Visiting Associate Professor, History
Dr. Jensen studies cross-cultural interactions in the ancient Mediterranean. His special areas of interest include Greek interactions with the Persian Empire, Roman interactions with northern Europe, and the writings of Greek and Roman authors who wrote about foreign peoples.
Forthcoming: The Greco-Persian Wars: A Short History with Documents. Hackett.
Barbarians in the Greek and Roman World. Hackett, 2018.
“’Hippokleides Doesn’t Care’: Herodotus on Talking Back to Tyrants,” New England Classical Journal 41, no. 4 (November, 2014).
“Friendly Barbarians: What a Pair of Silver Cups from Denmark Tells us about Roman Diplomacy,” Sextant 22, no. 1 (Fall, 2014).
“The Road to Peace: Horace's fifth Satire as travel literature,” World History Connected (Winter 2013).
“Sulis Minerva or Sulis and Minerva? Multicultaralisms in Romano-British Religion” Theorizing Contacts in the Roman Empire, University of Edinburgh, December 7-9, 2017
“Whose Temple is it Anyway?” NERWHA fall symposium, Salem State University, Salem, MA – November 4, 2017.
“Amber and the Politics of Long-Distance Trade in Ancient Europe,” NERWHA fall symposium, Salem Academy, Salem, MA – September 24, 2016.
“From Cleopatra to the ‘Ivory Bangle Lady’: Investigating Race in the Ancient World,” NEHA spring conference, Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT – April 23, 2016.
“'Hippokleides Doesn't Care': Herodotos on Talking Back to Tyrants,” NEHA fall conference, Albertus Magnus College, New Haven, CT – October 12, 2013.
“Necessary Barbarians: Herodotos and the invention of the Celts,” NEHA spring conference, Westfield State University, Westfield, MA – April 20, 2013.
“Roman Diplomacy in Southern Scandinavia,” NEHA spring conference, Rivier College, Nashua, NH – April 21, 2012.
“Veterans of Foreigners' Wars: Roman auxiliary veterans in northern European society,” War and Society conference, University of Calgary, Calgary – March 22-24, 2012.
“Roman Metalwork in the North: Trade, Diplomacy, and Power,” Center for Archaeology discussion series, Columbia University, New York – September 20, 2007.
"The Roman city of Wroxeter: Romanization vs. 'Nativization'," New Frontiers in Graduate History, York University, Toronto – February 16-18, 2006.