Rate My Professor Peter Keegan

Peter Keegan is Professor and Honorary Professor in the School of Humanities at Macquarie University. He received his doctorate from Macquarie University in 2003. His career includes a Macquarie University Research Fellowship (2005-2008), followed by appointments as Associate Lecturer (2009), Lecturer (2010-2011), Senior Lecturer in Roman History and Director of Learning and Teaching in the Department of Ancient History (2012-2015), Associate Dean of Learning and Teaching in the Faculty of Arts (2015-2021, seconded), Associate Professor in Ancient History (promoted 2016), and Professor (promoted 2021). He has served in interim roles as Director of Education (2021) and Ancient History Discipline Chair (2022), and returned to the Department of History and Archaeology in 2021. Additional roles encompass External Consultant for the Ancient History and Archaeology major at the University of Wollongong (2017), DASSH ADLT Network Coordinator (NSW/ACT) (2016-2020), Chair of the HSC Ancient History Examination Committee (2013-2020), and ERA Peer Reviewer (2016-2020).

Keegan's research specializations include the political, military, social, and cultural histories of Rome during the republican and early imperial periods; sexuality, gender, and body history in antiquity; epigraphy of ephemeral graffiti and death in Roman Italy; spatial dynamics of social relations in urban and periurban contexts in ancient Campania; and epigraphic culture alongside women's and gender studies in antiquity. Notable publications feature Graffiti in Antiquity (Routledge, 2014), designated the #1 Routledge Classical Studies Reference Work and a Choice Outstanding Academic Title; co-edited volumes Written Space in the Latin West (Bloomsbury, 2013) and Inscriptions in the Private Sphere in the Greco-Roman World (Brill, 2015, with Rebecca Benefiel); and forthcoming A Cultural History of Graffiti in Antiquity (editor, Bloomsbury Academic, 2024). He is General Editor (with Prof. Juliet Fleming) of the Cultural History of Graffiti series and was Editor of Ancient History: Resources for Teachers (2011-2018). Keegan has presented public lectures such as 'History's ephemeral archive: graffiti across space and time' (Macquarie University, 2024) and 'Crisis, resolution and the female in Livy's foundation history' (Oxford University, 2024). Awards include Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (UK) and Royal Society of New South Wales; Faculty of Arts Teaching Excellence Award (2024, with Dr. Julia Hamilton); Vice-Chancellor's Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning (2010); and National Office of Learning and Teaching Citation (2012).