Beth Severy-Hoven Explained

Beth Severy-Hoven is Professor of the Classical Mediterranean and Middle East at Macalester College. She is an expert in Roman history and archaeology, and gender and sexuality in antiquity.

Education

Severy-Hoven received her PhD from University of California, Berkeley, in 1998.^[1] Her doctoral thesis was entitled Reconceiving the Res Publica: Family and State at the Birth of the Roman Empire.^[2] She was awarded a MSt from the University of Oxford in 1991, and an AB from Bryn Mawr College in 1990.

Career

Severy-Hoven has taught Latin, Greek, Roman history and archaeology at Macalester College for almost twenty years.^[3] She held the Lionel Pearson Fellowship awarded by the Society of Classical Studies, 1990–1991.^[4] She published her first monograph, Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire with Routledge in 2003.^[5] Beryl Rawson understood that the book "marks out its own terrain with a claim for uniqueness".^[6] Her Latin textbook, The Satyrica of Petronius: An Intermediate Reader won the first Ladislaus J. Bolchazy Pedagogy Book Award of the Classical Association of the Middle West and South (CAMWS).^[7] From 2014 to 2015, she was the Professor-in-Charge at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies, Rome. In 2016, she was awarded the Jack and Marty Rossman Award for Excellence in Teaching.

Bibliography

• Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire (New York: Routledge, 2008)
• 'Master Narratives and the Wall Painting of the House of the Vettii, Pompeii', Gender and History 2012, vol. 24 (3) 540-80
• The Satyrica of Petronius: An Intermediate Reader with Commentary and Guided Review (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2014)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Alumni Ancient History & Mediterranean Archaeology. 2021-11-24. ahma.berkeley.edu.
2. Web site: https://search.library.berkeley.edu/discovery/fulldisplay?docid=alma991007346889706532&context=L&vid=01UCS_BER:UCB&lang=en&search_scope=DN_and_CI&adaptor=Local%20Search%20Engine&tab=Default_UCLibrarySearch&query=any,contains,beth%20severy&facet=searchcreationdate,include,1997%7C,%7C1999&offset=0. 2021-11-24. search.library.berkeley.edu. en.
3. Web site: Director and Faculty - An Online NEH Summer Seminar, July 12-30, 2021 for K-12 Teachers Roman Daily Life. 2021-11-24. gustavus.edu. en.
4. Web site: 2017-09-14. Lionel Pearson Fellowship - Information for Candidates and Faculty. 2021-11-24. Society for Classical Studies.
5. Web site: Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire. 2021-11-24. Routledge & CRC Press. en.
6. Review of: Augustus and the Family at the Birth of the Roman Empire. Bryn Mawr Classical Review. 1055-7660.
7. Book: Severy-Hoven, Beth. The Satyrica of Petronius: An Intermediate Reader with Commentary and Guided Review. 2014-06-02. University of Oklahoma Press. 978-0-8061-4590-7. en.