Lynne Allison Kvapil
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Education
MA, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH, 2004 (Aegean Prehistory).
MA, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, 2001 (Classical Archaeology).
BA, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, 1998 (Classics, English).
Professional Summary
Lynne Kvapil is a PhD candidate studying the interrelationship of land use and socio-economic organization in prehistoric Greece. She is currently finishing her dissertation on cultivation terraces and agricultural production during the period of the Mycenaean palaces, focusing on the site of Korphos-Kalamianos in the southern Corinthia. Lynne has done field work at Korphos-Kalamianos for the Saronic Harbors Archaeological Research Project (SHARP) and has excavated and helped process material for the Archaeological Society of Athens excavations of Petsas House at Mycenae.
Peer Reviewed Publications
"Teaching Archaeological Pragmatism through Problem-based Learning", CJ Forum, October-November 2009, pp. 45-52. [Link]
Encyclopedia Articles
on Terrace Walls for Wiley-Blackwell's Encyclopedia of Ancient History, in press.
Other Publications
"A Re-examination of some of the South Stoa Wells at Corinth," G.D.R. Sanders, Y. Furuya, L. Kvapil, forthcoming.
"Making Latin Concrete: Strategies for Teaching Latin Through Material Culture" Humanitas 30.3, 2007.
Paper Presentations
Lynne A. Kvapil. Making Latin Concrete: Strategies for Teaching Literature through Archaeology. Ohio Classical Caucus, Cincinnati, OH. 2006.
Lynne A. Kvapil and Aaron Wolpert, co-presenters. Hinterland with a View: Imagining Mycenaean Palaces from a Village Perspective. 108th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, San Diego, CA. 2007.
Lynne A. Kvapil. Making Ends Meet outside the Palace: The Informal Economy at Mycenae. 103rd Annual Meeting of Classical Association of the Middle-West and South, Cincinnati, OH. 2007.
Lynne A. Kvapil. When Mycenae became Mycenaean. 109th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Chicago, IL. 2008.
Lynne A. Kvapil. Controlling the Countryside: Defining the Territory of Mycenae. 104th Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle-West and South, Tucson, AZ. 2008.
Lynne A. Kvapil. Tracing Terraces: Agriculture and Economy at Mycenae from a Landscape Perspective. American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Tea Talk, Athens, Greece. 2009.
G. D. R. Sanders, presenter; G.D.R. Sanders, Yuki Furuya, and Lynne Kvapil. Events not processes: Reassessing and Redating the lower fills of the South Stoa Wells at Corinth. Aarhus University, Denmark. 11-2008.
Lynne A. Kvapil. The Gift Outright: Land Use and Resource Acquisition at Late Bronze Age Mycenae. Annual Meeting of CAMWS, Oklahoma City, OK. 03-2010.
Lynne A. Kvapil. Agricultural Terrace Walls at Mycenae: A Prehistory of Subsidized Agriculture. UNC-Duke Graduate Colloquium on New Graduate Research in the Classics, Raleigh-Durham, NC. 03-2010.
Lynne A. Kvapil. Untangling Mycenaean Terracing: Landscape Modification and Agricultural Production at Korphos-Kalamianos . Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, San Antonio, TX. 01-2011.
Symposia
Lynne A. Kvapil (2004). LH IIIC Refugee Sites in Arkadia, Achaea, and Kephallenia. Symposium of Mediterranean Archaeology, Dublin, Ireland.
Colloquia
Lynne A. Kvapil and Alicia Carter, co-organizers 2007 People in Prehistory: Agency, Identity, and the Individual in the Prehistoric Aegean. San Diego, CA.
Honors & Awards
Fulbright Fellowship to Greece.
CAMWS Presidential Award for Outstanding Graduate Student Paper at the Annual Meeting.
University Research Council Summer Research Fellowship.
American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Martin Ostwald Fellowship.
University of Cincinnati Distinguished Graduate Fellowship.
Hellenic Cultural Foundation Scholarship.
Hellenic Cultural Foundation Scholarship.
University of Arizona Classics Department Graduate Fellowship.
Harriet and Leon Pomerance Award, Archaeological Institute of America.
Summer Research Fellowship, University of Cincinnati Research Council.
Courses Taught
15-CLAS-110 INTRO TO CLASS CIVH Early Greece.
15-CLAS-110 INTRO TO CLASS CIVH Classical and Hellenistic Greece.
15-CLAS-110 INTRO TO CLASS CIVH Roman Civilization.
15-CLAS-238 GRK LAT ELE MEDTECH.
15-LATN-101 ELEMENTARY LATIN.
JanPlan,, "Killing Agamemnon: How Archaeology Put an End to Homer's Bronze Age",.
Colby College
Latin 101.
University of Arizona
102,, Latin.
University of Arizona
15-CLAS-112 INTRO TO CLASS CIVH Roman Civilization.