Ted Kaizer
Associate Professor (Reader)
Department of Classics and Ancient History
Durham University
United Kingdom
Biography
Ted Kaizer is Reader in Roman Culture and History. He was educated at Leiden (MA, 1995) and Brasenose College, Oxford (DPhil, 2000), and held a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellowship at Corpus Christi College, Oxford (2002-2005) before coming to Durham. His main research interest is the social and religious history of the Near East in the Late Hellenistic and Roman period. He is the author of The Religious Life of Palmyra (Stuttgart, 2002) and has written articles on various aspects of religion and history of the Classical Levant. His present research project concerns a study of the social patterns of worship at Dura-Europos, a fortress town on the Middle Euphrates, and in this context he is also preparing two historiographical volumes (in the Bibliotheca Cumontiana) for the Academia Belgica in Rome and the Belgian Historical Institute. He is currently on a 3-year Major Research Fellowship of the Leverhulme Trust (Oct. 2014 - Sep. 2017). He has widely travelled through the Middle East.
Research Interest
Most areas and periods of Roman culture and history, especially social and religious history in the imperial period, and in particular of the provinces in the eastern half of the empire.
Publications
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Kaizer, T. (2011). Interpretations of the myth of Andromeda at Iope. Syria, 323-339.
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Dirven, L., & Kaizer, T. (2013). A Palmyrene Altar in the Cincinnati Art Museum. Syria. Archéologie, art et histoire, (90), 391-408.
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Kaizer, T. (2016). Lucian on the Temple at heliopolis. The Classical Quarterly, 66(1), 273-285.
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Kaizer, T. (2017). EMPIRE, COMMUNITY, AND CULTURE ON THE MIDDLE EUPHRATES. DURENES, PALMYRENES, VILLAGERS, AND SOLDIERS. Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, 60(1), 63-95.
