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HUMANITIES SOCSCI
University of California
Riverside, CA 92521

Scanlon, Thomas F

Professor of Classics; Chairman

College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences

Comparative Literature & Foreign Languages


Biography

Thomas Scanlon is a Professor of Classics. His areas of research specialization are Greek and Latin historical writing, Greek athletics, Greek religion, and Greek and Roman gender and sexuality. His main publications are 4 books: Eros and Athletics: Cults, Initiation, and Gender in Ancient Greece,New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press, forthcoming. Spes Frustrata: Hope in Sallust (Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1987). Greek and Roman Athletics: A Bibliography (Chicago: Ares, 1984). The Influence of Thucydides on Sallust (Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1980).
Professor Scanlon has also been instrumental in the planning and implementation of a B.A. dergee and program at UCR on Comparative Ancient Civilizations, and the intercampus Ph.D. program UC Tri-Campus Graduate Program in Classics (UCI, UCR, UCSD).

Former Institution

University of California, Los Angeles: University of Maryland, College Park

Degrees

BA magna cum laude 1972

Duquesne University

M.A Classics 1975

Ohio State University

Ph.D. Classics 1978

Ohio State University

Awards

Fulbright-Hays Post-doctoral Fellowship (University of Vienna) 1978-79.
UC Riverside Junior Faculty Fellowships (Winter 1983 and Winter 1985).
UC Riverside Academic Senate Faculty Research and Travel Grants (two per year, 1981-2000).
UC Riverside Major Grant for Instructional Improvement , 1986-87.
Teaching Assistantships in Classics, Ohio State University, 1973-78.
B.A. magna cum laude, Duquesne University, 1973.
Dissertation-year Fellowship (Corpus Christi College, Cambridge) 1976-77.


Research Area

1) Greek and Latin Historical Writing; (2) Greek and Roman Athletics, Religion and Gender

Publications

(A) Books and Monographs
1. Eros and Greek Athletics (Oxford Univ. Press, Jan. 2002)
2. Olympia and Macedonia: Games,Gymnasia and Politics (Thessalonik. Soc.: Toronto,1997)
3. Spes Frustrata: Hope in Sallust (Carl Winter: Heidelberg, 1987).
4. Greek and Roman Athletics: A Bibliography (Ares: Chicago, 1984).
5. The Influence of Thucydides on Sallust (Carl Winter: Heidelberg, 1980).

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