IRAD MALKIN

 

Brief curriculum vitae

 

 

CURRENT POSITIONS

·       þFull Professor of Ancient Greek History, Tel Aviv University (April 1996-   ). At Tel Aviv University since April 1982.

·       Director, Dan David Prize (October 2002-) [www.dandavidprize.com]

·       Head and co-Director of the Center for Mediterranean Civilizations Project (April 1999-). [www.tau.ac.il/humanities/cmc]

·       Co-editor, co-founder: Mediterranean Historical Review. 1986-1991; 1997-.

 

INVITATIONS (excluding conferences)

·       þVisiting Professor, Université de Montréal. Montreal, Canada: Fall term, 1988.

·       þDirecteur d'études associé, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études: February 1989 (Sponsor: Marcel Detienne).

·       þDirecteur þ d'études invité, La Maison des Sciences de l'Homme: February 1990 (sponsor: Maurice Aymard).

·       þþDirecteur d'études associé, Ecole des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales: February 1992 (sponsor: Pierre Vidal-Naquet).

·       þþDirecteur d'études invité, La Maison des Sciences de l'Homme: February 1993 (sponsor: Maurice Aymard).

·       þVisiting Scholar, Program of Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology. University of California, Berkeley, 1994-95.

·       þþDirecteur d'études invité, La Maison des Sciences de l'Homme: February 1996 (sponsor: Maurice Aymard).

·       þþDirecteur d'études associé, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Études: February 1997 (Sponsor: Marcel Detienne).

·       þProfesseur invité, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Centre des Etudes Anciennes, Fall term, 1998.

·       þVisitng Professor, Johns Hopkins University, Classics, Fall term, 1999.

·       þMembre invité, Institut Universitaire de France, January-February 2000

 

Short-term  Invitations as Visiting Professor (one week, daily seminars):

       ·         Istituto Universitario Orientale, Naples, May 1993

       ·         Seminar co-ordinator and instructor with Chris Ratté: “Ancient Cities and Modern Urbanism” at New York University, the Faculty Resource Network, June 2001.

       ·         University of Pennsylvania, October 2001

 

FELLOWSHIPS:

       ·         þFellow: Center of Hellenic Studies, Washington DC, 1990-91.

       ·         þNational Endowment of the Humanities Fellow, 1994-5.

       ·         Israei Academy of Sciences, 2002-2006

 

INVITED LECTURES AT ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS: (Last ten years)

The universities of Freiburg, Liège (twice), McGill, Concordia, Brown, Harvard, Columbia, Pennsylvania (twice), Princeton, Cornell, Virginia, the University of California at Santa Cruz, Berkeley, Irvine, Los Angeles (UCLA); Stanford (twice), Emory, Washington, Istituto Universitario Orientale (Napoli; intensive week-long lectures), Università Degli Studi di Salerno (Salerno), Centre Jean Bérard (Napoli), Centre d'Archéologie classique/CNRS, Oslo, Stuttgart, Brussels, Rome (La Sapienza), Reims, Strasbourg, Grenoble, Pisa, American School of Classical Studies, Athens, University of Urbino.

 

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES, Participation.*

*I prefer not to list these to avoid redundancy with the list of publications, below.

 

INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCES, Organizer

       ·         “La France et la Méditerranée,” Haifa and Tel Aviv Universities, May 1986.

       ·         Annual Conferenc of the Israeli Society for the Promotion of Classical Studies in capacity of Secretary of the Society, May 1993.

       ·         “The Origins and Diffusion of the Alphabet,” International Summer workshop (two weeks) at the the Center for Mediterranean Civilizations Project, Tel Aviv University, July 1999.

       ·         “Mediating Literatures in the Mediterranean,” International Summer workshop (two weeks) at the the Center for Mediterranean Civilizations Project, Tel Aviv University, July 2000.

       ·          “The Mediterranean Idea,” the Center for Mediterranean Civilizations Project and Mishkenot Shaananim, Tel Aviv University and Mishkenot Shaananim, Jerusalem, January, 2001.

       ·         “Mediterranean Paradigms and the Study of Antiquity,” the Center for Mediterranean Civilizations Project, Tel Aviv University, June 2001 [www.tau.ac.il/humanities/cmc]

 

 

EDITORIAL POSITIONS:

Editorial Boards: Kernos; West & East.

 

ADVISORY FUNCTIONS

Member of the Academic Committee advising on the international exhibition “La fondación de la ciudad”, Barcelona, June 2000.

 

EDUCATION

Ph.D. (1982): The University of Pennsylvania, Ancient History Graduate Group (Studies: Sept. 1976 - Dec. 1981). Thesis: “Religion and the founders of Greek colonies.”

Age and Family: Born in Philadelphia, Pa., USA, Sept. 6th, 1951; married, two daughters, ages seventeen and twenty three years old. Spouse: Dr. Jeanette Malkin, Chair, Theater Studies, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.




PUBLICATIONS


BOOKS, Author:

·       Irad Malkin, Religion and Colonization in Ancient Greece, Brill: Leiden, 1987.

·       Irad Malkin, Myth and Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean, Cambridge UP: Cambridge,    1994. Re-issued in Electronic Version, Cambridge UP, 2002.

·       Irad Malkin, La Méditerranée spartiate: mythe et territoire, (translation of Myth and  Territory in the Spartan Mediterranean) Belles Lettres: Paris, 1999.

·       Irad Malkin, The Returns of Odysseus: Colonization and Ethnicity, University of    California Press, 1998.

·       Shivot Odysseus (Hebrew translation of the The Returns of Odysseus). Yediot Acharonot: Tel Aviv. In Press; forthcoming, 2003.

·       Irad Malkin, Who is a Greek? Introducing ancient Greek Identities. In preparation [Hebrew]

 

BOOKS, Editor

·       Irad Malkin and R.L. Hohlfelder (eds.), Mediterranean Cities: Historical Perspectives, London 1988.

·       Irad Malkin (ed.), La France et la Méditerranée,  Leiden, 1990.

·       Irad Malkin and Zeev  Tzahor (eds), Leaders and leadership in Jewish and World history. The Historical Society of Israel. Jerusalem, 1992 [Hebrew].

·       Irad Malkin and Z.W. Rubinsohn (eds).Leaders and Masses in the Roman world: studies in honor of Zvi Yavetz, Mnemosyne Supplementum 139, Leiden, 1995.

·       Irad Malkin (ed.), Ancient perceptions of Greek ethnicity,  Center for Hellenic Studies and Harvard University Press, Washington DC, 2001.

·       Irad Malkin (ed.), Mediterranean Paradigms and the Study of Antiquity (in preparations).

 

ARTICLES:

·       Irad Malkin, "The Word of the God in Ancient Greek Colonization," Zemanim    xii (1983) [Hebrew].

·       Irad Malkin, "What were the Sacred Precints of Brea? (IG3 46)", Chiron xiv    (1984) 44-48.

·       Irad Malkin, "What's in a Name? The Eponymous Founders of Greek Colonies."    Athenaeum lxiii (1985) 115-130.

·       Irad Malkin, "Dieux et colons dans la Sicile archaïque." Kokalos xxx-xxxi    (1984-5) 155-159.

·       Irad Malkin, "The Origins of the Colonists of Syracuse; Apollo of Delos."  Kokalos xxx-xxxi (1984-5) 53-55.

·       Irad Malkin, "Apollo Archegetes and Sicily." Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa    S.III xvi.4 (1986) 959-972.

·       Irad Malkin, “The state in early Greece and the Delphic Oracle” in Priesthood and Sate,  Y. Gafni and G. Motzkin (eds.), Jeruslaem 1986, pp. 31-49. [Hebrew]

·       Irad Malkin, "La place des dieux dans la cité des hommes." Revue de l'histoire des religions cciv.4 (1987) 331-352.

·       Irad Malkin, Arieh Fichman,  "Homer, Odyssey III.153-85: A Maritime Commentary.". Mediterranean Historical Review ii.2 (1987) 250-258.

·       Irad Malkin, N. Shmueli, "The City of the Blind and the Foundation of Byzantium."  Mediterranean Historical Review III.1 (1988) 21-36.

·       Irad Malkin, "Missionaires paiens dans la Gaule grecque" in: La France et la Méditerranée, pp. 42-52 (see under Books, above).

·       Irad Malkin, "Delphoi and the Founding of Social Order in Archaic Greece." Metis iv.1 (1989) 129-153.

·       Irad Malkin, "Sparta between Italy and North Africa: the Force of Mythological Associations", McGill Classical Monographs (1991) 45-60.

·       Irad Malkin, "The idea of the Promised Land in Ancient Greece" in Chosen People, Elect Nation and Universal Mission, S. Almog, M. Heyd (eds.), Jerusalem 1991. pp. 41-57 [Hebrew].

·       Irad Malkin, "What is an aphidruma?"  Classical Antiquity. 10 (1991) 77- 96.

·       Irad Malkin, "Lysander and Libys," Classical Quarterly 40 (1990) 541-545.

·       Irad Malkin, "Territorialisation mythologique: les “autels des Philènes” en Cyrenaïque". Dialogues d'histoire ancienne 16 (1990) 219-229.

·       Irad Malkin, "Land Ownership, Territorial Possession, Hero Cults and  Scholarly Theory". Nomodeiktes: Greek studies in honor of Martin Ostwald.    Edited by R.M. Rosen and J. Farrell. Ann Arbor 1993. Pp. 225-234.

·       Irad Malkin, “Colonisation de Sparte dans la mer Egée: tradition et archéologie.” REA 95 (1993) 365-381.

·       Irad Malkin, "Inside and Outside: colonization and the formation of the mother city". Apoikia. Studi in onore di G. Buchner. AION ArchStAnt 16  (1994) 1-9.

·       Irad Malkin, "Territorial domination and the Greek sanctuary". Religion and power in the ancient Greek world, ed. P. Hellström = Boreas 24 (1996),  Uppsala, pp. 75-82.

·       Irad Malkin, "The Polis Between Myths of Land and Territory". The role of religion in the early Greek Polis. Third international seminar on ancient Greek cult. Swedish Institue at Athens. Ed. R. Hägg. (Stockholm. 1996, pp. 9-19.)

·       Irad Malkin, "Rhodes and Sicily: Dorian Colonization in two Islands".   Rhodes: 24 centuries. International Symposium. Greek Academy, Athens. 1996,    pp. 188-198.

·       Irad Malkin, "Categories of early Greek colonization", Il dinamismo della colonizzazione greca, Claudia Antonetti (ed.), Loffredo: Napoli, 1997, pp. 25-38.

·       Irad Malkin, "Geometric Ithaca, Odysseus, and Hellenism", in Homerica:   Proceedings of the 8th international symposium on the Odyssey (1-5 September 1996), ed. Machi Apostolopoulou, Ithaca, 1998, pp. 335-348.

·       Irad Malkin, "The Middle Ground: Philoktetes in Italy". Kernos 11 (1998)    pp. 131-141.

·       Irad Malkin, Michael Jameson, "The gravestone of Latinos of Rhegion",  Athenaeum, 1998, pp. 477-486.

·       Irad Malkin, "Ithaka, Odysseus and the Euboeans in the eighth century." In   Euboica: L'Eubea e la presenza euboica in Calcidica e in Occidente, M. Bats, B. d'Agostino (eds.), Collection Centre Jean Berard 16 and AION ArchStAnt 12, Napoli, 1998, pp. 1-10.

·       Irad Malkin, "Myth, religion, and Spartan `ideology' ". Politische Theorie und Praxis im Altertum, W. Schuller (ed.), Wissentschaftliche Buchgesellschaft: Darmstadt, 1998, pp. 43-49.

·       Irad Malkin, "Ulysse protocolonisateur". Mediterraneo antico 2.1 1999:  243-261.

·       Irad Malkin, "La fondation d'une colonie apollonienne: Delphes et l'Hymne homérique à Apollon". 1892-1992: Delphes cent ans après la grande fouille: essai de bilan. Actes du colloque international organisé par l’École française d’Athènes, Athènes-Delphes, 17-20 septembre 1992.  =  BCH Suppl. 36. Ed. Anne Jacquemin, École française d’Athènes 2000, pp. 69-77.

·       Irad Malkin, "Greek ambiguities: between ‘ancient Hellas’ and ‘barbarian Epirus’.” In  Ancient perceptions of Greek ethnicity, Irad Malkin (ed.), Center for Hellenic Studies and Harvard University Press, Washington DC, 2001, pp. 187-212.

·        Irad Malkin, “Introduction” to Ancient perceptions of Greek ethnicity, Irad Malkin (ed.), Center for Hellenic Studies and Harvard University Press, Washington DC, 2001, pp. 1-28.

·       Irad Malkin, “The Odyssey and the Nymphs,” Gaia 5 (2001) 11-27.

·       Irad Malkin, "A colonial Middle Ground: Greek, Etruscan, and local elites in the Bay of Naples". In: The archaeology of colonialism. Claire L. Lyons and John K. Papadopoulos (eds.), The Getty Research Institute. 2002. Pp. 151-181.

·       Irad Malkin, ‘Exploring the Validity of the Concept of “Foundation”: A Visit to Megara Hyblaia’. In V.B. Gorman and E.W. Robinson (eds.), Oikistes: Studies in Conctitutions, Colonies, and Military Power in the Ancient World. Offered in Honor of A.J. Graham (Leiden, Boston, Köln, 2002). Pp. 195-224.

·       Irad Malkin, “Herodotus and ‘tradition’.” Forthcoming in a volume on Herodotus edited by Robert Parker and Peter Derow. Oxford: Oxford University Press. In Press.

·       Irad Malkin, “Naukratis and pan-Hellenism.” Forthcoming in a volume on the Greek polis, edited by François Queyrel. Accepted.

 

CHAPTER IN A COLLECTIVE WORK:

"Greek sanctuaries and Greek society", Greek religion, ed. M. Detienne, G.  Sissa. Solicited and delivered.

 

RELATED INTEREST:

·       Irad Malkin, “Das Gelobte Land,” Damals 10 (1994) 26-30.

·       Irad Malkin, "Israel et Pierre Vidal-Naquet," in Pierre Vidal-Naquet: un historien dans la cité, F. Hartog et al. (eds.), Paris: la Decouverte, 1998, pp. 199-218.

·       Irad Malkin, “Heroes and the foundation of Greek cities,” in Pedro Azara et al. (eds.), Mites de fundació de ciutats al món antic (Mesopotamia, Grècia I Roma), Monografies 2, Museu d’Arqueologia de Catalunya, Barcelona, 2002, pp. 123-130.

 

ENTRIES IN LEXICA AND ENCYCLOPEDIAS

Oxford Classical Dictionary 3rd edition, Oxford 1996. The entries: Incense, Libation, Snakes, Aparche, Archegetes, Metropolis, Votive Offerings, Nymphs, River-gods, Temenos, Kanephoros.

 

REVIEWS

       ·         F. de Polignac, La naissance de la cité grecque: cultes, espace et société    viiie-viie, Paris 1984., Journal of Hellenic Studies cvii (1987) 227-228.

       ·         S.E. Alcock & R. Osborne (eds.), Placing the gods: sanctuaries and sacred space in ancient Greece, Oxford 1994. Classical Philology XXX.

       ·         Claude Calame, Mythe et histoire dans l'Antiquité grecque: La création symbolique d'une colonie. Lausanne: Editions Payot, 1996. Pp. 185. Fr.    36.70  Classical Philology 94 (1999) 223-227.

       ·         Lynette G. Mitchell and Peter J. Rhodes (eds.), The development of the polis in Archaic Greece. London: Routledge. 1997. Scripta Classica Israelica. In press.

       ·         John E. Coleman and Clark E. Walz (eds.), Greeks and Barbarians: Essays on the interactions betwen Greeks and non-Greeks in antiquity and the consequences for Eurocentrism. Bethesda, Maryland: CDL Press. American Journal of Archaeology. Forthcoming.

TEACHING MATERIALS

“A guide for the preparation of lectures and papers” (Hebrew), in Lecture,    Discussion, Persuasion: Proficiencies and values in verbal communication, Yaacov Malkin (Tel Aviv 1994), pp. 204-247.

 

BROADCAST UNIVERSITY COURSE

Introduction to Greek Ethnicity. Winter 2000 (13 boradcasts, 23 minutes each).