Seth Schwartz

Seth Schwartz is the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Classical Jewish Civilization in the Departments of History and Classics at Columbia University, where he also chairs the Graduate Program in Classical Studies. Before teaching at Columbi, Schwartz taught at Cornell University, the University of Rhode Island, and the Jewish Theological Seminary, and held research fellowships at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Harvard Society of Fellows, and King's College Cambridge. He wrote Consuls of the Later Roman Empire, with Roger Bagnall, Alan Cameron, and Klaas Worp; Josephus and Judaean Politics; Imperialism and Jewish Society, 200 BCE to 640 CE; Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society? Reciprocity and Solidarity in Ancient Judaism; and The Ancient Jews from Alexander to Muhammad.