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Christopher Baron

Associate Professor

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Office
248 O'Shaughnessy Hall
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Phone
574-631-2802
Email
cbaron1@nd.edu

Biography

Professor Baron became interested in the study of ancient Greece and Rome as a way to combine his love of history with his love of language(s). After studying American history in college, he moved back home to the Chicago area and worked as a paralegal at an immigration law firm for several years before pursuing his graduate degrees in ancient history, earning a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. His main research interests are Greek and Roman historiography, the history of the Greeks in the Hellenistic and Roman periods, and ancient Sicily. He spent way too many years working as General Editor of the 3-volume Herodotus Encyclopedia  (Wiley, 2021), which contains contributions from 180 scholars in 18 countries. His current project is a monograph entitled Greek Historians under the Roman Empire. He enjoys watching baseball (fly the W!), drinking wine, and riding his bike – never all three at the same time, of course.

Frequently Teaches

History of Ancient Greece, Age of Alexander, Writing History in Ancient Greece and Rome, Ancient Empires

Research Interests

Greek history, historical writing, empire and imperialism, communication networks in antiquity, ancient Sicily

Representative Publications: 

The Herodotus Encyclopedia (Wiley)
Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic Historiography (Cambridge)
Cassius Dio and the Late Roman Republic, co-editor (Brill)

Education

Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania; M.A., University of Chicago; B.A., Illinois Wesleyan University

Publications