Fax: 617.353.1610

Office Hours

(Spring 2012)
STH 416
Thursday 2:30-4:30
Also by appointment
Note:  Professor Vasaly will often be in Wednesday afternoons, but students should check by email to make sure before coming then.

Positions Held

Assistant to Associate Professor, Boston University, 1983-present.
Professor in Charge, School of Classical Studies, American Academy in Rome, 2006
Chair, Boston University, Classical Studies, 2002-2005
Director of the Classical Summer School, American Academy in Rome, 2001-2004
Director of Graduate Studies, Boston University, Classical Studies, 2000-2002
Acting Chair, Boston University, Classical Studies, 1997-1998
Director of Undergraduate Studies, Boston University, Classical Studies, 1992-96, Fall 2006

Honors and Fellowships

Lucy Shoe Merritt Resident in the Humanities, American Academy in Rome, Spring 2010
Board of Directors, American Philological Association, 2010-2012
Rome Prize Jury, Ancient Studies, American Academy in Rome, 2006-07, 2007-08
Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship, 2005-06
Scholar/Resident, Rockefeller Center, Bellagio, Italy, 1997
Prize Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt-Stiftung, Tübingen, Germany, 1988
Junior Fellow, Boston University Humanities Foundation, 1986-87
Summer Research Grant, Boston University, 1984
Fulbright Fellowship, Italy, 1982-83
Rome Prize, Classics, American Academy in Rome, 1982-83

Work in Progress

Livy’s de republica: Ab urbe condita 1-5.

Select Publications

“The Political Impact of Cicero’s Speeches,” in Cambridge Companion to Cicero, ed. C. Steele ( projected pub. 2011).

“Cicero, Domestic Politics, and the First Action of the Verrines,” Classical Antiquity 28 (2009) 101-37.

“Characterization and Complexity: Caesar, Sallust, and Livy,” in Cambridge Companion to the Roman Historians , ed. A Feldherr. (Cambridge 2009) 245-60.

“Cicero’s Early Speeches,” Brill’s Companion to Cicero, ed. J.M. May (Leiden 2002) 71-111.

“The Structure of Livy’s First Pentad and the Augustan Poetry Book,” in Clio and the Poets: Augustan Poetry and the Traditions of Ancient Historiography, edd. D.S. Levene and D.P. Neils (Leiden 2002) 275-90.

“The Quality of Mercy in Cicero’s Pro Murena,” in Rome and Her Monuments: Essays on the City and Literature of Rome in Honor of K.A. Geffcken, edd. S. Dickinson and J.P. Hallett (Wauconda IL 2000) 447-63.

“Livy’s Quinctii and the Power of Persuasion,” Classical World 92.6 (1999) 513-30.

Representations: Images of the World in Ciceronian Oratory (University of California Press: Berkeley 1993; paperback edition 1996).