Ian Morris

Ian's most recent books include The Dynamics of Ancient Empires: State Power from Assyria to Byzantium (Oxford, 2009), co-edited with his colleague Walter Scheidel, and The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World, co-edited with Scheidel and Richard Saller (Cambridge, 2008). He is also the author of Archaeology as Cultural History: Words and Things in Iron Age Greece (Blackwell 2000). With support from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities, he is now writing a book on freedom and economic growth in ancient Greece. He co-authored with Barry Powell (University of Wisconsin) a textbook called The Greeks, which appeared in its second edition in 2009. With Joe Manning, he has co-edited The Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models (Stanford, 2005).

In 2008, Ian concluded a multi-year project directing the excavation of Monte Polizzo, a sixth-century BC indigenous Sicilian town, examining imperialism and cultural interaction.