Jonathan M. Hall

Jonathan M. Hall

Jonathan M. Hall focuses on the cultural and social history of ancient Greece, with a particular emphasis on the construction, meaning, and functions of ethnic identity among Greek communities. He is the author of Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity (1997), Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture (2002), A History of the Archaic Greek World (2007; 2014), Artifact and Artifice: Classical Archaeology and the Ancient Historian (2014), and Reclaiming the Past: Argos and its Archaeological Heritage in the Modern Era (2021), as well as numerous articles and contributions on the social, cultural, and political history of ancient Greece and issues of archaeological heritage in the modern era. Hall is the Phyllis Fay Horton Distinguished Service Professor in the Departments of History and Classics and in the College at the University of Chicago.