Sinclair Bell

Research Grantee

2012-13 Report

Positions

• Associate Professor — Northern Illinois University

Publications 2012

1. Free at Last! The Impact of Freed Slaves on the Roman Empire, co-edited with T. Ramsby. London: Bloomsbury. ISBN 9781853997518 (cloth).
   • Reviews: Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2012.10.43 [J.C. Dumont]; Classical Journal 108 (2012/13) 239–46 [E. Meyer].
2. “Introduction” (co-authored with T. Ramsby). In Free at Last! The Impact of Freed Slaves on the Roman Empire, co-edited with T. Ramsby, 1–23. London: Bloomsbury.
3. (2012) “Actia.” In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient History, ed. R. Bagnall et al. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell.
4. (2012) “Lusus Troiae.” In The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient History, ed. R. Bagnall et al. Malden, Mass.: Wiley-Blackwell.
5. (2012) “Mariemont Relief.” In Handwörterbuch der antiken Sklaverei. Lieferung I–IV, ed. H. Heinen et al. Forschungen zur antiken Sklaverei, Beiheft 5. Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag.

Papers at Conferences 2012

1. October 6, 2012: “Foreign Faces: Africans and Others in Ancient Roman Art,” 75th Annual Illinois Classical conference, University of Chicago.
2. September 20, 2012: “Fans, Fame and the Roman Circus,” Dorinda J. Oliver Lecture, AIA–Phoenix Society, Arizona State University.
3. July 16, 2012: “Sports Fans in Ancient Rome,” Hudson (OH) Library and Historical Society.
4. April 10, 2012:“Fans, Fame and the Roman Circus,” AIA–New Haven Society, Yale University.
5. March 18, 2012: “Fans, Fame and the Roman Circus,” AIA–Denver Society.
6. Feb. 7, 2012: “Foreign Faces: Africans and Others in Ancient Roman Art,” Department of Art History, DePaul University, Chicago.
7. January 5, 2012: “An African in Luxembourg: New Discoveries at Roman Altrier,” 113th Annual Meeting Archaeological Institute of America, Philadelphia.

Additional Fellowships/Grants/Awards

1. “Research Ambassador,” DEUTSCHER AKADEMISCHER AUSTAUSCH DIENST (DAAD), 2010–12.
2. Summer University Honors Improvement Grant, 2012 (to design a course about “Sport and Spectacle in the Roman World,” the subject of the Memoria Romana grant.)

Work Done with Funding from Memoria Romana

1. (2013/in preparation) “Recent Work on the Roman Circus.” The Journal of Roman Archaeology 26.
2. (In preparation) “Between Fame and Infamia: Portraits, Busts and Statues of Roman Charioteers.” Co-authored with J.-C. Balty. For submission to Jahrbuch des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts.
3. (In preparation) “An African in Roman Luxembourg: A Bronze Statuette of a Child Charioteer from Altrier.” Co-authored with F. Dövener. For submission to the American Journal of Archaeology.
4. (In preparation) The Roman Circus: A Cultural History. Monograph in progress (to be completed during 2014-15 sabbatical).