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Emily Albu

Emily Albu

Emily Albu

Associate Professor of Classics
Director of the Classics Program
Faculty Associate of History Graduate Program

715 Sproul Hall
(530) 752-2739
emalbu@

Education

Ph.D., Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
A.M., Comparative Literature, University of California, Berkeley
A.B., Classics, College of Wooster

Interest Fields

Medieval Historical Writing; Late Antique / Medieval Cartography and the Peutinger map; The Twelfth Century; Classical Receptions

Courses Taught

  • TBA

Recent Publications

Books

Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions and Practices, co-edited with H.A. Drake et al. (Hampshire, England and Burlington, VT: Ashgate, 2006).

The Normans in Their Histories: Propaganda, Myth, and Subversion (Boydell and Brewer, 2001).

Christianity: A Social and Cultural History, 2nd ed., with Howard Clark Kee, Carter Lindberg, J. William Frost, and Dana Robert (Prentice Hall, 1998). Six chapters, slightly revised from the 1991 Macmillan edition.

Through the Eye of a Needle: Judeo-Christian Roots of Social Welfare, ed. with Carter Lindberg (Thomas Jefferson University Press, 1994).


Selected Articles

"Rethinking the Peutinger Map," in Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Fresh Perspectives, New Methods, ed. Richard Talbert and Richard W. Unger (Brill, 2008), 111-119.

"Gladiator at the Millennium," in Celluloid Classics: New Perspectives on Classical Antiquity in Modern Cinema, ed. Kirsten Day, Arethusa 41, no. 1 (winter 2008), 185-204.

"Normans and the Making of the Kingdom of the English," Seiyoshi Kenkyu (Study of Occidental History) 36 (2007), 199-210.

Review of Alessandro Scafi, Mapping Paradise: A History of Heaven on Earth, Isis 98, no. 4 (December 2007), 817-818.

"The Reichenau Map? Rethinking the Peutinger Map," AVISTA Forum Journal 16 (2006), 36-37.

Review of Kenneth Baxter Wolf, trans., The Deeds of Count Roger of Calabria and Sicily and of his Brother Duke Robert Guiscard, Speculum 81, no.3 (July 2006), 850-852.

"Imperial Geography and the Medieval Peutinger Map," Imago Mundi 57 (2005), 136-148.

"Probing the Passions of a Norman on Crusade: The Gesta Francorum et aliorum Hierosolimitanorum," Anglo-Norman Studies 27 (2005), 1-15.

"Maps, Texts, and Travels in the Middle Ages: Abstracts of Papers Presented at the 39th International Congress on Medieval Studies, 6 May 2004, Kalamazoo, MI," with Natalia Lozovsky, AVISTA Forum Journal 14 (2004). 68-72.

"The Normans and Their Myths," Haskins Society Journal 11 (2003), 123-135.

Review of Jon Soloman, The Ancient World in the Cinema, in Classical World 96, no. 4 (2003), 454-5.


Honors & Awards

  • UC Davis Washington Program Faculty Fellowship (2009)
  • UC Davis Humanities Institute Residential Fellowship (2008)
  • UC Davis Faculty Development Award (2000-2001)
  • NEH Summer Seminar, American Academy in Rome (2000)
  • Junior Faculty Research Fellowship, UC Davis (1999-2000)
  • Fellow, UC Davis Humanities Institute (1997-1998)
  • Bethell Prize, Charles Homer Haskins Society (1997)
  • Fellow, American Council of Learned Societies (1994-1995)
  • NEH summer stipend (1994)