Justin Meyer’s research concerns classical reception and the appropriation of ancient Greek and Roman knowledge in the German Renaissance.
He is a recent graduate of Washington University in St. Louis, having earned his Ph.D. is History in Spring 2023. His current projects include research on the reception of Graeco-Roman conceptions of Germanic geography for creating a patriotic identity in the German lands of the Renaissance, as well as a translation of a scholarly monograph on papal speeches in the High and Late Middle Ages from German to English. His first article “Germania Romana: Geographical-Historical Transformation and the Necessity of Rome for German Patriotic Humanists” will appear in the Sixteenth Century Journal in Fall 2023.