Elizabeth Digeser
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Elizabeth DePalma Digeser is an American scholar of Ancient Roman history, with an emphasis on late antiquity. After earning a B.A. in Psychology at the
After completing her Ph.D. in 1996, she accepted a call to
In 2004, she accepted a position as Associate Professor at the University of California, Santa Barbara and was promoted to Full Professor in 2011 and served as Chair of the History Department from 2012-2015.[4]
Digeser’s work focuses on the social and culture history of the Roman Empire, especially the 3rd-5th century CE. She has published extensively in scholarly journals and books. She played a central role in founding the journal Studies in Late Antiquity in 2017 (published by the University of California Press) and served as the first editor.[5]
Works
- Digeser, Elizabeth DePalma (2000). The Making of a Christian Empire: Lactantius & Rome. Ithaca:
- Digeser, Elizabeth DePalma (2012). A Threat to Public Piety: Christians, Platonists, and the Great Persecution. Ithaca: Cornell University Press.
- The Rhetoric of Power in Late Antiquity: Religion and Politics in Byzantium, Europe and the Early Islamic World, ed. with Justin Stephens and R. M. Frakes. London: I. B. Tauris, 2010 (Bloomsbury).
- (ed. with R. M. Frakes) Religious Identity in Late Antiquity (Toronto: Edgar Kent, 2006)
References
- ^ UCSB library catalog online, library.ucsb.edu. Accessed March 15, 2024.
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- ^ Editor’s Spotlight, ucpress.edu. Accessed March 15, 2024.
- JSTOR 3169337.
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- ^ Toom, Tarmo. "A Threat to Public Piety: Christians, Platonists, and the Great Persecution. By Elizabeth DePalma Digeser. Ithaca, N.Y.: Cornell University Press, 2012. xv + 218 pp. $45.00 cloth". Church History. pp. 950–952. Retrieved 3 May 2020.
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