Emily Mackil

Job title: 
Professor
Department: 
History
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Education

BA University of Oxford (Literae Humaniores) 1997

PhD Princeton University (Classics) 2003

Research interests: 

Economic, political, and religious history of ancient Greece (Archaic to Hellenistic); Greek Epigraphy; Numismatics

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Recent Publications

“Assessing the Scale of Property Confiscation in the Classical Greek World.” In The Uncertain Past: Probability in Ancient History, 53-92, edited by Myles Lavan, Daniel Jew, and Bart Danon. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2022.

“Confiscation, Exile, and Return: The Property Problem and its Legal Solutions.” In Symposion 2019: Vorträge zur Griechischen und hellenistischen Rechtsgeschichte, 185-211, edited by Kaja Harter-Uibopuu and Werner Riess. Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 2021.

“Economic and Social Democracy.” In The Cultural History of Democracy, I: Antiquity, 77-94, edited by Paul Cartledge and Carol Atack. London: Bloomsbury, 2021.

Emily Mackil and Nikolaos Papazarkadas(eds.). 2020. Greek Epigraphy and Religion: Papers in Memory of Sara B. Aleshire from the Second North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy. Leiden

Mackil, E., 2019. "Ethnic Arguments," in H Beck, K. Buraselis, and A. McAuley, eds., Ethnos and Koinon: Studies in Ancient Greek Ethnicity and Federalism. Stuttgart, pp. 11–28.

Mackil, E., 2018. "Property Security and its Limits in Classical Greece," in M. Canevaro, A. Erskine, B. Gray, and J. Ober (eds.), Ancient Greek History and Contemporary Social Science. Edinburgh, pp. 315–343.

Mackil, E., 2017. "Propiedad, deuda y revolución en la Grecia antigua," in M. Campagno, J. Gallego, C.G. García Mac Gaw, (eds.),  Capital, deuda, y desigualidad: Distribuciones de la riqueza en el Mediterráneo antiguo, Buenos Aires, pp. 27–53.

Mackil, E., 2017. "Property Claims and State Formation in the Archaic Greek World," in S. Richardson and C. Ando (eds.), Ancient States and Infrastructural Power: Europe, Asia, and America. Philadelphia, pp. 63–90.

Mackil, E., 2015. "The Economics of Federation in Ancient Greece," in H. Beck and P. Funke, (eds.), Federalism in Greek Antiquity. Cambridge, pp. 487–502.

Mackil, E., 2013. Creating a Common Polity: Religion, Economy, and Politics in the Making of the Greek Koinon. Berkeley. Winner of the Goodwin Award of Merit from the Society for Classical Studies.

Emily Mackil

Contact

3314 Dwinelle Hall