# Emily Albu > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Emily_Albu > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Emily_Albu.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emily_Albu > Source revision: 1268466065 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) American professor (born 1945) **Emily Albu** (born November 21, 1945) is a Professor of Classics at the [University of California, Davis](/source/University_of_California%2C_Davis). She teaches both undergraduate and graduate courses in the field of [classics](/source/Classics) and sits on several committees and boards. Her research focuses on the [history of Christianity](/source/History_of_Christianity) in [late antiquity](/source/Late_antiquity), and the [Middle Ages](/source/Middle_Ages). She is the author of a number of books, reviews, and articles. ## Biography Emily Albu is a Professor of Classics at the University of California, Davis where she has held various positions since 1995. She teaches undergraduate classes in areas such as classics, Greek, Latin literature, [Roman comedy](/source/Theatre_of_ancient_Rome), the history of [women in the Middle Ages](/source/Women_in_the_Middle_Ages), and films on the ancient world.[1] Her graduate seminars include various topics concerning [late antiquity](/source/Late_antiquity) and methodological approaches to the study of the classical world.[2] At UC Davis she was member of the Committee on Committees in 2017-18, and as of 2019 she was a member of the Program Committee for Medieval and Early Modern Studies. Since 2019, she has served as Associate Editor of the [University of California Press](/source/University_of_California_Press) journal Studies in Late Antiquity (SLA).[3] Albu was a Visiting Professor of Classics at the [University of Virginia](/source/University_of_Virginia) in fall 2014, 2016, and 2018.[4] Since 2007, Albu has been on the Statewide Advisory Board for California History - Social Science Project through the California Subject Matter Project which works to provide high quality professional development and historical instruction in California schools.[5] ## Education In 1967, Albu obtained a Bachelor of Arts in Latin and Greek from the [College of Wooster](/source/College_of_Wooster). She went on to the [University of California, Berkeley](/source/University_of_California%2C_Berkeley) where she obtained a Master of Arts in Comparative Literature focusing on Latin and Greek in 1969, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature with an emphasis in Medieval Latin, Byzantine Greek, and [Old French/Old Provençal](/source/Old_French) in 1975.[6] ## Research As a current Active [Emerita](/source/Emeritus) at the University of California, Davis, Albu plans to remain active in scholarship post-retirement. Her research interests include the reception of classical culture, Late Antiquity, the twelfth century, mapping the world in the Middle Ages, and medieval histories and [monastic](/source/Monasticism) chronicles.[7] ## Books 2014: *The Medieval Peutinger Map: Imperial Roman Revival in a German Empire* (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press). 2006: *Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions and Practices*, ed. H.A. Drake and eo-ed. Emily Albu, [Susanna Elm](/source/Susanna_Elm), [Michael Maas](https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Maas), [Claudia Rapp](/source/Claudia_Rapp), [Michele Salzman](/source/Michele_Salzman) (Hampshire, England, and Burlington, VT: Ashgate). 2001: *The Normans in Their Histories: Propaganda, Myth, and Subversion* (Woodbridge, Suffolk, UK: Boydell and Brewer). 1998: *Christianity: A Social and Cultural History*, 2nd ed., with [Howard Clark Kee](/source/Howard_Clark_Kee), [Carter Lindberg](/source/Carter_Lindberg), [J. William Frost](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=J._William_Frost&action=edit&redlink=1), and [Dana Robert](/source/Dana_Robert). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall, 1998; 113-202. (6 chapters slightly revised from the 1991 Macmillan edition). 1998: *An annotated bibliography of Byzantine sources in English translation*, Emily Albu 1994: *Through the Eye of a Needle: Judeo-Christian Roots of Social Welfare*, ed. with Carter Lindberg. Kirksville, Missouri: Thomas Jefferson University Press. 1991: *Christianity: A Social and Cultural History*, with Howard Clark Kee, Carter Lindberg, [Jean-Loup Seban](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Jean-Loup_Seban&action=edit&redlink=1), and [Mark A. Noll](/source/Mark_A._Noll). New York: Macmillan; 145-255. (6 chapters, from 324 through the eleventh century). ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["Emily Albu"](https://arts.ucdavis.edu/faculty-profile/emily-albu). *Cinema and Digital Media*. Retrieved 2020-06-05. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** ["Classics at UC Davis"](https://classics.ucdavis.edu/people/profile/206). *classics.ucdavis.edu*. Retrieved 2020-06-05. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** ["Editorial Team"](https://online.ucpress.edu/sla/pages/editorial). *online.ucpress.edu*. Retrieved 2020-06-05. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-4)** ["| Department of Classics"](https://classics.as.virginia.edu/people/profile/ema4h). *classics.as.virginia.edu*. Retrieved 2020-06-17. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-5)** ["Advisory Board — CHSSP"](https://chssp.ucdavis.edu/pics-pdfs/2012AdvisoryBoard.jpg). *chssp.ucdavis.edu*. Retrieved 2020-06-05. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Emily Albu | The California Consortium For the Study of Late Antiquity - UC Santa Barbara"](https://late-antiquity.ihc.ucsb.edu/people/emily-albu). *late-antiquity.ihc.ucsb.edu*. Retrieved 2020-06-05. 1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** ["Classics at UC Davis"](https://classics.ucdavis.edu/people/profile/206). *classics.ucdavis.edu*. 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