J. Nabel | CV v.7.2022 | Page 1 Jake Nabel | Curriculum Vitae Department of Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies jnabel@psu.edu Pennsylvania State University jakenabel.com 322 Weaver Building University Park, PA 16802 Research Interests • Roman history of the late Republic and early Principate • Pre-Islamic Iranian history • Ancient political thought • The Hellenistic East Academic Employment Pennsylvania State University 2022— Tombros Early Career Professor of Classical Studies 2019— Assistant Professor of Classics & Ancient Mediterranean Studies UCLA 2018/9 Lecturer in Near Eastern Languages and Cultures Research Associate, Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World Getty Research Institute 2017/8 Postdoctoral Fellow, “The Classical World in Context: Persia” Scholar Year Education 2017 Ph.D. in Classics — Cornell University Advisor: Prof. Barry Strauss Committee: Profs. Eric Rebillard, Sturt Manning, Lori Khatchadourian 2010 Post-Baccalaureate Program in Classical Studies — University of Pennsylvania 2007 B.A. in Classics and Philosophy — Bard College Teaching Experience At Penn State (2019—present) CAMS 5Z Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations (1x) CAMS 83 First Year Seminar: Populism, Democracy, and Empire (2x) CAMS 101 The Roman Republic and Empire (3x) CAMS 150 Roman Archaeology (1x) CAMS 199 Summer Study Tour of Roman History and Archaeology (1x)  J. Nabel | CV v.7.2022 | Page 2 CAMS 480 Greeks & Persians (1x) CAMS 496 Independent Study: Middle Persian Language Tutorial (2x) LAT 403 Augustan Age Latin Literature (1x) LAT 404 Silver Age Latin Literature (1x) At UCLA (2018/19) History of the Sasanian Empire At Oregon State University (2018) History of Western Civilization to 1000 CE (online class) At Cornell University (2011—2017) Elementary Latin II (3x) First Year Writing: Greek Myth (2x) Greek Mythology (online class; Teaching Assistant) History of Rome I (Teaching Assistant) Initiation to Greek Culture (Teaching Assistant) Awards 2022/23 Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship ($35,000) 2021 William C. Mullen Memorial Fund ($2,300) 2020 Dumbarton Oaks/Hill Museum and Manuscript Library Armenian Summer School Fellowship 2015 Jesse F. and Dora H. Bluestone Peace Studies Fellowship, Cornell University 2014 Summer Fellowship in Digital Scholarship, Cornell University ($1,000) 2014 Bradley Grant for Research in Ancient History, Cornell University ($9,100) 2013/14 Director’s Fellow, Judith Reppy Institute for Peace and Conflict Studies 2013/14 Lane Cooper Fellowship, Cornell University Publications: Books In prep. The Arsacids of Rome: Royal Fosterage and Interdynastic Kinship in Roman-Parthian Relations. Manuscript in preparation for the Iran and the Ancient World series at the University of California Press. Publications: Peer-Reviewed Articles 2020 “Exemplary History and Arsacid Genealogy in Tacitus, Annals 6.31.” Dabir 7, 175–91. 2019 “Tiridates in the Forum, Peroz on his Knees: Religion and Reputation in Ancient Iranian Diplomacy.” Anabasis: Studia Classica et Orientalia 10, 214–36.  J. Nabel | CV v.7.2022 | Page 3 2019 “Arsacid Beverages in Lucan.” Classical Quarterly 69 (2), 776–82. 2019 “Lucan’s Parthians in Nero’s Rome.” Classical Philology 114 (4), 604–25. 2019 “Remembering Intervention: Parthia in Rome’s Civil Wars.” Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte 68 (3), 327–52. 2015 “Horace and the Tiridates Episode.” Rheinisches Museum für Philologie 158 (3/4), 304–25. 2015 “Venus’ Boots and the Shadow of Caesar in Book 1 of Virgil’s Aeneid.” Classical Quarterly 65 (2), 689–92. In prep. “Josephus, Palmyra, and the Syrians of Seleucia.” Publications: Book Chapters (* indicates peer-reviewed) 2022 * “The Parthian Empire.” In Jeffrey Spier, Tim Potts, and Sara E. Cole (eds), Persia: Ancient Iran and the Classical World, 157–64. Los Angeles: J. Paul Getty Trust. 2022 “Hydration, Ancient Persian-Style.” In Touraj Daryaee and Shervin Farridnejad (eds), Food for Gods, Food for Mortals: Culinary and Dining Practices in the Greater Iranian World, 161–8. Irvine, CA: Jordan Center for Persian Studies. 2020 * “The Arsacids of Rome and Parthia’s ‘Iranian Revival’ in the First Century CE.” In Kai Ruffing, Kerstin Droß-Krüpe, Sebastian Fink, and Robert Rollinger (eds), Societies at War: Proceedings of the 10th Symposium of the Melammu Project held in Kassel September 26-28 2016 and Proceedings of the 8th Symposium of the Melammu Project held in Kiel November 11-15 2014, 475–94. Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften. 2018 “Alexander between Rome and Persia: Politics, Ideology, and History.” In K.R. Moore (ed.), Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great, 197–232. Leiden: Brill. 2017 “The Seleucids Imprisoned: Arsacid-Roman Hostage Submission and its Hellenistic Precedents.” In Jason Schlude and Benjamin Rubin (eds), Arsacids, Romans, and Local Elites: Cross Cultural Interactions of the Parthian Empire, 25–50. Oxford: Oxbow Books. Forthcoming * “Parthia, Rome, and the Horizons of Ancient Diplomacy.” In John Hyland and Khodadad Rezakhani (eds), Brill’s Companion to Warfare in Ancient  J. Nabel | CV v.7.2022 | Page 4 Iran. Leiden: Brill. Submitted “Fish Out of Water: Greek Deportees and Persian Empires in Philostratus’ Life of Apollonius.” In M. Rahim Shayegan (ed), The Classical World in Context: Persia. Los Angeles: Getty. Digital Projects 2015— PI, Parthian Sources Online (www.parthiansources.com). A digital collection of texts from the Parthian empire in Parthian, Greek, and Latin. Presentations June 2022 “Diaspora or Shadow Empire? Paradigms for Palmyrene History in a Syro- Mesopotamian Borderland.” Talk delivered at Contextualizing Imperial Borderlands, Vorarlberg Museum, Bregenz. May 2022 “Parthia, Rome, and the Horizons of Ancient Diplomacy.” Talk delivered at The World of Ancient Iran and the West, UCLA/J. Paul Getty Museum. Mar. 2022 “The Arsacid Empire and Its Western Neighbors.” Talk delivered at the Payravi Conference on Ancient Iranian History IV: Contextualizing Iranian History: The Arsacids, UC Irvine. Feb. 2020 “On Dynasties and Fosterage: Kinship as a Feature of Interstate Relations between Imperial Rome and Pre-Islamic Iran.” Talk delivered at Forging Kinships, Wolf Humanities Center, University of Pennsylvania. June 2019 “Fictive Kinship and Elite Networking in Parthian and Sasanian Iran.” Talk delivered at Persianate Cultures of Power and Global Elite Networks, UC Irvine. May 2019 “Did the Parthian Kings Hate Democracy?” Talk delivered at Ancient Iran and the Classical World, UCLA/J. Paul Getty Museum. May 2019 “The Arsacids of Rome: Royal Fosterage and Interdynastic Kinship in the First Century CE.” Talk delivered in the Ancient Mediterranean Studies Program, UC Santa Barbara. May 2019 “From Captivity to Family: Iranian Perspectives on the Arsacids of Rome.” Paper workshopped at The Mediterranean Seminar: Captivity & Ransom, Brown University. July 2018 “From Anarchy to Family: Roman-Persian Relations and their Near-Eastern Foundations.” Presented at the 64th Rencontre Assyriologique Internationale (Innsbruck, Austria). April 2018 “Fish out of Water: Greek Deportees, Persian Empires, and the Classical Mediterranean.” Presented at Ancient Persia and the West, UCLA/J. Paul Getty Museum.  J. Nabel | CV v.7.2022 | Page 5 April 2018 “Fish out of Water: Greek Deportees, Persian Empires, and the Classical Mediterranean.” Presented at Xenophobia and Difference in the Pre- and Early Modern World, UC Berkeley. Feb. 2018 “The Greeks between Rome and Parthia: Iranian Revival and Hellenistic Eclipse in the First Century CE.” Presented at Iran after Alexander: Hellenism in the East, UC Irvine. Feb. 2018 “Freed from Hostageship: Iranian Perspectives on the Arsacids of Rome.” Presented at the Pourdavoud Center for the Study of the Iranian World, UCLA. April 2017 “Lucan’s Parthians in Nero’s Rome.” Presented at Lucan in his Contemporary Contexts, Brigham Young University (Provo). Jan. 2017 “Lucan’s Parthians in Nero’s Rome.” Presented at the 148th Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (Toronto). April 2016 “Parthian Sources Online: Digital Editing as Dissertation Reading.” Presented at The Humanities and Technology Camp, Cornell University. Jan. 2015 “A Bridge to Nowhere: Caligula’s Baiae Procession and Its Models.” Presented at the 146th Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (New Orleans). Nov. 2014 “The Seleucids Imprisoned: Roman-Parthian Hostage Exchange and Its Hellenistic Precedents.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools for Oriental Research (San Diego). Nov. 2014 “The Arsacids of Rome and Parthia’s ‘Iranian Revival’ in the First Century CE.” Presented at the Eighth Symposium of the Melammu Project (Kiel, Germany). Jan. 2014 “The Mercenary, the Polis, and an Athenian Inscription from the 4th Century BCE.” Presented at the 145th Annual Meeting of the Society for Classical Studies (Chicago). Nov. 2013 “Greek Mercenaries and the Achaemenid West.” Presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Schools for Oriental Research (Baltimore). Sept. 2013 “Alexander’s Exiles: The Greeks in the Eastern Cities.” Presented at “Alexander the Great in the East: History, Art, Tradition” (Wroclaw, Poland). Jan. 2013 “The Origins of Alexander’s Eastern Cities: Deportation and Resettlement in the Persian and Macedonian Empires.” Presented at the 144th Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association (Seattle). Archaeological Fieldwork 2013 Excavator, Hassloch Excavations Project. Excavated at a Bronze Age tumulus (Götzenbühl) and at a Roman villa (Katzenbach) under the direction of Philip Kiernan (University at Buffalo).  J. Nabel | CV v.7.2022 | Page 6 2012 Excavator, Gournia Excavation Project. Excavated at the Minoan palatial complex at Gournia under the direction of Vance Watrous (University at Buffalo). 2011 Trench Supervisor, Project ArAGATS (American-Armenian Project for the Archaeology and Geography of Ancient Trans-Caucasian Societies). Ran the excavation of a trench at Tsaghkahovit, an Iron Age site in Armenia, under the direction of Lori Khatchadourian (Cornell University). 2010 Surveyor and Excavator, Mount Lykaion Excavation and Survey Project. Surveyed and excavated at the mountaintop sanctuary of Lykaion in Arcadia under the direction of David Romano (University of Arizona) and Mary Voyatzis (University of Arizona). Service At Penn State 2022/23 CAMS Assistant Teaching Professor Hiring Committee 2022/23 Undergraduate Thesis adviser, Peter Lehmann (CAMS undergraduate) 2022/23 Undergraduate Thesis adviser, Corey White (CAMS undergraduate) 2022/23 Undergraduate Thesis adviser, Seth Hamel (CAMS undergraduate) 2021— Dissertation Committee Member, Sterling Wright (Anthropology graduate) 2021/22 CAMS Headsearch Committee 2021/22 Organizer, CAMS Talk Series “New Approaches to the Ancient Mediterranean” (with Mathias Hanses) 2021 Faculty Supervisor for Jacob Glenister, recipient of a CAMS undergraduate research grant for work on parthiansources.com ($700) 2020/21 Organizer, CAMS In-House Talk Series 2020 Faculty Champion for CAMS/RLST 197, “Church and State in Pre-Islamic Iran,” course taught by undergraduate Jacob Glenister through the Schreyer Honors College Program Students Teaching Students (Fall) 2020— Religious Studies Outreach Committee 2019— Digital Liberal Arts Advisory Board 2019— CAMS Graduate Program Committee 2019/20 CAMS Website and Social Media Committee 2019 Taught Middle Persian Study Group (Fall) To the Field Peer reviewer American Journal of Philology Orbis Terrarum Routledge Harrassowitz Böhlau Verlag / Brill 2020 Reinforcing Women In Research (REWIRE) Fellowship Program, University of Vienna 2018/19 Application Review Committee Member, Getty Scholars Program (Villa)  J. Nabel | CV v.7.2022 | Page 7 Languages Ancient Greek Advanced Latin Advanced German (reading and speaking) Advanced Parthian / Middle Persian (reading) Proficient Modern Persian (reading and speaking) Intermediate French (reading) Proficient Italian (reading) Proficient Classical Armenian (reading) Proficient Other Work Experience 2012 Editorial Assistant, The Mind of Thucydides. Prepared indexes for editors Hunter R. Rawlings III and Jeffrey Rusten for an English translation of Jacqueline de Romilly’s Histoire et raison chez Thucydide. 2009/10 Cataloger, University of Pennsylvania Rare Books Department. Cataloged and noted marginalia in the Lee Library Collection. 2008/9 Assistant to Miriam Altshuler, Miriam Altshuler Literary Agency. Reviewed and edited manuscripts; proofread contracts; administered daily operations. 2007 Assistant to the Project Manager, International Centre for Democratic Transition (Budapest, Hungary). Worked on grant applications; proofread organization literature; assisted with project proposals. References Barry Strauss Bryce and Edith M. Bowmar Professor in Humanistic Studies Departments of History and Classics | Cornell University bss4@cornell.edu Eric Rebillard Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities Departments of History and Classics | Cornell University er97@cornell.edu Sturt Manning Goldwin Smith Professor of Classical Archaeology Department of Classics | Cornell University sm456@cornell.edu Lori Khatchadourian Associate Professor Department of Near Eastern Studies | Cornell University  J. Nabel | CV v.7.2022 | Page 8 lk323@cornell.edu M. Rahim Shayegan Jahangir and Eleanor Amuzegar Professor of Iranian Department of Near Eastern Languages & Cultures | University of California, Los Angeles shayegan@humnet.ucla.edu