Serena Connolly is a scholar of Ancient Roman history, with a research focus on Roman Social History and Latin literature. Connolly received a B.A. from

Cambridge University , mottoeng = Literal: From here, light and sacred draughts. Non literal: From this place, we gain enlightenment and precious knowledge. , established = , other_name = The Chancellor, Masters and Schola ...

in 1998. She went on to earn a Ph.D. at

Yale University Yale University is a private research university in New Haven, Connecticut. Established in 1701 as the Collegiate School, it is the third-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and among the most prestigious in the wo ...

in 2004, where her doctoral dissertation (“Access to law in Late Antiquity Status, corruption, and the evidence of the "Codex Hermogenianus”) was directed by John F. Matthews. She held the positions of Lecturer in the Classics Department at

from 2004-2007 and then Visiting Assistant Professor in the Classics Department at

Rutgers University Rutgers University (; RU), officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a Public university, public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey. Chartered in 1766, Rutgers was originally called Queen's ...

from 2007-2008, before accepting a tenure-track position as Assistant Professor in the Classics Department at Rutgers in 2008. She was awarded tenure and promotion to Associate Professor in 2012. Connolly’s published her revised doctoral dissertation as ''Lives behind the Laws: The World of the Codex Hermogenianus'' (Indiana University Press) in 2010. She was awarded a Mellon Fellowship for Assistant Professors at the School of Historical Studies of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton from 2009-2010. She has published more than 10 journal articles and book chapters, and was a contributing editor to a recently-published translation of the

Code of Justinian The Code of Justinian ( la, Codex Justinianus, or ) is one part of the ''Corpus Juris Civilis'', the codification of Roman law ordered early in the 6th century AD by Justinian I, who was Eastern Roman emperor in Constantinople. Two other units, t ...

. She served as Graduate Director of the Rutgers Classics Department from 2009-2010 and again from 2014-2016. From 2017 to 2020, Connolly served as President of the Association of Ancient Historians.See Association of Ancient Historians Newsletter 141 (Spring, 2020) at: http://associationofancienthistorians.org/newsletters/2020_1Spring.pdf

Selected publications

*Serena Connolly, ''Lives behind the Laws: The World of the Codex Hermogenianus'' (Bloomington, IN.: Indiana University Press, 2010). *Serena Connolly, "Constantine and the Veterans," in Edward Watts, Scott McGill and Cristiana Sogno, eds., ''The Roman Empire from the Tetrarchy to Theodosius II'' (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010), pp. 188–233. *Serena Connolly, "Binarism in the Disticha Catonis," ''Mnemosyne'' 66 (2013), pp. 228–246 *Serena Connolly, Disticha Catonis Uticensis," ''Classical Philology'' 107 (April 2012), pp. 119-130. *Serena Connolly, "The Meter of the Disticha Catonis," ''Classical Journal'' 107 (2012), pp. 313–29.

References

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