Lecturer
Office: AL 511
Email: [email protected]
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Geoffrey Nathan (Ph.D. UCLA, M.A. University of Washington, B.A. Berkeley) specializes in the area of late ancient social and family history. For thirteen years, he was the Roman historian at the University of New South Wales (Sydney Australia), and remains as Honorary Senior Lecturer. His teaching has focused mostly on ancient history, but has taught extensively on a wide range of western and world topics. Current research focuses on refugee crises in the ancient world.

In 2023, he was a recipient of an NEH Summer Scholarship and is currently finishing his most recent volume, A Cultural History of Old Age in Antiquity. 800 BCE – 500 CE (Bloomsbury 2024, with Tim Parkin). Other publications include The Family in Late Antiquity (Routledge 2000), Basileia. Empire and Culture in Byzantium (Byzantina Australiensa 2011) and Mediterranean Families in Antiquity (Wiley-Blackwell 2017, with Sabine Huebner).