Edwin Carawan (ECarawan@missouristate.edu)
Professor, Modern and Classical Languages Missouri State University, Springfield MO 65804 [417-836-4831]
Professional experience
Professor of Classical Languages Missouri St. Univ. 1985 to the present
Greek and Latin at all levels, Classical Mythology, Comparative Mythology,
Greek Civilization, Roman Civilization, Athenian Democracy (honors seminar)
Legacy of
Prometheus— GEP 397 ‘capstone’ study of Science and Society
Drama
and Democracy—UHC 397 – Honors Colloquium
University Award for Teaching 2004 (Award-winning smile)
On
leave from Missouri State
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship 2010/11
Sabbatical 2005/6
Visiting Scholar, Univ. of Texas at Austin 1997-99
Visiting Assistant Prof., Dept. of Politics, Catholic University, 1990-1991
Washington DC Ancient and Medieval Political Thought; Modern Political Thought (survey) Aristotle's Politics and Athenian Democracy
Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC 1989-90
Before Missouri State
Lecturer at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville VA 1984-1985
Latin Review Grammar, Greek 3-4, and 502 - Attic Orators
Latin instructor at Ashbrook H. S., Gastonia NC, 1982-1984
Visiting Assistant Prof. at the Univ. of North Carolina 1981-1982
at Chapel Hill, Latin 1-2, Classics 26 - Etymology
Visiting Assistant Prof. University of the South, Sewanee TN, spring 1981
Greek 4, Latin 2-3
Background
Fellowships and Sabbaticals:
Visiting Scholar, Dept of Classics, University of Texas, Austin 1997-99
Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC 1989-90
Education
Univ. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Ph.D. (Classics) Dec. 1980
B.A. cum laude (Classics, English), Alexander Prize (Greek translation) 1974
M.A. Thesis: 'The Argument kat' ananken in Thucydides' (Prof. George A. Kennedy, director) 1978
Ph. D. Dissertation: Erotesis: Interrogation in Greek Judicial Debate and Rhetorical Theory 1980
Prof. George A. Kennedy, director.