CHARLES W. HEDRICK, Jr.

Professor, History

"Ancient History and Western Civilization," in Occasional Papers of the American Philological Association's Committee on Ancient History, forthcoming.
"Religion and Society in Classical Greece," in D. Ogden, ed., Blackwell's Companion to Greek Religion, Blackwell forthcoming.
"Mother has Moved in With Us: The Conclusion of a Letter From Roman Egypt," in P. Yale Aest., forthcoming
"Couples in a Column and a New Basilikos Grammateus," in P. Yale Aest., forthcoming
"Receipts for Payment of the Desert Tax," in P. Yale Aest., forthcoming
"The Ethics of World History," Journal of World History 16 (2005), 33-49
"The American Ephebe: the Ephebic Oath, U.S. Education and Nationalism," Classical World 97 (2004), 384-407

Major Current Areas of Concentration

I was born in Mississippi in 1956 and raised in and around Los Angeles. I took my undergraduate degree from Pitzer College. After attending graduate school at the University of Pennsylvania and studying at the American School of Classical Studies in Athens, I taught for 5 years at SUNY Buffalo. I moved in 1990 to the University of California at Santa Cruz. Most of my family now lives in Missouri. Myfather is also an academic and taught in the Department of Religious Studies at Missouri State University, in Springfield Mo. My mother is a lawyer. I have two sisters, Cindi and Kay. Cindi lives in Kansas City with her husband and three children; Kay lives close by.

My wife, Jenny Lynn, teaches Greek and Latin at the Hotchkiss School in northwest Connecticut; our daughters, Meg, Ella and Mary, attend school in neighboring Lakeville. We all spend our summers in the Adirondacks, where we are currently trying to climb all 46 of the high peaks, frequently participating in ATIS-sponsored hikes. My son Chaz, who now attends Santa Barbara High School, sometimes joins us there. You can find us there (if you can find us there) in the Domus Lutea.

Think you will need a letter of recommendation? Check Hedrick's policies here.
Comments, if you are considering Classics or ancient history as a profession.
Browse the www pages of some Grad Schools
Examine the web site of the American Philological Association, including current job listings.

ABE books: for academic books on the web (Amazon and Barnes and Noble are interesting for their best-seller lists).
Argos-- Limited Area Search of the Ancient and Medieval Internet
BCS-- links to journals and their TOCs.
BMCR-- Book reviews and a search engine; from Bryn Mawr and Penn.
Diotima-- convenient collection of search engines.
Gnomon-- more bibliography, from Germany.
Tocs-In-- more articles, from Toronto.

The APA-- the professional association of Classicists
Bibliotheca Classica Selecta-- an introduction to Classical bibliography
Boston Area Classics Calendar-- will make you feel that the intellectual scene here is rather dull...
Classics and Mediterranean Archaeology Gopher and WWW Server-- good for US resources
Classics Resources on the Internet
Diotima-- Women and gender in the ancient world, and more.
Electronic Resources for Classicists-- the best compilation of US resources.
Indiana University LETRS-- a useful introduction to texts available electronically
Kirke-- for Germany and continental European links
Oxford University-- good for UK resources.
Perseus Project Home page-- a unique and extensive online database of Classical material.
Rassegna degli Strumenti Informatici per lo Studio dell'Antichità Classica -- for Italian and continental European resources
Romarch-- A convenient guide to Roman Archaeology on the Web
Lacus Curtius-- Another guide to Roman antiquity on the Web
The Stoa-- home base of many interesting projects
University of Cambridge-- good for UK resources
Voice of the Shuttle-- Archives of Latin literature and lots of other stuff.