George W. Houston taught in the Department of Classics at Chapel Hill from 1969 until 2005, serving in the department at various times as Undergraduate Major Advisor, Director of Graduate Studies, and Chair. He was a Fellow at the American Academy in Rome (1967-69), directed the Classical Summer School of the American Academy in Rome in 1977-1979, and taught at the University of Bologna in the fall of 1982. His current research interests lie in the areas of ancient libraries, Latin epigraphy, and Roman technology. Some representative publications: “The State of the Art: Current Work in the Technology of Ancient Rome," CJ 85 (1989) 63-80; “The Slave and Freedman Personnel of Public Libraries in Ancient Rome,” TAPA 132 (2002) 139-76; “Public Libraries in the City of Rome from the Augustan Age to the Time of Diocletian” (with T. Keith Dix), forthcoming in Mélanges de l’École française de Rome 118 (2006); “Grenfell, Hunt, Breccia, and the Book Collections of Oxyrhynchus,” GRBS 47 (2007) 327-359. Professor Houston is currently working on the collection of Latin inscriptions now housed in the Speed Art Museum, Louisville, in collaboration with Linda M. Gigante, and on further studies in Roman libraries with Professor Dix. A textbook on Roman technology lies in the distant future.
E-mail: gwhousto@email.unc.edu
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