Hamish Cameron
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In keeping with his research interests (including movement, social networks, geography and imperialism), Hamish Cameron is an itinerant scholar hailing from a far flung colony of a former empire. His dissertation (USC Classics, 2014) examines the representation of Northern Mesopotamia as a border region in Imperial Roman geographic writing of the first four centuries CE. In 2011 he completed a Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Science and Technology at the USC Spatial Sciences Institute. He received his MA from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand in 2006 with a thesis titled The Beginnings of Roman Imperialism in Cilicia: Control, Policy and Response in the Second and First Centuries BC. Hamish participated in the Eastern Boeotia Archaeological Project 2007 and 2009 survey seasons, the International Spring School on the introduction of new gods in Greece and Rome at the University of Erfurt and the first International Conference on Rough Cilicia, both in 2007.
Supervisors: Claudia Moatti, Christelle Fischer-Bovet, Kevin Van Bladel, Ramzi Rouighi, and William G. Thalmann
In keeping with his research interests (including movement, social networks, geography and imperialism), Hamish Cameron is an itinerant scholar hailing from a far flung colony of a former empire. His dissertation (USC Classics, 2014) examines the representation of Northern Mesopotamia as a border region in Imperial Roman geographic writing of the first four centuries CE. In 2011 he completed a Graduate Certificate in Geographic Information Science and Technology at the USC Spatial Sciences Institute. He received his MA from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand in 2006 with a thesis titled The Beginnings of Roman Imperialism in Cilicia: Control, Policy and Response in the Second and First Centuries BC. Hamish participated in the Eastern Boeotia Archaeological Project 2007 and 2009 survey seasons, the International Spring School on the introduction of new gods in Greece and Rome at the University of Erfurt and the first International Conference on Rough Cilicia, both in 2007.
Supervisors: Claudia Moatti, Christelle Fischer-Bovet, Kevin Van Bladel, Ramzi Rouighi, and William G. Thalmann
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Books by Hamish Cameron
Borderland, Hamish Cameron examines the representation of the
Mesopotamian Borderland in the geographical writing of Strabo, Pliny
the Elder, Claudius Ptolemy, the anonymous Expositio Totius Mundi,
and Ammianus Marcellinus. This inter-imperial borderland between
the Roman Empire and the Arsacid and Sasanid Empires provided
fertile ground for Roman geographical writers to articulate their ideas
about space, boundaries, and imperial power. By examining these
geographical descriptions, Hamish Cameron shows how each author
constructed an image of Mesopotamia in keeping with the goals and
context of their own work, while collectively creating a vision of
Mesopotamia as a borderland space of movement, inter-imperial
tension, and global engagement.
Teaching Documents by Hamish Cameron
Inspired by Jesse Stommel's 2015 AHA lightning round presentation on the Twitter Essay ( http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/journal/the-twitter-essay/).
Book Reviews by Hamish Cameron
http://cj.camws.org/sites/default/files/reviews/2016.04.07%20Cameron%20on%20Howe%2C%20Garvin%2C%20and%20Wrightson.pdf
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Papers by Hamish Cameron
Conference Presentations by Hamish Cameron
Borderland, Hamish Cameron examines the representation of the
Mesopotamian Borderland in the geographical writing of Strabo, Pliny
the Elder, Claudius Ptolemy, the anonymous Expositio Totius Mundi,
and Ammianus Marcellinus. This inter-imperial borderland between
the Roman Empire and the Arsacid and Sasanid Empires provided
fertile ground for Roman geographical writers to articulate their ideas
about space, boundaries, and imperial power. By examining these
geographical descriptions, Hamish Cameron shows how each author
constructed an image of Mesopotamia in keeping with the goals and
context of their own work, while collectively creating a vision of
Mesopotamia as a borderland space of movement, inter-imperial
tension, and global engagement.
Inspired by Jesse Stommel's 2015 AHA lightning round presentation on the Twitter Essay ( http://www.hybridpedagogy.com/journal/the-twitter-essay/).
http://cj.camws.org/sites/default/files/reviews/2016.04.07%20Cameron%20on%20Howe%2C%20Garvin%2C%20and%20Wrightson.pdf