After completing her Ph.D. in 1996, she accepted a call to
St. Norbert College in
De Pere, Wisconsin as Assistant Professor of History. She held a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in the Humanities at
Cornell University from 1996-97.[2] She accepted a call to
McGill University in
Montreal, Canada as an Assistant Professor in 1999 and received promotion to Associate Professor in 2003.[3]
In 2004, she accepted a position as Associate Professor at the
University of California, Santa Barbara and was promoted to Full Professor in 2011 and served as Chair of the History Department from 2012-2015.[4]
Digeser’s work focuses on the social and culture history of the Roman Empire, especially the 3rd-5th century CE. She has published extensively in scholarly journals and books. She played a central role in founding the journal Studies in Late Antiquity in 2017 (published by the University of California Press) and served as the first editor.[5]
The Rhetoric of Power in Late Antiquity: Religion and Politics in Byzantium, Europe and the Early Islamic World, ed. with Justin Stephens and R. M. Frakes. London: I. B. Tauris, 2010 (Bloomsbury).
(ed. with R. M. Frakes) Religious Identity in Late Antiquity (Toronto: Edgar Kent, 2006)
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^Odahl, Charles M. (Charles Matson) (2001). "The Making of a Christian Empire: Lactantius & Rome". The Catholic Historical Review. 87 (3): 479–481.
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10.1353/cat.2001.0127.
^"Elizabeth DePalma Digeser. <italic>The Making of a Christian Empire: Lactantius and Rome</italic>. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. 2000. Pp. xv, 199. $39.95". The American Historical Review. April 2002.
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10.1086/ahr/107.2.587.
^Kaldellis, A. (31 May 2013). "ELIZABETH DEPALMA DIGESER. A Threat to Public Piety: Christians, Platonists, and the Great Persecution". The American Historical Review. 118 (3): 914–915.
doi:
10.1093/ahr/118.3.914.
^Janiszewski, Theodore (December 2016). "A Threat to Public Piety: Christians, Platonists, and the Great Persecution Edited by ElizabethDePalma Digeser. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012. Pp. xviii + 218. $46.95". Religious Studies Review. 42 (4): 294.
doi:
10.1111/rsr.12720.
^Volp, Ulrich (12 April 2013). "A threat to public piety. Christians, Platonists, and the Great Persecution. By Elizabeth DePalma Digeser. Pp. xvii+218. Ithaca–London: Cornell University Press, 2012. $45. 978 0 8014 418 1 3". The Journal of Ecclesiastical History. 64 (2): 378–379.
doi:
10.1017/S002204691200293X.
^Edwards, M. J. (April 2013). "Digeser, Elizabeth Depalma. Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2012. xv+218 pp. $45.00 (cloth)". The Journal of Religion. 93 (2): 224–225.
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