Rate My Professor Roberta Stewart

Her scholarship centers on Roman history, literature, and culture, with emphases on comparative slavery, Roman numismatics, women, priesthood, Greek and Latin literature, and ancient religion. Major books include Public Office in Early Rome: Ritual Procedure and Political Practice (University of Michigan Press, 1998; paperback 2010) and Plautus and Roman Slavery (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012). Select recent publications are "Seeing Fotis: Slavery and Gender in Apuleius' Metamorphoses" (Classical Antiquity 42, 2023), recipient of the 2024 Barbara McManus Award for Outstanding Scholarship from the Women’s Classical Caucus, and "Gender, Class, and Slavery in Plautus’ Rudens in 1884 St. Louis" (Classical Journal 119, 2024). She has published on Roman coin symbolism, politics, and slavery, contributed lexicographical entries to the Thesaurus Linguae Latinae, and refereed for journals including TAPA and Classical Antiquity. Stewart pioneered seminars for combat veterans reading Homer, earning the Society for Classical Studies Outreach Prize (2017); she curated Roman coin exhibits at the Hood Museum of Art, received the NEH Research Fellowship (2003-2004), Plumer Visiting Research Fellowship at St. Anne's College, Oxford (2016), and serves as 2024-2025 National Lecturer for the Archaeological Institute of America, delivering the William E. Metcalf Lectures in Numismatics.