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Curriculum Vitae

Mary T Boatwright

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231 Allen Building
West Campus
Durham, NC 277080103
(919) 684-3189, (919) 684-5076 (office)
(email)
Education

Ph.D. in Classical Studies,University of Michigan, Ann Arbor1980
Michigan Assoc., American Academy, Rome,University of Michigan, Ann Arbor1977
M.A. in Classical Studies,University of Michigan, Ann Arbor1975
Laurea, voto ottimo, in EtruscologiáUniversitá per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy1974
Certificato in Corso Medio di Italiano,Universitá per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy1973
B.A. in Classical Studies,Stanford University1973
Areas of Research

Roman history, esp. imperial; Roman topography; Roman women; historiography

Areas of Interest

Ancient Mediterranean
Temperate Europe (Roman period)

Professional Experience / Employment History

Duke University
Professor in the Department of History, 2005 - present
Professor of Ancient History in the Department of Classical Studies, 1995-present
Chairman, Department of Classical Studies, 1996-99
Associate Professor of Classical Studies, 1985-95
Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, 1982-85
A.W. Mellon Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, 1979-82
Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies
A.W. Mellon Professor-in-Charge, 1992-93
Graduate Assistant, 1976-77
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions

"Writing Beyond the Disciplines" award, Duke University, May, 2010
Dean’s Distinguished Service Award, Duke University, 2008
Designation as a Mellon Foundation course of graduate course "The Historians," as part of "Making the Humanities Central" project, sponsored by Duke's John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2003
Summer Stipend, for travel to Austria, Slovenia, Croatia, and Hungary for research on Pannonian Stelae, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2002
Grants for "Romanization on the Northern Frontier: The Evidence of the Pannonian Stelae”, Duke Univ. Arts & Sciences Research Council (A&SRC), 2000-2001, 2002-2003
Grant for “Women on the Edge: Depictions of Women on Rome’s Northeastern Frontier (Pannonia)”, Duke’s A&SRC, 1999-2000
Fellowship for University Teachers, for Hadrian and the Cities of the Roman Empire, National Endowment for the Humanities, 1995-96
Summer Stipend for research on Hadrian and cities in Greece, Turkey, Romania and Serbia (declined), National Endowment for the Humanities, 1995
Gildersleeve Prize, for “The Imperial Women of the Early Second Century A.C.,” American Journal of Philology 112 (1991) 513-40.
Annual “Regular Grants” for “Hadrianic Urbanization in the Roman Empire” Duke Univ. Research Council, 1987-90, 1992-95
Selected as an applicant for a NEH Summer Stipend for research on Hadrian and cities in Cilicia, Pamphylia, Lycia, Pisidia and Lycaonia, Duke University, 1989
Fellowship, for research on "Hadrianic Urbanization in the Roman Empire", George A. and Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation, 1986-87
NEH stipend for publication of Hadrian and the City of Rome, Princeton University Press, 1986
Regular Grants for Hadrian and the City of Rome, Duke University Research Council, 1984, 1985
Research Grant for Hadrian and the City of Rome, American Philosophical Society, 1984
Duke Endowment Award for Excellence in Teaching, Duke University, 1982
Regular Grant for research in Roman Spain, Duke University Research Council, 1981
Fellowship from Rackham School of Graduate Studies, University of Michigan, 1978-79
Borso di Studio, Università per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy, Summer 1974
Phi Beta Kappa, Stanford University, 1972
Selected Recent Invited Talks

"The End of the Road? New Discoveries in Roman Topography", University of Wisconsin, Madison, March 31, 2011  
"The Importance of the Physical for (Roman) History: The Case of the Pantheon", Ohio University, October 18, 2010  
"The Pantheon in Rome: Monuments, Memory, Latin, & Hadrian” and “The Puzzle of the Aedicula Faustinae; Women in the Forum Romanum", Wisconsin Latin Teachers Association, Madison, WI, March 18, 2010  
Doctoral Theses Directed

Bart Huelsenbeck, Figures in the Shadows: Identities in Artistic Prose from the Anthology of the Elder Seneca, (2007 - 2009)  
Charles E. Muntz, Diodorus Siculus, Egypt, and Rome, (2006 - 2008)  
Molly M. Pryzwansky, Feminine Imperial Ideals in the Caesares of Suetonius, (2006 - 2008)  
Jill Chmielewski, Portrayals of Daily Life on the Funerary Monuments of Roman Gaul and Germany, (2000 - 2002)  
Eric Adler, The ‘Enemy’ Speaks: Oratory and Criticism of Empire in Roman Historiography, (2002)  
Jeannine Uzzi, The Representation of Children in Public Art of Roman Empire, from Augustus to Constantine, (1998)  
Darryl Phillips, Voting During the Principate of Augustus, (1994)  
Professional Affiliations

American Philological Association
Archaeological Institute of America
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies
Association of Ancient Historians
Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome
Advisory Council of the American Academy in Rome

Publications (listed separately)

Last modified: 2011/09/27

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