In working with universities overseas, what differences have stood out in terms of how they go about historical analysis?
My field, Roman history and late Roman history especially, has always been a truly international field. We all read multiple languages and work with the same texts. I don’t see that there is any national division. The British, the French, the Germans, now the Spanish since the death of Franco, the Americans, are all working on the same problems and learning from each other every day. It’s always been an internationalized field, and I don’t see that changing. I would say that the Americans have been leading some times in some things, such as borderland studies, and have led in redefining what late antiquity, my specialty, is. I think we have all been learning from each other for well over a century, and I don’t think that’s going to change. 6) How did being a visiting professor in Germany change after the Cold War? I don’t think the Cold War per se made any difference. The educational institutions of a country are always deeply rooted. But after the Cold War, especially in Germany, and
