"Tulla's Engagement and Marriage to Dolabella"; "Cicero and Catullus;" "Porcia's First Husband", 1952; 1952; 1955

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH John Collins was born November 14, 1902 in Anaconda, Montana.  Brought back at an early age to his widowed mother's home town, LaGrange, Illinois, he graduated from Lyons Township High School and went on to study classics, literature, and history at the University of Illinois (1922-1926) and Cornell (1927).  His only formal degree was a Ph.D. conferred in 1952 by the Goethe University of Frankfurt-am-Main for his dissertation, "Propaganda, Ethics and Psychological Assumptions in Caesar's Writings."  Collins worked in various publishing houses in New York as an editor and also for R. H. Macy's for about eight years in management.  During World War II he edited army publications for the Military Service Publishing Co. in Harrisburg, Pa., then went to Germany as a War Department employee between 1945 and 1949 helping to document the history of the U.S. occupation.  Collins taught for the University of Maryland overseas division and the University of California at Berkeley before joining Northern's history department in 1961.  Collins became an internationally recognized authority on Julius Caesar.  Though not a prolific writer Collins published a number of significant articles and, with D. A. Saunders, edited and annotated an edition of Mommsen's History of Rome.  Collins received one of NIU's Excellence in Teaching awards in 1967.  After retiring from full-time teaching in 1971 Collins continued to teach part-time until 1978.  John H. Collins died January 8, 1981 at his home in DeKalb, Illinois.