Rate My Professor Gary Farney

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).