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Erich S. Gruen
Curriculum Vitae
Education:
Columbia University, 1953-1957 (BA with highest honors in History, Greek, and
Latin)
Oxford University, 1957-1960 (BA with First Class Honours in Literae Humaniores
-- Ancient History and Philosophy)
Harvard University, 1960-1964 (PhD in History, with fields in Greek History,
Roman History, Modern European Intellectual History)
Honors, Awards:
Rhodes Scholarship, Oxford University, 1957-1960
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1969-1970, 1989-1990
Member of Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, 1973-1974
Visiting Fellow, Merton College, Spring, 1974
Visiting Fellow, Merton College, Oxford, Spring, 1978
National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, l984, 1996
Semple Classical Lecturer, University of Cincinnati, l985
Phi Beta Kappa Lecturer, 1986
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (elected 1986)
Gladys Rehard Wood Professor of History and Classics, University of California,
Berkeley (appointed 1986)
Distinguished Teaching Award, University of California, Berkeley, 1987
James H. Breasted Prize (for The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome), l988
Resident in Classics, American Academy in Rome, l990

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Townsend Classical Lecturer, Cornell University, 1991
President, American Philological Association, 1992
Hill Professor, University of Minnesota, 1994
Winston Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem,
1996
Austrian Cross of Honor for Arts and Letters, awarded 1999
American Philosophical Society (elected 2000)
Faculty Research Lecturer, U.C. Berkeley, 2003/4
Martin Classical Lecturer, Oberlin, 2006
Honorary Member of the Roman Society (London) (elected 2006)
The Berkeley Citation for distinguished achievement and for notable service to the
University, awarded 2007
Villa Professor, the Getty Villa, 2007/8
Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute (elected 2009)
Visiting Fellow, Merton College, Oxford, 2009
Sackler Visiting Scholar, Tel Aviv University, 2010
Teaching Positions:
Harvard University, l964-l966
University of California, Berkeley, 1966-
University of Colorado, Distinguished Visiting Humanist, Fall, l98l
Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Visiting Professor, Fall, l984

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Erich S. Gruen
Princeton University, Visiting David Magie Professor of Classics and History,
1987-1988
Cornell University, Visiting Townsend Professor of Classics, Spring, l99l
University of Minnesota, Visiting Hill Professor, Fall, 1994
Stanford University, Visiting Professor, Spring, 2006
Major Publications:
Roman Politics and the Criminal Courts, l49-78 BC (Harvard University Press,
Cambridge, Mass., l968)
The Last Generation of the Roman Republic (University of California Press, l974);
paperback edition (with new introduction) (1995)
The Hellenistic World and the Coming of Rome (two vols., University of California
Press, l984); paperback edition (1986)
Studies in Greek Culture and Roman Policy (Brill, l990); paperback edition
(University of California Press, 1996)
Culture and National Identity in Republican Rome (Cornell University Press, 1992);
paperback edition (1994)
Images and Ideologies: Self-Definition in the Hellenistic World (co-ed.) (University
of California Press, 1993)
Hellenistic Constructs: Essays in Culture, History, and Historiography (co-ed.)
(University of California Press, 1997)
Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of Jewish Tradition (University of
California Press, 1998)
Diaspora: Jews amidst Greeks and Romans (Harvard University Press, 2002)
Cultural Borrowings and Ethnic Appropriations in Antiquity (ed.) (Franz Steiner
Verlag, 2005)
Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (Princeton University Press, 2011).

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Cultural Identity in the Ancient Mediterranean (ed.) (Getty Research Institute
Publications, 2011)
More than 90 articles and more than 90 reviews in scholarly journals and
collections.
I have supervised or served on the dissertation committees of eighty nine students
who received their PhD degrees and am currently serving on the committees of seven
other PhD candidates.