Research and Teaching
Alexander Meyer is a PhD candidate in Duke University´s Department of Classical Studies. His special interests include Roman provincial studies and ethnicity, travel and mobility in the ancient world. He is currently working on his dissertation, “The Creation, Composition, Service and Settlement of Auxiliary Units Raised on the Iberian Peninsula.” This project is intended to illuminate the creation and evolution of the Roman auxilia from their initial recruitment to the military reforms of the Severan period with particular reference to recruitment, social and religious practice, and settlement.
This is a significant step toward Alex´s wider academic interest in the movement of individuals throughout the empire for social, political and economic reasons. Specifically, Alex is most interested in the integration of the Iberian provinces into the Roman world from their earliest formal contact with Rome during the Second Punic War to the height of their influence in the empire under Trajan and Hadrian and beyond.
In addition to his academic interest Alex is an experienced educator. He has taught Roman history, archaeology and topography at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome and Latin at various levels both at the Intercollegiate Center and at Duke. He has also served as teaching assistant for courses in Ancient History, Greek Archaeology and Celtic Archaeology.
During the 2009-10 academic year he holds Duke University´s Julian Price Distinguished Research Fellowship and is splitting his time between the Duke Campus, The Commission for Ancient History and Epigraphy in Munich and various other locations.
