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

PUBLICATIONS
                       
“The Histories” in A Companion To Tacitus, V. Pagan, ed.  Oxford: Blackwell
Publishing (forthcoming).      

“Nobody Knows You Like Your Mother: Tacitus Histories 2.64 on Vitellius’
True Identity” MD 63.2 (2009) 191-194.

LECTURES

“The Trope of the General’s Control,” response to Steve Mason, “The Failure of
Cestius Gallus : a historical inquiry,” Annual Meeting, Society for Biblical Literature, November 2010
           
“Us and Them in the Histories of Tacitus,” Corpus Christi College, Oxford
University, February 2010

“Seneca’s Critique of Historiography in the Natural Questions,” Annual
Meeting APA, Orange County, 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: Classics Department liaison to PACE (Pre-Major Advising
Connections at Emory) 2009 –

Emory University: Emory College Language Center, executive board 2007 –
Princeton University: Assistant Master, Forbes College, September 2005 – June     2007
Princeton University: Graduate student chair of Graduate Student Recruitment
Committee, 2003 – 2005

PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS

American Philological Association, 2006 –

Classical Association of the Midwest and South, 2005 –