Alexander Kozak, M.A.

2232 Haste St. Apt. F
Berkeley, CA 94704-4603
gkzwfey02@sneakemail.com
Cell:  +1 (510) 289-1257
Tel.:  +1 (510) 649-7924
Fax: +1 (510) 295-2720

Education

  • University of California, Berkeley (1997-2000).  M.A. in Greek (2000).
  • King’s College, University of Cambridge, England.  Postgraduate study in Classics (1996-1997).
  • Harvard University (Cabot House; 1994-1996).  A.B. summa cum laude in Classics (1996).  Phi Beta Kappa.
         Honors thesis:  “The Myth of Hypsipyle in Greek and Latin Literature.”
  • Gettysburg College (1992-1994).   Undergraduate study (Classics major, Philosophy minor).

Teaching Experience

  • Graduate Student Instructor at the University of California, Berkeley (2000-2004).    
    • Instructor, Latin 100 (“Republican Prose,” advanced reading course; 2004). 
    • Teaching Assistant, Classics 28 (“The Classic Myths”;  Prof. Anthony Bulloch; 2003).    
    • Teaching Assistant, Classics 10B (“Introduction to Roman Civilization”; Prof. Trevor Murphy; 2002).   
    • Instructor, Latin 2 (“Elementary Latin”; 2001). 
    • Instructor, Latin 40 (“Latin Prose Composition”; 2001).    
    • Instructor, Greek 1 (“Elementary Greek”; 2000).    
    • Instructor, Latin 10 (“Intensive Elementary Latin”; 2000).
  • Pew Charitable Trust Associate (teaching assistant) at Gettysburg College (1993-1994).
    • Latin 204 (“Roman Poetry”; 1994).    
    • Latin 102 (“Elementary Latin II”; 1993).    
    • Latin 101 (“Elementary Latin I”; 1993).

Related Experience

  • Review panelist for the 2001-2002 Medusa Mythology Examination.
  • Research assistant to Prof. Donald J. Mastronarde (U. C. Berkeley; commentary on Euripides’ Medea;  1999).
  • Latin and Greek proofreader for the Patrologia Latina Database at Chadwyck-Healey (now ProQuest; 1994).
  • Research assistant to Prof. Laurence Marschall (Gettysburg College; book on meteorite and comet impacts and other catastrophic events; 1994).
  • Private Latin language tutor at Gettysburg College (1992-1994).
  • Research assistant to Prof. Leslie Cahoon (Gettysburg College; text of and commentary on medieval Latin hymns; 1992-1994).

Other Work Experience

  • Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation (operations;  2009).
  • BizXchange (San Francisco Bay Area branch of a barter financing firm with offices in Seattle and Dubai; 2006-2009):
    •  Trade Department
      • Corporate Account Manager (BizX Media Group; 2008-2009).
      • Corporate Trade Broker (BizXchange/BizX Media Group;  2007-2008).
    • Operations Department
      • Office Coordinator (2007).
      • Director of First Impressions (2006-2007).

Awards

  • University Regents Fellowship (Berkeley; 2003).
  • Andrew W. Mellon graduate scholarship for modern foreign language study (2000).
  • Berkeley Fellowship for Graduate Study (1997-2002).
  • Laurence Studentship (Cambridge; for postgraduate study in Classics; 1996-1997).
  • Cambridge Overseas Trust Bursary (1996-1997).
  • Latin Salutatorian at Harvard Commencement 1996 (David Taggart Clark Prize; salutatory “De moribus Harvardianis“).
  • Society for Values in Higher Education, Fellow (1996).
  • Honorary 1996 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies.
  • Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize (Harvard;  for outstanding undergraduate honors thesis; 1996).
  • Raymond Weir Smyth Prize (Harvard; for outstanding undergraduate honors thesis; 1996).
  • Bowdoin Undergraduate Latin Prize (Harvard; for a Latin version of a passage from Mark Twain’s “Ghost Story” into the style of Pliny; 1996).
  • William King Richardson Scholarship (Harvard; for distinction in Greek and Latin sight-reading and composition; 1996).
  • Arthur Deloraine Corey Fellowship (Harvard Classics Department fellowship for graduate study; 1996-1997).
  • Bowdoin Undergraduate Greek Prize (Harvard; Greek version of a passage from William James’s Varieties of Religious Experience into the style of Plato; 1995).
  • George Emerson Lowell Scholarship Prize (Harvard; for excellence in the classics, based on an examination which tests competence in the translation and composition of Greek and Latin and in exposition of classical literature; Greek, 1995).
  • John Osborne Sargent Prize (Harvard; best metrical translation of Horaces, Odes, 2.13; 1995).
  • John Harvard Scholarship (for academic achievement of the highest distinction; 1994-1995).

Publications

  • “Diana Stone:  Hymnus in Dianam Lapidariam.”  Classical World 93.6 (2000):  623.
  • “Erratum Beatum.”  Classical Outlook 75:4 (1998):  144.
  • “Ovid Turns 2040!  (March 20, 1998).”  Classical Outlook 75:3 (1998):  114 (selection reprinted in Love and Transformation – An Ovid Reader:  Teacher’s Guide by Richard A. LaFleur [Prentice Hall, 1998; 9]).

Work in Progess

  • “Pindar’s Second Dithyramb (fr. 70b):  skhoinoteneia aoidâ.”
  • “Cornelius Gallus and Propertius 2.13.”
  • “Simonides and the Ethics of Mimesis:  ho logos tôn pragmatôn eikôn estin (fr. 47).”

Skills,  Activities, and Interests

  • Languages:  English, Latin, Ancient Greek, French, Spanish, Italian, German; Old and Middle English.
  • Research interests:  Virgil, Horace, Cicero, Latin elegy, Silver Age Latin epic, the Roman novel, medieval Latin poetry and prose, Greek lyric, Indo-European historical linguistics, patristics.
  • (2007-present) Instructor, “Introduction to Orthodoxy” (adult education class at Annunciation Cathedral, San Francisco, CA, where I serve as Parish Outreach and Evangelism Coordinator).
  • Memberships:  APA, ACL, CAMWS

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