Carlos F. Noreña
Assistant Professor
member of the Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology
Contact
Office: 2411 Dwinelle Hall
Hours: M 10-12 & by appointment
Phone: (510) 642-2117
Email: norena@berkeley.edu
Education
B.A., History, University of California, Berkeley, 1993
Ph.D., Ancient History, University of Pennsylvania, 2001
Research and Teaching
I work on the history of the Roman empire (200 BC-AD 400), especially the political and cultural history of the first two centuries AD. My primary research interests are in the ideological and symbolic functions of the Roman emperor, and the political and cultural transformation of the Roman West. I examine both in my 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. Other interests include the topography and urban history of Rome; the literature and culture of the Roman empire; and comparative empires.
I teach a lower-division survey on the ancient Mediterranean world, upper-division surveys on the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire, undergraduate seminars on topics in ancient Greek and Roman history, and graduate seminars on topics in the political and cultural history of the Roman empire.
Academic Appointments
2005- Assistant Professor, Department of History, University of California, Berkeley.
2001-2005 Lecturer to Assistant Professor (2002), Department of Classics, Yale University.
Selected Publications
Edited Volumes
The Emperor and Rome: Space, Representation, and Ritual. Yale Classical Studies vol. 35, co-ed. B. Ewald (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
Articles and Book Chapters
"Coins and Communication," in M. Peachin (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Social Relations in the Roman World (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
"Introduction," with B. Ewald, in B. Ewald and C. Noreña (eds.), The Emperor and Rome: Space, Representation, and Ritual. Yale Classical Studies vol. 35 (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
"The Early Imperial Monarchy," in A. Barchiesi and W. Scheidel (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
"The Ethics of Autocracy in the Roman World," in R. Balot (ed.), A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought (Blackwell, forthcoming).
"Hadrian’s Chastity," forthcoming in Phoenix 61 (2007).
"The Social Economy of Pliny’s Correspondence with Trajan," American Journal of Philology 128.2 (2007), 239-77.
"Hadrian's Chastity," Phoenix 61.3-4 (2007), 296-317.
"The Social Economy of Pliny's Correspondence with Trajan," American Journal of Philology 128.2 (2007), 239-77 (to be reprinted in R. Gibson and R. Morello [eds.], Oxford Readings in Pliny the Younger [Oxford University Press, forthcoming]).
"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 Supplementary Series 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
P. Rehak, Imperium and Cosmos: Augustus and the Northern Campus Martius (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006), forthcoming in the Journal of Roman Studies.
C. Maier, Among Empires: American Ascendancy and its Predecessors (Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2006), Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History 8:2 (2007).
G. Sumi, Ceremony and Power: Performing Politics in Rome between Republic and Empire (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2005), Classical Review 57.1 (2007), 178-79.
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
Entries for M. Gagarin (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome: "Elagabalus;" "Propaganda: Roman;" and "Septimius Severus" (Oxford University Press, forthcoming).
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.
External Fellowships and Grants
2000-2001 Rome Prize Fellowship, American Academy in Rome.
1997 American Numismatic Society Grant for Graduate Seminar in Numismatics.
Awards
2007 Distinguished Teaching Award, Social Science Division, UC Berkeley.
Courses
Undergraduate Surveys (offered regularly)
History 4A: The Ancient Mediterranean World
History 106B: The Roman Empire
History 106A: The Roman Republic
Undergraduate Seminars
History 103A: Publicity, Propaganda, and Power in the Roman Revolution (Fall 2005)
Graduate Seminars
History 280A: Mapping Urbanization in the Roman Empire (Spring 2009)
History 280A: Culture and Empire in the Roman West (Fall 2006)
Information about Graduate Study in Ancient History at Berkeley
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