CURRICULUM VITAE Name: BRENT D. SHAW Address: Department of Classics 141 East Pyne Princeton University Princeton New Jersey 08544 Telephone: Office (Main): (609) 258-3951 Home: (609) 279-0597 FAX: (609) 258-1943 E-MAIL: [email protected] HOMEPAGE: www.princeton.edu/~bshaw Academic Positions Andrew Fleming West Professor in Classics, Emeritus. Senior Scholar Princeton University 2017 – Emeritus Professor (Roman History) Princeton University 2004-2017 Andrew Fleming West Professor of Classics Director: Program in the 2005-2009 Ancient World 2010-2011 2013-2014 2 Chair: Committee for the Study of Late Antiquity 2012-2013 Professor (Roman History) University of Pennsylvania 1996-2004 Chair: Graduate Group in University of Pennsylvania 1996-2003 Ancient History Visiting Professor (Greek Princeton University 1995-1996 and Roman History) Magie Professor of Greek Princeton University 1989-1990 and Roman History (Visiting) Full Professor The University of Lethbridge 1989-1996 (History) Associate Professor The University of Lethbridge 1981-1989 (History) Assistant Professor The University of Lethbridge 1977-1981 (History) Lecturer The University of Birmingham 1976-1977 (Ancient History) Other Elected Life Member The American Philosophical Society (Philadelphia) 2012- Fellow and Member Institute for Advanced Study 1994-1995 (Princeton) Fellow Commoner Churchill College 1982-1983 (Cambridge) Commonwealth Scholar Cambridge University 1973-1976 Awards Howard T. Behrman Award Princeton University 2015 in the Humanities The Christian R. & Mary University of Pennsylvania 1998-99 F. Lindback Foundation 3 Award for Distinguished Teaching University Degrees Degree Date University PhD 1978 Cambridge University Classics and Dissertation: Pastoralists, Ancient History Peasants, and Politics in Roman North Africa MA (Hon.) 1996 University of Pennsylvania MA 1971 University of Alberta Classics and Thesis: The Development Ancient History of Urbanization in Roman North Africa BA (with Distinction) 1968 University of Alberta Classics and Anthropology PUBLICATIONS Books Bringing in the Sheaves: Economy and Metaphor in the Roman World, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2013, xx & 456 pp., 92 ill., 7 tables, 4 maps Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2011, xiii & 910 pp., 4 maps Awards: PROSE Award 2012: Best book in Classics and Ancient History for the year 2011 The Wallace J. Ferguson Prize of the Canadian Historical Association 2012: best book in History for 2011 Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the Humankind from the Beginnings to the Present, 4rth edition, New York, Norton, 2013: with Robert Tignor. Principal editor for Volume One [5th edition in preparation for 2017] 4 Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the Humankind from the Beginnings to the Present, 3rd edition, New York, Norton, 2011: with Robert Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Peter Brown, and others Worlds Together, Worlds Apart: A History of the World, 2nd edition, New York, W. W. Norton, 2008: multi-authored world history textbook: with Robert Tignor, Jeremy Adelman, Peter Brown, and others Spartacus and the Slave Wars: A Brief History with Documents, translated, edited and introduced, New York, St. Martins Press, 2001 [2nd edition in preparation for 2017] Reviews: T. Urbainczyk, JRS 93 (2003), 304-05 [exemplary only] Published Lectures At the Edge of the Corrupting Sea, Oxford, University of Oxford, 2006 [The Twenty-Third Sir John L. Myres Lecture] Collected Papers Environment and Society in Roman North Africa, London, Variorum, 1995, xii & 271 pp. Rulers, Nomads, and Christians in Roman North Africa, London, Variorum, 1995, xix & 347 pp. Edited Books M. I. Finley, Economy and Society in Ancient Greece, London, Chatto and Windus, 1981; New York, The Viking Press, 1982, xxvi & 326 pp. (selected papers of Sir Moses Finley, with introduction and bibliographical addenda, co-edited with Richard P. Saller). Paperback edition: Harmondsworth-New York, Penguin (Pelican) 1983. Italian edition: Economia e società nel mondo antico, Bari, Editori Laterza, 1984 French edition: Economie et société en grèce ancienne, Paris, Editions La Découverte, 1984 (co-edited with Richard P. Saller: three new chapters, three new bibliographical addenda, revised introduction and bibliography). Spanish edition: La Grecia Antigua: economía y sociedad, Barcelona, Grupo editorial Grijalbo, 1984. 5 M. I. Finley, Ancient Slavery and Modern Ideology [original edition: Harmondsworth, Penguin, 1980]; editor of reprint edition: new introduction [see below], and editing of two additional chapters: Princeton, Markus Wiener Publishers, 1998 Bibliographies [with Thomas A. Robinson], The Early Church: An Annotated Bibliography of Literature in English, Metuchen, N.J. & London, The American Theological Library Association/The Scarecrow Press, 1993, xxiii & 493 pp. Personal Interviews S. V. Krich, “Intervyeiyo y professoryom B. D. Shaw,” Mir Istorika: Ismorusaphuyeskya Sboryik 8 (Moscow-Omsk, 2013), pp. 95-103 Articles and Book Chapters “The Undecimprimi in Roman Africa”, Museum Africum, vol. 2 (1973), pp. 1-10 “Debt in Sallust,” Latomus, vol. 34 (1975), pp. 187-196 “Ptolemy of Mauretania and the Conspiracy of Gaetulicus,” Historia, vol. 25 (1976), pp. 491-494 (co-authored with D. Fishwick) “Climate, Environment, and Prehistory in the Sahara,” World Archaeology, vol. 8 (1976), pp. 133-149 “The Formation of Africa Proconsularis,” Hermes, vol. 105 (1977), pp. 369-380 (co- authored with D. Fishwick) “The Era of the Cereres”, Historia, vol. 27 (1978), pp. 343-354 (co-authored with D. Fishwick) “Rural Periodic Markets in Roman North Africa as Mechanisms of Social Integration and Control,” [in] G. Dalton ed., Research in Economic Anthropology, vol. 2 (1979), pp. 91-117 “Archaeology and Knowledge: the History of the African Provinces of the Roman Empire,” Florilegium, vol. 2 (1980), pp. 28-60 6 “The Camel in Ancient North Africa and the Sahara: History, Biology and Human Economy,” Bulletin de l'Institut Fondamental d'Afrique Noire (IFAN), ser. B, vol. 41.4 (1979: publ. 1981), pp. 663-721 “Climate, Environment, and History: the Case of Roman North Africa,” chap. 16 [in] T. M. L. Wigley, M. Ingram, and G. Farmer eds., Climate and History: Studies in Past Climates and their Impact on Man, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press (1981), pp. 379-403 (paperback edition: 1985) [For reviews of my work in this collection see Past and Present, no. 88 (1980), p. 139; Climatic Change, 5.2 (1983), p. 197; and The Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 14.1 (1983), pp. 157-58] “Rural Markets in North Africa and the Political Economy of the Roman Empire,” Antiquités africaines, vol. 17 (1981), pp. 37-83 “The Elder Pliny's African Geography,” Historia, vol. 30 (1981), pp. 424-471 (for evaluation see K. Sallmann, Gnomon, 56 [1984] 119) “The Elders of Christian Africa,” [in] P. Brind'Amour ed., Mélanges offerts à R. P. Etienne Gareau, Ottawa, Editions de l'Université d'Ottawa = numéro spéc. de Cahiers des études anciennes (1982), pp. 207-226 “Fear and Loathing: the Nomad Menace and Roman Africa,” [in] C. M. Wells ed., Roman Africa/L'Afrique romaine, The 1980 Governor-General Vanier Lectures, Revue de l'Université d'Ottawa, vol. 52 (1982), pp. 25-46. Subsequently appeared as a chapter in a separate book: L'Afrique romaine/Roman Africa, C. M. Wells ed., Ottawa, The University of Ottawa Press (1982), pp. 29-50 “Social Science and Ancient History: Keith Hopkins in Partibus Infidelium”, Helios, vol. 9 (1982), pp. 17-57 “Lamasba: An Ancient Irrigation Community,” Antiquités africaines, vol. 18 (1982), pp. 61-103 “‘Eaters of Flesh, Drinkers of Milk’: the Ancient Mediterranean Ideology of the Pastoral Nomad,” Ancient Society, vol. 13/14 (1982-83), pp. 5-31 “Soldiers and Society: The Army in Numidia,” Opus: Rivista internazionale per la storia economica e sociale dell'antichità, vol. 2.1 (1983), pp. 133-159 “Anatomy of the Vampire Bat” (article-length critique of G. E. M. de Ste Croix, The Class Struggle in the Ancient Greek World, from the Archaic Age to the Arab Conquests, London, Duckworth, 1981; corr. paperback ed., 1982), in Economy and Society, vol. 13 (1984), pp. 208-49 “Close-Kin Marriage in Roman Society?”, Man: Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, n.s. vol. 19 (1984), pp. 432-444 (co-authored with R.P. Saller) 7 “Bandits in the Roman Empire,” Past & Present, no. 105 (1984), pp. 3-52 [revised version with addendum on recent research, chap. 13 (in) R. Osborne ed., Studies in Ancient Greek and Roman Society, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2003, pp. 326-74] “Water and Society in the Ancient Maghrib: Technology, Property and Development,” Antiquités africaines, vol. 20 (1984), pp. 121-73 “Latin Funerary Epigraphy and Family Life in the Later Roman Empire,” Historia, vol. 33 (1984), pp. 457-97 “Among the Believers” [article-length critique of K. Hopkins, Death and Renewal: Sociological Studies in Roman History, 2, Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 1983] [in] Classical Views/Echos du Monde Classique, vol. 28, n.s. 3 (1984), pp. 453-79 “Tombstones and Roman Family Relations in the Principate: Civilians, Soldiers and Slaves,” Journal of Roman Studies, vol. 74 (1984), pp. 124-56 (co- authored with Richard P. Saller) “The Divine Economy: Stoicism as Ideology,” Latomus, vol. 64 (1985), pp. 16-54 “Autonomy and Tribute: Mountain and Plain in Mauretania Tingitana,” [in] Pierre R. Baduel ed., Désert et Montagne au Maghreb: Hommage à Jean Dresch = Revue de l'Occident Musulman et de la Méditerranée, vol. 41-42 (1986), pp. 66-89 “The Family in Late Antiquity: the Experience of Augustine,” Past & Present, no. 115 (1987), pp. 3-51 [reprinted as ch. 16 (in) J. Dunn & I. Harris eds., Augustine, vol. 2 (Cheltenham, 1997), pp. 267-315] “The Age of Roman Girls at Marriage: Some Reconsiderations,” Journal of Roman Studies, vol. 77 (1987), pp. 30-46 “Roman Taxation,” [in] Michael Grant & Rachel Kitzinger eds., Civilization of the Ancient Mediterranean, New York, Charles Scribner's Sons, vol. 2 (1988), pp. 809-27 “Il Bandito,” chap. 11 [in] Andrea Giardina ed., L'Uomo Romano, Rome, Laterza (1990), pp. 335-84 [German version, “Der Bandit”, chap.