The History Department is excited to welcome Assistant Professor of History, Dr. Jordan Rogers.
Dr. Rogers received his Ph.D. in Ancient History from the University of Pennsylvania in 2021, after taking both his B.A. (2012) and M.A. (2015) in Classical Studies and Languages at Indiana University. Before joining NC State, he served as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Carleton College (2021-3) and a Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics at Hamilton College (2023-4).
Rogers is a cultural and social historian of the ancient Mediterranean world, with a particular interest in the formation and maintenance of urban communities. His current monograph, Neighborhoods, Neighborliness, and Urban Community in Republican Rome, focalizes the neighborhoods of ancient Rome in arguing for their fundamental importance to the cultural, social, and political developments of the Republican period and, ultimately, the collapse of Republican institutions (338 – 44 BCE). He maintains active research and publication in ancient labor histories, the representation of the past through both history and memory, and marginalized status, gender, and ethnic identities.
Rogers is also a field archaeologist, having worked at sites in both Romania and Italy. Currently, he works at the ancient site of Pompeii, Italy, with the Pompeii I.14 Project. Their current excavation focuses on reconstructing the urban development of a neighborhood in the southeast portion of the city.