Dr. Bram ten Berge
Associate Professor of ClassicsBram ten Berge teaches language, history and classical civilization classes across the classics and history curricula. He joined the Hope faculty in 2017 after a year as Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Kalamazoo College.
Bramɫəs main research interests are in Roman history and historiography. His first book, (2023), explores the oeuvre of the Roman historian Tacitus (ca. AD 55ɫɓ120), showing how the historical vision articulated in his earlier texts persists in his later ones and how he used the former as sources for the latter.
Bramɫəs ongoing projects include an edited volume to be titled Tacitus and the Incomplete, which explores gaps, omissions, and lost portions in Tacitusɫə oeuvre.
As part of his postgraduate training, Bram did the Regular Year Program at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and he has worked on archaeological projects in England, Greece and Italy.
AREAS OF Expertise
- Latin prose literature, especially historiography, of the Late Republican and Early Imperial periods (ca. 100 BCɫɓAD 150)
- Tacitus (early imperial Roman historian, ca. AD 55ɫɓ120)
- Roman history
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., classics, University of Michigan, 2016
- Ancient History Graduate Certificate, Interdepartmental Program in Greek and Roman History (IPGRH), University of Michigan, 2013
- B.A., classics, University of Mississippi, 2009
Selected HONORS
- State Vice President of the Year, Classical Association of the Middle, West and South, 2020ɫɓ2021
- Boyd McWorther ScholarɫɓAthlete of the Year award (awarded to the top male scholar-athlete across all sports in the Southeastern Conference), 2009
Selected Publications
- ɫɜAulus Cremutius Cordus,ɫɝ in Trends in Classics ɫɓ Greek and Roman Humanities Encyclopedia (GROH), De Gruyter, forthcoming
- ɫɜAnnals Book 4,ɫɝ in Oxford Critical Guide to Tacitus, edited by S. Bartera and K.E. Shannon-Henderson, Oxford University Press, forthcoming
- ɫɜTacitusɫə Use of Columellaɫəs De re rustica,ɫɝ Histos, 2024
- , University of Michigan Press, 2023
- Eleven entries in The Tacitus Encyclopedia (edited by V. Pagán), Wiley, 2023
- ɫɜThinking ɫ Rome,ɫɝ Review-Discussion of Nils Steffensen. Nachdenken über Literarische Konstruktionen der römischen Geschichte in der Formierungsphase des Principats (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2018), Histos, 2020
- ɫɜEpitomizing Civil War: Florus on the Late Republican Civil Wars,ɫɝ in The Historiography of Late Republican Civil War (edited by C. Lange and F. Vervaet), Brill, 2019
- ɫɜSacred Groves in Herodotusɫə Histories: A Significant Parallel,ɫɝ Mnemosyne, 2016
- ɫɜDreams in Ciceroɫəs De Divinatione: Philosophical Tradition and Education,ɫɝ Archiv für Religionsgeschichte, 2014
Outside the College
Bram loves traveling and exploring new places and cultures, hiking, playing tennis, and spending time with his family and friends.