Clifford Ando

Clifford Ando

Clifford Ando (Ph.D. Classical Studies, University of Michigan, 1996) is Professor in the Department of Classics and the College and an associate in the Department of History. He is the author of Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire (2000), for which he was awarded the APA's Goodwin Award in 2003, and The Matter of the Gods (2008). He is the editor of Roman Religion (2003) and co-editor, with Jörg Rüpke, of Religion and Law in Classical and Christian Rome (2006). His current research examines problems of law, administration and cultural change in the Roman empire.

Contact

Department of Classics
1115 E. 58th St
Chicago, IL 60637

office: Classics 314C
fax: 773.702.5728
email: cando@uchicago.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Fellowships, Grants, and Prizes

  • Robson Classical Lecturer, Victoria University, University of Toronto, 2012
  • Mellon New Directions Fellow, Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, 2010-2011
  • Canterbury Fellow, University of Canterbury, New Zealand, 2010
  • Fellow, Max-Weber-Zentrum für kultur- und sozialwissenschaftliche Studien, Universität Erfurt, 2009-2010
  • Gastprofessor, Excellenzkluster "Religion und Politik in den Kulturen der Vormoderne und der Moderne," Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster, 2008-2012
  • Gastprofessor, Wissenschaftskolleg "Religiöse Individualisierung in historischer Perspektive," Universität Erfurt, 2008-2012
  • Senior Fellow, Society of Fellows, University of Chicago, 2007-2010
  • Frederick Burkhardt Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies
  • Fellow, Huntington Library, San Marino, California, 2004-2005
  • Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit for Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire, American Philological Association, 2003
  • Visiting Scholar, Faculty of Classics, and Fellow, Wolfson College, Oxford, Trinity Term 2001
  • Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies, 2000-2001
  • Zumberge Fellow, University of Southern California, 1999-2000
  • Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Small Grant, 1997-1998
  • University of Michigan Merit Fellow, 1992-1994, 1995-1996
  • Mellon Fellow in the Humanities, 1990-1992, 1994-1995
  • Phi Beta Kappa--elected 1990

Publications

Monographs

  • The matter of the gods. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2008. Paperback edition, 2009.
  • Imperial ideology and provincial loyalty in the Roman empire. Berkeley: The University of California Press, 2000.

Edited Volumes

  • With Jörg Rüpke. Religion and law in classical and Christian Rome. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006.
  • Roman Religion. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2003.

Articles and Contributions to Edited Volumes

  • "Law and the landscape of empire." Stéphane Benoist, ed. Figures d'empire, fragments de mémoire: Pouvoirs (pratiques et discours, images et représentations), et identités (sociales et religieuses) dans le monde romain impérial (Ier s. av J.-C. - Ve s. ap. J.-C.). Forthcoming.
  • "The ontology of religious institutions." History of Religions, forthcoming.
  • "Rules of evidence." Review article of John Scheid, Quand faire, c'est croire. Les rites sacrificiels des Romains, Paris: Aubier, 2005. Journal of Roman Studies, forthcoming 2009.
  • "Citizenship, Roman" and "Political structure and ideology, Roman Empire," in M. Gagarin, ed., The Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
  • "Empire and the laws of war: an archaeology." Benedict Kingsbury and Benjamin Straumann, eds. The justification of war and empire in international law (title provisional).
  • "Cities, gods, empire." T. Kaizer and R. Witcher, eds. Volume title not yet announced.
  • "Sovereignty and solipsism in democratic empires." A. Pagden and S. Subrahmanyam, eds. Models of Empire (title provisional). University of California Press.
  • "Quaestio de natura deorum: ancient inquiries into the nature of the gods." S. MacCormack, ed. Forthcoming.
  • "Diana on the Aventine." Hubert Cancik and Jörg Rüpke, eds. Die Religion des Imperium Romanum. Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2009. 99-113.
  • "Imperial identities." Tim Whitmarsh, ed. Local knowledge. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Forthcoming.
  • "From Republic to Empire." Michael Peachin, ed. The Oxford Handbook of Social Relations in the Roman World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming.
  • "Decline, fall and transformation." The Journal of Late Antiquity 1 (Spring 2008), 30-60.
  • "The end of antiquity." Alessandro Barchiesi and Walter Scheidel, eds. The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming
  • "Narrating Decline and Fall." Philip Rousseau, ed. A Companion to Late Antiquity. Oxford: Blackwell, 2008. 59-76.
  • "Aliens, ambassadors and the integrity of the empire." Law and History Review 26.3 (Fall 2008), 491-519.
  • "The army and the urban elite: a competition for power." Paul Erdkamp, ed. The Blackwell Companion to the Roman Army. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. 359-378
  • "Exporting Roman religion." Jörg Rüpke, ed. The Blackwell Companion to Roman Religion. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. 429-445
  • "Religion and ius publicum." Clifford Ando and Jörg Rüpke, eds. Religion and law in classical and Christian Rome. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2006. 126-145
  • "Idols and their critics." James Boyd White, ed. How should we talk about religion? Notre Dame, Indiana: The University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. 33-54
  • "Christian literature." Ed Bispham, Tom Harrison, and Brian Sparkes, eds. The Edinburgh Companion to Ancient Greece and Rome. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2006. 402-406
  • "The administration of the provinces." David S. Potter, ed. The Blackwell Companion to the Roman Empire. Oxford: Blackwell, 2006. 177-192
  • "Interpretatio Romana." Classical Philology 100.1 (January 2005) 41-51. Reprinted with revisions in L. de Blois, P. Funke and J. Hahn, eds. The impact of imperial Rome on religious ritual and religious life in the Roman empire, Proceedings of the fifth workshop of the international network Impact of Empire (Roman Empire, 200 B.C. - A.D. 476), Münster, June 30 - July 4, 2004. Leiden: Brill. 51-65.
  • "A religion for the empire." A. J. Boyle and W. J. Dominik, eds. Flavian Rome: Culture, image, text. Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2003. 323-344
  • Review article of Lukas de Blois, ed., Administration, prosopography and appointment policies in the Roman Empire (Amsterdam: J. C. Gieben, 2001). Journal of Roman Archaeology 15 (2002) 516-524
  • "Vergil's Italy: ethnography and politics in first century-Rome." David S. Levene and Damien Nelis, eds., Clio and the poets: Augustan poetry and the traditions of ancient historiography, Leiden: E. J. Brill, 2002. 123-142
  • "The Palladium and the Pentateuch: towards a sacred topography of the later Roman empire." Phoenix 55.3-4 (2001) 369-410
  • "Signs, idols, and the incarnation in Augustinian metaphysics." Representations 73 (2001) 24-53
  • "Was Rome a polis?" Classical Antiquity 18.1 (1999) 5-34
  • "Tacitus, Annales VI: beginning and end." American Journal of Philology 118.2 (1997) 285-303
  • "Pagan apologetics and Christian intolerance in the ages of Themistius and Augustine." Journal of Early Christian Studies 4.2 (1996) 171-207
  • "Augustine on language." Revue des Études Augustiniennes 40.1 (1994) 45-78

Reviews and short notes

  • Review of Andrew Wallace-Hadrill, Rome's cultural revolution. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008. Phoenix, in progress
  • Review of Marie Cabaud Meaney, Simone Weil's apologetic use of literature. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008. Modern Philology, in progress
  • Review of Edward Bispham, From Asculum to Actium. The municipalization of Italy from the Social War to Augustus. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Bryn Mawr Classical Review. [link to review]
  • Review of David M. Gwynn, ed. A.H.M. Jones and the Later Roman Empire. Leiden: Brill, 2008. Journal of Late Antiquity, in progress
  • Review of Alan K. Bowman, Peter Garnsey, and Averil Cameron, eds. The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. 12: The crisis of empire, A.D. 193-337. 2nd. edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). Journal of Roman Studies 98 (2008) 266-268.
  • Review of James B. Rives, Religion in the Roman Empire. Oxford: Blackwell, 2007. Journal of Religion 88 (October 2008) 552-554.
  • Review of Paul Veyne, Quand notre monde est devenu chrétien (312-394). Paris: Albin Michel. Times Literary Supplement (2008)
  • "Driftwood to Google. How and what we map: a remarkable exhibition in Chicago." Times Literary Supplement no. 5466 (4 January 2008), 14-15.
  • "Jewish privilege." Review of Martin Goodman, Rome & Jerusalem. The clash of ancient civilizations. London: Penguin/Allen Lane, 2007. Times Literary Supplement no. 5427 (6 April 2007), 6-7
  • "Greeks in Latin." Review of Fergus Millar, A Greek Roman Empire. Power and belief under Theodosius II (408-450). Berkeley: University of California Press, 2006. Times Literary Supplement no. 5420 (16 February 2007) 9
  • Review of Sviatoslav Dmitriev, City government in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005. The Classical Outlook 84.3 (Spring 2007), 132-133.
  • Review of Elizabeth Meyer, Legitimacy and law in the Roman world. Tabulae in Roman belief and practice. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 2004. Classical Journal 100.4
  • Review of N. Lenski, Failure of empire: Valens and the Roman state in the fourth century A.D. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002. American Historical Review 109.4 (October 2004), 1289-1290
  • Review of J.G.A. Pocock, Barbarism and Religion, Vol. 3. The First Decline and Fall. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2003. Journal of Roman Studies 94 (2004) 219-221
  • Review of Axel Gebhardt, Imperiale Politik und provinziale Entwicklung. Untersuchungen zum Verhältnis von Kaiser, Heer und Städten im Syrien der vorseverischen Zeit. Klio Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, 4. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 2002. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.09.04
  • Review of Tim Whitmarsh, Greek Literature and the Roman Empire. The Politics of Imitation. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2001. Classical Philology 99.1 (January 2004) 89-98
  • Review of Pierre Laederich, Les limites de l'empire: les stratégies de l'impérialisme romain dans l'oeuvre de Tacite. Paris: Economica, Institut de stratégie comparée, Commission française d'histoire militaire, 2001.Journal of Roman Studies 94 (2004) 255-256
  • "Origins: the census." Archaeology Odyssey 6.5 (September/October 2003) 6-7
  • Review of Fergus Millar, Rome, the Greek World, and the East. Volume 1: The Roman Republic and the Augustan Revolution. Hannah M. Cotton and Guy M. Rogers, eds. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2002. Classical Journal 99.2 (2003-04), 219-223
  • Review of Simon Goldhill, ed., Being Greek under Rome: cultural identity, the Second Sophistic, and the development of empire. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. Phoenix 57.3-4 (Winter 2003), 355-360
  • Review of R. MacMullen, Romanization in the time of Augustus. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. Phoenix 56.3-4 (2002) 388-391
  • Review of Jill Harries, Law and empire in late antiquity (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999) and John Matthews, Laying down the law: a study of the Theodosian Code (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000). Phoenix 56.1-2 (2002) 198-203
  • Review of S. H. Rutledge. Imperial Inquisitions: prosecutors & informers from Tiberius to Domitian. London: Routledge, 2001. Classical Review 52.2 (2002) 321-323
  • Review of Matthew B. Roller, Constructing autocracy: aristocrats and emperors in Julio-Claudian Rome. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001. American Historical Review 107.4 (2002) 1273-1274
  • Review of Warrick Ball, Rome in the East. The transformation of an empire. New York: Routledge, 2000. Classical Outlook 78.4 (2001) 176-178
  • Review of Y. Lehmann, Varron théologien et philosophe romain. Brussels: Latomus, 1997. Scholia ns 10 (2000) no. 1.
  • Review of G. Woolf, Becoming Roman. The origins of provincial civilization in Gaul. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998. Phoenix 53.3-4 (1999) 386-388
  • Review of S. MacCormack, The shadows of poetry. Vergil in the mind of Augustine. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998. Journal of Early Christian Studies 7.2 (1999) 331-332
  • "Habermas and Rome." American Journal of Archaeology 102 (1998) 405
  • Review of A. R. Birley, Hadrian: the restless emperor. London: Routledge, 1997. Phoenix 52 (1998) 183-185
  • Review of J. R. Martindale, ed. The prosopography of the later Roman empire, Part III, A.D. 527-641. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992. Phoenix 51.1 (1997) 86-88
  • Review of N. Lewis, On government and law in Roman Egypt. Collected papers of Naphtali Lewis. Ann Ellis Hanson, ed. American Studies in Papyrology, 33. Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1995. Bryn Mawr Classical Review7.5 (1996) 409-411
  • Review of H. W. Bird, Aurelius Victor: De Caesaribus. Translation with introduction and commentary. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1994. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 6.2 (1995) 98-101
  • Review of S. Borzsák. Tacitus: ab excessu divi Augusti libri I-VI. Leipzig and Stuttgart: Teubner, 1992. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 4.6 (1993) 423-429
  • Review of H. W. Bird, Eutropius: Breviarium. Translation with introduction and commentary. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1993. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 4.6 (1993) 420-422

Most Recent Courses Taught

  • Roman religion
  • Augustine
  • "Empire and Enlightenment"
  • Cicero's De re publica
  • "State and Subject in the Roman Empire"
  • Roman law
  • "Administration and acculturation in the Roman empire"
  • Ancient Empires 3
  • Survey of Roman prose