Curriculum
Vitae
Education:
Columbia
University, 1953-1957 (BA with highest honors in History, Greek, and Latin)
Oxford
University, 1957-1960 (BA with First Class Honours in Literae Humaniores
-- Ancient History and Philosophy)
Harvard
University, 1960-1964 (PhD in History, with fields in Greek History, Roman
History, Modern European Intellectual History)
Honors, Awards:
Rhodes
Scholarship, Oxford University, 1957-1960
Guggenheim
Fellowship, 1969-1970, 1989-1990
Member of Institute
for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1973-1974
Visiting Fellow,
Merton College, Spring, 1974
Visiting Fellow,
Merton College, Oxford, Spring, 1978
National
Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 1984, 1996
Semple Classical
Lecturer, University of Cincinnati, 1985
Phi Beta Kappa
Lecturer, 1986
Fellow, American
Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1986)
Gladys Rehard
Wood Professor of History and Classics, University of California, Berkeley
(appointed 1986)
Distinguished
Teaching Award, University of California, Berkeley, 1987
James H. Breasted
Prize (for The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome), 1988
Resident in
Classics, American Academy in Rome, 1990
Townsend
Classical Lecturer, Cornell University, 1991
President,
American Philological Association, 1992
Hill Professor,
University of Minnesota, 1994
Winston Fellow,
Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1996
Austrian Cross of
Honor for Arts and Letters, awarded 1999
American
Philosophical Society (elected 2000)
Faculty Research
Lecturer, U.C. Berkeley, 2003/4
Martin Classical
Lecturer, Oberlin, 2006
Honorary Member
of the Roman Society (London) (elected 2006)
The Berkeley
Citation for distinguished achievement and for notable service to the
University, awarded 2007
Villa Professor,
the Getty Villa, 2007/8
Corresponding
Member of the German Archaeological Institute (elected 2009)
Visiting Fellow,
Merton College, Oxford, 2009
Sackler Visiting
Scholar, Tel Aviv University, 2010
Teaching Positions:
Harvard
University, 1964-1966
University of
California, Berkeley, 1966-
University of
Colorado, Distinguished Visiting Humanist, Fall, 1981
Hebrew University
of Jerusalem, Visiting Professor, Fall, 1984
Princeton
University, Visiting David Magie Professor of Classics and History, 1987-1988
Cornell
University, Visiting Townsend Professor of Classics, Spring, 1991
University of
Minnesota, Visiting Hill Professor, Fall, 1994
Stanford
University, Visiting Professor, Spring, 2006
Major Publications:
Roman Politics
and the Criminal Courts, l49-78 BC
(Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass., 1968)
The Last Generation of the Roman
Republic (University of California Press, 1974); paperback edition (with
new introduction) (1995)
The
Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome (two vols., University of
California Press, 1984); paperback edition (1986)
Studies in
Greek Culture and Roman Policy (Brill, 1990); paperback edition (University
of California Press, 1996)
Culture and
National Identity in Republican Rome (Cornell University Press, 1992);
paperback edition (1994)
Images and
Ideologies: Self-Definition in the Hellenistic World (co-ed.) (University
of California Press, 1993)
Hellenistic
Constructs: Essays in Culture, History, and Historiography (co-ed.)
(University of California Press, 1997)
Heritage and
Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition (University of California
Press, 1998)
Diaspora: Jews
amidst Greeks and Romans (Harvard University Press, 2002)
Cultural
Borrowings and Ethnic Appropriations in Antiquity (ed.) (Franz Steiner
Verlag, 2005)
Rethinking the
Other in Antiquity (Princeton University Press, 2011).
Cultural
Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean (ed.) (Getty Research Institute Publications,
2011)
More than 90
articles and more than 90 reviews in scholarly journals and collections.
I have supervised
or served on the dissertation committees of eighty nine students who received
their PhD degrees and am currently serving on the committees of seven other PhD
candidates.