Carl Rice

Carl R. Rice is a historian and scholar of late Roman society, culture, and religion. He is currently working on his first book, tentatively titled Roman Religion and the Citizens of Empire, 250-450 CE, in which he explores the entanglement of normative religious identities and legal privilege of citizenship in the late Roman empire. Prof. Rice has also recently submitted an article that examines a late Roman law about enslaved Christian women. At Vassar, he teaches a range of courses that examine various aspects of Roman society and history, as well as Greek and Latin languages and literatures.

Prof. Rice earned his undergraduate degrees in history and religious studies from West Virginia University in 2013, before completing a Master of Arts in History at North Carolina State University in 2016. He completed his doctorate in history and classics at Yale University in 2023 before joining the Vassar faculty later that year. He is a proud first-generation, low-income college grad from Appalachia. Prof. Rice uses he/him pronouns (they/them pronouns are also fine!).