Thomas G. Palaima (born October 6, 1951) is a Mycenologist, the Robert M. Armstrong Centennial Professor and the founding director of the university's Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory (PASP) [1] in the Department of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin.
Palaima was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He received his B.A. in mathematics and classics from Boston College (1973) and a Ph.D. in classics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1980). On May 27, 1994, Palaima received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Humanities at Uppsala University, Sweden [2]
Palaima received a five-year MacArthur fellowship in 1985 for work on Aegean scripts. In this area of research, he has focused on paleography, scribal systems, and the use of the Linear B tablets to answer questions about many aspects of life in Greek prehistory. [3]
His other interests include writing public intellectual commentaries (over 300 since 1999 [4]), reviewing books on a broad range of subjects ancient and modern, [5] and researching, writing, teaching, and lecturing about how humans, in groups or as individuals, respond to war and violence. [6] He has served as academic co-director of the NEH Aquila Warrior Chorus Project in Austin for now three iterations 2016 into 2020. [7] He also has provided impoverished adults the opportunity to return to higher education through an innovative program that focuses on the humanities. [8]
He has written extensively about music, especially about Bob Dylan and his cultural influence. [9]
He has also studied and written about problems with NCAA athletics within American institutions of higher education. [10] From 2008 through 2011, he was the representative of the University of Texas at Austin on the national Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics. [11]
He also has written about problems in higher education. [12]
Thomas G. Palaima (born October 6, 1951) is a Mycenologist, the Robert M. Armstrong Centennial Professor and the founding director of the university's Program in Aegean Scripts and Prehistory (PASP) [1] in the Department of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin.
Palaima was born in Cleveland, Ohio. He received his B.A. in mathematics and classics from Boston College (1973) and a Ph.D. in classics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison (1980). On May 27, 1994, Palaima received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Humanities at Uppsala University, Sweden [2]
Palaima received a five-year MacArthur fellowship in 1985 for work on Aegean scripts. In this area of research, he has focused on paleography, scribal systems, and the use of the Linear B tablets to answer questions about many aspects of life in Greek prehistory. [3]
His other interests include writing public intellectual commentaries (over 300 since 1999 [4]), reviewing books on a broad range of subjects ancient and modern, [5] and researching, writing, teaching, and lecturing about how humans, in groups or as individuals, respond to war and violence. [6] He has served as academic co-director of the NEH Aquila Warrior Chorus Project in Austin for now three iterations 2016 into 2020. [7] He also has provided impoverished adults the opportunity to return to higher education through an innovative program that focuses on the humanities. [8]
He has written extensively about music, especially about Bob Dylan and his cultural influence. [9]
He has also studied and written about problems with NCAA athletics within American institutions of higher education. [10] From 2008 through 2011, he was the representative of the University of Texas at Austin on the national Coalition on Intercollegiate Athletics. [11]
He also has written about problems in higher education. [12]