Clifford Ando is an historian of Rome, specializing in the histories of religion, law and government. He is the author or editor of 20 books, including Law, Language and Empire in the Roman Tradition (2011) and Roman Social Imaginaries (2015). Currently, he is leading a National Endowment for Humanities project to publish a new text, translation, and commentary on all extant Roman laws. Ando is the David B. and Clara E. Stern Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of Classics and History and in the College.