Dr. Carol J. King

Assistant Professor, Classics and Historical Studies
Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University
Corner Brook, Newfoundland

B.A., B.Ed. (Saint Mary's), M.A. (Dalhousie), Ph.D. (Brown)

Office: AS 332 C
Phone: (709) 637-6200 ext 6437
Email: cking@swgc.mun.ca

Research Interests: Dr. King is a Hellenist with interests in Greek history and literature, Greek and Roman historiography, divination in the ancient world, and the intellectual history of Alexandria. Her area of specialization is Alexander the Great, and currently she is  working on a monograph on Alexander and divination.

Dr. King is an alumna of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece (Regular Member 2001-2002), and a past Research Assistant at Harvard's Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C. She has taught classics courses at several universities in the U.S. and Canada. She came to Grenfell College in 2007.

 

Courses Fall 2009                                                Winter 2010

        CLAS 1200 Introduction to Roman Civilization                                        CLAS 1121  Elementary Latin II
        CLAS 1120 Elementary Latin I                                                                   CLAS 2040 History of Rome
        CLAS 4020 Seminar: Dreams and Divination in Ancient Greece        CLAS 3405 Tragic Drama in Greece and Rome
                             

                                                                                                                       Gros Morne National Park,
Corner Brook area, Newfoundland                                                UNESCO World Heritage Site 
 

                                             

 

Teaching Experience

Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Memorial University, Assistant Professor 2007-present
Trent University, Assistant Professor, sessional appointments                 2005-2007
Baylor University, Lecturer                                                                          2003-2005
Mount Allison University, Crake Doctoral Fellow                                        2002-2003
University of Rhode Island, Lecturer                                                      Summer 2001
Brown University, Teaching Assistant                                                         1997-1999
Dalhousie University, Teaching Assistant                                                   1993-1995
President's Graduate Teaching Assistant Award, Dalhousie University         1993-94
Colchester-East Hants School Board, Nova Scotia                                    1989-1993
Halifax County -Bedford District School Board, Nova Scotia                      1987-1989

 

International Experience

Research Travel in Greece and Egypt
April-May 2008

              
    
        north slope, Acropolis, Athens                             Alexander, National Archaeological                 Demos mural, National and  Kapodistrian
                                                                                                                           Museum, Athens                                                           University of Athens

         
Bibliotheca Alexandrina, Alexandria                Aphrodite, Bibliotheca Museum                         Shogafa Catacombs, Alexandria

 

Delegate, Baylor University’s Women, Health and Education for Afghanistan
Workshop diverted to Dubai, Abu Dhabi and Sharjah, UAE
May 2005

   
          Dubai Creek, Dubai                                              Zayed University, Abu Dhabi                                American University of Sharjah

 

Delegate, Baylor University’s Higher Education for Iraq, University of Dohuk
and Baylor University joint Academic Workshop, Dohuk, Iraq
December 2003

      
             College of Arts, University of Dohuk, Iraq                         Nusaybin, Turkey                     Students and Faculty, Arts, University of Dohuk

 

Egypt May 2002

                                        

 

James Rignall Wheeler Fellow, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece
2001-2002

             
       Temple of Apollo, Delphi                                 "Aristotle's Classroom", Mieza, northern Greece                    Hermes of Praxitiles, Olympia

     
        Parthenon, Athens                                                     Mt. Dicte, Crete                                                              Troy, Turkey         

 

Recent Awards and Grants
                            SWGC Principal's Research Grant                                                                              2008-09
                            MUN Instructional Development Grant (co-recipient)                                                   2007-08
                            Internal SSHRC Travel Grant for Paper Presentation at Scholarly Meetings        Winter 2008
                            MUN Start-up Funding Grant                                                                                  Winter 2008

Publications   

                            " Kingship and Other Political Institutions, " in J. Roisman and I. Worthington, eds,
                                    A Companion to Ancient Macedonia
(Blackwell)                                  forthcoming 2010

                             Review: W. Heckel and L. Tritle, eds.  Alexander the Great: A New History
                                   
(Chichester and Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009) in
                                    CJ Online Forum 2009.10.02
                                                                             Fall 2009

                             Review: K. Cheshire, Alexander the Great. Greece & Rome: Texts and Contexts
                                   
(Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press 2009) in
                                    CJ Online Forum 2009.11.02
                                                                              Fall 2009

                            Review: P. Cartledge, Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past (Woodstock
                                    and New York; The Overlook Press, Peter Mayer Publishers, Inc., 2004) in
                                    The Historian
Vol. 67 Issue 4: 789-790                                                          Winter 2005

Conference Papers Delivered

                        “The Rise of Alexandria: a modern sequel,” Annual Meeting of the Atlantic
                                      Classical Association
, University of Prince Edward Island                   September 2009

“Macedonian Treason Cases: the question of authority,” 104th Annual Meeting
        of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Tucson, AZ        April 2008

“The ‘divine element’ (
θείον) in Arrian’s Anabasis,” Brown University,
        Conference in honor of Charles W. Fornara                                              October 2006

“Alexander, Dreams and Court Propaganda,” Annual Meeting of the Classical
        Association of Canada
, Toronto                                                                       May 2006

“Battle Panic and Blood-letting: Sacrificing to Phobos at Plutarch Alexander 31.9,”
        101st Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West
        and South
, Madison, WI                                                                                    April 2005

“Aristander of Telmessus and Divination in the Alexander Historians,
        135th Annul Meeting of the American Philological Association,
        San Francisco, CA                                                                                      January 2004

“Ancient Civilizations of the Mediterranean and Near East,” Dohuk, Iraq,
        University of Dohuk/Baylor University joint Academic Workshop          December 2003

“Mieza and Aristotle’s Tutelage of Alexander,” Annual Meeting of the Atlantic
        Classical Association
, University of Prince Edward Island                   September 2002
 

Public Lectures

                            “Executing the High Command; the price of kingship in ancient Macedonia,”
                                    Sir Wilfred Grenfell College, Speakers Series                                                March 2008

                            “Alexander’s Exiles Decree,” Trent University, Peterborough, ON                      January 2007

                            “The Power and Prestige of Manteis in Greek Warfare,” Vanderbilt University
                                    Nashville, TN                                                                                                    March 2006

                            “Seers, Sacrifices, and Scanning the Skies: Reading Signs or Reading Minds?,”
                                    Union College, Schenectady, NY                                                                  January 2005

                            “History and Imagination: the Legacy of Alexandria,” Crake Fellow Lecture,
                                    Mount Allison University, Sackville, NB                                                           March 2003 

                            “Dreaming and Scheming: Alexander and the Siege of Tyre,” Dalhousie
                                    University
, Halifax, NS                                                                                   January 2002