SANDRA BLAKELY

Office:
221F Candler Library

Phone:
404.727.7939

E-Mail:
sblakel@emory.edu

Education:
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California
PhD, Classics and Anthropology, 1998

Brigham Young University, Provo, Utah
Bachelor's Degree, German and Humanities, 1982.

Teaching Experience:
1999- Emory University: Assistant Professor (to 2005); Associate Professor (2005 to present)  Intensive Latin; Greek (Herodotus); Ancient Mediterranean Studies (Archaeology); Greek and Roman Religion; Mythology; Greek Archaeology; Bronze Age Archaeology; Classics and Anthropology; Magic, Mysteries, and Festivals; Greek Death;
1992- California State University, Long Beach:  Assistant Lecturer
1996-  Greek Mythology; Intensive Latin
1989-  University of Southern California, Department of Classics:  Teaching Assistant
1993-  Roman Civilization; Classical Mythology; Psychoanalysis of Dream and Myth;  
Comedy from Aristophanes to the Present.

Selected Papers presented:
2010  “Beyond Silence: Soteriology, Samothrace, and the concept of secrecy”, paper in the panel, “Salvation in the Mystic Cults”, CAMWS March 24-26
Walsh lectures, University of Chicago, November 
2009  Reponses to papers at Society for Ancient Mediterranean Religions conference, Rome: G. Casadio, “From Eusebeia to Threskeia”, L. Gawlinski, “Finding the Sacred in Greek Sacred Law”
2007 “Samothrace: iron, indigenes, and the archaeology of secrecy,” University of
Cincinnati, Wooster College, and Corpus Christi College, Oxford
“From Kouretes to Kpelle: Rites of Passage and Comparative Studies,” Rites of
Passage of the Life Cycle in Antiquity Conference, Getty Museum, Malibu
2006  “Iron, Ritual, and the Archaeology of Secrecy,” Society for American Archaeology, San Juan, Puerto Rico
“Samothracian Penates and the Colonial Project,” The Mythology and
  Iconography of Colonization Conference, Cuma, Italy
“Samothrace: the mysteries in their Northern Aegean Context”, Ohio University
“Samothrace: from Pelasgians to Penates”, Austin University, Texas
  “Iron, invention, and cosmology: Greek reflections on the technological past”,
  Theoretical Archaeology Group Conference, Exeter, England
2005  “Gender, Magic and Metallurgy between Greece and Africa,” Langford
Conference, Greek Religion and the Orient, Florida State University
2003 “Samothracia Ferrea”International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Boston MA “Gernet and the Daimones“ AIA/APA annual meeting, San Diego, CA
“Black Hephaistos: Greek myth, African ritual, and the interdisciplinary prospect”
workshop on interdisciplinarity, Oxford University, UK
“Iron rings, inscriptions, and missing daimones:  archaeology and texts at the sanctuary of the Great Gods on Samothrace”
Conference on Archaeology and Texts, Calgary, Canada
2001 “Black Hephaistos: African Ironworking and Greek Daimones” Johns Hopkins University; Harvard University; University of Georgia at Athens
1999 “Kouretes, Korybantes, and the Politics of Shamanism”
World Archaeological Congress, Capetown, South Africa
“Welcomed Madness: Kouretes, Korybantes, and Mary Douglas” Rethinking the Irrational: Madness in the Ancient World conference, Newnham College, Cambridge
“Production, religion, and semiotics: on the uses of myth in archaeological
interpretation”  American Schools of Oriental Research conference, Boston
1998 "The Scholars and the Demons," Conference of the Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies, Tel Aviv
1997 "Sacra Metallurgica," APA/AIA Annual Meeting, Chicago, December
"Myth and Models of Production," Trade and Production in Premonetary Greece conference, Swedish Institute of Archaeological Research, Athens
"Smelting and Sacrifice," Metals in Antiquity conference, Harvard University

Professional Activity:

2007  Committee on Admissions and Fellowships, American School of Classical Studies
2006  organizer, Ancient Song in Cross-Cultural Perspective: Ritual, Performance, and History, conference at Emory University
2002 organizer, Conference on the Mysteries: Ancient Mystery Religions and the Anthropology of Secrecy, at Emory University

Emory service:
2010    Chair, Humanities Subcommittee, URC
2008-   member, Humanities Subcommittee, URC
2009
2008-   Director, Program in Ancient Mediterranean Studies

Publications:
2009    “Toward an archaeology of secrecy: power, paradox, and the Great Gods of
Samothrace” in Beyond Belief: The Archaeology of Religion and Ritual,
Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropology Association, vol. 19 (forthcoming)
“Ancient  Mysteries, Modern Secrets”, edited proceedings of the Conference on the Mysteries, Electronic Antiquity:  Introduction, and organization of the volume
Herodorus (FGH 31) Brill’s New Jacoby:  online publication of translation and commentary
“Kadmos, Jason, and the Great Gods of Samothrace: initiation as mediation in a
Northern Aegean context,” Electronic Antiquity, Volume X, number 3
2007   “Pherekydes’ Daktyloi: ritual, technology, and the Presocratic Perspective”
Kernos 20: 43-67.
2006  Myth, Ritual and Metallurgy in Ancient Greece and Recent Africa, Cambridge University Press            
2000 “Madness in the Body Politic: Kouretes, Korybantes, and the Politics of Shamanism,” in J. Hubert, ed., The Archaeology and Anthropology of Madness, Disability and Social Exclusion, Part 2 of Mind and Body in Society.
1999 "Smelting and Sacrifice," in S. Young, Metals in Antiquity, Oxford Archaeopress.

Ongoing Projects:
Samothrace: Iron, Ritual, and the Archaeology of Secrecy, book manuscript
Translation and commentary, Conon (FGH 26), Alexandros Polyhistor (FGH 273), Brill’s New Jacoby 

Academic Awards: 
2006-07  Margot Tytus Fellowship, University of Cincinnati University Research Center grant, Emory University
2004 National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminar, “Roman Religion in its Cultural Context”
2000-01  Junior Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC
1998-99  National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, Albright Institute of  Archaeological Research, Jerusalem
1998 American Academy in Rome, Summer Program in Archaeology
1997 George A. Barton Fellowship, Albright Institute of Archaeological Research, Jerusalem
1996-97 Jacob Hirsch Fellowship, American School of Classical Studies, Athens
1994  Douglas Nelson travel award, Classics Department, University of Southern California
1992 Award for Outstanding Departmental Teaching Assistant, Classics Department,  University of Southern California
1991 Ellen N. Lawler Summer Session Fellowship, American School of Classical Studies, Athens
1989-92 Dean's Graduate Fellowship, University of Southern California
1982 Graduation with High Honors, Brigham Young University
1977-81 Spencer W. Kimball Scholarship, Brigham Young University