Degrees:
Ph.D., Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A., Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
M.A., Univ. of Wisconsin-Madison
B.A., Univ. of Illinois, Urbana
Professor Reger's research tries to bring together a wide variety of sources – literary, documentary, numismatic, and archaeological – in an effort to deepen and nuance students' understanding of the ancient Greek and Roman worlds of the eastern Mediterranean. The interplay of institutional structures with the actions of individuals especially intrigues him as a ground for historical exploration; he is equally fascinated by the glimpses of everyday life that some documentary evidence affords. In Professor Reger's teaching, he seeks to share some of the excitement and fascination of this complex, multi-textured approach to the past, but without (he hopes) setting himself up as an expert: the past is a foreign country, and we are all, to one degree or another, strangers there. |
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Greek and Roman history
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Pre-Islamic Middle East
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Economic and social history of Hellenistic and Roman imperial Asia Minor and the Near East
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Greek epigraphy and papyrology
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Greek numismatics
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Books:
- Reger, Gary. Regionalism and Change in the Economy of Independent Delos. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1994.
- Reger, Gary, F. X. Ryan, and Timothy S. Winter (eds.). Studies in Greek Epigraphy and History in Honor of Stephen V. Tracy. Bordeaux: Ausonius, 2010.
- Elton, Hugh, and Gary Reger (eds.). Regionalism in Hellenistic and Roman Asia Minor. Bordeaux: Ausonius, 2007.
- Ach, Jada, and Gary Reger (eds.). Reading Aridity in Western American Literature. Lanham: Lexington Books, 2020.
Selected Journal Articles and Book Chapters:
- “A Letter of Septimius Severus to the Lykian League on the Misbehavior of Soldiers. A New Inscription from Choma (Hacimusalar Höyük), Northern Lykia,” Chiron 50 (2020), 253-285.
- “Greeks and Romans in the Sahara Desert,” Global Environment 12 (2019), 22-55.
- “On the Border in Arizona and Greece: Border Studies and the Boundaries of the Greek Polis,” Historical Geography 45 (2017), 188-219.
- “Romans in the Egyptian Desert. From Desert Space to Roman Place,” in Économie et inégalité : ressources, échanges et pouvoir dans l’Antiquité classique, eds. Sitta Von Reden and Pascal Derron. Vandoeuvres-Geneva: Fondation Hardt, 2017, 115-149.
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- Fulbright Fellow, Australia, 2021-2022
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, 2017-2018
- Sara B. Aleshire Center for Greek Epigraphy, University of California-Berkeley, visiting lecturer, March 2010
- Hyde Fellow, University of Pennsylvania Department of Classical Studies, 2006
- Dana Research Professor, Trinity College, 2005/6-2007/8
- Elizabeth A. Whitehead Visiting Professor, American School of Classical Studies at Athens, Greece, 2003-2004
- National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow, 1997-1998
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