John G. Younger
Director of Women, Gender, and Sexuality
Studies
Last update: 22 December 2009
Professional Data
University of Kansas, 2002-
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 also 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 Director of KU's Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies
(2008-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 chapters in books, as well as the encyclopedia Sex in the
Ancient World, A-Z [Routledge 2004]), an edited volume on the emperor
Augustus's building program (Imperium and Cosmos by Paul Rehak,
Wisconsin 2006), and a monograph-length study, "Technical
Observations on the Sculptures from the Temple of Zeus
at Olympia" (Hesperia 78 (2009) 41-105). He has two dogs
to keep him sane.
Courses
Spring 2010
CLSX 315. Women in
the Ancient World: TR
11-12:15, Wescoe 4033
Summer 2010
CLSX 570 / HA 505. Ancient
Greece, an archaeological
tour, 20 May to 20 June 2010.
Other Syllabi on-line
Greece, summer program
Aegean Bronze Age
Greek Archaeology & Art
Development of
Greece
Gender
& Sexuality in the Ancient World
Greek Architecture:
Building Greek Temples
Maps on-line: maps
of
Greece, the Mediterranean, both topographical and blank
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"
Campus & Professional
Interests
University of Kansas
National
Professional Organizations
Internet
Interests
Internet Discussion List
Owner/Manager:
AegeaNet:
Greek prehistory.
Internet Site Author
SPHRAGIS, a
continuing bibliography on Aegean glyptic
Linear
A texts,
normalized (i.e., transcribed
according to Linear B phonetic values and
given a standardized format)
Cretan Hieroglyphic
texts,
transcribed from J.-P. Olivier and L. Godart, Corpus hieroglyphicarum
inscriptionum cretae,
normalized, and
discussed with some attempt to derive phonetic values for the signs and
to understand the texts holistically.
LGBT Discussion
Lists
LGBT Web
Sites
LGBT Programs at
North American Universities
Related Links
Ancient Near East's WWW site:
ABZU
QSTUDY-L:
queer studies & theory.
Perseus classical archaeology,
texts, and historyDiotima gender in
antiquity
"Arachne's
Web" (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill): resources in
classics.
For
John's dogs, click here.

Pix
Hadherway,
2003

John at Olympia,
1965

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