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. Print 23172 Rate this article: No rating Staff/Faculty ImageLastnameGrahamTitleChair, Professor of HistoryGrove City College AlumniOffice Phone Number724-458-3833Email AddressGrahamMW@gcc.edu Please login or register to post comments.