Celia Schultz is Professor of History and Classical Studies at the College of Literature, Science and the Arts at University of Michigan. She specialises in Latin literature, Roman history, and Roman religion.

Education

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Schultz received her PhD from Bryn Mawr College in 1999. Her thesis was entitled Women in Roman Republican Religion.[1]

Career and research

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Schultz taught at Yale University and Johns Hopkins University before her employment at the University of Michigan in 2010.[2] She was awarded a Rome Prize Fellowship at the American Academy in Rome 2004–5, and she received a Loeb Classical Library Fellowship in 2016.[3][4] She has held an Advanced Studies Fellowship at the University of Uppsala (2020–21) and she was the William Evans Fellow at the University of Otago (2021).[2]

 
Coin (ca. 41-40 BCE) featuring a bust of Fulvia on the obverse, with a standing Athena on the reverse

Schultz's publications have centred on Roman Republican religion, sacrifice, and women. She published a commentary on Cicero's De Divinatione I (2014) and the monograph Women's Religious Activity in the Roman Republic (2006). She co-edited Religion in Republican Italy for Yale University Press in 2006, and The Religious Life of Things in 2016.[5]

In 2021, she published a biography of Fulvia, the first wife of Mark Antony, with Oxford University Press: Fulvia. Playing for Power at the End of the Roman Republic.[6]

References

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  1. ^ "Dissertation - Women in Roman republican religion - Schultz, Celia E. - 1999". Bryn Mawr - Tripod - Tricollege Libraries. Retrieved 2023-09-26.
  2. ^ a b "Celia Schultz". Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study. Retrieved 2023-09-26.
  3. ^ "All Fellows". American Academy in Rome. Retrieved 2023-09-26.
  4. ^ "Blog: Teaching An Effective Graduate Literature Survey". Society for Classical Studies. Retrieved 2023-09-26.
  5. ^ Schultz, Celia E.; Harvey, Paul B., eds. (2006). Religion in Republican Italy. Yale Classical Studies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. doi:10.1017/CBO9780511482816. ISBN 978-0-521-86366-7.
  6. ^ "Fulvia. Playing for Power at the End of the Roman Republic". Oxford University Press - Academic. Retrieved 2023-09-26.