Dr Julia Kindt

Lecturer
Department of Classics & Ancient History
School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry (SOPHI)
Quadrangle Building A14
The University of Sydney
NSW 2006 Australia
office: Brennan/Maccallum 806
phone: 0061 2 9351 6814
fax: 0061 2 9351 3918

• Ancient Greek History
• Ancient Greek Religion, The Comparative Study of Religions
• Herodotus
• Historiography (Ancient and Modern)
• Oracles & Divination

• Ph.D. Cambridge University, Trinity College, Department of Classics (2003)
• MA University of Munich (LMU) in ancient history (2000)

• Faculty of Arts Teaching Excellence Award, University of Sydney, 2007 (jointly awarded with Dr Blanshard)
• Katharine Graham Endowed Fellowship, University of Chicago, 2005
• Harper Schmitt Fellow and Collegiate Assistant Professor, University of Chicago, 2003-2005
• Arts and Humanities Research Board Grant for doctoral study, 2001-2003
• German National Merit Scholarship (Studienstiftung) for doctoral study, 2001-2003
• Fellow of the Cambridge European Society, 2001-2003
• Visiting Scholar, University of California, Berkeley, 1997-1998
• German National Merit Scholarship (Studienstiftung), 1997-2000

• Kindt, J. Beyond the Polis: Rethinking Greek Religion (under contract, Cambridge University Press).
• Kindt, J. Events, People, Peoples: History and Ethnography in Herodotus (under contract with Duckworth Publishers for the Classical Literature and Society Series)

• Kindt, J. (forthcoming, 2009) "On Tyrant Property Turned Ritual Object: Sacred Symbols and Political Power in Ancient Greece and in Social Anthropology", Arethusa
• Kindt, J. (forthcoming, 2009) “Ancient Greece” Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of Ritual and Religion, (5000 word contribution)
• Kindt, J. (forthcoming 2008) "Anthropology in Greco-Roman Antiquity" in Klauck et. al. The Encyclopedia of the Bible and its Reception, Berlin (3800 word contribution)
• Kindt, J. (forthcoming 2008) “Greek Religion,” Oxford Handbook of Hellenic Studies, Oxford University Press, 2006 (5000 word contribution)
• Kindt, J. (2008) "Oracular Ambiguity as a Mediation Triple" Classicum 334, 23-27.
• Kindt, J. (2007) Apollo’s Oracle in Euripides' Ion: Ambiguous Identities in Fifth-Century Athens” AN 6 1-30; for the abstract, see the Ancient Narrative website
• Kindt, J. (2006) “Delphic Oracle Stories and the Beginning of Historiography: Herodotus’ Croesus logos,” Classical Philology 101, 34-51 Classical Philology website
• Kindt, J. (2001) “Von Schafen und Menschen: Delphische Orakelsprüche und soziale Kontrolle (On Sheep and Men: Delphic Oracles and Social Control),” in Brodersen, K. (ed.) Prognosis: Studien zur Funktion von Zukunftsvorhersagen in Literatur und Geschichte seit der Antike (Münster), 25-38

• Kindt, J (forthcoming 2009) Review of H. Löffler: Fehlentscheidungen bei Herodot (Munich, 2007), Journal of Hellenic Studies (JHS)
• Kindt, J. (forthcoming 2008) Review of M. Flower: The Seer in Ancient Greece (Berkeley, 2008), History of Religions
• Kindt, J. (2006) Review of K. Zacharia: Converging Truths: Euripides’ Ion and the Athenian Quest for Self-Definition (Leiden, 2003), International Journal of the Classical Tradition 13.1 (IJCT), 125-127
• Kindt, J. (2005) Review of J. Mikalson: Herodotus and Religion in the Persian Wars (Chapel Hill, 2003), Journal of Hellenic Studies (JHS) 125, 177
• Kindt, J. (2005) Review of M. Wood: The Road to Delphi: The Life and Afterlife of Oracles (New York, 2003), Journal of Hellenic Studies (JHS) 125, 176
• Kindt, J. (2004) Review of B. Dignas: Economy of the Sacred in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor (Oxford, 2002), Classical Philology 99, 272-275
• Kindt, J. (2003) Review of D. Ogden: Greek and Roman Necromancy (Princeton, 2001), International Historical Review 25, 383
• Kindt, J. (2002) Review of V. Rosenberger Griechische Orakel: Eine Kulturgeschichte (Darmstadt, 2001), Journal of Hellenic Studies 122, 177

Select Academic Papers

• Perceptions of Polis Religion: Inside/Outside,
  University of Reading, 2008
  Keynote paper: Polis Religion - A Critical Appreciation
• Stanford University, Department of Classics, 2008
  Paper: Geertz, Gould and the Symbolic Dimension of Ancient Greek Religion
• 139. Annual Conference of the American Philological Association (APA), Chicago, 2008
  Paper: Geertz, Gould and the Problem of Defining Greek Religion
• 138. Annual Conference of the American Philological Association (APA), San Diego 2007
  Paper: Beyond the Polis: Rethinking Greek Religion
• Classical Association of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, 2006
  Paper: Testing the Oracle
• Sydney Research Seminar in Classics, 2006
  Paper: Beyond the Polis: Rethinking Greek Religion
• CACW/CAPN Conference: (Ir-) rationality in Antiquity, Victoria B.C., Canada, 2005 Paper: Knowledge, Knowing, and Spotting the Blind Spot: Knowledge and Reflection in Accounts of Oracle Consultations
• 28th Comparative Drama Conference, Columbus Ohio, 2004
  Paper: Tragic Readings of Apollo's Prophecies: The Example of Euripides' Ion
• Lecture in Classics, Department of Classics, University of Chicago, 2003
  Paper: How to Read Delphic Oracles: The Example of Herodotus' Croesus logos
• 133rd Annual Conference of the American Philological Association (APA), Philadelphia, 2002
  Paper: Re-reading Delphic Oracles: The Significance of Textual Representations of Oracle Consultations
• Cambridge Ancient History Seminar, Department of Classics, University of Cambridge, 2002
  Paper: Oracle Stories and Detective Stories

Select General Audience

• (2008) The Smith Family's Learning for Life Program, University of Sydney
• (2008) Oresteia Study Day, University of Sydney
• (2007) Canberra Friends of the AAIA
• (2007) Greek Festival of Sydney

Undergraduate units include:

• ANHS1600 Foundations for Ancient Greece
• ANHS2605 Ancient Greek Religion (not offered in 2008)
• ANHS2691 Ancient Historians Rethink History I
• ANHS3605 Documents and Ancient History (Greek) (not offered in 2008)
• ANHS3609 Herodotus and his World (not offered in 2008)
• ANHS4000 Honours Seminar Greek Tragedy and Society

Postgraduate units include:

• Ancient Religions, Historiography

Conference Organiser

• July 2009. The Real and the Imaginary: A Conference in Honour of Richard Gordon, Department of Classics, Cambridge University
  (jointly organised with Professor Robin Osborne and Dr Michael Scott)

Journal Referee

• Classical Antiquity (CA)
• Occasional Papers of the Australian Association for the Study of Religions (AASR)

Other

• Ancient World Studies Coordinator, University of Sydney, Semester 2, 2008
• Research Committee, Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney, Semester 1, 2008
• Postgraduate Research Coordinator, Department of Classics, University of Sydney, 2006-2007
• Co-Chair, Society of Fellows, University of Chicago, 2004-2005

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