About
Jonathan Arnold is an ancient and medieval historian and a Latinist. His research focuses on the late antique and early medieval West, particularly Gaul and Italy. He is especially interested in the disintegration of the Western Roman Empire and issues of identity in the 5th and 6th centuries. Arnold is the author of Theoderic and the Roman Imperial Restoration, co-editor of A Companion to Ostrogothic Italy (Brill, 2016), and is currently preparing a select translation of Magnus Felix Ennodius for the Translated Texts for Historians series by Liverpool University Press.
Awards and Honors
Faculty Fellow, Honors College, 2023/4; 2024/5. Thomas H. Buckley Award for Teaching Excellence, 2019; 2013. Outstanding Teacher Award, 2015.
Education
- Ph.D., History, University of Michigan
- M.A., History, University of Michigan
- B.A., History, University of Maine
- B.A., Latin, University of Maine
Research interests and areas of expertise
- Late roman and early medieval mediterranean
- Late antiquity; the fall of Rome
- Barbarians and barbarian kingdoms
- Gender and identity.