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  • Gender Bias and the Journal of Roman Studies: JRS EDITORIAL BOARD

  • Christopher Kelly, Peter Thonemann, Barbara Borg, Julia Hillner, Myles Lavan, Neville Morley, Alex Mullen, Silvia Orlandi, Emily Pillinger, Jonathan Prag, Henriette van der Blom, Christopher Whitton
  • Journal:
    The Journal of Roman Studies / Volume 109 / November 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    23 October 2019, pp. 441-448
    Print publication:
    November 2019
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  • Reflecting on present unease about structural biases in the discipline, and aiming to offer a data-rich response to some recent criticisms of this Journal, the Editorial Board has undertaken a study of the representation of female scholars in the Journal of Roman Studies. To that end, we have gathered data on publications, submissions and JRS Editorial Board membership for the past fifteen years, from Volume 95 (2005) through to the present volume, Volume 109 (2019). The data are set out in the final section (VII), following a brief review of the main results. Our goal here is neither to present a definitive analysis, nor to offer a commentary on the underlying causes of the patterns revealed (on which we expect much fruitful discussion elsewhere). Rather, the JRS Editorial Board aims to make key data available both to inform a much wider debate within the profession as a whole and, importantly, to inform this Journal’s policies, procedures and active outreach. The Board is also acutely aware that any analysis of gender bias needs to be framed carefully — both by an awareness that there are other under-represented groups in the discipline (on which our data in their current form would regrettably only offer a most imperfect picture), and by a sensitivity to the limitations of a conception of gender as a simple binary.

  • Introduction

  • Edited by Henriette van der Blom, University of Birmingham, Christa Gray, University of Reading, Catherine Steel, University of Glasgow
  • Book:
    Institutions and Ideology in Republican Rome
    Published online:
    08 May 2018
    Print publication:
    17 May 2018, pp 1-12

  • Summary

    The Roman Republic was a political system which, in theory, offered a stable balance between different social groups. In practice it was subject to conflict and change, which became particularly violent in the first century B.C. The introduction to this volume surveys the current research landscape and sets out the rationale for the volume's focus on institutional structures and ideological formations in seeking to understand the success and failure of the Roman Republic as a political system. It presents two underpinning arguments: that rules deriving from institutional norms could always potentially be overturned by the will of the people as manifested on a specific occasion, and hence innovation was a constant possibility; and that the complexity of the system as it evolved in practice was in tension with the binary simplicity of the Romans' narratives about the nature of their political constitution.

Institutions and Ideology in Republican Rome
  • Speech, Audience and Decision
  • Edited by Henriette van der Blom, Christa Gray, Catherine Steel
  • Published online:
    08 May 2018
    Print publication:
    17 May 2018
  • This volume brings together a distinguished international group of researchers to explore public speech in Republican Rome in its institutional and ideological contexts. The focus throughout is on the interaction between argument, speaker, delivery and action. The chapters consider how speeches acted alongside other factors - such as the identity of the speaker, his alliances, the deployment of invective against opponents, physical location and appearance of other members of the audience, and non-rhetorical threats or incentives - to affect the beliefs and behaviour of the audience. Together they offer a range of approaches to these issues and bring attention back to the content of public speech in Republican Rome as well as its form and occurrence. The book will be of interest not only to ancient historians, but also to those working on ancient oratory and to historians and political theorists working on public speech.

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