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Roger Bagnall Roger Bagnall is professor of classics and history at Columbia University, where he has served as dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and chair of the Department of Classics. Educated at Yale University and the University of Toronto, he specializes in the social and economic history of Hellenistic, Roman and late-antique Egypt. Bagnall has held many leadership positions in the fields of classics and papyrology; at present he is the director of a six-university consortium creating the Advanced Papyrological Information system. Among his best-known works are Egypt in Late Antiquity (1993), The Demography of Roman Egypt (1994; with Bruce Frier) and Reading Papyri, Writing Ancient History (1995). He has also edited many volumes of papyri and other ancient texts.
Along with his colleague Lynn Meskell, assistant professor of anthropology at Columbia University, Bagnall is leading preparations for a Columbia University excavation in Egypt that will begin in 2002. | |||||||||||||||
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