Rate My Professor Gary Farney

Gary D. Farney is an Associate Professor of History in the Federated Department of History at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - Newark. He currently serves as Director of the Division of Global Affairs (since July 2021) and as Director of the interdepartmental undergraduate Program in Ancient and Medieval Civilizations (since 2008). Farney has also held the position of Chairperson for the Rutgers’ side of the department (2010–2012 and Spring 2014) and is a member of the Newark Faculty Council. He is affiliated faculty in the Department of Classics at Rutgers-New Brunswick. Earlier in his career, Farney was Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Hollins University (1999–2000) and Assistant Professor of Classics at the Intercollegiate Center for Classical Studies in Rome (2000–2001). He earned a B.A. in Classical Studies and History from Indiana University in 1991, an M.A. in Greek, Latin, and Classical Studies from Bryn Mawr College in 1993, and a Ph.D. in the same field from Bryn Mawr College in 1999.

Farney’s research specializations include Roman archaeology, with a focus on the archaeology of Italy, Roman villas, and the topography of Rome, as well as Roman history, particularly Republican political culture, ethnic and group identities in Italy, Roman prosopography, numismatics, and historians such as Sallust, Livy, and fragmentary Republican authors. His major publications include the monograph Ethnic Identity and Aristocratic Competition in the Roman Republic (Cambridge University Press, 2007; paperback edition 2010), and he co-edited The Peoples of Ancient Italy with Guy Bradley (De Gruyter, 2017). He has authored or co-authored numerous articles and chapters, such as “Forum Novum and the Limits of Roman Colonization in Italy” (2019), “Excavations at the Roman Villa of Vacone” (2019), and “The Sabines” (2017). Farney is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Ancient History (De Gruyter). He co-directs the Upper Sabina Tiberina Project, an ongoing archaeological survey and excavation in central Italy. Additionally, he has directed Rutgers study abroad programs in Greece (2005–2010), Italy, and Malta, and served as Senior Resident Fellow at the Research Center for Anatolian Civilizations in Istanbul, Turkey (Spring 2013).