Rabun M Taylor
Rabun M. Taylor is Floyd A. Cailloux Centennial Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in Classical Studies from the University of Minnesota in 1997. From 1998 to 2007 he taught in the department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University before moving to his current academic home. His scholarly work ranges from Greek and Roman architecture and urbanism to the art, technology, religion, and social history of the Roman period. He has...See more
Rabun M. Taylor is Floyd A. Cailloux Centennial Professor of Classics at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in Classical Studies from the University of Minnesota in 1997. From 1998 to 2007 he taught in the department of History of Art and Architecture at Harvard University before moving to his current academic home. His scholarly work ranges from Greek and Roman architecture and urbanism to the art, technology, religion, and social history of the Roman period. He has published extensively on the water supply of ancient Rome. Since 2010 he has directed the Aqua Traiana Project, which aims to recover the source architecture and elucidate the history of the emperor Trajan's aqueduct serving the capital from the early second century CE into the medieval period. His books include Public Needs and Private Pleasures: Water Distribution, the Tiber River, and the Urban Development of Ancient Rome ("L'Erma di Bretschneider," 2000); Roman Builders: A Study in Architectural Process (Cambridge University Press, 2003); The Moral Mirror of Roman Art (Cambridge University Press, 2008); and, with Katherine Rinne, Rome: An Urban History (Cambridge University Press, 2016). He is currently co-editing a volume for the Bloomsbury Cultural History of Technology. His articles on Roman topics have appeared in the American Journal of Archaeology, the Journal of Roman Archaeology, the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, the Papers of the British School at Rome, Arethusa, and RES: Anthropology and Aesthetics, among others. See less
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