Dr. Christopher Baron

Christopher Baron is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Notre Dame (South Bend, IN, USA). He specializes in the study of ancient Greek and Roman historical writing and the history of the Mediterranean world during the Hellenistic and Roman imperial era (roughly, 334 BCE–284 CE). He became interested in the study of ancient Greece and Rome as a way to combine his love of history with his love of language(s). After studying American history in college, he moved back home to the Chicago area and worked as a paralegal at an immigration law firm for several years before pursuing his graduate degrees in ancient history, earning a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2006. His major publications include Timaeus of Tauromenium and Hellenistic Historiography (Cambridge, 2013), and, as General Editor, the three-volume Herodotus Encyclopedia (Wiley, 2021), which contains contributions from 180 scholars in 18 countries. His current project is a monograph entitled Greek Historians under the Roman Empire. He enjoys watching baseball, drinking wine, and riding his bike – never all three at the same time, of course.