Michael Kulikowski

See Also: Curriculum Vitae

Field Specialties

Late Antiquity Europe, Byzantium, Early Medieval Europe

Michael Kulikowski is a specialist in the history of the Mediterranean world of Late Antiquity, c. AD 200-550. He offers a three-course upper division sequence on the Roman Republic, Roman Empire, and the Later Roman Empire, as well as graduate courses on Late Antiquity, with a course on fifth-century Gaul to be offered in spring 2007.

Kulikowski is the author of many articles and speaks regularly at national and international conferences. His book Late Roman Spain and Its Cities appeared in 2004 from The Johns Hopkins University Press. Rome’s Gothic Wars from the Third Century to Alaric appeared in September 2006 from Cambridge University Press and is now available in paperback, with German, French and Portuguese translation soon to appear. In 2005-2006 he held a Solmsen Fellowship at the Institute for Research in the Humanities at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, working on his current project, The Rhetoric of Being Roman: Ideology and Politics in the Fourth Century, for which he has been awarded an ACLS Burkhardt Fellowship for 2009-2010.

Education

• B.A. Rutgers University, 1991
• M.A. University of Toronto, 1992
• M.S.L. Pontifical Institute of Medieval Studies, 1995
• Ph.D. University of Toronto, 1998;

Graduate Courses

• 510 Foundations in Graduate Study in History (see syllabus PDF)
• 531 Sources of Late Antique History (see syllabus PDF)
• 531 The Fifth Century in the Gallic Epistolographers and Poets
• 531 Later Roman Empire (see syllabus PDF)
  

Selected Publications

• “The Notitia Dignitatum as an Historical Source,” Historia 49 (2000): 358-77.
  
  
• “Barbarians in Gaul, Usurpers in Britain,” Britannia 31 (2000): 325-45.
  
  
• “The Career of the Comes Hispaniarum Asterius,” Phoenix 54 (2000): 124-41.
  
  
• “The Visigothic Settlement: The Imperial Perspective,” in Ralph W. Mathisen and Danuta Shanzer, edd., Society and Culture in Late Antique Gaul: Revisiting the Sources. Aldershot, Hants.: Ashgate Publishers, 2001. Pp. 26-38.
  
  
•  “Nation vs. Army: A Necessary Contrast?” in Andrew Gillett, ed., On Barbarian Identity: Critical Approaches to Ethnogenesis Theory. Turnhout: Brepols, 2002. Pp. 69-84.
  
  
• “Marcellinus of Dalmatia and the Fall of the Western Empire,” Byzantion 72 (2002), 177-91
  
  
• “Fronto, the Bishops, and the Crowd: Communal Violence, Administration and Law in Fifth-Century Tarraconensis,”  Early Medieval Europe 11 (2002): 295-320
  
  
• Late Roman Spain and Its Cities. Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2004.
  
  
• (editor and translator with Kim Bowes), Hispania in Late Antiquity: Current Perspectives. Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005.
  
  
• “Constantine and the Northern Barbarians,” in Noel Lenski, ed., The Cambridge Companion to the Age of Constantine. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005. Pp. 347-76.
  
  
• Rome’s Gothic Wars from the Third Century to Alaric. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. [paperback, 2008]
  
  
• “Plague in Spanish Late Antiquity,” in Lester K. Little, ed., Plague and the End of Antiquity: The Pandemic of 541-750. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 150-70.
  
  
• “Marius Maximus in Ammianus and the Historia Augusta,” Classical Quarterly 57 (2007): 244-56.
  
  
• “Wie Spanien gotisch wurde. Der Historiker und der archäologische Befund,” in Sebastian Brather, ed., Zwischen Spätantike und Frühmittelalter: Archäologie des 4. bis 7. Jahrhunderts im Westen. (RGA Ergänzungsband 57). Berlin: de Gruyter, 2008. Pp. 27-43.

Contact Information

Michael Kulikowski
Associate Professor of History
915 Volunteer Boulevard
6th Floor, Dunford Hall
Knoxville, TN 37996-4065

Office: (865) 974-7078
Fax: (865) 974-3915
E-mail: mkulikow@utk.edu