Timothy Doran
B.A. (Berkeley, 2002),
M.A. (Berkeley, 2005)
Doctoral Examination Fields:
Greek History and Material Culture ca. 600 – 336
Roman History, Regal to Early Empire
Phoenician Economy, Culture, and Religion
Interests:
Epigraphy, demography, economics, state and alliance formation, international systems theory, ethnicity, ruler worship, ancient eugenic practices and demographic regimes, historical theory, physical and cultural anthropology, human behavioral ecology, social science approaches to ancient history, Darwinian approaches to human behavior and culture; Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Livy, Suetonius, Tacitus, Plutarch, Juvenal; historiography, literature, tragedy (especially Aeschylus); modern intellectual history, the “culture wars” in American academia, modern totalitarianism, film noir and the music, culture, history, style, and clothing of the period ca. 1914 - 1950