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    Anonym / Tuesday, June 20, 2017
    / Categories: All Faculty, History

    Mark W. Graham

    Education

    • Postdoctoral Lectureship, Introduction the Humanities and Classics, Stanford University
    • Ph.D., Michigan State University
    • M.A., University of South Carolina

    Affiliations

    • Centro di Conservazione Archeologica (Rome, Belmonte in Sabina, Sardinia, Corinth)
    • Bir Ftouha Excavations (Carthage, Tunisia)
    • Yanbian University of Science and Technology

    Areas of Expertise

    • Ancient History
    • Early Medieval History
    • Late Antiquity
    • Early Byzantine History
    • Early Islamic History
    • Hellenistic History

    Courses Taught

    • Ancient Empires
    • Ancient World
    • Ancient Historiography
    • Rise of Christianity
    • Medieval Europe
    • Medieval Intellectual History
    • Byzantium and Islam
    • Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic World
    • World History I
    • Historiography
    • Western Civilization
    • Reading Latin
    • Readings in Attic Greek (Aristophanes’ Frogs)
    • Film and History: Decadent Rome and the Wild West
    • The History and Archaeology of the Roman Empire
    • The History and Archaeology of Carthage
    • Salonica and Istanbul: Among Christians, Muslims, and Jews
    • Christianity and the Fall of the Roman Empire
    • Early Medieval Europe

    Selected Research

    • Ancient Empires
    • Mediterranean Antiquity in America
    • Settler Colonialism in Antiquity
    • Ancient and Medieval Education
    • Ancient Marble
    • Phrygian Empire

    Selected Publications

    • 30 Key Moments in the History of Christianity: Inspiring True Stories from the Early Church Around the World (Baker Books, January 2026).
    • “News and Networks: The Later Roman Empire,” in Sian Lewis and Dalida Agri, eds., Cultural History of the Media: Antiquity (London: Bloomsbury, in press).
    • “Charles Rollin’s Ancient History” in What the Presidents Read: Childhood Favorites and Family Stories, Marilynn Olson and Elizabeth Goodenough, eds. (Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield, January 2025).
    • “Between the Ancients and the Moderns: Charles Rollin, Popular Historian and Pedagogue of Virtue,” in Brett A. Geier, ed., Palgrave Handbook of Educational Thinkers (London: Palgrave MacMillan, Feb. 2024), 6,000 word original essay.
    • “Charles Rollin and Universal History in America,” Modern Intellectual History 17:2 (print 2020): 325-355 (online 15 Nov. 2018).
    • “Settler Colonialism from the Neo-Assyrians to the Romans,” in Edward Cavanaugh and Lorenzo Veracini, eds., Routledge Handbook of the Global History of Settler Colonialism (London: Routledge, 2017).
    • Antikçağ İmparatorlukları: Mezopotamya’dan İslamiyet’in Doğuşuna (Istanbul: Say Yayınları, 2017). Turkish translation of Ancient Empires: From Mesopotamia to the Rise of Islam.
    • Ancient Empires: From Mesopotamia to the Rise of Islam, with Eric H. Cline (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2011).
    • Impérios Antigos: Da Mesopotâmia à Origem do Islã, trans. Gertulio Schanoski Jr. (São Paulo: Madras, 2013).
    • News and Frontier Consciousness in the Late Roman Empire (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2006).
    • “The Opening of the Western Mind: The Emergence of Higher Education in the ‘Dark Ages’” in P.C. Kemeny, ed. Faith, Freedom, and Higher Education (Eugene, OR: Pickwick Press, 2013), 14-34.
    • “’The Enchanter’s Wand’: Charles Darwin, The Beagle Voyage, and Foreign Missions,” Journal of Religious History 31.2 (2007): 131-150.
    • “Wall Decoration: Worked Stone,” in Bir Ftouha: A Pilgrimage Church Complex at Carthage. Susan Stevens et al. eds. Portsmouth, RI: Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary Series 59 (2005), 379-397.

    Professional Experience

    • Multiple summers of Archaeology and Archaeological Conservation work in Carthage, Tunisia, Rome and Sardinia, Italy, and Ancient Corinth, Greece
    • Center for Hellenic Studies, Harvard
    • National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Institute
    • Taught Humanities and Classics at Stanford University

    Hobbies/Interests

    • Coin Collecting
    • Travel
    • Antiques

    You might be surprised to know

    I was the first member of my extended family to graduate from college.

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