Jonathan Mark Hall

Chair of the Department

Department of History
University of Chicago
1126 E. 59th St
Chicago IL 60637

EDUCATION

• 1989-1993 University of Cambridge: Faculty of Classics and King's College (Ph.D. 1993. Dissertation title: Ethnic Identity in the Argolid, 900-600 BC).
• 1991-1992 British School at Athens.
• 1984-1988 University of Oxford: Faculty of Literae Humaniores and Hertford College (BA with First Class Honours 1988; MA 1991).

EMPLOYMENT

• 1996- University of Chicago: Departments of History and Classics and the College. Assistant Professor (1996-2001); Associate Professor (2001-2002); Professor (2002-); Phyllis Fay Horton Professor in the Humanities (2005-).
• 2002-2003 Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza": Facoltà di Lettere e Filosofia. Professore Associato di Storia Regionale del Mondo Greco.
• 1993-1996 University of Cambridge: Downing College. Research Fellow in Classics.
• 1988-1989 Marlboro College, Vermont. Teaching Fellow in Classics.

PRIZES AND FELLOWSHIPS

• 2005 2004 Gordon J. Laing Award, presented by the University of Chicago Press.
• 1999 Charles J. Goodwin Award for Merit, presented by the American Philological Association
• 1998-1999 Junior Fellowship, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington D.C.
• 1991-1992 L.H. Jeffery Studentship in Archaic Greek Archaeology and Epigraphy, British School at Athens.
• 1989-1993 British Academy Major State Studentship, University of Cambridge.
• 1987-1988 Scholarship, University of Oxford: Hertford College.
• 1987 University Prize for Fieldwork in Ancient History and Archaeology, University of Oxford: Faculty of Literae Humaniores.
• 1984-1987 Open Exhibition, University of Oxford: Hertford College.

PUBLICATIONS

A. MONOGRAPHS

• Archaeology and the Ancient Historian (in preparation).
• The Blackwell History of the Archaic Greek World. Oxford: Basil Blackwell (2007).
Reviewed in: Greece & Rome 54 (2007), 263; Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2007.01.41; Canadian Journal of History 42 (2007), 485-7.
• Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press (2002). Paperback edition, 2005. Recipient of the 2004 Gordon J. Laing Award from the University of Chicago Press.
Reviewed in: Antiquity 76 (2002); London Magazine (Feb/March 2003); Journal of Interdisciplinary History 34 (2003), 65-6; International History Review 25 (2003), 636-8; American Historical Review 108 (2003), 1501-2; Greece and Rome 50 (2003), 255-6; New England Classical Journal (2003); Near East Archaeological Society Bulletin 48 (2003); American Journal of Philology 124 (2003), 303-6; International Journal of the Classical Tradition 10 (2003), 289-92; Journal of Classics Teaching 1 (2004); Polifemo 4 (2004), 34-43; Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2004.04.26; Mediterranean Historical Review 19 (2004) 71-6; Classical Review 55 (2005), 204-7, Mnemosyne 58 (2005), 451-5; Phoenix 59 (2005), 171-3; Ancient West and East 4 (2006), 408-59.
• Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1997). Paperback edition, 2000. Electronic edition, 2002. Recipient of the American Philological Association's 1999 Charles J. Goodwin Award for Merit.
Reviewed in: Diaspora 6 (1997), 97-110; Cambridge Archaeological Journal 8 (1998), 265-83; Greece & Rome 45 (1998), 110-11; Nyt Fra Historien 47 (1998); American Journal of Archaeology 103 (1999), 126-7; L'Antiquité Classique 68 (1999), 510-11; Annales: Histoire, Sciences Sociales 54 (1999), 1197-9; Classical Review 50 (2000), 210-11; Journal of Hellenic Studies 120 (2000), 191; Arctos 34 (2000); Mnemosyne 56 (2003), 122-4.

B. ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDITED VOLUMES

• Articles on ‘Ethnicity’ and ‘Greece: the Archaic Age’, in M. Gagarin (ed.), Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome. New York and Oxford: Oxford University Press (forthcoming).
• ‘Ethnicity and cultural exchange’, in K. Raaflaub and H. van Wees (eds.), A Companion to the Archaic Greek World. Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell (in press).
• ‘Foundation stories’, in G. Tsetskhladze (ed.), Greek Colonisation. An Account of Greek Colonies and Other Settlements Overseas in the Archaic Period, Volume 2, 383-426. Leiden: Brill (2008).
• 'Politics and Greek myth', in R. Woodard (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Greek Mythology, 331-54. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2008).
• ‘International relations’, in P. Sabin, H. van Wees and M. Whitby (eds.), The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare. Volume 1: Greece, the Hellenistic World and the Rise of Rome, 85-107. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (in press).
• ‘The creation and expression of identity in the Classical world: Greece’, in S.E. Alcock and R. Osborne (eds.), Classical Archaeology (Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology), 337-54. Oxford and New York: Basil Blackwell (2007).
• ‘Polis, community and ethnic identity’, in H. Alan Shapiro (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Archaic Greece, 40-60. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2007).
• ‘Arcades his oris. Greek projections on the Italian ethnoscape?’, in E. Gruen (ed.), Cultural Borrowings and Ethnic Appropriations in Antiquity, 259-84. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner (2005).
• ‘The Dorianization of the Messenians’, in N. Luraghi and S.E. Alcock (eds.), Helots and their Masters in Laconia and Messenia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures, 134-60. Washington DC: Center for Hellenic Studies/Trustees for Harvard University (2003).
• ‘How “Greek” were the early Western Greeks?’, in K. Lomas (ed.), Greek Identity in the Western Mediterranean. Proceedings of an International Conference in Honour of Professor B.B. Shefton, F.B.A., 35-54. Leiden: Brill (2003).
• ‘Culture, cultures and acculturation’, in R. Rollinger and C. Ulf (eds.), Das Archaische Griechenland: Interne Entwicklungen -Externe Impulse, 35-50. Berlin: Akademie Verlag (2004).
• ‘“Culture” or “cultures”? Hellenism in the late sixth century’, in C. Dougherty and L. Kurke (eds.), The Cultures Within Ancient Greek Culture. Contact, Conflict, Collaboration, 23-34. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press (2003).
• ‘Heroes, Hera and Herakleidai in the Argive Plain’, in R. Hägg (ed.), Peloponnesian Sanctuaries and Cults (Skrifter Utgvina av Svenska Institutet i Athen 4?, 48), 93-98. Stockholm: Åström (2002).
• ‘Quem eram os Gregos?’, Revista do Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia, Universidade de São Paulo 11 (2001), 213-25 (transl. M. B. Florenzano).
• ‘Contested ethnicities: perceptions of Macedonia within evolving definitions of Greek identity’, in I. Malkin (ed.), Ancient Perceptions of Greek Ethnicity, 159-186. Washington, DC: Center for Hellenic Studies/Trustees for Harvard University (2001).
• Articles on ‘Aeolians’, ‘Colonization’, ‘The Dark Age’, ‘Dorians’, ‘Hellenes’, ‘Ionians’ and ‘Political History to 490 BC’, in G. Speake (ed.), Encyclopedia of Greece and the Hellenic Tradition. London and Chicago: Fitzroy Dearborn (2000).
• ‘The east within the cultural identity of the cities of Magna Graecia’, in Magna Grecia e Oriente mediterraneo prima dell'età ellenistica. Atti del 39? Convegno di Studi sulla Magna Grecia, Taranto 1-5 ottobre 1999, 389-401. Taranto: Istituto per la Storia e l'Archeologia della Magna Grecia (2000).
• ‘Sparta, Lakedaimon and the nature of perioikic dependency’, in P. Flensted-Jensen (ed.), Further Studies in the Ancient Greek Polis (Historia Einzelschriften 138), 73-89. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner (2000).
• ‘Beyond the polis? The multilocality of heroes’, in R. Hägg (ed.), Ancient Greek Hero Cult. Proceedings of the Fifth International Seminar on Ancient Greek Cult, Göteborg University, 21-23 April 1995 (Skrifter Utgivna av Svenska Institutet i Athen 8?, 16), 49-59. Stockholm: Åström (1999).
• ‘Alternative responses within polis formation: Argos, Mykenai and Tiryns’, in H. Damgaard Andersen, H. Horsnaes and S. Houby-Nielsen (eds), Urbanization in the Mediterranean in the 9th to 6th Centuries BC. (Acta Hyperborea 7), 89-109. Copenhagen: Museum Tusculanum Press (1997).
• ‘Going ethnic in Greece’, Omnibus 31 (1996), 28-30.
• ‘The role of language in Greek ethnicities’, Proceedings of the Cambridge Philological Society 41 (1995), 83-100.
• ‘How Argive was the “Argive” Heraion? The political and cultic geography of the Argive Plain, 900-400 BC’, American Journal of Archaeology 99 (1995), 577-613.
• ‘Approaches to ethnicity in the Early Iron Age of Greece’, in N. Spencer (ed.), Time, Tradition and Society in Greek Archaeology: Bridging the 'Great Divide', 6-17. London: Routledge (1995).
• ‘Practising Postprocessualism? Classics and archaeological theory’, Archaeological Review from Cambridge 10 (1991) 155-63.

C. COLLABORATIVE PAPERS (WITH CATHERINE MORGAN)

• ‘Achaia’, in M.H. Hansen and T. Heine Nielsen (eds.), An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Greek Poleis, 472-88. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2004). 
• ‘AxaÛkew pÒleiw kai axaÛkÒw apoikismÒw’, in A.D. Rizakis (ed.), Paysages d'Achaie II: Dymé et son territoire, 105-112. Athens and Paris: Centre for Hellenic and Roman Antiquity/National Research Foundation (2001).
• ‘Achaian poleis and Achaian colonisation’, in M.H. Hansen (ed.), Introduction to an Inventory of Poleis. Acts of the Copenhagen Polis Centre 3, 164-232. Copenhagen: Det Kongelige Danske Videnskabernes Selskab (1996).

D. REVIEWS

• M. Kõiv, Ancient Tradition and Early Greek History. The Origins of States in Early-Archaic Sparta, Argos and Corinth. Classical Review 55 (2005), 196-8.
• J. Whitley, The Archaeology of Ancient Greece. Classical Philology 98 (2003) 290-6.
• P. Hunt, Slaves, Warfare, and Ideology in the Greek Historians. Classical Philology 94 (1999) 461-466.
• D. Tandy, Warriors into Traders: The Power of the Market in Early Greece. Classical Philology 94 (1999) 216-222.
• M. Piérart, Argos. Une ville grecque de 6000 ans, Journal of Hellenic Studies 119 (1999) 216-217.
• R. Hägg (ed.), The Role of Religion in the Early Greek Polis. Classical Philology 93 (1998) 271-276.
• A.D. Rizakis, Achaïe I: sources textuelles et histoire regionale. Journal of Hellenic Studies 117 (1997) 235.
• G. Casadio, Storia del culto di Dioniso in Argolide. Journal of Hellenic Studies 117 (1997) 224-225.
• 'Urban kin'. Review of O. Curty, Les parentés légendaires entre cités grecques. Classical Review 47 (1997) 94-96.
• R. Parker, Athenian Religion: A History. The Anglo-Hellenic Review 14 (1996) 19.
• I. Malkin, Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean and A. Powell & S. Hodkinson, The Shadow of Sparta. Journal of Hellenic Studies 116 (1996) 213-15.
• W. Nippel, Griechen, Barbaren und Wilde - Alte Geschichte und Sozialanthropologie, and Fondation Hardt, Hérodote et les peuples non grecs. Journal of Hellenic Studies 112 (1992) 194-96.
• ‘Black Athena: a sheep in wolf's clothing?’, Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 3 (1990) 247-54.

INVITED LECTURES/WORKSHOP AND CONFERENCE PAPERS

• 2008 Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles; School of Historical Studies, University of Melbourne; Universita del Salento, Lecce.
• 2007 Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia.
• 2005 Department of Classical Studies, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; Ancient Societies Workshop, University of Chicago.
• 2004 Department of Classics, Stanford University.
• 2003 Ancient Societies Workshop, University of Chicago; Department of Classics, University of Illinois at Chicago; Department of the Classics, Harvard University; Schloss Elmau, Elmau (Germany).
• 2002 Department of History, University of California at Berkeley.
• 2001 Institut für Alte Geschichte, Universität Innsbruck (delivered in absentia); Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge; Museu de Arqueologia e Etnologia and Departamento de História, Universidade de São Paulo; Departamento de História, Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP); Department of the Classics, Harvard University; Department of Classics, Stanford University; J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles.
• 2000 Department of Classics, Wellesley College.
• 1999 Department of Classical Studies, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor; Istituto per la Storia e l'Archeologia di Magna Grecia, Taranto (delivered in absentia); Department of Classics, University of Newcastle-upon-Tyne; Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC; Department of the Classics, Harvard University.
• 1998 Program in the Ancient World, Princeton University; Department of Classics, Columbia University; Ancient Societies Workshop, University of Chicago; Departments of History and Classics, University of Wisconsin at Madison.
• 1997 Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington DC; Royal Holloway and Bedford New College, University of London.
• 1996 Copenhagen Polis Centre, Copenhagen; British School at Rome.
• 1995 Copenhagen Polis Centre, Copenhagen; Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge; Cambridge Philological Society; Department of Classical Archaeology and Ancient History, University of Göteborg.
• 1994 Swedish Institute of Archaeology, Athens; Oxford University Classical Society; Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology, Copenhagen; Department of Classical Studies, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
• 1993 Ancient History and Anthropology Seminar, All Souls College, University of Oxford.
• 1992 Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton; Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge; British School at Athens.
• 1991 Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge.
• 1989 Marlboro College, Vermont.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

• 1996- University of Chicago. Assistant Professor (1996-2001); Associate Professor (2001-2002); Professor (2002-).
• 2005 University of Chicago Alumni Association. Faculty Lecturer, Tour of Sicily (May).
• 2002-2003 Università degli Studi di Roma "La Sapienza": Professore Associato di Storia Regionale del Mondo Greco.
• 2002 University of Chicago Alumni Association. Faculty Lecturer, Tour of the Aegean Islands (July).
• 2002 American Academy in Rome. Co-Director, Summer Program in Archaeology (June-July).
• 2001 Universidade de São Paulo. Seminar Director (June).
• 1995-1996 University of Cambridge. Contract Lecturer in Greek History and Classical Archaeology.
• 1989-1996 University of Cambridge. Undergraduate Supervisor in Ancient History and Classical Archaeology.
• 1993 British School at Athens. Lecturer, Summer Program in Greek History and Topography (September).
• 1992 British School at Athens. Lecturer, Summer Program in Greek History and Topography (September).
• 1988-1989 Marlboro College, Vermont. Teaching Fellow in Classics.

POSITIONS, POSTS AND SERVICES

• 2005- Member, Governing Board, Franke Institute for the Humanities, University of Chicago
• 2004-2007 Chair, Department of Classics, University of Chicago
• 2004- Member, Advisory Board, Hesperia
• 2004 Chair, Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World, University of Chicago
• 2003- Member, College Disciplinary Committee
• 2003-2004 Member, Fellowships, Teaching and Placement Committee, Department of History, University of Chicago
• 2003 Faculty Secretary, Department of History, University of Chicago (Autumn Quarter)
• 2003-2004 Co-Editor, Classical Philology
• 2002- Member, Managing Committee, American School of Classical Studies at Athens
• 2001- Director, Athens Study Abroad Program, University of Chicago
• 2001-2004 Member, Provost's Council on Teaching, University of Chicago
• 2001-2002 Coordinator, Chicago Consortium in Ancient History
• 1999-2000 Director, Undergraduate Concentration in Ancient Studies, University of Chicago
• 1999-2000 Chair, Graduate Review Committee, Department of Classics, University of Chicago
• 1999 Chair, History of Western Civilization Committee, University of Chicago (Autumn Quarter)
• 1997 Associate Editor, Classical Philology
• 1997-2001 Member, Committee for Collegiate Affairs, Department of History, University of Chicago
• 1997-1998 Graduate Advisor, Department of Classics, University of Chicago
• 1997-1998 Coordinator, Workshop on Ancient Societies, University of Chicago
• 1993-1996 Member, Governing Body, Downing College, University of Cambridge
• 1993-1996 Faculty Member, Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge
• 1993-1995 Faculty Member, Faculty of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Cambridge
• 1988-1989 Clerk to Faculty and Undergraduate Advisor, Marlboro College, Vermont

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