Craige Champion
I spent the academic year 2019-2020 as a Fulbright U.S. Scholar in Russia. Living in Moscow, I taught a seminar, "Democracy, Ancient and Modern," at the Russian State University for the Humanities (RGGU) in the fall 2019 semester. There I wrote 7 of 12 chapters for a new book titled, CITIZENS, EMPIRE, DEMOCRACY: ANCIENT CONVERSATIONS WITH AMERICA. I also finished the English language translation of Polybius' complete text for the LANDMARK POLYBIUS, SCHOLAR'S EDITION, in two volumes, which we hope to publish in 2024.
I have been teaching ancient history and classics since 1990 in institutions of higher education in the United States (Princeton University, The College of New Jersey, Rutgers University, Reed College, Allegheny College, and Syracuse University). From 2006-2009 I served as Chair of the History Department at Syracuse, where I currently teach. In 2004 I received the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Award from Syracuse's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, in recognition of outstanding performance in teaching, research, and community service, and in 2014 I was the recipient of an Excellence in Teaching Award from Syracuse University and University College.
I earned my PhD. under the humane, jovial, and exacting direction of T.J. Luce. While at Princeton I studied Greek epigraphy with Christian Habicht and Roman history with Erich Gruen (when he was visiting professor at Princeton). I also enjoyed the great honor of meeting Frank W. Walbank, the most important Polybian scholar in the modern period, at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. As a young graduate student, I discussed with him there some of my burgeoning ideas about the ancient Greek historian Polybius.
My primary research interests are Polybius, the Middle Roman Republic, Hellenistic Greece, Roman republican religion and Roman elites, the politics of culture in Mediterranean antiquity, imperialism and citizenship in classical Athens and republican Rome, classical influences in American culture and in the western tradition, and the historiography of ancient Greece and Rome. I have lectured all over the United States and Canada, as well as in Argentina, Armenia, France, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Norway, Russia, Spain, and the United Kingdom, including public lectures at Bryn Mawr College, Dickinson College, Reed College, Scripps College, Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), Princeton University, the University of Liverpool, the University of Chicago, McGill University, Cornell University, Columbia University, the University of St. Petersburg, Università Sapienza di Roma, the Norwegian Institute in Rome (Oslo University), the European Studies Center (Yerevan, Armenia), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina), Tel Aviv University, Université de Franche-Comté (Besançon, France), Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalyuna (Barcelona), and the Sorbonne.
My major publications include THE PEACE OF THE GODS: ELITE RELIGIOUS PRACTICES IN THE MIDDLE ROMAN REPUBLIC (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017); CULTURAL POLITICS IN POLYBIUS'S HISTORIES (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004); ROMAN IMPERIALISM: READINGS AND SOURCES, Editor (Oxford and Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2004); the award-winning WILEY-BLACKWELL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANCIENT HISTORY, in 13 volumes, Founding General Editor, Area Editor (Historiography), and Contributor (Oxford and Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2013); and THE LANDMARK POLYBIUS, SCHOLAR'S EDITION, in 2 volumes, Co-Translator and Editor-in-Chief (New York: Pantheon Books, forthcoming). I have published articles in Phoenix, American Journal of Philology, Mediterranean Antiquity, Historia, Histos, Classical Philology, and Transactions of the American Philological Association, numerous book chapters in Wiley-Blackwell's Companions to the Ancient World series, and about sixty book reviews in various journals, including Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Classical Philology, American Historical Review, and the Journal of Hellenic Studies. I produced, maintain, and periodically update two sites for Oxford Bibliographies On-Line: "Roman Imperialism" and "Polybius". I have written several articles on ancient Greek historians for the on-line Brill's New Jacoby (BNJ) project (new editions of Greek text, English translations, and commentaries). I have served as a consultant and reader for the Oxford University Press and the Princeton University Press, as well as article referee for American Journal of Ancient History, Athenaeum, Classical Journal, Transactions of the American Philological Association, Phoenix, Mediterranean Antiquity, Classical Philology, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, Greece and Rome, Histos, Historia, Classical World, Political Studies, and the American Journal of Philology.
Craige B. Champion
Department of History
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York 13244-1020 USA
cbchamp@syr.edu
I have been teaching ancient history and classics since 1990 in institutions of higher education in the United States (Princeton University, The College of New Jersey, Rutgers University, Reed College, Allegheny College, and Syracuse University). From 2006-2009 I served as Chair of the History Department at Syracuse, where I currently teach. In 2004 I received the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Award from Syracuse's Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, in recognition of outstanding performance in teaching, research, and community service, and in 2014 I was the recipient of an Excellence in Teaching Award from Syracuse University and University College.
I earned my PhD. under the humane, jovial, and exacting direction of T.J. Luce. While at Princeton I studied Greek epigraphy with Christian Habicht and Roman history with Erich Gruen (when he was visiting professor at Princeton). I also enjoyed the great honor of meeting Frank W. Walbank, the most important Polybian scholar in the modern period, at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. As a young graduate student, I discussed with him there some of my burgeoning ideas about the ancient Greek historian Polybius.
My primary research interests are Polybius, the Middle Roman Republic, Hellenistic Greece, Roman republican religion and Roman elites, the politics of culture in Mediterranean antiquity, imperialism and citizenship in classical Athens and republican Rome, classical influences in American culture and in the western tradition, and the historiography of ancient Greece and Rome. I have lectured all over the United States and Canada, as well as in Argentina, Armenia, France, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Italy, Norway, Russia, Spain, and the United Kingdom, including public lectures at Bryn Mawr College, Dickinson College, Reed College, Scripps College, Eötvös Loránd University (Budapest), Princeton University, the University of Liverpool, the University of Chicago, McGill University, Cornell University, Columbia University, the University of St. Petersburg, Università Sapienza di Roma, the Norwegian Institute in Rome (Oslo University), the European Studies Center (Yerevan, Armenia), Universidad de Buenos Aires, Universidad Nacional de Córdoba (Argentina), Tel Aviv University, Université de Franche-Comté (Besançon, France), Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalyuna (Barcelona), and the Sorbonne.
My major publications include THE PEACE OF THE GODS: ELITE RELIGIOUS PRACTICES IN THE MIDDLE ROMAN REPUBLIC (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2017); CULTURAL POLITICS IN POLYBIUS'S HISTORIES (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 2004); ROMAN IMPERIALISM: READINGS AND SOURCES, Editor (Oxford and Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2004); the award-winning WILEY-BLACKWELL ENCYCLOPEDIA OF ANCIENT HISTORY, in 13 volumes, Founding General Editor, Area Editor (Historiography), and Contributor (Oxford and Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell Publishers, 2013); and THE LANDMARK POLYBIUS, SCHOLAR'S EDITION, in 2 volumes, Co-Translator and Editor-in-Chief (New York: Pantheon Books, forthcoming). I have published articles in Phoenix, American Journal of Philology, Mediterranean Antiquity, Historia, Histos, Classical Philology, and Transactions of the American Philological Association, numerous book chapters in Wiley-Blackwell's Companions to the Ancient World series, and about sixty book reviews in various journals, including Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Classical Philology, American Historical Review, and the Journal of Hellenic Studies. I produced, maintain, and periodically update two sites for Oxford Bibliographies On-Line: "Roman Imperialism" and "Polybius". I have written several articles on ancient Greek historians for the on-line Brill's New Jacoby (BNJ) project (new editions of Greek text, English translations, and commentaries). I have served as a consultant and reader for the Oxford University Press and the Princeton University Press, as well as article referee for American Journal of Ancient History, Athenaeum, Classical Journal, Transactions of the American Philological Association, Phoenix, Mediterranean Antiquity, Classical Philology, Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies, Greece and Rome, Histos, Historia, Classical World, Political Studies, and the American Journal of Philology.
Craige B. Champion
Department of History
Syracuse University
Syracuse, New York 13244-1020 USA
cbchamp@syr.edu
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