Roger Bagnall

Honorary Professor of Classics
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    • MSC 1050-153-244
    • WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY
    • ONE BROOKINGS DRIVE
    • ST. LOUIS, MO 63130-4899
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    Starting in Fall 2022, Dr. Bagnall is available to talk with graduate and undergraduate students who are interested in ancient history, Roman Egypt, papyrology, and his other areas of expertise. You may email him for an appointment.

    Dr. Bagnall is Leon Levy Director Emeritus at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World (ISAW), Emeritus Professor of Ancient History at New York University and Emeritus Professor of History and Emeritus Jay Professor of Greek and Latin at Columbia University, and Director of the NYU/Columbia excavations at Amheida, Egypt. Dr. Bagnall is a world-renowned papyrologist, classicist, and historian, whose wide-ranging scholarship has made major contributions to our knowledge and appreciation of antiquity, and especially of Egypt in the Graeco-Roman and late antique periods.

    Dr. Bagnall has previously spent time at Washington University as co-organizer and co-instructor of the 2018 Summer Institute in Papyrology in Olin Library's Julian Edison Department of Special Collections (read an account of the SIP on the library's blog). 

    For an overview of Dr. Bagnall's accomplishments and links to some of his publications, visit his profile on the ISAW website