Professor Roger Bagnall FBA

History of the Hellenistic, Roman, and Late Antique Near East; Graeco-Roman Egypt; Papyrology; Epigraphy

Elected 2006

Fellow type: Corresponding Fellow
Year elected: 2006
Sections: Classical Antiquity
Website: http://isaw.nyu.edu/people/faculty/roger-bagnall

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

Second edition

An Oasis City

Roger Bagnall - Published in 2015 by NYU Press

Everyday Writing in the Graeco-Roman East

Roger Bagnall - Published in 2011 by University of California Press

Early Christian Books in Egypt

Roger Bagnall - Published in 2009 by Princeton University Press

The Demography of Roman Egypt

Roger Bagnall - Published in 1994 by Cambridge University Press

Egypt in Late Antiquity

Roger Bagnall - Published in 1993 by Princeton University Press

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