Mary T Boatwright
| Title: | Professor of Ancient History and Director of Graduate Studies |
| Office Location: | 231 Allen |
| Office Phone: | (919) 684-3189, (919) 684-5076 |
| Email Address: | tboat@duke.edu |
Education
- Ph.D. in Classical Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1980
- Michigan Assoc., American Academy, Rome, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1977
- M.A. in Classical Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 1975
- Laurea, voto ottimo, in Etruscologiá Universitá per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy, 1974
- Certificato in Corso Medio di Italiano, Universitá per Stranieri, Perugia, Italy, 1973
- B.A. in Classical Studies, Stanford University, 1973
Miscellaneous
A book on "The Peoples of the Roman Empire", Article on the topography of Antonine Rome, Article on women on Roman-Pannonian tombstones, Biography of the emperor Hadrian
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., 0 1992
- 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
Representative Publications
- Hadrian and the Cities of the Roman Empire. Princeton University Press, 2000.
- Hadrian and the City of Rome. Princeton University Press, 1987.
- with co-authors D. Gargola and R.J.A. Talbert. The Romans: From Village to Empire. Oxford University Press, 2004. [abs]
- "Hadrian." Lives of the Caesars (2008): 155-80. [html]
- "Children and Parents on the Tombstones of Pannonia." The Roman Family in the Empire: Rome, Italy and Beyond (2005): 287-318.
- "Faustina the Younger, Mater Castrorum." Etude de Lettres (2003): 249-68.
- "Trajan Outside Rome: Buildings and Sculptural Commissions in Italian and Provincial Cities." Sage and Emperor (2003): 259-77.
- "Just Window Dressing? Imperial Women as Architectural Sculpture." I Claudia II (2000): 61-75.
- "The City Gate of Plancia Magna in Perge." Roman Art in Context: An Anthology (1993): 189-207.