Celia Schultz is

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and

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in the College of Literature, Science and the Arts at

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. She specialises in

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literature,

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history, and Roman

religion Religion is a range of social system, social-cultural systems, including designated religious behaviour, behaviors and practices, morals, beliefs, worldviews, religious text, texts, sanctified places, prophecies, ethics in religion, ethics, or ...

Education

Schultz received her PhD from

Bryn Mawr College Bryn Mawr College ( ; Welsh language, Welsh: ) is a Private college, private Women's colleges in the United States, women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States. Founded as a ...

in 1999. Her thesis was entitled ''Women in Roman Republican Religion''.

Career and research

Schultz taught at

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

and

Johns Hopkins University The Johns Hopkins University (often abbreviated as Johns Hopkins, Hopkins, or JHU) is a private university, private research university in Baltimore, Maryland, United States. Founded in 1876 based on the European research institution model, J ...

before her employment at the University of Michigan in 2010. She was awarded a Rome Prize Fellowship at the

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2004–5, and she received a Loeb Classical Library Fellowship in 2016. She has held an Advanced Studies Fellowship at the

University of Uppsala Uppsala University (UU) () is a public research university in Uppsala, Sweden. Founded in 1477, it is the oldest university in Sweden and the Nordic countries still in operation. Initially founded in the 15th century, the university rose to s ...

(2020–21) and she was the William Evans Fellow at the

University of Otago The University of Otago () is a public university, public research university, research collegiate university based in Dunedin, Otago, New Zealand. Founded in 1869, Otago is New Zealand's oldest university and one of the oldest universities in ...

(2021).

Schultz's publications have centred on Roman Republican religion, sacrifice, and women. She published a commentary on Cicero's ''De Divinatione I'' (2014) and the monograph ''Women's Religious Activity in the Roman Republic'' (2006). She co-edited ''Religion in Republican Italy'' for Yale University Press in 2006, and ''The Religious Life of Things'' in 2016. In 2021, she published a biography of

Fulvia Fulvia (; d. 40 BC) was an aristocratic Roman woman who lived during the late Roman Republic. Fulvia's birth into an important political dynasty facilitated her relationships and, later on, marriages to Publius Clodius Pulcher, Gaius Scribo ...

, the second wife of

Mark Antony Marcus Antonius (14 January 1 August 30 BC), commonly known in English as Mark Antony, was a Roman people, Roman politician and general who played a critical role in the Crisis of the Roman Republic, transformation of the Roman Republic ...

, with Oxford University Press: ''Fulvia. Playing for Power at the End of the Roman Republic''.

References

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