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Gary D. Farney
Associate Professor
Rutgers
Director, Program in Ancient and Medieval Civilizations
Associate Member, Department of Classical and Modern Languages
Director, Rutgers Study Abroad Summer in Greece Program

Ph.D., Bryn Mawr

Department of History
175 University Avenue
Newark, NJ, 07102-1814

Office: 312 Conklin Hall
Phone: (973) 353-3897
Fax: 973-353-1193
E-mail: gfarney@andromeda.rutgers.edu

 

Research and Teaching Interests

Roman Republican History (esp. politics, political culture and ethnicity); Roman Historiography (esp. the works of Sallust, Livy and the fragments of the Republican Historians); Roman Numismatics (esp. iconography of the Republic); Roman Archaeology (esp. topography of Rome and the archaeology of Italy); Classical Greek History and Historians.


Classes

Undergraduate
Graduate

Ancient Greek History

Roman History

Ancient Sports: From Olympians to Gladiators

The Greek and Roman City

Alexander the Great

Greek History Through Dramatic Writings

Sparta

Latin and Ancient Greek Language Courses at the Intermediate and Advanced Level

Rutgers Study Abroad Summer in Greece Program

Greek and Roman Historians and Historiography

Ancient Democracies

Athenian Democracy



Selected Publications

“The Roman gens”, Journal of Roman Archaeology 21 (2008) Pp. 379-386.

“The Mamilii, Mercury and the limites: aristocratic genealogy and political conflict in the Roman Republic”, Athenaeum 96 (2008) Pp. 249-258.

“Are we Rome? Tu betchus!”, with Maureen Dowd, in The New York Times, Oct. 12, 2008, Weekend in Review, p. 11. http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/12/opinion/12dowd.html?_r=1

Ethnic Identity and Aristocratic Competition in the Roman Republic (Cambridge University Press, 2007). See review at http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2008/2008-04-25.html

"Some More Roman Republcan 'Also-Rans'", Historia 53 (2004) Pp. 246-250.

"The Fall of the Priest C. Sulpicius Galba and the First Consulship of Marius," Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 42 (1997) Pp. 23-37.


Honors, Awards, and Professional Service

Henry J. Browne Teaching Excellence Award (2007).

Oscar Broneer Fellow, American School of Classical Studies at Athens (1997-1998).

Rome Prize Winner, American Academy in Rome (1996-1997).