Jan-Mathieu (Mat) Carbon

Research Interests: 
Cultural interactions and discourses of ethnicity and indigeneity in ancient Greece, Anatolia and the Near East; slavery in the Greco-Roman world and the Near East; calendars, festivals, divination, and other aspects of religion in ancient Greece, Anatolia and the Near East; Greek epigraphy; digital humanities (especially enhancing decipherment and text encoding).

Courses Taught: 
I often teach ancient Greek, undergraduate Greek history courses, the Ancient Near East (CLST 207), Ancient Egypt and the Levant (CLST 208), as well as new courses on Slavery in the Ancient World (CLST 209) and on perceptions of ethnicity and indigeneity in the ancient Greek world (CLST 350).

Education
D.Phil. Classics/Ancient History (Oxford), M.A. Classics (McMaster), B.A. Greek (Queen's)

Corpus Project - Member, School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Profile
I am working with Signe Isager and Poul Pedersen of the University of Southern Denmark on a corpus of the Inscriptions of Halikarnassos. This is a part of the larger Danish Halikarnassos Project working in Bodrum, Turkey.

Ongoing Digital Projects

• CGRN: Co-author with Vinciane Pirenne-Delforge, Saskia Peels-Matthey, and several other contributors of the Collection of Greek Ritual Norms, based at Université de Liège in Belgium and the Collège de France in Paris. This project provides online editions, translations, and commentaries of Greek inscriptions defining purification, sacrifice, and other rituals.
• CIOD: Co-author with Éric Lhôte of the Choix d'inscriptions oraculaires de Dodone, part of the larger project Dodona on Line (DOL). The CIOD aims to provide new editions, translations, and commentaries of selected tablets from the oracle of Dodona in Epiros.

Editor
I am the Managing Editor of the annual Supplementum Epigraphicum Graecum, the main reference work in the study of Greek epigraphy, and a member of the editorial board of the periodical Kernos, which presents new studies on ancient Greek religion.

Publications

For recent publications, please visit our Publications webpage!

See also Dr. Carbon's Queen's Academia profile.