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Release: February 10, 1995
Contact: Justin Harmon (609/258-5732)


Professor Edward J. Champlin to
Become Master of Butler College

Princeton, N.J. -- Professor of Classics and Cotsen Professor of
Humanities Edward J. Champlin will become master of Butler
College, effective July 1, 1995.

A graduate of the University of Toronto (B.A., History, 1970;
M.A., Classics, 1972) and Oxford University (D.Phil., Literae
Humaniores, 1976), Champlin joined the Princeton faculty in 1975.
His principal teaching in the Classics Department involves three
popular undergraduate lecture courses: The Roman Republic, The
Roman Empire, and Roman Law. At the graduate level, in addition
to his own teaching, he has directed the Program in Classical
Archaeology (1986-87) and the Program in the Ancient World (1990-
93).

Champlin has written widely in Roman history. His principal
publications include Fronto and Antonine Rome (1980); Final
Judgments: Duty and Emotion in Roman Wills, 200 B.C. to A.D. 250
(1991); and a co-edited volume, covering the period 43 B.C. to
A.D. 69, in The Cambridge Ancient History (forthcoming, 1995). He
is currently working on a book on the emperor Nero.

Champlin will succeed Professor of European Literature,
Comparative Literature and Romance Languages and Literatures
Robert B. Hollander, Jr., who has served as master of Butler
College since 1991. Champlin's appointment was made by President
Harold T. Shapiro on the recommendation of Dean of the College
Nancy Weiss Malkiel and Dean of Student Life Janina Montero.

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