Thomas Francis Carney

Thomas Francis Carney (born February 7, 1931 in Brooklyn , New York City ) is a British-Canadian ancient historian and communication scientist .

Life

Thomas Francis Carney grew up in Great Britain. He attended St. Francis Xavier's College in Liverpool and then studied history at the Universities of Hull , London and Pretoria . From 1953 he taught as a lecturer at Victoria College in Wellington . In 1957 he moved to the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, which later became the University of Zimbabwe . Research stays took him to the University of Vienna (November 1958 to February 1959) and the University of Pisa (November 1959 to March 1960), to which he later returned as a visiting professor. In 1961 he was appointed Associate Professor of Classics . From November 1961 to February 1962 he stayed at the British School of Archeology at Athens .

After Carney had given up his job in Rhodesia in 1965, he went to the University of Manitoba in Winnipeg ( Canada ). Here he changed his research circle from historical to systematic topics. He wrote a methodological handbook for history students and studies on writing didactics and communication studies . Eventually he moved to the University of Windsor as a professor of communication studies . There he received the Alumni Award for Distinguished Contributions to University Teaching in 1987 .

Fonts (selection)

• A Biography of C. Marius: an inaugural lecture given in the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland . Salisbury 1961
• A Catalog of the Roman and Related Foreign Coins in the Collection of Sir Stephen Courtauld at the University College of Rhodesia and Nyasaland . Salisbury 1963
• Hecyra: Edited with a commentary . Salisbury 1963
• Systems analysis and the fall of Rome . Winnipeg 1967
• Bureaucracy in Traditional Society: Romano-Byzantine Bureaucracies viewed from within . Three volumes, Lawrence 1971
• Johannes Laurentius Lydus / On the magistracies of the Roman constitution . Lawrence 1971
• The shape of the past: models and antiquity: an anti-text book . Lawrence 1971
• Content Analysis: A Technique for Systematic Inference from Communications . Winnipeg 1972
• The economies of antiquity . Lawrence 1973
• Historical methods: a reader . Winnipeg 1976
• Writing a letter of resignation . Toronto 1981
• Qualitative methods in communication studies: a new paradigm research manual . Windsor 1983
• Publishing by microcomputer: its potential and its problems . Ely, Cambs 1988
• The communications of career management: a workbook . Windsor 1988

literature

• Who's Who in Rhodesia . 1962