Jeffrey Alan Rydberg-Cox
Department of English
University of Missouri at Kansas City
106 Cockefair Hall
5121 Rockhill Road
Kansas City, Missouri 64110
rydbergcoxj@umkc.edu

Education:

Ph.D. The University of Chicago, 1998
Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World  

M.A. The University of Chicago, 1993
Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World

B.A. The Colorado College, Magna Cum Laude, 1992
Classics-History-Politics


Academic Appointments:

Chair, Department of English; Director, Classical Studies Program; Associate Professor, Department of English, Classics Program, Religious Studies Program, and School of Computing and Engineering. The University of Missouri at Kansas City, Beginning August 2005. (Currently a candidate for promotion to full professor.  Decision expected in April 2008).

Co-Director, Classical Studies Program, Assistant Professor, Department of English, Classics Program, Religious Studies Program, and School of Computing and Engineering. The University of Missouri at Kansas City, August 2000 - July 2005.

Post-Doctoral Research Position: Assistant Editor for Language and Lexicography, The Perseus Project, Tufts University, July 1998 - August, 2000.

Instructor, Beginning and Intermediate Greek courses and Classical Literature in Translation at Tufts University, the University of Chicago, and the Colorado College, 1992-1999 (occasional courses).



 

Grants:

  1. "Finding Needles in a Field of Haystacks:  An Odyssey in the Digital Pacific"  Principal Investigator.  Total Award:  $6,970.  Funded by the University of Missouri-Kansas City Faculty Research Grant.  Grant Period:  December 2007 - April 2009.
  2. "Approaching the Problems of Digitizing Latin Incunables" Principal Investigator. Total Award: $348,000. Funded By National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access Research and Development Projects Program. Grant Period: January 2005 - December 2006.
  3. Digital Hippocrates: An Online Version of the Great Physician's Works. Principal Investigator. Total Award $20,000. Funded By National Library of Medicine History of Medicine Division. Grant Period: July 2004 - June 2005
  4. "Cultural Heritage Language Technologies" Principal Investigator. Total Award: $497,000 and 530,000 Euros. Funded by the National Science Foundation Digital Libraries Initiative and the European Commission ITS Program. Grant Number 0122491. Grant Period: January 2002 - December 2005.
  5. "The Archimedes Project: Pursuing the Vision of an Open Digital Library for the History of Mechanics" Co-Principal Investigator. Total Award: $448,000. Funded by the National Science Foundation International Digital Libraries Initiative, Award Number: 0085960. Grant Period: September 2001 - August 2004
  6. "A Pilot Digital Library of Early Printed Works in the History of Science" Principal Investigator. Total award: $32,000. Funded by the University of Missouri Research Board, Grant Period: July 2003 - August 2004
  7. "Social Search As A Tool For Literary Analysis"  A proposal for $75,000 currently under review with the MacArthur Foundation Digital Media and Learning competition.  Decision expected February 2008.
  8. "Integrating the Methodologies of Computational Linguistics With Digital Libraries."  A proposal for $71,000 currently under review with the National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Start-Up Program.  Decision expected June 2008.

Books

  1. Digital Libraries and the Challenges of Digital Humanities Chandos Press, October 2005. See catalog entry at http://www.chandospublishing.com
  2. Lysias: Selected Speeches: 1, 2, 3, 4, 24 Focus Classical Library, 2003.
  3. New Intermediate Greek Lexicon Forthcoming in 2010 from Cambridge University Press. I am working with Dr. Anne Thompson and Dr. Bruce Fraser -- the authors of the lexicon - at Cambridge University to create a database of lexicographic slips that can be used when writing dictionary entries. See http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/glp/

Articles and Reviews:

  1. "Approaches to Large Scale Digitization of Early Printed Books"  forthcoming in the Digital Humanities Quarterly special issue on "Designing Cyberinfrastructure in 2007 for Classical Studies in 2017."
  2. "Early Modern Culture in a Comprehensive Digital Library." (with Wolfgang Schibel) D-Lib (2006) 12.3:http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march06/schibel/03schibel.html
  3. "Talking About Violence: Clustered Participles in the Speeches of Lysias."  Literary and Linguistic Computing, (2005) 20:2:219-235.
  4. "The Cultural Heritage Language Technologies Consortium" D-Lib (2005) 11.5:http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may05/rydberg-cox/05rydberg-cox.html
  5. "Report on the Delos/NSF working group on Emerging Language Technologies and the Rediscovery of the Past: A Research Agenda" (with Greg Crane, Kalina Bontcheva, and Clifford Wulfman). Journal of Digital Libraries (2005) 5.4:309-316.
  6. "Automatic Disambiguation of Latin Abbreviations in Early Modern Texts for Humanities Digital Libraries" Proceedings of the 2003 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries" 372-373
  7. "Towards a Cultural Heritage Digital Library" (with members of the Perseus Project) Proceedings of the 2003 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 75-86
  8. "Oral and Written Sources in Athenian Forensic Rhetoric" Mnemosyne (2003) 56 652-665.
  9. "Building an Infrastructure for Collaborative Digital Libraries in the Humanities" Ariadne (2003) 34: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue34/rydberg-cox/.
  10. "From Lexicon To Commentary and Back Again." New England Classical Journal (2002) 29.3:159-167.
  11. "Keyword Extraction from Ancient Greek Literary Texts." Literary and Linguistic Computing (2002) 17.2:231-244.
  12. "Mining Data from the Electronic Greek Lexicon" Classical Journal. (2002) 98.2:169-174.
  13. "Vocabulary Building in the Perseus Digital Library." (with Anne Mahoney) Classical Outlook (2002) 79.4:145-149.
  14. "A Prototype Multilingual Document Browser for Ancient Greek Texts" National Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (2001) 7:103-114.
  15. "Management of XML Documents in an Integrated Digital Library." (With Anne Mahoney and David A. Smith). Markup Languages: Theory and Practice (2001) 2.3:205-214. (Revised and slightly expanded version of the article that appeared in Proceedings of the 2000 Extreme Markup Conference.
  16. "Document Quality Indicators and Corpus Editions" (With Anne Mahoney and Gregory R. Crane). Proceedings of the 2001 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2001. (July 2001) 1:435-436.
  17. "Drudgery and Deep Thought: Designing Digital Libraries for the Humanities." (With the Perseus Project) Communications of the Association for Computational Machinery (2001) 44.5:35-40.
  18. "A Note on Scrabble in Latin" (With Anne Mahoney) Classical Outlook (2001) 78.2 :58-59.
  19. "Generalizing the Perseus XML Document Manager" (With Anne Mahoney, David Smith, and Clifford Wulfman) In the Proceedings of the Linguistic Exploration Conference, (December 2000). http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/exploration/expl2000/papers/mahoney/mahoney.htm
  20. "Knowledge Management and the Perseus Digital Library" Ariadne (2000) 25: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue25/rydberg-cox/. (With David A. Smith and Anne Mahoney)
  21. "Management of XML Documents in an Integrated Digital Library" (with Anne Mahoney and David Smith) Proceedings of the 2000 Extreme Markup Conference, (August 2000) p. 219-223.
  22. "New Technology and New Roles: The Need for Corpus Editors." (With Gregory R. Crane). Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Digital Library Conference , (July 2000) 5:252-253
  23. "An Unusual Exclamation in Aeschines' Against Timarchus (1.73)." Mnemosyne , (2000) 53.4:1-12
  24. "The Use of the Imperative in the Oedipus Tyrannus." The New England Classical Journal, (2000) 27.6:28-36.
  25. "Word Co-Occurrence and Lexical Acquisition in Ancient Greek Texts." Literary and Linguistic Computing, (2000) 15.2: 121-129
  26. "The Perseus Project: A Digital Library for the Humanities" (With David A. Smith). Literary and Linguistic Computing, (2000) 15.1:15-25.
  27. "Renaissance Culture and Society in the Novels of Elizabeth Eyre." In The Detective as Historian, eds. A. Browne, R. Browne, and L. Kreiser. Bowling Green State University Press, 2000. p. 111-121.
  28. Entries for Aeschines, Antiphon, Cimon, Dio Chrysostom, Draco, Ephialtes, Hecataeus, Hippias, Isaeus, Lysias, Nicias, Pericles, Solon, and Themistocles. In Interdisciplinary Biographical Dictionary of the Ancient World, ed. A. Traver. Greenwood Press, 2001. pp. 1-2, 31-32, 93-94, 129, 141-142, 147, 183, 196-197, 209, 235, 263-264, 284-286, 360-361, 374-375.
  29. Review of Learn Latin Now! CD ROM. In Computing and the Classics, (1999) 15.2:1-2
  30. "Offering Advice: Textual Gifts and Guest-friendship in Isocrates." In Pomoerium: Studia et Commentarii ad Orbem Classicum Spectantia, (1998) 3:27-35.
  31. Review of Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean CD ROM. In Computing and the Classics, (1998) 14.2:1-2 .
  32. Review of Nielsen, T.H. ed. Yet More Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis. In Bryn Mawr Classical Review, (1998) 98.11:25.


 

Public Lectures and Presentations:

  1. "Approaches to Large Scale Digitization of Early Printed Books." Changing the Center of Gravity:  Transforming Classical Studies Through Cyberinfrastructure.  A National Science Foundation Funded workshop at the University of Kentucky, October 2007.
  2. "Digitizing Latin Incunables"  University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Computing and Engineering, October 2005.
  3. "Digitizing Latin Incunables:  Challenges and Solutions", 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo Michigan, May 2005.
  4. "Digital Libraries and the Challenges of Digital Humanities" University of Kentucky Center for Computational Sciences, April 2005.
  5. "The Homeric Hero on Film"  International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 2005.
  6. "Cultural Heritage Language Technologies at 18 months"  NSF/IMLS Digital Library All-Projects Meeting, Washington DC, November 2004.
  7. "Digital Tools for Learning Latin"  Latin Club, Shawnee Mission East High School, November 2002.
  8. "Electronic Publication and Academic Promotion", 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, part of a panel on Electronic Publication And The Classics Profession.
  9. "Cross-Lingual Searching and Visualization in Greek, Latin and Old Norse Texts" (with Stefan Rueger, Lara Vetter, and Daniel Heesch). 2004 Joint ACM/IEEE Conference on Digital Libraries.
  10. "Cultural Heritage Language Technologies: An Overview". Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome Italy, March 2002
  11. "The Harmless e-Drudge: A Computational Tool-Set for Greek (and Latin) Lexicography". University of Kentucky, Center for Computational Sciences, February 2002.
  12. "Computational Lexicography and Ancient Greek" . Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, January 2002.
  13. "What is the Perseus Digital Library?" Universtiy of Missouri at Kansas City, School of Interdisciplinary Computing and Engineering, November 2001.
  14. "Linked Classics: The Perseus Digital Library and the Study of the Ancient World", Symposium on Virtual Universities, Sponsored by the Science and the Human Dimension Project at Jesus College, Cambridge University, September 2001.
  15. "Document Quality Indicators and Corpus Editions", ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, June 2001.
  16. "Data Extraction and Visualization in the Perseus Digital Library", at the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy, June, 2001.
  17. "Computational Lexicography and the New Intermediate Greek Lexicon." Lexicography Section, Annual Meeting of the Society for Biblical Literature, November 2000.
  18. "Oral and Written Sources in Athenian Forensic Rhetoric." Epea and Grammata: Oral and Written Communication in Ancient Greece, University of Missouri at Columbia, June 2000.
  19. "Computational Approaches to Ancient Greek Literature." Annual Meeting of the Society for Biblical Literature, November 1999.
  20. "Re-Presenting Lexica for an Electronic Environment." Fall Symposium of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, November 1999.
  21. "Creating, Integrating, and Expanding Electronic Reference Works for the Perseus Digital Library." XML and the Publication of Ancient Near Eastern Texts, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, October 1999.
  22. "Authority, Knowledge, and the Use of the Imperative in the Oedipus Tyrannus." Annual Meeting of the Classics Association of the Midwest and South, April 1999.
  23. "Electronic Commentaries in Perseus." Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, Technology Showcase, December 1998.
  24. "Ritual Practice and the Ideal of Isegoria in the Athenian Assembly." Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, December 1997.
  25. "The Use of Myth in Isocrates' Evagoras." The University of Chicago Workshop on Ancient Societies, April 1997.
  26. "Does Isocrates Distinguish between muthos and muthodes?" Annual Meeting of the Classics Association of the Midwest and South, April 1997.
  27. "The Audiences for Isocratean Rhetoric." The University of Chicago Workshop on Ancient Societies, March 1997.
  28. "Offering Advice: Textual Gifts and Guest-friendship in Isocrates." Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, December 1996.
  29. "The Rhetoric of Myth in Isocrates: An Introduction." The University of Chicago Workshop on Poetics and Rhetoric, January 1996.

 

Academic Awards:

  1. 2005:  Awarded early tenure.
  2. 2003-2004: Faculty Scholar Award, University of Missouri Kansas City. An award for faculty with the rank of Assistant Professor with exceptional early accomplishments and promise for outstanding future research.
  3. 2001-2002: New Faculty Teaching Scholar, University of Missouri Kansas City
  4. 1995: Ryerson Fellow, The University of Chicago
  5. 1992-1996: Humanities Fellowship, The University of Chicago
  6. 1992: Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, The Colorado College
  7. 1992: Gile Award for Excellence in the Study of Classics, The Colorado College
  8. 1992: State Finalist, Rhodes Scholarship Competition
  9. 1991: Pi Gamma Mu Honor Society for the Social Sciences, The Colorado College
  10. 1988-1992: Colorado Merit Award for Undergraduate Achievement, The Colorado College


 

Courses Taught:

  1. Winter 2008:  Myth and Literature
  2. Fall 2007:  Ancient World in Cinema
  3. Winter 2007:  Myth and Literature
  4. Fall 2006:  Ancient World in Cinema
  5. Winter 2006:  Ancient Athenian Religions
  6. Fall 2005:  Ancient World in Cinema
  7. Winter 2005:  Bible as Literature
  8. Fall 2004:  Myth and Literature
  9. Winter 2004: Bible as Literature
  10. Winter 2003: Clio and the Muses: Culture and Society in 5th Century Athens
  11. Fall 2002: Myth and Literature
  12. Winter 2002: Myth and Literature
  13. Fall 2001: Myth and Literature, Introduction to Ancient Greek
  14. Winter 2001: Clio and the Muses: Culture and Society in 5th Century Athens, Intermediate Greek, History and Principles of Rhetoric, Introduction to Drama.
  15. Fall 2000: Myth and Literature, Honors Myth and Literature
  16. Winter 1999: Introduction to Ancient Greek: Plato's Apology.
  17. Spring 1997: Intermediate Ancient Greek: Xenophon's Apology of Socrates.
  18. Winter 1997: Introduction to Ancient Greek: Hansen and Quinn Greek an Intensive Course.
  19. Summer 1996: Introduction to Ancient Greek: Hansen and Quinn Greek an Intensive Course.
  20. Winter 1996: Invention of History (at the Colorado College).
  21. Winter 1992: Introduction to Ancient Greek: Luschnig: An Introduction to Ancient Greek.