FRED K. DROGULA

Fred K. Drogula Department of Classics and World Religions /Ellis 242 / Ohio University / 1 Ohio University / Athens, OH 45701 740-597-2102 / drogula@ohio.edu

Education: Ph.D., University of Virginia, History, 2005. Dissertation: The Office of the Provincial Governor under the Roman Republic and Empire [to AD 235]: Conception and Tradition (directed by Elizabeth A. Meyer). American School of Classical Studies, Athens (2001-2002). M.A., University of Virginia, History, 2000. American Academy in Rome Summer Seminar, 1996. M.A., Boston University, Classics, 1994. B.A., Kenyon College, Classics, 1992.

Teaching Experience: Charles J. Ping Professor of Humanities and Professor of Classics, Ohio University (2018-present). Professor of History and Classics, Providence College (2016-2018). Associate Professor of History, Providence College (2011-2016). Assistant Professor of History, Providence College (2006-2011). Visiting Assistant Professor, Kenyon College (2005-2006). Teacher of Latin, Saddle River Day School (1994-1998).

Honors: Foreign Scholar Fellowship, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut for study at the Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik in Munich, 2019. Winner, Accinno Award for Teaching Excellence, Providence College 2014. Foreign Scholar Fellowship, Deutsches Archäologisches Institut for study at the Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik in Munich, 2013. Member, Interdisciplinary Faculty Seminar, Providence College 2013. Finalist, Accinno Award for Teaching Excellence, Providence College 2013. Mellon Dissertation Seminar Fellowship (“Proving Grounds,” H. Tucker, director) University of Virginia, 2004. Seymour Day Fellowship, American School of Classical Studies, Athens 2001-2002. Finalist, Seven-Society Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching, University of Virginia 2001. Winner, University Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching in the Arts and Humanities, University of Virginia 2001. Winner, Award for Outstanding Graduate Teaching in History, University of Virginia 2001. Award for Excellence in Teaching, Drew University 1999. NEH Fellowship, 1997 (to San Diego State University). Fulbright Fellowship, 1996. Geraldine Dodge Fellowship, 1996.

Publications:

Books: Cato the Younger: Life and Death at the End of the Roman Republic, Oxford University Press (2019).
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Reviews: B. Boyle, Wall Street Journal (July 26, 2019). Commanders and Command in the Roman Republic and Early Empire (Studies in the History of Greece and Rome), Chapel Hill (2015). Reviews: E. Wheeler, Classical Journal Online 2017.06.06 (June 2017). J. Rich, The Journal of Roman Studies 106 (November 2016). J. Roth, The American Historical Review 121.4 (October 2016). S. Day, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2016.06.28 (June 2016). J. Armstrong, Michigan War Studies Review 2016-34 (March 2016). T. Creer, H-Net Reviews (October 2015). S. Lentzsch, H-Soz-Kult 09.11.2015 (September 2015). R. Sheldon, Journal of Military History 79.3 (July 2015).

Articles: “Provinciae and Private Warfare in the Early Roman Republic,” forthcoming in Alejandro Díaz Fernández (ed.), Provinciae, Imperatores et Socii in the Roman Republic. Brill. “The Institutionalization of Warfare in Early Rome,” in Michael Fronda and Jeremy Armstrong (eds.), Romans at War: Soldiers, Citizens, and Society in the Roman Republic. Routledge (2020). “Plebeian Tribunes and the Government of Early Rome,” Antichthon 51 (2017) 101-23. “Who was Watching Whom? A Reassessment of the Conflict between Germanicus and Piso,” American Journal of Philology 136.1 (2015). “The Lex Porcia and the Development of Legal Restraints on Roman Governors,” Chiron: Mitteilungen der Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts 41 (2011) 91-124. “Controlling Travel: Deportation, Islands, and the Regulation of Senatorial Mobility in the Augustan Principate,” The Classical Quarterly 61.1 (2011) 58-94. “Imperium, Potestas, and the Pomerium in the Roman Republic,” Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte 56.4 (2007) 419-52.

Encyclopedia Entries and Bibliographic Supplements: “Leges Liciniae Sextiae,” in R. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. Champion, A. Erskine, and S. Hübner, eds. Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Ancient History (2016). “Adrogatio,” “Coercitio,” “Heredium,” “Lex, leges,” and “Plebiscitum,” in R. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. Champion, A. Erskine, and S. Hübner, eds. Blackwell’s Encyclopedia of Ancient History (2012). With Joseph C. Miller, “Slavery: Annual Bibliographical Supplement (2003),” Slavery and Abolition 25.3 (2004) 144-215. With Joseph C. Miller, “Slavery: Annual Bibliographical Supplement (2002),” Slavery and Abolition 24.3 (2003) 145-240.

Book Reviews: Review of Emma Dench. Empire and Political Cultures in the Roman World, in progress for Klio: Beiträge zur alten Geschichte. Review of Nicola Terrenato. The Early Roman Expansion into Italy, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.12.5 (2019). Review of J. Alison Rosenblitt. Rome After Sulla, in Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2019.08.15 (2019). Review of Jeremy Armstrong. War and Society in Early Rome, in Etruscan Studies 22.1 (2019). Review of Daniel J. Gargola. The Shape of the Roman Order: The Republic and Its Spaces, in Classical World
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111.4 (2018). Review of Ayelet Haimson Lushkov. Magistracy and the historiography of the Roman Republic: Politics in Prose, in The American Journal of Philology 137.3 (2016). Review of Carsten H. Lange and Frederik J. Vervaet (eds.), The Roman Republican Triumph Beyond the Spectacle, in The Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2016.3.40 (2016). Review of Dean Hammer, Roman Political Thought, in The New England Classical Journal (2016). Review of Dexter Hoyos, Mastering the West: Rome and Carthage at War, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2015.09.40 (2015). Review of Nathan Rosenstein, Rome and the Mediterranean 290 to 146 BC: The Imperial Republic, The Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2014.05.13 (2014). Review of Kathryn Welch, Magnus Pius: Sextus Pompeius and the Transformation of the Roman Republic, The Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2013.07.43 (2013). Review of Robert Garland, Hannibal, The Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2010.09.48 (2010). Review of John Richardson, The Language of Empire, The Classical Journal (2010). Review of Michael Pitassi, The Navies of Rome, The International Journal of Maritime History 21.2 (2009). Review of Gordon P. Kelly, A History of Exile in the Roman World, in The New England Classical Journal 35.3 (2008). Review of Myles McDonnell, Roman Manliness, in The New England Classical Journal 34.2 (2007).

Book Manuscript in Progress: The Senate in the Early Roman Republic.

Articles and Book Chapters in Progress: “Rome and the Empire,” in Nathan Rosenstein (ed.), The Oxford History of the Roman World. “Becoming a Leader in the Roman Republic,” in Sarah Ferrario and Norman Sandridge (eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Leadership in the Ancient Mediterranean World.

Invited Talks and Conference Papers: “The Roman Senate in the Third Century BC,” Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting (3-6 January, 2019). “Imperium: The Word that Build an Empire,” Classical Association of New England Summer Institute, Brown University, USA (11 July, 2018). “Provinciae and Warlords in Early Rome,” for the workshop “Provinciae, Imperatores et Socii in the Roman Republic,” at the University of Málaga, Spain (October 5-6, 2017). “The Legalization of Warfare,” Celtic Conference in Classics, Montreal, Canada (19-22 July, 2017). “Cato and the Reception of Roman Tradition,” Classical Association of New England Summer Institute, Brown University, USA (13 July, 2017). “The Stoicism of M. Porcius Cato the Younger,” New England Ancient Historians’ Colloquium, April 2016. “Magisterial Power in the Urban Sphere of the Republic,” for the conference “Power and Politics in the Early Roman Republic,” at the University of Auckland (January 26-27, 2016). “Caesar and Cato: Who Killed the Roman Republic?,” Making History Series, Providence College (November 19, 2015). “Forged in Battle: The Origins of Ancient Roman Governance,” Kenyon College (14 April, 2015) “Roman Law and Provincial Commanders: the Lex de Provinciis Praetoriis and the Lex Porcia,” Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, Munich, Germany (19 June 2009). “Neither Italy nor Province: The Ideas behind Island Exile in the Roman Empire,” Providence College (17 April 2008).
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“Gates of Fire: Truth, Exaggerations, and Hollywood,” Providence College (23 March 2007). “Carving their Names in Stone: The Governorship in the Roman Provinces,” University of Oxford, United Kingdom (7 March 2007). “Controlling Egypt: The Regulation of Senatorial Travel in the Roman Provinces,” American Philosophical Association Annual Meeting, New Orleans, USA (5 January 2003). “Restrictions on Senatorial Travel,” Third Annual Symposium on Roman Imperial Ideology, Cumae, Italy (May 2002). “The Evolution of Athenian Naval Strategies,” Symposium in Honor of William McCulloh, Kenyon College, Ohio, USA (March 1999).

Professional Memberships: Society for Classical Studies (formerly the American Philological Society), The Association of Ancient Historians, The Classical Association of the Middle West and South.

Courses Taught at Ohio University: CLAS 2310: Human Aspirations CLAS 2320: Democracy and Republicanism in the Ancient World CLAS 2350: War and Society in Ancient Greece and Rome CLAS 2390: Ethnicity in the Ancient World CLAS 2520: Classical Athens CLAS 2530: Alexander the Great CLAS 3430: Women in the Classical World

Courses Taught at Providence College: DWC 101: Development of Western Civilization. DWC 202: DWC Colloquium “Our Monsters, Ourselves.” GRK 101-102: Elementary Greek. GRK 201-202: Intermediate Greek. GRK 301-301: Advanced Greek. HIS 280: Ethnicity in the Ancient World. HIS 337: The Ancient Greek World. HIS 338: The Roman Republic and Empire. HIS 360: Greek and Roman Warfare. HIS 481: Seminar: Ancient Sparta. HIS 481: Seminar: Women in the Ancient World. HIS 482: Seminar: Alexander the Great. HIS 482: Seminar: Rome’s First Emperors. HIS 482: Seminar: The Rise and Fall of the Athenian Democracy. HIS 490: Senior Honors Thesis. HON 101-102: Development of Western Civilization. LAT 101-102: Elementary Latin. LAT 201-202: Intermediate Latin. SU114M: Seminar: Rise of the Polis (Maymester course). Select Institutional Service (Ohio University): Director, Charles J. Ping Institute for the Humanities (2018-present). Curriculum Coordinator for Classics, Department of Classics and World Religions (2019-present). Faculty Development Committee, Department of Classics and World Religions (2018-present).
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Member, Arts and Sciences Outstanding Teacher Awards Committee (2019-present). Chair, Interview Committee for Cutler Scholarships (2019-present). Colloquium Leader, Cutler Scholars Program (2020-present). Member, CAS Dean’s Advisory Committee for Promotion (2020).

Select Institutional Service (Providence College): President of the Faculty Senate (2012-2018). Chair, Provost’s Advisory Committee (2015-2018). At-large Senator to the Faculty Senate (2013-2018). Faculty Representative, Board of Trustees’ Committee on Strategic Planning (2012-2018). Member, Shared Governance Committee (Spring 2015-2018). Senate Liaison, Core Curriculum Administrative Implementation Team (2012-2018). Graduate Admissions Committee of the History Department (2007-2018). Chair, Subcommittee to Review College Governance for NEASC Accreditation Review (2016-2017). Subcommittee to revise the Department Guidelines on Tenure and Promotion (2014-Fall 2016). Member, Teaching Award Selection Committee (2014-2016). Chair, Subcommittee to Update College Strategic Plan on Academic Excellence (2013-2015). COACHE Faculty Job Satisfaction Survey Committee (2014-2015). Advisor for the undergraduate Classics Society (2012-15). Department Senator to the Faculty Senate (2009-2013). Academic Advising Committee (2008-2013). Advisor for the undergraduate History Club (2007-2016). Honors Thesis Advisor: 2015-2016: Charles Rainville. 2014-2015: Jacob Cohen. 2013-2014: Kayla Fernandes.

Select Service to the Field: Outside evaluator for promotion to full professor (institution withheld). Dissertation Reader (outside): 2016: David Rafferty, “Consular and Praetorian Provincial Allocations in the Late Roman Republic,” University of Melbourne. Professor, Classical Association of New England Summer Institute (2015-2018). Conference Organizer, New England Ancient Historians Colloquium (Spring 2015). Member, Managing Committee, American School of Classical Studies in Athens (2011-present). Article Blind Peer-Reviewer, American Journal of Philology, Oxford Classical Dictionary, Historia, The Classical Journal, Classical Philology, and Transactions of the American Philosophical Association. Book Reviewer, Bryn Mawr Classical Review, Classical Journal, Etruscan Studies, New England Classical Journal, The International Journal of Maritime History, Classical World, The American Journal of Philology.

Select Community Service: Trustee, The Mary Catherine Kilday and George Malzone Foundation (2014-present).