Michael Kulikowski is a professor of history and classics and the head of the history department at Pennsylvania State University.
16 Facts About Michael Kulikowski
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Michael Kulikowski is sometimes associated with the Toronto School of History and was a student of Walter Goffart.
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Michael Kulikowski received his BA from Rutgers University, and his MA and PhD from the University of Toronto.
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Michael Kulikowski gained a Licentiate of Mediaeval Studies from the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies in 1995.
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At the University of Toronto, Michael Kulikowski was a student of Walter Goffart.
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Since 2009, Michael Kulikowski has been Professor of History and Classics and Head of the History Department at Pennsylvania State University.
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Michael Kulikowski next work, Rome's Gothic Wars, was published in 2006, and is an introductory textbook on the relations between Goths and the Roman Empire in the 3rd and 4th centuries AD.
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Michael Kulikowski is the author of numerous articles, which range from the dependability of the Notitia Dignitatum as a historical source or ethnic self-identifications to examination of the careers of various late Roman individuals and the problem of the Germanic as a historical category in late antiquity.
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Michael Kulikowski is the editor of the forthcoming Landmark Ammianus Marcellinus.
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Michael Kulikowski is sometimes seen as a member of the so-called Toronto School of History, which is associated with his former professor Walter Goffart.
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In Rome's Gothic Wars, Michael Kulikowski argues that the history of the Goths can be reliably traced earlier than the 3rd century AD.
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Michael Kulikowski argues that scholarly attempts to discover archaeological or linguistic evidence for earlier Gothic history all depend on the portrayal in the 6th-century Getica by Jordanes.
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Michael Kulikowski argues that Gothic and other Barbarian identity was formed in response to Roman categories.
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Michael Kulikowski argues that the history of the Goths and other "barbarians" should be "understood entirely as a response to Roman imperialism".
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Michael Kulikowski considers it "a way to bring long-distance migration from the Germanic north in by the back door".
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Michael Kulikowski considers much of what is written about Goths to be "Germanist fantasy" derived from this legacy.