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Ryan Abrecht, PhD, is an Associate Professor in the Department of History at the University of San Diego. He joined the department in 2015 and specializes in ancient Mediterranean history, focusing on social and religious history, imperialism, and cross-cultural interactions in border regions. His research emphasizes the dynamics of Roman and Chinese imperialism and their impacts on identity formation.
Abrecht holds a PhD from the University of California, Santa Barbara (2014), an MA from Pennsylvania State University (2006), and a BA (Summa Cum Laude) from Boston College (2003). He is expanding his dissertation, “My Neighbor the Barbarian: Immigrant Neighborhoods in Classical Athens, Imperial Rome, and Tang Chang’an,” into a book exploring ancient immigration and urban borderlands.
His teaching spans undergraduate courses on ancient history, including Greek and Roman civilizations, Late Antiquity, and ancient history through modern fiction. He prioritizes interdisciplinary approaches, collaborative projects, and experiential learning, aiming to connect historical study with contemporary relevance.
No scholarly awards or recent articles are explicitly listed in the provided text. His work emphasizes the dialogue between Roman history and global contexts, as well as the enduring influence of antiquity on modern perspectives.
