Robert Frakes

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Robert Martin Frakes (born 1962) [1] is an American classics scholar. He is the dean of the School of Arts & Humanities at California State University, Bakersfield, where he is also a professor of history. [2] His research concerns "political, legal, and religious history in the later Roman Empire". [3]

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Education and career

Frakes grew up in Santa Barbara, California, where he became interested in classics through the mentorship of Vernon P. Ziolkowski. He is a 1984 graduate of Stanford University. After earning a master's degree and teaching certifications in Latin and Social Science through the Stanford Teacher Education Program, he completed a Ph.D. in history at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1991. [2] His dissertation was Audience and meaning in the "Res gestae" of Ammianus Marcellinus, [4] supervised by Harold A. Drake. [5]

From 1991 until 2017, Frakes was a faculty member in history at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. During this time, he was also a Humboldt Research Fellow, visiting the Leopold Wenger Institute for Ancient Legal History and Papyrus Research at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich. [6] At Clarion, he became chair of the Department of Social Sciences. [3] [7]

In 2017, he moved to California State University, Bakersfield as dean of the School of Arts & Humanities and professor of history. [3] [7]

Personal life

Frakes is married to Susan Frakes, a bookbinder. [8] [9] He is the son of historian George E. Frakes and teacher and librarian Catherine Rose Kay Davies Frakes. Like Frakes, both of his parents were educated at Stanford University. [10]

Books

Frakes is the author or editor of several books on ancient history, as well as a college writing textbook. [11] They include:

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References

  1. ↑ Birth year from VIAF authority control record, retrieved 2019-10-20
  2. 1 2 Robert M. Frakes, Stanford University Department of Classics, retrieved 2019-10-19
  3. 1 2 3 CSUB Appoints Deans of Arts and Humanities; Natural Sciences, Mathematics, and Engineering, California State University, Bakersfield, May 2, 2017, retrieved 2019-10-19
  4. ↑ "Audience and meaning in the "Res gestae" of Ammianus Marcellinus", WorldCat catalog, OCLC   638665421
  5. ↑ "Digeser, Frakes Edit Late Antiquity Book" (PDF), Historía: Newsletter of the UCSB History Associates, 21 (3): 3, January 2007
  6. ↑ Frakes, Robert M. (2011-08-25), About the author, Compiling the Collatio Legum Mosaicarum et Romanarum in Late Antiquity, ISBN   9780199589401 , retrieved 2019-10-19– via Google Books
  7. 1 2 Prest, M. J. (August 27, 2017), "Appointments, Resignations, Deaths", The Chronicle of Higher Education
  8. ↑ Kimble, Lisa (November 24, 2018), "The Wonderful World of Bookbinding: Local woman gives life to old books", Bakersfield Life, The Bakersfield Californian
  9. ↑ The Red Brick Gallery announces new exhibit: 'Book Bindings, Poetry, Paintings & Woodworking, Clarion University of Pennsylvania, May 29, 2018
  10. ↑ "Frakes, Catherine Rose Kay Davies", Obituaries, Santa Barbara News-Press, December 18, 2016
  11. ↑ Farkas, Rachel (March 1, 2012), "History professor publishes sixth book", Clarion Call, vol. 98, no. 17, p. 1
  12. ↑ Reviews of Contra potentium iniurias: The Defensor civitatis and Late Roman Justice:
  13. ↑ Review of Writing for College History:
  14. ↑ Reviews of Religious Identity in Late Antiquity:
  15. ↑ Reviews of The Rhetoric of Power in Late Antiquity:
  16. ↑ Reviews of Compiling the Collatio Legum Mosaicarum et Romanarum in Late Antiquity:
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