• Imperial Greek and Late Latin literature
• Roman to Early Byzantine history and topography of Greece and Asia Minor
• Greek and Latin epigraphy
• Classical archaeology
• Anthropology of death and burial

1999	Ph.D. in Classical Studies, University of Michigan (Ann Arbor)
	* Dissertation : "Death, Ritual and Memory in Greek Society during the Early and Middle Roman Empire" (Chair: D. Potter) * Preliminary fields: Lucian; Apuleius; Mortuary studies
1995-1996	Fellow and Regular Member, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
1995	M.A. in Classical Studies, University of Michigan
1992	A.B. summa cum laude , Kenyon College (Gambier, Ohio)
	* Classics with highest honors * Anthropology with highest honors
1990	Member, fall semester, Stanford University Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies at Rome

2002-	Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Macalester College
1999-2002	Townsend Assistant Professor, Department of Classics, Cornell University
1996-1999	Graduate Student Instructor, Department of Classical Studies, University of Michigan
1994-1995	Teaching Assistant, Great Books Program, University of Michigan

• Elementary Greek I-II (Plato, Crito; New Testament) [Mac]
  
• Intermediate Greek I-II (Herodotus; Homer, Iliad and Odyssey; Homeric Hymn to Hermes; Lysias; Xenophon, Anabasis; Plato, Symposium) [Mac]
  
• Advanced Greek (Lucian; Euripides, Bacchae) [C; Mac]
  
• Graduate Survey of Greek Literature II (Thucydides to Musaeus) [C]
• Elementary Latin I-II [Mich; Mac]
• Intermediate Latin I-II (Pliny, Letters; Cicero, Letters; Cornelius Nepos; Vergil, Aeneid) [Mich; Mac]
• Advanced Latin (Apuleius, Metamorphoses; medieval hagiography; Ovid, Amores, Heroides) [Mac]
• History of Ancient Greece [Mac]
  
• History of Ancient Rome [Mich]
  
• The Roman World [Mac]
  
• Introduction to Archaeology [Mac]
  
• Introduction to Classical Art (Aegean Bronze Age to Early Christianity) [C]
  
• First-Year Writing Seminar (Ancient Novel) [C]
  
• Great Books I-II (Homer to Boccaccio) [Mich]
  
• Ancient Fiction [C]
  
• Death, Burial and Society in the Ancient World [Mac]
  
• Alexander and the Hellenistic World [Mac]
  
• Cities and Sanctuaries in the Ancient World [Mac]
• Ancient Ports [Mac]
• Jr./Sr. Seminar in Classical Civilization [Mac]
  

  *Mich = University of Michigan; C = Cornell University; Mac = Macalester College
  
  
  

2006-2007	Junior Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard University (declined)
2005-2006	Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
2005-2006	Shohet Scholar, International Catacomb Society, Boston
1997	Andrew W. Mellon Dissertation Grant, University of Michigan
1995-1996	James Rignall Wheeler Fellow, American School of Classical Studies
1995	Robert Goheen Prize in Classical Studies, Woodrow Wilson Foundation
1992-1994	Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, University of Michigan
1988-1992	Kenyon College Honors Scholar, and college prizes and inductions
	* Sigma Chi, National Science Honors Society, inducted for archaeology and physical anthropology (1992) * Margaret Mead Award for excellence in anthropology (1992) * Phi Beta Kappa, National Honor Society, first-time inductee (1991) * Carl Diehl Prize for excellence in classics (1990, 1991, 1992) * George Brain Prize for excellence in beginning Greek (1989)

• American Philological Association
• Archaeological Institute of America
• North American Patristics Society
• Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies
• Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies
• Classical Association of Minnesota

2007-	Space Planning Committee, Wallace Library
2007	Search committee, Study Away Advisor, International Center
2007-	Scholarly Communications Task Force, Wallace Library
2006-2008	Fulbright interviews, Academic Advising, Macalester College
2006-2008	Study Away Review Committee, Macalester College
2006	Search committee, Assistant Director of Corporate Relations, Macalester College
2002-2007	Five search committees in Art, History, English, and Classics, Macalester College
2003-2004	Selection committee, Internationalism Award, Macalester College
2002-	Library representative, Department of Classics, Macalester College
2000-2002	Honors Committee, Department of Classics, Cornell University
1998-1999	Co-Librarian, Kelsey Museum of Archaeology, University of Michigan
1995-1997	Co-Librarian, Department of Classical Studies, University of Michigan

2004-	Reviewer, Publications Office, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
2004-	Member, Managing Committee, American School of Classical Studies at Athens

2007-	Greek-American Excavations at Kenchreai, Corinthia, Greece - Co-Director of large-scale excavation in northern sector of ancient port-town; collaborative permit with Elena Korka, Director of Prehistoric and Classical Antiquities for the Hellenic Ministry of Culture
2002-2006	Kenchreai Cemetery Project, Kenchreai, Corinthia, Greece - Director of interdisciplinary study of Roman cemetery
2000-2002	Eastern Korinthia (Greece) Archaeological Survey , American School of Classical Studies - Director of extensive topographical survey of regional mortuary landscape during the historic era
1998	Excavations at Paestum (Italy), Kelsey Museum of Archaeology (University of Michigan) and Bowdoin College - Trench supervisor, faunal analyst, Late Archaic-Late Classical cult site
1996, 2000,    2001	Excavations at Corinth (Greece), American School of Classical Studies - Area supervisor, faunal analyst, independent research, Frankish residential complex and Roman villa
1994, 1996	Excavations at Leptiminus (Lamta, Tunisia), University of Michigan and Institut National du Patrimoine - Area supervisor, osteologist, draftsman, Roman industrial site, villa, and cemetery
1990, 1992-    1998	Excavations at Isthmia (Greece), Ohio State University and American School of Classical Studies - Trench supervisor, osteologist, draftsman, Classical to Late Byzantine stratigraphy, Roman Bath and Late Antique Fortress
1993	Excavations and survey at Athienou-Malloura (Cyprus), Davidson College - Participant in excavation and surface survey, osteologist, Roman and medieval cemeteries
1991, 1992	Kokosing Valley (Ohio) Archaeological Project, Kenyon College - Supervisor of excavation and survey , Late Woodland/Late Prehistoric encampment and lithic production sites
1990	Koobi Fora (Kenya) Field School in Paleoanthropology , Harvard University - Student of zooarcheology, osteology, taphonomy, and ecology; participant in fossil prospection, excavation at Late Stone Age Jarigole Stone Pillar site
1990-1992	Kenyon College, Department of Anthropology - Osteology laboratory assistant
1988, 1989	Historic Sites Division, Minnesota Historical Society - Interpretive Guide, Oliver H. Kelley Farm (Elk River), late 19th century farmstead
1985	Black Hills (South Dakota) Field School, St. Paul Academy - Student of regional geology and ecology

2007	Loeb Classical Library Foundation, Harvard University, Research Grant, for Kenchreai Excavations, $15,000
2007	Luther I. Replogle Foundation (Washington, D.C.), for interdisciplinary research at Kenchreai, $5,000
2006	Luther I. Replogle Foundation (Washington, D.C.)., for interdisciplinary research at Kenchreai, $5,000
2006	Solow Summer Research Fellowship, American School of Classical Studies, for research on architecture and artifacts from old excavations at Kenchreai, $3,000
2006	Keck Summer Collaborative Research Grant, Macalester College, for research on Corinthian inscriptions and paleography, with student E. Weaverdyck, $3,260
2006- 2007	National Science Foundation, MRI grant (co-recipient with K. Wirth, J. Doyle, R. Rogers, and T. Varberg), for X-ray diffractometer to support education and research at Macalester, $147,537
2005- 2006	International Catacomb Society (Boston) Shohet Scholarship, for “Death, social structure and religion in the provincial landscape: the Roman cemetery at Corinthian Kenchreai, Greece,” $29,960
2005- 2006	Loeb Classical Library Foundation, Harvard University, Research Grant, for “Death, social structure and religion in a provincial landscape: the Roman cemetery at Corinthian Kenchreai, Greece,” $10,000
2004	National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, for “Death and social structure in the Roman cemetery at Kenchreai, Corinthia, Greece,” $5,000
2004	Wallace Research and Travel Grants, Macalester College, for Kenchreai Cemetery Project, $6,340
2004	Keck Summer Collaborative Research Grant, Macalester College, for research on burial and formation processes at Kenchreai, Greece, with student D. Jaishankar, $4,950
2003	Wallace Research and Travel Grants, Macalester College, for Kenchreai Cemetery Project, $4,986
2003	Keck Summer Collaborative Research Grant, Macalester College, for archaeological photography in the Corinthia, Greece, with student E. Rackow, $6,090
2003	Lilly Grant for Work and Ethics, Macalester College, for study of archaeological ethics and cultural resource management in the Corinthia, Greece, with student K. Krajeck, $4,000
1997	Rackham Research Grant, University of Michigan, for independent research on ancient burial customs in Greece and Turkey, $1,100

"Daily life at Pompeii and other ancient Mediterranean cities"

• Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul (November 2007)

"Burial and society in the Late Antique Corinthian countryside: the Isthmian evidence in context"

• "Half a century on the Isthmus: a symposium ...," American School of Classical Studies, Athens (June 2007)

"Life and death at a Roman port-town in Greece: The Kenchreai Cemetery Project 2002-2006"

• Departments  of Classics and Anthropology, George Washington University (March 2007)
• Department of Classics, Amherst College (February 2007)

"Ritual, society and death at a port-town in Roman Greece: the case of Kenchreai"

• Department of Classics, Gustavus Adolphus College (April 2007)
• Shohet Lecture, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (March 2007)

"Religion and society at Roman Kenchreai"

• Colloquium: "Corinth in Context," University of Texas, Austin (January 2007)

"Life and death at a Roman port-town in Greece: The Kenchreai Cemetery Project 2002-2005"

• Classics Colloquium, Bryn Mawr College (February 2006)
• Department of Anthropology, Yale University (April 2006)
• Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA (May 2006)

“Elite persona and public memory in the ‘Second Sophistic:’ the burial of Herodes Atticus”

• Department of Classics, University of Washington (February 2005)
• Classics Seminar, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton (February 2006)
  

“Life and death at a Roman port-town in Greece: the Kenchreai Cemetery Project 2002-2004”

•  Archaeological Institute of America, Minneapolis Institute of Arts (April 2005)
•  Institut für Vor- und Frühgeschichte, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität, Mainz (November 2004)
•  Section d’Art et Archéologie, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris (November 2004)

“Inhumation and Cremation at Early Roman Kenchreai (Corinthia) in Local and Regional Context”

• International colloquium: “Inhumations in the Roman Empire from the 1st until the end of the 3rd century A.D.," Archäologisches Museum, Frankfurt am Main (November 2004)

“Ancient visions of Mediterranean space: Homer, Herodotus, and the Tabula Peutingeriana”

• International Week 2003: “The Ancient Mediterranean,” Macalester College (February 2003)

“The deaths of the sophists: Philostratean biography, funerary customs, elite identity”

• International colloquium: "Greek bodies, Roman control," Corpus Christi College, Oxford University (May 2002)
• Department of Classics, Princeton University (January 2002)

“Life and death in the Greek countryside from Rome to Byzantium: the view from the Isthmus”

• Divisions of Social and Natural Sciences, St. Mary’s College of Maryland (November 2001)
• Department of Anthropology, College of Wooster, Ohio (October 2001)
• Department of Classics, Cornell University (November 2000)

“Material approaches to ancient history”

• Department of History, St. Mary’s College of Maryland (November 2001)

“The limits of fiction and history: three novel deaths (Ach. Tat. 3.25.4-7, Apul. Met . 8.7.7, Long. 1.31.3-4)”

• Symposium honoring W. E. McCulloh , Kenyon College (March 1999)

2007	“Inhumation and cremation at Early Roman Kenchreai (Corinthia) in local and regional context,” in A. Faber, P. Fasold, M. Struck, and M. Witteyer, eds, Körpergräber des 1.-3. Jh. in der römischen Welt: Internationales Kolloquium Frankfurt am Main 19.–20. November 2004 (Schriften des Archäologischen Museums Frankfurt 21, Frankfurt 2007), pp. 99-120
2007	A. Barbet and J. L. Rife, “Un Tombeau peint de la nécropole de Cenchrées-Kenchreai, près de Corinthe,” in C. Guiral Pelegrín, ed., Circulación de temas y sistemas decorativos en la pintura mural antigua: Actas del IX Congreso internacional de la «Association Internationale pour la Peinture Murale Antique» (Saragossa 2007), pp. 395-399
2007	C. A. Faraone and J. L. Rife, "A Greek curse against a thief from the Northern Cemetery at Roman Kenchreai,"  Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 160: 141-157
2007	J.L. Rife, M. Morison, A. Barbet, R.K. Dunn, D.H. Ubelaker, and F. Monier, “Life and death at a port in Roman Greece: The Kenchreai Cemetery Project 2002-2006,” Hesperia 76: 143-181
2007	A. Sarris, R.K. Dunn, J.L. Rife, N. Papadopoulos, E. Kokkinou, and C. Mundigler, “Geological and geophysical investigations at Kenchreai (Korinthia), Greece,” Archaeological Prospection 14.1: 1-23
2006	T. Tartaron, T. E. Gregory, D. Pullen, J. S. Noller, R. M. Rothaus, J. L. Rife, L. Diacopoulos, R. Schon, W. Caraher, D. Pettegrew, and D. Nakassis, “The Eastern Korinthia Archaeological Survey: integrated methods for a dynamic landscape,” Hesperia 75.4: 453-523
2006	“Greek fiction,” in D. Potter, ed. , Blackwell Companion to the Roman Empire (Oxford: Blackwell), pp. 453-476
2002	“Officials of the Roman provinces in Xenophon’s Ephesiaca,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 138: 93-108
2001	“Excavations adjacent to the House of the Venus Mosaic (Site 250),” in L. M. Stirling, D. J. Mattingly, and N. Ben Lazreg, eds., Leptiminus (Lamta), Report no. 2 ( JRA Suppl. 41 , Portsmouth), pp. 293-324
2001	“The human remains from Site 250; Catalogue of burials from Site 250,” in L. M. Stirling, D. J. Mattingly, and N. Ben Lazreg, eds., Leptiminus (Lamta), Report no. 2 ( JRA Suppl. 41 , Portsmouth), pp. 325-358
1995	P. N. Kardulias, J. L. Rife, H. Gayheart, A. Kindon, and E. Eggers, “Recent archaeological investigations in Knox County, Ohio: the Acton site (33KN245),” Pennsylvania Archaeologist 65.2: 19-40
1994	J. L. Rife and M. J. Giesen, “Regional population diversity and the Archaic to Early Byzantine cranial remains from Isthmia, Greece,” in P.N. Kardulias, ed., Beyond the Site: Regional Studies in the Aegean Area (Lanham, MD: University Press of America), pp. 223-263

2006	Book review: J. Pearce, M. Millett, and M. Struck, eds., Burial, Society and Context in the Roman World (Oxford: Oxbow 2000), American Journal of Archaeology 110.4: 676-678
2002	Book review : P. G. Themelis ed., Protovyzantini Eleftherna, Tomeas I 2 (Panepistimio Kritis 2000), American Journal of Archaeology 106.3: 504-506
2001	Review article: “Mediterranean religions and Christian death” (J. Davies, Death, Burial and Rebirth in the Religions of Antiquity [Routledge 1999]), Journal of Roman Archaeology 14.2: 667-670
2001	Book review : M. Parker Pearson, The Archaeology of Death and Burial (University of Texas Press 1999), American Journal of Archaeology 105.1: 110-112
1997	Review article : J. M. C. Toynbee, Death and Burial in the Roman World (repr. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press 1996), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 8.6: 582-594

2007	Book review: W. Hutton, Describing Greece: Landscape and Literature in the Periegesis of Pausanias (Cambridge: Cambridge Universiy Press 2005), Classical Journal

• Critical edition with philological and historical commentary of Greek, Roman, and Early Christian epigraphic corpus from Kenchreai, eastern port of Corinth
• Short studies on Greek epigraphy and social history
  
• Short studies in the literary and cultural criticism of Greek biography and fiction

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