About Finley Hooper

Finley Allison Hooper was a historian who spent many years teaching at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan, where he was Professor Emeritus of History at the time of his death in 1993. He had earlier served as visiting assistant professor of history at the University of Michigan, where he had earned his PhD. Professor Hooper was a specialist in classical Greek and Roman civilisation. He had more than two thousand scholarly articles published during his career, as well as several books. At least one of those books ('Roman Realities') was for several years widely used as a textbook in U.S. colleges and universities.