Classical Studies Faculty Directory
Kendra Eshleman
Associate Professor
Kendra Eshleman
Ph.D.
Contact
Telephone: 617-552-3797
Email: kendra.eshleman@bc.edu
Research Interests
I am a Roman historian with a special interest in the Second Sophistic and early Christianity. My primary research area is the formation of identity among intellectuals in the first three centuries CE. My first book, The Social World of Intellectuals in the Roman Empire, examines the many ways in which being (who you are) was shaped by belonging (whom you know) for philosophers, sophists, and Christians in this period.
Biography
At Boston College, I teach Latin and Greek at all levels, especially (but not exclusively) prose. In recent years, I have taught advanced seminars on Tacitus, Apuleius, Cicero, Homer, Thucydides, Greek Rhetoric. I also regularly teach Greek and Roman History, Roman Family Law, and Roman Religion.