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Graduate Training for the Ancient Historian: Or how best to study ancient history in the 21st century?

  1. Introduction and Panel Organizer: Michele Renee Salzman. University of California, Riverside
  2. Charles Hedrick, University of California at Santa Cruz (paper not available).
  3. Richard Talbert, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: Noble Dreams: Historia Vincit Omnia?
  4. Elizabeth Pollard, California State University, San Diego: Learning to Walk (and Talk) the "Silk Roads": World Historical Training for Graduate Students in Ancient Mediterranean History
  5. David Potter, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor: The role of the text in training ancient historians
  6. Jonathan Edmondson, York University: Collaborating between Classics and History in Teaching Ancient History at the Ph.D. level: The University of Toronto-York University Collaborative Programme in Ancient History (COLPAH)
  7. Walter Scheidel, Stanford University: How to make Ancient History programs less ancient
  8. Commentator, Kurt Raaflub, Brown University: Comments: Four Possible Solutions