Megan Williams
On Leave
Biography
Education
- Ph.D, Princeton, 2002
- 2011-2012 Research Leave
- Fellowship for Experienced Researchers, Alexander v. Humboldt Stiftung
- Sponsor: Hartmut Leppin, Historische Institut, Abteilung für Alte Geschichte
- Goethe-Universität, Frankfurt aM.
Courses offered:
- HIST 110: Western Civilization to 1500
- HIST 325: Late Antiquity
- HIST 328: The Early Church to 395
- HIST 329: The Early Church, 395-787
- HIST 330: The Early Middle Ages
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HIST 710: Graduate Seminar in Late Antiquity (Variable Topics)
Religion and Empire: Historiography in Late Antiquity (Spring 2007)
The Fall of the Roman Empire in Recent Historiography (Spring 2009)
Augustine's City of God (Fall 2010)
Research
- Late Roman Empire
- History of Christianity
- Intellectual history
- Climate history & historical epidemiology
- Historiography
Current Research
- The Worldly Apocalypse: The Fall of Rome in Late Antique Historiography
Selected Publications
Books:
- The Monk and the Book: Jerome and the Making of Christian Scholarship (Chicago, 2006)
- Christianity and the Transformation of the Book: Origen, Eusebius, and the Library of Caesarea with Anthony Grafton (Harvard, 2006)
