Mary T Boatwright, Professor, Classical Studies

Contact Info:

Office Location:	231 Allen Building
Office Phone:	(919) 684-3189, (919) 684-5076
Email Address:

Teaching (Fall 2012):

• LATIN 203.01, INTERMEDIATE LATIN Synopsis

  TBA, MWF 03:20 PM-04:10 PM

• CLST 536.01, THE ROMAN EMPIRE Synopsis

  Soc/Psych 128, MW 11:45 AM-01:00 PM

  (also cross-listed as HISTORY 538.01)

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

Research Interests: Roman history, esp. imperial; Roman topography; Roman women; historiography

Current projects: A book on "The Peoples of the Roman Empire", Talk on Hadrian's Pantheon and its Agrippan Inscription, Article on representations of women and families on Roman-Pannonian tombstones

Areas of Interest:

Ancient Mediterranean
Temperate Europe (Roman period)

Keywords:

empires • topography • women

Curriculum Vitae

Current Ph.D. Students   (Former Students)

• Jessica Vahl  
• Marcello Lippiello  
• Alexander W. Meyer  

Representative Publications   (More Publications)

1. Hadrian and the Cities of the Roman Empire (2000), Princeton University Press
2. Hadrian and the City of Rome (1987), Princeton University Press
3. with co-authors D. Gargola and R.J.A. Talbert, The Romans: From Village to Empire (2004), Oxford University Press  [abs]
4. Women and Gender in the Forum Romanum, Transactions of the American Philological Association, vol. 141 (2011), pp. 107-43
5. Tacitus and the Final Rites of Agrippina: Annals 14, 9, in Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History, Collection Latomus, edited by C. Deroux, vol. XIV (2008), pp. 375-93
6. Hadrian, in Lives of the Caesars, edited by A. A. Barrett (2008), pp. 155-80, Oxford [html]
7. Children and Parents on the Tombstones of Pannonia, in The Roman Family in the Empire: Rome, Italy and Beyond, edited by M. George (2005), pp. 287-318, Oxford
8. Faustina the Younger, Mater Castrorum, edited by R. Frei-Stolba and A. Biel, Etude de Lettres (2003), pp. 249-68
9. Trajan Outside Rome: Buildings and Sculptural Commissions in Italian and Provincial Cities, edited by P. Stadter and L. Van der Stockt, Sage and Emperor (2003), pp. 259-77, Leuven: Leuven University Press
10. Public Architecture in Rome and the Year A.D. 96, edited by E. Badian, American Journal of Ancient History, "The Year A.D. 96: Did It Make a Difference?", vol. 15 (2000), pp. 67-90
11. Just Window Dressing? Imperial Women as Architectural Sculpture, edited by D.E.E. Kleiner and S.B. Matheson, I Claudia II (2000), pp. 61-75, Austin: University of Texas Press
12. The City Gate of Plancia Magna in Perge, in Roman Art in Context: An Anthology, edited by E. D'Ambra (1993), pp. 189-207, Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice Hall
13. Imperial Women of the Early Second Century A.C, American Journal of Philology, vol. 112 (1991), pp. 513-40
14. The Pomerial Extension of Augustus, Historia, vol. 35 (1986), pp. 13-27
15. "The Elogia of the Volusii Saturnini at Lucus Feroniae, and the Education of their Domestic Service", in L'écriture dans la maison romaine, edited by M. Corbier (2011), pp. 23 pp, Paris: CNRS
16. "Hadrian in London", American Journal of Archaeology, vol. 113 no. 1 (2009), pp. 121-28 (Museum review of exhibit "Hadrian: Empire and Conflict," at the British Museum..)  [abs]
17. Review of A. Leone et al., 'Res bene gestae': Ricerche di storia urbana su Roma antica in onore di Eva Margareta Steinby, Bryn Mawr Classical Review (2009) [html]