CURRICULUM VITAE SPISAK

(revised 11/2019)
SPISAK, ART L., Ph.D
Director, University of Iowa Honors Program
Professor, Department of Classics

University of Iowa Honors Program

University of Iowa
420 Blank Honors Center
Iowa City, IA 52242-0454
(319) 335-1681
email: [email protected]

ACADEMIC DEGREES:
Ph.D: Loyola University of Chicago, 1992: Classical Studies (dissertation: Terms of
Literary Comment in the Epigrams of Martial)
M.A. John Carroll University, 1985: Classical Studies
A.B. Youngstown State University, 1979: Classical Studies

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2011 - Director, University of Iowa Honors Program
Professor, Department of Classics
2009-11 Associate Provost for Faculty and Student Academic Affairs, Missouri State
University
2007-11 Rich & Doris Young Honors College Professorship, Missouri State University
2006-11 Director of the Honors College, Missouri State University
Coordinator, Fellowships Office, Missouri State University
2006-11 Professor, Modern and Classical Languages, Missouri State University
2001-06 Associate Professor, Modern and Classical Languages, Missouri State University
1996-01 Assistant Professor, Modern and Classical Languages, Missouri State
University
1994-96: Visiting Assistant Professor, Classical Studies, University of Iowa, Iowa City,
IA
1993-94: Visiting Assistant Professor, Classical Studies, Iowa State University; Ames, IA
1987-94: Instructor, Classical Studies, Loyola University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

PROFESSIONAL SERVICE TO HONORS:

 Co-Chair, National Collegiate Honors Council Advocacy Committee; 7/2018 to date
 National Collegiate Honors Council Large Research University Committee; 11/2017 to date
 National Collegiate Honors Council Outreach & Development Committee; 6/2017 –
11/2018
 Immediate Past President, National Collegiate Honors Council; 10/2017 – 11/2018
 President, National Collegiate Honors Council; 10/2016 – 11/2017
 President Elect, National Collegiate Honors Council; 11/2015 – 10/2016
 Vice President, National Collegiate Honors Council; 11/2014 – 11/2015
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 National Collegiate Honors Council Board of Directors; 11/2011 – 11/2018

 National Collegiate Honors Council Program Reviewer; 2012 to date
 National Collegiate Honors Council Assessment and Evaluation Committee; 11/2011 –
11/2018 (co-chair 2013-14)
 National Collegiate Honors Council International Education Committee; 11/2011 – 11/2012

PROGRAM REVIEWS & CONSULTANCIES:

 Program Review (lead reviewer): California State University, Long Beach, Honors
Program; October, 2018
 Program Review (lead reviewer): University of Nevada, Reno, Honors Program; April,
2018
 Program Review (lead reviewer): Johnson County Community College Honors Program;
March, 2018
 Program Review (lead reviewer): Des Moines Area Community College Honors Program;
April, 2017
 Program Review: Syracuse University Honors Program; November, 2016
 Program Review (lead reviewer): Honors Program at University of Nebraska, Lincoln;
October, 2016
 Program Review (lead reviewer): Ferris State University Honors Program; March, 2016
 Consultancy: University of Maine Honors College; March, 2015
 Review: Honors Program at Minnesota State University-Mankato; October, 2014
 Review (lead reviewer): Northern Illinois University Honors Program; December, 2013
 Consultancy: Des Moines Area Community College Honors Program (to form up a new
Honors Program); August, 2012
 Consultancy: Ozark Technical Community College Honors Program (to form up a new
Honors Program); June, 2008

RESEARCH AND SCHOLARLY ACTIVITIES:

BOOK
Martial: A Social Guide (2007), published by Gerald Duckworth & Co., Ltd

ARTICLES
1. “Adding Value Through Honors: Effects of a Pre-Semester Academic Class and Residence
in an Honors Hall for First-Year Honors Students” (with R.F. Kirby and E.M. Johnson), 151-
77; in The Demonstrable Value of Honors Education: New Research Evidence, edited by A.
J. Cognard-Black, J. Herron, and P.J. Smith. (Lincoln, NE: NCHC).
2. “Creating a Profile of an Honors Student: A Comparison of Honors and Non-Honors Students at
Public Research Universities in the United States” (with A. J. Cognard-Black), Journal of the
National Collegiate Honors Council 20.1 (Spring/Summer 2019): 123-58
3. How the Implementation of Honors Sections Affects the Academic Performance of Non-Honors
Students” (with S. Van Horne and K. Hornbuckle), Journal of the National Collegiate Honors
Council 18.2 (Fall/Winter 2017): 177-93
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4. “The Effect of Honors Courses on Grade Point Averages” (with Suzanne Carter Squires),
Journal of the National Collegiate Honors Council 17.2 (Fall/Winter 2016): 103-14
5. “Martial: His Life and Works,” The Literary Encyclopedia (2007; http://www.litencyc.com/);
solicited article (W. J. Dominik, ed., Roman Literature: Drama, Rhetoric, Satire/Epigram)
6. “The Pastoral Ideal in Martial, Book 10,” Classical World 95.2 (2002): 127-41
7. “Martial on Domitian: A Socio-Anthropological Perspective,” The Classical Bulletin 75.1
(1999): 69-83
8. “Gift-Giving in Martial,” pp. 243-55, in Toto Notus in Orbe: Perspektiven der Martial-
Interpretation, ed. by F. Grewing (Stuttgart 1998)
9. “Martial’s Special Relation with his Reader,” Vol. 8 (1997) of Studies in Latin Literature and
Roman History, “Collection Latomus”: 352-63.
10. “Martial 6.61: Callimachean Poetics Revalued,” Transactions of the American Philological
Association 124 (1994): 291-308
11. “Martial’s Theatrum of Power-Pornography,” Syllecta Classica 5 (1994): 79-89

BOOK REVIEWS
1. Review of Gladiator: Film and History, by Martin M. Winkler, New England Classical Journal
32.2 (2005):197-200
2. Review of Martial, Epigrams. Book Two, by Craig A. Williams, New England Classical Journal
31.4 (2004): 444-46
3. Review of Martial, The Epigrams, Book V, by P. Howell, Classical Journal 96 (2001): 342-45
4. Review of Martial, ed. by J. P. Sullivan, Classical Bulletin 70 (1994): 54-55

PAPER and PANEL PRESENTATIONS

National/International:
1. “How Shall We Improve the Completion Rate of the Four-Year Honors Experience?” –
panel presentation with A. Dotter, D. Sullivan-Gonzalez, and J. Earle; National
Collegiate Honors Council Conference, New Orleans, LA, 11/2019
2. “Variation across Honors Programs/Colleges in Race-ethnic and Socioeconomic
Diversity at Selected Research Universities” – general session with A. Cognard-Black;
National Collegiate Honors Council Conference, New Orleans, LA, 11/2019
3. “Navigating 21st Century Challenges in Honors: A Conversation Education” – plenary
session with R. Badenhausen; Honors Education at Research Universities Conference,
Salt Lake City, UT; 5/2019
4. “Keeping Honors Students Engaged at the Upper Levels: Building Greater Flexibility
into an Honors Curriculum” – general session with B. Kirby; Honors Education at
Research Universities Conference, Salt Lake City, UT; 5/2019
5. “Strategies for Fundraising” – panel presentation with M. Law, L. Roetzel, and K.
Thomas; National Collegiate Honors Council Conference, Boston, MA; 11/2018
6. “Transformative Pedagogy: Two Approaches to Reaching Students at the Personal
Level” – with C. Dietz; National Collegiate Honors Council Conference, Boston, MA;
11/2018
7. “Fundraising for Honors” – Panel presentation with R. Phillips and J.D. Bowers;
National Collegiate Honors Council Conference, Atlanta, GA; 11/2017
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8. “A Conversation with NCHC Leadership” – NCHC Presidential Panel with K. Amano,

R. Badenhausen, S. Engel, J. Herron, M.B. Rathe, and N. Yavneh Klos; National
Collegiate Honors Council Conference, Atlanta, GA; 11/2017
9. “Co-Curricular Programming for Honors Students: What Is Its Worth?” – with L.
Crawford, E. Johnson, and M. Yeomans; National Collegiate Honors Council
Conference, Atlanta, GA; 11/2017
10. “Platform for honours information & discussion in Europe (EHC)” – panel session at the
International Honours Conference, Zwolle, Netherlands; 6/2017
11. “Growing in Honors” – presenter at table sessions at the International Honours
Conference, Zwolle, Netherlands; 6/2017
12. “Variations and Commonalities Among Institutions with Honors Education” – plenary
panel session with P. Smith, J. Herron, and L. Van Woerkom; Honors Education at
Research Universities Conference, Columbus, OH; 5/2017
13. “Effects of a Pre-Semester Academic Workshop and Residence in an Honors Hall” –
with B. Kirby and E. Johnson; Honors Education at Research Universities Conference,
Columbus, OH; 5/2017
14. “Past Accomplishments and Future Directions for the NCHC” – NCHC Presidential
Panel with B. Falk, J. Herron, and N. Yavneh Klos; National Collegiate Honors Council
Conference, Seattle, WA; 10/2016
15. “Sending the Right Message to the Right Student: Strategic Recruitment” – panel
presentation with C. Hall, R. Sayers, and M. Tkacik; National Collegiate Honors Council
Conference, Chicago, IL; 11/2015
16. “What Honors Students Want from their Honors Program/College: A Research-Based
Study” – with S. Squires and C. Crowley; National Collegiate Honors Council
Conference, Chicago, IL; 11/2015
17. “Honors at the Upper Division” – with G. Mariz and R. Ost; National Collegiate Honors
Council Conference, Chicago, IL; 11/2015
18. “Honors Living/Learning Communities” – panel presentation with M. Driscoll, R. Oliver,
and L. Wood; National Collegiate Honors Council Conference, Chicago, IL; 11/2015
19. “What Makes a Course Honors?” – panel presentation with F. Amar, H. Appel, and S.
Schroeder; Honors Education at Research Universities Conference, Corvallis, OR;
5/2015
20. “Transitioning Gifted International Students into American Honors Programs” – with
co-presenters S. Assouline and J. Sun; National Collegiate Honors Council Conference,
Denver, CO; 11/2014
21. “Articulation Agreements Between Two-Year and Four-Year Honors Programs,” with
co-presenters D. Engelen-Eigles, T. J. McLemore, J. Milner, P. Roach, R. Rosenthal, and
M. Tkacik; National Collegiate Honors Council Conference, Denver, CO; 11/2014
22. “Housing Undergraduate Research within Honors – The Pros and Cons,” with co-
presenter B. Kirby. Honors Education at Research Universities conference, Penn State,
PA; 5/13
23. “Honors as a Campus Resource” – Panel presentation; National Collegiate Honors
Council Conference, Boston, MA; 11/12
24. “Building a Career in Honors,” with co-presenters R. Otero, R. Shine, and R. Spurrier;
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National Collegiate Honors Council Conference, Boston, MA; 11/12

25. “Not Your Usual Assessment” with co-presenters E. Schorsch, K. Kinney, and E. Minor,
A. Willard, and R. Kirby; National Collegiate Honors Council Conference, Boston, MA;
11/12
26. “Online Courses: Strengthening or Undermining the Honors Mission?” – panel
presentation: National Collegiate Honors Council Conference, Kansas City, MO; 10/10
27. “Developing New Honors Courses” – panel presentation: National Collegiate Honors
Council Conference, Phoenix, AZ; 10/11
28. “Inclusive Excellence in Honors Programs: Administrative, Faculty, and Student
Perspectives” with co-presenter S. Handley; National Collegiate Honors Council
Conference, Phoenix, AZ; 10/11
29. “Online Courses: Strengthening or Undermining the Honors Mission?” – panel
presentation: National Collegiate Honors Council Conference, Kansas City, MO; 10/10
30. “Dedicated Honors Housing: The Administrative and Student Perspective” with co-
presenter N. Clement; National Collegiate Honors Council Conference, Kansas City,
MO; 10/10
31. “A Case Study of an Honors College Facilitated Undergraduate Research Journal: A
View from the Administrative, Faculty, and Student Perspective” with co-presenters A.
R. Legg and T. Dalton; National Collegiate Honors Council Conference, Kansas City,
MO; 10/10
32. “Distance Education in Honors: Current Issues” – panel presentation: National Collegiate
Honors Council Conference, Washington, DC; 10/09
33. “The Functions of an Honors Program in the University and What a Dean/Director Does
to Facilitate Those Functions” – panel presentation: National Collegiate Honors Council
Conference, Washington, DC; 10/09
34. “Teaching Ancient Roman Culture Through Film,” with co-presenter, S. Stewart;
National Collegiate Honors Council Conference, San Antonio, TX; 10/08
35. “The Essence of Honors (If You Don’t Have “This,” You Don’t Have Honors)” – panel
presentation National Collegiate Honors Council Conference, San Antonio, TX; 10/08
36. “Expanding the Honors Community: How to Build an Honors Council,” with co-
presenters, M. Boushehri and B. Jones; National Collegiate Honors Council Conference,
San Antonio, TX; 10/08
37. “Gift-Giving in Martial,” at the American Philological Association Conference, San
Diego; 12/95
38. “Martial’s Theatrum of Power-Pornography.” American Philological Association
Conference, Atlanta; 12/94
39. “Martial 6.61 and 10.35: Doctrina Redefined.” American Philological Association
Conference, Washington, D.C.; 12/93
40. “Martial’s Special Relation with his Reader.” American Philological Association
Conference, New Orleans; 12/92

Regional:
1. “Gifted High School Students: Getting Ready for Honors in College,” with S. Assouline,
L. Widman, and A. Vanle. 2019 Iowa ACT Conference, Cedar Rapids, IA; 3/19
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2. “Honors Articulation Agreements Between Two-Year and Four-Year Colleges and

Universities,” with R. Hardy and N. Umennachi. Upper Midwest Honors Council
Conference, Bettendorf, IA; 4/15
3. “Opportunities Abound: What Students Can Gain from the National Collegiate Honors
Council,” with S. Finn. Upper Midwest Honors Council Conference, Bettendorf, IA; 4/15
4. “Building an Engineering Honors Curriculum: Collegiate Consistency with Individual
Flexibility,” with A. Brewster, B. Kirby, and H. Yoder. American Society for
Engineering Education North Midwest Section Meeting, Iowa City, IA; 10/14
5. “Dedicated Honors College Housing: The Administrative and Student Perspective,” with
co-presenter A. Jones; Great Plains Honors Council Conference, Tulsa, OK; 3/10
6. “HBO Rome Series’ Conflicted Representation of Octavian,” at CAMWS, Minneapolis,
MN, 4/09
7. “HBO Rome on Roman Sexual Practices: orgia continua aut interrupta?” CAMWS,
Cincinnati, OH; 4/07
8. “Heroism in Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy.” CAMWS Southern Section, Memphis, TN;
11/06
9. “The Roman Empire through Film” in a panel session titled “New Perspectives on
Classics and Cinema: Part I: Teaching Classics and Cinema” at CAMWS, Gainesville,
FL; 4/06
10. “Using Film: Redeeming Wolfgang Petersen’s Troy.” CAMWS, Madison, WI; 4/05
11. “Martial 2.90: An Intro to the Good Life.” CAMWS, St. Louis, MO; 4/04
12. “Martial’s Use of Obscenity and Iambe’s Ritualized Jests in the Hymn to Demeter.”
CAMWS, Lexington, KY; 4/03
13. “The Oracle in The Matrix: Faithful to the Delphic Model?” CAMWS, Austin, TX; 4/02
14. “Historical Fiction and the Classics.” CAMWS, Austin, TX; 4/02
15. “Martial as Iambographer.” CAMWS, Provo, UT; 4/01
16. “Martial 8.3: the Poet’s Muse.” CAMWS, Knoxville; 4/00
17. “Thematic Unity in Martial Book 1: The Character of the Poet-Persona in the
Introduction.” CAMWS, Cleveland; 4/99
18. “Gender and the First κακòν ἔργον in Hesiod’s Succession Myth.” University of
Missouri, Classics Dept., Occasional Papers Conference, Columbia, MO; 2/99
19. “Thematic Structure in Martial Book 5.” CAMWS, Charlottesville; 4/98
20. “Meaning from Structure in Book 10 of Martial.” CAMWS, Boulder; 4/97
21. “Martial and Domitian: A Sociological Perspective.” CAMWS, Nashville; 4/96

Local:
1. “Political Leadership in the Ancient Roman Early Empire.” Missouri State University
Provost’s Research Forum; 12/08
2. “Citizen Telemachos: Taking Your Place in Society.” Antiquities Program Colloquium,
Missouri State Univ.; 10/02
3. “Gender Stereotypes and their Significance in Hesiod’s Theogony.” Antiquities Program
Colloquium, Missouri State Univ.; 11/97
4. “Personal Perspectives on Teaching: Classical Mythology.” Colloquium, Univ. of Iowa,
Iowa City, IA; 3/95
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5. “Martial: A Spaniard’s Entrée into Roman Society.” Ohio Class. Conf., Youngstown,
OH; 11/92
6. “The Literary-Critical Terms Nugae and Ludere in Martial.” Colloquium at Loyola Univ.
of Chicago Classics Dept., Chicago; 2/91
7. “Teaching Classical Mythology.” Panel on Teaching Core Courses, Loyola Univ. of
Chicago, Classical Studies Dept., Chicago; 10/89

FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS

 Fellow, National Collegiate Honors Council, 2019
 NCHC funding for the Professional Development Workshop, University of Iowa, Spring
2017
 Assessment Innovation Grant, University of Iowa, Fall 2011
 Missouri State Faculty Curriculum Development Grant: IDS 397/LLT 595, A Field Study
of Ancient Rome; November, 2007
 Fall 2003 Sabbatical Leave, Missouri State Univ.
 Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, Missouri State Univ., Summer 2003
 Missouri State Univ. College of Arts and Letters Teaching Award, 2002-2003
 Missouri State Univ. College of Arts and Letters Teaching Award, 1999-2000
 Summer Faculty Research Fellowship, Missouri State Univ., Summer 1998
 Funding for Results Grant, Missouri State Univ., 1997-98
 University Teaching Fellowship, Loyola Univ. of Chicago, 1988-89
 Graduate Assistantships (three), Loyola Univ. of Chicago, 1985-88
 Youngstown State Univ. Educational Foundation Academic Scholarship 78-79

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL AND PUBLIC SERVICE AT THE UNIVERSITY OF IOWA:

 Scholarship Information Committee (chair); 6/2014 - 12/2014
 Alcohol Harm Reduction Committee; 2012 to date
 Belin-Blank International Center for Gifted Education & Talent Development Advisory
Board Member; 2011 to date
 Interdepartmental Studies Program Committee; 2011 to date
 Executive Enrollment Management Committee; 2011 to date
 Finkbine Dinner Committee; 2011 to date
 Presidential Scholarship Selection Committee; 2011 to date
 Honors Steering Committee (chair); 2011 to date
 Presidential Scholarship Program Review Committee (chair); 10/2011 – 8/2012

SELECTED PROFESSIONAL AND PUBLIC SERVICE AT MISSOURI STATE

UNIVERSITY:
 Public Affairs Cultural Competence Working Group; Fall 2008 – 2011
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 Ethical Leadership Advisory and Executive Committee; 2008 – 2011

 Honors College Alumni Advisory Board, Chair; Spring 2008 – 2011
 First-Year Programs Committee; 2007 – 2011
 Faculty Advisory Committee for Student Success; 2007 – 2008
 Faculty Handbook Revision Committee; 2007 – 2009
 Academic Leadership Council; 9/07 – 2011
 Faculty Senate Judicial Review Committee; 2007-09
 Scholarship Committee; 2006 – to date; Chair from 2006-09
 Honors Committee; Chair; 2006 – 2011
 Recruitment and Marketing Committee; 2006 – 2011
 Orientation Advisory Committee; 2006 – 2011
 Executive Budget Committee; 2005-06
 Faculty Senate Executive Committee, Chair; 2005-06
 Faculty Senate Chair; 2005-06
 Faculty Senate Chair-Elect; 2004-05
 Master Advisor Workshop Presentation (with Kelly Wood): Video Vignettes and
Discussion on Advising Techniques and Style; 2002 – 2011
 Academic Affairs Leadership Associates Program; 2002-03
 Affirmative Action Liaison for the College of Arts & Letters; 7/99-6/02
 Faculty Senate Representative for the Department of Modern & Classical Languages; 7/98 -
5/01
 Missouri State Leadership Class, College of Arts and Letters; 1997-98

PROFESSIONAL AND PUBLIC SERVICE OUTSIDE THE UNIVERSITY (non-Honors

related):
 Submission Editor for the Journal for the Education of the Gifted; 2020 to date (national)
 Submission Editor for Classical Journal; 2006 to 2011 (national)
 Classical Association of the Middle West and South Manson Stewart Scholarship
Committee, 6/00 to 5/04; Chair of Committee 2002-04 (regional)
 Acquisitions Editor for The Classical Bulletin; 6/98-6/2005 (national)
 Co-editor for Syllecta Classica, The Univ. of Iowa Classics Dept.; 8/95-9/96 (national)

COMMUNITY ACTIVITIES:
 Noon Rotary Club of Iowa City: member (2012 to 2019)
 Rotary Club of Springfield, Southeast: member (2007-11)
 Leadership Springfield, Class XXIII; 2007-08
 Listed as Missouri State University Speaker on Ancient Greek and Latin Literature; also on
classical culture
 Listed as Modern and Classical Languages expert speaker on Classical Mythology
 Presented slide lecture to the Ozark Elementary School Summer Program third
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graders; 6/00
 Lectured to Springfield Catholic High School students on Classical Mythology; 11-
12/96

CURRENT PROFESSIONAL AND ACADEMIC ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS:

 National Collegiate Honors Council
 European Honors Council
 The Upper Midwest Regional Honors Council