Sarah Emily Bond is an American historian. She is the Erling B. "Jack" Holtsmark Associate Professor of History at the University of Iowa. Her research focuses on late Roman history, epigraphy, law, topography, GIS, and digital humanities.
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Education
Bond received her Ph.D. in history from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2011. Her doctoral thesis was titled, Criers, Impresarios, and Sextons: Disreputable Occupations in the Roman World. Her PhD was supervised by Professor Richard Talbert. Bond received a master's degree from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, in 2007. She was awarded a BA in Classics and History from the University of Virginia in 2005.
Career
Bond is the author of numerous articles on tradesmen and law in the later Roman empire, and her first monograph, entitled Trade and Taboo: Disreputable Professionals in the Roman Mediterranean, was published in 2016 by University of Michigan Press. A review found it to have made a "significant advance in our understanding of attitudes and reality throughout antiquity."
Bond was appointed assistant professor of classics at the University of Iowa in 2014, after holding an assistant professorship in Ancient and Early Medieval History at Marquette University from 2012. She is chair of the Society for Classical Studies communication committee, associate editor for the Digital Humanities' Pleiades Project and co-Principal Investigator for the Big Ancient Mediterranean Project. She is also a member of the executive committee for the American Society of Greek and Latin Epigraphy for the period 2018–2021. As of July 2019, Bond is no longer part of the University of Iowa Classics Department, and has taken up appointment as an associate professor with the history department.