AHMA Participating Faculty
Carlos F. Noreña, PhD (University of Pennsylvania, 2001)
Assistant Professor of History
Roman History, Topography of Rome, Roman Numismatics, Latin Epigraphy
norena@berkeley.edu
Professor Noreña works on the history of the Roman empire (200 BC-AD 400), especially the political and cultural history of the first two centuries AD. His primary research interests are in the ideological and symbolic functions of the Roman emperor, and the cultural transformation of the Roman West. He examines both in his current book project, The Circulation of Imperial Ideals in the Roman West, which analyzes the figure of the emperor as a unifying symbol for the western empire. His other main interest is in the topography and urban history of Rome, on which he is currently co-editing a volume of essays, The Emperor and Rome: Space, Representation, and Ritual. Other interests include the Latin prose authors of the early Roman empire; Greek and Roman political thought; and comparative empires.
Publications:
Articles and Book Chapters
"The Early Imperial Monarchy," in A. Barchiesi and W. Scheidel (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
"Hadrian's Chastity," forthcoming in Phoenix.
"The Ethics of Autocracy in the Roman World," in R. Balot (ed.), A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought (Blackwell, forthcoming).
"The Social Economy of Pliny's Correspondence with Trajan," forthcoming in the American Journal of Philology 128 (2007).
"Water Distribution and the Residential Topography of Augustan Rome," in L. Haselberger and J. Humphrey (eds.), Imaging Ancient Rome: Documentation-Visualization-Imagination, Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplement 61 (Portsmouth, RI, 2006), 91-105.
"Medium and Message in Vespasian's Templum Pacis," Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 48 (2003), 25-43.
"The Communication of the Emperor's Virtues," Journal of Roman Studies 91 (2001), 146-68.
Reviews
G. Sumi, Ceremony and Power: Performing Politics in Rome between Republic and Empire (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005), forthcoming in Classical Review.
O. Hekster and R. Fowler (eds.), Imaginary Kings: Royal Images in the Ancient Near East, Greece and Rome. Oriens et Occidens 11 (Stuttgart: Franz Steiner, 2005), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2006.07.06.
G. Woolf (ed.), Cambridge Illustrated History of the Roman World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003), Classical Review 55 (2005), 614-15.
J. B. Lott, The Neighborhoods of Augustan Rome (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004), Classical Bulletin 81 (2005), 85-86.
A. S. Hobley, An Examination of Roman Bronze Coin Distribution in the Western Empire A.D. 81-192. BAR International Series 688 (Oxford: Archaeopress, 1998), American Journal of Numismatics 11 (1999), 160-64.
P. Southern, Augustus (London and New York: Routledge, 1998), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1999.05.16.
Miscellaneous
Catalogue entries in L. Haselberger (ed.), Mapping Augustan Rome. Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series no. 50 (Portsmouth, RI, 2002): Anio Vetus; Aqua Alsietina; Aqua Appia; Aqua Iulia; Aqua Marcia; Aqua Tepula; Aqua Virgo; Aqueducts, Water Supply and Population Density; "Arcus Augusti"; Atria Licinia; Basilica Iulia; Basilica Paulli; Castor, Aedes (Forum); Cloaca Maxima; Cloacina, Sacrum; Concordia Augusta, Aedes; Corneta; Curia Iulia; Divus Iulius, Aedes; "Felicitas" (Forum); Fornix Fabianus; Forum/Forum Romanum; Horrea Agrippiana; Ianus Quirinus, Sacellum; Lacus Curtius; Lacus Iuturnae; Miliarium Aureum; Porticus Gai et Luci; Puteal Libonis/Scribonianum; Regia; Regiones Quattuordecim; Rostra: Augustus; Saturnus, Aedes; Saturnus, Ara; Spes Vetus; Vesta, Aedes.