Emanuel Mayer

Emanuel Mayer

Emanuel Mayer (Ph.D. in Classical Archaeology, Ruprecht-Karls University, 2001) is Assistant Professor in the Department of Classics. He has written Rome is Where the Emperor is: State Monuments in the Decentralised Roman Empire from Diocletian to Theodosius II (Mainz, 2001; in German). His interests span political imagery of the Hellenistic and Roman Imperial periods, representational behavior of Roman elites under the Empire, as well as ancient urbanism.

Contact

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

tel.: 773-702-4177
office: Wieboldt 126
email: emayer@uchicago.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Honors and Awards

  • 2008-2009: Fellow, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Studies (Harvard)
  • 2008-2009: Scholarship, Loeb Classical Foundation (declined)
  • 2001-2002: Reisestipendiat (Travelling Fellow) of the German Archaeological Institute.
  • 1998-2001: Research Grant by the Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes (German Scholarship Foundation).

Publications

Book

  • (2002) Rome is where the emperor is. State monuments in the decentralised Roman Empire from Diocletian to Theodosius II. Mainz (in German: Rom ist dort wo der Kaiser ist. Untersuchungen zu den Staatsdenkmälern des dezentralisierten Reiches von Diocletian bis zu Theodosius II.)

Peer Reviewed Articles

  • (2006) "Civil war and public dissent: The state monuments of the decentralised Roman Empire", in: Late Antique Archaeology 3. Leiden eds. W. Bowden, A. Gutteridge, C. Machado 141-155
  • Forthcoming "Propaganda, Staged Applause or Local Politics? Public Monuments from Augustus to Septimius Severus", in: The Emperor and Rome. Cambridge eds. B. Ewald, C. Norena

Reviews

  • (2004) Review: H. Meyer, Prunkkameen und Staatsdenkmäler römischer Kaiser. Neue Perspektiven zur Kunst der frühen Prinzipatszeit (2000) Sehepunkte, (2004), Nr. 10 [15.10.2004]
  • (2006) Review: L.M. Stirling, The Learned Collector Mythological Statuettes and Classical Taste in Late Antique Gaul (2005) CAA

Most Recently Taught Courses

  • CLAS 32707, Pompeii
  • CLAS 40400, Seminar: Asia Minor
  • CLAS 43600, Invisible Cities
  • CLCV 26200, Roman Visual Culture
  • CLCV 28407, The Archaeology of the Roman Economy
  • CLCV 28800, Roma Aeterna
  • HUMA 12000, Greek Thought and Literature-1
  • SOSC 20800, Rome: Antiquity to Baroque-1
  • SOSC 28000, Greek Antiquity and its Legacy-3