Mark Anderson
Mark Anderson is a doctoral candidate specializing in the history of the later Roman Empire. He is currently researching a dissertation tentatively entitled “Roman Hospitals from the 4th to the 7th Century.” The focus of this project is a database compiled from Greek, Latin, Syriac and Coptic sources of over 250 individual institutions throughout the Mediterranean world for the overnight care of the needy. The argument will include statistical analyses of the geographical and temporal spread of early hospitals, their economic foundation, populations served and services offered as well as the status and purpose of their founders and administrators. Mark’s dissertation committee members are John Matthews, Bentley Layton, and Youval Rotman.
Prior to his work at the Yale Graduate School Mark received a B.A. with departmental highest honors from the University of California, Los Angeles, majoring in history and English literature with a minor in Spanish literature. He then received an M.A. in religion from the Yale Divinity School with a concentration in church history and was awarded the Abraham J. Malherbe grant for continuing studies in New Testament and early Christianity.
As a doctoral student Mark completed orals fields in late-Roman social history and the social and intellectual history of early Christianity. He has served as a teaching fellow for two years in a continuous series of survey courses on Western history stretching from the founding of the Roman Republic to the end of the middle ages. In addition, Mark has co-authored a forthcoming article in the medieval studies journal Imago Temporis Medii Aevi with Yale professor of medieval history Paul Freedman entitled, “”What’s Taters, Precious?”: Food in Tolkien’s The Lord of the Rings.”
