Romans Abroad: Associations of Roman Citizens from the Second Century B.C.E. to the Third Century C.E.
5154 N. Clark #334 Chicago, IL 60640
Clifford Ando, Alain Bresson, Michael Dietler, Cameron Hawkins
My dissertation investigates the organization, culture, and political practices of private collectivities of Roman citizens living outside the Italian peninsula in the Mediterranean region. Using an interdisciplinary analytic framework that accommodates evidence from contexts across the empire, it argues that these associations shaped local cultural and political structures through the selective adoption of local customs and their establishment of a widespread trade network. I am in the process of building a searchable online database that includes all extant epigraphic and literary records of collective acts by Roman citizens outside the Italian peninsula, organized by terminology, location, and size.
Latin: Teaching Assistant, Latin 101, University of Chicago Instructor, Latin 102, University of Chicago Instructor, Latin 103, University of Chicago Teaching Assistant, Latin 102, University of Chicago Attic Greek Instructor, Greek 103, University of Chicago Teaching Assistant, Greek 102, University of Chicago Teaching Assistant, Greek 101, University of Chicago Composition Instructor and Advisor, B.A. Colloquium, University of Chicago
INVITED TALKS 2013 “Associations of Roman Citizens and Local Communities in Moesia Inferior: Peregrine Loyalty at the Frontier.” University of Groningen, November 19 (upcoming) “Roman Collective Action in Asia Minor: Visibility in the Polis.” Université Charles-de-Gaule – Lille III, November 13 (upcoming) CONFERENCE ACTIVITY 2014 “Local and Translocal Networks: Contact between Associations of Roman Citizens and Local Communities of the Empire.” Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, January 2-5 (upcoming) 2013 “A Dedication to the Deified Augustus: Contact between Associations of Roman Citizens and Local Communities in Roman Africa.” Heartland Graduate Workshop in Ancient Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison, September 27-28 “Religion and Associations of Roman Citizens: Parsing the Cult Practices of the Roman Diaspora.” Real and Imaginary Borders Across the Mediterranean, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, February 8-9 2009 “Hypsipolis or Apolis: Legal Terminology and Problems of Citizenship in the Antigone.” Israel Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies, Ben Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, May 20-21 2008 “Italia Restituta: the Economic Policy of Trajanic Road Construction.” Annual Meeting of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April 16-19 CAMPUS/DEPARTMENTAL TALKS 2014 “Romans Abroad?: Rome and the Italian Diaspora.” Ancient Societies, University of Chicago, February 18 (upcoming) 2012 “Religion and the Roman Diaspora.” Ancient Societies, University of Chicago, October 16 2009 “Ex Montibus in Agros: The Settlement of Ligurians in Samnium in 180 B.C.E.” Ancient Societies, University of Chicago, May 25 “Bilingual Text as Object: Parodying Wisdom in the Seven Sages Fresco at Ostia.” Seeing Through Walls: New Approaches to Roman Painting, University of Chicago, March 13-14 “Hypsipolis or Apolis: Legal Terminology and Problems of Citizenship in the Antigone.” Rhetoric and Poetics, University of Chicago, October; Northwestern University, March 9 2008 Respondent. Contradictory Selves: Multiplicity and Conflict in Roman Representations of Character, University of Chicago, October 17-19
2013: Edward L. Ryerson Fellowship in Archaeology, University of Chicago. 2012: Ephron Research Scholarship, Department of Classics, University of Chicago. 2010: Eric P. Newman Award, American Numismatic Society. 2009: Edward L. Ryerson Fellowship in Archaeology, University of Chicago; Lord Scholarship, American School for Classical Studies at Athens; Semple Award (declined), Classical Association for the Middle West and South
2010: Eric P. Newman Summer Graduate Seminar in Numismatics, American Numismatic Society. 2009: American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Summer Session.