Curriculum Vitae - Researchers @ Brown

JONATHAN P. CONANT
Department of History
Brown University
Box N, 79 Brown St.
Providence, RI 02912
401·863·5121/FAX 401·863·1040
Jonathan_Conant@Brown.edu
EMPLOYMENT
2014–present
2011–2014
2005–2011
2004–2005
2004
Brown University, Department of History, Associate Professor
Brown University, Department of History. Assistant Professor
University of San Diego, Department of History. Assistant Professor
Columbia University, Department of History. Visiting Assistant Professor
Harvard University, Department of History. Lecturer
EDUCATION
1998–2004
1996–1998
1992–1996
1995–1996
1994
Harvard University, Department of History. Ph.D., 2004
Dissertation: “Staying Roman: Vandals, Moors, and Byzantines in Late Antique North Africa,
400–700”
Harvard University, Department of History. A.M., 1998
General Exam fields: Roman History, Late Antiquity, Medieval Europe, Modern Middle East
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. B.A., summa cum laude, 1996
University of London, King’s College. Academic Year Abroad
University of Iceland, Reykjavík. International Summer Course in Icelandic
AREAS OF SPECIALIZATION
Late ancient and early medieval Mediterranean; Vandal, Moorish, and Byzantine North Africa; Carolingian
Europe; Muslim–Christian interaction; identity; communications; documentary practice.
PUBLICATIONS (BOOKS, ARTICLES, CHAPTERS)
* indicates peer-reviewed publication
Staying Roman: Conquest and Identity in Africa and the Mediterranean, 439–700. Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press, 2012.*
North Africa under Byzantium and Early Islam, ca. 500–ca. 800. Volume co-edited with Susan T. Stevens
(Randolph College). Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection,
forthcoming.*
“Introduction: Re-Imagining Byzantine Africa.” Co-written with Susan T. Stevens. In North Africa under
Byzantium and Early Islam, ca. 500–ca. 800, edited by Susan T. Stevens and Jonathan P. Conant.
Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, forthcoming.
“Sanctity and the Networks of Empire.” In North Africa under Byzantium and Early Islam, ca. 500–ca. 800, edited
by Susan T. Stevens and Jonathan P. Conant. Washington, D.C.: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and
Collection, forthcoming.*
“Louis the Pious and the Contours of Empire.” Early Medieval Europe (forthcoming).*
“Romanness in the Age of Attila.” In The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Attila, edited by Michael Maas.
Cambridge University Press (in production).
“Public Administration, Private Individuals, and the Written Word in Late Antique North Africa, c. 284–
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700.” In Laypeople and Documents in the Early Middle Ages, edited by A.J. Kosto, M. Innes, W.C. Brown, and
M. Costambeys, 36–62. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013.*
“Europe and the African Cult of Saints, circa 350–900: An Essay in Mediterranean Communications.”
Speculum 85 (2010): 1–46.*
“Private Documentation and Literacy in Vandal North Africa: The Case of the Albertini Tablets.” In Vandals,
Romans and Berbers: New Perspectives on Late Antique Africa, edited by A.H. Merrills, 199–224. Aldershot:
Ashgate Press, 2004.
“The Imperatives of Vandal Diplomacy and the Remaking of the Mediterranean.” In Guerrieri, mercanti e
profughi nel Mare dei Vandali. Atti del convegno internazionale. Messina 7–8 settembre 2009, edited by Vincenzo
Aiello. Messina: Dipartimento si Scienze dell’Antichità dell’Università di Messina, forthcoming.
REVIEWS
Cam Grey, Constructing Communities in the Late Roman Countryside (Cambridge, 2011). Early Medieval Europe
(forthcoming)
Jamie P. Wood, The Politics of Identity in Visigothic Spain: Religion and Power in the Histories of Isidore of Seville
(Leiden, 2012). Early Medieval Europe (forthcoming)
Peter Brown, Through the Eye of a Needle: Wealth, the Fall of Rome, and the Making of Christianity in the West, 350–
550 AD (Princeton, 2012). Journal of Economic History 74 (2014): 627–628
Brent Shaw, Sacred Violence: African Christians and Sectarian Hatred in the Age of Augustine (Cambridge, 2011).
Journal of Roman Archaeology 26 (2013): 910–914
Leslie Dossey, Peasant and Empire in Christian North Africa, Transformation of the Classical Heritage 47
(Berkeley, 2010). American Historical Review 117 (2012): 305–306.
Andy Merrills and Richard Miles, The Vandals (Chichester, 2010). Speculum 87 (2012): 69–71.
Michael Dietler, Archaeologies of Colonialism. Consumption, Entanglement, and Violence in Ancient Mediterranean France
(Berkeley, 2010). Journal of Interdisciplinary History 42 (2011): 453–454.
Kevin Uhalde, Expectations of Justice in the Age of Augustine (Philadelphia, 2007). Speculum 84 (2009): 500–502.
Nicholas Everett, Literacy in Lombard Italy, c. 568–774 (Cambridge, 2003). Early Medieval Europe 13 (2005): 122–
123.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
The Carolingians and the Ends of Empire, c. 795–840. Second book project.
“Jews and Christians in Vandal Africa.” In Barbarians and Jews: Jews and Judaism in the Early Medieval West, edited
by Yitzhak Hen, Ora Limor, and Thomas F.X. Noble. Turnhout: Brepols, submitted (anticipated
publication 2014).
“Donatism in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries AD.” In: The Donatist Controversy, edited by Richard Miles.
Liverpool University Press (under contract; anticipated delivery July 2014).
“Charlemagne, Latin, and the Afterlife of Empire in the Eighth- and Ninth-Century Southern
Mediterranean.” In Latinity in the Post-Classical World, edited by Oren Margolis and Graham Barrett.
Oxford University Press, in preparation (anticipated delivery November 2014).
The Oxford Dictionary of Late Antiquity, edited by Oliver Nicholson and Mark Humphries. Oxford University
Press, under contract; submitted. Six entries of an average of 120 words each, on the following topics:
 Deogratias
 Ferrandus
 Moors
 Domitius Alexander
 Laterculus Regum Vandalorum
 Solomon
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PROFESSIONAL TALKS (SINCE 2010)
March 2015
(forthcoming)
“Afro-European Hagiographic Transfers.” A Sea and its Saints: Hagiography and the
Structuring of the Mediterranean in the Middle Ages. Deutsches Historisches Institut –
Rom (Rome), Italy.
December 2014
(forthcoming)
“Imagining Distant Spaces in the Frankish World, ca. 700–840.” Linking the
Mediterranean: Regional and Trans-Regional Interactions in Times of Fragmentation
(300–800 CE). Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Vienna, Austria.
March 2014
“Donatism in the Fifth and Sixth Centuries AD.” The Donatist Controversy. Cambridge
University, Trinity College, Cambridge, United Kingdom.
April 2013
“Latinity and the Afterlife of Empire.” Latinity in the Post-Classical World. Campo
Santo Teutonico, Vatican City.
February 2013
“The Forgotten Transition: North Africa between Byzantium and Islam.” Africa –
Ifriqiya. Deutsches Archäologisches Institut – Rom (Rome), Italy.
November 2012
“Defying Attila: Slavery, Violence, and the Precariousness of Social Obligations in the
Fifth-Century Mediterranean.” Bryn Mawr College.
April 2012
“Sanctity and the Networks of Empire.” Spring Symposium in Byzantine Studies,
Dumbarton Oaks.
“Rome Re-Imagined: Byzantine and Early Islamic Africa, c. 500-800.” Spring
Symposium in Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks. Co-Symposiarch (conference
organizer) with Susan T. Stevens (Randolph College).
“The Carolingians and the Ends of Empire.” The Medieval Globe: Communication,
Connectivity, and Exchange. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
February 2012
“Slavery and Roman Identity in the Fifth-Century Mediterranean.” Medieval and Early
Modern History Seminar, Brown University.
November 2011
“Disorder and Defenselessness: Roman Citizenship and the Ambiguities of Slavery in
the Late Antique Mediterranean.” Corresponding Landscapes: Religious and Cultural
Exchange in the Post-Classical Mediterranean (Colloquium), Brown University.
May 2011
“The Fall of the Roman Empire.” Phi Beta Kappa Initiation Banquet, University of San
Diego.
July 2010
“The Vandal Capture of Rome, A.D. 455: Strategies of Violence in the New
Mediterranean.” NEH Summer Seminar, American Academy in Rome, Italy.
February 2010
“Romanness, Local Identity, and the Vandal Persecution.” Deutsches Archäologisches
Institut – Rom (Rome), Italy.
Presenter at the workshop, “Religious Identity, Conversion, and Ethnic Identity in Late
Antiquity,” St. Deiniol’s Library, Hawarden, United Kingdom.
January 2010
“Christianity and Local Culture in Late Antique North Africa.” Society and the Holy in
Late Antiquity Seminar, Worcester College, University of Oxford, United Kingdom.
“Conquest and Identity in Africa and the Mediterranean, 439-700.” Early Medieval
Seminar, Institute for Historical Research, London, United Kingdom.
“Slavery and Roman Identity in the Fifth-Century Mediterranean.”
Co-organizer of the panel, “Slavery in the Late Antique Mediterranean,” with Kyle
Harper (University of Oklahoma) and Gregory A. Smith (Central Michigan University).
American Historical Association, Annual Meeting, San Diego, California.
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HONORS AND AWARDS
2013–2014
2013–2014
2011–2014
2009–2010
2006–2009, 2010–2011
2007
2002–2003
2001–2002
1999
1998
1998
1998, 1999, 2001, 2003
1997–2001
1997
1996–1997
1996–1997
1995
1995
Charles A. Ryskamp Research Fellowship, American Council of Learned
Societies
Henry Merritt Wriston Fellowship, Brown University
Humanities Research Fund, Brown University
Andrew Heiskell Post-Doctoral Rome Prize, American Academy in Rome
Faculty Research Grant, University of San Diego
Mortar Board, Faculty Appreciation Dinner Honoree, University of San Diego
Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C., Junior Fellowship in Byzantine Studies
Packard Fellowship, Harvard University
American Numismatic Society, New York, Graduate Seminar in
Numismatics
Graduate Society, Harvard University, summer award for pre-dissertation
prospectus research
Traveling Fellowship, Department of History, Harvard University
Bok Center Teaching Award, Harvard University
Jacob K. Javits Fellowship
Phi Beta Kappa honorary society
Vincent M. Scramuzza Memorial Fellowship, Department of History,
Harvard University
Phi Kappa Phi Honorable Mention Fellowship for graduate study
Phi Kappa Phi honorary society
National Endowment for the Humanities Younger Scholars Program
grant for undergraduate summer research
CLASSES TAUGHT (BROWN UNIVERSITY)
“The Search for King Arthur” (History 0980G). The history and archaeology of post-Roman Britain, ca.
A.D. 400–900.
 Spring 2013 (16 students)
“The Long Fall of the Roman Empire” (History 1030). Late antiquity, early medieval Europe, Byzantium, and
the Islamic world.
 Fall 2014 (50 students, provisional)
 Fall 2012 (69 students)
 Fall 2011 (7 students)
“The Viking Age” (History 1031). The North Sea, North Atlantic, Baltic, and Eastern European world, ca.
A.D. 700–1100.
 Spring 2012 (58 students)
 Spring 2013 (99 students)
“Charlemagne: Conquest, Empire, and the Making of the Middle Ages” (History 1976Z). Undergraduate
seminar on the history of Western Europe and the Mediterranean, ca. 750–900.
 Fall 2013 (20 students, provisional)
 Fall 2012 (16 students)
 Fall 2011 (4 students)
“Barbarians, Byzantines, and Berbers: Early Medieval North Africa, A.D. 300–1050” (History 1977F).
Undergraduate seminar on the Maghrib in the Christian and early Islamic eras.
 Spring 2012 (8 students)
DISSERTATIONS AND THESES ADVISED (BROWN UNIVERSITY)
Emily Hurt, “Bishops, Martyrs, and Circumcellions: The Church in Conflict in Fourth-Century North
Africa.” Undergraduate thesis, Honors, Fall 2012 (primary adviser)
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PROFESSIONAL, UNIVERSITY, AND HISTORY DEPARTMENT SERVICE
All service is at Brown University unless otherwise indicated.
2014–2015
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2011–2012
Faculty Adviser, Borders and Boundaries in the Late Ancient and Medieval
Mediterranean (Graduate Colloquium)
First-year Advising, The College of Brown University
Interim Chair, Medieval Studies Program
First Readings Seminar, The College of Brown University
Graduate Committee, Department of History
Team Enhanced Advising and Mentoring program, The College of Brown
University
First-year Advising (6 advisees), The College of Brown University
Coordinator, Medieval and Early Modern History Seminar, Department of
History
The Brown Journal of History, Faculty Adviser
Peer reviewer, Cambridge University Press
Peer reviewer, Church History
Modern Middle Eastern History Search Committee, Department of History
First Readings Seminar, The College of Brown University
Peer reviewer, Journal of Early Christian Studies
ARCHAEOLOGICAL EXPERIENCE
2000–2002
Byrsa House (Carthage), Tunisia. Coin specialist. Excavation of a late Roman site
under the direction of Dr. Alicia Walker (Department of the History of Art, Bryn
Mawr College) and Dr. Christine Zitrides Atiyeh (Department of Fine Arts,
Kutztown University).
Summer 1998
Bir Ftouha (Carthage), Tunisia. Responsibilities included the excavation and
surveying of trenches, and the classification and recording of artifacts in the field
registry. Excavation under the direction of Dr. Susan T. Stevens (Department of
Classics, Randolph College).
LANGUAGES
Primary research languages: Latin, Greek, Arabic; French, German, Italian, Spanish
Other languages: Old English, Old Irish, Icelandic
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