Brent Shaw, Princeton University
Professor
Princeton, New Jersey
bshaw@Princeton.EDU
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(609) 258-6604
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I am an historian of imperial Rome whose interests have been directed to subjects as diverse as social banditry and family history, but my regionally-based research has usually been focused on the history of the north African provinces of the empire. I began my advanced graduate research at Cambr...
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I am an historian of imperial Rome whose interests have been directed to subjects as diverse as social banditry and family history, but my regionally-based research has usually been focused on the history of the north African provinces of the empire. I began my advanced graduate research at Cambridge University where I came under the tutelage of Joyce Reynolds and under the influences of Moses Finley. I began my paying academic career in the mid-1970s at the University of Birmingham in England before taking up a position at a smaller undergraduate institution in western Canada. From the mid-1990s, I was Professor of Ancient History and Director of the Graduate Group in Ancient History at the University of Pennsylvania; from 2004 to present I have been the Andrew Fleming West Professor of Classics at Princeton.
My initial publications, in the mid to late 1970s were mainly in the social and economic history of Africa in the high Roman empire, but the focus of my research later shifted, in the 1980s and 1990s, to a main concern with Roman family history and with the historical demography of imperial Rome. More recently, my concerns have returned to problems of violence in the making of new social orders, and have centered on the conflicts that created the Christian worlds of the late antique Maghrib.
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My initial publications, in the mid to late 1970s were mainly in the social and economic history of Africa in the high Roman empire, but the focus of my research later shifted, in the 1980s and 1990s, to a main concern with Roman family history and with the historical demography of imperial Rome. More recently, my concerns have returned to problems of violence in the making of new social orders, and have centered on the conflicts that created the Christian worlds of the late antique Maghrib.
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