Ian Morris (historian)
Ian Matthew Morris (born 27 January 1960) grew up in Britain. He attended Alleyne's comprehensive school in Stone, Staffordshire, and studied ancient history and archaeology at Birmingham University. He gained his PhD at Cambridge University .[1] From 1987 through 1995 he taught at the University of Chicago and is now Willard Professor of Classics and Professor of History at Stanford University .[1]
Since joining Stanford University, Morris has served as Associate Dean of Humanities and Sciences, Chair of the Classics Department, and Director of the Social Science History Institute. He also founded and has directed the Stanford Archaeology Center.[2]
Between 2000 and 2006 he directed Stanford University’s excavation at Monte Polizzo , Sicily.[2]
Ian Morris has been awarded fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation,[3] National Endowment for the Humanities.,[2] Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, D.C.[4] and Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin-Madison.[4]
Professor Morris has published extensively on the history and archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean and on world history. His most recent book, "Why the West Rules--For Now," compares East and West across the last 15,000 years, arguing that physical geography rather than culture, religion, politics, genetics, or great men explains Western domination of the globe. The Economist [5] has called it "an important book—one that challenges, stimulates and entertains. Anyone who does not believe there are lessons to be learned from history should start here."
Publications
- Burial and Ancient Society (Cambridge 1987)
- Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity (Cambridge 1992; Greek translation, 1997)
- Editor of Classical Greece: Ancient Histories and Modern Archaeologies (Cambridge 1994)
- Co-editor, with Barry Powell, of A New Companion to Homer (E. J. Brill 1997)
- Co-editor, with Kurt Raaflaub, of Democracy 2500? Questions and Challenges (Kendall-Hunt 1997)
- Archaeology as Cultural History (Blackwell 2000; Spanish translation, 2007)
- The Greeks: History, Culture, and Society (with Barry Powell; Prentice-Hall. 1st ed. 2005; 2nd ed. 2009)
- Co-editor, with Joe Manning, of The Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models (Stanford 2005)
- Co-editor, with Walter Scheidel and Richard Saller, of The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World (Cambridge 2007)
- Co-editor, with Walter Scheidel, of The Dynamics of Ancient Empires (Oxford 2009)
- Why the West Rules - For Now: The Patterns of History, and What they Reveal About the Future (Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010; Profile 2010; German, Dutch, Chinese, Korean, Russian, Taiwanese, and French translations, 2011) ISBN 978-0374290023
References
- ^ a b Ian Morris, Stanford History Department.
- ^ a b c Classics and History Expert - Ian Morris, Stanford University.
- ^ Ian Morris, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.
- ^ a b Faculty win Guggenheims for 'exceptional' scholarship: 4/02, Stanford University.]
- ^ Global power: On top of the world. The Economist.
External links
- Ian Morris, Personal website.
- Ian Morris, Stanford University Classics Department.
- Classics and History Expert - Ian Morris, Stanford University Humanities Department.