Glen W. Bowersock
ANCIENT HISTORY
Professor Emeritus
School of Historical
Studies

Glen Bowersock is an authority on Greek, Roman, and Near Eastern history and culture as well as the classical tradition in modern literature. His research interests include the Greek East in the Roman Empire and Late Antiquity as well as pre-Islamic Arabia. He is the author of many books, including Greek Sophists in the Roman Empire (1969), Julian the Apostate (1978), Roman Arabia (1983), Hellenism in Late Antiquity (1990) and Fiction as History (1994). He came to the Institute following a distinguished career at Harvard University, where he served as Chairman of the Classics Department and Associate Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.

D.Phil., Oxford University (Rhodes Scholar), 1962; Professor of Classics and History, Harvard University, 1962-80; Professor of Ancient History, Institute for Advanced Study, 1980-2006, Emeritus, 2006-; Sather Professor of Classical Literature, University of California at Berkeley, 1991-92; Member, American Philosophical Society; Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences; Foreign Member, Russian Academy of Sciences; Membre de l’Institut de France; Socio Straniero, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei; Korrespondierendes Mitglied, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut; Honorary Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford University; James H. Breasted Prize (American Historical Association); Chevalier de la Légion d’honneur.