Richard J. A. Talbert

Prof. Talbert’s current research focuses primarily on Greek and Roman spatial perceptions (physical and cultural), and on mapping the classical world.  To read a variety of his recent publications reflecting these themes, visit www.unc.edu/~talbert/Documents.  He is about to deliver his book Rome’s World: the Peutinger Map Reconsidered to Cambridge University Press, which expects to issue it by the end of 2009 with the support of the Austrian National Library.  The book is electronic, but its text will also appear as a printed volume.  His co-edited volume (with Richard Unger) Cartography in Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Fresh Perspectives, New Methods has just been published (2008) by Brill, Leiden.  Another co-edited volume (with Kurt Raaflaub) Geography, Ethnography, and Perceptions of the World from Antiquity to the Renaissance is about to go to press at Blackwell, Oxford.  In addition, Prof. Talbert is editing the 2007 Nebenzahl lecture series Ancient Perspectives: Maps and their Place in Mesopotamia, Egypt, Greece and Rome for publication by Chicago University Press, and he is co-editing (with Susan Alcock and John Bodel) a volume entitled Highways, Byways and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World.  During fall 2008 will speak three times in the British Isles – at University College, Dublin (on “Plutarch’s Sparta: Utopia Remembered”), at Queen’s University, Belfast (Dill Memorial Lecture), and at the Centre for Late Antique and Medieval Studies, King’s College, London, to open a lecture series Locating the Middle Ages: the Spaces and Places of Medieval Culture.  For the Roman Archaeology conference (Ann Arbor, April 2009), he is co-organizing with David Potter a panel “Monarchical Courts: Culture and Space”.

For UNC’s Ancient World Mapping Center, with which Prof. Talbert is closely associated, visit www.unc.edu/awmc.

View a web version of Prof. Talbert's curriculum vitae (in PDF).