Glen Warren Bowersock

Professor Glen Warren Bowersock is a Professor Emeritus of Ancient History at the Institute for Advanced Study. Prior, Professor Bowersock was Professor of Classics and History and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences at Harvard University. His research topics include geography, topography, epigraphy, and numismatics are important throughout. He is concerned principally with the mixed cultures of the eastern mediterranean in the Roman and early Byzantine periods and has published books on the Augustan Greek world, Roman Arabia, and late antique Hellenism in the Near East. Other studies of his are on late antiquity, with a biography of Julian the Apostate, a guide to the postclassical world (co-edited with two colleagues), and books on Ethiopia and the southwest Arabian peninsula. Professor Bowersock has also published on the historical implications of sophistic rhetoric and ancient fiction in the Roman Empire, as well as the classical tradition in the West (Gibbon and Cavafy in particular). He is the recipient of James Henry Breasted Prize, Prix Albert Bernard, Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, and Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres.