Elizabeth Vandiver Explained

Elizabeth Vandiver
Nationality:	American
Alma Mater:	Shimer College
Workplaces:	Whitman College
Discipline:	Classics

Elizabeth Vandiver (born 1956) is an American classical scholar. She is the Clement Biddle Penrose Professor of Latin and Classics at Whitman College, having previously taught at the University of Maryland, College Park.^[1] She received the Excellence in Teaching Award from the American Philological Association in 1998.^[1] She also won awards for her teaching from Northwestern University and the University of Georgia.^[1] In May 2013, she was awarded Whitman College's "G. Thomas Edwards Award for Excellence in Teaching and Scholarship", the highest award that Whitman College gives to a faculty member.^[2]

Work

Vandiver did undergraduate work at Shimer College in Illinois where she enrolled as an early entrant at the age of 16, after completing tenth grade. She earned a B.A. degree in 1976, and then worked several years as a librarian. She received her Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin in 1990. Her dissertation was on Herodotus and was published as Heroes in Herodotus: The Interaction of Myth and History^[3] . In February 2010, Oxford University Press published her study Stand in the Trench, Achilles: Classical Receptions in British Poetry of the Great War.^[4] She has taught at the University of Maryland, Northwestern University, the University of Georgia, the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, Italy, Loyola University New Orleans, Louisiana, and Utah State University.^[1]

The Teaching Company

She has recorded several highly reviewed^[5] lecture series for The Teaching Company in the field of classical history and literature which include the following:

• Great Authors of the Western Literary Tradition (with other professors)^[1]
• Classical Mythology^{[1] [6]}
• Odyssey of Homer^{[1] [7]}
• Iliad of Homer^{[1] [8]}
• Greek Tragedy^{[1] [9]}
• Herodotus: The Father of History^{[1] [10]}
• Aeneid of Virgil^{[1] [11]}

Books

• Heroes in Herodotus: The Interaction of Myth and History^[3] . Oxford University Press, 2013.
• Luther's Lives: Two Contemporary Accounts of Martin Luther^[12] , translated and edited by Elizabeth Vandiver, Ralph Keen, and Thomas D. Frazel. Manchester University Press, 2003.
• Stand in the Trench, Achilles: Classical Receptions in British Poetry of the Great War^[13] Peter Lang, 1991.

External links

• "Professor Elizabeth Vandiver, Ph.D." (Elizabeth Vandiver bio page at The Great Courses)
• "Expanding the Bounds of Thought" (transcript of Whitman College baccalaureate address)
• Whitman

Notes and References

1. News: Elizabeth Vandiver . The Teaching Company . Elizabeth Vandiver is associate professor of classics and Clement Biddle Penrose professor of Latin at Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington. She was formerly director of the Honors Humanities program at the University of Maryland at College Park, where she also taught in the Department of Classics. She completed her undergraduate work at Shimer College and went on to earn her M.A. and Ph.D. from The University of Texas at Austin. . 2010-06-08 . 2010-06-08 .
2. Web site: Edwards Award . 2013-05-16 . https://web.archive.org/web/20130609155658/http://www.whitman.edu/newsroom/headline-news/2013-whitman-faculty-awards-recognize-excellence-in-teaching-scholarship-and-advising . 2013-06-09 . dead .
3. Book: Vandiver, Elizabeth, 1956-. Heroes in Herodotus : the interaction of myth and history. 1991. P. Lang. 3631431686. Frankfurt am Main. 22708745.
4. Web site: Stand in the Trench, Achilles: Classical Receptions in British Poetry of the Great War. Marguerite Johnson. Reviews in History. 20 January 2024.
5. Web site: Search results for: 'vandiver'. www.thegreatcourses.com. 2019-08-20.
6. Web site: Classical Mythology. English. en. 2019-08-20.
7. Web site: Odyssey of Homer. English. en. 2019-08-20.
8. Web site: Iliad of Homer. English. en. 2019-08-20.
9. Web site: Greek Tragedy. English. en. 2019-08-20.
10. Web site: Herodotus: The Father of History. English. en. 2019-08-20.
11. Web site: Aeneid of Virgil. English. en. 2019-08-20.
12. Book: Luther's lives : two contemporary accounts of Martin Luther. 2002. Manchester University Press. Vandiver, Elizabeth, 1956-, Keen, Ralph., Frazel, Thomas D.. 142370634X. Manchester, UK. 191941895.
13. Book: Vandiver, Elizabeth.. Stand in the Trench, Achilles : Classical Receptions in British Poetry of the Great War.. 2010. OUP Oxford. 9780191572807. Oxford. 714569785.