Curriculum Vitae
Walter Stevenson
Education:
B.A., Carleton College, Classical Languages, magna cum laude (1983).
Ph.D., Brown University, Classical Philology, (1990).
Experience:
Associate Professor, University of Richmond, (1990- ).
Visiting Professor, Lviv State University and Lviv Theological Academy (1997-98)
Instructor, Dickinson College, (1989-1990).
Lecturer, University of Rhode Island, (1988-89).
Teaching Assistant and Fellow, Brown University, (1984-1988).
Teaching Interests: All levels of Greek and Latin literature; Hellenistic and Roman History.
Research Interests: Roman Imperial History, Greek and Latin Historiography.
Publications:
The Origins of Roman Christian Diplomacy: Constantius II and John Chrysostom as Innovators, (link) 2021.
"A Philosophical Justification for a Novel Analysis-Supported, Stakeholder-Driven Participatory Process for Water Resources Planning and Decision Making," Water 10.8 (2018). (link)
"Exiling Bishops: the Policy of Constantius’ II," Dumbarton Oaks Papers 68 (2014): 7-27. (link)
"The Later Barbarians: Goths and Wine," in The Barbarians of Ancient Europe. Realities and Interconnections, Larissa Bonfante, ed., (Cambridge, 2011) 358-369. (link)
"John Chrysostom, Maruthas and Christian Evangelism in Sasanian Iran," Studia Patristica 47 (2010): 301-307. (link)
"Sozomen, Barbarians and Early Byzantine Historiography," Greek Roman and Byzantine Studies 43 (2002-3): 51-75. (link)
"Eunuchs and Early Christianity" Eunuchs in Antiquity and Beyond, University of Wales Press, 2002, pp. 123-142.
"Sozomen on Victor and the Easter Controversy," Studia Ephemeridis Augustinianum 74 (2001): 567-75.
"Professional Poets and Poetic Heroes in Homeric Greece," Usna Epika: Etnichni Tradytsiji ta Vykonavstvo (Kiev, 1997) pp. 80-88.
"Plato’s Symposium (190d7-e2)"Phoenix 47 (1993): 256-260.
Reviews"De Italia: Italy goes Multimedia" New England Classical Newsletter and Journal 23 (1995): 163-167.
James Porter (ed.), Constructions of the Classical Body, Ann Arbor, 1999, in Journal of the History of Sexuality 9.4 (2000) 524-7.
Fergus Millar, Rome, the Greek World, and the East. Volume 2. Government, Society and Culture in the Roman Empire, in New England Classical Journal 32.1 (2005) 79-82.
Ruediger Kinsky (ed.), Diorthoseis. Beitraege zur Geschichte des Hellenismus und zum Nachleben Alexanders des Grossen. in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.03.11 (archived at: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2005/2005-03-11.html).
Albrecht Berger (ed.), Life and Works of Saint Gregentios, Archbishop of Taphar in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.09.06 (archived at: http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2007/2007-09-06.html).