Rutgers University–New Brunswick
- Brittney Cooper
- Associate Professor of Africana Studies / Women's and Gender Studies
- Degree: Ph.D., Emory University
- Specialty: Black women’s intellectual history; Black feminist thought; race and gender politics in hip hop and popular culture
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- Carla Cevasco
- Assistant Professor of American Studies
- Degree: Ph.D., Harvard
- Specialty: Food, medicine, and material culture in colonial North America
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- Trinidad Rico
- Associate Professor of Art History
- Degree: Ph.D., Stanford University
- Specialty: Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies
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- Paul Israel
- Research Professor; and Director and General Editor, Thomas A. Edison Papers Project
- Specialty: Modern US: History of Science and Technology
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Office: Room 202C,44 Road 3 Building, Livingston Campus
Publications
The Papers of Thomas A. Edison, Vol. 8 New Beginnings, January 1885-December 1887
Johns Hopkins University Press, 2015
- Thomas J. Figueira
- Distinguished Professor of Classics and of Ancient History
- Degree: Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania
- Rutgers : At Rutgers Since 1979
- Specialty: Ancient and Medieval European History
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This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. - Office: 15 Seminary Place, 6th Floor
- Office 2: 202 Van Dyck Hall
Other Degrees:
- B.A., Fordham University
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Thomas Figueira has been an active scholar in the fields of Greek history and literature, publishing on the history of the cities of Aegina, Athens, Megara, and Sparta, as well as on coinage, colonization, demography, and trade. He is currently working on a number of topics, including Attic demography; the Athenian tribute system; the economy of Sparta; the hero Aiakos; and the genesis of the democratic mind.
COURSES REGULARLY TAUGHT
Undergraduate
- 510:201: Ancient Greece
- 510:202: Ancient Rome
- 510:300: Greek and Roman Slavery
- 510:301: Early Greece
- 510:302: Classical Greece
- 510:303: The Hellenistic World
- 510:304: The Rise of the Roman Republic
- 510:307: Ancient Cultural and Intellectual History
- 510:320: Women in Antiquity
- 510:403: Ancient Warfare and Diplomacy
Graduate
- Courses in Greek, Latin, and Ancient History in the Classics Department
PUBLICATIONS
- Aegina (Arno Press [New York Times Books], New York 1981; repr. 1982, 1986, 1998 Ayer)
- Athens and Aigina in the Age of Imperial Colonization* (The Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1991)
- Excursions in Epichoric History (Rowman & Littlefield, Lanham, MD 1993)
- The Power of Money: Coinage and Politics in the Athenian Empire (University of Pennsylvania Press, Philadelphia 1998; E-book: 2010)
- T.J. Figueira, T.C. Brennan, and R.H. Sternberg, Wisdom from the Ancients: Enduring Business Lessons from Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, and The Illustrious Leaders of Ancient Greece and Rome (Perseus Press, Boston 2001)
AWARDS
- Research Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, 1984-85
- Research Fellowship, Center for Hellenic Studies (Harvard University), Washington,
- D.C., 1982-83
- Fulbright Research Fellowship to Greece, 1976-77
PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS
- Association of Ancient Historians
- American Historical Association
- Society for Classical Studies
- Archaeological Institute of America.