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Current

• President, Citizens for Responsible Care & Research, Inc. (CIRCARE) 2007-
• Member, Board of Directors, CIRCARE 2001-
• Secretary, CIRCARE 2005-07

Education

• Bryn Mawr College: A.B. summa cum laude Classical Languages (1997)
• Princeton University: M.A. Classics (2001); Ph.D. candidate, Classics, Program in the Ancient World, dissertation in progress
  • My dissertation identifies patterns of friendship between women and combines ancient history and sociology to extend our understanding of gender and social relations in private and civic contexts. In future I hope to focus on the relationship between diet and mental illness in the Greco-Roman world.
  • Dissertation Committee: E. J. Champlin (Director), R. Elaine Fantham, T. Corey Brennan.

Awards

• Dorothy Nepper Marshall Scholar (Bryn Mawr College 1996-97)
• Jacob K. Javits Fellowship (1997-2001)
• Mrs. Giles Whiting Foundation Fellowship in the Humanities (2001-02)
• Association of Princeton Graduate Alumni Teaching Award (2001-02)

Teaching

Lecturer

• Fall 2002: Latin 101 Beginners Latin
• Spring 2003: Latin 108 The Origins of Rome: Livy and Virgil

Assistant in Instruction

• Spring 2002: Classics 219 The Roman Empire
• Spring 2001: Classics 325 Roman Law
• Fall 2000: Classics 218 The Roman Republic
• Fall 1999: Classics 212 Classical Mythology
• Fall 1999: Alumni Studies Where Have All the Heroes Gone
• Fall 1998: Classics 219 The Roman Empire
• Spring 1997: Classics 001 Elementary Greek (Haverford College)
• Fall 1996: Classics 102 A Introduction to Latin Literature (Haverford College)

Related Professional Employment

• Research Assistant, E. J. Champlin: library, editing and manuscript preparation, pedagogical projects in course design and electronic resources and instruction (1998-2003)
• Graduate Coordinator, Graduate Student Admissions (1997-99)
• AP Officer, Department of Classics (1999)
• Leader, Department of Classics Senior Thesis Writers' Workshop (2000-02)

Academic Service

• Honor Board Representative (Bryn Mawr College 1994-96)
• Student Representative to the Admissions Committee (Bryn Mawr College 1995-97)

Talks

• Sex and the Single Flute-Player: A Woman's Graffito From Pompeii. Classical Association of the Atlantic States. Lehigh, PA (May, 1997)
• Sex and the Single Flute-Player: A Woman's Graffito From Pompeii Reconsidered. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Graduate Student Conference. Chapel Hill, NC (1998)
• Family Matters: The Dynastic Issues of the Emperor Caligula. Societas 1st Annual Conference on Numismatics and Ideology. Cumae, Italy (May, 2000)
• Family Matters? Author and Audience in the Dynastic Issues of the Emperor Caligula. APA Annual Meeting. San Diego, CA (2001)

Publications

• The Women Writers of Pompeii in Women Writing in Latin: Roman Antiquity to Early Modern Europe edited by Laurie J. Churchill, Phyllis R. Brown, and Jane E. Jeffrey. New York: Routledge Press (2002) pp. 67-84.
• Shamoo A, Woeckner E. Ethical flaws in the TeGenero trial. Am J Bioeth. 2007 Feb;7(2):90-2.
• Atwood KC, Woeckner E, Baratz RS, Sampson WI. Why the NIH Trial to Assess Chelation Therapy (TACT) Should Be Abandoned. Medscape J Med 2008;10(5):115: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2438277/?tool=pubmed

Contact

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Associations

• Fellow, Institute for Science in Medicine
  • Science-Based Medicine Blog
• Member, Children's Healthcare is a Legal Duty, Inc. (CHILD)

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Updated: 2011-12-12