ColonelRose Mary Sheldon (born October 10, 1948) is amilitary andclassical historian who held theHenry King Burgwyn, Jr. Chair of Military History at theVirginia Military Institute, where she taught from 1993 to 2019. She received her doctorate inancient history from theUniversity of Michigan, for which she won a National Intelligence Book award in 1987.^{[clarification needed]} In 1981, she became afellow of theAmerican Academy in Rome. She sat on the editorial boards of theJournal of Military History andInternational Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence.^[1][2]

• Sheldon, Rose Mary (2004).Intelligence Activities in Ancient Rome: Trust in the Gods but Verify. Routledge.ISBN 978-1-135-77107-2.
• Sheldon, Rose Mary (2007).Spies of the Bible: espionage in Israel from the Exodus to the Bar Kokhba Revolt. Greenhill.ISBN 978-1853676369.
• Sheldon, R. M. (2008).Espionage in the Ancient World: An Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles in Western Languages. McFarland.ISBN 978-0-7864-3768-9.
• Sheldon, Rose Mary (2012).Ambush: Surprise Attack in Ancient Greek Warfare. Casemate Publishers.ISBN 978-1-78303-648-6.
• Sheldon, Rose Mary (2018).Kill Caesar!: Assassination in the Early Roman Empire. Rowman & Littlefield.ISBN 978-1-5381-1489-6.

• List of fellows of the American Academy in Rome (1971–1990), Sheldon became a fellow in 1981
• Sator Square, a topic Sheldon has published on
• The Friedman Collection: An Analytical GuideArchived November 6, 2021, at theWayback Machine

• 1948 births
• Living people
• Hunter College alumni
• University of Michigan alumni
• Virginia Military Institute faculty
• American military historians
• Historians of ancient Greece
• Historians of ancient Rome
• American Academy in Rome
• American women historians
• Women classical scholars
• 21st-century American educators
• 20th-century American educators
• Counterintelligence analysts
• Historians of espionage

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