Emily Mackil

Assistant Professor

Contact

Office: 2312 Dwinelle Hall
Hours: ON LEAVE
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

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.

Selected Publications and Work in Progress

Book

Creating a Common Polity: Religion, Economy, and Politics in the Making of the Greek Koinon (in progress).

Articles

“The Greek Koinon,” in P. Bang and W. Scheidel, edd., The Oxford Handbook of the Ancient State: Near East and Mediterranean. Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2010).

“A Boiotian Proxeny Decree and Relief in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Boiotian-Lakonian Relations in the 360s.” Chiron. Mitteilungen der Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. 38 (2008) 157-194.

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

“Wandering Cities: Alternatives to Catastrophe in the Greek Polis,” American Journal of Archaeology 108.4 (2004): 493-516.

Encyclopedia articles
“The Boeotian Confederacy” and “Haliartos” in R. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, et al., edd., The Blackwell Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Oxford: Blackwell (forthcoming, articles submitted July 2009).

“Achaea and the Achaean Confederacy” and “Aetolia and the Aetolian Confederacy” in M. Gagarin, E. Fantham, et al., edd., Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming 2009, articles submitted Nov. 2007).

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 103: Approaches to the Economic History of Ancient Greece

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 (Spring 2006)

History 280 / AHMA 210: Greek Economies: The Epigraphic Evidence (Spring 2009, co-taught with Nikolaos Papazarkadas, Classics)

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