Joseph B. Scholten ( scholten@umd.edu; [exciting action photo]) holds an BA in History and Classical Civilization from the University of Michigan, and MA and Phd from the Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology at the University of California, Berkeley. He is an alumnus of the Summer Program of the American Numismatic Society (and subsequently ANS Graduate Fellow), and the Regular Program of study at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (as a Fulbright Fellow). He has also been a Fulbright Senior Scholar, at the Seminar fuer alte Geschichte at the Westfaelishe Wilhelms-Universitat in Muenster, Germany. Prior to coming to UM, Dr. Scholten was Assistant Professor of History at Portland State University, and Assistant and Associate Professor of History at Michigan State University. At College Park, he has also taught in the Department of History and in the University Honors Program, and currently serves as Associate Director of the Office of International Programs. Dr. Scholten is the author of The Politics of Plunder. Aitolians and their Koinon in the Early Hellenistic Era, 279-217 B.C. (Hellenistic Society and Culture, XXIV; Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2000). He has also contributed articles to collections dealing with various aspects of late Classical and early Hellenistic Greek political and institutional developments. He is currently working on a prequel to his Aitolia monograph ("Inventing Aitolia. Studies in the Origin of an ancient Greek ethnos."). For UM Classics, Dr. Scholten teaches such courses as the Department has need (primarily introductory surveys of Greek and Latin literature [in translation] and lower division Latin). He also serves on the faculty team that teaches the annual Classics Winter Term Study Abroad program in central Italy.
