About SBU

Matz, David S

Name:

David S. Matz, Ph.D.

Academic School:

School of Arts and Sciences

Academic Department:

Classical Languages

Titles/Responsibilities:

Professor, Classical Languages

Contact Information:

Phone: (716) 375-2467
E-mail: dmatz@sbu.edu

Office Location/Hours:

E14 Plassmann Hall

Courses Taught:

CLAR 101 and 101-H. The Intellectual Journey (course syllabus)
HON 299. Special Topics: Homer (course syllabus)

Academic Degrees:

Ph.D., University of Minnesota
M.A., University of Minnesota
B.A., Lawrence University

Accomplishments:

Books Published:

Greek and Roman Sport: A Dictionary of Athletes and Events. McFarland & Company, 1991.
Ancient World Lists and Numbers. McFarland & Company, 1995.
An Ancient Rome Chronology 264-27 B.C. McFarland & Company, 1997.
Famous Firsts in the Greek and Roman World. McFarland & Company, 2000.
Daily Life of the Ancient Romans. Greenwood Press, 2002. Republished in soft cover by Hackett Publications, 2008.
Daily Life Through World History in Primary Documents. Volume I: The Ancient World. Greenwood Press, 2009.

Current Research Interests/Projects:

I’m working on a book for ABC-CLIO, entitled Voices of Ancient Greece and Rome: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life. The book is scheduled for publication in March or April of 2012.

Additional Biographical Information:

I’ve been an assistant women’s softball coach at SBU since the fall of 2002, working with Head Coach Mike Threehouse. Coach “House” has assembled some very competitive teams in that span, both off and on the field. Our softball teams are always outstanding academically, including leading the entire nation’s Division I softball programs in team GPA in 2007 and 2008. On the field, we have qualified for participation in the Atlantic-10 postseason tournament in four of the past five springs – not bad, considering that only about half the teams in the conference qualify for postseason play each year.

I coach baseball, play baseball, blog baseball. I work as a coach and instructor at Bona Baseball Coach Larry Sudbrook’s two-week summer baseball camps, and have done so for long enough that I’ve now earned the coveted title of “Camp Lifer.”

Dr. Matz, in his other life, gets ready to swing his custom-made wooden bat.

And I still play the game, too, as a second baseman/third baseman for my over-50 baseball team in Jamestown NY. And I blog the game, too, as an active participant on a Milwaukee Brewers blogsite.