Roger S. Bagnall

Roger Shaler Bagnall ( born August 19, 1947 in Seattle, Washington) is an American historian and papyrologist.

Life

Bagnalls research focuses on the Hellenistic and Roman eras of the eastern Mediterranean region, in particular the Greco-Roman Egypt. He teaches since 1974 at Columbia University in New York, since 1983 as a full professor. Bagnall studied from 1964 to 1968 at Yale University, where he earned a Bachelor of Arts summa cum laude. Thereafter, he obtained in 1969 from the University of Toronto received his Master of Arts, while at the same time he taught as a teaching fellow. In 1972 she received her doctorate. After a brief tenure at Florida State University as an Assistant Professor of Classics ( 1972-74 ) Bagnall accepted an appointment at Columbia University.

Works

• The Chronological Systems of Byzantine Egypt ( Klaas A. Worp ), Zutphen 1978.
• Currency and Inflation in Fourth Century Egypt, Atlanta 1985.
• Consuls of the Later Roman Empire ( with Alan Cameron, Seth R. Schwartz and Klaas A. Worp ), Atlanta 1987.
• Egypt in Late Antiquity, Princeton 1993.
• Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History, London 1995.
• ( with Bruce W. Frier ): The Demography of Roman Egypt, Cambridge 1994 ( 2nd edition, Cambridge 2006).
• Early Christian Books in Egypt. Princeton, Oxford: Princeton University Press 2009 ISBN 9780691140261 Review of:. . Garstad Benjamin, in: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 10/02/2010