APS Member History

1	Name:	Dr. Benjamin H. Isaac
	Institution:	Tel Aviv University
	Year Elected:	2003
	Class:	4. Humanities
	Subdivision:	404a
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Living
	Birth Date:	1945

	Benjamin Isaac received his Ph.D. from Tel Aviv University in 1980. He remained at Tel Aviv and is currently the Fred and Helen Lessing Professor of Ancient History. His books and his more than 50 articles, book reviews, and contributions to the Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, the Anchor Bible Dictionary, and the Barrington Atlas of the Greek and Roman World have established him as a leading authority on Roman imperialism, the Roman military establishment, relations with conquered peoples (especially Greeks and Jews), epichoric inscriptions in Greek, Latin, and Hebrew, and the road system of the Near East, especially in Judaea. His current work on Greeks, Romans, and Others deals magisterially with the perceptions of aliens prevalent in the ancient world from Homer to the beginning of the Middle Ages. Numerous honors, participation in international conferences and lectures testify to his international renown. Dr. Isaac's books include (with R. van Royen) The Arrival of the Greeks: The Evidence from the Settlements (1979); (with I. Roll) Roman Roads in Judaea I: The Scythopolis-Legio Road (1982); The Greek Settlements in Thrace until the Macedonian Conquest (1986); The Limits of Empire: The Roman Army in the East (1990, 1992); (with M. Fischer, I. Roll) Roman Roads in Judaea, II: The Jaffa-Jerusalem Roads (1996); The Near East Under Roman Rule: Selected Papers (1998); The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity (2004); and Empire and Ideology in the Graeco-Roman World: Selected Papers (2017). He received the Best Book Award from the American Military Institute in 1991. Dr. Isaac is a member of the Deutsches Archäologisches Institut and the Israel Academy of Sciences & Humanities. He was elected a member of the American Philosophical Society in 2003. He received the Israel Prize in 2008.

2	Name:	Isaac Jamineau
	Year Elected:
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Deceased
	Birth Date:	1710
	Death Date:	11/3/1789

	Isaac Jamineau (1710–3 November 1789) was a diplomat and scientific observer, and a member of the American Philosophical Society via his 1768 election to the American Society. Born in England, he was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge, and London’s Middle Temple. He began his career with a post office sinecure before taking the position of British Consul at Naples. His 1764 encounter with APS member Dr. John Morgan, then on a grand tour of Italy, initiated a lengthy correspondence. Three years later, Jamineau sent an account of the 1767 eruption of Mount Vesuvius to Morgan, who read it to the American Society the following year. Printed in the Pennsylvania Chronicle, APS member Lewis Nicola’s American Magazine, and the first volume of the APS Transactions, these observations led to Jamineau’s 1768 election to the Society. A decade earlier his account of the volcano’s 1754 eruption had been read to the Royal Society of London, but no evidence of his other scientific activities survives. He was, however, awarded a gold medal by the Society for Promoting Arts, Manufactures and Commerce in 1775. He resigned the consulship in 1779 and died in 1789. (PI)

3	Name:	Isaac Taylor
	Year Elected:	1895
	Residency:	International
	Living? :	Deceased

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