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Kendra Eshleman

Associate Professor

Classical Studies

Official BC profile

Biography

Kendra Eshleman is a Roman historian with a special interest in the Second Sophistic and early Christianity. Her primary research area is the formation of identity among intellectuals in the first three centuries CE. Her first book, The Social World of Intellectuals in the Roman Empire , examines the many ways in which being (who you are) was shaped by belonging (whom you know) for philosophers, sophists, and Christians in this period. She teaches Latin and Greek at all levels, especially (but not exclusively) prose. In recent years, she has taught advanced seminars on Tacitus, Apuleius, Cicero, Homer, Thucydides, and Greek Rhetoric. She also regularly teaches Greek and Roman History, Roman Family Law, and Roman Religion.

Official evaluation summary

4.39 / 5

Based on 308 aggregate responses from BC Avalanche/Blue evaluations.

Courses taught

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