Will Broadhead

Will Broadhead is an historian of the ancient Mediterranean world, specializing in the history of Italy from the 4th-1st centuries BCE and in relations between Rome and the various peoples of Italy in the buildup to their first political unification in the 80s BCE. He has published on the impact of migration in ancient Italy, on Roman colonization, on ethnic contingents in the Roman army, and on the epigraphic record of Osco-Umbrian languages. Professor Broadhead teaches courses on the fall of the Roman Republic, the city of Rome, ancient and modern views of Roman emperors, and a new interdisciplinary subject on the making of Roman Pompeii, taught on-site in Italy. He is also the director of History’s IAP in Italy and IAP in Greece programs. He received the James A. and Ruth Levitan Award for Excellence in Teaching and the Arthur C. Smith Award for Meaningful Contributions and Devotion to Student Life and Learning. He was named a Margaret MacVicar Faculty Fellow, MIT’s highest honor for exemplary and sustained contributions to undergraduate education.

Professor Broadhead received his PhD in Ancient History in 2002 from University College London.