James S. Ruebel, PhD

Biography:

James S. Ruebel (1945-2016) was dean of the Honors College and professor of classics at Ball State University. He also taught at the University of Minnesota from 1973 to 1978, and at Iowa State University from 1978 to 2000. Ruebel received a BA from Yale University and an MA and PhD from the University of Cincinnati. He is active in the technology of instruction in Latin and classics. In 1994, he received an American Philological Association Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Classics. Ruebel has published articles in Roman history and is the author of Apuleius: The Metamorphoses, Book 1 (Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers, 2000) and Caesar and the Crisis of the Roman Aristocracy (University of Oklahoma Press, 1994).