C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E. Anca-Cristina DAN

C U R R I C U L U M V I T A E Anca-Cristina DAN Topoi Excellence Cluster, Hittorfstraße 18, 14195 Berlin, Germany Born on 21 May 1980 at Ploieşti (Romania). French and Romanian citizenship R E S E A R C H T O P I C S Pontus and Asia Minor: history and archaeology of the Black Sea and Northern Anatolian regions. Ancient geography and its reception: history of spatial representations in the Greek and Roman world and of their Medieval and Modern receptions. Hellenism and philhellenism: study of the Greek identities in Ancient and Modern times, through their contacts with the Other. P O S T D O C T O R A L S T U D I E S TOPOI Excellence Cluster, Berlin, Junior Fellow-DAI 2011-2012: Postdoctoral research project. In Diachronic Search of Spatial and Ethnic Identities: the Pontians in Ancient Sources and Their Modern Responses (in English), under the supervision of Prof. Hans-Joachim GEHRKE. Institute for Neohellenic Research, National Hellenic Research Foundation, Athens, Onassis Fellow 2010: Postdoctoral research project. Dionysius of Byzantium, Anaplous Bospori: edition, French translation and commentary, with an excursus about the modern travelers to Constantinople (in French), under the supervision of Prof. George TOLIAS. E D U C A T I O N École Pratique de Hautes Études (Paris), IV th Section, Philology and History 2004-present: Postgraduate dissertation / Diplôme de l École. Dissertation title Pliny the Elder 6.1-45: edition, French translation and commentary (in French). Supervisor Prof. Jean-Louis FERRARY. Expected graduation 2011-2012. University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne, Classics and Ancient History 2009: PhD. Dissertation title The Most Marvelous of All the Seas : a study on the Black Sea and its peoples in the ancient sources, from Homer to Erathosthenes (in French, with English summary). Supervisors Profs Carlos LEVY (University of Paris IV-Sorbonne) and Didier MARCOTTE (University of Reims). Graduated with Très honorable avec les félicitations du jury à l unanimité. Thesis prize in Humanities, Chancellerie de l académie des Universités de Reims, France, 2010. Jury: Alexandru AVRAM (University of Maine), Jean-Louis FERRARY (Académie des Belles Lettres-EPHE), Patrick GAUTIER-DALCHÉ (EPHE-CNRS), Carlos LÉVY, Didier MARCOTTE, Christel MÜLLER (University of Reims), Francesco PRONTERA (University of Perugia). École Normale Supérieure (Paris), Classics 2001-2004: International student (admission on written exams and interview). University of Paris IV-Sorbonne, Latin 2003: Master II / Diplôme des Études Approfondies (supervisor Prof. Carlos LEVY, final result Très bien). Dissertation title Researches upon the Terminology of the Pontic Periplous. On the meaning of the word polis in Pseudo- Scylax (in French). 2002: Master I / Maîtrise (supervisor Prof. Carlos LEVY, final result Très bien). Dissertation title Ovid s Rome: seduction, power, nostalgia (in French). 2001-2003: Magistère d Antiquité Classique, Paris IV ENS (Three-Year accomplished in Two-Year Postgraduate Classical Antiquity course; final result Très bien). Bucharest University 1998-2001: Bachelor of Classical Languages, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures. Final result Şef de promoţie (Highest distinction, 10/10). Dissertation title (defended in February 2003): Ovid, the Architect Poet (in French and Romanian). 1

1998-2001: Auditor, Department of History. College Pro, special school for Romanian best students 1998-2000: Classics; final result Magna cum laude. T E A C H I N G E X P E R I E N C E 2010-2011 Teaching Fellow University of Reims, Classics, Graduates and Undergraduates Lectures and tutorials in Latin language and literature, Roman history, Methodology. 2010-2011 Associate lecturer, University of Paris-Est, History, Undergraduates Lectures in Ancient history. 2007-2008 Teaching Assistant, University Paris IV-Sorbonne, Latin, Undergraduates Tutorials in Latin language and literature, Roman civilisation. 2006-2007 Teaching Assistant, CIES Sorbonne University of Reims, History, Undergraduates Tutorials in Roman history, Latin epigraphy, Methodology. 2005-2006 Teaching Fellowship, CIES Sorbonne University of Reims, Classics, English and History, Graduates and Undergraduates Lectures and tutorials in Ancient history and civilisation, Greek and Latin languages, Epigraphy, Methodology. 2004-2005 Teaching Fellowship, CIES Sorbonne University of Reims, Classics, English and History, Graduates and Undergraduates Lectures and tutorials in Ancient history and civilisation, Latin language, Methodology. A R C H A E O L O G I C A L E X P E R I E N C E 2005, 2010: Field assistant, Xanthos (Turkey), Prof. Jacques DES COURTILS (University of Bordeaux III). 2000-2002: Field assistant, Argamum / Orgamè (Romania), Dr. Mihaela ADAMEŞTEANU (Romanian Institute of Archaeology, Bucharest). 2004: Archaeological Field School, Greek and Roman architecture course, organised by the École Française d Athènes and the Institut Français d Études Anatoliennes at Xanthos, Ephesus and Smyrna; Profs Jacques DES COURTILS (University of Bordeaux III), Laurence CAVALIER (University of Bordeaux III) and Didier LAROCHE (University of Strasbourg). 2003: Field assistant, architectural studies, Paestum (Italy); Architect Anca LEMAIRE (CNRS Paris). 2002, 2003: Field assistant, ceramic studies, Chersonesos (Ukraine); Prof. Joseph CARTER (University of Texas at Austin). P U B L I C A T I O N S Monograph La Plus Merveilleuse des mers: recherches sur la représentation de la mer Noire et de ses peuples dans les sources antiques I, d Homère à Strabon (in French with English summary), in Brepols collection Terrarum Orbis, directed by Patrick GAUTIER DALCHÉ, Contributions for collective publications 2. From Imagined Ethnographies to Invented Ethnicities: the example of the Homeric Halyzones (in English), in Eran ALMAGOR, Joseph SKINNER (eds), Ancient Ethnography: new approaches, Bloomsbury Publishing Plc., 1. L Europe sur les cartes dites de Saint-Jérôme (in French), in Stéphane LEBRETON (ed.), Représentations médiévales et modèles antiques: les cartes dites de saint-jérôme (BL Add. 10049 64-64v), in Brepols collection Terrarum Orbis, Articles in scholarly journals 8. Deux scarabées d Orgamè/Argamum (in French with English summary), Dialogues d histoire ancienne 2011, forthcoming; first published in Mihaela MĂNUCU ADAMEŞTEANU (ed.), Orgame/Argamum, Supplement 1, București, 2006, p. 171-205. 7. L Istros d Hérodote (in French with English summary), Dacia 2011, 6. Ἔναν καιρόν κι ἔναν ζαµάν...: remarques sur l antiquité de l identité grecque pontique (in French with English summary), Il mar Nero 2010, 5. Les Leukosyriens : quelques notes d ethnographie sinopéenne (in French with English summary), Ancient Civilisations from Scythia to Siberia 16 (2011, Actes du Colloque international Sinope. Un état de la question après 15 ans de travaux, Sinope/Turquie, 7-9 Mai 2009), p. 73-102. 4. Le Sang des Anciens (in French with English summary), Vita Latina 183-184 (2011), p. 5-32. 3. Du Pont à la Mer Majeure: notes de philologie et d histoire (in French with English summary), Peuce N.S. 6, 2008, p. 165-188. 2. De Rome à Tomes au début de notre ère: Réflexions historiques, poétiques et géographiques sur le premier périple 2

latin du Pont-Euxin, Ovide Tristes 1.10 (in French), Eirene (The Black Sea and Its Relationship with Ancient Central and Eastern Europe 1 st millennium BC-5 th century AD. Third International Congress on Black Sea Antiquities, Prague, Septembre 2005) 43, 2007, p. 87-103. 1. La Mer Noire et l avènement de Rome: notes de lecture géographique (in French), Camenae 1, 2007 (Colloque des jeunes chercheurs de l EA 4081 Rome et ses renaissances, Paris IV-Sorbonne), online http://www.parissorbonne.fr/fr/img/pdf/anca_dan_final_corrige.pdf. Conferences published or in press, in special volumes 12. April 2011, International Symposium Lieux de mémoire en Orient grec à l époque impériale, University of Lausanne: La Mémoire des Argonautes: notes philologiques et historiques sur les stations argonautiques comme lieux de mémoire dans la Propontide, le Bosphore et la mer Noire (in French), 11. November 2010, International Congress for the Preparation of a Historical and Archaeological Atlas of the Ancient Asia Minor, University of Franche-Comté, Besançon: Entre Rochers errants: sur les difficultés de dresser une carte historique du Bosphore antique (in French), 10. November 2010, International Symposium Douris de Samos, within the project Antiquarian Culture and Invention of Modernity, University of Paris-Ouest and École Normale Supérieure, Paris: Le Thermodon, un cas d homonymie géographique qui fait histoire (autour de Douris 76 F 38 Jacoby = fr. 6 Müller, apud Plutarque, Vie de Démosthène 19) (in French), 9. October 2010, Symposium La Trame et le Tableau: poétiques et rhétoriques du récit et de la description dans l Antiquité grecque et latine, organized by the Universities of Poitiers and Tours, Poitiers: Les Allégories anthropomorphisantes des espaces dans la culture ancienne (in French), 8. September 2010, International Colloquium Greek Memories: theory and practice, University of Durham: The Memory of Wonderful Sites: some remarks upon Herodotean theoretical principles in proemia of extant geographical works (in English), 7. April 2010, One-day colloquium Le Fleuve dans les représentations de l espace, first of a series Études des fleuves d Asie Mineure, Arras/France: Réflexions sur la perception et les représentations des fleuves dans l Antiquité grecque (in French), 6. December 2007, International Symposium L Espace en métamorphose Raum im Wandel Space in change, coorganized by the Universities of Reims and Salzbourg: Le Pont et les Pontiques. Réflexions sur l identité grecque pontique à l époque de l Antiquité (in French with English summary), in S. COELSCH-FOISNER, P. FAGOT (ed.), Espace en métamorphose. Raum im Wandel. Space in Change, Heidelberg, 2010 (WINTER Universitätsverlag Wissenschaft und Kunst), p. 43-56. 5. Octobre 2005, International Symposium L Asie Mineure dans l Antiquité: regards actuels sur une péninsule. Échanges, populations et territoires, University of Tours: Sinope, capitale pontique, dans la géographie antique (in French), published in H. BRU, F. KIRBIHLER, S. LEBRETON (eds), L Asie Mineure dans l Antiquité: échanges, populations et territoires, Rennes, 2009, p. 67-131. Reviews: M.B. Bittarello, BMCR (http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009-10-33.html); C.P. Jones, JRA 23.2 (2010), p. 741-742; F. Maffre, REA 112.2 (2010), p. 555-557. 4. September-October 2005, The Black Sea Area in the System of the Hellenistic World. The 11 th International Symposium on the Ancient History and Archaeology of the Black Sea Area, Vani (Georgia): La Mer Noire et le Levant ancien: quelques domaines d enquête (in French), 3. February 2004, Conference organized by the Research group EA Traditions romaines, University of Paris IV- Sorbonne: Les Lieux de plaisir dans la Rome d Ovide (in French), in Perrine GALAND-HALLYN, Carlos LEVY, Wim VERBAAL (eds), Le Plaisir dans l Antiquité et à la Renaissance, Turnhout, 2008 (Brepols Latinitates 1), p. 45-112. 2. Mars 2003, Graduate students Conference Identités romaines, ENS Paris University of Paris-Ouest: Rome vue de Tomes: l identité d un relégué (in French), in Mathilde SIMON (ed.), Identités romaines. Conscience de soi et représentations de l autre dans la Rome antique, IV e siècle av. J.-C. VIII e siècle apr. J.-C., Paris, 2011 (Éditions Rue d Ulm-Études de littérature ancienne 18), p. 213-242. 1. May 2000, Students Conference, Bucharest University: Le Langage érotique des épigrammes prénéotériques. Textes et analyse phonétique (in French), in Liviu FRANGA (ed.), Nova Studia Classica I, Bucureşti, 2003, p. 161-205. Archaeological reports 3. Excavation report of the South-Eastern Sector of Xanthos, in J. des Courtils, Xanthos. Rapport sur la campagne 2010 (in French), Anatolia Antiqua 19 (2011), p. 321-350 (p. 331-339). 1-2. Graffiti and Dipinti and Minor Objects (in English), in Joseph Coleman CARTER et alii, The Chora of Chersonesos: Excavation of the farm 151, University of Texas at Austin, Publications for a larger, non-specialist public 4-6. Aristeas of Proconnesos, Ovid, Toxaris, in Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World, vol. II Black Sea (in English), published in 2008 on www.ehw.gr. 2-3. Dionysios of Byzantium, The European Shores of the Bosphorus (in English), in Encyclopaedia of the Hellenic World, vol. III Constantinople, published in 2008 on www.ehw.gr. 1. Périple/Grèce (in French), in Jean LECLANT (ed.), Dictionnaire de l Antiquité, Paris, 2005, p. 1701-1703. 3

Unpublished conferences 17. September 2011, Krakow: Achaemenid World Representations in Herodotus Miror (in English). 7th European Conference of Iranian Studies. 16. July 2011, Berlin: The Ancient Pontians (in English). Presentation of the postdoctoral project within the Excellence Cluster Topoi. 15. May 2011, Reims: La Tradition grecque de l Anaplous Bospori de Denys de Byzance (in French). Graduate students conference. 14. April 2011, Durham: Lieux de Mémoire in Lieux d Histoire: the topography of the Thracian Bosporus, through the Ἀνάπλους of Dionysius of Byzantium and the De Bosporo Thracio libri tres of Petrus Gillius (in English). Poster at the Classical Association Annual Conference. 13. May 2010, Athens: Herodotus on the Black Sea (in English). Upper House Seminar at the British School of Athens. 12. February 2010, Bucharest: Istrul la Herodot (in Romanian), Romanian Society of Classical Studies. 11. February 2009, Arras: L Europe sur les Cartes dites de Saint-Jérôme (in French). International Colloquium Une représentation cartographique de l Orient intending the preparation of the maps collective study. 10. March 2007, Tours : La Carte 1 de Saint-Jérôme, la mer Noire et la Grèce (in French). Round table for the preparation of the maps publication. 9. June 2006, Reims: Le Pont-Euxin dans la géographie gréco-romaine (in French). Graduate students conference. 8. June 2006, Reims: La Haine des Anciens (in French). Seminar of the Research group CERHIC (EA 2616). 7. April 2006, Lorient: Memnon d Héraclé: la chronique d une ville de l Asie Mineure entre l époque classique et l époque romaine (in French). Master Seminar, L'Asie Mineure à l époque hellénistique et romaine. 6. May 2005, Paris: Les Phéniciens dans le bassin du Pont-Euxin (in French). Atelier sur la colonisation grecque organized by the Chair of Greek Epigraphy, Collège de France, by the University of Neuchâtel and the University of Maine. 5. May 2005, Boulogne-sur-Mer: Poissons et pêcheurs dans le Pont-Euxin: un inventaire des sources littéraires, épigraphiques et numismatiques (in French). International Congress Ressources et activités maritimes des peuples de l Antiquité. 4. January 2005, Esbjerg (Danemark): Τὴν πρὶν ἄπλωτον καὶ ἀγρίαν εἰρηνεύσι θάλασσαν: Rome and the Black Sea Region in Josephus Bellum Judaicum 2.363-368 (in English). International Meeting Rome and the Black Sea Region The Danish National Research Foundation s Center for Black Sea Studies. 3. January 2004, Bucharest: Roma lui Ovidiu (in Romanian). Romanian Society of Classical Studies. 2. June 2003, Marne la Vallée Reims La Géographie antique de la mer Noire (in French). Graduate students conference. 1. May 2001, Bucharest: Etimologia toponimului Orgamé/*Argamum (in Romanian). Symposium Argamum, organized by the Romanian Institute of Archaeology. 4