Susan Mattern
Professor of History, University of Georgia

Physician of Rome: How Galen Laid the Foundations of Western Medicine
Oxford University Press, 2012

Susan Mattern received her PhD in Ancient History from Yale University in 1995. She is currently Professor of History at the University of Georgia. Her first book, Rome and the Enemy: Imperial Strategy in the Principate, was published by the University of California Press in 1999 and was a selection of the History Book Club. She is also the author of a textbook, The Ancient Mediterranean World from the Stone Age to A.D. 600 (Oxford University Press, 2004) and a scholarly study of Galen's stories about his patients, Galen and the Rhetoric of Healing (Johns Hopkins, 2008). Raised in California, she is an avid rock climber, salsa dancer and yoga instructor, and now lives in Athens, Georgia with her two children.