Sarah Bond

Sarah Bond
Nationality	American
Occupation	academic
Academic background
Education	PhD University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Thesis	Criers, Impresarios, and Sextons: Disreputable Occupations in the Roman World (2011)

Sarah Emily Bond is an

Bond received her PhD in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2011.^[2] Her doctoral thesis was entitled Criers, Impresarios, and Sextons: Disreputable Occupations in the Roman World.^[3] Her PhD was supervised by Professor Richard Talbert. Bond received a master's degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 2007.^[4] She was awarded a BA in Classics and History from the University of Virginia in 2005.^[5]

Career

Bond is the author of numerous articles on tradesmen and law in the later Roman empire, and her first monograph, entitled Trade and Taboo: Disreputable Professionals in the Roman Mediterranean, was published in 2016 by University of Michigan Press.^[6] A review found it to have made a "significant advance in our understanding of attitudes and reality throughout antiquity."^[7]

Bond was appointed assistant professor of classics at the University of Iowa in 2014,^[8] after holding an assistant professorship in Ancient and Early Medieval History at Marquette University from 2012.^[9] She is chair of the Society for Classical Studies communication committee, associate editor for the Digital Humanities' Pleiades Project and co-Principal Investigator for the Big Ancient Mediterranean Project.^[10][8] She is also a member of the executive committee for the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy for the period 2018–2021.^[11] As of July 2019, Bond is no longer part of the University of Iowa Classics Department, and has taken up appointment as an associate professor with the history department.

Bond is a strong advocate for academic public scholarship and sustains a high level of visibility on social media. She has more than 25,000 followers on Twitter, and maintains her blog, History From Below.

In 2022, Bond commissioned a review of the book The Bright Ages: A New History of Medieval Europe for the Los Angeles Review of Books. The publication was then accused by historian Mary Rambaran-Olm of rejecting her own critical review, in which she said the book followed a white-centric narrative, in order to protect the authors. Bond accused Rambaran-Olm of giving a selective version of the facts and pushed back against her accusations. Others became involved in the controversy, and two scholars falsely claimed Rambaran-Olm lied about her race and was not part Black. Bond later apologised, condemned the racist attacks against Rambaran-Olm, and deleted her Twitter account.^[18][19]

Awards

In 2019 she won the Society for Classical Studies' Outreach Prize for Individuals.^[12] In her commendation, the SCS praised her expertise on 'an impressive array of subjects with the varied goals of inspiring curiosity and self-reflection...the work Prof. Bond does is highly intelligent—true public scholarship—and a tribute to our discipline.'^[12]

Bibliography

Monographs and edited volumes

• Trade and Taboo: Disreputable Professionals in the Roman Mediterranean (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016)

Articles and book chapters

• “The State, Governance, and Regulation in Ancient Shopping,” A Cultural History of Shopping: Antiquity, edited by Ray Laurence and Mary Harlow (London: Bloomsbury, 2022) 177-94.
• 'This is Not Sparta. Why the Modern Romance with Sparta is a Bad One', Eidolon (May 2018)^[20]
• 'Pseudoarchaeology and the Racism Behind Ancient Aliens', Hyperallergic.com (November 2018)^[21]
• 'Work and Society from the Principate to Late Antiquity: 44 BCE-565 CE', A Cultural History of Work in Antiquity: Volume I: The Ancient World, 500 BC-800 AD, edited by Ephraim Lytle (London: Bloomsbury Press, 2018)
• 'The Corrupting Sea: Law, Violence, and Compulsory Professions in Late Antiquity', A History of Anticorruption: From Antiquity to the Modern Era, ed. by Ronald Kroeze, André Vitória and Guy Geltner (Oxford University Press, 2018), 49-64
• (with T. H. M. Gellar-Goad) 'Foul and Fair Bodies, Minds, and Poetry in Roman Satire', Disability in Antiquity, ed. by Christian Laes (London: Routledge, 2017)
• 'Dear Scholars, Delete Your Account At Academia.Edu', Forbes (January 2017)^[22]
• 'Whitewashing Ancient Statues: Whiteness, Racism And Color In The Ancient World', Forbes (April 2017)
• 'Why We Need to Start Seeing the Classical World in Color', Hyperallergic (June 2017) https://hyperallergic.com/383776/why-we-need-to-start-seeing-the-classical-world-in-color/
• 'What 'Game Of Thrones' Gets Right And Wrong About Eunuchs And Masculinity', Forbes (August 2017)^[23]
• 'Currency and Control: Mint Workers in the Later Roman Empire', Work, Labor and Professions in the Roman World, edited by Koen Verboven and Christian Laes (Leiden: Brill, 2016) 227-245
• (with Peter Martens) 'Review article of A. Di Berardino et al., Historical Atlas of Ancient Christianity', Journal of Early Christian Studies 24.4 (Winter, 2016), 601-607
• 'Curial Communiqué: Memory, Propaganda, and the Roman Senate House', Aspects of Ancient Institutions and Geography: Studies in Honor of Richard J.A. Talbert, ed.by Lee L. Brice and Daniëlle Slootjes (Leiden: Brill, 2015)
• '‘As Trainers for the Healthy’: Physical Therapists, Anointers, and Healing in the Late Latin West', Journal of Late Antiquity 8.2 (Fall, 2015), 386-404
• 'Altering Infamy: Status, Violence, and Civic Exclusion in Late Antiquity', Classical Antiquity 33.1 (April, 2014), 1-30
• 'Mortuary Workers, the Church, and the Funeral Trade in Late Antiquity', Journal of Late Antiquity 6.1 (Spring, 2013), 135-151

Further reading

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• The Myth of Whiteness in Classical Sculpture
• Threats for What She Didn’t Say

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