Casablanca to Lisbon & Andalusia

Robert Gurval is Associate Professor Emeritus in the UCLA Department of Classics. His area of research and teaching concerns ancient Rome and the legacy of its empire in popular culture and cinema. Gurval’s publications focus on politics, literature and architecture in the age of Rome’s first emperor, Caesar Augustus. Cleopatra and her reception in western culture is a special interest. He earned his degrees in Classics at Brown University, the University of California, Santa Barbara, and the University of California, Berkeley. Gurval has taught at UCLA since 1990 where he has served as Chair of the Department of Classics and Chair of the faculty committees on the Honors College, General Education Governance, and Undergraduate Honors, Awards and Prizes. He received the UCLA Distinguished Teaching Award known as the Eby Award for the Art of Teaching and the Excellence in Teaching Award for university professors by the Society for Classical Studies. Among his academic honors, he was a Rome Prize Fellow at the American Academy in Rome and a Fulbright Scholar in Hong Kong for General Education.