Aldrete wins residential fellowship for 2010-11 academic year

UW-Green Bay Prof. Greg Aldrete of Humanistic Studies and history has won the Solmsen Postdoctoral Fellowship at the Institute for Research in the Humanities for the 2010-11 academic year. He’ll spend the year in residence at the institute on the UW-Madison campus. His primary project will be the topic “Riots in Ancient Rome.” (The inhabitants of ancient Rome, for the 575-year period ending AD 375, displayed an episode of unruly collective behavior on average every 3.7 years. For that reason, Rome has often been characterized as a lawless and violent place, especially among the poor, but Aldrete maintains the reality is considerably more complex and that riots were often instigated instead by Rome’s political and social elites.) Aldrete’s goal for the yearlong fellowship is to produce a scholarly book that is a comprehensive study of the riots that plagued ancient Rome.