From August 2003 through July 2004, I lived in Germany, devoting full time to my research project, "Shifting Perspectives: Mental Retardation in Ancient Greece." This was made possible by a Mary E. Switzer Distinguished Fellowship (through NIDRR), for which I am most grateful. My spouse Steven Reschly and I, along with Frank the Dog, spent the academic year in Halle (Saale), a city in the former East Germany, near Leipzig and Berlin. Steve was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship as a senior scholar, and he spent the year teaching in the Department of British and American Studies at the University of Halle-Wittenberg. I was affiliated with the Institute for Greek and Latin Language and Literature, where I offered a biweekly Vorlesung und Colloquium (lecture and discussion) on my research project during the winter semester.  In the summer semester, I offered "Ancient Body/Ancient Mind," another Vorlesung und Colloquium. 

Halle on the Saale