Colonel Rose Mary Sheldon (born October 10, 1948) held the Henry King Burgwyn, Jr. Chair of Military History at the Virginia Military Institute, where she taught from 1993 to 2019. She is an expert in intelligence operations in the ancient world. She received her doctorate in ancient history from the University of Michigan for which she won a National Intelligence Book award in 1987. In 1981, she became a fellow of the American Academy in Rome. Sheldon has served on the editorial board of the Journal of Military History, and of the International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence.^[1][2]

Works

• Sheldon, Rose Mary (2004). Intelligence Activities in Ancient Rome: Trust in the Gods but Verify. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-77107-2.
• Sheldon, Rose Mary (2007). Spies of the Bible: espionage in Israel from the Exodus to the Bar Kokhba Revolt. Greenhill. ISBN 978-1853676369.
• Sheldon, R. M. (2008). Espionage in the Ancient World: An Annotated Bibliography of Books and Articles in Western Languages. McFarland. ISBN 978-0-7864-3768-9.
• Sheldon, Rose Mary (2012). Ambush: Surprise Attack in Ancient Greek Warfare. Casemate Publishers. ISBN 978-1-78303-648-6.
• Sheldon, Rose Mary (2018). Kill Caesar!: Assassination in the Early Roman Empire. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 978-1-5381-1489-6.