Sarah E. Bond, Ph.D.
Sarah E. Bond is an Associate Professor of History at the University of Iowa. She is interested in late Roman history, epigraphy, late antique law, Roman topography and GIS, Digital Humanities, and the socio-legal experience of ancient marginal peoples. She earned a PhD in History from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2011) and obtained a BA in Classics and History with a minor in Classical Archaeology from the University of Virginia (2005). Her book, Trade and Taboo: Disreputable Professionals in the Roman Mediterranean, was published with the University of Michigan Press in 2016. Follow her blog: History From Below.
Additionally, Bond is a regular contributor at Hyperallergic, a columnist at the Los Angeles Review of Books, and a section editor at Public Books. She has written for The New York Times, The Chronicle of Higher Education, and The Washington Post.
Please visit Professor Bond's personal website for current CV.
Publications
Books
Articles
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“The State, Governance, and Regulation in Ancient Shopping" IN A Cultural History of Shopping
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"Review of Carlos Machado, Urban Space and Aristocratic Power in Late Antique Rome: AD 270-535"
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"Linked Open Data for the Ancient Mediterranean: Structures, Practices, Prospects"
Commentary and Popular Writing
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"An Iowa Museum Renowned for Its Pollock Emerges From a Flood With a More Inclusive Mission"
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"What Can Shackled and Beheaded Skeletons Reveal About Roman Servitude?"
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"Anti-vaxxers are claiming centuries of Jewish suffering to look like martyrs"
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"Discovery of an Industrial Brewery in Ancient Egypt Rewrites the History of Beer"
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"A World-Famous Ancient Collection, on Display for the First Time, Awaits Visitors in Rome"
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"Identifying Slut-Shaming, Racism, and Transphobia in the Byzantine World"
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"How Academics, Egyptologists, and Even Melania Trump Benefit From Colonialist Cosplay"