Dr David Rafferty
Lecturer
School of Humanities
Faculty of Arts, Business, Law and Economics
Eligible to supervise Masters and PhD - email supervisor to discuss availability.
David Rafferty is a researcher in the political history of the Roman Republic. Since 2022 he has been an ARC DECRA Fellow in Classics, working on the project “How Republics Die: Rome's democratic breakdown in the first century BCE”.David received his PhD from the University of Melbourne in 2016. He subsequently held a teaching position at Massey University in New Zealand (2017-19). He has published a monograph and several journal articles on ancient Roman and Greek history, and is active in the Australasian Roman History community.
| Date | Position | Institution name |
|---|---|---|
| 2022 - 2025 | ARC DECRA Fellow | University of Adelaide |
| 2017 - 2019 | Lecturer in Classical Studies | Massey University |
| 2015 - 2015 | Tutor | University of Adelaide |
| 2011 - 2011 | Tutor | University of Melbourne |
| Language | Competency |
|---|---|
| French | Can read |
| Latin | Can read |
| Date | Institution name | Country | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 - 2016 | University of Melbourne | Australia | PhD |
| 1998 - 2001 | University of Melbourne | Australia | BA (Hons) |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2024 | Rafferty, D. (2024). Ruling by chance: The drawing of provinces by lot in ancient Rome (3rd century BCE - 1st century CE). CLASSICAL REVIEW, 74(2), 3 pages. |
| 2024 | Rafferty, D. (2024). Rome and America: Communities of Strangers, Spectacles of Belonging, written by Dean Hammer. Polis: The Journal for Ancient Greek and Roman Political Thought, 41(3), 560-563. |
| 2022 | Rafferty, D. (2022). Caesar's First Consulship and Rome's Democratic Decay. Klio, 104(2), 619-655. Scopus1 |
| 2021 | Rafferty, D. (2021). L’armée imaginaire: les soldats prolétaires dans les légions romaines au dernier siècle de la République. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1. |
| 2021 | Rafferty, D. (2021). Rural voters in roman elections. Transactions of the American Philological Association, 151(1), 127-153. Scopus6 WoS5 |
| 2019 | Rafferty, D. (2019). B. STRAUMANN, CRISIS AND CONSTITUTIONALISM: ROMAN POLITICAL THOUGHT FROM THE FALL OF THE REPUBLIC TO THE AGE OF REVOLUTION. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xii + 414. <scp>isbn</scp>9780199950928 (bound); 9780190879532 (paper). £64.00 (bound); £22.99 (paper). - C. MOATTI, RES PUBLICA: HISTOIRE ROMAINE DE LA CHOSE PUBLIQUE. Paris: Fayard, 2018. Pp. 467. <scp>isbn</scp>9782213706276. €25.00.. Journal of Roman Studies, 109, 348-350. |
| 2019 | Rafferty, D. (2019). Book review of Kit Morrell: Pompey, Cato, and the Governance of the Roman Empire. Sehepunkte : Rezensionsjournal für Geschichtswissenschaften, 19(1). |
| 2017 | Rafferty, D. (2017). Cisalpine Gaul as a Consular Province in the Late Republic. HISTORIA-ZEITSCHRIFT FUR ALTE GESCHICHTE, 66(2), 147-172. WoS4 |
| 2017 | Rafferty, D. (2017). People in power, societies in crisis - Greece - The Peloponnesian War (460 - 403 BC). Iris, 30, 61-71. |
| 2016 | Rafferty, D. (2016). Fred K. Drogula, Commanders and Command in the Roman Republic and Early Empire. Chapel Hill, N. C., University of North Carolina Press 2015. Historische Zeitschrift, 302(2), 459-462. |
| 2015 | Rafferty, D. (2015). The Fall of the Roman Republic. Iris, 28, 58-69. |
| 2011 | Rafferty, D. (2011). The Consul at Rome: the Civil Functions of the Consuls in the Roman Republic. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 1. |
| 2011 | Rafferty, D. (2011). Review of H. Flower, Roman Republics. Melbourne Historical Journal, 38(1), 175-177. |
| 2011 | Rafferty, D. (2011). Princeps Senatus. Melbourne Historical Journal, 39(2), 1-22. |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2019 | Rafferty, D. (2019). Provincial Allocations in Rome 123-52 BCE. Germany: Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH. |
| Year | Citation |
|---|---|
| 2023 | Rafferty, D. (2023). Legislative Voting in the Forum Romanum. In A. Lopez Garcia (Ed.), Running Rome and its Empire: The Places of Roman Governance (pp. 79-98). Routledge. DOI Scopus1 |
I was awarded a DECRA by the ARC, which runs from 2022-2025. The project is entitled ".How Republics Die: Rome's democratic breakdown in the first century BCE"
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Program | Degree Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | Co-Supervisor | Documenting Suicides by South Australian First World War Veterans. | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Miss Jessie Kate Lewcock |
| 2024 | Co-Supervisor | Documenting Suicides by South Australian First World War Veterans. | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Miss Jessie Kate Lewcock |
| 2022 | Principal Supervisor | Legitimacy and Authoritarianism in the Late Roman Republic | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Nicholas Keefe George |
| 2022 | Principal Supervisor | Legitimacy and Authoritarianism in the Late Roman Republic | Doctor of Philosophy | Doctorate | Full Time | Mr Nicholas Keefe George |
| Date | Role | Research Topic | Program | Degree Type | Student Load | Student Name |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 - 2025 | Co-Supervisor | Greek Physicians Under Rome: Immigration and Integration | Master of Philosophy | Master | Full Time | Miss Chelsea May Louise Schwartz |
| 2022 - 2024 | Co-Supervisor | In the Shadow of Augustus: Succession Crises in the Roman Empire AD 14-193 | Master of Philosophy | Master | Full Time | Mr Timothy Edward Hart |
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