Hamish Cameron
Bates College, Classical & Medieval Studies, Faculty Member
- Roman Mesopotamia, Borderlands Studies, Historical Geography, Mesopotamian Archaeology, Roman Near East, Ancient borders and borderlands (Archaeology), and 61 moreEnvironment Behaviour Studies, Roman History, Parthian Empire, Seleucid Empire, Historical GIS, Hellenistic History, Ancient Greek History, Classical Archaeology, Ancient History, Classics, Assyriology, Assyrian archaeology, Near and Middle East Archaeology (Hellenistic, Roman and Byzatine times), Cilicia, Roman Syria (Archaeology), Hellenistic and Roman Syria, Pastoralism (Social Anthropology), Mobility/Mobilities, Anthropology of Mobility, Mobility (Archaeology), Acculturation and 'Romanisation', Settlement Patterns, East and Southeastern Anatolia, Northern Mesopotamia, Human Geography, Cultural and Social Anthropology, Migration, Transnationalism, Border Studies, Archaeology of Colonialism, Archaeology, Historical Archaeology, Roman Satire, Ancient Greek Historiography, Greek and Roman Social History, Latin Literature, Late Antiquity, Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Ammianus Marcellinus, Expositio Totius Mundi Et Gentium, Roman Geography, Claudius Ptolemy, Roman imperialism, Jupiter Dolichenus, Bacchus, Roman Religion, Commagene, Palmyra, Syria, Dura Europos, Parthia, Silk Road Studies, Ancient Geography, Ancient Geography and the Representation of Space, Ancient Near East, Achaemenid Persia, Roman Republic, Roman Empire, Roman Historiography, Roman social history, Latin Epigraphy, Classics: Ancient History and Archaeology, and Intersectionalityedit
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In keeping with his research interests (including movement, social networks, geography and imperialism), Hamish Cameron is an itinerant scholar hailing from a far flung colony of a former empire. His dissertation (USC Classics, 2014) examines the representation of Northern Mesopotamia as a border region in Imperial Roman geographic writing of the first four centuries CE. In 2011 he completed a Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Science and Technology at the USC Spatial Sciences Institute. He received his MA from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand in 2006 with a thesis titled The Beginnings of Roman Imperialism in Cilicia: Control, Policy and Response in the Second and First Centuries BC. Hamish participated in the Eastern Boeotia Archaeological Project 2007 and 2009 survey seasons, the International Spring School on the introduction of new gods in Greece and Rome at the University of Erfurt and the first International Conference on Rough Cilicia, both in 2007.edit
In Making Mesopotamia: Geography and Empire in a Romano-Iranian Borderland, Hamish Cameron examines the representation of the Mesopotamian Borderland in the geographical writing of Strabo, Pliny the Elder, Claudius Ptolemy, the anonymous... more
In Making Mesopotamia: Geography and Empire in a Romano-Iranian
Borderland, Hamish Cameron examines the representation of the
Mesopotamian Borderland in the geographical writing of Strabo, Pliny
the Elder, Claudius Ptolemy, the anonymous Expositio Totius Mundi,
and Ammianus Marcellinus. This inter-imperial borderland between
the Roman Empire and the Arsacid and Sasanid Empires provided
fertile ground for Roman geographical writers to articulate their ideas
about space, boundaries, and imperial power. By examining these
geographical descriptions, Hamish Cameron shows how each author
constructed an image of Mesopotamia in keeping with the goals and
context of their own work, while collectively creating a vision of
Mesopotamia as a borderland space of movement, inter-imperial
tension, and global engagement.
Borderland, Hamish Cameron examines the representation of the
Mesopotamian Borderland in the geographical writing of Strabo, Pliny
the Elder, Claudius Ptolemy, the anonymous Expositio Totius Mundi,
and Ammianus Marcellinus. This inter-imperial borderland between
the Roman Empire and the Arsacid and Sasanid Empires provided
fertile ground for Roman geographical writers to articulate their ideas
about space, boundaries, and imperial power. By examining these
geographical descriptions, Hamish Cameron shows how each author
constructed an image of Mesopotamia in keeping with the goals and
context of their own work, while collectively creating a vision of
Mesopotamia as a borderland space of movement, inter-imperial
tension, and global engagement.
Research Interests: Historical Geography, Ancient borders and borderlands (Archaeology), Ancient Geography, Strabo, Ancient Near East, and 15 moreBorderlands Studies, Pliny the Elder, Palmyra, Syria, Roman Near East, Commagene, Edessa, Ancient Geography and the Representation of Space, Ammianus Marcellinus, Nisibis, Borders and Borderlands, Ancient Syria and Northern Mesopotamia, Claudius Ptolemy, Ancient Globalization, Expositio Totius Mundi Et Gentium, and Isidore of Charax
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Two classes in which I had the students write 140 character Twitter essays about Bede's Ecclesiastical History. Inspired by Jesse Stommel's 2015 AHA lightning round presentation on the Twitter Essay (... more
Two classes in which I had the students write 140 character Twitter essays about Bede's Ecclesiastical History.
Inspired by Jesse Stommel's 2015 AHA lightning round presentation on the Twitter Essay ( http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/journal/the-twitter-essay/).
Inspired by Jesse Stommel's 2015 AHA lightning round presentation on the Twitter Essay ( http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/journal/the-twitter-essay/).
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A graduate seminar syllabus for Fall 2015
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A combined review of Gary Forsyth, Primary Sources for Ancient History and Dolansky F. and S. Raucci, eds. Rome. A Source Book of the Ancient City for Ancient History Bulletin, volume 8:... more
A combined review of Gary Forsyth, Primary Sources for Ancient History and Dolansky F. and S. Raucci, eds. Rome. A Source Book of the Ancient City for Ancient History Bulletin, volume 8: https://ancienthistorybulletin.org/online-reviews-vol-8
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Review of Greece, Macedon and Persia: Studies in Social, Political and Military History in Honour of Waldemar Heckel. Edited by TIMOTHY HOWE, E. EDWARD GARVIN AND GRAHAM WRIGHTSON. Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2015. Pp. xiv +... more
Review of Greece, Macedon and Persia: Studies in Social, Political and Military History in Honour of Waldemar Heckel. Edited by TIMOTHY HOWE, E. EDWARD GARVIN AND GRAHAM WRIGHTSON. Oxford and Philadelphia: Oxbow Books, 2015. Pp. xiv + 214. Hardcover, £40. ISBN: 978-1-782-97923-4.
http://cj.camws.org/sites/default/files/reviews/2016.04.07%20Cameron%20on%20Howe%2C%20Garvin%2C%20and%20Wrightson.pdf
http://cj.camws.org/sites/default/files/reviews/2016.04.07%20Cameron%20on%20Howe%2C%20Garvin%2C%20and%20Wrightson.pdf
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Now please see <i>Making Mesopotamia</i> (2019)