Christopher Mallan

Associate Professor Christopher Mallan is a scholar of the ancient Greco-Roman world at the University of Western Australia’s School of Humanities, Discipline of Classics and Ancient History, where he has been since 2018. Educated at the University of Queensland (BA Honours I, MPhil) and the University of Oxford (DPhil, Wadham College), his prior appointments include College Lecturer in Ancient History at St Benet’s Hall, Oxford (2015–2017) and in Roman History at The Queen’s College, Oxford (2017). At UWA, he serves as Deputy Head of School for Learning and Teaching (since 2022), Chair of the Department of Classical and Historical Studies (since 2025), and was previously Discipline Group Chair (2020–2022) and Major Coordinator (2023). In 2024, he was appointed Cassamarca Chair in Latin Humanism. Mallan teaches courses on power and politics in the Roman Empire, sex, gender and the body in the Greco-Roman world, religion and society in the Roman world, Roman Britain, literature, narrative and history, and Greek language levels.

Mallan’s research focuses on Roman imperial history, Greco-Roman historiography (especially Cassius Dio), the reception of historiographical traditions in Byzantium, rhetorical strategies in historical writing, and medieval epitomes of Greek texts. His major publications include the monograph Cassius Dio: Roman History Books 57 and 58 (The Reign of Tiberius) (Oxford University Press, 2020); edited volumes Emperors and Political Culture in Cassius Dio’s Roman History (with Caillan Davenport, Cambridge University Press, 2021), Studies in Byzantine Epitomes and the Greek Epitomizing Tradition (Brill, 2025), and Making Sense of Monarchy in the Roman World, 50 BC–AD 100 (co-edited with Eleanor Cowan, Cambridge University Press, forthcoming). He has received Wadham College Keeley Scholarships (2013–2015) and Senior Scholarship (2012), and is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy. Mallan contributes to peer review for journals including Antichthon, Histos, and Eos, and presents at conferences like the Australasian Society for Classical Studies.

Professional Email: christopher.mallan@uwa.edu.au