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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]

Education and career

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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

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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

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

  • Contra Potentium Iniurias: The Defensor Civitatis and Late Roman Justice (Münchener Beiträge zur Papyrusforschung und Antiken Rechtsgeschichte 90, C. H. Beck, 2001)[12]
  • Writing for College History: A Short Handbook (Cengage, 2004)[13]
  • Religious Identity in Late Antiquity (edited with Elizabeth DePalma Digeser, Edgar Kent, 2006)[14]
  • The Rhetoric of Power in Late Antiquity: Religion and Politics in Byzantium, Europe and the Early Islamic World (edited with Elizabeth DePalma Digeser and Justin Stephens, Tauris Academic Studies, 2010)[15]
  • Compiling the Collatio Legum Mosaicarum et Romanarum in Late Antiquity (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)[16]

References

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  1. ^ Birth year from VIAF authority control record, retrieved 2019-10-20
  2. ^ a b Robert M. Frakes, Stanford University Department of Classics, retrieved 2019-10-19
  3. ^ a b c 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. ^ a b 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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