Randolph Ford
visiting assistant professor
Office: Filene 211
Telephone: 518-580-5233
Email: rford@skidmore.edu
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., New York University (2016)
- M.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison (2009)
- B.A., University of Wisconsin-Madison (2000)
DOCTORAL DISSERTATION
- Ethnographic Identities and the Politics of Empire in Late Roman and Early Medieval Chinese Historiography
TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS
- History of the Roman Republic and Empire
- Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
- Greek and Roman historiography and ethnography
- Ethnicity and identity in the ancient world
- Comparative approaches to the study of antiquity
- Ancient China and its relations with Central Asia
SELECT PUBLICATIONS
- (Forthcoming) “Barbarians in Early Byzantium.” Dialogues d’histoire ancienne. Ed. Anca Dan and Huang Yang. Presses univ. de Franche-Comté, 2023.
- “Anger as an Ethnographic Trope: Changing Views from Aristotle to Seneca.” Emotions across Cultures: Classical Greece and China. Ed. David Konstan. De Gruyter, 2022.
- “The Wars of Procopius and the Jinshu of Fang Xuanling: Historiographical Representations of Barbarian Political Identity under Reconstituted Empires.” In Historiography and Identity IV: Writing History Across Medieval Eurasia. Ed. by Walter Pohl and Daniel Mahoney. Brepols, 2021.
- Rome, China, and the Barbarians: Ethnographic Traditions and the Transformation of Empires. Cambridge University Press, 2020.
- “From Scythian, to Getan, to Goth: The Getica of Jordanes and the Classical Ethnographic Tradition.” In Historiographies and Identity II: Post-Roman Multiplicity and New Political Identities. Ed. Helmut Reimitz and Gerda Heydemann. Brepols, 2020.
- “The Gaxian Cave 嘎仙洞 Inscription: The Perpetuation of Steppe Tradition under the Northern Wei Dynasty.” Archivum Eurasiae Medii Aevi, Vol. 20 (2013), pp. 23-66.