ROBERT M. FRAKES

Professor of History

 

314 Founders Hall

Clarion University

840 Wood Street

Clarion, PA  16214

 

Tel. (814) 393-2375

Fax (814) 393-2550

email: rfrakes@clarion.edu

 

 

 

                       

EDUCATION:

 

Ph.D. History, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1991.

 

M.A. History, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1987.

 

M.A. Teacher Education, Stanford University, 1985

        (secondary teaching credentials in Social Science and Latin)

       

B.A. Classical Studies, Stanford University, 1984

 

 

TEACHING INTERESTS:

 

Ancient Greek and Roman History, Medieval History, History of Religion, 19th Century European History, Historical Research Methods, Latin Language.

 

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS:

 

Late Roman Political History, Roman Law, Church-State Relations, Ancient Historiography

 

 

PUBLICATIONS:

 

1) Books

 

Contra Potentium Iniurias: The Defensor Civitatis and Late Roman Justice [Münchener Beiträge zur Papyrusforschung und Antike Rechstgeschichte 90. Heft]   (Munich: Verlag C. H. Beck, 2001). ISBN 3-406-47499-3

 

The Dance of Hippocleides: A Festschrift for Frank J. Frost  (co-edited) (Golden, CO: Ares Publishers, 2002) [earlier version appeared as Ancient World 31 (2000)]. ISBN 0-89005-447-9

 

Writing for College History Classes (Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004). ISBN 0-618-30603-X

 

2) Articles

 

12 Articles and Notes in Scholarly Journals including Historia, Byzantion, Phoenix, Classical Journal, Hermes, Ancient History Bulletin, Ancient World, Zeitschrift der Savigny-Stiftung fuer Rechtsgeschichte.

 

 

INTERNATIONAL EXPERIENCE:

 

Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Research Fellowship, Leopold Wenger Institute for Ancient Legal History and Papyrus Research, University of Munich, 1995-6, 1998, 2000, 2003.

 

Surveyor, Excavations at Phalasarna, Greece. Summer, 1989.

               

Trench Supervisor, Excavations at Phalasarna. Summer, 1988.

 

Intern, Stanford-In-Greece Program. Summer, 1983.

 

Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome, 1983.

       

 

EDITORIAL AND CONSULTANT WORK:

 

Faculty Consultant, Advanced Placement European History Examination, Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ. 2001-2007.

 

Copy Editor, De Imperatoribus Romanis (on-line refereed encyclopedia of Roman Emperors). March, 1998 to present.

 

ELECTRONIC RESOURCES ON ANCIENT HISTORY:

 

A useful list of links maintained can be found at http://www.trentu.ca/ahc/resources.html.