LINDA JONES HALL
email: ljhall@smcm.edu
webpage: http://www.smcm.edu/users/ljhall/ljhall.html
Department of History, St. Mary’s College of Maryland
18952 E. Fisher Road, St. Mary’s City, MD. 20686
(240) 895-4434 (my office, with voice mail) (240) 895-4450 (FAX)
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
History of Rome (Republic and Empire, through Late Antiquity); History of Greece
and the Hellenistic World: History of the Byzantine Empire; History of World
Civilization; History of Ancient Women and the Ancient Family; Law and Society
in the Ancient World; History of the Ancient City; Concepts of Ancient Ethnicity;
History of Pilgrimage; Early Christianity and Islam; Latin language and literature
(Republican through Mediaeval).
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in History, The Ohio State University, Columbus OH, Spring
1996.
Dissertation: Berytus, "Mother of Laws": Studies in the Social
History of Beirut from the Third to Sixth Centuries A.D.
Dissertation director, Dr. Timothy E. Gregory
(Major field, Ancient History; minor fields, Islamic History and Classics)
M.A. in History, University of South Florida, Tampa FL, 1990.
(Major in Ancient History, minor in Latin)
B.A. in Ancient Languages, College of William and Mary, Williams¬burg,
VA, 1964;
Attended Vanderbilt University, 1960-1963.
(Major in Classical Languages, minors in English and history)
RESEARCH GRANTS
Faculty Development Grant, Second Round, 2007-8, St. Mary's College of Maryland
to accompany Paul Blank and the students from Alba to Greece, Crete and Turkey,
March 2008.
Faculty Development Grant, Second Round, 2006-7. attending the “Shifting
Frontiers in Late Antiquity Conference; The Power of Religion in Late Antiquity,”
at the University of Colorado, Boulder, 22 - 25 March 2007, at which I chaired
the session on Constantine and Solar Imagery. The ensuing discussion led to
an invitation to present a paper at the Ways of Seeing Conference in Lexington
KY in March 2008.
Faculty Development Grant, Second Round, 2005-6, St. Mary's College of Maryland,
Travel to the conference, "Words as Display: the figural poems of Publilius
Optatianus Porfyrius," Open Communications (Communications libres), 21st
International Congress of Byzantine Studies, London, August 2006. Funds were
also provided to visit Hadrian’s Wall and other Roman Britain sites.
Faculty Development Grant, Seond Round, 2004-5, St. Mary's College of Maryland,
Travel to the conference, “Crossing Cultures: Identities in the Material
World,” at The Bristol Institute of Hellenic and Roman Studies, Departments
of Archaeology, and Classics & Ancient History, University of Bristol, January
2005, to present a paper.
Faculty Development Grant, St. Mary's College of Maryland, Travel to the conference,
Association of Ancient Historians, Ann Arbor, Michigan, Spring 2004, to present
a paper.
Faculty Development Grants, St. Mary's College of Maryland, Travel to three
conferences: Byzantine Studies Conference at Notre Dame University, November
2001, to present a paper; Archaeological Institute of America, Philadelphia,
January 2002, to meet with my editor; and "The Early Christian Book,"
The Catholic University of America, Center for the Study of Early Christianity,
Washington D.C., June 2002, to present a paper.
Faculty Development Grant, St. Mary's College of Maryland, Travel to France
and England for a conference and for library research, Fall 2001.
Faculty Development Grant, St. Mary's College of Maryland, Travel to The Fourth
Conference on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity, “Travel, Communication,
and Geography in Late Antiquity,” San Francisco State University, San Francisco,
California, 8-11, March 2001, as a member of the organizing committee and to
present a paper; Travel to research libraries, 2000-2001.
Faculty Development Grant, St. Mary's College of Maryland, Travel to Greece,
Summer 2000.
Faculty Development Grant, St. Mary's College of Maryland, Travel to Beirut,
Spring 1999.
Center for Epigraphical and Paleographical Research, Research Grant, Ohio State
University, Summer 1997. http://omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu/
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Research Associate Grant, Ohio
State University, Summer 1996. http://cmrs.ohio-state.edu/
FLAS NDEA Title VI Fellowship in Arabic, Middle East Studies Center, Ohio State
University, Academic Year 1995-1996, Summer 1993. http://www.osu.edu/internationalstudies/mesc/
Ruth Higgins Award, Department of History, Dissertation Writing Grant, Ohio
State University, Summer 1995.
Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, Travel Grant, Ohio State University,
Fall 1995.
Department of Near Eastern, Judaic, and Hellenic Languages and Literature,
Graduate Research Associateship, Ohio State University, Summer 1994.
http://www.cohums.ohio-state.edu/nelc/nelc.htm
BOOK
Roman Berytus: Beirut in Late Antiquity. London and New York: Routledge, 2004.
EDITED BOOKS
Linda Jones Hall, ed., Confrontation in Late Antiquity: Imperial Presentation
and Regional Adaptation, Cambridge: Orchard Academic Press, 2003.
William R. Caraher, Linda Jones Hall, and R. Scott Moore, eds., Archaeology
and History in Roman, Medieval and Post-Medieval Greece: Studies on
Method and Meaning in Honor of Timothy E. Gregory, Aldershot, England: Ashgate
Publishing, 2008.
ARTICLES IN PEER-REVIEWED JOURNALS
“Cicero’s Instinctu Divino and Constantine’s Instinctu Divinitatis:
The Evidence of the Arch of Constantine for the Senatorial View of the ‘Vision’
of Constantine,” Journal of Early Christian Studies 6:4 (1998) 647-671.
http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/journal_of_early_christian_studies/v006/6.4hall.html
“Berytus through the Classical Texts: From Colonia to Civitas,” in
Beirut: History and Archaeology, Proceedings of ARAM Twelfth International Conference,
held at the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, April 1999, ARAM 13-14 (2001-2002)
141-169. http://users.ox.ac.uk/~aram/aram_con.html#vol13
“Rescuing the Reputation of Tyre in Late Antiquity: The Documentation of
Gynaecea/Genicia as Weaving Factories, not Brothels,” CHRONOS: Revue d’Histoire
de l’Université de Balamand 12 (2005) 125-150.
“The Governors of Phoenicia as known to us from the Letters of Libanius,”
in “Mélanges offerts à Rey-Coquais,” Mélanges
de l'Université Saint-Joseph 60 (2007): 433-445.
“Tyre in Late Antiquity,” Electrum 12 (2007): 73-87.
CHAPTERS IN EDITED BOOKS
“Latinitas in the Late Antique Greek East: Cultural Assimilation and Ethnic
Distinctions,” in S. Byrne and E. Cueva, eds., Veritatis Amicitiaeque Causa:
Essays in Honor of Anna Lydia Motto and John R. Clark. Chicago: Bolchazy-Carducci,
1999, pp. 85-112.
“The Case of Late Antique Berytus: Urban Wealth and Rural
Sustenance--A Different Economic Dynamic,” in T. S. Burns and J. W. Eadie,
eds., Urban Centers and Rural Contexts in Late Antiquity. Lansing: Michigan
State University Press, 2001, pp. 63-76.
“Ancient Women: Powerful or Powerless?”, in Timothy
E. Gregory, ed., Exploring the European Past: Texts and Images. Columbus: The
Department of History, The Ohio State University, and Thomson Learning Custom
Publishers, 2000.
“Ancient Slavery,” in Timothy E. Gregory, ed., Exploring the European
Past: Texts and Images. Columbus: The Department of History, The Ohio State
University, and Thomson Learning Custom Publishers, 2002.
“Ethnicity, Religion, and Class in Late Antique Berytus, City of the Roman
Law Schools,” in Linda Jones Hall, ed., Confrontation in Late Antiquity:
Imperial Presentation and Regional Adaptation. Cambridge: Orchard Academic Press,
2003.
ENCYCLOPEDIA ARTICLES
“Artisans,” “Berytus,” and “Architect,” in Paul
Corby Finney, ed., Encyclopedia of Early Christian Art and Archeology. Grand
Rapids: Eerdmans (forthcoming).
PRESENTATIONS
"Reading and Seeing: the Name of Jesus and the Designs of the Chi Rho in
the Poems of Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius," paper presented at the Conference
on Ways of Seeing in Late Antique Material Religion, March 28-29, 2008, University
of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky http://www.uky.edu/FineArts/Art/ArtHistory/waysofseeing.htm
"Words as Display: the figural poems of Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius,"
Open Communications (Communications libres), 21st International Congress of
Byzantine Studies, London, August 2006 http://www.byzantinecongress.org.uk/
“Jewish-Christian Interaction in Byzantine Beirut; Narratio de cruce seu
imagine Berytensi.” Byzantine Studies Conference, University of Georgia,
Athens, Fall 2005. http://www.byzconf.org/2005
“Artisans: A Complex of Identities in Late Antique Berytus”, Conference
on CROSSING CULTURES:Identities in the Material World, at The Bristol Institute
of Hellenic and Roman Studies, Departments of Archaeology, and Classics &
Ancient History, University of Bristol, January 2005. http://www.afid.bris.ac.uk/CrossingCultures/
“Constantine and the Designs of Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius; Picture
Poems as Historical Evidence,” Byzantine Studies Conference, Bates College,
Maine, Fall 2003. http://www.byzconf.org/2003/2003Program.html
“Clyde Pharr and the Women of Vanderbilt: The Translation of the Theodosian
Code in Mid-Twentieth Century America,” Byzantine Studies Conference, The
Ohio State University, Columbus, Fall 2002. http://www.byzconf.org/2002/bscprogram2002.html
“Books in Late Antique Berytus: Production, Destruction, and Preservation,”
Conference on "The Early Christian Book," The Catholic University
of America, Center for the Study of Early Christianity, Washington D.C. , 6-9
June 2002. http://arts-sciences.cua.edu/ecs/Conference.html
“Governing Late Roman Phoenicia: Justinian and the Re-organization of Power,”
Byzantine Studies Conference, Notre Dame University, Fall 2001. http://abacus.bates.edu/~rallison/BSC/
“‘There is no Frigate like a Book’: The Picture Poems of Publilius
Optatianus Porfyrius Addressed to the Emperor Constantine,” at The Fourth
Conference on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity, “Travel, Communication,
and Geography in Late Antiquity,” San Francisco State University, San Francisco,
California, 8-11, March 2001. http://www.sc.edu/ltantsoc/sf4.htm
“The Letters of Libanius: A Window on the Late Antique Province of Phoenicia,”
Byzantine Studies Conference, Harvard University, Fall 2000. http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~bsc2000/conferen1.htm
“The Case of Late Antique Berytus: Urban Wealth and Rural Sustenance--A
Different Economic Dynamic,” Conference on Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity
III: Urban and Rural in Late Antiquity, Emory University, Spring 1999. http://wcw.emory.edu/worldclasses/rome/frontiers.html
“Imperial Literature and the Construction of Ethnic and Provincial Identity:
The Case of Late Antique Berytus in Phoenicia,” Byzantine Studies Conference,
University of Kentucky, Fall 1998. http://www.sc.edu/bsc/prog98.htm
“The Social Status of Artisans and Merchants in Late Antique Berytus and
Tyre: Wealth and the Opportunity for Advancement,” Byzantine Studies Conference,
University of Wisconsin, Fall 1997. http://www.sc.edu/bsc/prog97.htm
“Berytus ‘Nutrix Legum’: Ethnicity, Class, and Religion in the
City of the Roman Law Schools,” Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity II:
The Transformation of Law and Society in Late Antiquity, University of South
Carolina, Spring 1997. http://www.sc.edu/ltantsoc/shifprg2.htm
“Artisans of Berytus in Late Antiquity: Social Evidence from Inscriptions
and Artifacts,”
Byzantine Studies Conference, New York City, Fall 1995. http://www.sc.edu/bsc/prog95.htm
“The Population of Late Antique Berytus,” Association of Ancient Historians,
Dayton, Ohio, Spring 1994.
INVITED LECTURES
“Revising Past Paradigms: The Case of Late Antique Berytus in Phoenicia.”
Invited lecture for the Seminar in Late Antiquity, Princeton University, April
1999.
“Classical Beirut through the texts,” Invited key lecture for the
session on Roman Beirut, Beirut: History and Archaeology, ARAM Twelfth International
Conference, American University of Beirut, Lebanon, April 1999.
“Accessing and Assessing the Sources: Hearing the Voices of Greek and Roman
Women.” Round Table Discussion on Research and Teaching Gendered History:
Regional Variations, Florida International University, 1998.
“Imperial Literature and the Acquisition of Ethnic Differentiation: The
Aeneid in Late Roman Berytus (Beirut),” University of Miami, 1998.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
Article: “Clyde Pharr, Theresa Sherrer Davidson, et al: The Translation
of the Theodosian Code into English.”
Book: Puzzling out the Past; The Poems of Publilius Optatianus Porfyrius in
the Time of Constantine the Great, A Translation and Commentary
ACADEMIC AFFILIATIONS
Board of Directors, 2008-2011, Byzantine Studies Association of North America
http://www.bsana.net/index.html
Program Chairman, Byzantine Studies Conference, 2009, Sarasota Florida
http://www.bsana.net/conference/index.html
Reader, Byzantine Studies Library, Dumbarton Oaks, Washington, D.C. http://www.doaks.org/Byzantine.html
Member, Archaeological Institute of America, http://www.archaeological.org
EMPLOYMENT
St. Mary’s College of Maryland, St. Mary’s City, MD, 1998--present
Associate Professor, History, 2004--
Assistant Professor, History, 1998-2004.
Late Antiquity in the Mediterranean World (specialty).
Courses: Roman History. Byzantine History. Greek History. Ancient World. Ancient
City.
Law and Society in the Ancient World. Legacy of the Modern World. Foundations
of History.
Florida International University, Miami, FL, 1997-1998
Visiting Assistant Professor, History. (Ancient)
History of Early Europe. Roman History. Ancient Women. Byzantine History. Latin
language.
University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, 1992 - 1997.
Instructor, History. Survey courses in Western Civilization.
Wright State University, Dayton, OH, 1992.
Sinclair Community College, Dayton, OH, 1992-1993.
Instructor, History. Survey courses in Western Civilization.
Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH, 1992-1993.
Instructor, History. Seminars in Ancient and Medieval History.
Wright State University, Dayton, OH, 1993-1995.
Instructor, Classics. Latin Lyric Poetry, Introduction to Classics, and Classics
in Translation.
University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, 1990-1991.
Instructor in Latin. Teaching Assistant in Roman History and Medieval History.
Farragut High School, Knoxville, TN, 1980-1987.
Latin teacher. Latin I-IV, including Advanced Placement classes. Annually taught
150 students who scored well on state and national exams. Wrote state and county
Latin curriculum guides.
Arabian American Oil Company, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, 1978-1979.
Resource Analyst. Researched services to employees, opened an information center
for cross-cultural orientation, and assisted the company ombudsman.
Madarres il-Riyadh (The Riyadh School), Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, 1976-1977.
Teacher of English as a Second Language. Unusual opportunity to teach in a private
Arab girls' school which operated entirely in Arabic, except in the English
classes.
King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia,
1975-1976.
Orientation Coordinator. Employee newsletter, Orien¬tation tours and discussions.
The Harpeth Hall School, Nashville, TN, 1969-1973; St. Caecilia Academy,
Nashville, TN, 1968-1969; Maplewood High School, Nashville, TN, 1966-1968.
Teacher of Latin (all levels) and English. Sponsor of paper, Tennessee Junior
Classical League.