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6603 HUMANITIES SOCSCI
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Salzman, Michele R

Professor of History

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

History


Biography

Michele Salzman received her B.A. in Latin (1973) from Brooklyn College of City University of New York and her M.A. (1975) and Ph.D. (1981) from Bryn Mawr College in Greek and Latin. Before joining the faculty at the University of California, Riverside in 1995, she taught at Swarthmore College, Columbia University, and, for thirteen years, at Boston University. Salzman's research focuses on the religious and social history of Late Antiquity. Salzman is currently interested engaged in a commentary and translation of Book 1 of the Letters of the late Roman senator Symmachus. Salzman was Mellon Fellow in Classical Studies at the American Academy in Rome, 1986-87. In addition, she has received research fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies, the American Philosophical Society, and the Whiting Foundation. In 2003-2004 she was professor in charge of the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome. She is currently on the editorial Board of the American Journal of Archaeology. She is one of the members of the Steering Committee for the Multi-Campus Research Group for Late Antiquity.

Former Institution

Boston University

Degrees

Ph.D. Latin & Greek 1981

Bryn Mawr College

M.A. Latin 1975

Bryn Mawr College

B.A. Latin 1973

Brooklyn College of the City University of New York

Awards

2010 Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University, Fellow
2010 American Academy in Rome, Director, NEH Summer Seminar
2009 University of California, Presidential Chair
2003-2004 Professor-in-Charge, Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome (administered by Duke University)
2004-2007 Member of the Editorial Board, American Journal of Archaeology
1998-present Organizer, Penates, and Steering Board of Multi-Campus Research Group for the Study of Late Antiquity in Southern California
1990 American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant
1986-87 Mellon Fellow in Classical Studies, American Academy in Rome
1983 ACLS Research Fellowship


Research Area

Ancient Greece & Rome; late antiquity; social and religious history

Publications

She is author of Roman Time: The Codex-Calendar of 354 and the Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity (UC Press, 1990), as well as several articles on Roman history and religion. Her new book, The Making of a Christian Aristocracy (Harvard University Press) examined the social and religious issues that bear upon the conversion of the Roman aristocracy from paganism to Christianity in the Roman Empire in the West in the years after Constantine.