Adam T Rabinowitz
PhD 2004, University of Michigan
Associate Professor; Assistant Director, Institute of Classical Archaeology

Contact
- E-mail: arabinow@utexas.edu
- Phone: 471-0197
- Office: WAG 17
Interests
Greek colonization, cultural interaction, ancient food and drink, archaeology of daily life, digital approaches to archaeology
Biography
Adam Rabinowitz is an Associate Professor in the Department of Classics and Assistant Director of the Institute of Classical Archaeology at The University of Texas at Austin. He holds his PhD (2004) from the Interdepartmental Program in Classical Art and Archaeology at the University of Michigan, where he wrote a dissertation on the role of communal wine-drinking in political and social interactions in the colonial Greek world. He is a 2002 Fellow of the American Academy in Rome and a field archaeologist with twenty-five years of archaeological field experience at Greek, Roman, and Byzantine sites in Italy, England, Israel, Tunisia, and Ukraine. His archaeological research focuses on daily life, domestic architecture, commensal practices and the lived experience of culture contact. He has also published on more historical questions of political organization and competition in the early Greek world. He also has a longstanding interest in the use of digital platforms for archaeological documentation and publication, which began during his work at the Roman site of Cosa in the 1990s and intensified in the course of excavations in the South Region of the Greek, Roman, and Byzantine site of Chersonesos in Crimea in the mid-2000s. Since then, in the course of his preparation of the South Region excavations for publication, he has begun to work on questions of long-term archival preservation and on the digital dissemination of rich contextual datasets.
He is also involved in several digital humanities projects related to the linking and visualization of information about the Classical past, including Pleiades (http://pleiades.stoa.org), a spatial gazetteer of ancient places; GeoDia (http://geodia.laits.utexas.edu), an interactive spatial timeline of Mediterranean archaeology; Hestia2 (http://hestia.open.ac.uk/), a narrative time-map of the Histories of Herodotus; and PeriodO (http://perio.do), a gazetteer of scholarly definitions of archaeological, historical, and art-historical periods funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
Courses
C C 340 • Food/Hlth/Cul Anct Mediterr
34470 • Fall 2021
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM MEZ 1.202
GC
UGS 302 • Tales Of The Trojan War
62410 • Fall 2021
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM MAI 220E
GCWr
ID
UGS 302 • Tales Of The Trojan War
61765 • Spring 2021
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM PAR 1
Hybrid/Blended
GCWr
ID
C C 380 • Digital Approaches Antiquity
33010 • Fall 2019
Meets W 2:00PM-5:00PM WAG 10
UGS 302 • Tales Of The Trojan War
60645 • Fall 2019
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM MAI 220C
GCWr
ID
AHC 378 • Space And Place
33315 • Spring 2019
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM GAR 1.134
IIWr
(also listed as C C 375)
C C 317 • Clascl Archaeol: Meths/Approch
33425 • Spring 2019
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM WAG 112
EGC
C C 301 • Intro To Ancient Greece
33545 • Fall 2018
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM FAC 21
GC
VP
(also listed as CTI 301G)
UGS 302 • Tales Of The Trojan War
62205 • Fall 2018
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM MAI 220C
GCWr
ID
C C 317 • Clascl Archaeol: Meths/Approch
32485 • Spring 2018
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM CLA 0.120
EGC
C C 340 • Food/Hlth/Cul Anct Mediterr
32525 • Spring 2018
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM WAG 112
GC
C C 380 • Food/Drink/Body Class Archaeol
33215 • Fall 2017
Meets M 2:00PM-5:00PM WAG 10
UGS 302 • Tales Of The Trojan War
62255 • Fall 2017
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM MAI 220C
GCWr
ID
C C 317 • Clascl Archaeol: Meths/Approch
33050 • Spring 2017
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM WAG 112
EGC
C C 348 • Archaic Greece: Soc/Culture
33080 • Spring 2017
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM WAG 308
GC
C C 301 • Introduction To Ancient Greece
32915 • Fall 2016
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM WAG 308
GC
VP
(also listed as CTI 310)
UGS 302 • Tales Of The Trojan War
62145 • Fall 2016
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM MAI 220E
GCWr
ID
AHC 378 • Space And Place
32070 • Spring 2016
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM WAG 112
IIWr
(also listed as C C 375)
C C 340 • Food/Hlth/Cul Anct Mediterr
32205 • Spring 2016
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM WAG 112
GC
C C 301 • Introduction To Ancient Greece
32125 • Fall 2015
Meets TTH 3:30PM-5:00PM PAR 101
GC
VP
(also listed as CTI 310)
UGS 302 • Tales Of The Trojan Wars
61410 • Fall 2015
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM MAI 220E
GCWr
ID
C C S301 • Introduction To Ancient Greece
81595 • Summer 2015
Meets MTWTHF 10:00AM-11:30AM WAG 201
GC
(also listed as CTI S310)
C C 307C • Intro To Greek Archaeology
32365 • Spring 2015
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM WAG 201
GC
C C 380 • Grk Settlement W Med/Black Sea
32510 • Spring 2015
Meets W 2:00PM-5:00PM WAG 10
C C 301 • Introduction To Ancient Greece
33190 • Fall 2014
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM FAC 21
GC
(also listed as CTI 310)
UGS 302 • Tales Of The Trojan Wars
64105 • Fall 2014
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM MAI 220E
GCWr
C C S301 • Introduction To Ancient Greece
82280 • Summer 2014
Meets MTWTHF 10:00AM-11:30AM WAG 201
GC
VP
(also listed as CTI S310)
AHC 378 • Herodotus, Ethnograph, & Arch
33515 • Spring 2014
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM WAG 112
IIWr
(also listed as C C 375)
C C 348 • Food And Drink
33670 • Spring 2014
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM PAR 201
C C 301 • Introduction To Ancient Greece
33240 • Fall 2013
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM FAC 21
GC
(also listed as CTI 310)
UGS 302 • Tales Of The Trojan Wars
65190 • Fall 2013
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM MAI 220E
Wr
C C 307C • Intro To Greek Archaeology
33155 • Spring 2013
Meets MWF 1:00PM-2:00PM WAG 420
GC
GK 507 • First-Year Greek II
33370 • Spring 2013
Meets MTWTHF 10:00AM-11:00AM WAG 10
C C 301 • Introduction To Ancient Greece
33000 • Fall 2012
Meets MWF 10:00AM-11:00AM FAC 21
GC
(also listed as CTI 310)
C C 380 • Meth & Thry In Clascl Archaeol
33130 • Fall 2012
Meets T 2:00PM-5:00PM WAG 10
C C S301 • Introduction To Ancient Greece
82790 • Summer 2012
Meets MTWTHF 10:00AM-11:30AM JGB 2.218
GC
(also listed as CTI S310)
C C 380 • Food/Drink/Body Class Archaeol
33010 • Fall 2011
Meets T 2:00PM-5:00PM WAG 10
UGS 302 • The Trojan Wars
63862 • Fall 2011
Meets TTH 9:30AM-11:00AM MAI 220F
Wr
C C 307C • Intro To Greek Archaeology
33310 • Spring 2011
Meets MWF 11:00AM-12:00PM UTC 4.102
GC
UGS 302 • The Trojan Wars
63570 • Fall 2010
Meets TTH 12:30PM-2:00PM MAI 220E
Wr
GK 507 • First-Year Greek II
32200 • Spring 2009
Meets MTWTHF 9:00AM-10:00AM WAG 10
UGS 302 • Troy: Wars Of Body And Mind-W
66535 • Fall 2008
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM WAG 112
C1
C C 383 • Gk Vase Painting: Blanton Col
32810 • Spring 2008
Meets F 9:00AM-12:00PM ART 3.432
C C 348 • Food And Drink-W
33140 • Fall 2007
Meets MWF 12:00PM-1:00PM WAG 208
C2
C C 307K • Greek Archaeology Survey
32645 • Fall 2006
Meets TTH 11:00AM-12:30PM WAG 214
C C 380 • Roman Archaeology
31145 • Spring 2006
Meets TTH 2:00PM-3:30PM WAG 10
C C 301 • Introduction To Ancient Greece
30485 • Fall 2005
Meets MWF 2:00PM-3:00PM FAC 21
C C W362 • Conf Crs In Clas Archaeol-Crm
82845 • Summer 2005
GK 507 • First-Year Greek II
29855 • Spring 2005
Meets MTWTHF 11:00AM-12:00PM WAG 112
C C 301 • Introduction To Ancient Greece
30265 • Fall 2004
Meets MWF 2:00PM-3:00PM WEL 1.316
Forthcoming publications
Rabinowitz, A., R. Shaw, S. Buchanan, P. Golden, and E. Kansa. "Making sense of the ways we make sense of the past: the PeriodO project," Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 59:2 (2016).
Rabinowitz, A., "Response: Mobilizing (ourselves) for a critical digital archaeology," in E. Averett, D. Counts, and J. Gordon, eds., Mobilizing the Past for a Digital Future: The Potential of Digital Archaeology, forthcoming with The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota (in press).
Rabinowitz, A., "Il bere Graeco more tra vivi e morti: simposio e tomba in Sicilia e Magna Grecia," [Drinking Graeco more between the living and the dead: symposium and tomb in Sicily and Magna Graecia] in R. Panvini and L. Sole (eds.), "Nel Mondo di Ade": La vita dopo la morte nell'antichità (Caltanissetta: Soprintendenza BB. CC. AA. di Caltanissetta) (in press, expected publication date 2016).
Rabinowitz, A., "'Museum of Ancient Art' or white elephant? The Battle Collection of Plaster Casts at The University of Texas at Austin," in A. Alexandridis and L. Winkler-Horacek, eds., untitled volume forthcoming in the De Gruyter series Transformationen der Antike (in peer review).
Rabinowitz, A., "Constructing relationships from destruction: perspectives on stratigraphic context in Byzantine archaeology," in K. Kourelis and W. Caraher (eds.), Beyond Icons: Theories and Methods in Byzantine Archaeology (Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press) (accepted, expected publication date ???).
Publications available online
Articles available on academia.edu
Rabinowitz, A., "The Work of Archaeology in the Age of Digital Surrogacy", in B. Olson and W. Caraher (eds.), Visions of Substance: 3D Imaging in Mediterranean Archaeology (The Digital Press at the University of North Dakota, 2015), 27-42.
Shaw, R., A. Rabinowitz, P. Golden, and E. Kansa. "A sharing-oriented design strategy for networked knowledge organization systems," International Journal on Digital Libraries 16 (2015), 1-13. doi:10.1007/s00799-015-0164-0.
Rabinowitz, A., "Drinkers, hosts, or fighters? Masculine identities in pre-Classical Crete", in G. Seelentag and O. Pilz (eds.), Cultural Practices and Material Culture in Archaic and Classical Crete (Berlin: De Gruyter, 2014), 91-120.
Rabinowitz, A., "GeoDia: or, Navigating archaeological time and space in an American college classroom", in G. Earl, T. Sly, A. Chrysanthi, P. Murrieta-Flores, C. Papadopoulos, I. Romanowska, and D. Wheatley, eds., CAA 2012: Proceedings of the 40th Annual Conference of Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA), Southampton, England (Amsterdam: Pallas Publications, 2013), 263-272.
Rabinowitz, A., M. Esteva, and J. Trelogan, "Ensuring a future for the past: long-term preservation strategies for digital archaeological data", in L. Duranti and E. Shaffer, eds., Proceedings of The Memory of the World in the Digital Age: Digitization and Preservation. An international conference on permanent access to digital documentary heritage, 26-28 September 2012, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada (Vancouver: UNESCO, 2013), 941-954.
Trelogan, J., A. Rabinowitz, M. Esteva, and S. Pipkin, "What do we do with the mess? Managing and preserving process history in an evolving digital archaeological archive", in F. Contreras, M. Farjas, and F. J. Melero, eds., CAA 2010: Fusion of Cultures. Proceedings of the 38th Annual Conference on Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology, Granada, Spain, April 2010 (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2013), 597–600.
Rabinowitz, A., and L. Sedikova, "On whose authority? Interpretation, narrative, and fragmentation in digital publishing", in E. Jerem, F. Redo, and V. Szeverényi, eds., On the Road to Reconstructing the Past: Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA). Proceedings of the 36th International Conference, Budapest, April 2-6, 2008 (Budapest: Archaeolingua, 2011), 134-140.
Rabinowitz, A., C. Schroer and M. Mudge, "Grass-roots imaging: a case study in sustainable heritage documentation at Chersonesos, Ukraine", in B. Frischer, J. Crawford, and D. Coller, eds., Making History Interactive: Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA). Proceedings of the 37th International Conference, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States of America, March 22-29, 2009 (Oxford: Archaeopress, 2010), 320-328.
Rabinowitz, A., L. Sedikova, and R. Henneberg, "Daily life in a provincial Late Byzantine city: recent multidisciplinary research in the South Region of Tauric Chersonesos (Cherson)", in F. Daim and J. Drauschke (eds.), Byzanz – Das Römerreich im Mittelalter. Monographien des Römisch-Germanischen Zentralmuseums 84, vol. 2, 1 (Mainz: Schnell & Steiner, 2010), 425-478.
Rabinowitz, A., L. Sedikova, and R. Henneberg, "Povsednevhaya zhizn' provintsial'novo goroda v pozdnevizantijskij period: mezhdistsiplinarnye issledovaniya v Yuzhnom Rajon Khersonesa" [Daily life of a provincial city in the Late Byzantine period: interdisciplinary research in the South Region of Chersonesos, in Russian], МАИЭТ 15 (2010), 196-274.
Rabinowitz, A. and L. Sedikova, "Novyj sarkofag s izobrazheniem podvigov Gerakla iz Khersonesa" [A new sarcophagus with a depiction of the Labors of Herakles from Chersonesos, in Russian], Bosporos Studies 23 (2010), 335-362.
Rabinowitz, A., "Drinking from the same cup: Sparta and late Archaic commensality", in S. Hodkinson (ed.), Sparta: Comparative Approaches (Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2009), 113-192.
Rabinowitz, A., L. Sedikova, J. Trelogan and S. Eve, "Novi metodologii doslidzhennya pam'yatki davnini: tzifrovi technologii ta rozkopki u Pivdennomu rajoni Chersonesa Tavrijs'kovo" [New methodologies at an ancient site: digital technology and excavation in the Southern Region of Crimean Chersonesos, 2001-2006, in Ukrainian] (Part 1), Archeologia 2008 (1), 71-81.
Rabinowitz, A., L. Sedikova, J. Trelogan and S. Eve, "Novi metodologii doslidzhennya pam'yatki davnini: tzifrovi technologii ta rozkopki u Pivdennomu rajoni Chersonesa Tavrijs'kovo" [New methodologies at an ancient site: digital technology and excavation in the Southern Region of Crimean Chersonesos, 2001-2006, in Ukrainian] (Part 2), Archeologia 2008 (2), 69-78.
Rabinowitz, A., S. Eve, and J. Trelogan, "Precision, accuracy, and the fate of the data: experiments in site recording at Chersonesos, Ukraine", in J. Clark and E. Hagemeister, eds., Digital Discovery: Exploring New Frontiers in Human Heritage. Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA). Proceedings of the 34th Conference, Fargo, United States, April 2006 (Budapest: Archaeolingua, 2007), 243-255.
Rabinowitz, A., T. Yashaeva, and H. Nikolaenko, "The Chora of Chersonesos: excavations at Bezimenna, 2002," in Archaeology at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (Kyiv: National University of Kyiv and Institute of Classical Archaeology, 2005), 146-157.
Rabinowitz, A., "P. Cornell inv. II, 43: Lease of part of a house and workshop," Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 38 (2001), 51-62.
Born-digital publications
Rabinowitz, A., "It's about time: historical periodization and Linked Ancient World Data", in T. Elliott, S. Heath, and J. Muccigrosso, Current Practice in Linked Open Data for the Ancient World (ISAW Papers 7, 2014), http://dlib.nyu.edu/awdl/isaw/isaw-papers/7/rabinowitz/.
Fentress, E. and A. Rabinowitz, "Part 2: the stratigraphy," in E. Fentress et al., An Intermittent Town: Excavations at Cosa, 1991-1997 (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2003). http://www.press.umich.edu/webhome/cosa.
Reviews
Review of Wecowski, The Rise of the Greek Aristocratic Banquet (Oxford University Press, 2014), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2015. http://www.bmcreview.org/2015/10/20151042.html.
Review of Stolba and Rogov, Panskoye I, Volume 2: The Necropolis. Archaeological investigations in Western Crimea (Aarhus University Press, 2012), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2013. http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2013/2013-05-10.html.
Review of Bodard and Mahony, Digital Research in the Study of Classical Antiquity (Ashgate, 2010), Internet Archaeology 30 (2011). http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue30/rabinowitz.html.
Review of Campanella, Il cibo nel mondo fenicio e punico d'Occidente (Fabrizio Serra Editori, 2008), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010. http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2010/2010-01-37.html.
Review of Hodos, Local Responses to Colonization in the Iron Age Mediterranean (Routledge 2006), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008. http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2008/2008-08-29.html.
Publications available in print only
Review of Brisart, Un art citoyen. Recherches sur l'orientalisation des artisanats en Grèce proto-archaïque (Académie Royale de Belgique, 2011), Journal of Hellenic Studies 133 (2013), 262-263.
Yashaeva, T., E. Denisova, N. Ginkut, V. Zalesskaya, and D. Zhuravlev. The Legacy of Byzantine Cherson (Sevastopol and Austin: Telescope and Institute of Classical Archaeology, 2011). I was Scientific editor (with Yashaeva and Zalesskaya), editor of English and Greek texts, and final Russian-to-English translator of this trilingual (Russian/English/Ukrainian) catalogue of 500 Byzantine objects from Chersonesos in the collections of the National Preserve of Tauric Chersonesos, the State Hermitage, and the Moscow State Historical Museum, 708 pp.
Kaci, A., A. Drine, E. Fentress, T. Morton, A. Rabinowitz, and A. Wilson, "The Excavations", in E. Fentress, A. Drine and R. Holod, An Island through Time: Jerba Studies I. The Roman and Punic Periods (Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 71, 2009), 212-240.
Fentress, E. and A. Rabinowitz, "Excavations at Cosa 1995: Atrium Building V and a new Republican temple," Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 41 (1996), 221-236.
Reports
The full text of all of these reports, along with several other publications and reports of the Institute of Classical Archaeology, is available on ICA's website (https://liberalarts.utexas.edu/ica/publications/reports.php).
Rabinowitz, A., ed., The Study of Ancient Territories: Chersonesos and South Italy. Report for 2008-2011. Institute of Classical Archaeology, The University of Texas at Austin (2011)
Rabinowitz, A., "A note from the Assistant Director" and "Chersonesos, 2006-2007," in J. Carter, ed., The Study of Ancient Territories: Chersonesos and South Italy. Report for 2006-2007. Institute of Classical Archaeology, The University of Texas at Austin (2008), 5-19.
Rabinowitz, A. and L. Sedikova, "Excavation in the South Region of Chersonesos, 2005," in J. Carter, ed., The Study of Ancient Territories: Chersonesos and South Italy. 2005 Annual Report. Institute of Classical Archaeology, The University of Texas at Austin (2005), 7-16.
Rabinowitz, A. and L. Sedikova, "Excavations in the South Region of Chersonesos," in J. Carter, ed., The Study of Ancient Territories: Chersonesos and Metaponto. 2004 Annual Report. Institute of Classical Archaeology, The University of Texas at Austin (2004), 5-12.
Rabinowitz, A., T. Yashaeva, and G. Nikolaenko, "The chora of Chersonesos: excavations at Bezymyannaya," in J. Carter, ed., The Study of Ancient Territories: Chersonesos and Metaponto. 2002 Annual Report. Institute of Classical Archaeology, The University of Texas at Austin (2002) 9-17.
Blog posts
"Why does an archaeologist archaeologize?," post for the Day of Archaeology 2016 community blog, July 29, 2016. http://www.dayofarchaeology.com/why-does-an-archaeologist-archaeologize/
"Making that connection", post for the Day of Archaeology 2015 community blog, July 25, 2015. http://www.dayofarchaeology.com/making-that-connection/.
"Adam’s Day of DH: management vs. making", post for the Day of Digital Humanities 2015 community blog, May 19, 2015. http://dayofdh2015.uned.es/adamrabinowitz/2015/05/20/adams-day-of-dh-management-vs-making/.
"Archaeologists tossed on the tides of history", post for the Day of Archaeology 2014 community blog, July 12, 2014. http://www.dayofarchaeology.com/archaeologists-tossed-on-the-tides-of-history/.
"Reading Herodotus spatially in the undergraduate classroom", guest post in three parts on the Hestia Project blog, June 5, June 8, and July 22, 2014. http://hestia.open.ac.uk/reading-herodotus-spatially-in-the-undergraduate-classroom-part-i/; http://hestia.open.ac.uk/reading-herodotus-spatially-in-the-undergraduate-classroom-part-ii/; http://hestia.open.ac.uk/reading-herodotus-spatially-in-an-undergraduate-classroom-part-iii/.
"It’s about time (or almost too late)", post for the Day of Digital Humanities 2014 community blog, April 8, 2014. http://dayofdh2014.matrix.msu.edu/adamrabinowitz/.
"The work of archaeology in the age of digital surrogacy", guest post on the blog The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, authored by William Caraher, included in a series on 3D archaeology, November 14, 2013. http://mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2013/11/14/the-work-of-archaeology-in-the-age-of-digital-surrogacy/.
"Representing archaeology", post for the Day of Archaeology 2013 community blog, July 27, 2013. http://www.dayofarchaeology.com/representing-archaeology/.
Series of posts on teaching with technology for the Day of Digital Humanities 2013 community blog, April 7-22, 2013. http://dayofdh2013.matrix.msu.edu/rabinowitz/2013/04/07/hello-world/ (and following).
Digital projects
Principal Investigator
Periods, Organized (PeriodO): a gazetteer of period assertions for linking and visualizing periodized data: perio.do, http://n2t.net/ark:/99152/p0 (websites for an NEH and IMLS-funded Digital Humanities project: see the lightning talk for the NEH DH Start-up grant here: https://youtu.be/UI-rxeEnhvk?t=1202); NEH grant number HD-51864-14, products and white paper at https://securegrants.neh.gov/PublicQuery/main.aspx?f=1&gn=HD-51864-14; IMLS grant number LG-70-16-0009-16, details and proposal narrative at https://www.imls.gov/grants/awarded/lg-70-16-0009-16
Online database of excavations in the South Region of Tauric Chersonesos: http://ica.tacc.utexas.edu/chersonesos/ark/
GeoDia: http://geodia.laits.utexas.edu; http://code.google.com/p/geodia/
Participant
Oxford Classical Dictionary 5 (digital only: Senior Editor for Greek Archaeology, Archaic to Hellenistic)
Frontiers in Digital Humanities: Digital Archaeology (Review Editor)
Pleiades (Associate Editor)
Open Context (member of editorial board)
Pelagios Commons (member of Pelagios Commons Committee)
Fasti Online (member of the Scientific Committee)
Hestia (member of web development team); see also the Open University learning unit on Herodotus at http://www.open.edu/openlearn/history-the-arts/history/classical-studies/herodotus-the-histories
Audio/video (interviews)
Audio for SXSW Interactive 2009 panel "The Real Technology of Indiana Jones"
Video on Digital Archaeology produced by the Texas Advanced Computing Center
Provost’s Teaching Fellow profile:
Experiential Learning from Faculty Innovation Center on Vimeo.
Information Literacy video: https://youtu.be/Ie3pjQuWZfw
Global Cultures video: http://ugs.utexas.edu/ccc/flags/global-cultures
Scholarly presentations
"Periods, Organized (PeriodO): A Linked Data period gazetteer and approach to the modeling of scholarly assertions", refereed paper delivered as part of panel entitled "What do we mean by 'Digital Curation'?" at the 2016 Society of American Archaeology Conference held in Orlando, Florida, on April 9, 2016. Archived slides and text of talk at http://core.tdar.org/document/404077/periods-organized-periodo-a-linked-data-period-gazetteer-and-approach-to-the-modeling-of-scholarly-assertions.
"PeriodO: a gazetteer of period assertions for linking and visualizing data. Why is it important to include periods in a Linked Data infrastructure, and how do we do it?", invited paper for the Mellon-funded Linking the Middle Ages workshop at The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, May 11, 2015. Video of presentation available online here; white paper from workshop available at http://dx.doi.org/10.15781/T2MW2C.
"Living pictures: computational photography and the Digital Classics", refereed paper delivered in the joint AIA/APA panel "Getting started with Digital Classics" at the 115th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Chicago, Illinois, on January 3, 2014. Online at http://youtu.be/6R_9GzSM7Js.
"Periods, Organized (PeriodO): a Linked Data gazetteer to bridge the gap between concept and usage in archaeological periodization", refereed paper co-authored with Ryan Shaw and Eric Kansa and delivered at the 2014 Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology at the University of the Sorbonne, Paris, France, on April 24, 2014. Slideshare available at http://www.slideshare.net/atomrab/periodo-caa2014
"Digital archaeology and the hundred-year archive: experiments in field recording, dissemination and long-term data preservation at Chersonesos (Crimea, Ukraine)", refereed paper co-authored with Maria Esteva and Jessica Trelogan and delivered at the 114th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Seattle, Washington, on January 6, 2013. Online at http://youtu.be/L0e70-R1mMA.
"The fault is not in our databases, but in ourselves: messy data, metadata, and interoperability", invited presentation delivered at the stocktaking workshop for the Australian NeCTAR-funded "Federated Archaeological Information Management Systems" (FAIMS) project at the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, on August 17, 2012. Online at https://www.fedarch.org/research/#workshop
Presentation on work on GeoDia and archaeological metadata at the 2012 NEH-funded Linked Ancient World Data Institute (LAWDI) held at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, New York, New York, on May 31-June 2, 2012. http://www.slideshare.net/atomrab/rabinowitz-at-lawdi
"Modeling time and place in an interactive spatial timeline", invited talk delivered at the Pelagios workshop at Kings College London, London, United Kingdom, on March 24, 2011. Slideshare available at http://www.slideshare.net/atomrab/pelagios-workshop-rabinowitz-geodia
UGS 302: Tales of the Trojan War
I have taught this course in 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016. In both 2015 and 2016, students in this course won first place for their research papers in an annual University-wide Information Literacy Award competition.
Within the last hundred years, the world has seen a transportation revolution, a communication revolution, and most recently an information revolution, not to mention two world wars and dozens of political revolutions of varying merit and success. Our own battles are increasingly fought with digital tools, with the results instantly visible in full color on television or YouTube. In this time of lightning-fast change, why should anyone care about a war that may or may not have been fought 3200 years ago, or read a poem about that war composed by, or written down by, or cobbled together by someone, or several people, or a host of anonymous bards somewhere between 400 and 600 years after that war was supposed to have taken place? At a glance, it seems a little ridiculous to spend a semester at the beginning of the 21st century thinking about Troy.
Look again. The Iliad is arguably the very first work of literature in the Western tradition, the ancestor of all the character-driven novels and movies that are a fundamental part of modern culture. For more than 2500 years, the broader narrative of the Trojan War has provided people and societies with a story they could use to work through their own experiences of war, violence, and human relationships. Its themes and characters reappear throughout Western art and literature, and the mutations they undergo provide a powerful tool to understand the cultures and times that produced them. And the irresistible 19th-century desire to find the historical truth behind the legend led, in large part, to the development of the discipline of Classical Archaeology. Even the inanimate finds from the first excavation at Troy refuse to give up their hold on the present: the golden treasure that Heinrich Schliemann smuggled out of the Ottoman Empire was carried from the smoldering ruins of Berlin to Moscow, where it was dramatically rediscovered when another empire crumbled. Scholars now fight each other over Homer's value to modern education, while the general public enjoys Brad Pitt as Achilles. The Iliad resonates even more powerfully at this moment in history, in which the experience of war, bitter hatreds, and the destruction of cities is yet again all too familiar. The Trojan War, it seems, is still not over. In the end, what could be better to think about for a semester in the early 21st century?
This course is about Homer and the ancient world, but even more than that, it is about the persistence of the past. I will ask you to become familiar with the stories of Troy, the world in which they were first written down, and the world to which they seem to refer. I will then ask you to use that familiarity to look at the way themes, images, characters and events from the Trojan War are used and transformed from antiquity to our own time. We will discuss together what those transformations mean for the places and times in which they occurred, including the present. In the process, you will encounter the birth of modern archaeology, the decipherment of Linear B, Greek and Roman art and literature, World War II, academic politics, post-traumatic stress disorder, and Hollywood.
Teaching materials for digital group projects
Assignments and digital student projects related to groupwork in my Introduction to Ancient Greece and Introduction to Greek Archaeology classes are available in Box at: https://utexas.box.com/s/n1ttumoepqq0ujuzymlswwjpg5rs4o77
Google map of contributions to the Pleiades spatial gazetteer produced by students in Introduction to Greek Archaeology in 2013 and 2015: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Kr2zeRTSQgWqwRs9GPM5G4kXAkE&usp=sharing
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