Curriculum Vitae - Anthropology

Department of Anthropology
1600 West Bank Drive,
Trent University
Peterborough, Ontario, Canada K9L 0G2
Phone (office): 705-748-1011 x. 6102
E-mail: jmoore@trentu.ca

Current Positions

Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Trent University
Member of the Graduate Faculty, M.A. in Anthropology, Trent University
Research Fellow, Trent University Archaeological Research Centre

Areas of Interest

Archaeology of ancient North Africa (c. 200 B.C.E.-300 C.E.), especially votive and funerary practices, pottery as an indicator of culture and economy, and cultural identity

Education

Ph.D. (Classical Studies), McMaster University (2000)
- Dissertation: Cultural Identity in Roman Africa: The ‘La Ghorfa’ Stelae
M.A. (Classical Studies), McMaster University (1995)
- Thesis: A Survey of the Italian Dressel 2-4 Amphora
B.A. (Honours Classical Archaeology), Wilfrid Laurier University (1993)

Teaching & Related Experience

Associate Professor with tenure (2015-present), Department of Anthropology, Trent University
Graduate Faculty Member for the M.A. in Anthropology, Department of Anthropology, Trent University (2001-present).
Associate Professor with tenure (2005-2015), tenure-track Assistant Professor (2001-2005), Assistant Professor (full-time, 12-month teaching appointment, 2000-2001), and Lecturer (full-time, 12-month teaching appointment, 1999-2000), Department of Ancient History & Classics, Trent University, Peterborough, Ontario, Canada.

Archaeological Fieldwork Experience

Field School Co-director (2003-2008); Potshed Director and Student Supervisor (1995-1999, 2004-2008), for the Leptiminus Archaeological Project, Lamta, Tunisia (co-directors: L.M. Stirling, University of Manitoba & Nejib Ben Lazreg, Institut National du Patrimoine, Tunis).
Research Assistant in Ceramics Analysis (1991-1993), for two international projects at Carthage, Tunisia (supervisor: Dr. Joann Freed, Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo).
Volunteer excavator (1987), at the Huron Ball Site, Orillia, Ontario, Canada (director: Dr. Dean Knight, Wilfrid Laurier University).

Administrative Leadership Highlights

Department Chair, Department of Ancient History & Classics, Trent University (2006-7 and 2010-2013).
Co-creator of the B.A. and B.Sc. in Archaeology, Trent University (2010-2011) and Program Coordinator for both degrees (2011-2012).
Chair of the Committee for Technology in Teaching & Learning, Trent University (2008-9)
Chair of the Academic Advising Committee, Trent University (2005-6 and 2006-7).

Recognition for Teaching & Service

Nominated for the Symons Award for Excellence in Teaching, Trent University (2009-10, 2005-6, 2004-5, 2003-4, 2001-2).
Merit Award for Excellence in Service, Trent University (2007-8).
Merit Award for Excellence in Teaching, Trent University (2003-4).
Listed as one of Trent University’s ten most “Popular Professors” in the Maclean’s Guide to Canadian Universities 2003.

Research-Related Awards

Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Internal Operating Grant: for preparation of manuscript for “The Pottery from Leptiminus Site 290”, chapter for Leptiminus vol. 4, amount $3000 Canadian (May 2009-December 2010).
Internal Grant, Office of Research, Trent University: for preparation of illustrations for “Pottery Concordance”, chapter for Leptiminus vol. 4, amount $800 Canadian (Oct. 2009-Jan. 2010).
SSHRC International Travel Grant: for participation in the Colloque international sur L’iconographie et Religions dans le Maghreb antique et médiéval, (Tunis, Tunisia, February 2008).
SSHRC International Travel Grant (2007): for participation in the Xe Colloque international sur l’Art Provincial Romain (Arles and Aix-en-Provence, France, May 2007).
(Co-recipient of) SSHRC Award: “Recovering Food Offerings, Society and Health in a Roman Cemetery at Leptiminus (Lamta, Tunisia)” (primary investigator: Dr. Lea Stirling, University of Manitoba), amount $81 267 Canadian (2004-2007).
Personally Funded Travel Award, Trent University: for participation in the 104^th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, New Orleans, January 2003.
Personally Funded Travel Award, Trent University: for participation in the 102^nd Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, San Diego, January 2001.

Publications (* = anonymously refereed)

Mattingly, D.J., D.L. Stone, L.M. Stirling, J.P. Moore, A.I. Wilson, J.N. Dore, and N. Ben Lazreg. 2011. “Economy”, in Leptiminus (Lamta) Report No. 3: The Field Survey, by D.L. Stone, D.J. Mattingly, and N. Ben Lazreg. Journal of Roman Archaeology suppl. 87 (Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology), 205-272.
Moore, J.P 2011. “The Caduceus in the Second Punic War”, in L’iconographie et Religions dans le Maghreb antique et médiéval. Actes du 1^er colloque international organise par L’Institut Supérieur des Métiers du Patrimoine, Tunis 21-23 février 2008, ed. L. Ben Abed Saadallah (Tunis: L’Institut Supérieur des Métiers du Patrimoine), 7-18.
*Moore, J.P. 2010 [2011]. “When Not Just Any Wine Will Do...? The Proliferation of Coan-type Wine and Amphoras in the Greco-Roman World”, Marburger Beiträge zur antiken Handels-, Wirtschaftsund Sozialgeschichte 28, 89-122.
Moore, J.P. 2010. “Naked Bull-Riding on Ceramic Products from Roman Africa”, in Africa Romana: I luoghi e le forme dei mestieri e della produzione nelle province africane, Atti del XVIII convegno di studio, Olbia, 11-14 dicembre 2008, eds. M. Milanese, P. Ruggeri, and C. Vismara (Rome: Carocci editore), 713-724.
Moore, J.P. 2010. “Carthage”, in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, ed. M. Gagarin (Oxford: Oxford University Press), 53-55.
Moore, J.P. 2009. “Antique Motifs on Early Roman Votive Stelae from Central Tunisia”, in V. Gaggadis-Robin et al., Les ateliers de sculpture régionaux: techniques, styles et iconographie. Actes du Xe Colloque international sur l’art provincial romain, Arles & Aix-en-Provence, 21-23 mai 2007 (France: Centre Camille Julien and Musée Départmental de l’Arles Antique), 455-464.
Moore, J.P. 2008. “Common Pottery Traditions of Tripolitania and Byzacena,” in Africa Romana, Le ricchezze dell’Africa. Risorse, produzioni, scambi. Atti del XVII convegno di studi, Sevilla, 14-17 dicembre 2006, 3 (Rome: Carocci editore), 2275-2286.
*Moore, J.P. 2007. “The ‘Mausoleum Culture’ of Africa Proconsularis”, in D.L. Stone and L.M. Stirling (eds.), Mortuary Landscapes of North Africa. Phoenix Supplement 43 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press), 75-109 and volume cover photo.
Ben Lazreg, N., S. Stevens, L. Stirling, and J. Moore. 2006. “Roman and Early Christian Burial Complex at Leptiminus (Lamta): Second Notice”, Journal of Roman Archaeology 19, 347-368.
* Moore, J.P. 1991 [2001]. “Cultural Elasticity in the Inscriptions of the So-called ‘La Ghorfa’ Stelae”, Antiquités Africaines 35, 31-37.
Stirling, L., D. Stone, et al. 2000. “Roman Kilns and Rural Settlement: Interim Report of the 1999 Season of the Leptiminus Archaeological Project”, Echoes du monde classique / Classical Views vol. XLIV, n.s. 19.2, 179-224.
Freed, J. and J. Moore. 1996. “New Observations on the Earliest Roman Amphoras from Carthage: Delattre’s First Amphora Wall”, CEDAC Carthage 15, 19-28.

Review Article & Book Reviews

Book Review: Roman E. Roth, Styling Romanisation: Pottery and Society in Central Italy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007), published in Phoenix. 63.3-4 (2009), 429-431.
Book Review: A. Cadotte, La romanisation des dieux. L’interpretatio romana en Afrique du Nord sous le Haut-Empire. Religions in the Graeco-Roman World 158 (Brill, 2007), Journal of Roman Studies 98 (2008), 213.
Book Review: H.E.M. Cool, Eating and Drinking in Roman Britain. (Cambridge University Press, 2007), in Mouseion LI, series III.7.2 (2007), 171-174.
Review Article: “Straight from the Bottle: Rural Life in Roman Africa”, review of S. Dietz, L.L. Sebaï, and H. Ben Hassen, Africa Pronconsularis: Regional Studies in the Segermes Valley of Northern Tunesia, in 2 vols, and P. Ørsted, J. Carlsen, L.L.Sebaï, and H. Ben Hassen, Africa Pronconsularis: Regional Studies in the Segermes Valley of Northern Tunisia, 3: Historical Conclusions (Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, 1995 and 2000 respectively), in American Journal of Archaeology 106 (2002), 313-315.
Book Review: B.S. Ridgway, Hellenistic Sculpture II: The Styles of ca. 200-100 B.C. (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2000), in Phoenix LVI.3-4 (2002), 387-388.

Reports & Publications for Limited Distribution (not peer-reviewed)

Original (2005) and revised (2009 and 2013) versions of Handbook for Latin Epigraphy, a guide to reading Latin inscriptions plus exercise workbook in the form of a selection of North African inscriptions, for use as textbook in LATN 3000 & LATN 4000. Revised edition: 81 pages.
“LM08 Season Report” (report on ceramic analysis activities conducted for the Leptiminus Archaeological Project), 14 pages (June 2008).
(Co-author, with M. Munson and A. Keenleyside of) Self-Study: Cyclical Review Undergraduate Degree Programs in Archaeology, Trent University (Fall 2015).
(Lead author and editor of) Self-Assessment Document: Undergraduate Program Review (UPR), Department of Ancient History & Classics, Trent University, 2006-2007, 83 pages (January 2007).
(Co-editor of) Undergraduate Academic Advising Guide, Prepared for College Advisors, Course Instructors, and Academic Departments, by the Senior Tutors of Trent University, 28 pages (first edition in April 2006: c. 500 copies; second edition released in August 2007).
“Drawing Pottery using Adobe Illustrator”, 4-page guide (text and illustrations), for ceramicists and illustrators. Limited distributed to colleagues and students in Canada, the United States, and England (2006).
“The Coarsewares from Site 290: Results of the 1999 Season”, in L. Stirling, N. Ben Lazreg, and D. Stone, Leptiminus Archaeological Project: Reports of the 1999 Season (limited release, 1999).
“The Coarsewares from Site 290: Results of the 1998 Season”, in L. Stirling, N. Ben Lazreg, and D. Stone, Leptiminus Archaeological Project: Reports of the 1998 Season (limited release, 1998).
“The Coarsewares from Site 290”, in L. Stirling, N. Ben Lazreg, and D. Stone, Leptiminus Archaeological Project: Reports of the 1997 Season (limited release, 1997).
“Pottery Report for 1996 Season”, in L. Stirling, N. Ben Lazreg, and D. Stone, Leptiminus Archaeological Project: Reports of the 1996 Season (limited release, 1996).

Works in Progress

(J. Moore and J.N. Dore†) “Pottery at Leptiminus: Discussion and Table of Concordance”, to be published in L.M. Stirling and N. Ben Lazreg (eds.), Leptiminus volume 4 or 5.
“The Pottery from Site 304: Introduction” and “Site 304: The Pottery from the Roman Cemetery”, in N. Ben Lazreg, L. Stirling, et al., A Roman and Christian Cemetery at Leptiminus.
“The Pottery from Site 290: Introduction” and “The Coarsewares from Site 290”, in N. Ben Lazreg, L. Stirling, et al., Leptiminus Volume 4: Roman Kilns and Ceramic Production on Dahar Slima.
“Oil for Caesar”, article in progress.
Terracotta Figurines from Carthage in the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.
“Stelae in the Musée de Lamta”, to be published in Leptiminus volume 4 or 5.

Conference Papers

“Naked Bull-Riding on Ceramic Products from Roman Africa”, presented at Africa Romana XVIII Convegno internazionale di studi, Olbia (Sardinia), December 2008.
“Heating Things Up: North African Braziers, Past and Present”, presented at the Annual Meeting of the Canadian Archaeological Association, Peterborough, May 2008.
“The Caduceus and the Punic Wars”, presented at the Colloque international, L’iconographie et Religions dans le Maghreb antique et medieval, sponsored by L’Institut supérieur des Métiers du Patrimoine de Tunis (Tunisia), February 2008.
“Phoenician Seal Motifs on Early Roman Stelae from Tunisia”, presented at the Xe Colloque International sur l’Art Provincial Romain: Les ateliers de sculpture régionaux: technique, style et iconographie, Arles and Aix-en-Provence, May 2007.
“Between Leptis and Lepcis: Ceramic Traditions of Byzacena and Tripolitania”, presented at Africa Romana, XVII Convegno internazionale di studi, Seville, Spain, December 2006.
“Baking and Burying at the Roman colony of Leptiminus (Tunisia)”, presented at Fieldworks 06, to the Trent University Archaeological Research Centre, Trent University, October 2006.
“Out of the Classroom and into the Trenches: Teaching Undergraduate Students in the Field”, at Teaching the “Hard Stuff” to Undergraduates, Meeting of the Centers and Regional Associations (CARA) of the Medieval Academy, Trent University, September 2006.
“When the Present Affects the Past: Tunisian Politics and Romano-African Votive Stelae”, presented at the 107^th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Montreal, January 2006.
“The ‘Bestest’ Mommy in the Cemetery: Effusive Superlatives in Romano-African Epitaphs”, presented at Competition in Ancient Society: Contesting, Controlling, Subverting, Classical Association of Canadian West Conference, March 2004.
“The Caduceus, the Carthaginians, and the Convoluted Truth”, presented at the 104th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, New Orleans, January 2003.
“Taking the World by Wine: The Wine Trade in the Late Roman Republic and Early Empire”, presented at The Grape and the Grain (or… Boozy Antiquity!), meeting of the Ontario Classical Association, Brock University, October 2002.
“The Horse in the Urban Fabric of Late Antique North Africa”, presented at the 37^th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Western Michigan University, May 2002.
“Pointed Reminders: Columbarium-type Mausolea in Africa Proconsularis”, presented at the 102^nd Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, San Diego, January 2001.
“Mixed Messages: Language and Nomenclature in the ‘La Ghorfa’ Inscriptions”, presented at Cultural Diversity in the Ancient World, CACW-CAPN Joint Conference, Victoria, March 2000.
“Pottery, Trade, and Value Judgements in Roman Archaeology”, presented at Imagings, Imitations and Identities, Humanities Research Day 2000, Trent University, December 2000.
“Cultural Diversity in the Epigraphy of Roman North Africa”, presented at the Acculturation in the Ancient Mediterranean World Colloquium, University of Calgary, April 2000.
(L. Stirling and J.P. Moore), “Phoenician Influence on Pottery Production at Leptiminus”, presented at Cultural Diversity in the Ancient World, CACW-CAPN Joint Conference, Victoria, March 2000.
“The Caduceus and the Punic Wars: Sign of Peace or Roman Myth?”, presented at the McMaster Graduate Conference, Awareness of the Past in the Roman World, McMaster University, January 1999.
“Finding the Way Back Home”, presented at Finding and Crafting, Minding and Mapping, Humanities Research Day ‘99, Trent University, December 1999
“Out of the Ovens and Into the Frying Pan: The 1998 Season at Leptiminus”, presented at Reports from the Field, Hamilton Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (Canada) and McMaster Anthropological Society, McMaster University, September 1998
(J. Freed and J.P. Moore), “Early Roman Amphoras in the Musée National de Carthage”, presented at the 96^th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Atlanta, December 1994.

Keynote Lecture

“Stereotypes and Fictions: Seeking Ethnicity in Ancient North Africa”, presented as the keynote speech for Ethnicity in the Ancient World, at the first Classics Undergraduate Conference, McMaster University, Hamilton, February 2007.

Invited Papers

“Burying People in Pots in Roman North Africa”, presented at Oshawa Anthropology Lecture Series, Trent University (Oshawa campus), April 2011.
“When Just Any Wine Won’t Do …?” presented at Imitations-Regional Traditions-Economic Impacts workshop (University of Manitoba, November 30-December 2, 2007).
“Dead or Alive? Funerary Priorities in Roman North Africa”, presented to the McMaster Faculty-Graduate Symposium, October 2005.
“Through Wine-Coloured Glasses: Italian Viticulture and Trade in the Early Roman Empire”, presented to the Winnipeg Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (Canada), University of Manitoba, January 2005.
“Roman Wine, Enterprise, and Economy in the Early Empire”, presented to the Toronto Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (Canada), University of Toronto, January 2004.

“Ancient Religion Viewed through Present-Day Politics”, research presentation to the Trent University Board of Governors, April 2002.
“Taking the Bull by the Horns: Ritual Sacrifice in the Roman Cult of Cybele”, presented at the Kenneth Kidd Lecture, Department of Anthropology, Trent University, January 2002.
“The Kiln, the Dent, and the Ugly: Giving the Pot Some Credit”, presented to the Niagara Peninsula Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (Canada), Brock University, December 2001.
“Roman African Mausolea: Heritage and Awareness of the Past”, presented to the Department of Ancient History & Classics, Trent University, March 2001.
“A Bloody Affair: Rites of Cybele in Roman Africa”, presented at the University of Calgary, February 2000.
“Bake, Blister, and Burn: Industry and Economy at a Roman Kiln Complex in Tunisia”, presented to the Hamilton Society of the Archaeological Institute of America (Canada), McMaster University, March 1999.
“Evaluating the Evidence for Taurobolium Depictions in North Africa”, presented at a Graduate Development Seminar, Department of Classics, McMaster University, November 1998.
“Reficienda est Karthago: Evidence for Augustan Carthage”, presented at the McMaster Faculty-Graduate Symposium, September 1995.

Participation as Invited Panellist

University respondent to the material culture section of “Putting the Curriculum into Practice”, Ontario Classical Association Fall Meeting, Trent University, October 2016.

Guest Lectures

2-4 guest lectures per year, including: “Schliemann, Boon or Bane?” (Parts I and II or II alone), “Seafaring in the Ancient World”, “Trojan Romans”, and “Dido’s Carthage vs. Virgil’s Carthage”, for AHCL 1000Y (Trojan War), Trent University, 2009 to present.
“Rites of Life and Death for Children in Ancient Athenian Culture”, guest lecture for ANTH 4410H (Mortuary Archaeology), Trent University, December 2010.
“Death and Funerary Rites in Classical Greece & Rome (c. 500 B.C.E. to 300 C.E.)”, guest lecture for ANTH 4410H (Mortuary Archaeology), Trent University, March 2010.

Talks for University Recruitment, Public Outreach, & Non-Academic Audiences

“The Impact of the Arab Spring upon Archaeology”, presented at Open Houses (high school recruitment fairs), Trent University, spring 2011, fall 2012, and fall 2013.
“Romans, Wine, and World Domination”, presented as part of the Trent University Archaeological Research Centre Public Lecture Series, Peterborough Public Library, Spring 2003.
“Pagan Influences on Early Christianity”, presented to the All Saints Anglican Church, Peterborough, March 2001.

Conference Organization

(R.J. Cook and J.P. Moore, co-organizers) Society and Technology in the Ancient Mediterranean (Trent University, April 2013), including fund-raising of $6000.

Publication of Photography by Jennifer P. Moore

Four photographs of archaeological remains from Dougga, Tunisia, were published in: Ari Saastamoinen, The Phraseology of Latin Building Inscriptions in Roman North Africa (Commentationes Humanarum Litterarum 127) (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2010).
Two photographs of archaeological remains from Carthage were published in: Lauren E. Talalay and Susan E. Alcock. In the Field: the Archaeological Expeditions of the Kelsey Museum (Ann Arbor: Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, 2006), 23.