The Center for the Tebtunis Papyri

Todd M. Hickey

The Center for the Tebtunis Papyri

The Bancroft Library

University of California

Berkeley, California 94720-6000 USA

+1 (510) 642-4556 (voice)

+1 (510) 642-7589 (facsimile)

http://tebtunis.berkeley.edu

Education

• Ph.D. in history, University of Chicago, June 2001. Dissertation: “A Public ‘House’ but Closed: ‘Fiscal Participation’ and Economic Decision Making on the Oxyrhynchite Estate of the Flavii Apiones.” Committee: Professor Walter E. Kaegi (chair); Professor Richard P. Saller; Professor Roger S. Bagnall (Columbia University); and Professor James G. Keenan (Loyola University Chicago). Defended with distinction.

• A.M. in history, University of Chicago, December 1992. Seminar paper: “Observations on the Sasanian Invasion and Occupation of Egypt.”

• A.B. (with distinction and summa cum laude) in Latin and Greek language, University of Pennsylvania, May 1990.

Professional Experience

• Assistant professor, Department of Classics, and assistant research papyrologist, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, July 2004 - present. Member of the Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology. Courses created: Classics 24 (“To Live and Die along the Nile: Writing Histories from the Papyri”; freshman seminar), AHMA 210 (“Regarding Graeco-Roman Egypt: Text and Image, Reading and Viewing, in a Multi-Cultural Society”; with Professor Chris Hallett). Courses taught: Classics 130 (“Graeco-Roman Egypt: Society and Economy”), Greek 100 (“Plato and Attic Prose”).

• Assistant research papyrologist, The Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley, July 2001 - June 2004. Lecturer in the Department of Classics or Near Eastern Studies when teaching; member of the Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology. Courses created: Classics 130 (“Graeco-Roman Egypt: Society and Economy”; undergraduates), 225 (“Introduction to Papyrology”; graduate seminar). Other courses taught: Egyptian 102A, 102B (Coptic).

• Member, supplemental faculty, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Delaware, August 2000 - June 2001. Courses taught: Latin 101, 102, 213 (“Cicero”), and 214 (“Vergil”).

• Consultant for Coptic texts, Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS), Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University, July 1997 - September 1999.

• Consultant for Coptic texts, Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS), Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library, July 1997 - December 1998.

• Research staff, Demotic Dictionary Project, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, June - December 1992, October - December 1996.

• Course assistant in the History of Western Civilization, University of Chicago, January

- June 1996.

Extramural Service

• Secretary, Advanced Papyrological Information System consortium, November 2005 - present.

• Referee for paper submissions to the annual meeting of the American Society of Papyrologists, March 2005.

• Board of directors, American Society of Papyrologists, January 2005 - present.

• Editorial board, Collectanea Hellenistica, October 2004 - present.

• Organizer/manager, Berkeley Summer Seminar in Papyrology, 14 June - 24 July 2004 (presented under the auspices of the American Society of Papyrologists).

Intramural Service

• Chair, “Ancient Egypt and the Tebtunis Papyri” panel, Bancroft Centennial Symposium, 10 February 2006.

• Organizer (with Sather Professor Roger Bagnall), Inaugural Sather Conference, “Papyrology: New Directions in a New Generation,” 11-12 November 2005.

• Committee on the Library, Berkeley Division of the Academic Senate, August 2005 – May 2006.

• Ph.D. committee, Department of Classics, August 2004 – May 2006 [responsible for writing and grading translation (both prepared and unseen passages) and prose composition exams in Latin and Greek; reviewed and reported on student progress].

• Events committee, Department of Classics, August 2004 – May 2006.

• Admissions committee, Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology, January 2002 – January 2006.

• Doe Annex seismic retrofit and improvement project, July 2001 - present. Key contributions: Oversight of design of the new Center for the Tebtunis Papyri; supervision of preparation of surge space; direction of preparation of Tebtunis papyri for decanting.

• Advisory board, Center for the Tebtunis Papyri, July 2001 - present.

• Collections committee, The Bancroft Library, July 2001 – July 2006.

Professional Affiliations

American Numismatic Society, American Philological Association, American Society of Papyrologists, Association Internationale de Papyrologues, Association of Ancient Historians, Byzantine Studies Conference, Egypt Exploration Society, Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, International Association for Coptic Studies, International Society for Arabic Papyrology.

Publications

Books

• General editor, The Tebtunis Papyri.

• Volume six (Texts and Studies from the Berkeley Summer Seminar in Papyrology, edited by Todd M. Hickey, Arthur Verhoogt, and Karl-Theodor Zauzich) to be published by the Oriental Institute Press of the University of Chicago.

• Proposal for volumes seven and eight accepted by Cambridge University Press.

• Editor (texts) and author (historical essays) of volume eight of The Tebtunis Papyri (“The Priests of Soknebtunis: The Dossier of Kroniôn and Isidôra”).

• Revision of doctoral thesis to be published in the Archiv für Papyrusforschung Beihefte.

• “The Bilingual (Demotic-Greek) Dossier of Kabiris,” in preparation (with Willy Clarysse and Paul Heilporn).

Book Chapters

• “Thinking Regionally: The Evolution of the coloni adscripticii in Egypt,” in Egyptian Law from the Pharaohs to Late Antiquity (Cambridge, in preparation).

• “Writing Histories from the Papyri,” in Oxford Handbook of Papyrology (Oxford, in preparation).

• “Papyrology,” in Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies (Oxford, forthcoming).

• “Aristocratic Landholding and the Economy of Byzantine Egypt,” in Egypt in the Byzantine World, 300-700 (Cambridge 2007) 288-308.

• “The Tebtunis Papyri,” in Exploring The Bancroft Library (Berkeley 2006) 138-45.

• Five texts in volume seventy of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri (with Nikolaos Gonis).

Articles

• “A Roman-Period Cession of Residential Property from Soknopaiou Nesos (P.Mich. inv. 6168 + inv. 6174c + inv. 6174a+b),” in Res severa verum gaudium: Festschrift für Karl-Theodor Zauzich zum 65. Geburtstag am 8. Juni 2004 (Leuven 2004) 237-47 (with Joseph G. Manning).

• “P.Lond. V 1876 descr.: Which Landowner?” Chronique d’Égypte 79 (2004) 241-48 (with James G. Keenan).

• “A New Fragment from the Apion Dossier in New Haven (P.CtYBR inv. 4357),” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 146 (2004) 165-66.

• “Reuniting Anastasia: P.bibl.univ.Giss. 56 + P.Erl. 87,” Archiv für Papyrusforschung 49 (2003) 199-206.

• “A Flavia Christodotê Fragment from Giessen (P.bibl. univ. Giss. inv. 63),” in Essays and Texts in Honor of J. David Thomas (Oakville 2001) 251-54 (with James G. Keenan).

• “P.Lond. V 1797: Classification and Date,” in Papyri in honorem Johannis Bingen octogenarii editae (Leuven 2000) 529-35 (with James G. Keenan).

• “Notes on Some Papyri from the Byzantine Oxyrhynchite,” Tyche 14 (1999) 325-27.

• “Dumbarton Oaks,” in Der neue Pauly: Reallexikon der Antike und ihrer Rezeption, Volume 13 (Stuttgart 1999) columns 904-10.

• “Notes on Some Cairo Papyri from Byzantine Oxyrhynchus (Part I),” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 123 (1998) 161-64.

• “The Dossier of Patermouthios sidêrourgos: New Texts from Chicago,” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 34 (1997) 79-109 (with Klaas A. Worp).

• “More from the Archive of the Descendants of Eulogius,” Analecta Papyrologica 8-9 (1996-97) 209-18 (with James G. Keenan).

• “P.Oxy. X 1323 descr.: A Receipt for the Rent of an orbiopôleion,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 113 (1996) 227-29.

• “A Fragment of a Letter from a Bishop to a scholastikos,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 110 (1996) 127-31.

Review

• Jaakko Frösén, Antti Arjava, and Marjo Lehtinen, eds., The Petra Papyri I (Amman 2002), Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research 334 (May 2004) 92-94.

Electronic

• Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, Fayum Project, http://fayum.arts.kuleuven.ac.be (supervision, select villages of the Polemôn meris).

• Center for the Tebtunis Papyri web site, http://tebtunis.berkeley.edu (general editor).

• Classics@UD web site, http://www.udel.edu/fllt/lang/classics (creator; with Annette Giesecke).

Papers Presented

Invited Lectures and Seminars

• “Aristocratic Landholding and the Economy of Egypt (c. 450-700),” Washington University in St. Louis, 26 January 2006.

• “Cultural Hybridity in Roman Egypt: The Case of the Priests of Soknebtunis,” presented at “New Archaeological and Papyrological Researches on the Fayyum,” Università degli Studi di Lecce, 9 June 2005.

• “The Economy of Byzantine Egypt,” Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposium (“Egypt in the Byzantine World, 450-700”), 30 April 2004.

• “Byzantine Papyri and the ‘Ancient Economy’: The Case of the Flavii Apiones,” University of South Florida, 27 January 2004.

• “Eight Generations of a Priestly Family: The Dossier of Kroniôn and Isidôra,” Symposion “Tebtynis und Soknopaiu Nesos: Leben im römerzeitlichen Fajum,” Universität Würzburg, 13 December 2003.

• “A River Runs Through It: The Bilingual (Demotic-Greek) Archive of Kabiris,” Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology Noon Colloquium, University of California at Berkeley, 18 November 2002.

• “Papyrology and the Ancient Economy: The Case of the Flavii Apiones,” University of Texas at Austin, 29 January 2001.

• “An Introduction to the Glass Coin Weights of the Later Roman Empire,” American Research Center in Egypt, Cairo, 4 June 1997.

Conference Papers

• “A River Runs Through Them: The Ostraka of Chemtsneus,” XXIV International Congress of Papyrology, Helsinki, 5 August 2004.

• “The Demotic Papyri at the Center for the Tebtunis Papyri (University of California, Berkeley),” 8. Internationale Konferenz für demotische Studien, Würzburg, 28 August

2002.

• “The Center for the Tebtunis Papyri at the University of California, Berkeley,” 23. Internationaler Kongreß für Papyrologie, Vienna, 26 July 2001.

• “Conflicting Beginnings: Restoring the Text of P.Col. inv. 523,” 23. Internationaler Kongreß für Papyrologie, Vienna, 23 July 2001.

• “Representing Anastasia: A geouchousa’s ‘Disappearing’ Dossier and Its Contribution to the Social and Economic History of the Byzantine Oxyrhynchite,” One Hundred and Thirty-Second Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, San Diego, 4 January 2001.

• “New Evidence Concerning the Production of Wine on the Oxyrhynchite Holdings of the Flavii Apiones,” XXII Congresso Internazionale di Papirologia, Florence, 27 August 1998.

• “Flavius Isidorus’ Journey to Hierapolis,” One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, Washington, D.C., 28 December 1993.

• “Who Really Led the Sasanian Invasion of Egypt?” Nineteenth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Princeton University, 4 November 1993.

Honors and Awards

• National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2006-7.

• American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2006-7.

• Loeb Classical Library Foundation, sabbatical salary grant, 2006-7.

• University of California President’s Research Fellowship in the Humanities, 2006-7 (declined).

• Humanities Research Fellowship, University of California, Berkeley, 2006-7 (declined).

• Townsend Fellowship, Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, University of California, Berkeley, 2006-7 (declined).

• Nominee, Distinguished Faculty Mentor Award, Graduate Assembly, University of California, Berkeley, April 2004.

• Junior Fellow in Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, September 1997 - May 1998.

• United States Information Agency Fellow, American Research Center in Egypt, February - June 1997.

• Andrew W. Mellon Summer Research Fellowship, University of Chicago, September

1996.

• Graduate Seminar, American Numismatic Society, June - August 1994.

• Full tuition with stipend fellowship, University of Chicago, September 1991 – June 1996.

• Phi Beta Kappa, University of Pennsylvania chapter.

• Senior Classics Prize, University of Pennsylvania, May 1990.

• President, University of Pennsylvania chapter of Eta Sigma Phi (the classics honor society), January 1988 - May 1990.

• George Allen Prize (best examination in a Greek subject), University of Pennsylvania,

May 1988.

External Grants Received

• National Endowment for the Humanities, Advanced Papyrological Information System, Phase V (Berkeley and Stanford components), $65,000.

• National Endowment for the Humanities, Advanced Papyrological Information System, Phase IV (Berkeley and Stanford components), $50,000.

• Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, for conversion of images of Berkeley papyri into MrSID format, $15,000 (proposal prepared with David de Lorenzo).

Internal Grants Received

• Committee on Research (COR) research enabling grant, 2004-2005, $1,000.

• Committee on Research (COR) junior faculty research grant, 2005-2006, $11,417.

• Committee on Research (COR) research enabling grant, 2004-2005, $1,000.

• Committee on Research (COR) travel grant, 2004, $1,000.

References

Available upon request.