WILLIAM BROADHEAD

 

DEPARTMENT:        History                                                DATE: September 2009

 

DATE OF BIRTH:     March 20, 1973                                              

 

CITIZENSHIP:           United States

 

EDUCATION

 

INSTITUTION                                               DEGREE                                            DATE

 

University of London                                      Ph.D                                                    2002

University of London                                      M.A.                                                   1996

Middlebury College                                        B.A.                                                    1995

 

TITLE OF DOCTORAL THESIS:

Internal Migration and the Transformation of Republican Italy

 

FELLOWSHIPS AND HONORS

 

Jeptha H. and Emily V. Wade Fund Award, MIT                                                      2007

SHASS Research Fund Award, MIT                                                                         2006

Rome Award, British School in Rome                                                                        2001

George Grote Prize in Ancient History, Runner-up, University of London                2000

University of London Graduate School Research Scholarship                                   1997

Eaton Prize for highest achievement in Classics, Middlebury College                        1995

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

 

2008-present   Associate (without tenure) Professor of History, MIT

2004-2008       Assistant Professor of History, M.I.T.

2002-2004       Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Bristol, U.K.

2001-2002       Lecturer in Classics, University of Nottingham, U.K.

1999-2000       Lecturer in Classics, Birkbeck College London, U.K.

1998-1999       Teaching Assistant in History, University College London, U.K.

 

CONFERENCE AND SEMINAR PAPERS

 

March 2009                 Fixing Roman Italy: mobility and the making of Romes Italian empire, Classical Association of New England Annual Meeting

 

October 2008              Migration studies and the demography of ancient Italy, The Economic Demography of Ancient Rome, SSHA Annual Meeting

 

June 2007                    Migration and hegemony: fixity and mobility across the 2nd century, Peasants, Citizens and Soldiers. The Social, Economic and Demographic Background to the Gracchan Land Reforms. Leiden University

 

December 2003           Cultural mobility in 2nd century Italy, Oxford Ancient History Seminar: Culture in 2nd century BC Italy

 

November 2003          The Imagines Italicae Project, British Epigraphy Society Annual General Meeting

           

April 2003                   La colonie latine de Frgelles, Les habitats d'Italie au temps de la conqute romaine, Sminaire Annuel, Universit de Paris I

           

November 2002          Rome and the mobility of the Latins in the Republican period, La mobilit des personnes en Mediterrane, de lantiquit lՎpoque moderne. Procdures de contrle et documents didentification. II: La mobilit ngocie. cole Normale Suprieur, Paris

 

October 2001              Building a better supermarket: Italic inscriptions and their archaeological context, Midlands Classical Seminar, University of Nottingham

           

January 2001               Migrazione interna e la trasformazione dellItalia tra il III e il I secolo a.C., Incontro mensuale dellAssociazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica at the Deutsche Archologische Institut, Rome

           

November 2000          An aspect of roamin history: the eroding effects of emigration on the Italian municipal lites, Institute of Classical Studies, London

           

June 2000                    Transformation and migration in Cisalpine Gaul, Oxford Ancient History Seminar: Non-Romans and Romans in Republican Italy

 

CONFERENCE PANELS ORGANIZED

 

October 2008              The Economic Demography of Ancient Rome, SSHA Annual Meeting, Miami

 

FIELDS OF INTEREST

 

Ancient Italy: History, Archaeology, and Epigraphy

Greek and Roman Historiography

Ancient and Modern Perceptions of Roman Emperors

 

M.I.T. ACTIVITIES AND SERVICE

 

2008-present               Global Education Faculty Advisory Committee

2008-present               Committee on Undergraduate Admission and Financial Aid

2008                            Search committee, 1-year Chinese history position

2006-present               Co-Director, IAP in Ancient Italy

2005-6                         Chair, Sahin Lecture Series

2005-present               Ancient and Medieval Studies Minor Advisor

2004-present               History/Ancient and Medieval Studies Concentration Advisor

 

OTHER PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 

2003                Co-director, British School at Rome, City of Rome Summer School

 

1999-2001       Archaeological field work at the cole franaise de Rome/Centre Jean Berard excavations at Civita di Tricarico, Basilicata, Italy, directed by Prof. Olivier de Cazanove.

 

PUBLICATIONS

 

Articles in Refereed Journals

 

2001                Romes migration policy and the so-called ius migrandi, Cahiers Glotz 12, pp. 69-89.

 

2000                Migration and transformation in North Italy: 2nd-1st centuries BC, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies 44, pp. 145-66.

 

Chapters in Books

 

Forthcoming    The Impact of Colonization, in A. Cooley (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to Roman Italy, London: Blackwell.

 

2007                Colonisation, Land Distribution and Veteran Settlement, in P. Erdkamp (ed.), The Blackwell Companion to the Roman Army, London: Blackwell, pp. 148-63.

 

Other Publications

 

Forthcoming    Oscan, Socii, and Colonies, Roman and Latin (Republican) entries, The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient History, London: Blackwell.

 

2008                Migration and hegemony: fixity and mobility across the 2nd century, Peasants, Citizens and Soldiers. The Social, Economic and Demographic Background to the Gracchan Land Reforms, Leiden: Brill, pp. 451-70.

 

2004                Rome and the mobility of the Latins: problems of control, in C. Moatti (ed.), La mobilit des personnes en Mediterrane, de lantiquit lՎpoque moderne. Procdures de contrle et documents didentification. II: La mobilit ngocie, Rome: cole Franaise de Rome, pp. 315-35.

 

2003                The local lites of Italy and the crisis of migration in the 2nd century B.C., in M. Cbeillac-Gervasoni and L. Lamoine (eds.), Les lites locales dans le monde hellnistique et romain. Les lites et leurs facettes. Actes du colloque international de Clermont-Ferrand, Rome: cole Franaise de Rome, pp. 131-48.

 

Reviews

 

Forthcoming    Review of A. Coskun, Brgerrechtsentzug oder Fremdenausweisung? Studien zu den Rechten von Latinern und weiteren Fremden sowie zum Brgerrechtswechsel in der Rmischen Republik (Stuttgart 2009), in Tyche.

 

2005                Review of M. Torelli, Benevento romana (Rome 2002), in Classical Review 55, pp. 623-5.

 

2002                Review of C. Nicolet, Censeurs et publicains: conomie et fiscalit dans la Rome antique (Paris 2000), in Classical Review 52, pp. 122-3.

 

Unpublished Manuscripts

 

Migration and Power in Roman Italy

 

Imagines Italicae, London: Institute of Classical Studies, edited by M.H. Crawford, with W. Broadhead, J. Clackson, Ulrike Roth, Federico Santangelo, M. Watmough.