Andrew M. Riggsby

Andrew M. Riggsby is the Lucy Shoe Meritt Professor in Classics and Professor of Art History at the University of Texas at Austin. He holds an A.B. from Harvard and Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. His work focuses on the history of information (its production, storage, organization, and diffusion) in the Roman world and the broader ancient Mediterranean and the applications of cognitive science to the analysis of historical questions. His Guggenheim project is a book-length essay on the methodological issues raised by this use of modern cognitive studies as illustrated in a series of case studies on diverse Roman cultural phenomena. He has published four previous books, most recently Mosaics of Knowledge: Representing Information in the Roman World (Oxford University Press 2019) and numerous articles on various areas of Roman history, law, and culture. His War in Words: Caesar in Gaul and Rome (University of Texas Press 2006) won the Association of American Publishers (Professional and Scholarly Publishing Division) award for the outstanding book published in Classics and Ancient History. He is a Fellow of the American Academy in Rome, and has been the Stanley Kelley Jr. Professor for Distinguished Teaching at Princeton University.