Michael E. Brumbaugh

Associate Professor, Classical Studies

Associate Dean for College Curriculum and Policy, Newcomb-Tulane College
School of Liberal Arts
Stone Center Departments
The Stone Center
Tulane Affiliation
Core Faculty

Courses

Utopia in Greece and Latin America

Research

Greek and Roman Literature; Classical Traditions in Colonial Latin America; Greek and Latin Literature; Ancient Political Thought

Degrees

  • Ph.D., University of California, Los Angeles, Classics, 2011
  • M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, Classics, 2007
  • A.B., Colgate University, Classics, 2004

Academic Experience

Academic Experience
  • Associate Professor, Tulane University, 2019-
  • Assistant Professor of Classical Studies, Tulane University, 2013-2019
  • Lecturer in Classics, Princeton University, 2012-2013
  • Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics and Humanities, Reed College, 2011-2012
  • Teaching Fellow, University of California, Los Angeles, 2007-2010

Distinctions

  • School of Liberal Arts Book Subvention Grant, Tulane, 2023
  • School of Liberal Arts Faculty Research Award, Tulane, 2022
  • Committee on Research International Travel Grant, Tulane, 2022
  • Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship, 2020-2021
  • NEH Summer Stipend, 2020
  • Lavin Bernick Grant, Tulane University, 2017
  • Lurcy Grant, Tulane University, 2015, 2017
  • Faculty Networking Grant, Tulane University, 2017
  • Loeb Classical Library Foundation Fellowship, 2016-2017
  • Stillman Drake Research Grant, Reed College, 2011
  • Dissertation Fellowship, UCLAS, 2010-2011
  • Andrew W. Mellon Fellowship in Humanistic Studies, 2005-2006

Languages

  • Spanish
  • French
  • German
  • Italian
  • Latin

Overseas Experience

  • Paraguay
  • Argentina

Related Experience

  • Mellon Graduate Community Engaged Scholarship Program Curriculum Committee, Tulane University, 2017-
  • Waterloo Institute for Hellenistic Studies, External Research Associate, 2010-
  • Faculty Fellow, Mathey College, Princeton University, 2012-2013

Selected Publications

  • 2024. Josep Manuel Peramàs: A Treatise on the Guaraní System of Government in Comparison with Plato’s Republic (1793), edited and translated with introduction and notes. Dumbarton Oaks Texts from the Early Americas, Harvard University Press. Forthcomin
  • 2022. Ancient Knowledge Networks: A Social Geography of Cuneiform Scholarship in First-Millennium Assyria and Babylonia [Review of Ancient Knowledge Networks: A Social Geography of Cuneiform Scholarship in First-Millennium Assyria and Babylonia]. Americ
  • 2020. “Utopia Writes Back: Peramás on the Limits of Republicanism.” Edited by P. Zalamea and F. Rojas. Parnassus in the New World: Classical Traditions in Colonial Spanish America.
  • 2019. “The Greek hymnos: High Praise for Gods and Men,” Classical Quarterly 69.1:167-186
  • 2019. The New Politics of Olympos: Kingship in Kallimachos’ Hymns. Oxford University Press.
  • 2016. “Kallimachos and the Seleukid Apollo,” TAPA 146.1: 61-9
  • 2015. “Making the Hymn: Mesomedean Narrative and the Interpretation of a Genre” in Hymnic Narrative and the Narratology of Greek Hymns. eds. A. Faulkner and O. Hodkinson. Leiden: Brill. 165-182.
  • 2014. “Making the Hymn: Mesomedean Narrative and the Interpretation of a Genre.” In Narrative and Narratology in Greek Hymns. O. Hodkinson and A. Faulkner, eds. Leiden: Brill.