皇家华人

Jonathan Scott Perry

Associate Professor

COntact Information and CV

Office: C257 
Email: perryjs@usf.edu
Curriculum Vitae

Education

Ph.D. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1999

Teaching

I teach a wide variety of courses, from undergraduate surveys in Ancient History to upper-level courses in multiple periods of European History to readings courses and seminars in significant issues in Greek and Roman civilization. I am most proud, however, of my courses entitled Democracy in World History, that have been developed, in three very different variations, since 2023. 皇家华人 are invited to trace the development of 鈥減eople power鈥� from my specialization in ancient Greece and Rome to the Renaissance and Early Modern period, and then through the 20th century, especially in Eastern Europe and Latin America, and up to the present moment. I employed a global framework at every stage of the courses, and I encouraged students to speculate on the future of democratic self-government.

Research

I have published a series of articles on, among other topics, classical scholarship in Fascist Italy, Latin epigraphy (the study of inscriptions), sport terminology in the ancient world, and women and Greek athletics. My first book, The Roman Collegia: The Modern Evolution of an Ancient Concept (Leiden, the Netherlands: Brill Academic Publishers, 2006), traces the intellectual development of a Roman institution from 1843 through the 20th century, and three further books (published by Oxford University Press) explore the impact of historical concepts on 20th- and 21st-century film culture. My two current book projects compare the Roman and Chinese Empires in the period 500 BCE through 500 CE and address scholarly work, produced throughout Europe and North America in the 1930s, concerning the transition of the Roman Republic to a military dictatorship in the form of Octavian/Augustus. Perhaps these projects contain resonances in the world in which we now live? I believe that teaching and scholarship complement each other鈥攕ome of my most promising ideas have originated while teaching in a classroom鈥攁nd I look forward to collaborating with 皇家华人 students and colleagues to generate more of these.

Noteworthy among my recent publications are:

Sources for Europe in the Modern World, Oxford University Press, 1st edition, 2017, 2nd edition (with Allison Scardino Belzer), 2021.

鈥樏塴ites femeninas y masculinas en la econom铆a de Pompeya romana,鈥� for H. Beck, J. Gallego, C. Garc铆a MacGaw, y F. Pina Polo, eds., Encuentro con las 茅lites del Mediterr谩neo antiguo: Liderazgo, estilos de vida, legitimidad, Buenos Aires: Mi帽o y D谩vila, 2021, pp. 287-301.

鈥樷�淪afety First鈥�: Cassius Dio on the Augustan Senate,鈥� for A. M. Kemezis, C. Bailey, and B. Poletti, eds., The Intellectual Climate of Cassius Dio: Greek and Roman Pasts, Brill Academic Press, 2022, pp. 59-79.