Philip T Waddell
- Associate Professor, Religious Studies / Classics
- Member of the Graduate Faculty
Contact
- (520) 621-7418
- Learning Services Building, Rm. 215
- Tucson, AZ 85721
- waddell@arizona.edu
Degrees
- Ph.D. Classics
- University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States
- The Directed Gaze: Enargeia and Film in the Annales of Tacitus
- M.A. Classical Languages
- University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri, United States
- B.A. History
- Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- The Religious Reforms of Augustus
Work Experience
- Department of Religious Studies & Classics (2021 - Ongoing)
- University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (2015 - 2021)
- University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona (2012 - 2015)
- University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri (2010 - 2012)
Interests
Research
Ancient Historiography, Tacitus, Post-Augustan Latin, Rhetoric, Greek and Roman history
Courses
2025-26 Courses
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Classical Mythology
CLAS 160D2 (Fall 2025) -
Elementary Latin I
LAT 101 (Fall 2025) -
Elementary Latin II
LAT 102 (Fall 2025) -
Intermediate Latin I
LAT 201 (Fall 2025) -
Intermediate Latin II
LAT 202 (Fall 2025) -
The Greek and Roman Historian
CLAS 514 (Fall 2025) -
The Greek and Roman Historians
CLAS 414 (Fall 2025)
2024-25 Courses
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Accelerated Latin II
LAT 212 (Summer I 2025) -
Ancient Empires
CLAS 323 (Spring 2025) -
Elementary Latin II
LAT 102 (Spring 2025) -
Inter Classical Greek II
GRK 202 (Spring 2025) -
Intermediate Latin I
LAT 201 (Spring 2025) -
Intermediate Latin II
LAT 202 (Spring 2025) -
Thesis
CLAS 910 (Spring 2025) -
Elementary Latin I
LAT 101 (Fall 2024) -
Intermediate Latin I
LAT 201 (Fall 2024) -
Intermediate Latin II
LAT 202 (Fall 2024) -
Roman Empire: Rulers & Ruled
CLAS 335 (Fall 2024) -
Roman Historians
LAT 426 (Fall 2024) -
Roman Historians
LAT 526 (Fall 2024)
2023-24 Courses
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Accelerated Latin II
LAT 212 (Summer I 2024) -
Intensive Beginning Latin
LAT 112 (Summer I 2024) -
Latin Reading Course
LAT 401 (Spring 2024) -
Latin Reading Course
LAT 501 (Spring 2024) -
The Greek and Roman Historian
CLAS 514 (Spring 2024) -
The Greek and Roman Historians
CLAS 414 (Spring 2024) -
Classical Mythology
CLAS 160D2 (Fall 2023) -
Roman Empire: Rulers & Ruled
CLAS 335 (Fall 2023)
2022-23 Courses
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Accelerated Latin II
LAT 212 (Summer I 2023) -
Intensive Beginning Latin
LAT 112 (Summer I 2023) -
Thesis
CLAS 910 (Spring 2023) -
Roman Empire: Rulers & Ruled
CLAS 335 (Fall 2022) -
Roman Historians
LAT 426 (Fall 2022) -
Roman Historians
LAT 526 (Fall 2022)
2021-22 Courses
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Accelerated Latin II
LAT 212 (Summer I 2022) -
Intensive Beginning Latin
LAT 112 (Summer I 2022) -
Ancient Empires
ANTH 323 (Spring 2022) -
Ancient Empires
CLAS 323 (Spring 2022) -
Honors Thesis
CLAS 498H (Spring 2022) -
The Greek and Roman Historian
CLAS 514 (Spring 2022) -
The Greek and Roman Historians
CLAS 414 (Spring 2022) -
Thesis
CLAS 910 (Spring 2022) -
Classical Mythology
CLAS 160D2 (Fall 2021) -
Honors Thesis
CLAS 498H (Fall 2021) -
Latin Lit-Imperial Age
LAT 421 (Fall 2021) -
Latin Lit-Imperial Age
LAT 521 (Fall 2021)
2020-21 Courses
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Accelerated Latin II
LAT 212 (Summer I 2021) -
Intensive Beginning Latin
LAT 112 (Summer I 2021) -
Classical Mythology
CLAS 160D2 (Spring 2021) -
Roman Empire: Rulers & Ruled
CLAS 335 (Spring 2021) -
Roman Empire: Rulers & Ruled
CLAS 335 (Fall 2020) -
Roman Historians
LAT 426 (Fall 2020) -
Roman Historians
LAT 526 (Fall 2020)
2019-20 Courses
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Accelerated Latin II
LAT 212 (Summer I 2020) -
Intensive Beginning Latin
LAT 112 (Summer I 2020) -
Roman Empire: Rulers & Ruled
CLAS 335 (Spring 2020) -
The Greek and Roman Historian
CLAS 514 (Spring 2020) -
The Greek and Roman Historians
CLAS 414 (Spring 2020) -
Ancient Empires
CLAS 323 (Fall 2019) -
Classical Mythology
CLAS 160D2 (Fall 2019)
2018-19 Courses
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Accelerated Latin II
LAT 212 (Summer I 2019) -
Intensive Beginning Latin
LAT 112 (Summer I 2019) -
Roman Historians
LAT 426 (Spring 2019) -
Roman Historians
LAT 526 (Spring 2019) -
Methods In Classical Std
CLAS 510A (Fall 2018) -
Roman Empire: Rulers & Ruled
CLAS 335 (Fall 2018)
2017-18 Courses
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Accelerated Latin II
LAT 212 (Summer I 2018) -
Intensive Beginning Latin
LAT 112 (Summer I 2018) -
Honors Thesis
CLAS 498H (Spring 2018) -
Roman Empire: Rulers & Ruled
CLAS 335 (Spring 2018) -
Thesis
CLAS 910 (Spring 2018) -
Honors Thesis
CLAS 498H (Fall 2017) -
Methods In Classical Std
CLAS 510A (Fall 2017) -
The Greek and Roman Historian
CLAS 514 (Fall 2017) -
The Greek and Roman Historians
CLAS 414 (Fall 2017)
2016-17 Courses
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Accelerated Latin II
LAT 212 (Summer I 2017) -
Intensive Beginning Latin
LAT 112 (Summer I 2017) -
Thesis
CLAS 910 (Spring 2017) -
Methods In Classical Std
CLAS 510A (Fall 2016) -
Thesis
CLAS 910 (Fall 2016)
2015-16 Courses
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Accelerated Latin II
LAT 212 (Summer I 2016) -
Intensive Beginning Latin
LAT 112 (Summer I 2016) -
Thesis
CLAS 910 (Summer I 2016) -
Roman Empire: Rulers & Ruled
CLAS 335 (Spring 2016) -
Thesis
CLAS 910 (Spring 2016)
Scholarly Contributions
Books
- Waddell, P. T. (2020). Tacitean Visual Narrative. London, New York: Bloomsbury Academic.
Chapters
- Waddell, P. T. (2016). Carthago Deleta: Alternate Realities and Meta-history in Appian’s Libyca. In The Art of History: Literary Perspectives on Greek and Roman Historiography(pp 241-252). Berlin: Walter de Gruyter.
Presentations
- Waddell, P. T. (2020, May). Cupido incessit: Religion at the Borders of Empire (Tac. Hist. 2.2–3, Ann. 1.61–62.). CAMWS.
- Waddell, P. T. (2020, October 30). The Imperial Gaze: Focalization and Alignment in Tacitus’ Annales. Invited lecture, University of Toronto. Toronto (online): University of Toronto.
- Waddell, P. T. (2017, April). Urbs ut Scaena : Dramatic Space in the Historiae of Tacitus. CAMWS. Kitchener, Ontario, Canada: CAMWS.
- Waddell, P. T. (2018, March). Reading Nero: Receptions of the Emperor from Antiquity to the 21st Century. Invited Lecture, Hendrix College. Arkansas: Hendrix College.
- Waddell, P. T. (2015, March). "Quasi Nero Triumphans: A Tacitean Reading of Ammianus Marcellinus’ RG 16.8-10". CAMWS.
- Waddell, P. T. (2014, April). “In Your Hearts: A Ciceronian Intertext in Tacitus’ Annales,”. CAMWS.
- Waddell, P. T. (2014, September). “Carthago Deleta: Alternate Realities and Meta-history in Appian’s Libyca,”. Science / Fiction / History: The Literary in Classical Historiography. Athens, Greece.
