Positions
Education
Current University Committees & Engagement
- VP, Nipissing University Faculty Association (NUFA).
- Joint Committee for the Administration of the Agreement.
- NUFA Grievance Committee.
Teaching Areas
Undergraduate Programs
- History
Graduate Studies
- History, MA
Graduate Supervision
Accepting Students for Supervision
School year
- 2026/27
- 2027/28
- 2028/29
Guidelines or Expectations for Prospective Students
Students will ideally have a background (i.e. a BA) in either Classical Studies or Ancient History. A significant concentration of Classical Studies and/or Ancient History courses will also be acceptable.
Supervised Theses / Projects
- MA: Hartley, Adora. ‘The Good, the Bad, and the Ambivalent: A Comparative Study of Greek and Roman
Representations of the Barbarian in Greek & Roman Art, Physiognomic Literature, and Ethnography.’ Nipissing University, 2012-2013. - MA: Paul, Emily. ‘No Ares is in Them? Gender and the Perpetration of Violence by Females in Ancient Greek Texts.’ Nipissing University, 2017-2018.
Research
Research Interests
- Resistance to imperialism and popular insurgencies in the Hellenistic period.
- Politics and ethnicity in the Hellenistic period.
- Historiography of the Hellenistic period.
Current Research Projects / Labs
- "Politics on the Street: Popular Revolt and Resistance in the Seleukid Empire."
- I am currently working on this monograph together with Rabbi Dr. Benjamin Scolnic (Southern Connecticut State University), which is a study of popular insurgencies in the Seleucid Empire.
Grants & Funding
- Connection Grant (Collaborator), SSHRC, 2015-2016.
- ARSCA, Nipissing University, Principal Investigator.
Open to Media Inquiries
Publications
Books
Wenghofer, R, and Scolnic, B. (Forthcoming). "Politics on the Street: Popular Revolt and Resistance in the Seleukid Empire."
Articles and Chapters
Hellenistic History, Diplomacy, Imperialism, Resistance, Ethnicity.
Scolnic, B. and Wenghofer, R. (Forthcoming). “Marriage, Family Ties, and Military Alliances in the Hellenistic East,” in Brill’s Companion to Military Alliances and Confederacies in the Graeco-Roman World. Pascual and Sassani (eds.). • Wenghofer, R. “Prophecy, Domination, and Resistance in Hellenistic Polities.” Acta Antiqua Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae (2026).
Wenghofer, R. (2023). “Diplomatic Resistance to Seleukid Hegemony.” Seleukid Ideology: Creation, Reception, and Response. Altay Coskun and Richard Wenghofer (Eds.). Franz Steiner Verlag. Stuttgart. 319- 342.
Wenghofer, R. (2022). “Popular Resistance to Seleucid Claims to Hegemony.” Eva Anagnostou-Laoutides & Stefan Pfeiffer (eds.), Culture and Ideology under the Seleucids: Unframing the Dynasty. De Gruyter. Berlin. 167-186.
Wenghofer, R. (2021).“Decolonizing the Indo-Greeks.” Colonial Geopolitics and Local Cultures in the Hellenistic and Roman East, 3rd Century BC to the 3rd Century AD. Eds. H. Bru, A. Dumitru, and N. Sekunda. Oxford. Archaeopress.126-136.
Wenghofer, R. (2019). “With Enemies Like These, Who Needs Friends? Roman Intervention in the Hellenistic East and the Preservation of the Seleukid Patrimony.” Rome and the Seleukid East: Selected Papers from Seleukid Study Day V, Brussels, 21-23 August 2015. Eds. D. Engels and A. Coskun. Latomus. Brussels. 255-275.
Wenghofer, R. (2018). “Rethinking the Relationship between Hellenistic Baktria and the Seleukid Empire.” War in the Family: The First Century of Seleucid Rule. Eds. K. Erickson and A. Coskun. The Classical Press of Wales. Swansea. 151-171.
Wenghofer, R. and Houle, D.J. (2016). “Marriage Diplomacy and the Political Role of Royal Women in the Seleukid Far East.” Seleukid Royal Women: Creation, Representation and Distortion of Hellenistic Queenship in the Seleukid Empire. Eds. A. Coskun and A. McAuley. Franz Steiner Verlag. Stuttgart. 191-207.
Wenghofer, R. (2014). “Sexual Promiscuity of Non-Greeks in Herodotus’ Histories.” The Classical World. 107.4. 515-534.
Wenghofer, R. Book Review: Kosmin, Paul, “The Land of the Elephant Kings: Space, Ideology, and Territory in the Seleucid Empire.” Cambridge, 2014. Phoenix. 2015. 68: 3-4.
Wenghofer, R. Book Review: Rose, Peter, “Class in Archaic Greece.” Cambridge, 2012. Bryn Mawr Classical Review. 2013-12-11.
Wenghofer R. Book Review: Macdonald, Stuart, “The Witches of Fife: Witch-hunting in a Scottish Shire, 1560-1710. Toronto Journal of Theology 2004. 20.1: 85-86.