Beth Severy-Hoven is Professor of the Classical Mediterranean and Middle East at Macalester College. She is an expert in Roman history and archaeology, and gender and sexuality in antiquity.

Education

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Severy-Hoven received her PhD from University of California, Berkeley, in 1998.[1] Her doctoral thesis was entitled Reconceiving the Res Publica: Family and State at the Birth of the Roman Empire.[2] She was awarded a MSt from the University of Oxford in 1991, and an AB from Bryn Mawr College in 1990.

Career

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Severy-Hoven has taught Latin, Greek, Roman history and archaeology at Macalester College for almost twenty years.[3] She held the Lionel Pearson Fellowship awarded by the Society of Classical Studies, 1990–1991.[4] She published her first monograph, Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire with Routledge in 2003.[5] Beryl Rawson understood that the book "marks out its own terrain with a claim for uniqueness".[6] Her Latin textbook, The Satyrica of Petronius: An Intermediate Reader won the first Ladislaus J. Bolchazy Pedagogy Book Award of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS).[7] From 2014 to 2015, she was the Professor-in-Charge at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, Rome. In 2016, she was awarded the Jack and Marty Rossman Award for Excellence in Teaching.

References

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  1. ^ "Alumni | Ancient History & Mediterranean Archaeology". ahma.berkeley.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-24.
  2. ^ search.library.berkeley.edu https://search.library.berkeley.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991007346889706532&context=L&vid=01UCS_BER:UCB&lang=en&search_scope=DN_and_CI&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=Default_UCLibrarySearch&query=any,contains,beth%20severy&facet=searchcreationdate,include,1997%7C,%7C1999&offset=0. Retrieved 2021-11-24. {{cite web}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)
  3. ^ "Director and Faculty - An Online NEH Summer Seminar, July 12-30, 2021 for K-12 Teachers | Roman Daily Life". gustavus.edu. Retrieved 2021-11-24.
  4. ^ "Lionel Pearson Fellowship - Information for Candidates and Faculty". Society for Classical Studies. 2017-09-14. Retrieved 2021-11-24.
  5. ^ "Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire". Routledge & CRC Press. Retrieved 2021-11-24.
  6. ^ "Review of: Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire". Bryn Mawr Classical Review. ISSN 1055-7660.
  7. ^ Severy-Hoven, Beth (2014-06-02). The Satyrica of Petronius: An Intermediate Reader with Commentary and Guided Review. University of Oklahoma Press. ISBN 978-0-8061-4590-7.

Bibliography

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  • Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire (New York: Routledge, 2008)
  • 'Master Narratives and the Wall Painting of the House of the Vettii, Pompeii', Gender and History 2012, vol. 24 (3) 540-80
  • The Satyrica of Petronius: An Intermediate Reader with Commentary and Guided Review (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014)