UW-Milwaukee: Department of History - Carlos R. Galvao-Sobrinho

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Carlos R. Galvao-Sobrinho, Assistant Professor

Office: Holton Hall 388
Phone: (414) 229-3819
E-mail: cgalvao@uwm.edu
Web Site: www.uwm.edu/~cgalvao

Degree:
Ph.D., Yale University, 1999

Current Research Interests:
Poverty and slavery in the Roman world; the city of Rome; ancient urbanism; Latin epigraphy; the Second Sophistic.

Current Teaching Interests:
Roman social and cultural history; the later Roman empire; ancient religion; early Christianity; Latin epigraphy; ancient medicine.

Other Relevant Activities:
Co-coordinator, Workshop in Ancient Mediterranean Studies at the Center for 21st Century Studies.

Publications:
"Claiming places: sacred dedications and public space in Rome in the Principate," (forthcoming in Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae).

"Embodied Theologies: Christian Identity and Violence in Alexandria in the Early Arian Controversy," in Violence in Late Antiquity. Perceptions and Practices, ed. H. D. Drake, Aldershot, Ashgate, 2006, 321-331.

"Apolônia e seu território: paisagem rural e mudança social na Palestina dos hasmoneus aos romanos (100 a. C.-135 d. C.)," Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia 12 (2002), pp. 81-122.

"Autocratie, ressentiment et engagement politique dans le haut empire romain," in Le ressentiment, eds. P. Ansart et al., Brussels, 2002, pp. 277-292.

"Hippocratic ideals, medical ethics, and the practice of medicine in the early Middle Ages: The legacy of the Hippocratic Oath," Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences 51.4 (1996), 438-455.

"Funerary epigraphy and the spread of Christianity in the West," Athenaeum, n. s., 83 (1995), 431-462.

Work in Progress:
Doctrine and Power. Theological Controversy and Christian Leadership in the Later Roman Empire, A. D. 318-380

Mourning the Dead Together. Death, Burial, and Sense of Self among Slaves and Freed Persons at Rome in the Early Principate

Compassion, Poverty and Social Change in the Roman Empire.

The Orator and the Hunter: City, Countryside, and Civic Ideology in Dio's Euboicus.

Topography of Power: Triumphal Arches, Urban Space and Society in Ancient Rome, 30 BC- AD 400.

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