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| Peter Fibiger Bang | |
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| Name | Peter Fibiger Bang |
| Birth date | 1973 |
| Birth place | Denmark |
| Occupation | Historian, Professor |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge, University of Copenhagen |
| Notable works | The Roman Bazaar; An Atlas of the Roman World |
| Awards | Philip Leverhulme Prize |
Peter Fibiger Bang Peter Fibiger Bang is a Danish historian and scholar of ancient history specializing in the Roman Empire, ancient Eurasian cross-cultural contacts, and comparative imperial studies. He is known for interdisciplinary approaches combining archaeological evidence, numismatics, and literary texts to reassess Mediterranean and Eurasian interactions in antiquity. Bang's work engages with a wide array of figures, institutions, and regions across antiquity and modern scholarship.
Born in Denmark, Bang completed undergraduate and postgraduate studies at the University of Copenhagen and pursued doctoral research at the University of Cambridge, where he worked with scholars connected to the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge. During his formative years he encountered research traditions from the British Academy, the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, and networks associated with the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey. His doctoral training drew on the methods of historians linked to the study of the Roman Republic, the Hellenistic period, and the Late Antiquity research community.
Bang has held professorial and lecturing posts at institutions including the University of Copenhagen and visiting fellowships at research centers such as the British School at Rome, the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, and the Institute for Advanced Study. He has been involved with editorial boards of journals connected to the Cambridge University Press and the Oxford University Press and contributed to projects funded by bodies like the European Research Council and the Arts and Humanities Research Council. His academic appointments have brought him into collaboration with departments at the University of Oxford, the University of Cambridge, and the University of Manchester.
Bang's research reorients debates on the Roman economy by interrogating sources tied to the Roman Empire, the Parthian Empire, and the Han dynasty. He challenges paradigms influenced by scholars associated with the Annales School, the Cultural History movement, and the New Institutional Economics by foregrounding comparative evidence from the Mediterranean Sea, the Persian Gulf, and the Silk Road. Employing numismatic data connected to the Roman currency system and material culture from excavations associated with the British Museum and the Vatican Museums, Bang integrates perspectives from historians of the Hellenistic kingdoms, historians of the Sasanian Empire, and specialists in Classical archaeology. His comparative imperial framework dialogues with the work of scholars from the Prussian Academy of Sciences, proponents of world-systems analysis like those linked to Fernand Braudel, and historians of empire such as academics at the University of California, Berkeley.
Bang is the author and editor of monographs and edited volumes published by academic presses including Cambridge University Press and Oxford University Press. Prominent books include a study on commerce and exchange across the Roman Empire and the Indian Ocean world, an atlas of Roman territorial administration that dialogues with cartographic projects associated with the Ordnance Survey tradition, and edited collections that bring together contributors from the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, the German Archaeological Institute, and the American Institute of Archaeology. His publications engage with primary sources such as writings by Tacitus, Cassius Dio, and Strabo, and with archaeological reports from sites excavated under the auspices of institutions like the British School at Athens. He has published articles in journals that include periodicals affiliated with the Classical Association, the Society for Classical Studies, and the Economic History Review.
Bang's research has been recognized with awards and fellowships such as the Philip Leverhulme Prize, research grants from the European Research Council, and fellowships at institutes like the Guggenheim Foundation-associated centers and national academies including the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. He has been invited to deliver named lectures at venues tied to the British Academy, the Classical Association, and the American Academy in Rome, and has received visiting professorships sponsored by bodies such as the Danish Council for Independent Research.
In his teaching Bang supervises postgraduate researchers working on topics ranging from provincial administration in the Roman Empire to trade networks connecting the Indian subcontinent and the Mediterranean basin. He has led postgraduate seminars modeled on traditions from the University of Cambridge's historical method, and has taught courses that intersect with curricula at the School of Oriental and African Studies and the Department of Archaeology, University of Oxford. His doctoral mentees have gone on to positions at institutions including the University of St Andrews, the University of Edinburgh, and museums such as the Ashmolean Museum.
Bang has contributed to public-facing scholarship through interviews and panel discussions broadcast by outlets like the BBC, appearances at festivals organized by the Cheltenham Literature Festival and the Hay Festival, and expert commentary for documentaries produced in collaboration with the History Channel and museums including the British Museum. He has written op-eds and essays for platforms associated with the Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books, and has participated in public lectures hosted by the Royal Geographical Society and the Tate Modern.
Category:Living people Category:1973 births Category:Danish historians Category:Historians of antiquity