded sabbatical for writing project), awarded February 2011 for Spring 2012 award period for The King’s Canvas: The Transformation of Ancient Macedon

2012 Glick Research Fellowship, School of Liberal Arts, Tulane University 2010 Tulane University Committee on Research International Travel Grant

(funded travel to UK for the conferences Space & Time Across Languages, Disciplines, and Cultures and Nation & Charisma)

2009-2010 Tulane University Committee on Research Summer Research Fellowship (funded ceramics research in the lab at Helike, Greece)

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2006-2007 Geballe Dissertation Fellow, Stanford Humanities Center 2005-2006 Dorot Foundation Travel Grant, AIA 2000 Hancock Award for Excellence in Scholarship, Epsilon Gamma

Chapter, Kappa Kappa Gamma Fraternity, UNC-CH

2000 The Preston H. and Miriam L. Epps Prize in Greek Studies, UNC-CH 1999 Phi Beta Kappa, UNC-CH 1998 The Herington Scholarship, UNC-CH 1996-2000 Robert C. Byrd National Scholar 1996-2000 National Latin Exam Scholar 1996-2000 William Richardson Davies Scholar, UNC-CH PROFESSIONAL SERVICE, OUTREACH, & PROJECTS 2013-2016 Society for Classical Studies (SCS) Ancient History Committee for the

teaching, research, writing, and presentation of history and historical materials at all levels of formal education and for the general public

2013 Fall Forum, Louisiana Junior Classical League. Baton Rouge, LA,

October 26th, 2013, Keynote Speaker 2013 “Democracy and Education: Athenian education and its civic

components,” Athenian Democracy and the Roman Republic: The Ephebes’ Journey Workshop, Sunoikisis & The Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, DC, August 3rd, 2013, Teleconference Workshop Leader

2013 CAMWS Annual Meeting, Iowa City, IA, April 19th, 2013, Athenian Democratic Ideology, Panel Organizer, and Greek Historiography, Presider

2013 Louisiana State University History Graduate Student Organization,

Fourth Annual Conference, Baton Rouge, LA, March 23rd, 2013, Ancient World Panel, Moderator

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2013 SCS Annual Meeting, Seattle, WA, January 5th, 2013, Roundtable Discussion Session: Democracy, Apathy, and You: Using Athenian democracy to teach responsible citizenship, Organizer and Moderator

2012 Classical Association of the Middle West & South Annual Meeting,

Baton Rouge, LA, March 20th, 2012. Greek Oratory Panel, Presider 2012 Manuscript referee for The American School of Classical Studies at

Athens Publications Committee 2012 Article referee for The Classical World Journal 2012 Committee Chair, Ancient Olympics Exhibit, Louisiana Children’s

Museum Children’s World Fair Fundraiser 2012 Interviews about the ancient Olympics for Tulane’s New Wave

Magazine, published July 25th, 2012, and radio interview WWL-AM, The Tommy Tucker Show, New Orleans, LA, July 27th, 2012

UNIVERSITY WORKSHOPS, PROGRAMS, DEPARTMENTAL SERVICE, & COMMITTEES 2013-2014 Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of Classical Studies,

Tulane University

2013-2014 Honor Board Faculty Member Pool, Tulane University 2013-2014 “Grading with Subjectivity,” CELT Workshop for Graduate Teaching

Assistants and Instructors Tulane University, Speaker and Panelist 2012-2014 Health Professions Interview and Reference Committee 2011-2012 Religious Studies Major Advisory Board 2011-2012 Honors Thesis in English, Reader (three students), Tulane University 2009-2014 Ph.D. Candidate in Ancient History, Committee Member for Doctoral

Comprehensive Examinations, Dissertation Reader, and Dissertation Defense Examiner, (Scott Puckett, Stasis in Ancient Greek Historians, degree conferred May 2014), Tulane University

2009-2014 Honors Thesis in Classical Studies, Reader (three students), Tulane University

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2009-2012 Colloquium Series, Department of Classical Studies, Tulane University,

Organizer 2008-2014 Masters Thesis in Classical Languages and Literature, Director (two

students), Reader (three students), Tulane University 2008-2014 Departmental SACS (Southern Association of Colleges and Schools)

Accreditation Committees, Tulane University 2008-2014 Eta Sigma Phi Classics Fraternity, Faculty Adviser, Tulane University 2008-2012 Annual Georges Lecture Series, Dept. of Classical Studies, Tulane

University, Organizer

2008-2014 College Year in Athens Study Abroad Fair Representative, Tulane University

2008-2009 Visiting Assistant Professor Search Committee, Department of

Classical Studies, Tulane University 2005-2007 Critical Studies in New Media, Stanford University Mellon Workshop 2005-2006 Ancients and Moderns, Stanford University Mellon Workshop, Co-

organizer 2005-2006 Panel on Outdoor Art, Stanford University 2005 Seeing the Past Conference, Stanford Archaeology Center, Panel

Moderator 2003 Brown Bag Series, Stanford Archaeology Center, Organizer 2002 The Archaeology of the Body Conference, Stanford University

Archaeology Center, Co-organizer, panel moderator, and final discussant/speaker

2002 Stanford Archaeology Center, Student Representative 2001 Past Narratives: Narrative Pasts Conference, Stanford Archaeology

Center, Committee Member 1999-2000 Classics Club/Eta Sigma Phi Classics Fraternity President, UNC-CH

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1997-1998 Greek Life Judicial Affairs Board, UNC-CH 1997-1998 Carolina Leadership Fellows Program, UNC-CH 1996-2000 Honors Program Student Advisory Board, UNC-CH