Michael Kulikowski

About

Michael Kulikowski is the Edwin Erle Sparks Professor of History and Classics at Penn State University. He studies the Roman empire and the transition to the early Middle Ages in the West. From 2010 to 2023, he served as the head of the history department at Penn State. He is the author of several books and more than fifty articles and book chapters on the political and institutional history of the period, with a particular interest in how written evidence can be read in light of archaeological and numismatic material. His most recent monographs, The Triumph of Empire: The Roman Empire from Hadrian to Constantine (2016) and The Tragedy of Empire: From Constantine to the Destruction of Roman Italy (2019), have been published internationally and translated into Chinese, Japanese, German, and Italian. He writes regularly for the London Review of Books and the TLS and is currently completing a fully annotated translation of the late Roman historian Ammianus Marcellinus.

Research topics

• Political Science
• History
• Ancient history
• Law
• Classics
• Economic history
• Geography

Selected publications

• A Father’s Legacy: Foreign Affairs Under the Sons of Constantine

  Springer eBooks · 2020 · 26 citations

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• The Historia Augusta

  2021-03-19 · 12 citations

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• 4 SIDONIUS’ POLITICAL WORLD

  Edinburgh University Press eBooks · 2020 · 5 citations

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• Cities and Civic Identities in Late Roman and Visigothic Spain

  Cultural encounters in late antiquity and the Middle Ages · 2021 · 2 citations

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• Revisiting Prefects in Bronze: New and Rediscovered Tesserae

  Journal of late antiquity · 2021-01-01 · 1 citations

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  This short article updates "Urban Prefects in Bronze," published by this author in 2017 in the Journal of Late Antiquity. To the corpus of bronze tesserae of urban and praetorian prefects from late and post-imperial Italy, it adds four tesserae previously unknown and notes the re-surfacing of two more thought lost or phantoms. These new tesserae introduce one new prefect to the fifth-century fasti.

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Frequent coauthors

• R. W. Burgess

  University of Ottawa

  13 shared

• Nicola Di Cosmo

  4 shared

• Margaret Tudeau-Clayton

  2 shared

• Matthias Friedrich

  University of Vienna

  2 shared

• Stefan Donecker

  2 shared

• Viera Pinto

  Zurich University of Teacher Education

  2 shared

• Peter Brown

  2 shared

• Kim Bowes

  2 shared

Awards & honors

• The Catto-Lecount Emerging Scholars Fellowship
• School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study,…
• NEH Scholarly Editions and Translations Grant for A Landmark…
• ACLS Collaborative Research Grant for A Landmark Ammianus Ma…
• ACLS Burkhardt Residential Fellowship, National Humanities C…

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