Associate Professor of Classical Studies; Director of Graduate Admissions; NEH Distinguished Teaching Professor
Curriculum Vitae
BU NEH Humanities Distinguished Professorship Initiative
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My teaching incorporates my research on both undergraduate and graduate levels: my courses examine Roman history, Greek and Roman religions, public virtues and private vices in the Roman Empire, and read Latin prose on all levels. Additionally, I regularly offer a course entitled “What is a good life?.” In Spring 2024, I will start a 3-year term as the National Endowment for the Humanities Distinguished Teaching Professor in the College of Arts and Sciences and its Core Program at Boston University.
Research Interests
The social, political, cultural and religious history of the ancient Mediterranean with a focus on Late Republican Rome and the Roman Empire; questions of selfhood, individuality and community in this period; Latin historiography and literature; theoretical and methodological questions related to writing history, including trauma, practice theory, embodiment and the study of gender; Latin epigraphy, prosopography, paleography, and archaeological, art historical and numismatic evidence for the Roman Empire.
Select Publications
With co-editor J. Knust, Sacrifice in the Ancient Mediterranean. Images, Acts, Meanings. Oxford University Press: Oxford 2011.
The Religion of Senators in the Roman Empire: Power and the Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 2010). Link.
With co-editor J.-J. Aubert, A Tall Order: Writing the Social History of the Ancient World. Essays in Honor of William V. Harris. Beiträge zur Altertumskunde. Saur, Munich 2005.