Stephen L. Dyson
PhD
Park Professor of Classics
SUNY Distinguished Professor
Professor Emeritus
Research Interests
History and archaeology of the City of Rome; archaeology of Roman Italy and the western empire; history and theory of archaeology; Roman social history; the Roman countryside
Education
- PhD, Yale University, 1963
- MA, Yale University, 1962
- Diploma in Classical Archaeology, Oxford University, 1961
Selected Publications
- The Creation of the Roman Frontier (Princeton University Press, 1985).
- Community and Society in Roman Italy (Johns Hopkins Press, 1992).
- Ancient Marbles to American Shores (University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998).
- The Roman Countryside (Duckworth, 2003).
- Eugenie Sellers Strong: Portrait of an Archaeologist (Duckworth, 2004).
- In Pursuit of Ancient Pasts: A History of Classical Archaeology in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries (Yale University Press, 2006).
- Shepheds, Sailors, and Conquerors (Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Museum, 2007).
- Rome: A Living Portrait of an Ancient City (Baltimore, Johns Hopkins University Press. 2010).
Offices in Professional Organizations
- President, Archaeological Institute of America
- Book Review Editor, American Journal of Archaeology
- President, Classical Association of the American Academy in Rome
Honors and Awards
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
- American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
- Director, Classical Summer School of the American Academy in Rome
- Director, National Endowment for the Humanities Summer Seminars for College and University Teachers-Buffalo, Rome
- Mellon Professor-Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, Rome
Research Projects
- A Diachronic Study of the History and Archaeology of Sardinia
- The Archaeological Development of the Medieval Site of Capalbiaccio, Italy
- An Archaeological and Social Historical Profile of Ancient Rome
- Archaeology and Ideology in 19th and 20th century Rome
- A Biography of the Nineteenth Century Journalist, Archaeologist, and Photographer, William J. Stillman
Grants
- National Endowment for the Humanities Grants for Archaeological research
Undergraduate Courses
Archaeology and Rediscovery of the Classical World; The History of the Roman Republic; Roman Imperialism; Roman Archaeology 1
Graduate Courses
Livy; Tacitus; The Roman Countryside; The Western Roman Empire; Roman Numismatics; The Topography and Social History of Ancient Rome; The History of Classical Archaeology; The Greater Roman Historians: Roman Historiography from Gibbon to Moses Finley,From Constantine to Charlemagne