Jeff Rydberg-Cox is a Curators' Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at the University of Missouri–Kansas City. He directs the Classical and Ancient Studies Program and co-directs the Center for Digital and Public Humanities. His research combines computational methods with the close reading of texts, and he has studied the representation of ancient literary texts in modern film and art.

 

He is currently engaged in two major individual research projects: 1) a study of Marc Chagall's illustrations of Homer's Odyssey and Chagall's other works that depict ancient Greek mythology, and 2) the use of network analysis to explore relationships between characters and language in ancient Greek literary texts, primarily focused on Homeric poetry.

 

He is currently a co-principal investigator for a $5 million grant from the Mellon Foundation that established the Humanities Internship program, which provides career development and paid professional experiences for over 100 students annually. He also recently concluded an NEH-funded project that used multispectral imaging and artificial intelligence to recover hidden or obscured text in medieval manuscripts. Finally, early in his career, he used computational methods to create a slips database for the Cambridge Greek Lexicon. This database was one of the resources that helped organize the massive dataset used to produce this new dictionary of Ancient Greek, which was published in 2021.

 

His courses inlcude surveys of Ancient Greek and Roman Literature, Classical Mythology, Digital Humanities and digital publication using Text Encoding Initiative standards. For many years, he also taught courses about the representation of the Ancient World in Film including a survey class (with an emphasis on interpretations of Homer's Odyssey in film), a course on representations of the hero in ancient literature and cinema (with a focus on representations of Homer's Iliad), and a class on film adaptation.

 

Links to his major digital projects are available at daedalus.umkc.edu. He can be reached via e-mail at rydbergcoxj@umkc.edu.

Education

  • 1998: Ph.D. The University of Chicago, Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World
  • 1993: M.A. The University of Chicago, Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World
  • 1992: B.A. The Colorado College, Magna Cum Laude, Classics-History-Politics

Academic Appointments

  • 2016–Present: Curators’ Distinguished Professor, Department of English, University of Missouri-Kansas City. Initial appointment in 2016; reappointed in 2021.
  • 2008–2016: Professor, Department of English, Affiliated Faculty, Department of Computer Science, University of Missouri-Kansas City
  • 2005–2008: Associate Professor, Department of English, Affiliated Faculty, Department of Computer Science, University of Missouri-Kansas City
  • 2000–2005: Assistant Professor, Department of English, Affiliated Faculty, Department of Computer Science, University of Missouri-Kansas City
  • 1998–2000: Post-Doctoral Research Position: Assistant Editor for Language and Lexicography, The Perseus Project, Tufts University
  • 1992–1999: Instructor, Beginning and Intermediate Greek courses and Classical Literature in Translation at Tufts University, the University of Chicago, and the Colorado College

Administrative Appointments

  • 2000–Present: Director, Classical and Ancient Studies Program, University of Missouri-Kansas City
  • 2022–Present: Co-Director, Center for Digital and Public Humanities, University of Missouri-Kansas City
  • 2019–2021: Director, First Semester Experience Program, University of Missouri-Kansas City
  • 2010–2019: Director, Master of Arts in Liberal Studies Program, University of Missouri-Kansas City
  • 2012–2019: Director, Bachelor of Liberal Arts Program, University of Missouri-Kansas City
  • 2005–2011: Chair, Department of English, University of Missouri-Kansas City

Grants

  • "Humanities Internship Program To Support Internship Programming For Humanities Students", Total Award: $5,000,000. Role: Principal Investigator. Funded by the Mellon Foundation Higher Learning Program. Additional Principal Investigators: Tamara Falicov, Dean, UMKC School of Humanities, Diane Mutti-Burke, UMKC Department of History. Grant Period: November 2024 - October 2029. This grant funded the creation of a program in the UMKC School of Humanities and Social Sciences to place 100–125 humanities students per year in paid internships, along with career development programming.
  • "Kansas City Monuments Coalition", Total Award: $4,000,000. Role: Key Personnel. Funded by the Mellon Foundation Monuments Project. Project Principal Investigators: Diane Mutti Burke, Sandra Enríquez, and David Trowbridge, UMKC Department of History. Grant Period: November 2024 - October 2027. The Kansas City Monuments Coalition is a partnership of 16 preservation and commemorative organizations across Kansas City. My role in this project is to help with the technical training and digital programming for coalition members.
  • "Marc Chagall's Illustrated Odyssey", Total Award: $2,000. Role: Principal Investigator. Funded by the Bernardin Fund, UMKC School of Humanities and Social Sciences. Grant Period: July 2025 - June 2026. This grant provided support for my archival research about Marc Chagall's illustrated edition of Homer's Odyssey and his other works that depict ancient Greek myths.
  • "Support for the Center for Digital and Public Humanities", Total Pledge: $332,000. Gift from the William T. Kemper Foundation, Commerce Bank Trustee. Grant Period: 2023 - 2025. This gift supported staffing for the Center for Digital and Public Humanities, funding the Digital and Public Humanities Program Coordinator position and the Director of Digital Scholarship Services in the Library.
  • Newberry Library Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies Research Fellowship. Total Award: $500. October 2024. This grant supported my research about Marc Chagall's illustrated edition of Homer's Odyssey and his other works that depict ancient Greek myths.
  • "Fostering An Entrepreneurial Mindset for Students and Faculty in UMKC’s Digital and Public Humanities Program", Total Award: $70,000. Funded by the Bloch School Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program. Co-Investigators: Jeff Rydberg-Cox, Department of English, Diane Mutti-Burke, Department of History. Grant Period: August 2023 - May 2025. This grant enabled the launch of a pilot paid internship program for undergraduate and graduate students in Digital and Public Humanities, offering paid internships alongside integrated career development programming. This small project laid the foundations for the Mellon Humanities Internship Program.
  • "Unlocking the Mysteries of A Medieval Chant Book With Multispectral Imaging", Principal Investigator. Total Award: $324,317. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Advancement Grant Program. Co-Investigators: Virginia Blanton, Department of English, Yugyung Lee, Department of Computer Science, Zhu Li, Department of Computer Science, Nathan Oyler, Department of Chemistry. Grant Period: September 2020 - August 2024. This grant funded a project to develop and test multispectral imaging tools and artificial intelligence-based methods for uncovering hidden text in medieval manuscripts. The project created a tool that generates pseudo-multispectral images from standard RGB photos, making advanced imaging techniques more affordable and widely available.
  • "UMKC Data Science and Analytics Innovation Center Pilot Project Participant: Artificial Intelligence Using Cloud Platforms for Understanding Ancient and Medieval Texts", Principal Investigator. Co-Investigators: Virginia Blanton, Department of English, Yugyung Lee, Department of Computer Science, Zhu Li, Department of Computer Science, Nathan Oyler, Department of Chemistry. Award Period: January 2021 - May 2023. Total Award: $25,294. This internal grant funded an evaluation of the feasibility of using different cloud computing platforms to support our artificial intelligence-based methods for uncovering hidden text in medieval manuscripts.
  • UMKC Large Scale Grant Proposal Workshop Participant. Total Award: $4,000. Award Period: October 2021 - May 2022. This internal grant from the Office of Research Services funded a course release to participate in a writing group focused on developing proposals with budgets of $1,000,000 or greater.
  • "Modeling Pliny's Natural History". Linda Hall Library Scholar In Residence. Award period part 1: January 2020 - March 2020, Award amount: $6,000. Award period part 2: April 2021 - June 2021, Award amount: $6,000. This fellowship supported research using network analysis methods to study the sources and topics in Pliny the Elder's Natural History, resulting in a public lecture and a published article in Umanistica Digitale.
  • "Analyzing Turki Manuscripts from the Jarring Collection Online (ATMO-2)." UMKC Subcontract: $34,399.60. Total Project Award to the University of Kansas: $200,000. Funded by the Luce Foundation. Grant Period: August 2018 - July 2022. My portion of this grant supported research using network analysis and computational methods to study a medical manuscript in the Jarring Collection, revealing patterns in the relationships between diagnoses and treatments that would be difficult for human readers to discern in these complex, unstructured historical documents.
  • "Multispectral Analysis of Missouri's Cultural Resources." Total Award: $95,000. Principal Investigator. Funded by the University of Missouri Intercampus Interdisciplinary Project. Grant Period: September 2014 - June 2016. This grant funded the expansion of our work on the multispectral and chemical analysis of early printed books, supporting studies of early modern works in the University of Missouri-Columbia and University of Missouri-Kansas City libraries.
  • "Multispectral Analysis of a Medieval Printed Book." Principal Investigator. Total Award: $110,729. Funded by the University of Missouri Research Board. Grant Period: June 2013 - June 2016. This grant funded our work on the multispectral and chemical analysis of manuscripts and early printed books, supporting a study of a 15th-century printed work, Antonino Pierozzi's Summa Theologica, to uncover its production and usage history, as well as the development of an online tutorial for writing book histories.
  • "A Digital Studio for the Optical and Chemical Analysis Of Manuscripts and Printed Books", Principal Investigator. Total Award: $59,896. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Digital Humanities Start-Up Grant Program. Grant Period: May 2013 - June 2015. This start-up grant funded the creation of the CODICES lab to use multispectral imaging and chemical analysis to study manuscripts and early printed books. This grant supported the initial purchase of equipment and a pilot study of selected sections from Antonino Pierozzi's Summa Theologica.
  • "Teaching Enhancement Grant: Online Spaced Repetition Exercises for Ancient Greek.", Principal Investigator. Total Award: $2,000. Funded by the Faculty Center for Excellence in Teaching, University of Missouri-Kansas City. Grant Period: November 2011 - June 2012. This grant supported the development of interactive, online spaced-repetition exercises for Ancient Greek based on John William White's First Greek Book.
  • "Building a Greek (and Latin) Treebank", Co-Principal Investigator. Total Award: $18,340. Funded by the Cantus Foundation. Grant Period: June 2009 - May 2011. This grant funded the creation of data for the Perseus Greek and Latin Treebank Project.
  • "Finding Needles in a Field of Haystacks: An Odyssey in the Digital Pacific," Principal Investigator. Total Award: $6,970. Funded by the University of Missouri-Kansas City Faculty Research Grant. Grant Period: December 2007 - April 2009. This project supported research into methods for finding allusions to Homer's Odyssey in an unstructured repository of travel narratives.
  • "Approaching the Problems of Digitizing Latin Incunables," Principal Investigator. Total Award: $348,000. Funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access Research and Development Projects Program. Grant Period: January 2005 - December 2007. This project developed software tools and specifications for digitizing rare Latin books from the 15th to 17th centuries, creating searchable digital editions and tools to automatically resolve the complex abbreviations found in early Latin texts.
  • "Digital Hippocrates: An Online Version of the Great Physician's Works." Principal Investigator. Total Award $20,000. Funded by the National Library of Medicine History of Medicine Division. Grant Period: July 2004 - June 2005. This grant funded the creation of digital editions of Hippocrates' works in both Greek and English for inclusion in the Perseus Digital Library.
  • "Cultural Heritage Language Technologies" Principal Investigator. Total Award: $497,000 and 530,000 Euros. Funded by the National Science Foundation Digital Libraries Initiative and the European Commission ITS Program. Grant Number 0122491. Grant Period: January 2002 - December 2005. This international collaboration developed computational tools to support the study of Ancient Greek, Early Modern Latin, and Old Norse. Funded by the NSF and the European Commission, the project created the infrastructure for cross-lingual searching and morphological analysis across a network of digital libraries.
  • "The Archimedes Project: Pursuing the Vision of an Open Digital Library for the History of Mechanics," Co-Principal Investigator. Total Award: $448,000. Funded by the National Science Foundation International Digital Libraries Initiative, Award Number: 0085960. Grant Period: September 2001 - August 2004. This international collaboration developed an open digital research library for the history of mechanics, creating a suite of computational tools that allowed scholars to perform linguistic analysis and semantic annotation of historical scientific texts.
  • "A Pilot Digital Library of Early Printed Works in the History of Science," Principal Investigator. Total Award: $32,000. Funded by the University of Missouri Research Board, Grant Period: July 2003 - August 2004. This grant funded a pilot project to digitize a selection of rare books from the Linda Hall Library’s history of science collection, focusing on developing computational tools to address the typographical challenges of early printed Latin and Greek and providing digital reading support in an online environment.

Books

  • Digital Libraries and the Challenges of Digital Humanities, Chandos Press, October 2005. In this book, I claimed that digital libraries should be designed as active research environments rather than simple digital repositories, advocating for the integration of specific humanities research methodologies and computational tools into library infrastructure.
  • Lysias: Selected Speeches: 1, 2, 3, 4, 24, Focus Classical Library, 2003. This intermediate-level Ancient Greek textbook provides the original Greek text alongside historical and grammatical commentary for five of Lysias' speeches.

Major Digital Projects

  • “Unlocking the Mysteries of a Medieval Chant Book with Multispectral Imaging, Phase 2,” online at https://daedalus.umkc.edu/CODICES/chantbookProject.html. This project developed multispectral imaging and AI tools to recover hidden and damaged text in medieval manuscripts. Using the 15th-century Adair Chant Book as a test case, our team created an artificial intelligence based tool that generates a pseudo multispectral image from standard RGB photographs. The project resulted in a public digital gallery, a complete catalog of chants in the CANTUS database, and a technical white paper.
  • A Digital Tutorial For Ancient Greek Based on White's First Greek Book (daedalus.umkc.edu/FirstGreekBook). This project created a mobile-friendly digital edition of John William White’s 1896 textbook, First Greek Book, for learning Classical Greek. It features interactive drill-and-practice exercises for every lesson and provides downloadable datasets for use in flashcard applications.
  • Visual Explorer for the Language of Greek Tragedy (daedalus.umkc.edu/VisualExplorer). This tool applied social network analysis to the vocabulary of Greek tragedy to visualize the linguistic relationships between different plays and authors. Mapping shared vocabulary as a network in an interactive interface allowed for the visualization of thematic clusters and stylistic patterns.
  • Statistical Methods for Studying Literature Using R (daedalus.umkc.edu/StatisticalMethods/). A companion website for a workshop series that I offered in various venues in 2011 and 2012. The site introduces the R environment and describes data structures in R, as well as methods for formatting data about literary texts for statistical analysis. It also provides practical examples of how to use R to answer questions about literature.
  • Cultural Heritage Language Technologies (daedalus.umkc.edu/CHLT). The Cultural Heritage Language Technologies project ran from 2002 until 2005. This international collaboration developed computational tools to support the study of Ancient Greek, Early Modern Latin, and Old Norse. Funded by the NSF and the European Commission, the project created the infrastructure for cross-lingual searching and morphological analysis across a network of digital libraries.
  • Digital Hippocrates. A project funded by the National Library of Medicine in 2004 and 2005 to create Greek and English digital editions of works by Hippocrates for inclusion in the Perseus Digital Library.
  • Lexicographic Database for the New Intermediate Greek Lexicon published by Cambridge University Press. I worked with the Lexicon team at Cambridge University from ~2000-2006 to create a database of lexicographic slips used in the process of writing dictionary entries for the Lexicon which was published in 2021. The complete project is described on Cambridge's web pages at https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/glp. The database is described on the Methodology and Future Use Page at https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/glp/methodology, and the database is described on the Slips: Textual Citations page at https://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/research/projects/glp/slips.

Articles

  1. "Using Networks to Explore the Relationships Between Characters and the Words They Speak in Homer's Iliad." In Multidisciplinary Approaches to the Representation of Direct Speech in Greek and Latin Epic, edited by Christopher W. Forstall and Berenice Verhelst, 407-422. Brill, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004750227_020. This article applies social network analysis to the vocabulary of Homer’s Iliad to identify character-driven "topic communities" based on the words spoken by each character in the Iliad.
  2. "Unlocking the Mysteries of a Medieval Chantbook with Multispectral Imaging: Final Project White Paper." Jeff Rydberg-Cox, Virginia Blanton, Nathan Oyler, Yugyung Lee, and Zhu Li. NEH Digital Humanities Advancement Grant #HAA-271735-20. January 2025. https://daedalus.umkc.edu/CODICES/ChantBook/CODICESNEHWhitePaper.pdf. This white paper describes our work to develop an AI-based tool that generates pseudo-multispectral images from standard RGB images. It describes our approach and evaluates its ability to recover damaged and obscured text from manuscripts.
  3. "Understanding the Afflictions-Treatment Network in an Early 20th Century Medical Manuscript from the Jarring Collection." Technical Report Submitted to the Luce Foundation for the grant project "Analyzing Turki Manuscripts from the Jarring Collection Online (ATMO-2)" and published in 2022 in the project technical report repository at https://uyghur.linguistics.indiana.edu/2016/03/Prov351_NetworkAnalysis_2022.pdf. This article applies network analysis to an early 20th-century medical manuscript, identifying clusters of medical knowledge and the relationships between specific ailments and their pharmacological treatments.
  4. "Review of Modern Odysseys: Cavafy, Woolf, Césaire, and a Poetics of Indirection by Michelle Zerba." Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 2022.04.19. https://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2022/2022.04.19/.
  5. “Modeling the Sources and Topics of Pliny’s Natural History” in Umanistica Digitale, 11 (2021), 217-229. https://umanisticadigitale.unibo.it/article/view/12521. This article applies network analysis to the first book of Pliny the Elder's Natural History>, mapping the relationships between ancient scientific topics and hundreds of Roman and Greek sources to explore the conceptual structure of this first-century encyclopedia.
  6. "Interpretation of Sentiment Analysis with Human-in-the-Loop" Vijaya Kumari Yeruva, Mayanka Chandrashekar, Yugyung Lee, Jeff Rydberg-Cox, Virginia Blanton, Nathan A Oyler. Proceedings of The 4th IEEE Workshop on Human-in-the-Loop Methods and Future of Work in Big Data, December 2020. https://humanmachinedata.org.
  7. "Interpretation of Sentiment Analysis in Aeschylus's Greek Tragedy" Vijaya Kumari Yeruva, Mayanka Chandrashekar, Yugyung Lee, Jeff Rydberg-Cox, Virginia Blanton, Nathan A Oyler. Proceedings of The 4th Joint SIGHUM Workshop on Computational Linguistics for Cultural Heritage, Social Sciences, Humanities, and Literature, December 2020. https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/2020.latechclfl-1.17/.
  8. Songs of Salvation to Salve the Soul: Kleos in O Brother Where Art Thou." International Journal of the Classical Tradition (2021); 28(1):88-97 with initial online publication in June of 2019. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12138-019-00533-3.
  9. "Toward an Open Digital Tutorial for Ancient Greek v. 2.0." Digital Humanities Quarterly 10 (2016): 4. http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/10/2/000249/000249.html
  10. "An Open Tutorial for Beginning Ancient Greek" in Classics Outside the Echo-Chamber: Teaching, Collaboration, Outreach and Public Engagement, Gabriel Bodard & Matteo Romanello eds. Ubiquity Press. 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/bat.e
  11. Book Review: Ancient Greek Women in Film by Konstantinos Nikoloutsos, ed. Oxford: Oxford UP, 2013. in Women's Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal. 45.3 (2016). Pages 303-305.
  12. The Summa Theologica: A Book History. Melissa Morris, Chainy Folsom, Nathan Oyler, Jeff Rydberg-Cox, Virginia Blanton. Codices Occasional Papers. University of Missouri-Kansas City. Paper Number 1. April 2015. Available at http://daedalus.umkc.edu/codices/papers/SummaTheologicaBookHistory.CodicesPaper1.2015.pdf.
  13. How to Write a History of the Book. Melissa Morris, Chainy Folsom, Nathan Oyler, Jeff Rydberg-Cox, Virginia Blanton. Codices Occasional Papers. University of Missouri-Kansas City. Paper Number 2. April 2015. Available at http://daedalus.umkc.edu/codices/papers/HowToWriteAHistoryoftheBook.CodicesPaper2.2015.pdf.
  14. "A Digital Tutorial for Ancient Greek", Classical World (2013) 107.1:111-117.
  15. "Social Networks and the Language of Greek Tragedy", Journal of the Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, Vol. 1, 2011: https://letterpress.uchicago.edu/index.php/jdhcs/article/view/86
  16. "Digitizing Latin Incunabula: Challenges, Methods, and Possibilities". In Changing the Center of Gravity: Transforming Classical Studies Through Cyberinfrastructure, pp. 159-174. 2010. Gorgias Press, Ed. Melissa Terras, Gregory Crane. Reprint of an article that first appeared in Digital Humanities Quarterly (2009) 3.1.
  17. "Digitizing Latin Incunabula: Challenges, Methods, and Possibilities" Digital Humanities Quarterly (2009) 3.1: http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/003/1/000027.html
  18. "Early Modern Culture in a Comprehensive Digital Library." (with Wolfgang Schibel) D-Lib (2006) 12.3: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/march06/schibel/03schibel.html
  19. "Talking About Violence: Clustered Participles in the Speeches of Lysias." Literary and Linguistic Computing, (2005) 20:2:219-235.
  20. "The Cultural Heritage Language Technologies Consortium" D-Lib (2005) 11.5: http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may05/rydberg-cox/05rydberg-cox.html
  21. "Report on the Delos/NSF working group on Emerging Language Technologies and the Rediscovery of the Past: A Research Agenda" (with Greg Crane, Kalina Bontcheva, and Clifford Wulfman). Journal of Digital Libraries (2005) 5.4:309-316.
  22. "Automatic Disambiguation of Latin Abbreviations in Early Modern Texts for Humanities Digital Libraries" Proceedings of the 2003 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries," 372-373
  23. "Towards a Cultural Heritage Digital Library" (with members of the Perseus Project) Proceedings of the 2003 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 75-86
  24. "Oral and Written Sources in Athenian Forensic Rhetoric" Mnemosyne (2003) 56 652-665.
  25. "Building an Infrastructure for Collaborative Digital Libraries in the Humanities" Ariadne (2003) 34: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue34/rydberg-cox/.
  26. "From Lexicon To Commentary and Back Again." New England Classical Journal (2002) 29.3:159-167.
  27. "Keyword Extraction from Ancient Greek Literary Texts." Literary and Linguistic Computing (2002) 17.2:231-244.
  28. "Mining Data from the Electronic Greek Lexicon" Classical Journal. (2002) 98.2:169-174.
  29. "Vocabulary Building in the Perseus Digital Library." (with Anne Mahoney) Classical Outlook (2002) 79.4:145-149.
  30. "A Prototype Multilingual Document Browser for Ancient Greek Texts" National Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia (2001) 7:103-114.
  31. "Management of XML Documents in an Integrated Digital Library." (With Anne Mahoney and David A. Smith). Markup Languages: Theory and Practice (2001) 2.3:205-214. (Revised and slightly expanded version of the article that appeared in Proceedings of the 2000 Extreme Markup Conference.
  32. "Document Quality Indicators and Corpus Editions" (With Anne Mahoney and Gregory R. Crane). Proceedings of the 2001 Joint Conference on Digital Libraries 2001. (July 2001) 1:435-436.
  33. "Drudgery and Deep Thought: Designing Digital Libraries for the Humanities." (With the Perseus Project) Communications of the Association for Computational Machinery (2001) 44.5:35-40.
  34. "A Note on Scrabble in Latin" (With Anne Mahoney) Classical Outlook (2001) 78.2:58-59.
  35. "Generalizing the Perseus XML Document Manager" (With Anne Mahoney, David Smith, and Clifford Wulfman). In the Proceedings of the Linguistic Exploration Conference (December 2000). http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/exploration/expl2000/papers/mahoney/mahoney.htm
  36. "Knowledge Management and the Perseus Digital Library" Ariadne (2000) 25: http://www.ariadne.ac.uk/issue25/rydberg-cox/. (With David A. Smith and Anne Mahoney)
  37. "Management of XML Documents in an Integrated Digital Library" (with Anne Mahoney and David Smith), Proceedings of the 2000 Extreme Markup Conference, (August 2000), p. 219-223.
  38. "New Technology and New Roles: The Need for Corpus Editors." (With Gregory R. Crane). Proceedings of the 5th Annual ACM Digital Library Conference, (July 2000) 5:252-253
  39. "An Unusual Exclamation in Aeschines' Against Timarchus (1.73)." Mnemosyne , (2000) 53.4:1-12
  40. "The Use of the Imperative in the Oedipus Tyrannus." The New England Classical Journal, (2000) 27.6:28-36.
  41. "Word Co-Occurrence and Lexical Acquisition in Ancient Greek Texts." Literary and Linguistic Computing, (2000) 15.2: 121-129
  42. "The Perseus Project: A Digital Library for the Humanities" (With David A. Smith). Literary and Linguistic Computing, (2000) 15.1:15-25.
  43. "Renaissance Culture and Society in the Novels of Elizabeth Eyre." In The Detective as Historian, eds. A. Browne, R. Browne, and L. Kreiser. Bowling Green State University Press, 2000. p. 111-121.
  44. Entries for Aeschines, Antiphon, Cimon, Dio Chrysostom, Draco, Ephialtes, Hecataeus, Hippias, Isaeus, Lysias, Nicias, Pericles, Solon, and Themistocles. In Interdisciplinary Biographical Dictionary of the Ancient World, ed. A. Traver. Greenwood Press, 2001. pp. 1-2, 31-32, 93-94, 129, 141-142, 147, 183, 196-197, 209, 235, 263-264, 284-286, 360-361, 374-375.
  45. Review of Learn Latin Now! CD-ROM. In Computing and the Classics, (1999) 15.2:1-2
  46. "Offering Advice: Textual Gifts and Guest-friendship in Isocrates." In Pomoerium: Studia et Commentarii ad Orbem Classicum Spectantia, (1998) 3:27-35.
  47. Review of Civilizations of the Ancient Mediterranean CD-ROM. In Computing and the Classics, (1998) 14.2:1-2.
  48. Review of Nielsen, T.H. ed. Yet More Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis. In Bryn Mawr Classical Review, (1998) 98.11:25.

Public Lectures and Presentations

  1. "Keynote Respondent: Strategies and Technologies for Medieval Women's Networks." Collective Wisdom from Medieval Women's Networks: Exploring Techniques and Tools for Digital Analysis. Online International Conference, October 18, 2024.
  2. "Relationships, Speakers, and the Network of Ideas in the Iliad." Epic Speeches Network, University of Amsterdam, Mount Alison University, Universität Rostock. June 2023.
  3. "Methods to cluster speakers and concepts in ancient epic as nodes within a network." Epic Speeches Network, University of Amsterdam, Mount Alison University, Universität Rostock. July 2022.
  4. "How can we use machine learning and multispectral imaging to unlock the mysteries of a Medieval Spanish chant book?" SKC Science and Technology Webinar Series, Assam, India (remotely presented online), January 27, 2022.
  5. “Using Network Analysis to Understand the Transmission of Medicines and Cures Across Central Asia.” Visual and Material Culture of the Silk Roads Symposium, University of Kansas Center for East Asian Studies, September 11, 2020.
  6. "Modeling the Sources and the Topics of Pliny's Natural History." Linda Hall Library, Kansas City Missouri, July 2020. https://www.lindahall.org/event/modeling-the-sources-the-topics-of-plinys-natural-history/
  7. "Lightning Talk: Automatic Identification of Topic Clusters Using Network Analysis." University of Missouri-Kansas City Digital Humanities Lightning Talks, September 26, 2019.
  8. "Automatic Detection of Topic Clusters Using Network Analysis." University of Missouri-Kansas City Digital Faculty Research Symposium, April 22, 2019.
  9. "Using XSL to Transform and Extract Information from XML Documents." Digital Humanities Workshops, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, September 2016.
  10. Introductory lectures and film selection for four-week film series in conjunction with the exhibit "Luxury: Treasures of the Roman Empire" at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, August 2016. Spartacus: August 6, 2016, Sign of the Cross: August 13, 2016, Gladiator: August 20, 2016, Fellini Satyricon: August 27, 2016
  11. "Using Literary and Linguistic Annotation Once You've Created It / XSLT and XPATH" (with David Birnbaum), Digital Humanities Workshops, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, September 2015.
  12. "Creating Literary and Linguistic Annotation: Advanced Beginner Level XML Annotation" (with David Birnbaum), Digital Humanities Workshops, Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, September 2015."
  13. "Introduction to XML Documents for Humanists," Invited Workshop, University of Kansas Institute for Digital Research in the Humanities, June 2015
  14. "Statistical Methods for Studying Literature Using R," Invited Workshop, University of Iowa Oberman Center for Advanced Study, September 2014
  15. "A Hybrid Online System for Teaching Ancient Greek," 1st Annual Meeting of the Digital Classics Association, University of Buffalo, April 2013
  16. "Introduction to XML & XPath" (with David Birnbaum), Digital Jumpstart Workshops 2013, University of Kansas, March 2012.
  17. "Quantitative Analysis of Literary Texts With R," THATCamp Kansas, University of Kansas, September 2012.
  18. "One Approach to Hybrid Ancient Greek," Working With Texts in A Digital Age, Jeff Rydberg-Cox, Tufts University, August 2012.
  19. A Visual Explorer for the Language of Greek Tragedy," NEH Institute on Networks and Network Analysis for the Humanities, Jeff Rydberg-Cox, University of California at Los Angeles, October 2011.
  20. "Making it Digital: Scholarly Issues and Challenges," The Future of Archives in a Digital Age, Jeff Rydberg-Cox, University of Missouri-Columbia, February 2011.
  21. "Introduction to 'R' for Humanists," University of Kansas Digital Humanities Forum, Jeff Rydberg-Cox, University of Kansas, September 2011.
  22. "Social Networks and the Language of Greek Tragedy," 2010 Chicago Colloquium on Digital Humanities and Computer Science, Jeff Rydberg-Cox, Northwestern University, November 2010.
  23. "Linking the Past to the Future: The Design and Implementation of a Lexicographic Database of Ancient Greek," Digital Humanities Summit, Jeff Rydberg-Cox, University of Kansas Digital Humanities Conference, March 2010.
  24. "Approaches to Large Scale Digitization of Early Printed Books." Changing the Center of Gravity: Transforming Classical Studies Through Cyberinfrastructure. A National Science Foundation Funded workshop at the University of Kentucky, October 2007.
  25. "Digitizing Latin Incunables," University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Computing and Engineering, October 2005.
  26. "Digitizing Latin Incunables: Challenges and Solutions", 40th International Congress on Medieval Studies, Kalamazoo, Michigan, May 2005.
  27. "Digital Libraries and the Challenges of Digital Humanities" University of Kentucky Center for Computational Sciences, April 2005.
  28. "The Homeric Hero on Film" International Conference on Arts and Humanities, January 2005.
  29. "Cultural Heritage Language Technologies at 18 months" NSF/IMLS Digital Library All-Projects Meeting, Washington, DC, November 2004.
  30. "Digital Tools for Learning Latin" Latin Club, Shawnee Mission East High School, November 2002.
  31. "Electronic Publication and Academic Promotion", 2004 Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, part of a panel on Electronic Publication And The Classics Profession.
  32. "Cross-Lingual Searching and Visualization in Greek, Latin and Old Norse Texts" (with Stefan Rueger, Lara Vetter, and Daniel Heesch). 2004 Joint ACM/IEEE Conference on Digital Libraries.
  33. "Cultural Heritage Language Technologies: An Overview". Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Rome Italy, March 2002
  34. "The Harmless e-Drudge: A Computational Tool-Set for Greek (and Latin) Lexicography". University of Kentucky, Center for Computational Sciences, February 2002.
  35. "Computational Lexicography and Ancient Greek". Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, January 2002.
  36. "What is the Perseus Digital Library?" University of Missouri at Kansas City, School of Interdisciplinary Computing and Engineering, November 2001.
  37. "Linked Classics: The Perseus Digital Library and the Study of the Ancient World", Symposium on Virtual Universities, Sponsored by the Science and the Human Dimension Project at Jesus College, Cambridge University, September 2001.
  38. "Document Quality Indicators and Corpus Editions", ACM/IEEE-CS Joint Conference on Digital Libraries, June 2001.
  39. "Data Extraction and Visualization in the Perseus Digital Library", at the Istituto di Linguistica Computazionale del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, Pisa, Italy, June, 2001.
  40. "Computational Lexicography and the New Intermediate Greek Lexicon." Lexicography Section, Annual Meeting of the Society for Biblical Literature, November 2000.
  41. "Oral and Written Sources in Athenian Forensic Rhetoric." Epea and Grammata: Oral and Written Communication in Ancient Greece, University of Missouri at Columbia, June 2000.
  42. "Computational Approaches to Ancient Greek Literature." Annual Meeting of the Society for Biblical Literature, November 1999.
  43. "Re-Presenting Lexica for an Electronic Environment." Fall Symposium of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence, November 1999.
  44. "Creating, Integrating, and Expanding Electronic Reference Works for the Perseus Digital Library." XML and the Publication of Ancient Near Eastern Texts, Oriental Institute, University of Chicago, October 1999.
  45. "Authority, Knowledge, and the Use of the Imperative in the Oedipus Tyrannus." Annual Meeting of the Classics Association of the Midwest and South, April 1999.
  46. "Electronic Commentaries in Perseus." Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, Technology Showcase, December 1998.
  47. "Ritual Practice and the Ideal of Isegoria in the Athenian Assembly." Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, December 1997.
  48. "The Use of Myth in Isocrates' Evagoras." The University of Chicago Workshop on Ancient Societies, April 1997.
  49. "Does Isocrates Distinguish between muthos and muthodes?" Annual Meeting of the Classics Association of the Midwest and South, April 1997.
  50. "The Audiences for Isocratean Rhetoric." The University of Chicago Workshop on Ancient Societies, March 1997.
  51. "Offering Advice: Textual Gifts and Guest-friendship in Isocrates." Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, December 1996.
  52. "The Rhetoric of Myth in Isocrates: An Introduction." The University of Chicago Workshop on Poetics and Rhetoric, January 1996.

External Activities

  1. Co-Owner, Free State Social Work, LLC

Academic Awards

  1. 2023: Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Research Mentoring
  2. 2015: College of Arts and Sciences Award for Good Teaching
  3. 2010: Inducted into Phi Kappa Phi
  4. 2008: Awarded early promotion to full professor
  5. 2005: Awarded early tenure.
  6. 2003-2004: Faculty Scholar Award, University of Missouri Kansas City. An award for faculty with the rank of Assistant Professor with exceptional early accomplishments and promise for outstanding future research.
  7. 2001-2002: New Faculty Teaching Scholar, University of Missouri-Kansas City
  8. 1995: Ryerson Fellow, The University of Chicago
  9. 1992-1996: Humanities Fellowship, The University of Chicago
  10. 1992: Phi Beta Kappa Honor Society, The Colorado College
  11. 1992: Gile Award for Excellence in the Study of Classics, The Colorado College
  12. 1992: State Finalist, Rhodes Scholarship Competition
  13. 1991: Pi Gamma Mu Honor Society for the Social Sciences, The Colorado College
  14. 1988-1992: Colorado Merit Award for Undergraduate Achievement, The Colorado College