Cary Barber
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Dr. Barber received his BA in History and Classics from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2008) and his MA and PhD in History from The Ohio State University (2016). Before arriving at Cal State San Bernardino, Cary worked in history and classics departments at Ohio State, University of Oregon, and Wake Forest University, and performed cartographic work at UNC's Ancient World Mapping Center.
Cary studies the convergence of politics, warfare, and death in the Roman Republic as well as the impact of nearly perpetual conflict on Roman social, cultural, and political history. He also uses tools from the social sciences - particularly demography - to reconstruct aspects of life in antiquity for which our sources are largely silent.
Courses/Teaching
Age of Augustus
Ancient Greece
Ancient Rome
Bronze Age and Archaic Greece
Classical and Hellenistic Greece
History of Europe - Part I (800 BCE - CE 1300)
Impact of Warfare in the Ancient World
Roman Empire
Roman Religion
Roman Republic
Trade, Travel, and Migration in the Ancient Mediterranean
World History: Pre-History to CE 1400
Research and Teaching Interests
Barber, C. M. Forthcoming. Politics, Culture, and Ideology in Ancient Rome: Sir Ronald Syme and Modernity. Leiden: Brill.
Barber, C. M. 2022. Perspectives on Politics in the Roman Republic from Niebuhr to Gelzer. Leiden: Brill.
Barber, C. M. 2022. “Undermining the Emperor in Late Roman Africa: Corruption, Maladministration, and the View from the Provinces.” In Local Self-Governance in Antiquity and the Global South. Theoretical and Empirical Insights from an Interdisciplinary Perspective, edited by D. Krüger, Chr. Mohamad-Klotzbach, and R. Pfeilschifter. Berlin: DeGruyter.
Barber, C. M. 2020. "Quibus patet curia: Livy 23.23.6 and the Mid-Republican Aristocracy of Office." Historia 69.3: 332-361.
Barber, C. M. 2019. "Uncovering a 'Lost Generation' of the Roman Republic: Demography and the Hannibalic War." In Romans at War: Soldiers, Citizens, and Society in the Roman Republic, edited by J. Armstrong and M. Fronda, 154-170. Andover: Routledge.
Barber, C. M. 2019. "Richard Sears, Thucydides, and the Peloponnesian War." In Thucydides and International Relations: In Memory of Richard Sears, edited by K. Haigler and K. Harriger.
Barber, C. M. 2016. "'Dulce et Decorum Est': The Senate in the Second Punic War." In Proceedings of the Edward F. Hayes Research Forum. Ohio State University Press. 2016.