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Eric Rebillard

Avalon Foundation Professor in the Humanities

Overview

My work focuses on early Christianity and late antiquity. I published on death and burial, martyr narratives, and the transformations of religious practices in late antiquity. My forthcoming book, , will be published by Cornell University Press, in Spring 2026). I am currently working on Numidia from the kingdom of the Massyli (4th c. BCE) to the Rustamid Imamate (10th c. CE), with a focus on the continuing presence and resilience of Native Northwestern Africans.

Prior to coming to Cornell University, where I now hold the Avalon Foundation Professorship in the Humanities, I was a researcher in the French Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) and a member of the École française de Rome.

I have published four single-authored monographs, including , a collection of martyr narratives in Greek and Latin with translations and commentary, the excavation report of the imperial necropolis of Musarna (Italy), and six edited works. I have been a visiting scholar at the Institute of Advanced Study (Princeton), the Max-Weber Kolleg (Erfurt), and Corpus Christi College (Oxford). I was awarded a Mellon New Directions Fellowship and a Guggenheim Fellowship.

Research Focus

  • History of Late Antiquity and Early Christianity
  • Augustine of Hippo
  • Roman Funerary Archaeology

Publications

Books

  • . Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2020.
  • . Oxford Early Christian Texts. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2017.
  • . Farnham, UK: Ashgate, 2014.
  • . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012 (paperback 2016).
  • . Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2009 [English translation of Religion et sépulture: l’Église, les vivants et les morts dans l’Antiquité tardive (IIIe-Ve siècles). Civilisations et sociétés 115. Paris: Éd. de l’EHESS, 2003].
  • . Collection de l’École française de Rome 415. Rome: École française de Rome, 2009.
  • . Bibliothèque des Écoles Françaises d’Athènes et de Rome 283. Rome: École française de Rome, 1994.

Edited volumes

  • . Edited by Éric Rebillard and Jörg Rüpke. Washington, DC: Catholic University of America Press, 2015.
  • . Edited by Éric Rebillard and Claire Sotinel. Collection de l'École française de Rome 428. Rome: École française de Rome, 2010.
  • Economie et religion dans l’Antiquité tardive. Edited by Éric Rebillard and Claire Sotinel.  Special issue of Antiquité tardive 14 (2006): 15-116.
  • . Edited by Michel Narcy and Éric Rebillard. Lille: Presses universitaires du Septentrion, 2004.
  • . Collection de l’École française de Rome 270. Edited by Susanna Elm, Éric Rebillard and Antonella Romano, Rome: École française de Rome, 2000.
  • : image et autorité. Collection de l’École française de Rome 248. Edited by Éric Rebillard and Claire Sotinel. Rome: École française de Rome, 1998.

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Education

Professor Rebillard received his PhD from the Sorbonne (Paris, France) in 1993 and is a former member of the Ecole française de Rome. He came at Cornell in 2004 after having held a research position in the French CNRS between 1996 and 2003.

Departments and programs

  • Classics
  • History
  • Jewish Studies Program
  • Medieval Studies Program
  • Religious Studies Program

Affiliated Colleges

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Keywords

 

 

Roman History