Serena Connolly
Serena Connolly is a scholar of Ancient Roman history, with a research focus on Roman Social History and Latin literature. Connolly received a B.A. from Cambridge University in 1998.[1] She went on to earn a Ph.D. at Yale University in 2004, where her doctoral dissertation (“Access to law in Late Antiquity Status, corruption, and the evidence of the "Codex Hermogenianus”) was directed by John F. Matthews.[2] She held the positions of Lecturer in the Classics Department at Yale University from 2004-2007 and then Visiting Assistant Professor in the Classics Department at Rutgers University from 2007-2008, before accepting a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in the Classics Department at Rutgers in 2008.[3] She was awarded tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in 2012.
Connolly’s published her revised doctoral dissertation as Lives behind the Laws: The World of the Codex Hermogenianus (Indiana University Press) in 2010. She was awarded a Mellon Fellowship for Assistant Professors at the School of Historical Studies of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton from 2009-2010.[4] She has published more than 10 journal articles and book chapters,[5] and was a contributing editor to a recently-published translation of the Code of Justinian.[6]
She served as Graduate Director of the Rutgers Classics Department from 2009-2010 and again from 2014-2016.[7]
From 2017 to 2020, Connolly served as President of the Association of Ancient Historians.[8]
Selected publications[]
- Serena Connolly, Lives behind the Laws: The World of the Codex Hermogenianus (Bloomington, IN.: Indiana University Press, 2010).
- Serena Connolly, "Constantine and the Veterans," in Edward Watts, Scott McGill and Cristiana Sogno, eds., The Roman Empire from the Tetrarchy to Theodosius II (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 188–233.
- Serena Connolly, "Binarism in the Disticha Catonis," Mnemosyne 66 (2013), pp. 228–246
- Serena Connolly, Disticha Catonis Uticensis," Classical Philology 107 (April 2012), pp. 119-130.
- Serena Connolly, "The Meter of the Disticha Catonis," Classical Journal 107 (2012), pp. 313–29.
References[]
- ^ See Rutgers University Classics Department website at: https://rutgersclassics.com/2008/06/25/welcoming-new-classics-faculty-2-serena-connolly/
- ^ See Serena Connolly, Lives behind the Laws: The World of the Codex Hermogenianus (Bloomington, IN.: Indiana University Press, 2010) pp. xvii-xviii.
- ^ See her Curriculum Vitae at: https://classics.rutgers.edu/docman-list-all/people-docman-category/147-connolly-cv/file
- ^ Yale Department of Classics Newsletter (Summer, 2009), p. 6, online at: https://classics.yale.edu/sites/default/files/files/downloads/Classics09F.pdf
- ^ See her Curriculum Vitae at: https://classics.rutgers.edu/docman-list-all/people-docman-category/147-connolly-cv/file
- ^ Bruce W. Frier, ed., 'The Codex of Justinian. A New Annotated Translation, with Parallel Latin and Greek Text' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2016).
- ^ See her Curriculum Vitae at: https://classics.rutgers.edu/docman-list-all/people-docman-category/147-connolly-cv/file.
- ^ See Association of Ancient Historians Newsletter 141 (Spring, 2020) at: http://associationofancienthistorians.org/newsletters/2020_1Spring.pdf
- Scholars of Roman history
- Women classical scholars
- Living people
- Alumni of the University of Cambridge
- Yale University alumni
- Yale University faculty
- Rutgers University faculty