Ian Morris

September 2004

Current position

Jean and Rebecca Willard Professor of Classics and Professor of History, Stanford University

Director, Stanford Archaeology Center

Previous academic employment

Assistant through Associate Professor in the Departments of History and Classics, the Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean World, and the College, and Associate Member, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago, 1987-95

Fellowships

Research Fellowship, Jesus College, Cambridge, 1985-87

Uppsala University Visiting Lecturer, September 1989

Junior Fellow, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington, D.C., 1989-90

Scholar, Chicago Humanities Institute, Winter 1992

Visiting Fellow, Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 1992-93

National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, 2002-03

Guggenheim Fellowship, 2002-03

Fellowship at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford

Degrees

B.A., June 1981, Birmingham University

Ph.D., January 1986, Cambridge University

Publications

Books

1. Burial and Ancient Society: The Rise of the Greek City-State. Cambridge 1987

2. Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity. Cambridge 1992. Greek translation, Tafika teletourgika eqima kai koinwnikh domh sthn klasikh

arcaiotht, Rethymno: University of Kriti Press, 1997

3. Archaeology as Cultural History: Words and Things in Iron Age Greece. Oxford: Blackwell, 2000. Spanish translation forthcoming

Edited books

1. Classical Greece: Ancient Histories and Modern Archaeologies. Cambridge 1994

2. A New Companion to Homer. Leiden 1997. Co-editor, with Barry Powell

3. Democracy 2500? Questions and Challenges. Dubuque, Iowa: Archaeological Institute of America Monograph 3, 1997. Co-editor, with Kurt Raaflaub

Articles and book chapters

1. “Gift and commodity in archaic Greece.” Man n.s. 21 (1986) 1-17

2. “The use and abuse of Homer.” Classical Antiquity 5 (1986) 81-138. Sections reprinted in Irene de Jong, ed., Studies of Homer (Amsterdam 1999). Revised version in Douglas Cairns, ed., Oxford Readings in Homer’s Iliad (Oxford 2001) 57-91

3. “Tomb cult and the ‘Greek renaissance’: the past in the present in the eighth century B.C.” Antiquity 62 (1988) 750-761

4. “Solon.” In Great Lives From History: Ancient and Medieval, edited by Frank McGill (Pasadena 1988) 1962-1966

5. “Circulation, deposition, and the formation of the Greek Iron Age.” Man n.s. 24 (1989) 502-519

6. “Attitudes toward death in archaic Greece.” Classical Antiquity 8 (1989) 296-320

7. “Risk and the polis: the evolution of institutionalized responses to food shortage in the ancient Greek state.” In Bad Year Economics: Cultural Responses to Risk and Uncertainty, edited by Paul Halstead and John O'Shea (Cambridge 1989) 98-105 (with Peter Garnsey)

8. “Comment.” Current Anthropology 30 (1989) 451-452

9. “The Gortyn Code and Greek kinship.” Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies 31 (1990) 233-254

10. “The archaeology of ancestors: the Saxe/Goldstein hypothesis revisited.” Cambridge Archaeological Journal 1 (1991) 147-169

11. “The early polis as city and state.” In City and Country in the Ancient World, edited by John Rich and Andrew Wallace-Hadrill (New York 1991) 24-57

12. “Comment.” Current Anthropology 32 (1991) 306-307

13. “Greeks on the move.” Ancient History Bulletin 6 (1992) 137-145

14. “Law, culture, and funerary art in Athens, 600-300 B.C.” Hephaistos 11/12 (1992/93) 35-50

15. “Poetics of power: the interpretation of ritual action in archaic Greece.” In Cultural Poetics in Archaic Greece: Tyranny, Cult, and Civic Ideology, edited by Carol Dougherty and Leslie Kurke (Cambridge 1993) 15-45

16. “The Kerameikos stratigraphy and the character of the Greek Dark Age.” Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 6 (1993) 207-221

17. “Geometric Greece.” Colloquenda Mediterranea 3.A.2 (1993) 29-38

18. “The power of topoi.” Topoi 3 (1993) 271-283

19. “Columbus, Cleisthenes, and Classics: a commentary.” The Ancient World 24 (1993) 83-89

20. “Introduction.” In Classical Greece: Ancient Histories and Modern Archaeologies, edited by Ian Morris (Cambridge 1994) 1-7

21. “Archaeologies of Greece.” In Classical Greece: Ancient Histories and Modern Archaeologies, edited by Ian Morris (Cambridge 1994) 8-47

22. “Everyman's grave.” In Athenian Identity and Civic Ideology, edited by Alan Boegehold and Adele Scafuro (Baltimore 1994) 67-101

23. “The Athenian economy twenty years after The Ancient Economy.” Classical Philology 89 (1994) 351-366

24. “The community against the market in classical Athens.” In From Political Economy to Anthropology: Situating Economic Life in Past Societies, edited by David Tandy and Colin Duncan (Montreal 1994) 52-79

25. “Village society and the rise of the Greek state.” In Structures rurales et sociétés antiques, edited by Panagiotis Doukellis and Lila Mendoni (Paris 1994) 49-53

26. “Burning the dead in archaic Athens: animals, men, and heroes.” In Culture et cité: l'avènement de l'Athènes archaïque, edited by Annie Verbanck-Piérard and Didier Viviers (Brussels 1995) 45-74

27. “About some théories de la nécropole antique.” Topoi 5 (1995) 295-302

28. “Comment.” Cambridge Archaeological Journal 5 (1995) 235-236

29. “The meanings of death.” Cambridge Archaeological Journal 5 (1995) 331-333

30. “The strong principle of equality and the archaic origins of Greek democracy.” In Dêmokratia: A Historical and Theoretical Conversation on Ancient Greek Democracy and Its Contemporary Significance, edited by Josiah Ober and Charles Hedrick (Princeton 1996) 19-48. Reprinted in Ancient Greek Democracy: Readings and Sources, edited by Eric Robinson [Blackwell 2004] 45-74)

31. “Greece in the Iron Age.” In The Iron Age in Europe, edited by Anna-Maria Bietti-Sestieri (Rome 1996) 127-143

32. “The absolute chronology of the Greek colonies in Sicily.” Acta Archaeologica 67 (1996) 51-59

33. 2 entries in The Oxford Classical Dictionary, 3d ed., edited by Simon Hornblower and Anthony Spawforth (Oxford 1996)

34. 4 entries in The Oxford Companion to Archaeology, edited by Brian Fagan (Oxford 1996)

35. “Periodization and the heroes: inventing a Dark Age.” In Inventing Ancient Culture? Historicism, Periodization, and the "New Classics," edited by Mark Golden and Peter Toohey (New York 1997) 96-131

36. “The art of citizenship.” In New Light on a Dark Age: Exploring the Culture of Geometric Greece, edited by Susan Langdon (Columbia, Missouri 1997) 9-43

37. “Introduction.” In A New Companion to Homer, edited by Ian Morris and Barry Powell (Leiden 1997) xiii-xviii (with Barry Powell)

38. “Homer and the Iron Age.” In A New Companion to Homer, edited by Ian Morris and Barry Powell (Leiden 1997) 535-559

39. “An archaeology of equalities? The Greek city-states.” In The Archaeology of City-States, edited by Tom Charlton and Deborah Nichols (Washington, D.C., 1997) 91-105

40. “Archaeology as cultural history.” Archaeological Review from Cambridge 17 (1997) 3-16

41. “Introduction.” In Democracy 2500?, edited by Ian Morris and Kurt Raaflaub (Dubuque, Iowa, 1997) 1-9 (with Kurt Raaflaub)

42. “Archaeology as a kind of anthropology.” In Democracy 2500?, edited by Ian Morris and Kurt Raaflaub (Dubuque, Iowa, 1997) 229-39

43. “Archaeology and archaic Greek history.” In Nick Fisher and Hans van Wees, eds., Archaic Greece: New Evidence and New Approaches (London 1998) 1-91

44. “Remaining invisible. The archaeology of the excluded in classical Athens.” In Women and Slaves in Greco-Roman Culture, edited by Sheila Murnaghan and Sandra Joshel (New York 1998) 193-220

45. “Words and things.” Cambridge Archaeological Journal 8 (1998) 269-70

46. “Burial and Ancient Society after ten years.” In Nécropoles et pouvoir, edited by Sophie Marchegay, Marie-Thérèse Le Dinahet, and Jean-François Salles (Lyon and Paris 1998) 21-36

47. “Negotiated peripherality in Iron Age Greece: accepting and resisting the east.” In World-Systems Theory in Practice. Edited by P. Nick Kardulias (Lanham, MD, 1999) 63-84

48. “Beyond democracy and empire: Athenian art in context.” In Democracy, Empire, and the Arts in Fifth-Century Athens, edited by Deborah Boedeker and Kurt Raaflaub (Cambridge, Mass., 1999) 59-86

49. “Foreword.” In Moses Finley, The Ancient Economy (revised ed., Berkeley 1999) ix-xxxvi

50. “Iron Age Greece and the meanings of ‘princely tombs’.” In Les princes de la protohistoire et l’émergence de l’état. edited by Pascal Ruby (Naples and Rome 1999) 57-80

51. “The social and economic archaeology of Greece: an overview.” In Proceedings of the XVth International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Amsterdam 1998, ed. H. A. G. Brijder (Amsterdam 1999) 27-33

52. “Archaeology and gender ideologies in early archaic Greece.” Transactions of the American Philological Association 129 (1999) 305-317. Reprinted in Mark Golden and Peter Toohey, eds., Sex and Difference in Ancient Greece and Rome (Edinburgh UP 2003) 264-75

53. “Hard surfaces.” In Paul Cartledge, Ed Cohen, and Lin Foxhall, eds., Money, Labour, and Land in Ancient Greece (Routledge 2001) 8-43

54. “Stanford University excavations on the acropolis of Monte Polizzo, Sicily, I: preliminary report on the 2000 season.” Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 46 (2001) 253-71 (with Trinity Jackman, Emma Blake, and Sebastiano Tusa)

55. “The use and abuse of Homer.” Revised edition. In Douglas Cairns, ed., Oxford Readings on Homer’s Iliad (Oxford 2001) 57-91

56. “Archaeology and ancient Greek history.” In Stanley Burstein, Nancy Demand, Ian Morris, and Lawrence Tritle, Current Issues and the Study of Ancient History (Claremont, CA, 2002) 45-62

57. “Stanford University excavations on the acropolis of Monte Polizzo, Sicily, II: the 2001 season,” with Trinity Jackman, Emma Blake, and Sebastiano Tusa. Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 47 (2002) 153-98

58. “Stanford University excavations on the acropolis of Monte Polizzo, Sicily, III: the 2002 season,” with Trinity Jackman, Emma Blake, Brien Garnand, and Sebastiano Tusa. Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 48 (2003) 243-315

59. “Mediterraneanization.” Mediterranean Historical Review18 (2003) 30-55

60. “Classical archaeology.” In John Bintliff, ed., The Blackwell Companion to Archaeology (Blackwell 2004) 253-71

Book reviews

Agricultural History, American Antiquity, American Historical Review, American Journal of Archaeology, American Journal of Philology, American Journal of Sociology, Antiquity, Archaeological Journal, Cambridge Archaeological Journal, Classical Philology, Classical World, Journal of Field Archaeology, Journal of Interdisciplinary History, Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Journal of Roman Studies, Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Law and History Review, Ploutarchos

Forthcoming

Books

With Barry B. Powell, The Greeks: History Culture, and Society (Prentice-Hall, 2005)

Edited books

With Joe Manning, The Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models (Stanford University Press, 2005)

Articles and book chapters

“Economic sociology of the ancient Mediterranean world.” In Neil Smelser and Richard Swedberg, eds., The Handbook of Economic Sociology, 2^nd ed. (Princeton, 2004) (with Joe Manning)

“Stanford University excavations on the acropolis of Monte Polizzo, Sicily, IV: preliminary report on the 2003 season,” with Trinity Jackman, Emma Blake, Brien Garnand, and Sebastiano Tusa. Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 49 (2004)

“Scavi sull’acropoli di Monte Polizzo (TP), 2000-2003,” with Sebastiano Tusa. Sicilia Archeologica 38 (2004)

“Institutions, economics, and the ancient Mediterranean world.” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 160 (2004; with Barry Weingast)

“Economic growth in ancient Greece.” Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics 160 (2004)

“Introduction.” In Joe Manning and Ian Morris, eds., The Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models (Stanford, 2005)

“Archaeology, standards of living, and Greek economic history.” In Joe Manning and Ian Morris, eds., The Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models (Stanford, 2005)

“The growth of Greek cities in the first millennium BC.” In Glenn Storey, ed., Preindustrial Cities (University of Alabama Press, 2005)

“The eighth-century revolution.” In Kurt Raaflaub and Hans van Wees, eds., A Companion to Archaic Greece (Blackwell, 2006)

In preparation

Books

With Walter Scheidel, What is Ancient History? (Polity)

Edited books

With Walter Scheidel and Richard Saller, The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World (Cambridge, 2006)

With Walter Scheidel, The Dynamics of Ancient Empires (Stanford)

Articles

“Introduction.” In Walter Scheidel, Ian Morris, and Richard Saller, eds., The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World (Cambridge, 2006)

“Early Iron Age Greece.” In Walter Scheidel, Ian Morris, and Richard Saller, eds., The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World (Cambridge, 2006)

“Religione e mutamento sociale in Sicilia occidentale, 600-400 a.C.: gli scavi sull'acropoli di Monte Polizzo (TP), 2000-2003,” Kokalos 47 (2003)

“Stanford University excavations on the acropolis of Monte Polizzo, Sicily, V: preliminary report on the 2004 season,” with Trinity Jackman, Emma Blake, Brien Garnand, and Sebastiano Tusa. Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome 50 (2005)

“Introduction.” In Ian Morris and Walter Scheidel, eds., The Dynamics of Ancient Empires (Stanford; with Walter Scheidel)

“State and empire in classical Greece.” In Ian Morris and Walter Scheidel, eds., The Dynamics of Ancient Empires (Stanford)

“Social complexity.” In B. Cunliffe, ed., The Oxford Handbook of Archaeology (Oxford)

Archaeological Fieldwork

Assistant on excavations at Stafford, Norton Priory, Wem, Uttoxeter, Eccleshall (Stafford and Mid-Staffs. Archaeological Society, 1974-77)

Assistant on excavations at Hulton Abbey, Thor’s cave, Whieldon Factory (City of Stoke-on-Trent Museum, 1977-78)

Assistant on excavations at Coleshill (1979), Shifnal (1980) (West Midlands Rescue Archaeology Unit)

Assistant on excavations at Assiros (1982), Agrileza (1983); Assistant Director, Perachora (1982) (British School at Athens)

Associate Member, Archaeological Society of Athens, excavations at Koukounaries (1983-89) and Eretria (1984)

Co-director, Kitrini Limni excavation and survey (1991; Greek Archaeological Service)

Director, Kenchreai excavations (1993-95; American School of Classical Studies at Athens)

Director, Stanford University Monte Polizzo excavations, Sicily (2000-)