Professor Roger Bagnall FBA
- Fellow type
- International Fellow
- Year elected
- 2006
- Subjects
- Classics
- Sections
- Classical Antiquity
Summary
Roger Bagnall taught at Columbia University for 33 years before becoming the founding director of the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University. His work includes publications of many papyri, ostraka, and inscriptions, as well as historical studies of Egypt in the Hellenistic, Roman, and Late Antique periods. He is Director of the excavations at Amheida in the Dakhla Oasis (Egypt, western desert).
Current post
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University Professor of Ancient History and Leon Levy Director Emeritus
Past appointments
Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University Professor of Ancient History and Leon Levy Director
2007 - 2016
Columbia University Professor of Classics and History
1974 - 2003
Publications
Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History
Roger Bagnall - Published in 2019 by Routledge
Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East
Roger Bagnall - Published in 2011 by University of California Press
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