#  Emma Dench 

McLean Professor of Ancient and Modern History and of the Classics

Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences

 

 

 



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 smartphone [617.496.1956](tel:617.496.1956) 

 email <dench@fas.harvard.edu> 

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Research interests: Roman Republican and early Imperial history; questions of identity in the ancient world; Roman imperialism; ancient Italy; the making of the Roman past



 

 

 



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Dench, Emma. 2018. *[Empire and Political Cultures in the Roman World](/publications/empire-and-political-cultures-roman-world)*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press .



 

 

Dench, Emma. 2018. *[Empire and Political Cultures in the Roman World](/publications/empire-and-political-cultures-roman-world)*. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press .



 

 

 

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Dench, Emma. 1995. *[From Barbarians to New Men: Greek, Roman, and Modern Perceptions of Peoples of the Central Apennines](/publication/barbarians-new-men-greek-roman-and-modern-perceptions-peoples-central-apennines)*. Oxford : New York: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press.



 

 

Dench, Emma. 1995. *[From Barbarians to New Men: Greek, Roman, and Modern Perceptions of Peoples of the Central Apennines](/publication/barbarians-new-men-greek-roman-and-modern-perceptions-peoples-central-apennines)*. Oxford : New York: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press.



 

 

 

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Dench, Emma. 2005. *[Romulus’ Asylum: Roman Identities from the Age of Alexander to the Age of Hadrian](/publications/romulus-asylum-roman-identities-age-alexander-age-hadrian)*. Oxford: Oxford University Press.



 

 

Dench, Emma. 2005. *[Romulus’ Asylum: Roman Identities from the Age of Alexander to the Age of Hadrian](/publications/romulus-asylum-roman-identities-age-alexander-age-hadrian)*. Oxford: Oxford University Press.



 

 

 

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