Alain Bresson

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EDUCATION

• BA, University of Lyons 2, 1971
• Agrégation (History), Paris, 1972
• “Third cycle Doctorate”, University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, 1977
• Diploma of Social Mathematics and Applied Computing, University of Bordeaux 2, 1984
• “State Doctorate”, University of Franche-Comté, Besançon, 1994

PROFESSIONAL CAREER

• Secondary school teacher in Paris (1972-1978)
• Assistant (1978), assistant professor (1986) and professor of Ancient History (1994-2007) at the University of Bordeaux 3

VISITING

• Summer term 1999/2000, Visiting professor at the University of Hamburg
• Winter term 2001/2002, Visiting member at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton (School for Historical Research)
• Spring quarter 2004-2005, Visiting Professor at the University of Chicago (department of Classics)

TEACHING

• Ancient Greek History and Greek Epigraphy for undergraduate and graduate students
• 5 of my Bordeaux students have submitted a doctoral dissertation.

RESEARCH

• The ancient Greek economy
• History and epigraphy of Rhodes and Asia Minor

ADMINISTRATION

• 1994-2004 Founder and director of Ausonius Editions (4 main collections, 50 books published)
• 1994-2007 Manager of six Socrates-Erasmus agreements with the universities of Hamburg, Münster, Freiburg, Zurich, Rome and Nicosia
• 2003-2007 Head of the graduate school for Humanities University of Bordeaux 3
• 2005-2007 Member of the Scientific Council of the University Bordeaux 3

DISTINCTIONS

• Delepierre Prize 2002 of the Association des Études Grecques for La cité marchande (Bordeaux 2000)
• Corresponding member of the German Archaeological Institute (DAI)

INVITED LECTURES

• September 2007 Paper on Epigraphy and the Ancient Greek Economics (International Congress of Greek and Roman Epigraphy, Oxford, Prof. S. Mitchell)
• April 2007 Susan Aleshire Center for Greek Epigraphy Berkeley (prof. R. Stroud)
• April 2007 University of Stanford (Dr. J. Manning).
• March 2007 Société Royale de Numismatique, Brussels (prof. F. de Callataÿ)
• December 2006 Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, Munich (prof. R. Haensch)
• 2005 Istituto di Studi Umanistici Florence (prof. L. Capogrossi Colognesi and E. Lo Cascio)
• 2004 David Lewis Conference, Oxford (prof. A. Bowman)
• 2003 Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, Munich (prof. M. Wörrle)
• 2001 University of Münster (prof. P. Funke)
• 2001 University of Princeton (prof. F. Graf)
• 2000 University of Hanover (Assoc. of the Professors of Ancient History of Northern Germany)
• 2000 University of Princeton (David Magie memorial lectures, prof. J. Ma and G. Rogers)
• 1999 Russian Science Academy Moscow (prof. Bongard-Levin)
• 1997 University of Oxford (Dr. C. Crowther)
• 1997 KERA Athens (prof. L. Loukopoulou)
• 1997 University of Copenhagen (prof. V. Gabrielsen)
• 1995 University Roma La Sapienza (Inv. Prof. M.-L. Lazzarini)

OTHER ACADEMIC OCCUPATIONS

• Member of the Editorial Board of the Revue des Etudes Anciennes (Bordeaux)
• Member of the Advisory Board of Ancient Civilizations from Scythia to Siberia (Rome-Moscow-Bordeaux-Leiden)
• Member of the evaluation committee of the Inscriptiones Graecae program (Berlin, 2008)

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