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Mark Letteney
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Carol Thomas Endowed Professor of Ancient History
Yifan Zheng
Assistant Professor

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Related Research

Larsen, Matthew D. C., and Mark Letteney. 2025. Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration. University of California Press.
"'I Dont Know what will be my Lot': Transnational Migration and Unfree Labor in Early America. The Journal of the Civil War Era vol. 16, no. 2 (December, 2024): 441-462.
Marglin, Jessica, and Mark Letteney. 2024. “Legal Pluralism as a Category of Analysis.” Law and History Review 42 (2): 143–53.
Marhoefer, Laurie (2023). Transgender Life and Persecution under the Nazi State: Gutachten on the Vollbrecht Case. Central European History, 1-7. doi:10.1017/S0008938923000468
Letteney, Mark. 2023. The Christianization of Knowledge in Late Antiquity: Intellectual and Material Transformations. Cambridge University Press.
Letteney, Mark. 2022. “Widening the Frame of Ancient Legal History.” ΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑ 46:345–49.
Hannah Frydman, “Freedom’s Sex Problem: Classified Advertising, Law, and the Politics of Reading in Third Republic France.” French Historical Studies 44, no. 4 (October 2021): 675-709 (Winner, Malcolm Bowie Prize).
Yang, Anand. Empire of Convicts: Indian Penal Labor in Colonial Southeast Asia. University of California Press, 2021. Print.
Hannah Frydman and Claire-Lise Gaillard, “‘Les dessous des petites annonces’: quand les intimités se marchandent à la quatrième page des journaux (IIIe République).” Histoire, économie & société 39, no. 3 (September 2020): 45–66.
“Wurden lesbische Frauen im Nationalsozialismus verfolgt? Mikrogeschichte und der Begriff der “Verfolgtengruppe.” Invertito: Jarbuch für die Geschichte der Homosexualitäten Rüdiger Lautmann and Stefan Micheler, eds. (2019)