Michele R. Salzman


Michele R. Salzman is Professor of History at University of California, Riverside. She is an expert on the religious and social history of Late Antiquity.

Education

Salzman studied for her B.A. degree from Brooklyn College in 1973. She was awarded her master's degree in 1975 from Bryn Mawr College in 1975. Salzman received her PhD from Bryn Mawr College in 1981. Her doctoral thesis was entitled Studies on the Calendar of 354.

Career and research

In 1986-87, Salzman was the Mellow Fellow in Classical Studies, the American Academy in Rome. Salzman taught at Swarthmore College, Columbia University, and Boston University before joining the History Faculty at the University of California, Riverside, in 1995.
Salzman was Chair of the History Department 1999-2000 at the University of California, Riverside, and was promoted to Professor in 2000.
Salzman has published widely on Roman and Greek history, late antique religion, culture and society, and Latin literature. Her publications have been described as 'austere and disciplined', and 'meticulous'. Professor Elizabeth A. Clark described Salzman's monograph On Roman Time as 'highly informative, insightful, and provocative'. Her current research project examines 'The ‘Falls’ of Rome in Late Antiquity' that examines the city of Rome and its response to crisis from the third to seventh centuries.
Salzman is Associate Editor of the Journal Studies in Late Antiquity.

Awards and honours

In 2008 Salzman was the Lucy Shoe Merritt Scholar in Residence at the American Academy in Rome. In 2017 Salzman was appointed to the Board of Trustees at the American Academy of Rome. Salzman was the Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, Princeton University in 2018.