JOHN BODEL

John Bodel is mainly interested in Roman social, cultural, and economic history and in Latin literature of the early Empire. Much of his research involves Roman inscriptions in one way or another, and he has a general interest in ancient funerals and burial customs, Roman religion, ancient slavery, and the editing of Latin texts. He directs the U.S. Epigraphy Project and since 2001 has been involved with the EpiDoc team in developing a set of conventions for editing inscriptions digitally in XML.

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Biography

Educated at Princeton (B.A. 1978) and the University of Michigan (Ph.D. 1984), Bodel taught at Harvard (1984-1992), and Rutgers (1993-2002) before joining the faculty at Brown in 2003. He was a Resident at the American Academy in Rome in 2006 and has held appointments as Visiting Professor at Berkeley (2000), Princeton (2002), and Oxford (2004). Since 1995 he has directed the U.S. Epigraphy Project, the purpose of which is to gather and share information about ancient Greek and Latin inscriptions preserved in the United States.

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JOHN BODEL, B.A, Classics, Princeton University, 1978, M.A., Classical Philology, University of Michigan, 1979, Ph.D., Classical Philology, University of Michigan, 1984
W. Duncan MacMillan II Professor of Classics and Professor of History, Chair of Classics
Macfarlane House 204
Phone: 401-863-3815
Phone 2: 401-863-1267
E-mail: John_Bodel@brown.edu

John Bodel's Brown Research URL:
http://research.brown.edu/myresearch/John_Bodel

On The Web:
U.S. Epigraphy Project
EpiDoc
CoDe
Research

Collaborators at other institutions:
Mika Kajava, Professor of Greek, University of Helsinki
Charlotte Roueché, Professor of Late Antique and Byzantine Studies, King's College, London

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