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Education

• BA (Queens)
  
• MA (Dal)
  
• PhD (UBC)

Biography

I completed my BA(H) at Queen鈥檚 University with a major in Classical Studies and a minor concentration in Music History.听I came to 黄色直播 to do my MA in Classics and followed this with a PhD in Classics at the University of British Columbia in the department of Classical, Near Eastern, and Religious Studies.听During my doctorate, I combined interests in history, literature, and archaeology to study the culture and cultures of the ancient Mediterranean.听My doctoral dissertation, entitled Early Greek Kinship, looked at ideas and expressions of kinship in the writing and material culture of early Greece (ca. 1000-450 BCE).

While completing my doctorate, I taught courses in classical civilization and classical archaeology at Corpus Christi College and the University of British Columbia.听At 黄色直播, I teach courses in Greek language, mythology, Greek and Roman history, Greek historiography, as well as ancient art and architecture.

At 黄色直播, Dr. Varto teaches ancient Greek and Roman history, ancient Greek language, and ancient听 art and material culture. She supervises undergraduate and graduate research in Greek history, art, and literature.

Research Interests

Ancient Greek cultural and social history, especially of the Greek Early Iron Age; Greek historiography; reception and the history of classical scholarship

Dr. Varto鈥檚 research on the ancient world ranges across topics in Greek cultural history and historiography, including genealogy, kinship, ethnicity, and politics, and draws on textual, poetic, epigraphic, and material evidence.

In reception and the history of scholarship, Dr. Varto researchs the classics in the anthropology of Lewis H. Morgan, ethnography in early classical archaeology, and the overall relationship between classics and anthropology from the 19^th to the 20^th century.

Current projects:

The Politics of Fatness in Archaic Greece (monograph project)

Three related works on ethnography and classics (Ethnographic answers to Homeric questions; Ethnography in early twentieth-century classical archaeology; The ritualists and classics鈥� estrangement from anthropology)

Transitional Grammar and Problem Sets for Reading Ancient Greek (OER)

Selected publications:

(editor) Brill鈥檚 Companion to Classics and Early Anthropology (2018)

鈥淭he Tinted Lens of Ancient Society: Classical History and American Experience in the Ethnology of Lewis Henry Morgan.鈥� (2018)

鈥淜inship 鈥業n the Halls鈥�: Poetry and the Archaeology of Early Greek Housing.鈥� (2022)

鈥淏odyguards and the Entangled Values of Competition and Cooperation in Early Greek Warfare.鈥� (2022)

鈥淭he Greeks and Others: Ancient Greeks in Their Mediterranean and Near Eastern Context.鈥� (2021)

鈥淭he Idea of Descent in Early Greek Kinship.鈥� (2016)

鈥淪tories Told in Lists: Formulaic Genealogies as Intentional Histories.鈥� (2015)