Christopher Prestige Jones

Professor Christopher P. Jones is the George Martin Lane Professor of Classics Emeritus at Harvard University. His research centers on Roman history of the imperial period (first three centuries CE),  and especially on the social and cultural history of the Roman empire, particularly as they are revealed by epigraphy (the study of documents inscribed on stone). He has also worked on the Hellenistic period and on Late Antiquity.  Another area of his research is Greek prose literature of the Roman empire, and he has written books on several major authors such as Plutarch. More recently, he has published on early Christianity. He has twice been a Member in the School of Historical Studies, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, and has been a Visitor in the same school three times; he has twice served as Professor associé, École Normale Supérieure, Paris; he served as a Senior Fellow in Byzantine Studies at Dumbarton Oaks Research Institute, Washington, D.C. from 1993 to 1999; he is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (1987), Corresponding Member of the German Archaeological Institute (1992), Fellow of the American Numismatic Society (1993), Member of the American Philosophical Society (1996), Fellow of the Russian Society of Classicists (2001), and Correspondant étranger of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres, Paris (2011).