John G. Younger

Professional Data

University of Kansas, 2002-present
Duke University, 1974-2002

Stanford University, BA History Honors 1967 with second majors in Classics and Music
University of Cincinnati, MA Classical Studies 1969: "The Iconography of Early Cretan Seals"
University of Cincinnati, PhD Classical Studies 1973: "Towards the Chronology of Aegean Glyptic in the Late Bronze Age"

Professional Interests
Greek Bronze Age Archaeology
Greek Art & Archaeology, especially classical sculpture and architecture
Gender and Sexualities
Queer Issues

My complete Curriculum Vitae (resume) is online.

Here is a one-paragraph, short version of my CV:

John G. Younger joined the University of Kansas in 2002 as Professor of Classics and of Humanities and Western Civilization; he came from Duke University where he taught for 27 years. He became a full-time member of Classics briefly in the Spring of 2008 before being invited to be the Chair of KU's Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies (2008-2012), then Academic Director of Jewish Studies (2013-present). He has a BA in History (with majors in Music and Classics also fulfilled) from Stanford University, and an MA and PhD in Classics from the University of Cincinnati. Professor Younger's research focuses on the Bronze Age Aegean (especially art, scripts, and administration) and on Classical Greek art (especially architecture and sculpture). He has written books on Minoan-Mycenaean engraved gemstones and on Music in the Aegean Bronze Age, as well as numerous articles on various Bronze Age and Classical topics. Recent work has centered on gender and sexuality (numerous articles and book chapters, as well as the book-encyclopedia Sex in the Ancient World, A-Z [Routledge 2004]), the architecture and sculpture of early synagogues in the upper Galillee region of Israel, an edited volume on the emperor Augustus's building program (Imperium and Cosmos by Paul Rehak, Wisconsin 2006), a monograph-length study, "Technical Observations on the Sculptures from the Temple of Zeus at Olympia" (Hesperia 78, 2009, 41-105), and "A View from the Sea" (2011), an aesthetic and theoretical reading of the fresco frieze from the West House, Akrotiri, Thera. He has two dogs and a cat to keep him sane.

Courses

Spring 2013
CLSX 526 (Honors). Archaeology and Art of the Aegean Bronze Age: MWF 9:00-9:50 am, Wescoe 4033.
Textbook: none.

CLSX 374. Gender & Sexuality, Ancient & Modern: MWF 11:00-11:50 pm, Wescoe 4033.
Required Textbooks: Keuls, Reign of the Phallus

Other Syllabi on-line
Aegean Bronze Age (Fall 2010)
Greek Archaeology & Art (Spring 2011)
Women in the Ancient World (2010)
Greek Architecture (2003)

Other resources on-line
Chronology of Greek Art
Chronology of Greek History to Alexander
Chronology of Greek History, Hellenistic to the late 20th century
Bibliography of Greek and Roman Art Books, with LC call numbers
Bibliography of Greek Sculpture Books, with LC call numbers
Citing Footnotes and Bibliography

Public Lectures Available

• "Time and Event in Aegean Art"
  
• "Sculpting the Parthenon Frieze"
  
• "Cretan Scripts and Minoan Administration"
  
• "What Pausanias Saw: Mutilated Pediments from the Temple of Zeus, Olympia"
  
• "Gender and Sexuality in the Parthenon Frieze"
  
• "Mycenae Invents Itself"
  
• "A Roman Pediment with Greek Figures: The Greek Sculptures from the Temple of Apollo Sosianus, Rome"
• "Gays and Grrls in Athenian Vase Painting"
• "Tekhnítides: Women Artists in Ancient Greece"
• "Building the Parthenon"
• "Undeciphered Cretan Scripts"

• The Archaeological Institute of America
  • American Journal of Archaeology
    • Book Reviews Editor Emeritus (as of 1 January 2008); the new editors are Derek B. Counts and Elisabetta Cova)

• The American School of Classical Studies

• The American Philological Association
  • Women's Classical Caucus
    
  • Lamda Classical Caucus

Internet Interests