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Seth Schwartz is an American historian and theLucius N. Littauer Professor of ClassicalJewish Civilization atColumbia University. Schwartz earned a B.A. fromYeshiva University in 1979, and a Ph.D. fromColumbia University in 1985.^[1]

Seth Schwartz received his B.A. inClassics fromYeshiva University in 1979, and his Ph.D. inancient history from Columbia in 1985. He taught atDropsie College in its final year and subsequently was a Golda Meir Fellow atHebrew University, and a junior fellow at theHarvard Society of Fellows, assistant professor of History atUniversity of Rhode Island, and, from 1992, a senior research fellow atKing’s College, Cambridge. He resigned his fellowship in 1995 to return to New York and taught atJTS before moving to Columbia in 2009. He held a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1999-2000, and was a member of theInstitute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem in 2002/3, and of theInstitute for Advanced Study inPrinceton, and an NEH fellow, in 2006/7.^[2]

• The Ancient Jews from Alexander to Muhammad, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014
• Were the Jews A Mediterranean Society: Reciprocity and Solidarity in Ancient Judaism, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010.
• Imperialism and Jewish Society, 200 BCE to 640 CE, Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2001.
• Josephus and Judaean Politics, Leiden: Brill, 1990.
• With R. Bagnall, A. Cameron and K. Worp,Consuls of the Later Roman Empire, Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1987.

2001:National Jewish Book Award in Scholarship forImperialism and Jewish Society: 200 B.C.E. to 640 C.E.^[3]

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