Timothy D. Doran
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- School: California State University Los Angeles
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- Department: History
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5151 State University Dr
Los Angeles, CA - 90032 - Dates at California State University Los Angeles: February 2013 - January 2020
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Prof. Doran is amazing. He really cares about his students but he also expects you to put in as much effort as he does. I suggest you really read everything thoroughly and brush up on memorization techniques. You will fail the quiz if you rely on sparknotes for the books. This class is quite a lot of work, but everything's worth it.
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I learned so much in this course. This is because of Professor Doran's direct and interesting style of teaching. He's an extraordinarily clear communicator. Also, he will send weekly emails to class, reminding us of assignments, informing us about extra credit opportunities, visiting lectures and social movements around campus and the city. I'll give him an A+ for his teachings.
Biography
California State University Los Angeles - History
Associate Professor at California State University-Los Angeles
Timothy
Doran
Los Angeles, California
Associate Professor: History Department at California State University, Los Angeles.
Ancient Greek History, Roman History, Ancient Near Eastern History, Big History.
I also have experience teaching Greek and Roman literature and the ancient Greek and Latin languages. I am a fully trained Classicist and ancient historian (PhD from Berkeley, 2011) and am conversant with all aspects of the field of Greco-Roman studies from philosophy to art history to archaeology to literary theory.
My primary interests, however, are devising means to understand the ways in which population affects culture and culture affects population: this subsumes a great deal of aspects of human life. It includes cultural history: for example, the cultural changes occurring due to a demographic event or process such new art forms or literary ideas that come about due to a migration, to the growing up of a generation, etc. It involves social history: resource acquisition strategies of different ethnic groups often depend upon those groups' population size and characteristics. Finally, gender history: the roots of patriarchy and thus of all known marriage arrangements are quite biological and have much to do with demography.
Specialties: Greek and Roman history (political, social, cultural, economic, demographic) and literature. Demography, political theory, and social science approaches to the study of the ancient world.
Lately I have added Big History to my skill set and enjoy it immensely. This is a way of looking at the entirety of the past, from the Big Bang onward, and making projections about future events, all the way to the Heat Death of the Universe. In a Big History course, I end up teaching some astronomy, physics, geology, and biology before reaching human beings.
Experience
Education
Saint Joan of Arc Elementary School, Los Angeles
PenmanshipUniversity of California, Berkeley
Ph.D.
Ancient History
PhD Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology
Publications
Review of George Cawkwell's Cyrene to Chaeronea: Selected Essays on Ancient Greek History.
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Positive review of Oxford University Press book reprinting a selection of Cawkwell's articles published from 1962 onward, politely disagreeing with a few of Cawkwell's arguments about Sparta.
Review of George Cawkwell's Cyrene to Chaeronea: Selected Essays on Ancient Greek History.
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Positive review of Oxford University Press book reprinting a selection of Cawkwell's articles published from 1962 onward, politely disagreeing with a few of Cawkwell's arguments about Sparta.
Review of Mabel Lang's "Thucydidean Narrative and Discourse"
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Review of a posthumous publication of a wide range of Lang's work, some previously published.
Review of George Cawkwell's Cyrene to Chaeronea: Selected Essays on Ancient Greek History.
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Positive review of Oxford University Press book reprinting a selection of Cawkwell's articles published from 1962 onward, politely disagreeing with a few of Cawkwell's arguments about Sparta.
Review of Mabel Lang's "Thucydidean Narrative and Discourse"
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Review of a posthumous publication of a wide range of Lang's work, some previously published.
Review of Lukas Thommen's "Die Wirtschaft Spartas"
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Appreciative (but at points critical) review of German work on the ancient Spartan economy, also giving my stance on a few important aspects of the study of ancient Sparta.
Review of George Cawkwell's Cyrene to Chaeronea: Selected Essays on Ancient Greek History.
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Positive review of Oxford University Press book reprinting a selection of Cawkwell's articles published from 1962 onward, politely disagreeing with a few of Cawkwell's arguments about Sparta.
Review of Mabel Lang's "Thucydidean Narrative and Discourse"
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Review of a posthumous publication of a wide range of Lang's work, some previously published.
Review of Lukas Thommen's "Die Wirtschaft Spartas"
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Appreciative (but at points critical) review of German work on the ancient Spartan economy, also giving my stance on a few important aspects of the study of ancient Sparta.
Eugenic Ideology in the Hellenistic Spartan Reforms
Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte
Abstract: Eugenic ideology has received insufficient attention in scholarly treatments of the reforms of the third-century Hellenistic Spartan kings Agis IV (r. 244–241 BC) and Kleomenes III (r. 235–222 BC), who attempted to replenish the Spartiate population through enfranchisement. However, close analysis of the language in our surviving source material suggests that eugenic fixations underlay both the enfranchisements proposed by these reformers as well as some of the debates over their reforms. Adherence to Spartan tradition compelled these reformers to present their reforms as compliant with previous native Spartan eugenic ideology, and shaped and restricted what they were able to accomplish. Keywords: Sparta – Agis IV – Kleomenes III – Eugenic Ideology – Hellenistic World – Spartan Tradition
Review of George Cawkwell's Cyrene to Chaeronea: Selected Essays on Ancient Greek History.
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Positive review of Oxford University Press book reprinting a selection of Cawkwell's articles published from 1962 onward, politely disagreeing with a few of Cawkwell's arguments about Sparta.
Review of Mabel Lang's "Thucydidean Narrative and Discourse"
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Review of a posthumous publication of a wide range of Lang's work, some previously published.
Review of Lukas Thommen's "Die Wirtschaft Spartas"
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Appreciative (but at points critical) review of German work on the ancient Spartan economy, also giving my stance on a few important aspects of the study of ancient Sparta.
Eugenic Ideology in the Hellenistic Spartan Reforms
Historia: Zeitschrift für Alte Geschichte
Abstract: Eugenic ideology has received insufficient attention in scholarly treatments of the reforms of the third-century Hellenistic Spartan kings Agis IV (r. 244–241 BC) and Kleomenes III (r. 235–222 BC), who attempted to replenish the Spartiate population through enfranchisement. However, close analysis of the language in our surviving source material suggests that eugenic fixations underlay both the enfranchisements proposed by these reformers as well as some of the debates over their reforms. Adherence to Spartan tradition compelled these reformers to present their reforms as compliant with previous native Spartan eugenic ideology, and shaped and restricted what they were able to accomplish. Keywords: Sparta – Agis IV – Kleomenes III – Eugenic Ideology – Hellenistic World – Spartan Tradition
Review of Holleran and Pudsey (ed.) "Demography and the Greco-Roman World: New Insights and Approaches"
Bryn Mawr Classical Review
Critical (largely very positive) review of this new edited volume. Included notes on what I perceive as a great rift in the discipline of Classics/Ancient History, a rift in both methodology and, frankly, in world-view.
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