Alexandros Kozák, M.A.

2227 Dwight Way Apt. 4
Berkeley, CA 94704-2193
Cell: +1 (510) 289-1257
Tel.: +1 (510) 647-8370
Fax: +1 (510) 295-2720
kozak.gr-agkozak@sneakemail.com

Education

• University of California, Berkeley (1997-2000). M.A. in Classics/Greek (2000).
• King's College, University of Cambridge, England. Postgraduate study in Classics (1996-1997).
• Harvard University (Cabot House; 1994-1996). A.B. summa cum laude in Classics.
  Honors thesis: The Myth of Hypsipyle in Greek and Latin Poetry.

Work Experience

Recent

• Smart Muscles (Web Developer; 2009-present).
• Greek Orthodox Cathedral of the Annunciation, San Francisco
  • Assistant Chanter (2011-present).
  • Web Developer (2009-present).
  • Operations (2009-2010).
• BizXchange
  • Trade Department
    • Corporate Account Manager (BizX Media Group; 2008-2009).
    • Corporate Trade Broker (BizXchange & BizX Media Group; 2007-2008).
  • Operations
    • Office Coordinator (2007).
    • Director of First Impressions (2006-2007).

Teaching Positions

• Graduate Student Instructor at the University of California, Berkeley (2000-2004).
  • Instructor, Latin 100 ("Republican Prose," advanced reading course; 2004).
  • Teaching Assistant, Classics 28 ("The Classic Myths"; Prof. Anthony Bulloch; 2003).
  • Teaching Assistant, Classics 10B ("Introduction to Roman Civilization"; Prof. Trevor Murphy; 2002).
  • Instructor, Latin 2 ("Elementary Latin"; 2001).
  • Instructor, Latin 40 ("Latin Prose Composition"; 2001).
  • Instructor, Greek 1 ("Elementary Greek"; 2000).
  • Instructor, Latin 10 ("Intensive Elementary Latin"; 2000).
• Pew Charitable Trust Associate (teaching assistant) at Gettysburg College (1993-1994).
  • Latin 204 ("Roman Poetry"; 1994).
  • Latin 102 ("Elementary Latin II"; 1993).
  • Latin 101 ("Elementary Latin I"; 1993).

Related Experience

• Review panelist for the 2001-2002 Medusa Mythology Examination.
• Research assistant to Prof. Donald J. Mastronarde (U. C. Berkeley; commentary on Euripides' Medea; 1999).
• Proctor, Harvard University Summer School (1995).
• Latin and Greek proofreader for the Patrologia Latina Database at Chadwyck-Healey (now ProQuest; 1994).
• Research assistant to Prof. Laurence Marschall (Gettysburg College; book on meteorite and comet impacts and other catastrophic events; 1994).
• Private Latin language tutor at Gettysburg College (1992-1994).
• Research assistant to Prof. Leslie Cahoon (Gettysburg College; text of and commentary on medieval Latin hymns; 1992-1994).

Awards

• University Regents Fellowship (Berkeley; 2003).
• Andrew W. Mellon graduate scholarship for modern foreign language study (2000).
• Berkeley Fellowship for Graduate Study (1997-2002).
• Laurence Studentship (Cambridge; for postgraduate study in Classics; 1996-1997).
• Cambridge Overseas Trust Bursary (1996-1997).
• Latin Salutatorian at Harvard Commencement 1996 (David Taggart Clark Prize; salutatory "De moribus Harvardianis").
• Society for Values in Higher Education, Fellow (1996).
• Harvard Undergraduate Phi Beta Kappa Honors Society (1996).
• Honorary 1996 Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies.
• Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize (Harvard; for outstanding undergraduate honors thesis; 1996).
• Raymond Weir Smyth Prize (Harvard; for outstanding undergraduate honors thesis; 1996).
• Bowdoin Undergraduate Latin Prize (Harvard; for a Latin version of a passage from Mark Twain's "Ghost Story" into the style of Pliny; 1996).
• William King Richardson Scholarship (Harvard; for distinction in Greek and Latin sight-reading and composition; 1996).
• Arthur Deloraine Corey Fellowship (Harvard Classics Department fellowship for graduate study; 1996-1997).
• Bowdoin Undergraduate Greek Prize (Harvard; Greek version of a passage from William James's Varieties of Religious Experience into the style of Plato; 1995).
• George Emerson Lowell Scholarship Prize (Harvard; for excellence in the classics, based on an examination which tests competence in the translation and composition of Greek and Latin and in exposition of classical literature; Greek, 1995).
• John Osborne Sargent Prize (Harvard; best metrical translation of Horace's Odes 2.13; 1995).
• John Harvard Scholarship (for academic achievement of the highest distinction; 1994-1995).

Publications

• "Diana Stone: Hymnus in Dianam Lapidariam." Classical World 93.6 (2000): 623.
• "Erratum Beatum." Classical Outlook 75:4 (1998): 144.
• "Ovid Turns 2040! (March 20, 1998)." Classical Outlook 75:3 (1998): 114 (selection reprinted in Love and Transformation - An Ovid Reader: Teacher's Guide by Richard A. LaFleur [Prentice Hall, 1998; 9]).

Work in Progress

• "Pindar's Second Dithyramb: σχοινοτένεια ἀοιδά."
• "Cornelius Gallus and Propertius 2.13."
• "Simonides and the Ethics of Mimesis: ὁ λόγος τῶν πραγμάτων εἰκών ἐστιν (fr. 47)."

In the News

• Latin translations of modern literature (Wikipedia).
• "Argus: Local newspaper or 100-eyed creature?" (Argus [May 6,2002]).
• "More FELLOWS News" (Society for Values in Higher Education Newsletter 35.2 (January, 1999): 22.
• "Graduating Seniors Elected to Phi Beta Kappa Chapter" (Harvard University Gazette [June 6, 1996]).
• Nota Bene (Harvard Classics Department; 1.2 [June 1996]).
• "Hoopes Prizes Recognize Outstanding Senior Theses" (Harvard University Gazette [May 30, 1996]).
• "FAS Awards Prizes to Students" (Harvard University Gazette [June 6, 1996]).
• "Think & Grin." Boy's Life, October, 1986: 66.