Carlos F. Noreña

Assistant Professor
member of the Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology

Contact

Office: 2411 Dwinelle Hall
Hours: On Leave
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 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. My other main interest is in the topography and urban history of Rome, on which I am 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.

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

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).

"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.

"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), forthcoming in the Journal of Colonialism and Colonial History.

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.

Courses

Undergraduate Surveys

History 4A: The Ancient Mediterranean World (Fall 2006)

History 106B: The Roman Empire (Spring 2006)

History 106A: The Roman Republic (Spring 2006)

Undergraduate Seminars

History 103A: Publicity, Propaganda, and Power in the Roman Revolution (Fall 2005)

Graduate Seminars

History 280A: Culture and Empire in the Roman West (Fall 2006)

Information about Graduate Study in Ancient History at Berkeley

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