NIKOLAOS LAZARIDIS’S CURRICULUM VITAE
ACADEMIC POSITIONS
1)Associate Professor of Ancient Mediterranean History, California State University Sacramento (since 2016)
2)Assistant Professor of Ancient Mediterranean History, California State University Sacramento (2009-2016)
3)Postdoctoral fellow of the Institute for Historical, Literary and Cultural Studies, Radboud University, Nijmegen (2007-2009)
4)Adjunct Assistant Professor of Egyptology, The American University in Cairo (2007)
EDUCATION
1)D.Phil. in Oriental Studies (Egyptology) and Classics, Oxford University (2002-2005)
2)M.Phil. in Oriental Studies (Egyptology), Oxford University (2000-2002)
3)BA in Egyptology, The American University in Cairo (1996-2000)
SELECT AWARDS AND SCHOLARSHIPS
1)CSUS Research and Creative Activity award (2015; 2016; 2017)
2)Sacramento State’s University Award for Research, Scholarship, and Creative Activity for Early-Career Faculty (2016)
3)National Endowment for Humanities Scholarly Editions and Translations award (2014-2015)
4)CSUS Pedagogy Enhancement award (2014)
5)CSUS College of Arts and Letters Scholarship and Creative Activity award (2013)
6)NWO (Nederlands Foundation for Scientific Research) Post-doctoral Innovational Research Incentives Scheme Veni (2007-2009)
7)Merton College Domus Graduate Scholarship (2002-2005)
8)Arts and Humanities Research Council Scholarship (2002-2005)
9)Oxford University Oriental Institute Graduate Scholarship (2001-2005)
10)Onassis Foundation Scholarship (2001-2002)
11)Ahmed Fakhry Egyptological Award (1999 and 2000)
FIELDWORK
1)Head epigrapher of North Kharga Oasis Survey team (since 2007)
2)Surveyor in North Kharga Oasis Survey team (2004)
3)Assistant archaeologist at a Classical and Post-classical cemetery site at Thermes, Greece (1999)
4)Student trainee at the site Dispilio in Kastoria, Greece (1998)
TEACHING
1)Undergraduate courses: ‘History of Ancient Greece’ (CSUS, since2009); ‘History of Ancient Rome’ (CSUS, since 2009); ‘History of the Ancient Near East’ (CSUS, since 2009); ‘History and culture of Ancient Egypt’ (CSUS, since 2012); ‘Ancient Greek language and written culture’ (CSUS, since 2012); senior seminars on a variety of subjects relating to Ancient History (CSUS, since 2009); ‘Egyptian hieroglyphs’ (CSUS, since 2012); ‘Introduction to Ancient Egypt’ (AUC, 2007); ‘Hieroglyphs II’ (AUC, 2007)
2)Graduate courses: seminars on a variety of subjects relating to Ancient History and Literature; ‘Elementary Ancient Greek’ (CSUS, since 2010); ‘Intermediate Ancient Greek’ (CSUS, since 2010); ‘Oriental influences on Classical literature’ (Radboud University, Fall 2008)
RECENT CONFERENCE PAPERS, SEMINARS, AND PUBLIC LECTURES
1)“Γνωριμία μετο αφηγηματικό στυλτης αρχαίας αιγυπτιακής λογοτεχνίας” (Introducing the art of storytelling in ancient Egyptian literature), invited lecture at the Department of Philology, University of Crete (2017)
2)“A journey within a journey: The investigation of an ancient Egyptian traveller’s graffito in Kharga Oasis” at the University of Crete conference What to do with the fragments. A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step (2017)
3)“Writing in transit: a glance at Egyptian travellers’ graffiti north of Kharga Oasis”, invited lecture at the Griffith Institute, Oxford University (2017)
4)“Carved deities, protected travelers: invoking the Divine in the western desert”, at the conference Environment & Religion in Ancient & Coptic Egypt (2017)
5)“Action and private space in ancient Egyptian narrative”, at theUniversitécatholique de Louvainconference Time and Space in Ancient Egypt(2016)
6)“Αρχαίοι ταξιδιώτες και τα χαράγματά τουςστην όασηΧάργκα τηςδυτικής αιγυπτιακής ερήμου” (Ancient travelers and their graffiti in Kharga Oasis, Egypt’s Western Desert), public lecture for the Archeological Museum of Thessaloniki (2016)
7)“Questioning Pharaonic power: freedom and dissidence in ancient Egyptian literature”, for the “One-World Initiative” program (2016)
8)“Daring the desert: ancient travelers and their rock graffiti in Kharga Oasis, Egypt”, at Sacramento State’s University Award reception (2016)
9) “Plutarch’s Isis and Osiris as evidence for Greco-Egyptian cultural interaction”, invited seminar at UC Davis Classics Department (2016)
10)“Ancient travelers’ inscriptions from Kharga oasis”, at UC Berkeley’s Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology group meeting (2015)
11)“Character titles and epithets in ancient Egyptian narrative literature”,at the 2014 American Research Center in Egypt Meeting (2014)
12)“Bringing life to the desert: the ancient travelers of Kharga Oasis”, at l’Université du Québec à Montréal (2014)
13)“Gods on the road: religious practices of the ancient travelers in Kharga Oasis”, delivered at the 2014 Scholars’ Colloquium by the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities (2014)
14)“Who’s afraid of Horus, son of the Wolf? Fear and anger in ancient Egyptian storytelling”, at the 2013 American Research Center in Egypt Meeting (2013)
ONGOING AND FUTURE PROJECTS
1)Narrative techniques in the literatures of ancient Egypt and Greece
2)Epigraphic and papyrological evidence from North Kharga Oasis
3)Egyptian and Egyptianizing artifacts in the Iron Age Greek world
4)The impact of natural environment on ancient Near Eastern and Classical literatures
5)Comparative grammar of ancient Egyptian and Attic Greek
6)The religious practices of travelers in ancient Egypt
7)Ethical systems in the ancient Near East
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
1)“Hyperbole in demotic wisdom”, in: Illuminating Osiris. Egyptological studies in honor of Mark Smith, ed. R. Jasnow and Gh. Widmer, Visual and Material Culture of Egypt 2, Bristol, CT: Lockwood Press 2016), 215-220
2)“Different Parallels, Different Interpretations: Reading parallels between Ancient Egyptian and Greek works of literature”, in: Graeco-Egyptian Interactions Literature, Translation, and Culture, 500 BC-AD 300, ed. I. Rutherford, Oxford: Oxford U.P. 2016), 187-207
1)Proceedings of theXth International Congress of Egyptologists, University of the Aegean, Rhodes, May 22-29 2008, co-edited with P. Kousoulis, OrientaliaLovaniensiaAnalecta 241 (Leuven: Peeters 2015)
2)“Amun-Ra, lord of the sky: A deity for travellers of the western desert”, British Museum Studies of Ancient Egypt and Sudan 22 (2015): 44-60
3)“Crossing the Egyptian desert: Epigraphic work at Kharga oasis”, forthcoming in Maarav: a Journal of Northwest Semitic19.1-2 (2012) [published in 2015]: 117-129
4)“Time in timeless wisdom: the use of tense in Egyptian and Greek sayings (with some advice to grammarians)”, in: Acts of the Tenth International Congress of Demotic Studies, Leuven, 26-30 August 2008, ed. M. Depauw and Y. Broux, OLA 231 (Leuven: Peeters 2014), 123-139
5)“Physical characterization in ancient Egyptian narrative literature: a case study in ancient stylistics”, ÉgypteNilotique et Méditerranéenne 6 (2013): 123-137
6)“Education and Apprenticeship”, in UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, ed. E. Frood and W. Wendrich (Los Angeles 2010)
7)“Labelling Wisdom: What makes the sentences of Demotic and Greek wisdom texts proverbs and what not?”, in Actes du IXecongrès international des études démotiques: Paris, 31 août-3 septembre 2005, ed. G. Widmer and D. Devauchelle, Bibliothèqued’étude 147 (Cairo: IFAO 2009), 157-172
8)“Notes on the forms and uses of didactic language in ancient Egyptian and Greek narrative works”, Journal of the Society for the Study of Egyptian Antiquities 36 (2009): 67-87
9)“Ethics”, in UCLA Encyclopedia of Egyptology, ed. E. Frood and W. Wendrich (Los Angeles 2008)
10)Wisdom in Loose Form: The Language of Egyptian and Greek Proverbs in Collections from the Hellenistic and Roman Periods, Mnemosyne, Supplements 287 (Leiden: Brill 2007)