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Associate Professor, Acting Head
Classics - Tenure-Track Faculty
311C Blegen Library
513-556-1941
peter.vanminnen@uc.edu

Professional Summary

Peter van Minnen is a papyrologist and ancient historian specializing in Greek documentary texts from Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. He also covers Greek literary and Coptic papyri and Greek and Latin inscriptions, and is broadly interested in the society, economy, and culture of the Roman Empire, including Early Christianity and Late Antiquity. He has published in most of these areas and more, and his publications now number over 100, including monographs and a web site (http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/papyrus/). He edits the Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, a refereed journal in his field.

Education

MA, University of Leiden, Leiden, Netherlands, 1983 (Classics including Ancient History and Papyrology).

PhD, University of Leuven, Leuven, Belgium, 1997 (Ancient History).

Research Interests

Peter van Minnen is currently working on two monographs: one on the Egyptian city of Hermopolis in the Roman period, and the other on the economy of Roman Egypt. As a sequel to the monograph on Roman Hermopolis, he plans to edit the archive of a family of athletes from that town. He has also worked on the local context of early Christianity in Egypt, and intends to publish a collection of essays on various sites from Alexandria to Philae. In addition, he is editing a Greek documentary papyri from Ann Arbor and Vienna. He is currently directing two dissertations on Late Antique Mérida, Spain, and on the empress-poetess Eudocia.

Other Experience and Professional Memberships

09/01/1998-08/31/2001, Postdoctoral fellow, Dutch Royal Academy, Amsterdam.

09/10/2001-12/10/2001, Fellow, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, DC.