Emily Mackil

Associate Professor
Office Hours: 
W 1-3
2312 Dwinelle Hall
(510) 642-2567
emackil@berkeley.edu
Education: 

PhD Princeton University, 2003 (Classics)

MA Princeton University, 2000 (Classics)

BA University of Oxford, 1997 (Literae Humaniores)

BA St. John's College, 1994 

 

Curriculum Vitae: 
Mackil_CV.pdf
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.

Profile: 

External Fellowships and Grants

American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 2012-2013.

Loeb Classical Library Foundation Grant, Harvard University, 2008, 2012.

National Endowment for the Humanities, Summer Stipend, 2005.

Whiting Honorific Fellowship in the Humanities, 2002-2003.

Fulbright-IIE Full Grant to Greece, 2000-2001.

 

Professional Service

Managing Committee, American School of Classical Studies in Athens, 2008-.

Committee on Ancient History, American Philological Association, 2010-2013.

Representative Publications: 

Book

Creating a Common Polity: Religion, Economy, and Politics in the Making of the Greek Koinon. Berkeley, 2012 (in press).

Articles

"Regional Economies and Federal Power" in H. Beck & P. Funke, edd., Greek Federal States. Cambridge, 2013 (forthcoming).

"Ethnos and Koinon" in J. McInerney, ed., A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean. Oxford, 2013 (forthcoming).

“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 2012).

“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.

 

Additional Links: 
Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology