Mary T. Boatwright
| Title: | Professor, Classical Studies |
| Office Location: | 231 Allen Building |
| 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
Current Projects
A book on "The Peoples of the Roman Empire", Article on gender and the topography of the Roman Forum in Rome, Article on representations of women and families on Roman-Pannonian tombstones
Awards, Honors, and Distinctions
- 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
Representative Publications
Books- 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]
- "Tacitus and the Final Rites of Agrippina: Annals 14, 9." Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History Collection LatomusXIV (2008): 375-93.
- "Public Architecture in Rome and the Year A.D. 96." American Journal of Ancient History, "The Year A.D. 96: Did It Make a Difference?" 15 (2000): 67-90.
- "Imperial Women of the Early Second Century A.C." American Journal of Philology 112 (1991): 513-40.
- "The Pomerial Extension of Augustus." Historia 35 (1986): 13-27.
- "Hadrian." Lives of the Caesars (2008): 155-80.
- "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.
- "The Elogia of the Volusii Saturnini at Lucus Feroniae, and the Education of their Domestic Service." L'écriture dans la maison romaine (2009): 23 pp.
- "Antonine Rome: Security in the Homeland." The Emperor and Rome: Space, Representation and Ritual (2009).