Kevin Osterloh

Contact

• osterlkl@muohio.edu
• Office: Room 232 Upham Hall, Oxford Campus
• 513-529-9740
• Dr. Osterloh will be on research leave during the 2009-10 academic year.

Title

• Assistant Professor of History

Education

• PhD 2007, Princeton University
• MA, New York University
• BA, Ohio State University

Teaching and Research Interests

• Ancient history
• Jewish Studies
• Classical Mediterranean

Recently taught courses

• HST 197 World History to 1500
• HST 327 Ancient Rome: The Republic
• HST 400 Senior Capstone: Ancient Historians and the Origin of History Writing
• HST 442/542 Ancient Jewish History
• HST 702 Research Seminar
• HST 794 History and Theories

Selected Publications

• Editor, with Gregg Gardner, Antiquity in Antiquity: Jewish and Christian Pasts in the Greco-Roman World, Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 123, Mohr-Siebeck, 2008
• “Judea, Rome and the Hellenistic Oikoumenê; Emulation and the Reinvention of Communal Identity,” Heresy and Identity, ed. Eduard Iricinschi and Holger Zellentin, Texts and Studies in Ancient Judaism 119, Mohr-Siebeck, 2008

Selected Grants and Awards

• Loeb Classical Library Foundation grant, Harvard University Press, “Virtuous Sons of Abraham: Judean Identity in a Hellenistic World under Rome,” 2009-10

Work in Progress

Dr. Osterloh specializes in ancient Judaica and the society and politics of the Greco-Roman world. His book project, Virtuous Sons of Abraham: Judean Identity in a Hellenistic World under Rome, focuses on the reinvention of Jewish collective identity and ethnicity in the second-century BCE amidst a complex, triangulated conversation between Jews, Greeks and Romans.