About me

David Hollander

Associate Professor

647 Ross Hall

Department of History

Iowa State University

Ames, IA 50011

Fax: (515) 294-6390

Email: dbh8 at iastate.edu

Education:

• PhD in Ancient History, Columbia University (2002)
• MPhil in Ancient History, Columbia University (1997)
• MA in Ancient History, Columbia University (1994)
• BA in Classical Studies, University of Chicago (1992)

Research/teaching interests:

• The Late Roman Republic
• Economic History
• Agricultural History
• Greek History

Selected Publications

• Money in the Late Roman Republic. Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition 29 (Brill, 2007, paperback, 2012). [Reviews: BMCR, ANS Magazine 7.2 (2008), The Classical Review 58.2 (2008) 536-7; Journal of Roman Studies 99 (2009)]
• “The Demand for Money in the Late Roman Republic” in The Monetary Systems of the Greeks and Romans, ed. W. V. Harris, Oxford University Press (2008) 112 – 136. [Reviews: The Classical Review 59.1 (2009) 201-3]
• “Coins in the Countryside? Gauging Rural Monetization” in: Common Ground: Archaeology, Art, Science, and Humanities – Proceedings of the XVIth International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Boston, August 23-36, 2003, ed. C. C. Mattusch, A. A. Donohue, and A. Brauer, Oxbow Books (2006) 315 – 317.
• “Veterans, Agriculture, and Monetization in the Late Roman Republic,” in A Tall Order: Writing the Social History of the Ancient World. Essays in Honor of William V. Harris, Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, Band 216, ed. J.-J. Aubert and Z. Varhelyi (2005) 229 – 239.
• “The Management of the Mint in the Late Roman Republic,” Ancient History Bulletin 13.1 (1999) 14 – 27.

Book Reviews:

• Review of Michael Decker: Tilling the Hateful Earth: Agricultural Production and Trade in the Late Antique East. Pp. xxviii, 326. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009. Agricultural History 84.4 (2010) 544-545.
• Review of Lin Foxhall: Olive Cultivation in Ancient Greece. Seeking the Ancient Economy. Pp. xvii, 294. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2007. Agricultural History 83.2 (2009) 280 – 281.
• Review of Stephen Mitchell and Constantina Katsari (eds.): Patterns in the Economy of Roman Asia Minor. Pp. xxxii, 335. Swansea: The Classical Press of Wales, 2005. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.08.70. [Link]
• Review of Paul Erdkamp: The Grain Market in the Roman Empire: A Social, Political and Economic Study. Pp. xiv, 364. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Agricultural History 82.3 (2008) 394 – 395.
• Review of Nathan Rosenstein: Rome at War: Farms, Families and Death in the Middle Republic. Pp. x, 339. Chapel Hill and London: The University of North Carolina Press, 2004. Agricultural History 82.2 (2008) 242 – 244.
• Review of Emma Griffiths: Medea. Pp. xvi, 147. London and New York: Routledge, 2006. Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft 2 (2007) 93 – 95.
• Review of Jairus Banaji: Agrarian Change in Late Antiquity: Gold, Labour, and Aristocratic Dominance. Pp. 286. New York: Oxford University Press, 2001. Agricultural History 77.4 (2003) 616 – 617.
• Review of Elio Lo Cascio (ed.): Mercati permanenti e mercati periodici nel mondo romano. Atti degli Incontri capresi di storia dell’economia antica (Capri 13-15 ottobre 1997). Pragmateiai 2. Pp. 280. Bari: Edipuglia, 2000. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2003.06.32. [Link]
• Review of Kenneth W. Harl: Coinage in the Roman Economy: 300 B.C. to A.D. 700. American Journal of Numismatics 9 (1997) 143 – 150.

Encyclopedia Articles:

• “Bronze Coinage;” “Bullion;” “Coinage, Roman Republic;” “Credit;” “Taxation, Roman;” and “Tresviri Monetales;” as well as, with Ethan Spanier, “Agrarian Laws” and “Irrigation, Greco-Roman” in The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, ed. Roger Bagnall et al., Wiley-Blackwell (forthcoming 2012).
• “Hero of Alexandria” in Great Lives from History: Inventors & Inventing, ed. Alvin K. Benson, Salem Press (2009) 514 – 517.
• “Greek Agriculture,” “The Roman Economy,” and “Roman Settlement Patterns” in Encyclopedia of Society and Culture in the Ancient World, ed. Peter Bogucki, Facts On File (2007).
• “Brutus, Marcus Junius” in Great Lives from History: Notorious Lives, ed. C. L. Bankston III, Salem Press (2007) 146 – 148.
• “Trade, Commerce, and Colonization” in Magill’s Choice: Ancient Greece, ed. T. J. Sienkewicz, Salem Press (2006) 842 – 845.
• “The Thirty Tyrants” in Great Events from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory – 476 c. e., ed. M. W. Chavalas et al., Salem Press (2004) 475 – 477.

Other:

• Member, Editorial Board, Encyclopedia of Ancient History (for economic history)
• Member, Steering Committee, Society of Biblical Literature Program Unit on Early Christianity and the Ancient Economy

In Progress or Forthcoming:

• “Roman interest rates.” In Alain Bresson, Elio Lo Cascio, and François Velde (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Economies in the Classical World. Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2012?).
• Area editor for Economy, The Encyclopedia of Ancient History, ed. Roger Bagnall et al., Wiley-Blackwell (forthcoming 2012).
• “Roman Traders.” In Timothy Howe (ed.), Traders in the Ancient Mediterranean. Publications of the Association of Ancient Historians (forthcoming 2012?).
• Monograph on dependency and self-sufficiency in Greco-Roman agriculture.
• Paper on illness, death, and precautionary demand in the late Republic and early Empire.
• Paper on money and power in the late Roman Republic.