Rate My Professor Roberta Stewart

Roberta Stewart is Professor of Classical Studies and current Chair of the Department of Classics at Dartmouth College, where she has taught since 1990, advancing from Assistant Professor (1990-1996) to Associate Professor (1996-2012) and full Professor since 2012; she previously served as Chair from 2012-2015. Prior appointments include Visiting Assistant Professor at Union College (1989-1990) and Instructor at Duke University (1982-1988). She holds a B.A. with high distinction in Latin (Phi Beta Kappa) from the University of Michigan (1979), attended graduate courses there (1979-1980) and the American School of Classical Studies at Athens (1982-1983), and earned her Ph.D. in Classical Studies from Duke University (1987) with a dissertation on praetors and quaestors in Republican Rome. Stewart is affiliated faculty in History and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, and associated faculty in Comparative Literature.

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.