Josiah Osgood is Associate Professor of Classics at Georgetown University, where he joined the faculty in 2002.  His teaching and research cover many areas of Roman history and Latin literature, with a special focus on the fall of the Roman Republic. His first book, Caesar’s Legacy: Civil War and the Emergence of the Roman Empire (Cambridge University Press, 2006), examined the period after the assassination of Julius Caesar, in which Rome’s first emperor, Augustus, took power. A new book, Claudius Caesar: Image and Power in the Early Roman Empire, due out next year again from Cambridge, re-examines the notorious emperor made famous in modern times through the novels of Robert Graves. Professor Osgood completed both his undergraduate and graduate degrees at Yale University and was a fellow of the American Academy in Rome in 2001-2002. He enjoys traveling in the Roman world and for the last eight years has led undergraduate and graduate students through Italy, Greece, and Turkey.