Jonathan Master
Office:
222F Candler Library
Phone:
404.727.9363
E-Mail:
jmaste2@emory.edu
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
Roman Historiography; Post-Augustan Latin; Ancient Ethnography
EDUCATION
Princeton University, September 2001-December 2007
Dissertation: The Empire Strikes Back: Roman and Other in the Histories of Tacitus (A. Feldherr, advisor)
Columbia University, BA, magna cum laude, May 2001
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
Emory University: Assistant Professor, 2007 –
Princeton University: Instructor, Summer 2006
Princeton University: Assistant in Instruction, 2004
AWARDS
Emory University: University Research Council Award, Spring 2009
ARTICLES
“Nobody Knows You Like Your Mother: Tacitus Histories 2.64 on Vitellius’
True Identity,” Materiali e Discussioni Per L’Annalisi Dei Testi Classici 63 (2009): 213-216.
LECTURES
“Seneca’s Critique of Historiography in the Natural Questions”, Annual Meeting,
APA, Anaheim, CA, January 2010
“Brothers in Arms: Fraternal Harmony and Civil Discord in the Histories of
Tacitus”, Classical Association of the Midwest and South, Southern Section meeting, November 2008
“Mapping Imperial Chaos: A Reading of Tacitus Histories 1.4-1.11”, Emory
University, February 2008
“Roman and Other in Tacitus’ Batavian Narrative”, Emory University, February
2007
“Nobody Knows You Like Your Mother: Tacitus Historiae 2.64 on Vitellius’
True Identity”, Annual Meeting APA, San Diego, CA, January 2007; Yale
University, November 2006
“Defining Difference: Tacitus Historiae 2.38 on Sallust Bellum Catilinae 10”,
Classical Association of the Midwest and South, March 2005
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
Emory University:
Emory College Language Center, executive board 2007 –
Departmental Liaison to Pre-Major Advising Connections at Emory
Princeton University:
Assistant Master, Forbes College, September 2005 – June 2007
Graduate student chair of Graduate Student Recruitment
Committee, 2003 – 2005
PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS
American Philological Association, 2006 –
Classical Association of the Midwest and South, 2005 –