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Noel Lenski Departments of and History Yale University Box 208266 New Haven, CT 06520-8266 (August 9, 2019)

Background

Academic Appointments 2015- Yale University, Professor of Classics and History 2018 Universidade Estadual Paulista ‘Júlio de mesquita Filho’, Campus Franca, visiting faculty 2014 Central European University, Budapest, visiting faculty 2012-14 Department of Classics, University of Colorado, Department Chair 2011-14 Department of History, University of Colorado, Courtesy Appointment 2005-9 Department of Classics, University of Colorado, Department Chair 2002-14 Department of Classics, University of Colorado, Associate Professor 2004 The Colorado College, Visiting Professor 1995-2002 Department of Classics, University of Colorado, Assistant Professor

Education 1995 PhD, Princeton University, Classics and Program in the Ancient World 1993-94 Visiting Fellow, Queen’s College, Oxford 1993 Summer Fellow, American Numismatic Society 1992 MA, Princeton University, Classics and Program in the Ancient World 1989 BA, summa cum laude, phi beta kappa, The Colorado College, Classics

Major Awards and Honors 1984-9 Boettcher Foundation Full Tuition Scholarship 1989-95 Mellon Fellowship in the Humanities 1993-4 Donald and Mary Hyde Dissertation Research Fellowship 1998 Dumbarton Oaks Summer Research Fellowship 2000 Boulder Faculty Assembly Excellence in Teaching Award 2002-3 Solmsen Fellowship in the Humanities (declined) 2002-3 Center for Hellenic Studies Fellowship, Washington DC (declined) 2002-3 Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung-Forschungstipendium 2005 CAMWS Outstanding Book Award, Failure of Empire (2002) 2009 American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship 2009 Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship 2009 Guggenheim Fellowship 2018 American Council of Learned Societies, Collaborative Research Fellowship

Languages Speaking fluency: German, Italian Reading fluency: , Classical Greek, French, Spanish

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Basic reading: Coptic, Syriac, Modern Greek, Portuguese, Serbo-Croatian

Publications

Books Books: Monographs / Texbooks 1. Failure of Empire: and the Roman State In the Fourth Century AD (University of California Press 2002). Pp. xx +454 [reviews: BMCR July 30, 2003; Choice Oct. 2003; CR 54 (2004) 192-4; AHR Oct. 2004: 1289-90; JRA 17 (2004) 729-34] winner of the CAMWS Outstanding Book Award 2. The Romans: From Village to Empire, second edition (Oxford University Press, 2011) Pp. xxiii + 586 (co-authored with M.T. Boatwright, D. Gargola, and R. Talbert) 3. A Brief History of the Romans, second edition (Oxford University Press, 2013) (co- authored with M.T. Boatwright, D. Gargola, and R. Talbert) 4. Constantine and the Cities: Imperial Authority and Civic Politics (University of Pennsylvania Press 2016). Pp ix + 404. [reviews: BMCR 2016.09.39; Sehepunkte 2016/11/28868; TLS Mar. 15, 2017; Reading Religion, June 13, 2017; Ancient Jew Review October 9, 2017; CJ-Online 2017.12.09; CHR (2017) 330-31; Church History (2017) 467-9; Gymnasium (2017) 602-3; RSI 128 (2016) 1184-89; Medioevo Greco (2017) 505-8; Reading Religion June 13, 2017; Tyche 32 (2017) 309-10; Phoenix 71 (2017); RBL 08/30/2018; Politica Antica 8 (2018) 193-97.

Books: Translated

5. Trans. Book Seven + chronological annotation, The Code of Justinian: A New Annotated Translation, with Parallel Latin and Greek Text. General editor: Bruce Frier (Cambridge University Press 2016) 6. The Leges Visigothorum. An English Translation with Historical Commentary (Under Contract with Liverpool University Press) forthcoming (co-edited with Damián Fernández)

Books: Edited 7. The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine (Cambridge University Press 2006; revised edition 2011) Pp. xx + 471. [reviews: Sehepunkte 7.2 (2007) no. 10238; CR 57.1 (2007) 196-98; HZ 283 (2006) 726-8; JEH 58 (2007) 300-1; AncW 38 (2007) 151-5 = NECJ 34 (2007) 178-82 ; Journal 28 (2007) 157-159; RSI 118 (2006) 1079-81; IJCT 14 (2007) 185-220; CB 84 (2008) 152-4]; Phoenix 62 (2008) 412- 3; RSR 34 (2008) 46; CB 85 (2009) 148-50. 8. The Power of Religion in (Ashgate Press, 2009) Pp. xviii + 464. (co- edited with Andrew Cain) [reviews: Religious Studies Review 36 (2010) 292-3. 9. Costantino prima e dopo Costantino - Constantine before and after Constantine (Edipuglia, 2012) Pp. xlviii + 604 (co-edited with G. Bonamente and R. Lizzi-Testa) 10. What is a Slave Society? The Practice of Slavery in Global Perspective (Cambridge University Press 2018) (co-edited with Catherine M. Cameron) – winner of the Choice Outstanding Book of the Year Award 11. The Fifth Century: Age of Transformation. Proceedings of the 12th Biennial Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity Conference. Munera, Studi storici sulla Tarda Antichità 46 (Edipuglia 2019) Pp. 320 (co-edited with Jan Willem Drijvers) 2

Articles Articles: Peer Refereed Journals 1. “The Gothic Civil War and the Date of the Gothic Conversion,” GRBS 36 (1995) 51-87 2. “Initium mali romano imperio. Contemporary Reactions to the Battle of Adrianople,” TAPA 127 (1997) 129-68 3. “Assimilation and Revolt in the Territory of Isauria,” Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 42 (1999) 413-65 4. “Basil and the Isaurian Uprising of 375,” Phoenix 45 (1999) 308-29 5. “The Election of Jovian and the Role of the Late Imperial Guards” Klio 82 (2000) 492-515 6. “Were Valentinian, Valens and Jovian Confessors before the Apostate?” Zeitschrift für antikes Christentum 6 (2002) 253-76 7. “Valens and the Monks: Cudgeling and Conscription as a Means to Social Control,” Dumbarton Oaks Papers 58 (2004) 93-117 8. “Evoking the Pagan Past: Instinctu Divinitatis and Constantine’s Capture of ” Journal of Late Antiquity 1.2 (2008) 204-57 9. "Captivity and Slavery among the Saracens in Late Antiquity (ca. 250 - 630 CE)," Antiquité Tardive 19 (2011) 237-66 10. “’s Dedication Medallions and the Maintenance of Civic Traditions” Numismatische Zeitschrift 119 (2012) 31-58 (co-authored with Lars Ramskold) 11. "Harnessing Violence: Armed Force as Manpower in the Late Roman Countryside," Journal of Late Antiquity 6 (2013) 233-50 12. “The Date of the Ticinum Medallion,” Numismatica e Antichità Classiche – Quaderni Ticinesi 47 (2018) 251-95.

Articles: Multiauthored volumes (peer refereed) 13. “Evidence for the Audientia episcopalis in the New Letters of Augustine,” in R. Mathisen, ed. Law, Society and Authority in Late Antiquity (Oxford, 2001) 83-97 14. “Empresses in the Holy Land: The Making of a Christian Utopia in Late Antiquity,” in L. Ellis, ed. Travel, Communication and Geography in Late Antiquity (Aldershot, 2004) 113-24 15. “The Reign of Constantine” in N. Lenski, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine (New York, 2006) 59-90 16. “Introduction” in N. Lenski, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine (New York, 2006) 1-13 17. “Servi Publici in Late Antiquity” in J.-U. Krause and C. Witschel, eds. Die Stadt in der Spätantike – Niedergang oder Wandel? Historia Einzelschriften 190 (Stuttgart, 2006) 335-57 18. “The Chronology of Valens’ Dealings with Persia and Armenia, 364–378 CE” in J. den Boeft, J.W. Drijvers, D. den Hengst, and H.C. Teitler, eds. Ammianus After Julian: The Reign of Valentinian and Valens in Books 26-31 of the Res Gestae (Brill: Leiden, 2007) 95-127 19. “Introduction” to Jacob Burckhardt The Age of , trans. M. Hadas (The Folio Society: London, 2007) xi-xix. 20. “Two Sieges of Amida (AD 359 and 502-503) and the Experience of Combat in the Late Roman ” in A.S. Lewin and P. Pellegrini, eds. The Late in the Near East from to the Arab Conquest: Proceedings of a colloquium

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held at Potenza, Acerenza and Matera, (May 2005). British Archaeological Reports International Series 1717 (Archaeopress, 2007) 219-36 21. “Constantine” in A. Barrett, ed. Lives of the Caesars (Oxford: Blackwell, 2008) 255-79 22. “Captivity, Slavery, and Cultural Exchange between Rome and the Germans from the First to the Seventh Century CE” in C. Cameron, ed. Invisible Citizens: Captives and Their Consequences (University of Utah Press: Salt Lake City, 2008) 80-109 23. “Schiavi armati e formazione di eserciti privati nel mondo tardo antico” in G.P. Urso, ed. Ordine e sovversione nel mondo greco e romano (Edizioni ETS: Pisa, 2009) 145-75 (http://www.fondazionecanussio.org/atti2008/09_Lenski.pdf) 24. “Introduction” in N. Lenski and A. Cain, eds. The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity (Ashgate Press: Aldershot, 2009) 1-17 25. “Captivity and Romano-Barbarian Interchange” in R. Mathisen and D. Shanzer, eds. Romans, Barbarians, and the Transformation of the Roman World (Ashgate: Farnham, 2011) 185-98 26. "Early Retrospectives on the Christian Constantine: Athanasius and Firmicus Maternus" in G. Bonamente, N. Lenski and R. Lizzi-Testa, eds. Costantino prima e dopo Costantino - Constantine before and after Constantine (Edipuglia: Bari 2012) 465-79 27. “Constantine and Slavery: and the Fusion of Roman and Christian Values” in S. Giglio, ed. Atti dell’Accademia Romanistica Costantiniana XVIII (Perugia, 2012) 235-60 28. "Preface" in G. Bonamente, N. Lenski and R. Lizzi-Testa, eds. Costantino prima e dopo Costantino - Constantine before and after Constantine (Edipuglia: Bari 2012) vii-xiii 29. “Working Models: Functional Art and Roman Conceptions of Slavery” in M. George, ed. Roman Slavery and Roman Material Culture (Toronto, 2013) 129-57 with figures 5.1-14 30. "Constantine and the Tyche of Constantinople," in J. Wienand, ed. Contested Monarchy. Integrating the in the 4th Century AD (Oxford, 2014) 330- 52 31. "Captivity among the Barbarians and its Impact on the Fate of the Roman Empire," in M. Maas, ed. The Cambridge Companion to the Age of (Cambridge, 2015) 230-46 32. "The Sun and the Senate: The Inspiration for the ," in E. Dal Covolo and G. Gasparro Sfameni, eds. Costantino il Grande alle radici dell'Europa. Atti del Convegno Internazionale di Studio in occasione del 1700o anniversario della Battaglia di e della conversione di Costantino (Libreria Editrice Vaticana: , 2015) 153-93 33. “Constantine and the Donatists: Exploring the Limits of Religious Toleration,” in M. Wallraff, ed. Religiöse Toleranz: Moderne Idealien im Spiegel antiker Realien. Colloquium Rauricum XIV (Berlin: DeGruyter, 2015) 101-39 34. “Violence and the Roman Slave,” in Gareth G. Fagan and Werner Reiss (eds.) The Topography of Violence in the Greco-Roman World (Cambridge, 2016) 275-98 35. “Imperial Legislation and the Donatist Controversy: From Constantine to ,” in R. Miles, ed. The Donatist Schism: Controversy and Contexts. Translated Texts for Historians, Contexts 2 (Liverpool, 2016) 166-219

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36. “Peasant and Slave in Late Antique North , c. 100-600 CE,” in R. Lizzi Testa, ed. Late Antiquity in Contemporary Debate (Newcastle: Cambridge Scholars Publishing 2017) 113-55 37. “The Significance of the Edict of ,” in E. Siecienski, ed. Constantine: Religious Faith and Imperial Policy (Abingdon: Routledge 2017) 27-56 38. “Il valore dell’editto di Milano,” in R. Macchioro, ed. Costantino a Milano: L’editto e la sua storia (313-2013) (Milan, 2018) 5-58 39. “Framing the Question: What is a Slave Society?,” in N. Lenski and C. Cameron, eds. What is a Slave Society? The Practice of Slavery in Global Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2018) 15-57 40. “Ancient Slaveries and Modern Ideologies,” in N. Lenski and C. Cameron, eds. What is a Slave Society? The Practice of Slavery in Global Perspective (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2018) 106-147 41. “Introduction,” in J.W. Drijvers and N. Lenski, eds. The Fifth Century: Age of Transformation. Proceedings of the 12th Biennial Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity Conference. Munera Studi storici sulla Tarda Antichità (Bari: Edipuglia) 7-16 (with J.W. Drijvers)

Articles: Multiauthored volumes and popular press journals (non-refereed) 42. “Relations between Coast and Hinterland in Rough Cilicia,” in É. Jean et al, eds. La Cilicie: Espaces et Pouvoirs Locaux. Table Ronde Internationale, Istanbul 2-5 Novembre 1999 (Istanbul, 2001) 417-24. 43. “Slavery between Rome and the Barbarians” In Rome and the Barbarians: The Birth of a New World (Skira: Rome, 2008) 228-31. 44. “El día más nefasto: La battalla de Adrianópolis” Desperta Ferro, Antigua y medieval 50 (2018) 40-48.

Articles: Completed and Forthcoming 45. “Pliny and the Christians,” in F. Romer, ed. Events that Changed (Greenwood Press) 46. "Slaves and Serfs in Late Antiquity," in S. Hodkinson, M. Kleijwegt, and K. Vlassopoulos (eds.) Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Slaveries (Oxford) forthcoming 47. “Santo Mazzarino: Revolutions in Society and Economy in Late Antiquity,” The New Late Antiquity: A Gallery of Intellectual Portraits (19th century through present) (Berlin: Walter De Gruyter) 48. “Slavery in the ,” in D. Eltis, S. Engerman, C. Perry, and D. Richardson, eds. The Cambridge World History of Slavery, vol. 2 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press) 49. “Searching for Slave Teachers in Late Antiquity,” in C. Sogno, ed. Studies in Honor of Robert Penella (RET Publishers 2018) 50. “Saints and their Cities in Late Antiquity – Reviewed,” in A.E.T. McLaughlin and Young Richard Kim, eds. Saints and their Cities in Late Antiquity, forthcoming 51. “Slavery in the Visigothic Kingdom,” in C. de Wet, M. Kahlos, and V. Vuolanto, eds. Slavery in the Late Antique World, 200-700 CE (Cambridge 2019) forthcoming 52. “Ambrose Thinks with Slavery – and Acts,” in A. Hunnell Chen and W.V. Harris, eds. Studies in Honor of Alan Cameron (Oxford 2020)

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Reviews 1. Review of J. den Boeft et al. eds. Cognitio Gestorum: The Historiographic Art of , Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis 108 (1995) 279-80 2. Review of J.P.C. Kent The Roman Imperial Coinage, Vol. X, AJA 100 (1996) 628-9 3. Review of P. Rousseau Basil of Caesarea (Berkeley, 1994), BMCR 7.5 (1996) 438-44 4. Review of F.J. Wiebe Kaiser Valens und die heidnische Opposition (Bonn 1995), JRS 87 (1997) 311 5. Review of W. Hagl Apis (Stuttgart, 1997), BMCR 9.6 (1998) 528-34 6. Review of R. Laurence The Roads of Roman Italy: Mobility and Cultural Change (London, 1999), Classical Journal 97 (2001) 204-6 7. Review of L. Schumacher Sklaverei in der Antike: Alltag und Schicksal der Unfreien (München, 2001), BMCR 2002 - http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2002/2002-09-19.html 8. Review of J. Matthews Laying Down the Law (New Haven, 2000), Classical Journal 98 (2002) 329-32 9. Review of R. Frakes Contra Potentium Iniurias: The Defensor Civitatis and Late Roman Justice (München, 2001), American Historical Review 108 (2003) 234-5 10. Review of R. Van Dam Kingdom of Snow: Roman Rule and Greek Culture in Cappadocia (Philadelphia, 2002), Mediterranean Historical Review 19 (2004) 76-9 11. Review of Sklave der Stadt: Untersuchungen zur öffentlichen Sklaverei in den Städten des Römischen Reiches (Stuttgart, 2004), BMCR 2005 - http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2005/2005-07-24.html 12. Review of C. Kelly Ruling the Later Roman Empire (Cambridge, MA, 2004), IJCT 14 (2007) 276-79 13. Review of H. Amirav and B. ter Haar Romeny (eds) From Rome to Constantinople: Studies in Honour of Averil Cameron. Late Antique History and Religion (Leuven, 2007), L’Antiquité tardive 17 (2009) 389-94 14. Review of Y. Rotman, Byzantine Slavery and the Mediterranean World (Cambridge, MA, 2009), BMCR 2010 - http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2010/2010-05-14.html 15. Review of S. Schmidt-Hofner Reagieren und Gestalten: Der Regierungsstil des spätrömischen Kaisers am Beispiel der Gesetzgebung Valentinians I. Vestigia Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte 58 (Munich, 2008), Historische Zeitschrift 290 (2010) 775-7 16. Review of S. Connolly Lives behind the Laws: The World of the (Bloomington, 2010), BMCR 2011 - http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2011/2011-02-32.html 17. Review of I. Shahîd and the Arabs in the Sixth Century. Volume II, Part 2: Economic, Social and Cultural History (Washington, DC, 2009), Speculum 87 (2012) 94-95 18. Review of J. Wienand Der Kaiser als Sieger. Metamophosen triumphaler Herrschaft unter Constantin I. Klio Beihefte 19 (Berlin, 2012), Journal of Late Antiquity 8.1 (2015) 235-7 19. Review of V. Aiello, ed. Guerrieri, mrecanti e profughi nel Mare dei Vandali. Pelorias 22 (Messina, 2014), Bollettino di Studi Latini 45 (2015) 780-85 20. Review of C. De Wet Preaching Bondage: and the Discourse of Slavery in Early (Berkeley, 2015), Studies in Late Antiquity 1 (2017) 215-19 21. “Microbe’s eye view: An overarching theory for the decline of an empire.” Review of K. Harper, The Fate of Rome: Climate, Disease and the End of an Empire (Princeton, 2017), Times Literary Supplement 6025 (September 21, 2018) 29 22. Review of W.V. Harris, Roman Power: A Thousand Years of Empire (Cambridge, 2016), Journal of Roman Studies 108 (2018), 195-97

Encyclopedia / Dictionary / Bibliography Entries and Articles

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1. Entry for “Valens” on De Imperatoribus Romanis website (1997) http://orb.rhodes.edu/encyclop/early/De_Imp/valens.html 2. Entries for “Comitatus," “Conscription," “Factories," “Notitiae," “Pannonia,” in G. Bowersock, P. Brown, O. Grabar, eds. A Guide to Late Antiquity (Harvard University Press 1999) 386, 389, 443, 612, 632-3 3. Translation from the German for C. Witschel “Re-evaluating the Roman West in the 3rd c. A.D.” JRA 17 (2004) 251-81 4. Translation of sources, “Novae in Ancient Sources” in P. Dyczek and J. Kolendo, eds. Novae. Fortress and Late Antique Town, vol. I, A Companion to the Study of Novae: History of research, Novae in ancient sources, Historical studies, Geography, Topography and Cartography (Warsaw 2008) 73-114 5. Entries for “Diocletian” and “” in M. Gagarin et al., eds. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (Oxford, 2010) vol. 2 pp. 420-2; vol. 7 pp. 10- 11 6. Entry for “Constantine” in A. Grafton, G. Most, and S. Settis The Classical Tradition (Harvard UP: Cambridge, MA, 2010) 236-7 7. Entry for “” in R. Bagnall et al., eds, The Encyclopedia of (Blackwell, 2013) 5561-5563 8. “Constantine.” Oxford Bibliographies in Classics. Ed. D. Clayman. New York: Oxford University Press, launch 2.25.14. 9. Entries for “Adrianople," “Valens” and “Valentinian” in Y. LeBohec, ed. Encyclopedia of the Roman Army (Wiley-Blackwell 2015) 10. Entry for “Constantine: Portrait” in P. C. Finney The Eerdmans Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and Archaeology (Eerdmans 2016) online 11. Entry for "Spätantike" in: Handwörterbuch der antiken Sklaverei (HAS) Bd. 3, ed. by Heinz Heinen, together with Ulrich Eigler, Peter Gröschler, Elisabeth Herrmann-Otto, Henner von Hesberg, Hartmut Leppin, Hans-Albert Rupprecht, Winfried Schmitz, Ingomar Weiler and Bernhard Zimmermann. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag 2017 (Forschungen zur antiken Sklaverei Beiheft 5), 2883-90. 12. Entry for "Servitus, servus" in C. Mayer, ed. Augustinus-Lexikon (Schwabe Verlag) forthcoming

Professional Experience

Editorial Positions Editorial Board, Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Slavery, Edinburgh University Press – 2019- Editorial board, Munera - Studi storici sulla tarda antichità, Edipuglia - 2011- Editorial board, Occidente / Oriente’ (studi e ricerche sulla tarda antichità), Fabrizio Serra Editore – 2014- Managing Editor, Journal of Late Antiquity, Johns Hopkins University Press - 2013-2018 Associate Editor, Journal of Late Antiquity, Johns Hopkins University Press - 2008-2013

Creative Works Featured expert in four episodes of “Rome, Rise and Fall of an Empire," Gardner Films, History Channel, October 6, 2008 and following Curator, The Wilton Jaffee Collection of Roman Coins, University of Colorado Art Museum, September 2010 to present

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Radio interview on "The and Valentine's Day" for The Madeleine Brand Show, 89.3 KPCC Public Radio, Los Angeles, February 2012 Radio interview on "The Lupercalia and Valentine's Day" for The Jefferson Exchange, Jefferson Public Radio, Ashland, OR, February 2013 Radio interview on “The Dark Origins of Valentine’s Day” for HuffPost Live, February 2014 Radio interview on “The Fall of the Roman Empire” for CEU Medieval Radio, May 2015 Featured expert in “Finding Jesus. Faith, fact, forgery,” Episode 5 “The True Cross,” CNN London, Nutopia, March 2015 Featured expert in two episodes of “Barbarians Rising,” History Channel, May 2016

Conference Organization “Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity VII: The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity,” Boulder, CO, 2007 "What is a Slave Society? An International Conference on the Nature of Slavery as a Global Historical Phenomenon," Boulder, CO, 2013 (http://www.colorado.edu/classics/wiss/) “Quantifying Problems in Ancient History: Working with Numbers from the Ancient Past,” Yale University, New Haven, CT May 2016 “Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity XII: The Fifth Century – Age of Transformation,” Yale University, March 2017 “A Deep History of Slavery: Antiquity and Modernity in Dialogue,” Yale University, Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Race and Slavery, Annual Conference, November 2019

Excavation Experience Project Numismatist and Historian for the Villa of Excavation Field School, summer 2003, 2005-8

Minor Awards and Honors 1989 The Colorado College: Phi Beta Kappa, Latin Prize, Italian Prize 1990 Mellon Summer Travel Grant for Aestiva Romae Latinitas, Rome 1992 Seeger Fund Travel Grant for study of Modern Greek at The Athens Center, Athens, 1992 1992 Program in the Ancient World grant for archaeological research in Asia Minor, Turkey, 1992 1994 Program in the Ancient World grant for archaeological research in Late Roman and Byzantine Thrace, , 1994 1997 Junior Faculty Development Award, University of Colorado 2000 Council on Research and Creative Work Small Grant 2001 Graduate Committee on Arts and Humanities Travel Grant, for research on Constantinian Rome 2001 University of Colorado Outreach Grant, for hosting Legio XIIII 2003 Dean’s Fund for Excellence, for exhibit of W. Jaffee Coin Collection 2003 GCAH Travel Grant for research on the Villa of Maxentius 2005 GCAH Travel Grant for research on Constantinian epigraphy 2006 Dean’s Fund for Excellence Grant, for hosting Shifting Frontiers VII 2006 Council on Research and Creative Work Conference Grant, for hosting Shifting Frontiers VII, 2006 2006 GCAH Special Project Grant, for hosting Shifting Frontiers VII, 2006 2007 President’s fund for the Humanities Award, for hosting Shifting Frontiers VII 8

2008 Dean’s Fund for Excellence Grant for research on the Villa of Maxentius 2011 University of Colorado Outreach Grant, for hosting Colorado Classics Day I 2012 GCAH Special Project Grant, for hosting What is a slave society? 2012 Kayden Award, for hosting What is a slave society? 2012 University of Colorado Outreach Grant, for hosting Colorado Classics Day II 2013 President's Fund for the Humanities, for hosting What is a slave society? 2013 Gamm Team Taught Teaching Award (with Catherine Cameron, ANTH), for teaching A Global History of Slavery 2013 Kayden Award, for graphic material and permissions for book MS, Constantine and the Cities 2016 Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, for Shifting Frontiers XII 2017 Digital Humanities Software Development Seed Grant 2018 Choice Outstanding Book of the Year, for What is a Slave Society? 2019 Edward J. and Dorothy Clarke Kempf Memorial Fund, for Classics Colloquium – Epigraphic Habits 2019 MacMillan Research Grant for Coin Hoards of the Roman Empire

Scholarly Papers Presented “Transformations in Roman Religion: Cybele and the Bacchanalian Conspiracy,” Graduate Colloquium, Princeton, Fall 1991 “Grammar and Politics in the Late Republic,” CAAS, Spring 1993 “What was it like to be a Pannonian Emperor? The Reign of Valens,” Late Roman Seminar, Oxford, Winter 1993 “The Prosopography of a Pannonian Emperor,” NECROS, Durham, Spring 1994 “Doctors and Society in the Later Roman Empire,” CAAS, Fall 1994 “Anti-barbarianism and Roman Foreign Policy in the Reign of Valens,” APA, 1994 “Valens, the Persians and the Armenians,” PAW Colloquium, Princeton, 1995 “Initium mali romano imperio: Contemporary Reactions to the Battle of Adrianople,” CAMWS, April 1996 “New Evidence for Isauria in the Fourth Century,” APA, 1996 “Evidence for the Audientia episcopalis in the New Letters of Augustine,” Law and Society in Late Antiquity, March, 1997 and CAMWS, April 1997 “The Collapse of Rome,” The Collapse of Civilizations, CU Museum, October 1997 “ and Revolt in the Territory of Isauria,” Fourth Meeting of the International Society for the Classical Tradition, Tübingen, August 1998 “The Persian Peace of 363: Compromise and Continuity on the Eastern Frontier” Byzantine Studies Conference, November 1998 “Valentinian and Valens’ Fortifications and the systematic Construction of Frontier Defenses” AIA, December 1998 “Barbarians at the Gates: The Settlement of non-Roman Peoples inside Roman Territory,” Cornell University, September 1999 “Relations between Coast and Hinterland in Rough Cilicia,” International Round Table on Cilicia: Space and Local Powers 2nd Millenium BC - 4th Century AD, Istanbul, November 1999 (paper read in absentia) “Outside In: The Settlement of ‘Barbarians’ Inside Roman Territory,” APA, December 1999 “Violence and Social Control in Roman ,” Princeton, October 2000

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“Empresses in the Holy Land: The Making of a Christian Utopia in Late Antiquity,” Shifting Frontiers IV, San Francisco, March 2001 “Constantine and the ,” Society for Biblical Studies, Denver, November 2001 “Slavery and Social Status in the Cappadocian Fathers,” Byzantine Studies Conference, Notre Dame, November 2001 “Legally Bound: The of Slavery In Late Antiquity,” University of Vermont and Middlebury College, October 2002; Washington University, St. Louis, October 2003 “Slave Prices and Slave Supply in Late Antiquity," University of Poznan, April 2003; Philipps- Universität-Marburg, June 2003 “Servi Publici in the Late Antique City,” Internationales Kollquium zur Stadt in der Spätantike, Munich, May 2003 “The Changing Face of Constantine," University of Colorado at Boulder, March 2004, Princeton University, April 2004 “L’immagine di Costantino in trasformazione,” Convegno su nuove ricerce nella tarda antichità, Matera, Italy, May 2004; Università degli studi di Firenze, May 2004 “Barbarian Captivity in Late Antiquity," Shifting Frontiers VI, Urbana-Champagne, IL, March 2005 “The Amida Sieges of 359 and 502-3 and the Face of Battle in the Late Roman Near East,” Convegno sull'esercito romano orientale nella tarda antichità, Università degli studi della Basilicata, May 2005 “Ammianus and the Chronology of the Romano-Persian Conflicts after the Death of Julian,” Ammianus after Julian, Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, Wassenaar, June 2005 “John Chrysostom on Slavery,” Byzantine Studies Conference, November 2005, Catholic University of America March 2006 “Superficies Solo Cedit: Classics as a Foundation for the Teaching of Roman Law,” Association of Ancient Historians Conference, May 2006 “’s Vita Malchi as a Slave Narrative,” International Conference on Jerome of Stridon, Cardiff, July 2006, Indiana University 2008; Washington University in St. Louis 2009 “Constantine and the Cities,” Constantine and the Late Roman World, York UK, July 2006 “A Silver Medallion of Constantine and its Significance to East Roman Cities,” The Coins of Constantine Conference, York UK, July 2006 “Constantine and Slavery: Libertas and the Fusion of Roman and Christian Values,” XVIII Convegno Internazionale dell’Accademia Romanistica Costantiniana, Spello-Perugia, June 2007 “ Konstantin und die Städte: Förderung des Wandels durch Kontinuität,” Universität Heidelberg, July 2007 “Working Models: Functional Art and Ancient Conceptions of Slavery,” Roman Slavery and Roman Material Culture: The Sixth E.T.Salmon Conference, McMaster University, September 2007; Kenyon College, November 2007 “Evoking the Pagan Past: Instinctu Divinitatis and Constantine’s Capture of Rome,” University of Tennessee Knoxville, March 2008 “Slave Trading and Slave Culture between Rome and the Germans,” Human Trafficking in the Ancient World, UC Irvine, April 2008 “Schiavi armati e la formazione di eserciti privati nel mondo tardo antico,” Ordine e sovversione nel mondo greco e romano, X Convegno internazionale della Fondazione Niccolò Canussio, September 2008 “Slavery and the Law of the Church in Late Antiquity,” Byzantine Studies Conference, October 2008

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“Costantino e il controllo della punizione degli schiavi,” XIX Convegno Internazionale dell’Accademia Romanistica Costantiniana, Spello-Perugia, June 2009 “Constantine and the Tyche of Constantinople,” Contested Monarchy: Integrating the Roman Empire, Konstanz, July 2009 “The Law of Slavery in Justinian’s Novels,” Fordham University, February 2010 “Chained to our Evidence: Slavery, Sources, and Shackles in the Late Roman West,” Words and Things: Texts and Archaeology in Late Antiquity, April 2010 “The Church as a Place of Refuge from Slavery,” Catholic University of America, April 2010 “Slavery in John Chrysostom,” Christ Church College, Oxford, May 2010 “Slavery and Society in Merovingian Gaul,” Trinity College, Oxford, May 2010 "Slavery and the Law in Late Antiquity," University of Southern California School of Law, September 2010 "New Research on Slavery in Late Antiquity," Princeton, February 2011 "Captivity and Slavery to the Saracens in Late Antiquity (ca. 250-630)," University of Chicago, April 2011 "Costantino e le città," Università degli Studi di Pisa, April 2011 "Retrospectives on the Christian Constantine:, Athanasius and Firmicus Maternus and the Early Reaction to Constantine," Perugia / Spello, April 2011 "The Barbarian Settlements and the Case for Land Expropriation," Pennsylvania State University, June 2011 "Slavery and Ethnicity in Late Antiquity, 300-700 CE," Entre a antiguidade tardia e a alta idade média: novos caminhos da pesquisa histórica, São Paulo, September 2011 "Slavery in the Age of Attila" Rice University, Houston, October 2011 "The Senate and the Sun: The Inspiration for Constantine's Arch," Costantino il Grande: Alle Radici dell'Europa, Vatican City, April 2012; University of Texas Austin November 2012 "Historicizing the Christian Emperor: Eusebius, Socrates and write their rulers," The Transformation of the Imperial Office in Late Antiquity, Corpus Christi College, Oxford, June 2012 "Response to John Matthews 'Confronting Leviathan'," Fifth Annual Rostovtzeff Lecture, Yale University, November 2012 "A Tale of Two Colonates" Fourth ILAN Conference, Manchester, September 2012; Princeton University, December 2012 "Harnessing Violence: Armed Force as Manpower in the Late Roman Countryside," American Philological Association, January 2013 "Il valore dell'Editto di Milano," Costantino a Milano: L'Editto e la sua storia (313-2013), keynote address, Milan, May 2013 "Konstantin und die Donatisten: Toleranz angesichts einer Krise der städtischen Politik," Religiöse Toleranz: Moderne Ideale im Spiegel antiker Realien, Basel, August 2013 “Imperial Legislation and the Donatist Controversy,” The Donatist Controversy in Context Colloquium, Trinity College, Cambridge, March 2014 “Small Change – Big Change: A Fractional Hoard from Late Vandalic and Early Byzantine North Africa,” Fra Costantino e i Vandali: Convegno internazionale di studi per Enzo Aiello (1957- 2013), Messina October 2014 (paper delivered in absentia via lecture capture) “Decline and Fall, or Transformation,” Society for Classical Studies – American Archaeological Institute joint panel debate, New Orleans, January 2015 “Santo Mazzarino (1916-1987) and his School,” The New Late Antiquity: A Gallery of Intellectual Portraits (19th century through present) Ghent, February 2015

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“Peasant and Slave in Late Antique North Africa, c. 100-600 CE,” International Congress of Historical Studies, Jinan China, August 2015 (delivered in absentia) “Byzantine Slavery,” Cambridge World History of Slavery Conference, Hull UK, September 2015 “The Visigothic Settlement of 418 and the Case for Land Expropriation,” Wesleyan University, October 2015 “The Significance of the Edict of Milan,” Columbia University, October 2015 “Mutable Immortals: Continuity and Change in the Office of Emperor,” Immortales: The Hall of Emperors of the , Rome – Symposium, University of Oklahoma, October 2015 “What is a Slave Society? The Practice of Greek and Roman Slavery in Global Perspective,” Texts and Contexts, Washington University in St. Louis, November 2015 “Reading Jerome’s Life of as a Slave Narrative,” Race and Slavery Working Group, Yale University, November 2015 “Roman Slavery from the 2nd-6th c. CE. Continuities and Transformations,” Workshop an der Graduierten Kolleg der LMU München, December 2015 “The Emperor’s Doctor,” A Conference in Honor of Robert J. Penella, Fordham University, March 2016 “A History of Byzantine Slavery,” New York University, Department of Classics, April 2016 “Roman Refugees: The Settlement of Barbarian Peoples Inside the Roman Empire,” St. Andrews, Regionalism and Integration in the Roman Empire, and Munich LMU, Recent Research on Ammianus Marcellinus, June 2016 “Reactions to E. Powery and R. Sadler, The Genesis of Liberation: Biblical Interpretation in the Antebellum Narratives of the Enslaved,” AAR / SBL 2016, San Antonio, October 2016 “Peasant and Slave in Late Antique North Africa, c. 100-600 CE,” University of Pennsylvania, December 2016 “Roman Refugees: The Settlement of Barbarian Peoples Inside the Roman Empire,” University of New Mexico October 2017, University of Sheffield, Pennsylvania State University May 2016, Trinity College November 2017, Duke University January 2018, Universidade Federal de Salvador May 2018, Trent University, Peterborough ON March 2019 “Slavery in Visigothic Spain and the McCormick Thesis,” Medieval Academy of America, Atlanta, GA, March 2018 “Why Study Late Antiquity?,” Universidade Federal do Paraná, Curitiba, Brazil, May 2018 “Slavery in Visigothic Spain,” CMERS Conference, University of Binghamton, October 2018 “Peasant and Slave in Late Antique Syria,” CMERS Conference, University of Binghamton, October 2018 “Ambrose Thinks with Slavery,” A Conference in Honor of Alan Cameron, Columbia University, October 2018 “The Date of the Ticinum Medallion: The first evidence for Constantine’s Conversion,” University of Texas, Austin, November 2018 “The Administrative Division of Italy and its Impact on Fourth Century Political History (306-394 CE),” Late Roman Italy: to Regnum, Ghent, Belgium 2019 “What difference did Christianity make? A second look,” New Approaches to Ancient Slavery, Florida State University, March 2019 “Ritualizing Religious Violence: The Struggle for Control of the Discourse,” Yale Divinity School, April 2019

Outreach Papers Presented

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“All that Glitters: The Power of Gold in the ” AIA Boulder Chapter, November 2000 “Roman Coinage and Roman History,” Fairview High School, April 2006 “The Varus Disaster and the Excavations at Kalkriese,” Ridgeview Classical Academy, March 2008 "Why did Rome Fall?," McClanahan Public Lecture, Boulder Public Library, October 2010 "The Uses of ," at Hellenic American Cultural Association Conference, October 2011; McClanahan Public Lecture, Boulder Public Library, November 2012 “The Transition from Non-Tenure Track to Tenure Track Positions,” panel on “The Hiring Process,” CAMWS, Waco, TX, April 2014 “(Re)Introducing the Henderson Collection of Ancient Coins,” McClanahan Public Lecture, University of Colorado Art Museum, November 2014 “The End of the Roman Empire: Catastrophe and Collapse vs. Transition and Transformation: A Debate” SCS / AIA joint session debate, January 2015 “The Curse of Jaime: Promordial Guilt as a Justification for Slavery,” Santa Barbara, CA May 2016 “Corrupt, Vain and Unhinged! A Balloon Debate with Lessons from Roman History”, Yale University, April 2017 “Constantine and Constantinople: A ,” Hellenic Studies, Yale University, March 2018

Teaching Experience

Classroom Teaching: Yale University Lecture Courses  Roman Law (CLCV 236 / HIST 225 / LAW 21776 / CRN 20133): Spring 2017  The Late Antique World from Constantine to Muhammad (c. 270 – 630) (CLCV 222 / HIST 203): Spring 2015; Fall 2017  The Romans: A Cultural Introduction (CLCV 257 / HUMS 246): Spring 2016

Language Classes  Augustine (CLSS 852): Fall 2015  Survey of Greek and Latin Historical Sources (CLSS 895 / HIST 504): Fall 2017

Seminars  Slavery in the Roman and Late Antique World (HIST 520 / CLSS 836): Spring 2015  The Age of Constantine (CLCV 057 / HIST 021): Fall 2015  Slavery, Dependency, and Genocide in the Ancient and Premodern World (ARCG 531 01 (22150) / CPLT547 / ANTH531 / CLSS815 / JDST653 / HIST502 / RLST803 / NELC533): Spring 2018

Classroom Teaching: University of Colorado Lecture Courses  The Rise and Fall of Ancient Rome (CLAS/HIST 1061): Spring 12 (cf. www.colorado.edu/classics/clas1061)  The Roman Empire (CLAS/HIST 4091/5091): Fall 96; Spring 99; Spring 00; Fall 01; Fall 07; Fall 11 (cf. www.colorado.edu/Classics/clas4091)  The (CLAS/HIST 4081/5081): Fall 95; Fall 98; Fall 00; Fall 04 (cf. www.colorado.edu/Classics/clas4081/Republic/)

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 Paganism to Christianity (CLAS / PHIL 2610): Spring 97; Fall 99; Summer 01; Spring 02 (cf. http://www.colorado.edu/Classics/clas2610)  Bread and Circuses: Society and (CLAS 1140): Spring 04 (cf. www.colorado.edu/Classics/clas1140/Bread/Index.htm (login: bread; pw: circuses)  Roman Law (CLAS/HIST 4761/5761): Spring 96; Fall 97; Fall 03; Fall 05; Fall 08; Spring 13

Language Courses  Seminar in Latin: Ammianus and the Fourth Century Empire (CLAS 7014): Fall 98  Graduate Reading in Latin: Augustine (CLAS 6004): Fall 12  Survey of Latin Historiography (CLAS 6003): Spring 2009  Introductory Greek (CLAS 1013-1023): Fall 06; Spring 07  The in Text and Coin (CL 512, Colorado College): Summer 04  Graduate Reading in Latin: (CLAS 6004): Fall 95; Spring 00; Spring 06  Intermediate Latin 2: Vergil (CLAS 2124): Spring 01  Introduction to Greek Prose: Herodotus (CLAS 3013): Fall 96  Introduction to Latin Prose: (CLAS 3014): Spring 96  Introduction to Latin Prose: (CLAS 3024): Spring 02  Topics In Latin Prose: and Latin Epistolography (CLAS 4014/5014): Fall 97; Spring 05; Fall 11  Topics in Latin Prose: Apuleius and (CLAS 4014/5014): Spring 99

Seminars  A Global History of Slavery (CLAS / HIST 4071/5071 - ANTH 4060): Fall 13  Seminar in Ancient History: Roman Slavery (CLAS 7011): Spring 05; Spring 08  Honors Seminar: History of World Slavery (HONR 2500): Fall 04  Readings in Ancient History: Augustine (CLAS 6011): Spring 97  Seminar in Roman Numismatics (CLAS 7012 & 7109): Fall 00; Spring 04; Fall 11; Fall 13  Undergraduate Seminar: The Age of Constantine (CLAS 4040): Spring 01; Spring 07

Individualized Instruction: Yale University Dissertation Supervision:  Lester Stephens – Res Nova and Radial Governmentality (112-72 BC)  Daniel Graves – ’s Classical Imagination  Kevin Feeney – Imperial Elections in Late Antiquity  Sean Northrup, Aristocracy of Eloquence: Language and Identity in Roman Gaul, 289-389 CE, 2017

Dissertation Committee:  Andrew Hogan, History (Yale) – The Auction of the Pharaoh: Institutions, Markets, and Culture in the Mediterranean during the First Millennium BC, 2018  François Gerardin, History (Yale) – City Foundations in Egypt and the East in the Second Century BC, 2018  Mary Farag, Religious Studies (Yale) – Sacred Things: the Legal Making of Churches in Late Antiquity, 2017  Andrea Bernier, Storia antica (Parma) – Valentiniano I legislatore. Ricostruzione storica e problemi della documentazione giuridica, 2017

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Undergraduate Theses:  Nicholas Dell’Isola – A Statistical Study of Roman Forms and , 2018  Tyler Mikulis – Roman Law and Continental Law, 2017  James Randon – , , and the Fall of the Roman Republic, 2017  Nicholas Dell’Isola – Proportionality of Roman in the Augustan Era, 2018

Individualized Instruction: University of Colorado Dissertations Supervised  Scot Douglass, The Generation of a Diastemic Discourse in the Cappadocian Fathers: Embracing the Limitations of Language in the Production of Theology, 1999  Alfred T. Terrell, Beyond Praise and Blame: The Influences of Judicial Rhetoric in the of Tacitus, Books I-VI, 2000  Aaron Johnson, Ethnic Argumentation in Eusebius of Caesarea's Praeparatio Evangelica, 2003  Brent Schmidt, Utopian and Community in the Ancient World, 2008  Barbara Werner, Friendship and Humor: A Social Dynamic in Cicero’s Letter, 2009  Andrew Clay, A Historical and Philological Commentary on Eusebius of Caesarea Ecclesiastical History, Book VIII, 2012

Masters Theses Supervised  Christopher Kintzel, Roman Military Recruiting, 2000  Denise Fichtner, Travel in Cicero, 2000  Jane Woods, Magic in the Roman World, 2000  Amanda Coles, Roman Military Ritual, 2002  Sara Sieteski, Army Life Under , 2004  Ken Soufl, Christian Apologetic, 2004 (Religious Studies)  Paul Saieg, Didymus the Blind De Trinitate, 2006  Crystal Rosenthal, Slaves in Banquet Scenes, 2006  Glenn McDormann, Law and Authority in the Burgundian Kingdom, 2008  Jennifer Greenberg, Agōniasōmen: Philo Judaeus, A Voice of a Colonized Nation, 2013  Jonathan Gress, The Coinage of the Peloponnese Under , 2013  Avedan Raggio, Dramatic Reversals and Inconsistent Alamanni in Ammianus, 2014

Honors Theses Supervised  Harmony Ridgley, Slaves in Roman Comedy 1996  Mark Benassi, Anti-Semitism in Jerome, 1996  Elle Tauer, Ascetic Women of Late Antiquity, 1997  Danielle Steen, Siege Archaeology, 1998  David Warburton, The Gracchi and Social Unrest, 1999  Quanna Cameron, Gladiators as Athletes, 2002  J.K. Melton, The Power of the , 2002  Richard Payne, Symeon the Holy Fool, 2003  Lance Panigutti, Constantine and the Church, 2004  Stefan Hodges-Kluck, and Barbarian Historiography, 2008  Andrew Detch, Cicero, Between Antony and Octavian, 2008  Crystal Rome, Water and the Roman Law of Property, 2008 15

 Eric Smith, Concession and Conciliation – How Constantine and Valens Doomed the Roman Empire to Defeat, 2009  Rachael Janoso, Pregnancy through Childbirth: A Midwife's Perspective, 2013  Miranda, From Damnation to Divinity: Tarquinius Superbus, and Historical Memory, 2013  Lucas Monson, Sallust’s Bellum Jugurthinum and the Experience of the Roman Soldier, 2013  Christopher West, St. Michael the Archangel in Late Antiquity, 2014

Service

Service to the Classics and History Departments and Yale University Executive Positions Director of Undergraduate Studies, 2017-2018 Associate Director of Graduate Studies (History), 2015-2017 Chair, Diversity Committee (History), 2016-2017 Other University Service Graduate Committee (Classics), 2015-17 Graduate Committee (History), 2015-16 Executive Committee (History), 2015-17 YISAP / Archaia Board of Directors, 2015-2018 Rostovzteff Lecture Chair, 2016, 2017 Porter & Field Dissertation Prize Committee, 2018 Ancient Societies Workshop Organizer, 2017-2018 Classics Department Colloquium Co-Organizer, 2017-2018 Job Search Committees, Classics Job Search Committee (Classics), Greek History VAP, 2015-6 Job search Committee (Classics), Greek History, AP, 2016-7 (Chair) Host for Visiting Speakers Jan Willem Drijvers, University of Groningen, 2015 Ignazio Tantillo, University of Cassino, Italy, 2017 Alice Rio, KCL, 2017 Craig Perry, University of Cincinnati, 2017 Peter Hunt, University of Colorado, 2017 Ulrike Roth, Edinburgh, 2018 Michael Jursa, Vienna, 2018 Robin Yates, McGill, 2018 Deborah Kamen, 2018 Anthony Reid, Australian National University, 2018

Service to the Classics Department and the University of Colorado Executive Positions Departmental Chair, 2012-14 Departmental Chair, 2005-2009 Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies, 1996-2005

Job Search Committees, Classics Job Search Committee (Classics), Greek Archaeology, 2011-2 Job Search Committee Chair (Classics), Senior Latinist, 2008-9 16

Job Search Committee (Classics), Hellenist, 2007-8 Job Search Committee Chair (Classics), Hellenist, 2005-6 Job Search Committee (Classics), Latinist, 2005-6 Job Search Committee (Classics, Greek Historian, 1997-8 Job Search Committee (Classics), Roman Archaeology, 1996-7 Job Search Committee (Classics), Latinist 1995-6

Job Search Committees, University of Colorado Job Search Committee (University of Colorado Art Museum), Director 2013 Job Search Committee (Jewish Studies), Director 2007-8 Job Search Committee (History), Medievalist 2003-4 Job Search Committee (Herbst Humanities), Director 2002 Job Search Committee (History), Medievalist 2000-1

Host for Visiting Speakers Host for Fulbright Fellow, Paola Moretti 2014 Host for Mediterranean Studies Visitor Nicholas Purcell 2013 Host for FIRST Grant Summer Visitor Joseph Manning 2012 Host for Mediterranean Studies Visitor Peter Brown 2011 Host for GCAH visitor G. Cecconi 2011 Host for FIRST Grant Summer Visitor Gideon Bohak 2011 Host for GCAH Visitor A. Lewin 2006 Host for Feodor Lynen Fellow Dirk Rohmann, 2005-8 Host for American Friends of the Humboldt Foundation Guest William Calder III 2005 Host for GCAH Visitor C. Witschel 2005 Host for GCAH Visitor R. Behrwald 2004 Host for GCAH Lecturer H. A. Drake 2003 Host for GCAH Lecturer E.K. Fowden 2002 Host for GCAH Lecturer H. Elton, 2001 Host for GCAH Lecturer R.L. Lamberton, 1999 Host for GCAH Lecturer A.J. Woodman 1997 Host for GCAH Lecturer E.J. Champlin 1997 Host for GCAH Lecturer J.F. Matthews 1996

Other University Service Emerging Leaders Program, University of Colorado, 2011-2012 Arts and Sciences Council Representative 2006-2009 ARPAC Self Study Committee Chair 2008 Kayden Book Award Committee Chair 2008 Tenure committee for Medieval Historian, History 2007 Tenure committee for Medieval Scandinavianist, Germanic and Slavic, 2007 Associate Chair for Undergraduate Studies 1996-2005 Graduate Committee on Arts and Humanities 2003-6 Internal Review Committee 2004-5 Primary Unit Review Committee Chair 2005-6 Departmental Visiting Lecturer Coordinator 2001-2002 Departmental Visiting Lecturer Coordinator 2001-2002 Faculty Teaching Excellence Program Representative 1999-2001

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Departmental Self-Study Committee 1997-1998

Professional Service Peer Review of Manuscripts Review of article manuscripts for Antichthon, Classical Journal, Journal of Early Christian Studies, Phoenix, Transactions of the American Philological Association Review of book proposals for Blackwells, Cambridge, Copley Publishing, Oxford, University of Michigan, Johns Hopkins University Press Review of book manuscripts for Blackwells, Cambridge, Oxford, University of California, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of North Carolina, University of Wisconsin, Catholic University Press, Reviewer for Agenzia nazionale di valutazione del sistema universitario e della ricerca (ANVUR), 2012 Reviewer for the National Endowment for the Humanities, August 2016

Service to the American Philological Association Panel Organizer, "Letters in Late Antiquity," American Philological Association, January 2013 Panel Co-Organizer, "Sacred Violence in Late Antiquity, American Philological Association, January 2013 (co-organized with Clifford Ando) Member of the Publications Committee, American Philological Association, 2010-2013 Chair of the 5 year APA Charter of the Society for Late Antiquity 2006-2011 Panel Organizer. “Blessed are the Meek: Social Subordination in Late Antiquity,” APA Three Year Colloquium on Late Antiquity 2003 Coordinator of the APA Three Year Colloquium on Late Antiquity 2001-3 Panel Co-Organizer with H. Elton. “Insiders and Outsiders in the Later Roman Empire,” APA Three-Year Colloquium on Late Antiquity 1999 (co-organized with Hugh Elton)

Service to Other Professional Associations Co-President of the Colorado Classics Association 2004-6, 2012-14 Co-Organizer, Colorado Classics Day, 2011, 2012 Regional Vice President of the Classical Association of the Midwest and South 2003-8 CAMWS Book Award Committee 2005-7 (Chair 2007) President of the Society for Late Antiquity 2005-7

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