Faculty
William Broadhead (On leave Spring 2009)
Associate Professor of History

Will Broadhead received his PhD in Ancient History in 2002 from University College London. He specializes in the history of Italy in the age of the Roman Republic, with a particular interest in the period from the later 4th to the early 1st century BC. In addition to the preparation of a book, based on his dissertation, that examines the role of geographical mobility in Italy and its impact on Rome’s efforts to control the territory of the peninsula in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BC, he is also currently working on the Imagines Italicae Project www.sas.ac.uk/icls/imaginesit/Default.htm, based at the Institute of Classical Studies in London, whose aim is to collect and publish photographs of and all known contextual data relevant to the corpus of inscriptions in the Sabellic languages.

Before moving to MIT in 2004, he taught in the UK at University College London, Birkbeck College London, and the Universities of Nottingham and Bristol. He has also taught Roman topography at the British School in Rome and has worked on archaeological excavations in Tunisia and Italy. At MIT, he teaches introductions to ancient Greece and Rome as well as courses on ancient urbanism and ancient and modern views of Roman emperors. Will Broadhead is the recipient of the Jeptha H. and Emily V. Wade Fund for his project "Judging Caesar: Ancient and Modern Interpretations of Julius and Augustus Caesar."

His publications include articles and reviews in The Bulletin of the Institute of Classical
Studies, Cahiers Glotz, and The Classical Review, and a chapter on colonization in the forthcoming Blackwell Companion to the Roman Army.