Emily Mackil

Assistant Professor

Contact

Office: 2312 Dwinelle Hall
Hours: Wednesday 11-1
Phone: (510) 642-2567
Email: emackil@berkeley.edu

Education

BA St. John's College, 1994
BA University of Oxford, 1997
MA Princeton University, 2000
PhD Princeton University, 2003/p>

Research Interests

Greek history of the Archaic, Classical and early Hellenistic periods. Configurations of cooperation among communities, state formation, and the historical development of the application of state power to the control and management of the economy in the Greek world. Epigraphy, archaeology, and numismatics. Currently working on a monograph on the Greek koinon.

Publications

"The Greek koinon" in P. Bang and W. Scheidel, edd., The Oxford Handbook of the Ancient State (Oxford, forthcoming 2008).

co-author with Peter van Alfen, "Cooperative Coinage" in P. van Alfen, ed., Agoranomia. Studies in Money and Exchange Presented to John H. Kroll (New York: American Numismatic Society, 2006): 201-246

"Wandering Cities: Alternatives to Catastrophe in the Greek Polis," AJA 108.4 (2004): 493-516.

Review of C. Chandezon, L'élevage en Grèce (fin Ve-fin Ier s. a.C.). L'apport des sources épigraphiques (Bordeaux: Ausonius, 2003), Bryn Mawr Classical Review, July 2004 (http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2004/2004-07-39.html).

Review of R. Brock and S. Hodkinson, edd., Alternatives to Athens. Varieties of Political Organization and Community in Ancient Greece (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000), The Historian 60.3 (2003).

Review of K. Freitag, Der Golf von Korinth. Historisch-topographische Untersuchungen von der Archaik bis in das 1. Jh. v. Chr. (Munchen: tuduv Verlagsgesellschaft, 2000), Bryn Mawr Classical Review, February 2001. (http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/2001/2001-02-10.html).

Teaching (recent and/or regular offerings)

Undergraduate

History 4A: The Origins of Western Civilization: The Ancient Mediterranean

History 39: Alexander the Great: History and Legend

History 103: After Empire: The Greek World in the Fourth Century

History 103: Thucydides and the Peloponnesian War

History 105A: Archaic and Classical Greece

History 105B: The Hellenistic World

Graduate

History 280: Polis, Ethnos and Koinon: Approaches to Settlement and Political Organization in the Ancient Greek World

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