Sam Caldis holds a doctorate in Ancient History from Brown University and currently works as an Associate Dean in the Office of the Dean of the Faculty at Brown University. His primary duties include management of the term faculty appointment process and the budget process in the Office as well as as supporting the Dean in strategic planning and undertakes special projects at the Dean’s request.

Sam’s academic research interests center on the intersection of family, gender, and power in antiquity. His dissertation (Brothers, Colleagues, and Power in Imperial Rome) examined the ways in which different members of the Roman imperial family had access to power and how expectations of power sharing and holding evolved in response to political and social pressures.