Emanuel Mayer

Assistant Professor of Classics
Office: Wieboldt 126
Phone: (773) 702-4177
e-mail: emayer@uchicago.edu

Fields of expertise

• Political iconography of the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial Periods.
• Visual cultures of the Roman Empire.
• Ancient urbanism.

Education

• Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology, Ruprecht-Karls University, Heidelberg, 2001.
• Zwischenprüfung in Classical Archaeology, Ludwig-Maximilians University, Munich, 1994

Employment

• Visiting Scholar and Tutor in 'Art under the Empire', Oxford University, 2004-2005
• Temporary Lecturer in Classical Archaeology, Heidelberg University, 2002-2003
• Reisestipendiat (Travelling Fellow) of the German Archaeological Institute, 2001-2002.
• Research Assistant, Heidelberg University, 2001.

Honors and Awards

• 2001-2002: Reisestipendiat (Travelling Fellow) of the German Archaeological Institute.
• 1998-2001: Research Grant by the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German Scholarship Foundation).

Publications

2002: Rome is where the emperor is. State monuments in the decentralised Roman Empire from Diocletian to Theodosius II. Mainz (in German: Rom ist dort wo der Kaiser ist. Untersuchungen zu den Staatsdenkmälern des dezentralisierten Reiches von Diocletian bis zu Theodosius II.)

2004: Review: H. Meyer, Prunkkameen und Staatsdenkmäler römischer Kaiser. Neue Perspektiven zur Kunst der frühen Prinzipatszeit (2000) Sehepunkte, (2004), Nr. 10 [15.10.2004], URL:

2006: "Civil war and public dissent: The state monuments of the decentralised Roman Empire", in: Late Antique Archaeology 3. Leiden eds. W. Bowden, A. Gutteridge, C. Machado 141-155

Forthcoming:

2007: "Propaganda, Staged Applause or Local Politics? Public Monuments from Augustus to Septimius Severus", in: The Emperor and Rome. Cambridge eds. B. Ewald, C. Norena

2007: Review: L.M. Stirling, The Learned Collector Mythological Statuettes and Classical Taste in Late Antique Gaul (2005) CAA

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