Elizabeth Digeser

Elizabeth DePalma Digeser is an American scholar of Ancient Roman history, with an emphasis on late antiquity.

in Psychology at the Johns Hopkins University in 1983, she moved to the University of California, Santa Barbara, where she earned her Ph.D. in History (her dissertation entitled “Lactantius, Constantine, and the Roman "Res Publica"" was directed by Harold A.

[1] After completing her Ph.D. in 1996, she accepted a call to St. Norbert College in De Pere, Wisconsin as Assistant Professor of History.

[4] Digeser’s work focuses on the social and culture history of the Roman Empire, especially the 3rd-5th century CE.

She played a central role in founding the journal Studies in Late Antiquity in 2017 (published by the University of California Press) and served as the first editor.