Michele R. Salzman
Michele R. Salzman is Professor of History at University of California, Riverside. She is an expert on the religious and social history of Late Antiquity.
Education[]
Salzman studied for her B.A. degree from Brooklyn College in 1973. She was awarded her master's degree in 1975 from Bryn Mawr College in 1975.[1] Salzman received her PhD from Bryn Mawr College in 1981. Her doctoral thesis was entitled Studies on the Calendar of 354.[2]
Career and research[]
In 1986-87, Salzman was the Mellon Fellow in Classical Studies, the American Academy in Rome.[3][4] Salzman taught at Swarthmore College, Columbia University, and Boston University before joining the History Faculty at the University of California, Riverside, in 1995.[5]
Salzman was Chair of the History Department 1999-2000 at the University of California, Riverside, and was promoted to Professor in 2000.[6]
Salzman has published widely on Roman and Greek history, late antique religion, culture and society, and Latin literature. Her publications have been described as 'austere and disciplined', and 'meticulous'.[7][8] Professor Elizabeth A. Clark described Salzman's monograph On Roman Time as 'highly informative, insightful, and provocative'.[9] Her current research project examines 'The ‘Falls’ of Rome in Late Antiquity' that examines the city of Rome and its response to crisis from the third to seventh centuries.[10]
Salzman is Associate Editor of the Journal Studies in Late Antiquity.[11]
Awards and honours[]
In 2008 Salzman was the Lucy Shoe Merritt Scholar in Residence at the American Academy in Rome.[12] In 2017 Salzman was appointed to the Board of Trustees at the American Academy of Rome.[13] Salzman was the Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton University in 2018.[14]
Bibliography[]
- On Roman Time: The Codex-Calendar of 354 and the Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity (University of California Press, 1990)
- (edited with Claudia Rapp) Elites in Late Antiquity (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000)
- The Making of a Christian Aristocracy: Social and Religious Change in the Western Roman Empire (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002)
- (translated and edited with Michael Roberts) The Letters of Symmachus. Book 1 (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011)
- (editor) The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013)
- Michele Renee Salzman, Marianne Sághy, (ed.), Pagans and Christians in Late Antique Rome: Conflict, Competition, and Coexistence in the Fourth Century (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015)
References[]
- ^ "Salzman, Michele Renee 1952- | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ^ "Studies on the calendar of 354 - Salzman, Michele Renee. 1980". tripod.brynmawr.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ^ "Visiting Artists and Scholars | American Academy in Rome". www.aarome.org. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ^ "Salzman, Michele Renee 1952- | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ^ "Michele R. Salzman". www.cs.hmc.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ^ "Salzman, Michele Renee 1952- | Encyclopedia.com". www.encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ^ O'Donnell, James J. (June 2002). "Review of: The Making of a Christian Aristocracy". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
- ^ O'Donnell, James J. (1992). "Review of: On Roman Time: The Codex-Calendar of 354 and the Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
- ^ On Roman Time.
- ^ "Michele R. Salzman". www.cs.hmc.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ^ "Editor's Spotlight: Meet Michele Salzman, associate editor of Studies in Late Antiquity". UC Press Blog. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ^ "Michele R. Salzman". www.cs.hmc.edu. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
- ^ January 3, Bettye Miller on; 2017. "Historian Appointed to the American Academy in Rome Board of Trustees". UCR Today. Retrieved 2019-04-28.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
- ^ "Michele Renee Salzman". Institute for Advanced Study. Retrieved 2019-04-28.
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