Rate My Professor Christopher Mallan

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.