{"id":944,"date":"2016-03-31T13:23:50","date_gmt":"2016-03-31T13:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/?p=944"},"modified":"2016-03-31T13:23:50","modified_gmt":"2016-03-31T13:23:50","slug":"gary-reger-receives-competitive-neh-fellowship-to-write-about-economic-history-of-the-greco-roman-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/2016\/03\/31\/gary-reger-receives-competitive-neh-fellowship-to-write-about-economic-history-of-the-greco-roman-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Gary Reger Receives Competitive NEH Fellowship to Write About Economic History of the Greco-Roman World"},"content":{"rendered":"

Gary Reger<\/a>, Hobart Professor of Classical Languages at Trinity College, has received an award of $50,400 from the National Endowment for the Humanities through its Fellowship program. The NEH Fellowship program is extremely competitive and prestigious; approximately 7 percent of applicants receive funding. Reger\u2019s grant-supported research project will result in a book that will serve as an introduction to the economic history of the Greek and Roman world, covering the time period of roughly 1200 BCE to 400 CE.<\/p>\n

\"Gary<\/a>Reger said the book will be accessible for general readers and those advanced undergraduate and graduate students studying the Greco-Roman world who want a comprehensive introduction. The book\u2019s sections will include a narrative, a chronological discussion of Greco-Roman economic history, and a series of \u201ccase-studies\u201d of focused, specific questions, designed to exploit a wide variety of economic historical matters.<\/p>\n

\u201cI will try to show how some of the more recent theoretical and modeling approaches that have shaped or re-shaped the way that we think about the economy in the Greek and Roman world,\u201d Reger said of his research method. \u201cI will do this through a narrative of economic change and continuity over time, and more importantly, through a series of case studies that focus in on very particular times and questions.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reger\u2019s goal is for this project to contribute to his field of study and to the humanities more generally. \u201cI\u2019m hoping this book will serve as an entr\u00e9e into a world that is pretty complicated,\u201d he said. \u201cThere is a lot of literature that is not in English, thus not very accessible. I\u2019m hoping I can bring that material to bear, and in the process hopefully get people to ask new types of questions and think in different ways about the problems and issues that are connected to Greek and Roman economic history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Reger does not see his research as insulated from his classroom. He welcomes the connection between his research and his teaching. He said, \u201cI think there\u2019s a great deal of student interest in economic history. It\u2019s clear to me that students are interested in this \u2018deep past\u2019 question. There\u2019s a lot of interest in economics now while the political process is taking place, students find it interesting to look at similar issues in different historical contexts.\u201d<\/p>\n

Written by Josh LeBlanc \u201916<\/em><\/p>\n

Photo by John Marinelli<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Gary Reger, Hobart Professor of Classical Languages at Trinity College, has received an award of $50,400 from the National Endowment for the Humanities through its Fellowship program. The NEH Fellowship program is extremely competitive and prestigious; approximately 7 percent of applicants receive funding. Reger\u2019s grant-supported research project will result in a book that will serve […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1424,"featured_media":945,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[28],"tags":[279,80,278,64,32,280,51,190],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1424"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":946,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/944\/revisions\/946"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/facultyhighlights\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}