Harriet Flower

I received my undergraduate degree (1983) from University College, Oxford, where I studied ancient history and classical literature (Greats), and my Ph.D. (1993) in ancient history from the University of Pennsylvania, under the supervision of Robert E. A. Palmer. I taught at Franklin and Marshall College (Lancaster, PA) from 1994 (I shared a job with my husband, Michael Flower) until I moved to Princeton in 2003. From 2010 to 2018 I served as Head of Mathey College, one of six residential colleges for undergraduates at Princeton. My research has tended to focus broadly on the interrelated topics of spectacle and memory in Roman culture. I regularly teach undergraduate courses on Roman history and Latin literature at all levels. I have taught graduate courses on Roman history of the second and first centuries BC, Latin epigraphy, Roman religion, the fragmentary historians of the Roman Republic, and the city of Rome in Antiquity. I also take turns teaching the Roman History Pro-Seminar that introduces graduate students to how Roman history is studied and taught to college students.