Dr. Bram ten Berge
Associate Professor of Classics
Bram ten Berge teaches language, history and classical civilization classes across the classics and history curricula. He joined the Hope faculty in 2017 after a year as Mellon Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Kalamazoo College.
Bram鈥檚 main research interests are in Roman history and historiography. His first book, (2023), explores the oeuvre of the Roman historian Tacitus (ca. AD 55鈥�120), showing how the historical vision articulated in his earlier texts persists in his later ones and how he used the former as sources for the latter.
Bram鈥檚 ongoing projects include an edited volume to be titled Tacitus and the Incomplete, which explores gaps, omissions, and lost portions in Tacitus鈥� oeuvre.
As part of his postgraduate training, Bram did the Regular Year Program at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens, and he has worked on archaeological projects in England, Greece and Italy.
AREAS OF Expertise
- Latin prose literature, especially historiography, of the Late Republican and Early Imperial periods (ca. 100 BC鈥揂D 150)
- Tacitus (early imperial Roman historian, ca. AD 55鈥�120)
- Roman history
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., classics, University of Michigan, 2016
- Ancient History Graduate Certificate, Interdepartmental Program in Greek and Roman History (IPGRH), University of Michigan, 2013
- B.A., classics, University of Mississippi, 2009
Selected HONORS
- State Vice President of the Year, Classical Association of the Middle, West and South, 2020鈥�2021
- Boyd McWorther Scholar鈥揂thlete of the Year award (awarded to the top male scholar-athlete across all sports in the Southeastern Conference), 2009
Selected Publications
- 鈥淎ulus Cremutius Cordus,鈥� in Trends in Classics 鈥� Greek and Roman Humanities Encyclopedia (GROH), De Gruyter, forthcoming
- 鈥淎nnals Book 4,鈥� in Oxford Critical Guide to Tacitus, edited by S. Bartera and K.E. Shannon-Henderson, Oxford University Press, forthcoming
- 鈥淭acitus鈥� Use of Columella鈥檚 De re rustica,鈥� Histos, 2024
- , University of Michigan Press, 2023
- Eleven entries in The Tacitus Encyclopedia (edited by V. Pag谩n), Wiley, 2023
- 鈥淭hinking About Rome,鈥� Review-Discussion of Nils Steffensen. Nachdenken 眉ber Literarische Konstruktionen der r枚mischen Geschichte in der Formierungsphase des Principats (Franz Steiner Verlag, 2018), Histos, 2020
- 鈥淓pitomizing Civil War: Florus on the Late Republican Civil Wars,鈥� in The Historiography of Late Republican Civil War (edited by C. Lange and F. Vervaet), Brill, 2019
- 鈥淪acred Groves in Herodotus鈥� Histories: A Significant Parallel,鈥� Mnemosyne, 2016
- 鈥淒reams in Cicero鈥檚 De Divinatione: Philosophical Tradition and Education,鈥� Archiv fu虉r Religionsgeschichte, 2014
Outside the College
Bram loves traveling and exploring new places and cultures, hiking, playing tennis, and spending time with his family and friends.