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John Evans

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Specialties

  • ancient history
  • political elite of the first and second centuries A.D.
  • Roman history

Publications

  • War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome. Evans, John Karl, Routledge, 1991.
  • Plebs Rustica. The Peasantry of Classical Italy I: the Peasantry in Modern Scholarship. Evans, John Karl, 1980.

Awards

  • Outstanding academic book award recipient (War, Women and Children in Ancient Rome), 1993

Courses Taught

  • Hist 3052 - Ancient Civilization: Greece
  • Hist 3053 - Ancient Civilization: Rome
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Featured Faculty

  • Gary Cohen Awarded Austrian Medal of Honor

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    Gary Cohen has been awarded the Austrian Medal of Honor (Verdienstkreuz) for Science and Arts, First Class. The ceremony was held at the Austrian Embassy in Washington. He was presented the award by Dr. Christian Prosl, the Austrian Ambassador to the United States.

    Congratulations to Gary! This is a much-deserved recognition of Gary's scholarship on the Habsburg Empire and his leadership of the Center for Austrian Studies.

    November 17th, 2009
  • Regina Kunzel, Lambda Literary Award Recipient

    Regina Kunzel has been awarded the Lambda Literary Award in the category of LGBT Studies for her book Criminal Intimacy: Prison and the Uneven History of Modern American Sexuality. Congratulations Regina.

    June 5th, 2009
  • Donna Gabaccia, Fesler-Lampert Chair

    Tthe Graduate School has appointed Donna Gabaccia to the Fesler-Lampert Chair in Public Humanities for 2009-2010.

    June 5th, 2009

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