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GLEN W. BOWERSOCK
Born 12 January 1936 Harvard University, A. B. summa cum laude 1957 Oxford University, B.A., First Class Hons., Literae Humaniores, 1959; M.A., D.Phil., 1962 University of Strasbourg (Sciences Humaines), Docteur honoris causa, 1990 Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes (Paris), Docteur honoris causa, 1999 University of Athens, Doctor honoris causa, 2005 Honorary Fellow of Balliol College, Oxford, 2004 Lecturer in Ancient History, Balliol, Magdalen, and New College, Oxford, 1960-62 Professor of Classics and History, Harvard University, 1962-80 (full Professor from 1969) Chairman, Department of the Classics, Harvard University, 1972-77 Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard University, 1977-80 Professor of Ancient History, Institute for Advanced Study, 1980-2006 Professor Emeritus of Ancient History, Institute for Advanced Study, 2006-
Visiting Appointments and Lectures Visiting Professor, Oxford University, 1966 Visiting Professor, Australian National University, 1972 Visiting Professor (4 lectures and medal), Collège de France, 1997 Thomas Spencer Jerome Lecturer, Univ. of Michigan and American Academy in Rome, 1989 Sather Professor, University of California at Berkeley, 1991-92 Ena H. Thompson Lecturer, Pomona College, 1993 Wiles Lecturer, Queen's University, Belfast, 1993 Other invited lectures in Australia, Bahrain, Canada, England, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Ireland, Israel, Italy, Jordan, Lebanon, New Zealand, Norway, Russia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Syria, Turkey, and the U.S.A.
Honors, Elected Memberships, and Positions Held Currently Member, American Philosophical Society Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Sciences Membre de l'Institut de France (Associé étranger, Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres) Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres Socio Straniero, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei Korrespondierendes Mitglied, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut Fellow, American Numismatic Society Rhodes Scholar, Balliol College, Oxford, 1957-60 James H. Breasted Prize (American Historical Association), 1992 Honorary Associate, Eliot House, Harvard University, since 1980 Honorary American Secretary, Roman Society (London) General Editor, Revealing Antiquity series, Harvard University Press Editorial Board, Berytus Archaeological Studies (American University of Beirut) Comité de lecture: Syria (French Institute [IFAPO], Damascus) Board of Advisors, Arabian Archaeology and Epigraphy (Niebuhr Institute, Copenhagen) Advisory Board, Ancient Civilizations: Scythia to Siberia (Russian Academy of Sciences) Comitato Scientifico di Consulenza della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa (Lettere e Filosofia) Consiglio Scientifico, Istituto di Studi Umanistici, Florence Président du Comité d'évaluation de la Maison de l'Orient Méditerranéen, Université de Lyon Also member of Phi Beta Kappa, The Johnsonians, Leschetizky Association, Knickerbocker Club (New York City), Century Association (New York City), and the Board of Directors of the Metropolitan Opera and the Metropolitan Opera Guild
Positions Held Formerly Senior Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C., 1976-89 Senior Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, Washington, D.C., 1984-93 (Chairman, 1991-93) Acting Senior Fellow, Society of Fellows, Harvard, 1979-80 Syndic, Harvard University Press, 1977-81 Executive Board, Modern Greek Studies Association, 1978-84 (Vice-President 1982-84) Trustee, American Schools of Oriental Research, 1984-90 Corresponding Member of the Editorial Board, Phoenix, 1979-90 Editorial Board, The American Scholar, 1981-93 Editorial Board, American Journal of Philology, 1987-95 Professor Bowersock is the author of more than 300 articles and books on Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern history, as well as the classical tradition in western literature. His principal books are: Augustus and the Greek World (Oxford, 1965) Pseudo-Xenophon: Constitution of the Athenians (Loeb Library, 1968) Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire (Oxford, 1969) Philostratus' Life of Apollonius of Tyana, ed. with trans. by C.P. Jones (Penguin, 1970) Approaches to the Second Sophistic, ed. (Amer. Philol. Assn., 1974) Edward Gibbon and the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, ed. with J.L. Clive and S.R. Graubard (Harvard, 1977) Julian the Apostate (London and Harvard, 1978) Japanese trans. 1986 Roman Arabia (Harvard, 1983) Arabic trans. 2007 Hellenism in Late Antiquity, Jerome Lectures (Michigan and Cambridge U.P., 1990) Italian trans. 1992; Greek trans. 1996 Le Martyre de Pionios, par Louis Robert, mis au point et complété par G.W. Bowersock et C.P. Jones (Dumbarton Oaks, 1994) A.D. Momigliano: Studies on Modern Scholarship, ed. with T.J. Cornell (University of California Press, 1994) Fiction as History, from Nero to Julian, Sather Classical Lectures (University of California Press, 1994) Italian trans. 2000; French trans. 2007. Studies on the Eastern Roman Empire (Bibliotheca Eruditorum, Keip Verlag, 1994) Martyrdom and Rome, Wiles Lectures (Cambridge University Press, 1995) French trans. 2002 Late Antiquity. A guide to the Postclassical World, ed. with P. Brown and O. Grabar (Harvard, 1999) Selected Papers on Late Antiquity (Edipuglia, 2000) Mosaics as History. The Near East from Late Antiquity to Islam (Harvard, 2006) Lorenzo Valla On the Donation of Constantine, I Tatti Renaissance Library (Harvard, 2007) Saggi sulla tradizione classica dal Settecento al Novecento (Einaudi, 2007)
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