Research
Faculty Research
MICHAEL I. ALLEN is finishing a new edition of Letters of Lupus of Ferrières and working on a book about the historical thought and influence of Frechulf of Lisieux.
CLIFFORD ANDO is currently writing a monograph on Roman law in the provinces, embracing both administrative practice in the settlement of populations and the development of principles and practices in Roman law courts to deal with populations of mixed legal status. He also continues work on the history of religion in the high and late empire, currently focusing on the use of objects in Roman ritual.
SHADI BARTSCH is working on the relationship of poetry and philosophy in Persius' Satires, as well as on a longer study of metaphor in antiquity.
MICHAEL DIETLER is engaged in archaeological research on colonial encounters in the ancient Western Mediterranean (including co-direction of excavations at the Iron Age port town of Lattes , in southern France ) and socio-historical work on the recursive relationship between ancient and modern colonialisms.
CHRISTOPHER FARAONE, in addition to a book on ancient Greek incantations as a genre of song, is working on amulets of the Greco-Roman period, including those used to control the wandering womb.
JONATHAN HALL is currently working on a book that explores the relationship between texts and material culture in the Greek and Roman worlds.
CAMERON HAWKINS is currently working on a book that explores not only the nature of the urban economy in which Roman artisans lived and worked, but also the ways in which the strategies they adopted in order to stay in business were shaped by their social relationships with other artisans, family members, and former slaves.
JANET JOHNSON is working on the letter “I” for the Demotic Dictionary, preparing to talk about women in ancient Egypt for an OI Symposium (“Women in the Middle East, Past and Present”), and still trying to make sense of the Demotic text called the “Demotic Chronicle” (or “Demotic Oracle”).
MICHELE LOWRIE is writing a short book on security in Roman literature and a longer project, provisionally entitled “Consequential Narratives: Foundation and State Violence from Cicero to Augustus.”
DAVID MARTINEZ is working on a book on a corpus of Ptolemaic cartonnage administrative papyri from the University of Texas collection.
EMANUEL MAYER is working on the feasibility of the concept of "mass communication" in Roman archaeology and history and on the decline of honorific monuments and imperial portraiture in the late third century CE.
RICHARD NEER is currently working on a book entitled Theory of Sculpture: Image and Beholder in Classical Greece, a textbook, Art and Archaeology of Greece for Thames & Hudson, and studies of Athenian pottery, connoisseurship, and Nicolas Poussin.
WENDY OLMSTED is working on representations of interaction rituals between strangers in epic poetry of the Greek archaic period.
VERITY PLATT is currently editing a volume on framing in ancient art and writing a book on Graeco-Roman seal stones and the metaphor of sealing in Graeco-Roman philosophy and poetics.
JAMES REDFIELD is working on a book on the Platonic dialogues, asking how they mean what they mean and what constitutes sound interpretation.
SETH RICHARDSON is working on a history of the Babylonian countryside, administrative archives from Old Babylonian Sippar, and a literary history of live-omen texts.
DAVID SCHLOEN is currently involved in archaeological excavations in Turkey and Israel. In addition, he is developing an Internet database system for the study and publication of archaeological data, ancient texts, and other aspects of cultural heritage.
MATTHEW STOLPER is directing the Persepolis Fortification Archive Project, making and distributing electronic records of thousands of administrative documents, compiled ca. 500 BCE in Elamite, Aramaic, and other languages and discovered by the Oriental Institute in 1933.
THEO VAN DEN HOUT is examining questions of early literacy in Anatolia and of ancient record management.
PETER WHITE is researching and writing a book on the social pragmatics of Cicero's correspondence.