Debra A. Trusty Curriculum Vitae CONTACT INFORMATION Campus: Department of Classics University of Iowa 210F Jefferson Building Iowa City, IA 52242 Email addresses: debra-trusty@uiowa.edu or debtrusty@gmail.com RESEARCH INTERESTS Bronze Age archaeology and material culture; Mycenaean ceramics; ceramic studies and analyses; prehistoric cooking ware vessels; early state political economies; craft production; food preparation and consumption; ancient technologies PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC POSITIONS 2017-2018 Lecturer Department of Classics, University of Iowa EDUCATION 2007-2016 Ph.D., Florida State University, Classics Major: Classics Dissertation: Ceramic Analysis of Mycenaean Cooking Ware Vessels and Its Implications for Early State Political Economies Advisor: Daniel J. Pullen 2005-2007 M.A., Florida State University Major: Classics Masters Paper: A Comforting Massacre: Ilioupersis Scenes of the Early 5 th Century BC 2001-2005 B.A. cum laude, University of Evansville, Indiana Major: Archaeology Minors: Anthropology; Classical Studies OTHER EDUCATION 2013 Museum Studies Certificate, Florida State University 2011-2012 Associate Member, American School of Classical Studies at Athens 2010-2011 Regular Member, American School of Classical Studies Philip J. Lockhart Fellowship
Debra A. Trusty Curriculum Vitae, page 2 2010 Fitch Laboratory, Introduction to Petrology course RESEARCH GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS 2015 Graduate Travel Grant, Florida State University (Congress of Graduate Students) 2014 Faculty Dissertation Fellowship, Florida State University (Classics Department) Graduate Travel Grant, Florida State University (Congress of Graduate Students) 2013 Harriet and Leon Pomerance Fellowship, Archaeological Institute of America Archaeometry Laboratory National Science Foundation Subsidy, University of Missouri Research Reactor, Archaeometry Laboratory (NSF grant # 1110793) Graduate Travel Grant, Florida State University (Congress of Graduate Students) Dissertation Research Grant, Florida State University Ermine M. Owenby, Jr. Travel Award, Florida State University Graduate Travel Grant, Florida State University (Congress of Graduate Students) 2012 Graduate Travel Grant, Florida State University (Congress of Graduate Students) 2011-2013 Doctoral Dissertation Research Improvement Grant, National Science Foundation (NSF grant # BCS-1142196); PI: Dr. Daniel J. Pullen; Co-PI: Debra A. Trusty. 2011 Dissertation Research Grant, 1984 Foundation. Thompson Fellowship, Florida State University (Classics Department) 2010 Philip J. Lockhart Fellowship, American School of Classical Studies in Athens. Thompson Fellowship, Florida State University (Classics Department). 2009 Graduate Student Travel Grant, Archaeological Institute of America. TEACHING EXPERIENCE Graduate Travel Grant, Florida State University (Congress of Graduate Students). 2017-2018 University of Iowa Lecturer Courses instructed: Classical Mythology (CLSA 2016); Hero, God, Mortal: Literature of Greece (CLSA 1010); World of Cicero (CLSL 2001) 2017 Florida State University Adjunct Professor Course instructed: Classical Mythology, honors course (CLT 3370)
Debra A. Trusty Curriculum Vitae, page 3 2016-2017 Tallahassee Community College Adjunct Professor Course instructed: Introduction to the Humanities (HUM 2020) 2012-2016 Florida State University Instructor Course instructed: Classical Mythology (CLT 3370); Debates about the Past: Greek Civilization, History, and Culture (CLA 2110); Beginning Latin I (LAT 1120) Teaching Assistant Course: Medical Terminology (CLA 2049; online course) 2007-2010 Florida State University Instructor Courses instructed: Classical Mythology (CLT 3370); Beginning Latin II (LAT 1121) 2006-2007 Florida State University Teaching Assistant Courses: Roman Family (CLA 3502); Gender and Society of Ancient Greece (CLA 3051; online course); Introduction to Greece and Rome (CLA 2010) Other teaching experience and development 2014 Online Mentor Certificate, Florida State University 2009-2010 Associate member, Program in Instruction Excellence, Florida State University AWARDS 2015 Langadas Award, Florida State University (Classics Department) 2013 Graduate Student Research and Creativity Award (Arts and Humanities) Florida State University, Graduate School 2013 Outstanding Teaching Assistant Award Recipient Florida State University, Program in Instructional Excellence PUBLICATIONS Edited Volume Hruby, J. A. and Trusty, D. A. (2017). From Cooking Vessels to Cultural Practices in the Late Bronze Age Aegean. Oxbow Books, Oxford. Book Chapters Trusty, D. A. and Gilstrap, W. D. (Forthcoming). LBA kitchen ware vessels from Kalamianos and Stiri. In D. Pullen and T. Tartaron (editors), The Saronic Harbors Archaeological Research Project: Engaging Land and Sea in the Saronic Gulf, Greece.
Debra A. Trusty Curriculum Vitae, page 4 Trusty, D. A. and Hruby, J. A. (2017). Approaches to Bronze Age Greek Cooking Vessels. In J. A. Hruby and D. A. Trusty (editors), From Cooking Vessels to Cultural Practices in the Late Bronze Age Aegean. Oxbow Books, Oxford. Trusty, D. A. (2017). Undervalued and Overlooked: The Study of Prehistoric Cooking Vessels. In J.A. Hruby and D.A. Trusty (editors), From Cooking Vessels to Cultural Practices in the Late Bronze Age Aegean. Oxbow Books, Oxford. Trusty, D. A. (2016). Strength in Numbers: Starting and Managing a Dissertation Support Group. In C. McMaster, C. Murphy, and A. Threlkheld (editors), Graduate Study in the USA: Surviving and Succeeding. Peter Lang Publishing, New York. CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS Presented Papers and Posters Trusty, D.A. (2017). Cooking Up a New Model: Using Cooking Ware Vessels from Kalamianos to Identify Production and Exchange, 118 th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Toronto, Canada. January 4-8 (paper). Trusty, D. A. (2015). Counterfeit Cooking Pots? Imitating Aegina at Korakou. Korakou 100: A Centennial Celebration of C.W. Blegen s 1915-1916 Excavations, Athens, Greece. September 4-5 (paper, invited). Trusty, D. A. (2015). Starting and Managing a Dissertation Support Group. 111 th Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Boulder, CO. March 25-28. (paper). Trusty, D. A. (2015). Cooking Pots and Politics at Petsas House. 116 th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, New Orleans, LA. January 8-11 (paper). Trusty, D. A. (2014). Cooking Vessels at Late Helladic Korakou: Implementing a Multilevel Methodology. 115 th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Chicago, IL. January 2-5 (paper). Trusty, D. A. and Tartaron, T. (2013). A Petrographic Study of Late Helladic Cooking Pots from the Corinthia. 6 th Symposium of the Hellenic Society for Archaeometry, Athens, Greece. May 16-18 (poster). Trusty, D. A. (2013). Between a Rock and an Economically and Politically Significant Place: A Petrographic Study of Late Helladic Cooking Pots from the Corinthia. The Collaborative Archaeology Workshop, University of Michigan. February (paper). Trusty, D. A. and Tartaron, T. (2013). A Petrographic Study of Late Helladic Cooking Pots from the Corinthia. 114 th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Seattle, WA. January 3-6 (paper). Trusty, D. A. (2012). Mycenaean Cooking Vessels as Chronological Indicators(?!): A Call for Change. 92 nd Anniversary Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South: Southern Section, Tallahassee, FL. November 1-3 (paper).
Debra A. Trusty Curriculum Vitae, page 5 Trusty, D. A. (2009). This Land is Your Land: Sacerdotal Women and Landholding in the Pylos Tablets. 110 th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Philadelphia, PA. January 8-11 (paper). Trusty, D. A. (2008). A Comforting Massacre: 200 Years of Ilioupersis Scenes. 104 th Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, Tuscon, AZ. April 16-19 (paper). Trusty, D. A. (2007). A Comforting Massacre: Omesimos and the Ilioupersis. 86 th Anniversary Meeting of the Classical Association Middle West and South: Southern Section, Memphis, TN. November 2-4 (paper). Panels Organized Hruby, J. A. and Trusty, D. A. (2014). Comparative Approaches to Mycenaean Cooking Vessels. 115 th Annual Meeting of the Archaeological Institute of America, Chicago, IL. January 2-5. FIELDWORK EXPERIENCE Study 2015, 2017 Study of Early Helladic-Archaic period ceramic materials 2013-2010 Study of Early-Late Helladic period ceramic materials 2012 Study of cooking vessels Korakou excavations, Corinth Museum, Greece Zygouries excavations, Corinth Museum, Greece Excavations and Surface Survey 2017 Trench Supervisor Aidonia excavations, Greece 2012-2013 Trench Supervisor 2007-2010 Surface Survey, Laboratory/Ceramic Assistant, Data Entry Supervisor Saronic Harbors Archaeological Research Project (SHARP), Greece Under direction of Drs. Daniel Pullen and Thomas Tartaron 2006-2008 Trench Supervisor 2004-2005, Trench Supervisor 2002 Kampsville, IL; Center for American Archaeology
Debra A. Trusty Curriculum Vitae, page 6 2001 Excavator, Field School Student Kampsville, IL; Center for American Archaeology Museum Experience 2013 Museum Intern and Docent Mission San Luis, Tallahassee, FL 2006 Docent Museum of Florida History, Tallahassee, FL SUPERVISED RESEARCH 2014-2015 Research Director Florida State University s Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program Digitization of Archaeological Ceramics SERVICE AND LEADERSHIP 2012-2016 Fellow s Society Member, Florida State University 2014-2015 Graduate Student Representative Classics Department, Florida State University 2014-2015 Vice President of Membership Graduate Assistants United (United Faculty of Florida, FSU Chapter) 2013 Co-organizer of Fellow s Forum Integrating Veterans into Civilian Life Fellow s Society, Florida State University 2010 UF/FSU Classics Colloquium organizer LANGUAGE PROFICIENCIES Advanced level reading: Ancient Greek, Latin, Linear B, German, French, Spanish Intermediate level speaking: Modern Greek Advanced computer language: LaTeX