Ralph W. Mathisen

Mathisen graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 1969 with a bachelor of science in astrophysics and later graduated from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute–Hartford with a master of science in mechanical engineering. In 1973 he graduated from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a bachelor of arts in classics. In 1979 he received a PhD in ancient history with the dissertation The Ecclesiastical Aristocracy of Fifth-Century Gaul: A Regional Analysis of Family Structure. In 1980 Mathisen was a visiting professor in Roman history at the University of Illinois Chicago Circle, and in 2013 a visiting fellow of the University of Leuven. From 1991 to 2004 he was a professor (later the Louise Fry Scudder Professor of Humanities and the Director of Biographical Database for Late Antiquity) at the University of South Carolina. == Member of editorial boards ==

• De Imperatoribus Romanis (from 1996). • Founding editor of the Journal of Late Antiquity (2007—2013). • '''' (from 2003). • Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity (from 2007). • Late Antiquity Newsletter (1996—2004). • Medieval Prosopography (from 1993). • Polis. Rivista de ideas y formes politicas de la Antigüedad Classica (from 1993). == Awards and honours ==

• Fellowship of the American Numismatic Society (1997). • Codex Award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals (like a Journal of Late Antiquity editor) (2013). • Bronze Medal from the American Numismatic Association Convention. == Selected bibliography ==

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