Dr. Georgia Tsouvala

Associate Professor

History

Office

Schroeder Hall - SCH 323

Office Hours

Drop-in Office Hours
M/W 3:15-4:15pm, Friday 10:45-11:15am &
By appointment on Zoom, if your schedule conflicts with the drop-in office hours. Please email me at gtsouva@ilstu.edu for an appointment.

Office Phone

(309) 438-8407office
phone

gtsouva@ilstu.eduemail

About
Education
Awards & Honors
Research

Biography

Dr. Georgia Tsouvala is Associate Professor of Ancient History at Illinois State University. She received her Ph.D. from the City University of New York Graduate Center.

Dr. Georgia Tsouvala specializes in women's history in the Greco-Roman world, Greek archaeology, Greek literature, and Greek epigraphy. Her current research focuses on the history and literature of Greece in the early Roman Empire, women's history, Plutarch, inscriptions, and Archaic technology.

In addition to publishing several chapters and articles, she is a co-author of two textbooks on Greek history and culture, both published by Oxford University Press. Her most recent co-edited volumes are The Discourse of Marriage in the Greco-Roman World (University of Wisconsin Press), and New Directions in the Study of Women in the Graeco-Roman World (Oxford University Press).

She is Associate Editor of New Perspectives in Ancient History book series published by Brill, and a two-term President of the Association of Ancient Historians.

Current Courses

101.006Western Civilization To 1500

350.001Women And Sexuality In Ancient Greece And Rome

220.001Ancient History Greece

111.001First Year Latin (Part I)

101.001Western Civilization To 1500

101.002Western Civilization To 1500

Teaching Interests & Areas

Professor Tsouvala teaches all levels of Greek and Roman history, as well as more specialized survey courses and seminars on Greco-Roman history, Alexander the Great, and Greek and Roman Women and Sexuality. Professor Tsouvala also teaches Western Civilization I to 1500, First Year Latin, and Ancient Greek.

Research Interests & Areas

Dr. Georgia Tsouvala specializes in women's history in the Greco-Roman world, Greek archaeology, Greek literature, and Greek epigraphy. Her current research focuses on the history and literature of Greece in the early Roman Empire, women's history, Plutarch, inscriptions, and Archaic technology.

Ph D Classics, Summa cum Laude

The Graduate School, City University of New York

New York, NY

BA Ancient Greek and Latin w/ Departmental Honors

Hunter College

New York, NY

Influential and Inspirational History Faculty Member

Illinois State University, History-Social Science Education Progra

2020

Influential and Inspirational History Faculty Member

Illinois State University, History-Social Science Education Progra

2019

Sabbatical Leave

ISU

2014

Provost’s Leadership Initiative

Illinois State University

2013

Service Initiative Award

Illinois State University

2011

Influential and Inspirational Faculty Award Member

Illinois State University, History-Social Science Education Program

2009

Phi Alpha Theta, History Honor Society

Mu Upsilon Chapter, ISU

2007

Book Review

Tsouvala, G. Review of The Spartans by Andrew J. Bayliss. Classical Outlook 97.3 (2022)

Book, Chapter

“Female Athletes in the Late Hellenistic and Roman Greek World.” In New Directions for the Study of Women in the Greco-Roman World, edited by Ronnie Ancona and Georgia Tsouvala. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.

Tsouvala, G. “A Greco-Roman World.”. A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society, and Culture, 4th edition.. Oxford University Press (2020): 382-391.

“An Introduction to the Discourse of Marriage and its Context.” In The Discourse of
Marriage in the Greco-Roman World, edited by Jeffrey Beneker and Georgia Tsouvala. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2020, 3-19.

“Epilogue: The Arrival of the Romans,” new chapter in Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History, 4^th edition. Oxford University Press, 2017.

“Women Members of a Gymnasium in the Roman East (IG IV 732),” book chapter in Ancient
Documents and their Contexts. First North American Congress of Greek and Latin
Epigraphy (2011), J. Bodel and N. Dimitrova (eds.), Leiden: E. J. Brill (Brill Studies in
Greek and Roman Epigraphy, no. 5), 2015, 111-123.

Book, Edited

Co-editor (with Ronnie Ancona), New Directions for the Study of Women in the Greco-Roman World. New York: Oxford University Press, 2021.

Co-editor (with Jeffrey Beneker), The Discourse of Marriage in the Greco-Roman World. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2020.

Encyclopedia

«Κόριννα», Encyclopedia of the Hellenic World, Boeotia, 2012
http://boeotia.ehw.gr/forms/fLemmaBodyExtended.aspx?lemmaID=12946

«Πλούταρχος », Encyclopedia of the Hellenic World, Boeotia, 2012
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“Corinna,” Encyclopedia of the Hellenic World, Boeotia, 2012
http://boeotia.ehw.gr/forms/fLemmaBodyExtended.aspx?lemmaID=12944

“Plutarch,” Encyclopedia of the Hellenic World, Boeotia, 2012
http://boeotia.ehw.gr/Forms/fLemma.aspx?lemmaid=12958&contlang=58

Textbook, New

Co-author with Sarah B. Pomeroy, et al. A Brief History of Ancient Greece: Politics, Society, and Culture, 4^th edition. Oxford University Press, 2020.

Co-author with Sarah B. Pomeroy, et al. Ancient Greece: A Political, Social, and Cultural History, 4^th edition. Oxford University Press, 2017.

Presentations

Archaic Lenses from Ialysos, Rhodes (co-written with GP and LLB). SCS/AIA Annual Meeting. Society for Classical Studies/Archaeological Institute of America. (2023)

How to ‘read’ a site: The Sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron. ASCSA 2022 Summer Session. American School of Classical Studies at Athens. (2022)

Reconsidering the Evidence for Female Athletics in the Late Hellenistic and Roman Periods. Bluhm Scholars Seminar. Hunter College. (2022)

“The Palaiopolis Hoard and Circulation of Drachmas in Late Hellenistic Corcyra” co-authored with Goulielma-Kyriaki Avgerinou and Lee L. Brice. XVI International Numismatics Congress. (2022)

Before Title IX: Ancient Athletics and Women’s Participation. DuPage County Social Studies Conference. (2020)

Before Title IX: Female Athletes in the Greco-Roman World. Bowling Green State University. (2020)

Impact of Covid-19 and our Profession. Association of Ancient Historians Annual Meeting. Association of Ancient Historians. (2020)

“Agrippina and Company: Elite Women at the Castra” (co-written with Lee L. Brice). Archaeological Institute of America. (2019)

“How to ‘read’ a site: The Sanctuary of Artemis at Brauron”. ASCSA 2019 Summer Session. American School of Classical Studies. (2019)

“The Real Housewives of Rome: From Matronae to Slaves”. DuPage County Social Studies Conference. (2019)

Grants & Contracts

URG-FRA. ISU. Illinois State University. (2022)

Franklin Grant. American Philosophical Society. Private. (2018)

2018 Gertrude Smith Professor. American School of Classical Studies. Private. (2017)

2014 Gertrude Smith Professor. American School of Classical Studies at Athens. Private. (2013)

Book Subvention. ORGS/CAS. Illinois State University.