Dr. Peter Hatlie Appointed Dean & Director of Rome Program

We are pleased to announce that the University of Dallas Board of Trustees has approved the appointment of Dr. Peter Hatlie as Dean and Director of the UD Rome Program in Rome, Italy effective June 1, 2008. We are very delighted that Dr. Hatlie, currently the Academic Dean in Rome, has agreed to accept this additional responsibility and we are confident that he will continue the high quality and standards of our UD program which has been such a valuable part of our students' undergraduate experience for almost 40 years in Rome.

Dr. Hatlie has been associated with the University of Dallas in Rome since 1999, serving first as a visiting associate professor of history (1999-2003), then as both a visiting associate professor and academic director (spring 2003, 2005-07), and finally as a visiting associate professor and academic dean (2007-08).

Prior to his affiliation with UD, Dr. Hatlie was an associate professor of Classics and Byzantine studies at the State University of Groningen (1994-2001), an assistant professor of history at the American University of Bulgaria (1993-94) and an instructor of history at Upsala College (1992-93). He received his undergraduate degree in classics and humanities from Saint Olaf College in Minnesota, and his Ph.D. in medieval and Byzantine history from Fordham University in New York City.

An accomplished scholar, Dr. Hatlie has published numerous articles in the field of late antique and Byzantine studies, and he is the author of The Monks and Monasteries of Constantinople, 350-850 (Cambridge University Press, 2007). Dr. Hatlie has also been the recipient of research fellowships from the Harvard University/Dumbarton Oaks Research Institute, the Fulbright Hays Foundation, The American School of Classic Studies, The University of Texas at Austin and Harvard University. He is married to Dr. Barbara Roggema, a published expert in the field of Christian Arabic Studies and currently on fellowship as a project research officer in Christian-Muslim relations at the University of Birmingham in the United Kingdom.

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