Dr. Catherine Steel

Biography

Catherine E Steel is a historian specializing in the political history of ancient Rome with a focus on the relationship between individual and collective action and institutional structures. She began her research career working on the orator and politician Cicero and continues to publish writings, particularly concerning speeches. Steel has an ongoing interest in the orators of the Roman Republic, a subject that involves examining a large number of speakers whose speeches have survived into the end of classical antiquity. She has held a European Research Council Starting Grant for a project titled 'Fragments of Republican Roman Orators', which aims to produce an edition of the contextual material related to these orators and is forthcoming from Oxford University Press. Furthermore, Steel held a British Academy mid-career fellowship between 2011 and 2012 to explore the institutional history and importance of the model of republican government in subsequent polities, and she is currently working on a monograph about the Republican Roman Senate. As an experienced educator, she has taught and researched at the University of Glasgow since 1999, following her studies in Classics at Oxford where she received her BA in 1995 and PhD in 1999.

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