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 fifth and sixth 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 & Honors
- Faculty Fellow, Honors College, The University of Tulsa, 2024-25, 2023-24
- Thomas H. Buckley Award for Teaching Excellence, The University of Tulsa, 2019, 2013
- Outstanding Teacher Award, The University of Tulsa, 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 & Areas of Expertise
- Late Roman and early medieval mediterranean
- Late antiquity; the fall of Rome
- Barbarians and barbarian kingdoms
- Gender and identity
