Tufts University
Department of Classical Studies
419 Boston Ave
Bedford, MA 02155
bruce.hitchner@tufts.edu (617) 627-5359
Profile
Professor of Classical Studies and International Relations and Chair of the Department of Classical Studies.
He is the editor of the Wiley Blackwell Companion to North Africa in Antiquity (2022) and is currently working on a book provisionally titled: An Evolutionary history of Roman Imperialism under the republic to be published by Princeton University. Hitchner has written extensively on the economy of the Roman Empire and the North African provinces.
Hitchner served as Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Archaeology (1998-2006). He was Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford (2010), a Laurance S. Rockefeller Fellow at the Center for Human Values, Princeton University (2002-2003), and a By-Fellow at Churchill College Cambridge (1944-1995). Hitchner was the principal investigator and primary publisher of three major archaeological projects focused on Roman period rural settlement, land use, and economy in Tunisia and France funded by the National Geographic Society, National Endowment of the Humanities, and French Ministry of Culture between 1981 and 2006.
Hitchner founded the UN registered NGO, the Dayton Peace Accords Projects (1998-2014), and was a member of the international negotiating team that assisted the political parties of Bosnia-Herzegovina in producing the April 2006 Package of Amendments to the Dayton Constitution.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Michigan A.M. from the University of Chicago, and B.A. from the Pennsylvania State University.
Selected Publications
H. Marshall, M. Scharf, P. Williams and B. Hitchner (1999). Making Justice Work: The Report of the Century Foundation/ Twentieth Century Fund Task Force on Apprehending Indicated War Criminals. Century Foundation Press.
B. Hitchner (2022). Olive production and the Roman economy: the case for intensive growth in the Roman Empire. The ancient economy.
B. Hitchner (2012). Roads, integration, connectivity, and economic performance in the Roman Empire. Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World.
E. Joseph, B. Hitchner (2008). Making Bosnia work: Why EU accessions is not enough. United States Institute of Peace.