ADDRESS
                        Dept. of History,
                        Univ. of S.C.
                        Columbia, S.C. 29205
                        Off.: 803-799-6068
                        Fax: 803-777-4494
                      ralph.w.mathisen@sc.edu

EDUCATION
                            Ph.D.: Ancient History               Minor:    Classics
                            University of Wisconsin--Madison         May, 1979.
                            M.A.:  Classics
                            University of Wisconsin--Madison         December, 1973
                            M.S.:  Mechanical Engineering
                            Rensselaer Polytechnic Inst--Hartford    June, 1972
                            B.S.:  Astronomy-Physics
                            University of Wisconsin--Madison         June, 1969

POSITIONS
                            Professor, Late Antiquity
                            Dept. of History, Univ of South Carolina
                            Director, Biographical Database for Late Antiquity
                            Owner and Administrator, LT-ANTIQ and NUMISM-L
                            Editor, Late Antiquity Newsletter
                            Secretary, U.S. National Committee for Byzantine Studies

BOOKS/EDITED VOLUMES
                            1. Ruricius of Limoges and Friends: A Collection of Letters from Visigothic Aquitania;
                                forthcoming, Univ. of Liverpool Press.
                            2-3. People, Personal Expression, and Social Relations in Late Antiquity. Volume;
                                Clarified by Translated Texts from Gaul and Western Europe and,
                                Volume II; Selected Latin Texts from Gaul and Western Europe, forthcoming,
                                University of Michigan Press.
                            4. Editor, Late Antiquity and Byzantium, special issue of Medieval Prosopography 17.1 (1996).
                            5. Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity (with H. Sivan) (Variorum, 1996).
                            6. Roman Aristocrats in Barbarian Gaul: Strategies for Survival in an Age of Transition.
                                (Austin: Univ. of Texas Press, 1993)
                            7. Studies in the History, Literature, Society of Late Antiquity (Amsterdam: Adolf Hakkert, 1991)
                           8. Ecclesiastical Factionalism and Religious Controversy  in Fifth-Century Gaul.
                                (Catholic Univ. Press, 1989)

ARTICLES
                            ANS Museum Notes, Analecta bollandiana, Annuarium historiae conciliorum,Byzantion,
                            Byzantinische Forschung, Byzantinische Zeitschrift, Classical Philology, Francia, Historia,
                            Journal of Early Christian Studies, Medieval Prosopography, Medievalia et humanistica,
                            Phoenix, Polis, Speculum, Transactions of American Philological Association

PAPERS
                            Delivered at meetings of American Philological Ass'n,
                            Ass'n of Ancient Historians,Byzantine Studies Conference,
                            Classical Ass'n of Midwest & South, Illinois Medieval Ass'n,
                            Int'l Medieval Studies Congress, Medieval Academy,
                            Oxford Patristics Conf., Int'l Soc. for Classical Trad.

SUPPORT
                            American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship
                            American Philosophical Society Research Grants
                            George A. & Eliza Gardner Howard Foundation Fellowship
                            National Endowment for the Humanities

ORGANIZATIONS
                            Byzantine Studies Conference: Vice President, 1994-1996; President, 1997-1998;
                            American Numismatic Soc.; American Philological Ass.; Ass. for History and Computing;
                            Ass. of Ancient Historians; Classical Ass. of Midwest and South;
                            Soc. for Ancient Numismatics; Society for Late Antiquity (President, 1997-1999);
                            U.S. National Committee for Byzantine Studies (Secretary, 1997-1999)
 

LINKS:

        GEOGRAPHY OF ROMAN GAUL SITE

          Society for Late Antiquity

          Byzantine Studies Conference Web Site

          Papers presented at the annual Late Antiquity Conference