Robert Martin Frakes (born 1962)[1] is an American classics scholar. He is the dean of the School of Arts & Humanities at California State University, Bakersfield, where he is also a professor of history.[2] His research concerns "political, legal, and religious history in the later Roman Empire".[3]
Frakes grew up in Santa Barbara, California, where he became interested in classics through the mentorship of Vernon P. Ziolkowski. He is a 1984 graduate of Stanford University. After earning a master's degree and teaching certifications in Latin and Social Science through the Stanford Teacher Education Program, he completed a Ph.D. in history at the University of California, Santa Barbara in 1991.[2] His dissertation was Audience and meaning in the "Res gestae" of Ammianus Marcellinus,[4] supervised by Harold A. Drake.[5]
From 1991 until 2017, Frakes was a faculty member in history at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. During this time, he was also a Humboldt Research Fellow, visiting the Leopold Wenger Institute for Ancient Legal History and Papyrus ResearchatLudwig Maximilian University of Munich.[6] At Clarion, he became chair of the Department of Social Sciences.[3][7]
In 2017, he moved to California State University, Bakersfield as dean of the School of Arts & Humanities and professor of history.[3][7]
Frakes is married to Susan Frakes, a bookbinder.[8][9] He is the son of historian George E. Frakes and teacher and librarian Catherine Rose Kay Davies Frakes. Like Frakes, both of his parents were educated at Stanford University.[10]
Frakes is the author or editor of several books on ancient history, as well as a college writing textbook.[11] They include:
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