[[File:First illustration - Chronography of 354.png|thumb|right|''[[Chronograph of 354]]'', topic of Salzman's doctoral thesis]] '''Michele Renee Salzman''' (born August 2, 1952)<ref name=encyclo/> is a [[distinguished professor]] of history at the [[University of California, Riverside]]. She is an expert on the religious and social history of [[late antiquity]].
== Education == Salzman was born in [[Brooklyn]]<ref name=encyclo/> and received her [[Bachelor of Arts|B.A.]] degree from [[Brooklyn College]] in 1973. She was awarded her master's degree in 1975 from [[Bryn Mawr College]] in 1975.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/salzman-michele-renee-1952|title=Salzman, Michele Renee 1952- {{!}} Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com|access-date=2019-04-28}}</ref> Salzman received her PhD from Bryn Mawr College in 1981. Her doctoral thesis was entitled ''Studies on the Calendar of 354.''<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://tripod.brynmawr.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991016126939704921&context=L&vid=01TRI_INST:BMC&lang=en&search_scope=BMC_Catalog&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=LibraryCatalog&query=any,contains,michele%20salzman&offset=0|website=tripod.brynmawr.edu|access-date=2019-04-28|title=Studies on the calendar of 354 - Salzman, Michele Renee. 1980}}</ref>
== Career and research == In 1986–1987, Salzman was the [[Mellon Fellowship|Mellon fellow]] in [[classical studies]] at the [[American Academy in Rome]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.aarome.org/people/current/visting-artists-scholars|title=Visiting Artists and Scholars {{!}} American Academy in Rome|website=www.aarome.org|access-date=2019-04-28}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/salzman-michele-renee-1952|title=Salzman, Michele Renee 1952- {{!}} Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com|access-date=2019-04-28}}</ref> Salzman taught at [[Swarthmore College]], [[Columbia University]], and [[Boston University]] before joining the history faculty at the University of California, Riverside (UCR) in 1995.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~rmehlinger/ucrhistorydraftsite/People/Faculty/Salzman/index.html|title=Michele R. Salzman|website=www.cs.hmc.edu|access-date=2019-04-28}}</ref> Salzman was chair of the history department at UCR during 1999–2000, and was promoted to [[professor]] in 2000.<ref name=encyclo>{{Cite web|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/arts/educational-magazines/salzman-michele-renee-1952|title=Salzman, Michele Renee 1952- {{!}} Encyclopedia.com|website=www.encyclopedia.com|access-date=2019-04-28}}</ref>
Salzman has published widely on [[Roman Empire|Roman]] and [[Ancient Greece|Greek]] history, [[Late antiquity|late antique]] religion, culture and society, and [[Latin]] literature. Her publications have been described as 'austere and disciplined', and 'meticulous'.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=O'Donnell|first=James J.|date=June 2002|title=Review of: The Making of a Christian Aristocracy|url=http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2002/2002-06-04.html|journal=Bryn Mawr Classical Review|issn=1055-7660}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=O'Donnell|first=James J.|date=1992|title=Review of: On Roman Time: The Codex-Calendar of 354 and the Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity|url=http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/1992/03.01.10.html|journal=Bryn Mawr Classical Review|issn=1055-7660}}</ref> Professor [[Elizabeth A. Clark]] described Salzman's monograph ''On Roman Time'' as 'highly informative, insightful, and provocative'.<ref>{{Cite book|url=https://www.ucpress.edu/book/9780520065666/on-roman-time|title=On Roman Time|date=March 1991 |isbn=9780520065666 |language=en|last1=Salzman |first1=Michele Renee }}</ref> A research project by Salzman entitled 'The ‘Falls’ of Rome in Late Antiquity' examined the city of Rome and its response to crisis from the third to seventh centuries.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~rmehlinger/ucrhistorydraftsite/People/Faculty/Salzman/index.html|title=Michele R. Salzman|website=www.cs.hmc.edu|access-date=2019-04-28}}</ref> The outcome of this project, the monograph ''The Falls of Rome. Crises, Resilience, and Resurgence in Late Antiquity'', was published by [[Cambridge University Press]] in 2021. [[Peter Brown (historian)|Peter Brown]] described the book as a 'fresh interpretation' and 'a provocative study'.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Salzman |first=Michele Renee |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/falls-of-rome/3745CA2DE407FA2A894383A94C723103 |title=The Falls of Rome: Crises, Resilience, and Resurgence in Late Antiquity |date=2021 |publisher=Cambridge University Press |isbn=978-1-107-11142-4 |location=Cambridge}}</ref>
Salzman is an associate editor of the academic journal ''Studies in Late Antiquity''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ucpress.edu/blog/24298/editors-spotlight-meet-michele-salzman-associate-editor-of-studies-in-late-antiquity/|title=Editor's Spotlight: Meet Michele Salzman, associate editor of Studies in Late Antiquity|website=UC Press Blog|language=en|access-date=2019-04-28}}</ref>
== Awards and honours == In 2008, Salzman was the Lucy Shoe Merritt Scholar in Residence at the American Academy in Rome.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cs.hmc.edu/~rmehlinger/ucrhistorydraftsite/People/Faculty/Salzman/index.html|title=Michele R. Salzman|website=www.cs.hmc.edu|access-date=2019-04-28}}</ref> In 2017, Salzman was appointed to the Board of Trustees at the American Academy of Rome.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/42060|title=Historian Appointed to the American Academy in Rome Board of Trustees|date=January 3, 2017|first=Bettye|last=Miller|website=UCR Today|language=en-US|access-date=2019-04-28}}</ref> Salzman was the Elizabeth and J. Richardson Dilworth Fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study, [[Princeton University]] in 2018.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.ias.edu/scholars/michele-renee-salzman|title=Michele Renee Salzman|website=Institute for Advanced Study|language=en|access-date=2019-04-28}}</ref>
== Personal life == Salzman is married to sociologist [[Steven G. Brint|Steven Brint]], also a distinguished professor at [[University of California, Riverside]].
== Bibliography ==
* ''On Roman Time: The Codex-Calendar of 354 and the Rhythms of Urban Life in Late Antiquity'' (University of California Press, 1990) *(edited with [[Claudia Rapp]]) ''Elites in Late Antiquity'' (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2000) * ''The Making of a Christian Aristocracy: Social and Religious Change in the Western Roman Empire'' (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002) *(translated and edited with Michael Roberts) ''The Letters of Symmachus. Book 1'' (Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2011) *(editor) ''The Cambridge History of Religions in the Ancient World'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2013) *Michele Renee Salzman, [[Marianne Sághy]], [[Rita Lizzi Testa]] (ed.), ''Pagans and Christians in Late Antique Rome: Conflict, Competition, and Coexistence in the Fourth Century'' (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2015) *''The Falls of Rome. Crises, Resilience, and Resurgence in Late Antiquity'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021)
== External links ==
* The Israeli Forum of Early Medieval Studies: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7O-tnyDBVh8 * Google Scholar page: https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=6-Odt0AAAAAJ&hl=en
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