Timothy Clark
Timothy Clark is the RGSCP Postgraduate Teaching and Research Associate in the Department of Classics, Humanities, and Italian Studies at the University of New Hampshire, Durham. In his research and teaching, Professor Clark combines material culture with literary sources to investigate the creation and maintenance of ethnic, political, and racial boundaries in the ancient world. In particular, he analyzes the construction of these boundaries between Rome and the various ethnicities, polities, and peoples that inhabited the eastern borders of the Roman empire, especially the Parthians, Armenians, and Sasanians.
Professor Clark’s current book project, Between Conquest and Kingship: Parthia, Armenia, and the Construction of Roman Imperial Power, investigates visual representations of Parthia and Armenia fashioned under Nero and Trajan. The monograph offers a new theoretical approach for understanding how political actors use visual discourses to construct the alterity of foreign adversaries and to reconceptualize imperial authority abroad. His interdisciplinary focus on visual evidence—descriptions of diplomatic ceremonies, monumental art, and coinage—focuses on the images of eastern “otherness” that those beyond literate elites were receiving. He is working on additional projects that discuss the use of cults in the eastern empire to construct local ethnic identities, as well as the relationships between spatiality and ideology in Roman urban planning.
Professor Clark’s current book project, Between Conquest and Kingship: Parthia, Armenia, and the Construction of Roman Imperial Power, investigates visual representations of Parthia and Armenia fashioned under Nero and Trajan. The monograph offers a new theoretical approach for understanding how political actors use visual discourses to construct the alterity of foreign adversaries and to reconceptualize imperial authority abroad. His interdisciplinary focus on visual evidence—descriptions of diplomatic ceremonies, monumental art, and coinage—focuses on the images of eastern “otherness” that those beyond literate elites were receiving. He is working on additional projects that discuss the use of cults in the eastern empire to construct local ethnic identities, as well as the relationships between spatiality and ideology in Roman urban planning.
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