Kellam M. Conover
Department of Classics
Princeton University
141 East Pyne Building
Princeton, NJ 08544
(609) 216-1700
kconover@princeton.edu
EDUCATION
Ph.D.
M.A.
B.A.
Classical Philology and Literature, Princeton University, May 2009 (expected)
Dissertation: Bribery in Classical Athens, advised by Andrew Ford and Josiah Ober (Stanford)
Classical Philology and Literature, Princeton University, January 2006
Greek and Latin, magna cum laude, Swarthmore College, May 2003
RESEARCH AND TEACHING INTERESTS
Athenian Democracy, Law, and Legal History; Classical Greek Literature; Law and Political Economy in
the Early American Republic
PAPERS GIVEN
“Rereading the Death of Turnus: Ritual, Time and Poetics in the Aeneid.” Classical Workshop, Princeton
University. February 2007.
“If You’re Gonna Be a Wise Guy, You Better Get Lost: Apodemia and Theoria in Herodotus’ Lydian
Logos.” Graduate Student Conference at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, on “Wandering
But Not Lost: Apodemia, Peregrinatio,” February, 2005.
“Re-newing Literary Tastes: Catullus, Ovid, and the novus libellus.” 7th annual UNC-CH/Duke Classics
Colloquium on “Fashion, Trend, and Novelty,” March, 2004.
HONORS AND AWARDS
Center for Human Values Graduate Student Fellowship, Princeton University, 2008-9
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competitive fellowship awarded to students engaged with ethics and human values
Porter Ogden Jacobus Fellowship, Princeton University, 2007-8
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highest academic award bestowed by the Graduate School at Princeton
Mrs. Giles Whiting Fellowship in the Humanities, Princeton University, 2007-8 (declined)
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national fellowship awarded in recognition of the highest scholarly excellence in the Humanities
Robert Hoffman ’58 Scholar, Princeton University, 2007-8
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given annually to three graduate students based on outstanding scholarship and quality of dissertation
Cotsen Junior Teaching Fellowship, Princeton University, 2006-7
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awarded to two graduate students each year by Cotsen Senior Teaching Fellow
Robert Murray Award, Princeton University, 2004
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summer funding awarded by the Classics Department on a competitive basis
Mildred W. and Alfred T. Carton Fellowship, Princeton University, 2003-4
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named fellowship in the Liberal Arts and Humanities
Susan P. Cobbs Scholarship, Swarthmore College, 2003
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awarded to the most outstanding student of Classics in the senior class
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
(Co-)Instructor, Rhetoric: Ancient Theory, Modern Practice (CLA 211) Princeton University, Spring 2007
Instructor, First Semester Latin (LAT 101) Princeton University, Fall 2005
Preceptor, The Other Side of Rome (CLA 213) Princeton University, Spring 2006
PROFESSIONAL SERVICE (select)
Alcohol Coalition Committee, Princeton University, 2007-8
Kellam M. Conover
Resident Graduate Student, Butler College, Princeton University, 2007-9
Selection Committee for the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching, Princeton University, 2007-8
Chair, Graduate Student Advisory Committee, Department of Classics, Princeton University, 2006-7
Campus Club Planning Committee, Princeton University, 2005-7
Graduate Student Fellow, Butler College, Princeton University, 2005-7
Graduate Student Fellow, Rockefeller College, Princeton University, 2004-5
Taskforce on Social and Dining Options in the Four-Year Residential Colleges, Princeton University, 20045
ADDITIONAL WORK EXPERIENCE
Writing Tutor, Princeton University Writing Center, January 2005-Summer 2006