| Clifford Ando
Professor of Classics and the College
Office: Classics 314C
Fax: 773.702.5728
Email: cando@uchicago.edu
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., Classical Studies, University of Michigan, 1996
- B.A., Classics, summa cum laude. Princeton University, 1990
FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND PRIZES
- Frederick Burkhardt Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies, and Fellow, Huntington
Library, San Marino, California, 2004-2005
- Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit for Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the
Roman Empire, American Philological Association, 2003
- Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Classics, and Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford, Trinity Term 2001
- Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies, 2000-2001
- Zumberge Fellow, University of Southern California, 1999-2000
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Small Grant, 1997-1998
- University of Michigan Merit Fellow, 1992-1994, 1995-1996
- Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, 1990-1992, 1994-1995
- Phi Beta Kappa--elected 1990
PUBLICATIONS
Monographs
The matter of the gods. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2008
Imperial ideology and provincial loyalty in the Roman empire. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2000
Edited volumes
With Jörg Rüpke. Religion and law in classical and Christian Rome. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006
Roman Religion. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003
Articles and contributions to edited volumes:
"From Republic to Empire." Michael Peachin, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Social Relations in the Roman World. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming
"Decline, fall and transformation." The Journal of Late Antiquity 1, forthcoming spring 2008
"The end of antiquity." Alessandro Barchiesi and Walter Scheidel, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Forthcoming
"Narrating Decline and Fall." Philip Rousseau, ed. The Blackwell Companion to Late Antiquity. Oxford: Blackwell. Forthcoming 2008
"Aliens, ambassadors and the integrity of the empire." Law and History Review, forthcoming 2008
"The army and the urban elite: a competition for power." Paul Erdkamp, ed. The Blackwell Companion to the Roman Army. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. 359-378
"Exporting Roman religion." Jörg Rüpke, ed. The Blackwell Companion to Roman Religion. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. 429-445
"Religion and ius publicum." Clifford Ando and Jörg Rüpke, eds. Religion and law in classical and Christian Rome. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006. 126-145
"Idols and their critics." James Boyd White, ed. How should we talk about religion? Notre Dame, Indiana: The University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. 33-54
"Christian literature." Ed Bispham, Tom Harrison, and Brian Sparkes, eds. The Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. 402-406
"The administration of the provinces." David S. Potter, ed. The Blackwell Companion to the Roman Empire. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. 177-192
"Interpretatio Romana." Classical Philology 100.1 (January 2005) 41-51
"A religion for the empire." A. J. Boyle and W. J. Dominik, eds. Flavian Rome: Culture, image, text. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2003. 323-344
"Vergil's Italy: ethnography and politics in first century-Rome." David S. Levene and Damien Nelis, eds., Clio and the poets: Augustan poetry and the traditions of ancient historiography, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002. 123-142
"The Palladium and the Pentateuch: towards a sacred topography of the later Roman empire." Phoenix 55.3-4 (2001) 369-410
"Signs, idols, and the incarnation in Augustinian metaphysics." Representations 73 (2001) 24-53
"Was Rome a polis?" Classical Antiquity 18.1 (1999) 5-34
"Tacitus, Annales VI: beginning and end." American Journal of Philology 118.2 (1997) 285-303
"Pagan apologetics and Christian intolerance in the ages of Themistius and Augustine." Journal of Early Christian Studies 4.2 (1996) 171-207
"Augustine on language." Revue des Études Augustiniennes 40.1 (1994) 45-78
Reviews and short notes
Review of Alan K. Bowman, Peter Garnsey, and Averil Cameron, eds. The Cambridge Ancient History. Vol. 12: The crisis of empire, A.D. 193-337. 2nd. edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Journal of Roman Studies, in progress
Review of James B. Rives, Religion in the Roman Empire. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. Journal of Religion, forthcoming
Review of Paul Veyne, Quand notre monde est devenu chrétien (312-394). Paris: Albin Michel. Times Literary Supplement, forthcoming
John Scheid, Quand faire, c'est croire. Les rites sacrificiels des Romains. Paris: Aubier, 2005. Journal of Roman Studies, in progress
"Jewish privilege." Review of Martin Goodman, Rome & Jerusalem. The clash of ancient civilizations. London: Penguin/Allen Lane, 2007. Times Literary Supplement no. 5427 (6 April 2007), 6-7
"Greeks in Latin." Review of Fergus Millar, A Greek Roman Empire. Power and belief under Theodosius II (408-450). Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. Times Literary Supplement no. 5420 (16 February 2007) 9
Sviatoslav Dmitriev, City government in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. The Classical Outlook, forthcoming
Elizabeth Meyer, Legitimacy and law in the Roman world. Tabulae in Roman belief and practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2004. Classical Journal 100.4
N. Lenski, Failure of empire: Valens and the Roman state in the fourth century A.D. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. American Historical Review 109.4 (October 2004), 1289-1290
J.G.A. Pocock, Barbarism and Religion, Vol. 3. The First Decline and Fall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Journal of Roman Studies 94 (2004) 219-221
Axel Gebhardt, Imperiale Politik und provinziale Entwicklung. Untersuchungen zum Verhältnis von Kaiser, Heer und Städten im Syrien der vorseverischen Zeit. Klio Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, 4. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2002. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.09.04
Tim Whitmarsh, Greek Literature and the Roman Empire. The Politics of Imitation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Classical Philology 99.1 (January 2004) 89-98
Pierre Laederich, Les limites de l'empire: les stratégies de l'impérialisme romain dans l'oeuvre de Tacite. Paris: Economica, Institut de stratégie comparée, Commission française d'histoire militaire, 2001. Journal of Roman Studies 94 (2004) 255-256
"Origins: the census." Archaeology Odyssey 6.5 (September/October 2003) 6-7
Fergus Millar, Rome, the Greek World, and the East. Volume 1: The Roman Republic and the Augustan Revolution. Hannah M. Cotton and Guy M. Rogers, eds. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Classical Journal 99.2 (2003-04), 219-223
Simon Goldhill, ed., Being Greek under Rome: cultural identity, the Second Sophistic, and the development of empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Phoenix 57.3-4 (Winter 2003), 355-360
R. MacMullen, Romanization in the time of Augustus. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. Phoenix 56.3-4 (2002) 388-391
Jill Harries, Law and empire in late antiquity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999) and John Matthews, Laying down the law: a study of the Theodosian Code (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000). Phoenix 56.1-2 (2002) 198-203
Lukas de Blois, ed., Administration, prosopography and appointment policies in the Roman Empire. Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben, 2001. Journal of Roman Archaeology 15 (2002) 516-524
S. H. Rutledge. Imperial Inquisitions: prosecutors & informers from Tiberius to Domitian. London: Routledge, 2001. Classical Review 52.2 (2002) 321-323
Matthew B. Roller, Constructing autocracy: aristocrats and emperors in Julio-Claudian Rome. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. American Historical Review 107.4 (2002) 1273-1274
Warrick Ball, Rome in the East. The transformation of an empire. New York: Routledge, 2000. Classical Outlook 78.4 (2001) 176-178
Y. Lehmann, Varron théologien et philosophe romain. Brussels: Latomus, 1997. Scholia ns 10 (2000) no. 1.
G. Woolf, Becoming Roman. The origins of provincial civilization in Gaul. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Phoenix 53.3-4 (1999) 386-388
S. MacCormack, The shadows of poetry. Vergil in the mind of Augustine. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Journal of Early Christian Studies 7.2 (1999) 331-332
"Habermas and Rome." American Journal of Archaeology 102 (1998) 405
A. R. Birley, Hadrian: the restless emperor. London: Routledge, 1997. Phoenix 52 (1998) 183-185
J. R. Martindale, ed. The prosopography of the later Roman empire, Part III, A.D. 527-641. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Phoenix 51.1 (1997) 86-88
N. Lewis, On government and law in Roman Egypt. Collected papers of Naphtali Lewis. Ann Ellis Hanson, ed. American Studies in Papyrology, 33. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 7.5 (1996) 409-411
H. W. Bird, Aurelius Victor: De Caesaribus. Translation with introduction and commentary. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1994. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 6.2 (1995) 98-101
S. Borzsák. Tacitus: ab excessu divi Augusti libri I-VI. Leipzig and Stuttgart: Teubner, 1992. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 4.6 (1993) 423-429
H. W. Bird, Eutropius: Breviarium. Translation with introduction and commentary. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1993. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 4.6 (1993) 420-422
Professional activity and affiliations
James Henry Breasted Prize Committee, American Historical Association, 2006-2008 (Chair, 2007)
Member, Committee on Placement, American Philological Association, 1998-2001
Member, Program Committee, American Philological Association, 2006-2008
Referee, Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowships, ACLS, 2005-2007
Referee for the Council for the Humanities of the Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (NWO), 2003
University of Chicago, Board of the Library, 2007-
Editorial Board, Classical Philology, 2006-
Reader for Phoenix, Classical Antiquity, The American Journal of Ancient History, Classical Philology, Classical Journal, Law and History Review, Ramus, Classical and Modern Literature, Cambridge Classical Journal, Cambridge University Press, Edinburgh University Press, Oxford University Press, Blackwell
Member, American Philological Association; American Historical Association; North American Patristics Society; Roman Society
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