Jennifer Gerrish
Associate Professor
Education
Ph.D. University of Pennsylvania, 2012
A.B. Vassar College, 2005
Research Interests
Roman history and historiography; civil war; intertextuality and allusion in historiographyPublications
Books
Under contract (2025). Trends in Classics: Key Perspectives on Classical Research: Sallust. De Gruyter.
2024. Julius Caesar, The Gallic War Books 1-2 (Introduction, Translation, and Commentary), Aris & Phillips Classical Texts, Liverpool University Press.
2022. Julius Caesar, The Gallic War Books 5-6 (Introduction, Translation, and Commentary), Aris & Phillips Classical Texts, Liverpool University Press.
2019. Sallust's Histories and Triumviral Historiography: Confronting the End of History. Routledge.
Articles and Chapters
Forthcoming. "Julius Caesar and Origin Stories in the Works of Josephus." Arethusa.
2024. “Sallust and the Cultural Trauma of Civil War,” in New Perspectives on the Roman Civil Wars 49-30 BCE, Hannah Cornwall and Richard Westall, eds., Bloomsbury Academic.
2023. “Sallust and the ‘Modern Lie’,” Histos special issue on contemporary/eyewitness historiography, ed. Andrew Scott.
2021. “Sertorius and Civilis: Rome and Exile in Tacitus’ Histories,” Classical Journal 116.4: 473-498.
2018. “The Blessed Isles and 'What If?' History in Sallust.” Histos 12: 49-70.
2018. “Heroic Resonances in Caesar's Bellum Gallicum 5,” Classical World 111.3: 351-370.
2016. "monstruosa species: Scylla, Spartacus, Sextus Pompeius and Civil War in Sallust's Histories." Classical Journal 111.2: 193-217.
2013. "civitatem recipit: Responding to Revolt in Thucydides Book 3 and Caesar Bellum Gallicum 7,” New England Classical Journal 40.2: 69-85.
Reviews
Forthcoming in Journal of Roman Studies (2021). Review: Carsten Hjort Lange and Frederik Juliaan Vervaet, eds., The Historiography of Late Republican Civil War.
2021. Review: William Batstone and Andrew Feldherr, eds., Sallust. Histos 15: xxviii-xxxiii.
2021. Review: Fred Drogula, Cato the Younger: Life and Death at the End of the Republic. Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought 38: 172-174.
2019. Review of Annika Domainko, Uncertainty in Livy and Velleius: Time, Hermeneutics and Roman Historiography. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.02.43, http://www.bmcreview.org/2019/02/20190243.html.
2019. Review of Catalina Balmaceda, Virtus Romana: Politics and Morality in the Roman Historians. The Historian 81: 160-162.2015.
2015. Review of A. La Penna and R. Funari, C. Sallusti Crispi Historiae I: fragmenta 1.1-145. Texte und Kommentare, Bd 51. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2015.10.05, http://www.bmcreview.org/2015/10/20151005.html.
2011. Review of Stéphane Benoist, Anne Daguet-Gagey, Christine Hoët-van-Cauwenberghe, Sabine Lefebvre (edd.), Mémoires partagées, mémoires disputées: écriture et réécriture de l'histoire. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2011.2.47, http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2011/2011-02-47.html.