Dr. Dawn Gilley

Associate Professor of Humanities

General Studies Program Coordinator

Education

• Ph.D. History; University of Missouri-Columbia, 2009
• M.A. Classics (Greek); University of Nebraska-Lincoln, 2003
• B.A. History; Baylor University, 2000

Courses Taught

Academic Interest

• Age of Alexander the Great
• Hellenistic Age Greece
• Classical Reception
• The Roman Republic & Principate
• The Second Sophistic
• Politics and Rhetoric of Imperialism

Scholarly Activity

Publications

• Gilley, Dawn L. “Strato (168)." Brill’s New Jacoby. Ian Worthington (ed.). Leiden:  Brill, 2009, rev. 2017.
• Gilley, Dawn L. “Herakleitos of Lesbos (167)." Brill’s New Jacoby. Ian Worthington (ed.). Leiden:  Brill, 2009, rev. 2018.
• Gilley, Dawn L. “Demodamas of Halikarnassos (428),” Brill’s New Jacoby. Ian Worthington (ed.). Leiden:  Brill, 2009; rev. 2018.
• Gilley, Dawn L. “The Latin Alexander:  Roman Power, Imperialism, and Alexander the Great.”  Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great.  Kenneth Moore (ed.).  Leiden:  Brill, 2017.
• Gilley, Dawn L. “The Macedonian Empire.”  The Encyclopedia of Empire.  John M. MacKenzie and Nigel Dalziel (eds.).  New York:  Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.
• Gilley, Dawn L. “The Kingdom of Epirus.”  The Encyclopedia of Empire.  John M. MacKenzie and Nigel Dalziel (eds.).  New York:  Wiley-Blackwell, 2016.
• Gilley, Dawn L. and Ian Worthington, “Alexander the Great, Macedonia and Asia,” in J. Roisman and I. Worthington (eds.), A Companion to Ancient Macedonia (New York:  Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), 186-207.
• Gilley, Dawn L. “Alexander and the Carmanian March of 324 BC,” Ancient History Bulletin (2006), 9-14.
• Review:  Ian Worthington, By the Spear. Philip II, Alexander the Great, and the Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire (New York:  Oxford University Press, 2014) in The Classical Review 65.2 (2015).
• Review: Waldemar Heckel and Lawrence A. Tritle, eds., Alexander the Great: A New History (Malden, MA, 2009) in Classical Bulletin 85.2 (2010), 127-129. 
• Review:  John Buckler and Hans Beck, Central Greece and the Politics of Power in the Fourth Century (Cambridge, UK, 2008) in Ancient History Bulletin 23 (2009), 154-157. (Published in 2011).
• Review: R. Stoneman, Alexander the Great: A Life in Legend (New Haven, 2008), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.09.19.
• Review: W. Heckel, L. Tritle, P. Wheatley (eds.), Alexander’s Empire: From Formulation to Decay (Claremont, CA, 2007), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2008.03.18.
• Review: W. Heckel and L. Tritle (eds.), Crossroads of History: The Age of Alexander (Claremont, CA, 2003), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.03.05

Selected Conference Presentations

• “The Ironic Alexander:  Plutarch’s Alexander Declamations,” European Studies Conference, Omaha, NE (2013).
• “Andreia and Agôn and the Scars of War:  Philip II and Alexander the Great,” European Studies Conference, Omaha, NE (2010).
• “The Rhetorical Image of Philip II and Alexander III,” Mid-America Conference on History, Springfield, MO (2008).
• “Rhetorical Wounds:  The War Wounds of Philip II and Alexander III,” Fourth International Symposium on Alexander the Great, Clemson University, SC (2008).
• “Alexander, Deification, and the Carmanian March of 324 BC,” European Studies Conference, Omaha, NE (2005).
  

Other Professional Experiences

• Department Chair (2017-2023)

• Missouri in Greece Faculty Exchange (2017)

• Faculty Senate Secretary (2016)

• Graduate Program Coordinator (History MA and MS Ed. Teaching History) (2014-2016)

• Faculty-Led Study Tour to Italy, Greece, Turkey (2012)