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Emerging Scholars of Late Antiquity: A New Feature of "Studies in Late Antiquity"

Mar 14 2025
SLA aims to diversify the field of late ancient studies with a new mentorship program for high school and undergraduate students from underrepresented backgrounds.
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A Late Antiquity on its Own Terms: New Material Perspectives on Late Antique Urbanism

Nov 21 2024
A special issue of "Studies in Late Antiquity" explores debates about urban development in the Mediterranean from the late third to seventh century.
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A City Prone to Disasters

Jun 07 2023
by Jonas Borsch, author of "God’s Wrath over Antioch, 525–540 CE: Beginning of the End?" from the new special issue of Studies in Late AntiquityThe Tyche (or "Fortune") of Antioch (modern Antakya), now at the Vatican Museum in Rome. The statue is a marble Roman copy after a Greek bronze original
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Editor Spotlight: Meet Kristina Sessa, co-editor of Studies in Late Antiquity

Aug 18 2022
We are delighted to welcome Kristina Sessa to the editorial team for the journal, Studies in Late Antiquity. Sessa is Professor of History at The Ohio State University, in Columbus, OH. She has degrees from Princeton and Berkeley, and has taught at Claremont McKenna College as well as OSU. She is
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Vintage California: Reflections on the birth of a new journal for the study of Late Antiquity

May 10 2021
By Ra‘anan Boustan, Co-Editor of Studies in Late AntiquityWhen I arrived at UCLA back in 2006 as an Assistant Professor, I had recently completed my graduate studies in the Department of Religion at Princeton University. At Princeton, faculty across the Departments of Art & Archaeology,
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#VirtualAHA: Free Content Offers from UC Press Journals

Jan 28 2021
We're continuing our #VirtualAHA promotions with additional limited-time free content offers from UC Press Journals. Click on the journal covers below for previous blog-exclusive content you may have missed and/or links to free articles/issues. To see additional offers made in conjunctio
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#AIASCS2021: Limited Time Free Content from UC Press Journals

Jan 06 2021
Although we won't be able to see you in person this year at the annual joint conference for the Archaeological Institute of America and the Society for Classical Studies, we are pleased to offer you a chance to sample the current issues of our ancient world/classical studies journals for free for a
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Studies in Late Antiquity Call for Editor Applications

Nov 15 2019
University of California Press is seeking applicants for the position of Editor of Studies in Late Antiquity. The new editorship will begin in January 2021 following the end of founding Editor, Beth DePalma Digeser’s term. Launched in 2015, Studies in Late Antiquity (SLA) is an online-only quart
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