Carlos F. Noreña
Associate Professor
member of the Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology
Contact
Office: on leave
Hours:
Phone: (510) 642-2117
Email: norena@berkeley.edu
Education
Ph.D., Ancient History, University of Pennsylvania, 2001
B.A., History, University of California, Berkeley, 1993
Research and Teaching
My research focuses on the history of the Roman empire, especially in the first three centuries AD. At the center of published and forthcoming works stands the figure of the Roman emperor, examined in text and image, both in the city of Rome and the provinces, as the key actor and most resonant symbol in the political system and cultural matrix of the Roman empire. I have also written on and maintain interests in material and visual culture, topography, communications networks, literature and social status, and political thought. Current projects include Mapping Urbanization in the Roman Empire, a collaborative project that aims to produce a series of maps on urbanism, urban networks, and urban connectivity in the Roman world, and a short book for Princeton University Press on the Roman empire as a particular configuration of power (Anatomy of the Roman Empire: An Interpretive Introduction). I am also in the early stages of a larger project examining the relationship between ecology, state power, culture, and social order in the Roman empire.
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 history of the Roman empire.
Publications
Books
Imperial Ideals in the Roman West: Representation, Circulation, Power (Cambridge University Press, 2011).
Edited Volumes
The Emperor and Rome: Space, Representation, and Ritual. Yale Classical Studies vol. 35, co-ed. B. Ewald (Cambridge University Press, 2010).
Articles and Book Chapters
"Western Han Chang'an and Early Imperial Rome: Structural Parallels and the Logics of Urban Form," forthcoming in M. Nylan and G. Vankeerberghen (eds.), Chang'an 26 BCE: From Drains to Dreams (University of California Press).
"Self-fashioning in the Panegyricus," in P. Roche (ed.), Pliny's Praise: The Panegyricus in the Roman World (Cambridge University Press, 2011), 29-44.
"Coins and Communication," in M. Peachin (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Social Relations in the Roman World (Oxford University Press, 2011), 248-68.
"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, 2010), 1-43.
"The Early Imperial Monarchy," in A. Barchiesi and W. Scheidel (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies (Oxford University Press, 2010), 533-46.
"The Ethics of Autocracy in the Roman World," in R. Balot (ed.), A Companion to Greek and Roman Political Thought (Blackwell, 2009), 266-79.
"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
L. de Arrizabalaga y Prado, The Emperor Elagabalus: Fact or Fiction? (Cambridge University Press, 2010), forthcoming in Classical Review 62.1 (2012).
Z. Várhelhyi, The Religion of Senators in the Roman Empire: Power and the Beyond (Cambridge University Press, 2010), Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2011.04.40.
P. Rehak, Imperium and Cosmos: Augustus and the Northern Campus Martius (Madison, WI: University of Wisconsin Press, 2006), Journal of Roman Studies 98 (2008), 257-58.
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
"Augustan Ideology, " in R. Thomas and J. Ziolkowski (eds.), The Virgil Encyclopedia (Oxford: Blackwell, forthcoming).
"Elagabalus;" "Propaganda: Roman;" and "Septimius Severus, " for M. Gagarin (ed.), The Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome (Oxford University Press, 2010).
Catalogue and map 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.
Awards
2007 Distinguished Teaching Award, Social Science Division, UC Berkeley.
Courses
Undergraduate Surveys (offered regularly)
History 4A: The Ancient Mediterranean World
History 106A: The Roman Republic
History 106B: The Roman Empire
Undergraduate Seminars (recent offerings)
Imaginative Literature and Social History in the Roman Empire (Fall 2010)
Graduate Seminars (recent offerings)
Armies and Taxes in the Roman Empire (Spring 2011)
The Roman Emperor: Ruler and Symbol (Spring 2010)
Mapping Urbanization in the Roman Empire (Spring 2009)
Information about Graduate Study in Ancient History at Berkeley
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