Part-time FacultyDepartment of History
Education
Ph.D. in Roman History, Yale UniversityM.A. in Religion, Yale Divinity SchoolB.A. in History and English Literature, University of California, Los Angeles
Courses/Teaching
World History from 100BCE to 1450CEAncient and Medieval EuropeHistory of Ancient GreeceHistory of Ancient RomeEarly Christianity from Jesus to Muhammad
Research and Teaching Interests
Mediterranean Late Antiquity, Medicine and Welfare, Calendar Development, Processes of Christianization, Modern Appropriation of Ancient and Medieval History. His current book project is entitled Hospitals, Guesthouses, and Poor-Shelters: A Late Ancient Health and Welfare System. It is based on a collection of sources for 297 individual health and welfare institutions founded throughout the Mediterranean world from the fourth through the seventh century CE. Together these institutions formed the core of the first health and welfare system in the region designed to provide at least rudimentary care for the needy regardless of citizenship, ethnicity, or religious beliefs.
Selected Publications:
Anderson, 2019. “Christianizing the Planetary Week and Globalizing the Seven-Day Cycle” Studies in Late Antiquity 3.2: 128-191.Anderson, 2017. “Mistranslations of Josephus and the Expansion of Public Charity in Late Antiquity” Early Medieval Europe 25.2: 139-161.Anderson and Freedman, 2012. “’What’s Taters, Precious?’: Food in Tolkien’s ‘The Lord of the Rings’” Imago Temporis Medium Aevum 6: 339-350.