Zsuzsanna Várhelyi
Assistant Professor of Classical Studies

Professor Várhelyi's personal website

Office Hours (Spring 2009)
STH 404
W: 2:00-4:00PM
F: 11:00-12:00PM

Contact
745 Commonwealth Avenue
Room 404
Boston, MA 02215
617.353.4029 (p)
617.353.1610 (f)
varhelyi@bu.edu

Education
2002 Ph.D. Columbia University (History)
2002 M.A. Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary (Ancient Greek)
1998 M.Phil. Columbia University (History)
1996 M.A. Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary (English Language and Literature)
1995 M.A. Eötvös Loránd University, Hungary (History)

Positions Held
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Classics, Boston University, 2007-2008
Assistant Professor, Boston University, 2001-present
Lecturer, Pazmany Peter University (Hungary), 1995-1996
 
Awards
2003-2004 Humanities Foundation Junior Fellow (Boston University)
2000-2001 Whiting Dissertation Fellowship (Columbia University)
1998 American Academy in Rome Summer Program in Archaeology (Packard Foundation)
1996-1997 DAAD Graduate Scholarship (University of Heidelberg; University of  Munich)
1993-1994 Tempus Scholarship (University of Heidelberg)
 
Forthcoming
Power and the Beyond: The Religion of Senators in the Roman Empire. Under contract with Cambridge University Press.

“The politics of the personal: negotiating 'family values' in imperial Greece and Asia Minor ." Under consideration.

“Imperial cult, Roman." Entry, Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, ed. by Michael Gagarin et al., Oxford University Press.

Review of D. Fishwick, The Imperial Cult in the Latin West. 3.1-3.4. Leiden, Brill 2002. Book review, Phoenix.

Published
"A Tall Order: Writing the Social History of the Ancient World. Essays in Honor of William V. Harris," Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 2005, Saur Verlag (with co-editor Jean-Jacques Aubert, Université de Neuchâtel).

Articles
"Sites, stratigraphy and materials: ostraka" (with R.S. Bagnall), An Island Through Time: Jerba Studies, ed. A. Drine, E. Fentress, R. Holod, Vol. 1. 330-339. 2008.

"The Specters of Roman Imperialism: The Live Burials of Gauls and Greeks at Rome,” Classical Antiquity, vol. 26.2, pp. 277-304. 2007.

"Salus senatorum: pro salute inscriptions in the Roman Empire," Actes du XII Congrès International d'Épigraphie, ed. X.E. Corbalan. 2007.

"Social history and archaeology: opportunities and problems" in: Common ground: archaeology, art, science and the humanities: the proceedings of the XVI International Congress of Classical Archaeology, ed. C. Mattusch, A. Donohue . 2006.

"A sense of change and the historiography of the turn from Republic to Empire" in: Redrawing the boundaries, ed. J. Barringer, C. Pachet. 2005.

"Magic, religion and syncretism at the oracle of Claros" in: Between Magic and Religion, ed. S. Asirvatham, C. Pache, J. Watrous Rowman and Littlefield,
pp. 11-29. 2001.

"Jews in civic life under the Roman Empire" Acta Ant. Hung. 40, pp. 471-478. 2000.

"What is the evidence for the survival of Punic culture in Roman North Africa?" Acta Ant. Hung. 38, pp. 387-399. 1998.

"The religion of the Egyptians in the Greek Novel" in: Heorte. Studia in honorem J. Sarkady. Ed. Z. Nemes, Gy Németh. Hungarian Polis Studies 2. Debrecen, pp. 89-113. 1997.

"The written word in Archaic Attica", Klio 78, pp. 28-52. 1996.

Book Reviews
T. Murphy, Pliny the Elder's Natural History: The Empire in the Encyclopedia. Oxford, Oxford UP 2004. 233pp. Book review, Classical Bulletin 82, 149-151. 2006.

D. Frede, A. Laks (edd.), Traditions of theology. Studies in Hellenistic theology, its background and aftermath. (Philosophia Antiqua, 89.) Pp. xiv + 343. Leiden, Boston, Köln: Brill, 2001. Archiv für Religionsgeschichte 5, 383-384. 2003.

E. Bispham, C. Smith (edd.): Religion in archaic and republican Rome and Italy: evidence and experience. (New perspectives on the ancient world, 2.) Pp. xiv + 199, ills. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2000. Classical Review. 2003.

J. Rüpke: Die Religion der Römer. Eine Einführung. Pp. 264, 23 ills. München: Verlag C.H. Beck, 2001. Classical Review. 2003.