Data: Born, 7 June 1945, Michigan City, Indiana
A.B. Wabash College, 1967
M.A. The University of Michigan, 1968
Ph.D. The University of Michigan, 1974 under the co-direction of Sylvia L. Thrupp and John W. Eadie
Assistant Professor of History, Emory University, 1974-1980
Associate Professor of History, Emory University, 1980-1985
Samuel Candler Dobbs Professor of Late Ancient and Medieval History, Emory University, 1985-
Chair, Department of History, 1989-1992, 2006-2007
Emory Williams Award for Distinguished Teaching in Emory College, 1982
Summer Seminar Director for National Endowment for the Humanities' Seminars for Secondary School Teachers,1985, 1988.
Fulbright Fellow to the Federal Republic of Germany, 1986
Member, the Nominating Committee of the Medieval Academy of America, 1987-89
Thomas Jefferson Award for Distinguished Scholarship, Teaching, and Service, Emory University, 2004
Crystal Apple Award for Teaching and Mentoring Excellence, awarded by the student body of Emory College, 2007
BOOKS:
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1) The Ostrogoths; Kingship and Society, Historia, Einzelschriften, No. 36, Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1980. |
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| 2) A History of the Ostrogoths, Indiana University Press, Bloomington,1984. A selection of the History Book Club. |
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| 3) Rome and the Germans as Seen in Coinage, with Bernhard H. Overbeck (Emory University, Atlanta, 1987). A catalog for the exhibition. |
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| 4) Barbarians Within the Gates of Rome: Roman Military Policy and the Barbarians, ca. 375-425 A.D. Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1994. A selection of the History Book Club. |
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| 5) Urban Centers and Rural Contexts in Late Antiquity, with John W. Eadie (East Lansing, Michigan State University Press, 2001) |
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| 6) Rome and the Barbarians, 100 BC to AD 400, (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press, 2003). A selection of the History Book Club, the Discover Book Club, and the Reader’s Subscription Book Club. |  |
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| 7) Die römische Siedlung bei Babarc, Komitat Baranya/Ungarn / The Roman Settlement near Babarc, Komitat Baranya, Hungary, with Helmut Bender (U. Passau, Germany) and Z. Visy and F. Fazekas (U. Pécs, Hungary), Passauer Universitätsschriften zur Archäologie, Band 12 (Passau, Verlag Marie Leidorf, 2007). |  |
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1) "The Battle of Adrianople: A Reconsideration" Historia, 22 (1973) 336-45.
2) "Calculating Ostrogothic Army and Population" The Ancient World, 1 (1978) 187-90, also appeared in Acta Antiqua, 26 (1978) 457-63 under the title "Calculating Ostrogothic Population."
3) "Ennodius and the Ostrogothic Settlement," Classical Folia, 32 (1978) 153-68.
4) "The Barbarians and the Scriptores Historiae Augustae," Collection Latomus, v. 164, Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History, vol. I. (Bruxelles, 1979), pp. 521-40.
5) "The Alpine Frontiers and Early Medieval Italy to the Middle of the Seventh Century," Collection Latomus, v. 164, Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History, v.1 (Bruxelles, 1979), pp.521-40.
6) "Pursuing the Early Gothic Migrations," Acta Archaeologica, 31 (1979) 189-99.
7) "The Germans and Roman Frontier Policy (ca. A.D. 350-375)," Arheoloski Vestnik, 32 (1981) 390-404.
8) "Theories and Facts: The Early Gothic Migrations," History in Africa, 9 (1982) 1-20.
9) "Theodoric the Great and the Concepts of Power in Late Antiquity," Acta Classica, 25 (1982) 99-118.
10) "The Watchtower at Passau-Haibach: A Historical Perspective," Ostbairische Grenzmarken, 24 (1982) 78-81. This is my contribution to the publication of a joint excavation in 1978-79 with Dr. Helmut Bender. His archaeological report precedes my historical survey and summarizes our field work, "Ein spaetroemischer Wachturm bei Passau-Haibach," Ostbair. Grenz., 24 (1982) 55-77.
11) "The Settlement of 418." In Fifth Century Roman Gaul: A Crisis of Identity?, ed. J. Drinkwater and H. Elton, (Cambridge University Press, 1992) pp. 53-63.
12) with Helmut Bender and Zsolt Visy, "Die Roemische Ansiedlung bei Babarc, Komit Baranya, Ungarn. Die Prospektionsarbeiten in den Jahren 1989,91," Specimina Nova, 7 (1992) [1994] 89-98.
13) "The Twilight of Roman Raetia: An End and a Beginning," Exegesti Monumentum Aere Perennius: Essays in Honor of John Frederick Charles (Indianapolis, 1994) pp.1-18.
14) "Alaric, Stilicho and Radagaisus (402-06): Reflections upon Limits and Realities," in Minorities and Barbarians in Medieval Life and Thought [v.7, Sewanee Medieval Studies, ed. Susan Ridyard, Sewanee, TN, 1996] pp.141-58.
15) "Extending the Fulbright Teaching Experience: Internet Distance Learning," The Funnel. Newsmagazine of the German - American Fulbright Commission, 33.3 (Summer, 1997) pp.50-52.
16) "Imperial Propaganda and the Barbarians: Marius, Caesar, and Augustus," Humanitas – Beiträge zur antiken Kulturgeschichte. Festschrift für Gunther Gottlieb zum 65. Geburtstag, P. Barcelo and V. Rosenberger, eds. (Schriften der Philosophischen Fakultäten der Universität Augsburg, v.65, Munich, 2001) pp.63-79.
17) Medieval Italy. An Encyclopedia, edited by Christopher Kleinhenz, entries for Amalasuntha, Ostrogoths, Theodahad, Theodoric, Totila, and Witigis (Routledge, New York and London, 2004.
18) THOMPSON, Edward Arthur (1914-94), The Dictionary of British Classicists (Bristol, 2004) 964-66.
1) Paul Petit, Pax Romana (University of California Press, 1976) in Journal of Economic History 37 (1977), 550-51.
2) The Frontier: Comparative Studies. Edited by David Harry Miller and Jerome O. Steffen (University of Oklahoma Press, 1977) in Terrae Incognitae 11 (1979), 113-15.
3) J. D. Randers-Pehrson, Barbarians and Romans. The Birth Struggle of Europe, A.D. 400-700 (Norman, Oklahoma, 1983) in AHR 89 (1984) 415.
4) Suzanne Teillet, Des Goths a la nation Gothique (Les Belles Lettres, Paris, 1984), in Speculum 62 (1987) 209-11.
5) Judith Herrin, The Foundation of Christendom (Princeton, 1987), in AHR 94 (1989) 728-29.
6) P. Heather, Goths and Romans, 332-489 (Oxford, 1991), in Classical Outlook 71 (1994) 68-69.
7) M. Todd, The Early Germans (Oxford, 1992) in Speculum 69 (1994).
8) James C. Russell, The Germanization of Early Medieval Christianity: A Socio-historical Approach to Religious Transformation (Oxford, 1994) in The Journal of Interdisciplinary History 26 (1996) 684-85.
9) Stephen Williams and Gerard Friell, Theodosius. The Empire at Bay (Yale, 1994) in AHR 101 (1996) 1189-90.
10) Patrick Amory, People and Identity in Ostrogothic Italy, 489-554 (Cambridge, 1996) in the American Historical Review 103 (1998) 1569-70.
11) S. Mattern, Rome and the Enemy (Berkeley, 1999) for American Historical Review, 106 (2001) 237-238.
12) John Man, Atlas of the Year 1000 (Harvard UP, 1999) for The Journal of The Historical Society, 2 (2002)
13) Hispania in Late Antiquity: Current Perspectives. Edited and translated by Kim Bowes and Michael Kulikowski (Brill, Leiden – Boston, 2005) for the American Historical Review, 113 (2006) 1238 - 39.
1) "Changing Concepts of Ethnic Identity among the Ostrogoths: The Role of the Roman Army," American Historical Association, December, 1976.
2) "The Alpine Frontiers and Early Medieval Italy," Third Oklahoma Symposium on Comparative Frontiers, Norman, Oklahoma, March, 1977.
3) "Theodoric the Great, Literary Circles and Concepts of Power," American Philological Association, December, 1981.
4) "The Late Roman Limes in Raetia and Upper Noricum," American Historical Association, December 1983.
5) "The Limes and the Battle of Adrianople," Classical Association of the Middle West and South, April, 1984.
6) "Theodosius and Federate Policy," Universitaet Passau, July, 1986.
7) "Thracia 375-400 A.D.: Archaeological Patterns versus Historical Theories," Universitaet Muenchen, July, 1986.
8) "Rome and the Germans: an Archaeological Overview," Universidad Catolica, Quito, Ecuador, July, 1987.
9) "Theodosius the Great: A View of His Barbarian Politics," University of Pecs, Pecs, Hungary, September, 1988
10) "Rome and the Germans: A Historical and Archaeological Introduction," University of Georgia, October, 1988
11) "Rome and the Germans: History, Perceptions and Realities," delivered as a part of a Symposium of "Rome at War as Seen in Coinage" for the Smithsonian Institute, Museum of American History, Numismatics Section, October, 1988.
12) "Das Nachleben der Roemische Welt und die Baiern," at the Programa de Aleman de la Pontificia Universidad Catolica, Quito, Ecuador. December, 1988.
13) "The Afterlife of Roman Bavaria," University of Santa Barbara, Center for Medieval Studies, January, 1989.
14) "The Settlement of 418 and the Policies of Theodosius the Great," presented at the "Conference on Fifth-Century Roman Gaul," The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, England, April, 1989.
15) "Rome and the Germans as seen in Coinage," Wabash College, September 1989.
16) "The Barbarians within the Gates of Rome," Rutgers University, September 1989.
17) "Beyond Roman Germany: An Archaeological Survey" University of Nottingham, January 1990.
18) "Alaric and Stilicho: A Crisis in Recruitment," University of Nottingham, Nottingham, England, January 1990.
19) "Alaric, Stilicho and Radagaisus (402-406): Reflections upon Limits and Realities," Sewanee Mediaeval Colloquium, University of the South, April 1992.
20) "The Conversion of the Gothic Peoples to Christianity: An Exploration of New Methodologies and Questions," Bosch Stiftung, Sion, Switzerland, June 1992.
21) "Barbarians and Imperial Propaganda," McGill University, Montreal, Canada, September 1992.
22) "Recent Numismatic Discoveries and Late Roman History: Three Case Studies." McGill University, Montreal, Canada, September 1992.
23) "An Introduction to Roman Numismatic Iconography concerning Foreigners," The University of the South, April 1993.
24) "The Late Roman Army: Pay and Recruitment in light of recent developments in Numismatics," The University of the South, April 1993.
25) "Image and Reality: Barbarians and Imperial Ideology," Rice University, November 1993
26) "Rome and the Germans as Seen in Coinage: An Introduction to Late Ancient Iconography and Foreign Peoples", Old Dominion University, April 1994.
27) "Barbarians within the Gates of Rome: The Roman Frontier and the Dawn of the Middle Ages", University of Kansas, October 1994.
28) "Rome's Germans: Propaganda in Many Forms", Ivane Javakhishvili State University of Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia, July 1995.
29) "Propaganda and Realities: Romans and their Germanic Neighbors," Oglethorpe University, April 1996.
30) "The Settlement of Barbarians upon Roman Soil: Differing Interpretations of the Literary Evidence," Bosch Stiftung, Sion, Switzerland, June 1996.
31) "Ethnicity and Frontiers: Germans and Romans. An Exploration into being German inside the Roman Empire," at the Rocky Mountain World History Association, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, November 1996.
32) "The Tenacity of Ethnic Stereotypes in the Roman Empire: Suggestions as to Cause," at the Mississippi University for Women, November 1997.
33) "Romans Reflecting upon themselves in Coinage," at Delta State University, February 1998.
34) "Romans and Barbarians: Late Ancient Multi-Culturalism?," Michigan State University, October 1999.
35) "Rome and the Barbarians from Caesar to Honorius," Brigham Young University, October 1999.
36) "Barbarians on Roman Coins: The Iconography of Victory," Tulane University, Novermber 1999.
37) "Evolving Platforms of Roman and Barbarian Interaction, ca. 100 BC – AD 450," SUNY at Geneseo, Annual History Department Distinquished Lecture, September, 2000.
38) "Beziehungen zwischen Römern und Barbaren in der Zeit von 100
v. Chr. bis 400 n. Chr.," Seminar für Alte Geschichte der Universität
Heidelberg, May 2001.
39) "Beziehungen zwischen Römern und Barbaren in der Zeit von 100
v. Chr. bis 400 n. Chr.," Historisches Institut Universität Potsdam,
June 2001.
40) "Beziehungen zwischen Römern und Barbaren in der Zeit von 100
v. Chr. bis 400 n. Chr.," Universität Passau, 3 July 2001.
41) "Beziehungen zwischen Römern und Barbaren in der Zeit von 100
v. Chr. bis 400 n. Chr.," Universität Augsburg, 10 July 2001.
42) "Sometimes Bitter Friends, Romans, Barbarians, and the Birth of Europe,"
Tulane University, 29 October 2001.
43) “The Film Gladiator and Real Barbarians, Ancient and Modern,” Saint Marks’ College, Adelaide, Australia, September 2002.
44) “Perspective on Romans and Barbarians, ca. 100 BC – AD 400,” Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, September 2002.
45) “Hidden Realities: Foreigners on Rome Coinage,” Classical Association of South Australia meeting in Adelaide, October 2002.
46) “Time and Change as Seen from the Roman Attitudes towards Barbarians,” Post-Graduate Seminar in Classics and General Linguistics, University of Adelaide, Australia, October 2002.
47) “The Decline of the Ancient City in Late Roman Pamphylia, Southcentral Turkey,” University of Adelaide, Australia, October 2002.
48) “Rome and the Barbarians, 100 BC – AD 400,” Smithsonian Institution, November 2003.
49) “Jobs, Markets, and the Transformations of Roman Frontiers,” The Society for Hungarian Antiquities and the Pannonius University of Pécs, Hungary, June 2004.
50) “Transforming the ‘Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire’:
City and Countryside,” Tulane University, November 2004.
1) Comparative Study of Late Roman Urbanism in Pamphylia (southcentral Turkey) and the German Provinces on the Rhine and Upper Danube, being done in collaboration with colleagues at the University of Adelaide, Australia, and the University of Pécs, Hungary.
2) A textbook reorienting “Western Civilization” courses away from the traditional London – Paris – Rome axis by stressing a much more multi-foci approach involving the integration of eastern and northern Europe, north Africa and Islamic world, with so-called medieval western Europe.
1) Excavation of a Roman Military Watchtower, ca. 350-425 AD, at Passau-Haibach, with Prof. Dr. H. Bender, 1978 and 79.
2) Excavation of a Pre-Roman, Celtic Oppidum at Manching near Ingolstadt, a section with Prof. Dr. H. Bender, under the overall supervision of F. Maier, Römisch-Germanische Kommission, 1985.
3) Excavation of a Late Roman farmstead at Barbac near Mohacs, Hungary, 1989 – 99, Field Director, May through July, 1998. With Prof. Dr. Z. Visy, University of Pécs and Prof. Dr. Helmut Bender, Universität Passau (publication, April 2007).
4) The traveling coin exhibition, “Rome and the Germans as Seen in Coinage,” originally organized in 1987, is now at its first venue in Hungary after being shown at thirty locations in the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. This exhibit is co-organized with Prof. Dr. Bernhard Overbeck, Staatliche Münzsammlung, München.
1) Late Antiquity In RealTime, Emory University, Spring 1997
2) Augustus and The Early Empire In RealTime, Emory University, Spring 1998
3) Emory Summer Aboard Program, 12 June – 23 July 2005, in Greece and Turkey: “The Ancient City: Greek, Roman, and Byzantine”
Nationally broadcast on PBS, “History in Africa”; Arts and Entertainment Channel, “Footsoldiers, pt.4, The Barbarians”; The History Channel, “The Barbarians” (3 of 7 segments to date). “Decisive Battles of the Ancient World” (3 of 9 segments to date) also for The History Channel. Four segments ( of 13) in production of “Rome: the End of an Empire” also for The History Channel.