Erich S. Gruen

 

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.