CURRICULUM VITAE. Andrew Monson

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1 CURRICULUM VITAE Andrew Monson CONTACT INFORMATION Department of Classics, Silver Center Washington Square East New York, NY , USA Office Tel.: EMPLOYMENT 2013 Associate Professor of Classics (Chair of Department, 2017 ), NYU Assistant Professor of Classics, NYU. OTHER AFFILIATIONS 2012 Affiliated Professor, Department of History, NYU Affiliated Professor, Institute of the Study of the Ancient World, NYU. VISITING APPOINTMENTS 2019 Guest Professor, Département d Histoire, l École normale supérieure, Paris Visiting Scholar, Lehrstuhl für Alte Geschichte, Universität Würzburg Affiliated Visiting Faculty, Arts & Humanities, NYU Abu Dhabi ACLS Fellow, Lehrstuhl für Alte Geschichte, Universität Würzburg Humboldt Fellow, Institut für Papyrologie, Universität Heidelberg Visiting Scholar, Department of Classics, University of Tel Aviv DAAD Fellow, Lehrstuhl für Ägyptologie, Universität Würzburg. EDUCATION 2008 Ph.D. in Classics, Stanford University M.Phil. in Archaeology, University College London B.A. in Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania. 1

2 BOOKS 2015 ed. with W. Scheidel, Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Review article: P.T. Hoffman, Public Economies and History, Journal of Economic Literature 55 (2017) Review:s R. van Dam, Bryn Mawr Classical Review ; J. Howard-Johnson, English Historical Review (2018) Agriculture and Taxation in Early Ptolemaic Egypt: Demotic Land Surveys and Accounts (P. Agri). PTA 46. Bonn: Habelt Verlag. Reviews: S.L.D. Katary, Bryn Mawr Classical Review ; S. Scheuble-Reiter, Archiv für Papyrusforschung 59 (2013) 202 4; M.-P. Chaufray, Topoi 18 (2013) ; B.P. Muhs, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 51 (2014) 241 4; W. Clarysse, Tyche 29 (2014) From the Ptolemies to the Romans: Political and Economic Change in Egypt. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Reviews: J.L. Rowlandson, Classical Journal Online ; L. Caponi, Sehepunkte 13 (2013); P. Nadig, Bryn Mawr Classical Review ; B. Redon, Topoi 18/2 (2013) ; B.P. Muhs, Journal of Near Eastern Studies 73 (2014) 152 5; S. von Reden, Historische Zeitschrift 298/2 (2014) 440 2; D.W. Rathbone, Journal of Hellenic Studies 134 (2014) ; A. Verhoogt, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 51 (2014) 261 4; J.G. Keenan, Klio 96 (2014) JOURNAL ARTICLES Submitted with W. Scheidel, Metaethnic frontier theory and state formation in the Ancient Near East and Aegean, 2000 to 1 BCE. Cliodynamics Advances of Seed in a Ptolemaic Land Survey from the Fayyum. Enchoria 34 (2014/2015, published 2016): The Jewish High Priesthood for Sale: Farming out Temples in the Hellenistic Near East. Journal of Jewish Studies 67: Egyptian Fiscal History in a World of Warring States, BCE. Journal of Egyptian History 8/1: Late Ptolemaic Capitation Taxes and the Poll Tax in Roman Egypt. Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 51: Receipts for sitônion, syntaxis, and epistatikon from Karanis: Evidence for Fiscal Reform in Augustan Egypt? ZPE 191: Land Tenure and Taxation from Ptolemaic to Roman Egypt. Tyche: Beiträge zur Alte Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik 25: Royal Land in Ptolemaic Egypt: A Demographic Model. Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient 50/4: Rule and Revenue in Egypt and Rome: Political Stability and Fiscal Institutions. Historical Social Research (Historische Sozialforschung) 32/4: Priests of Soknebtunis and Sokonopis: P. BM EA Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 92: The Ethics and Economics of Ptolemaic Religious Associations. Ancient Society 36:

3 2002 with W.J. Tait, Putting Papyri into Archaeological Context: New Insights from Tebtunis, Egypt. Archaeology International 5: BOOK CHAPTERS In prep. Sovereignty. In C. Atack and P.A. Cartledge, eds. The Cultural History of Democracy. Antiquity. Bloomsbury (up to 8700 words). Submitted A Proposal to Become Chief Priest of Harsaphes and A Survey of a Thirty- Aroura Estate. Submitted Taxation and Tribute. In S. von Reden, ed. Companion to the Greek Economy. Cambridge University Press. Submitted The Men of the Village: Royal Status and Agricultural Labor in Ptolemaic Egypt. In J. Zurbach and S. Maillot, eds., Statuts personnels et main-d œuvre en Méditerranée hellénistique. Clermont-Ferrand: Presses de l université Blaise Pascal. Submitted Alexander s Tributary Empire. In A. Meeus and K. Trampedach, eds. Alexander s Empire: The Legitimation of Conquest. Studies in Ancient Monarchies. Stuttgart: Steiner Verlag. In press In press In press Political and Sacred Animals: Religious Associations in Greco-Roman Egypt. In B. Eckhardt, ed. Private Associations and Jewish Communities in the Hellenistic and Roman Cities. Leiden: Brill. Taxation and Fiscal Reforms. In K. Vandorpe, ed. Companion to Greco-Roman and Late Antique Egypt. Oxford: Wiley-Blackwell. Taxation under Alexander the Great. In R. Campbell, I. Soto, and J. Valk, eds. The Mechanics of Extraction: Ancient Taxation in Comparative Perspective. New York: NYU Press Harvest Taxes on Cleruchic Land in the Third Century BCE. In T. Derda, A. Łajtar, and J. Urbanik, eds. Proceedings of the 27 th International Congress of Papyrology. JJP Supplement 28, Warsaw, A Ptolemaic Granary Account from the Early Ptolemaic Fayyum: P. Stanford Classics Dem. 8 and 11. In M. Stadler, S.L. Lippert, M. Schentuleit, eds. Sapientia Felicitas. Festschrift für Günter Vittmann. Montepellier: CENIM, Landowners and Metropolites: The Benefits of Augustus s Tax Reforms in Egypt. In A.-V. Pont and F. Lerouxel, eds. Propriétaires et citoyens dans l Orient romain. Bordeaux: Ausonius, with W. Scheidel, Studying Fiscal Regimes. In A. Monson and W. Scheidel, eds. Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Hellenistic Empires. In A. Monson and W. Scheidel, eds. Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, Syrians in the Fayyum: A Survey of Crops on Cleruchic Land. In S.L. Lippert and M.A. Stadler, eds. Gehilfe des Thot. Festschrift für Karl-Theodor Zauzich zu seinem 75. Geburtstag. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz,

4 2014 Landowners, Rents, and Crops in a Ptolemaic Village: P. Heid. Dem. inv. 46. In A.M. Dodson, J.J. Johnston, and W. Monkhouse, eds. A Good Scribe and an Exceedingly Wise Man: Studies in Honour of W.J. Tait. London: Golden House, Greeks in an Egyptian Landscape: The Faiyum under Ptolemaic and Roman Rule. In H. Beinlich, R. Schulz, and M. Seidel, eds. Egypt s Mysterious Book of the Faiyum. Dettelbach: Roell Verlag, German translation, Die Entstehung der Welt. Schöfungsmythen aus dem Alten Ägypten nach dem Buch vom Fayum. Dettelbach: Roell Verlag Salinization and Agricultural Productivity in the Fayyum. In C. Arlt and M.A. Stadler, eds. Das Fayum in Hellenismus und Kaiserzeit Fallstudien zu multikulturellem Leben in der Antike. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz Verlag, Rules of an Association of Soknebtunis. In R. Ast, H. Cuvigny, T.M. Hickey, and J. Lougovaya, eds. Papyrological Texts in Honor of Roger S. Bagnall. American Studies in Papyrology 43. Durham, NC: American Society of Papyrologists, with C. Arlt, Rules of an Egyptian Religious Association from the Early Second Century BCE. In H. Knuf, C. Leitz, and D. von Recklinghausen, eds. Honi soit qui mal y pense. Studien zum pharaonischen, griechisch-römischen und spätantiken Ägypten zu Ehren von Heinz-Josef Thissen. OLA 194. Leuven: Peeters, Communal Agriculture in the Ptolemaic and Roman Fayyum. In S.L. Lippert and M. Schentuleit, eds. Graeco-Roman Fayum: Texts and Archaeology. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, Private Associations in the Ptolemaic Fayyum: The Evidence of Demotic Accounts. In M. Capasso and P. Davoli, eds. New Archaeological and Papyrological Researches on the Fayyum. Papyrologica Lupiensia 14. Lecce: Congedo Editore, Religious Associations and Temples in Ptolemaic Tebtunis. In J. Frösén, T. Purola, and E. Salmenkivi, eds. Proceedings of the 24 th International Congress of Papyrology, Helsinki, 1 st 7 th of August Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, II Sacred Land in Ptolemaic and Roman Tebtunis. In S.L. Lippert and M. Schentuleit, eds. Tebtynis und Soknopaiu Nesos: Leben im römerzeitlichen Fajum. Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, MINOR CONTRIBUTIONS In press Reichsbildung, griechisch-hellenistisch. In L. Burckhard and M.A. Speidel, eds. Der Neue Pauly. 12. Supplementband. Militärgeschichte der griechisch-römischen Antike. Lexikon. Munich: Metzler Verlag with L. Uggetti, P. Sorb. IV 160. In M.-P. Chaufray and S. Wackenier, eds. Papyrus de la Sorbonne (P. Sorb. nos ). Paris: Presses de l université de Paris-Sorbonne Dorea (gifts, gift estate). In R. Bagnall, K. Brodersen, C. Champion, A. Erskine and S. Huebner, eds. Encyclopedia of Ancient History. Wiley-Blackwell. 4

5 REVIEWS 2016 M. Jursa and H.D. Baker, eds. Documentary Sources in Ancient Near Eastern and Greco-Roman Economic History, Journal of Hellenic Studies 136: L. Migeotte, Les finances des cités grecques aux périodes classique et hellénistique. Phoenix 69/1 2: H. van Wees, Ships and Silver, Taxes and Tribute: A Fiscal History of Archaic Athens, Bryn Mawr Classical Reviews Z.H. Archibald, J.K. Davies, and V. Gabrielsen, eds. The Economies of Hellenistic Societies, Third to First Centuries BC, Mediterranean Historical Review 29/1: S. Ruzicka, Trouble in the West. Egypt and the Persian Empire BCE, Classical Review 64/1: A. Jördens and J.F. Quack, eds. Ägypten zwischen innerem Zwist und äußerem Druck Die Zeit Ptolemaios VI. bis VIII. Journal of the American Oriental Society 134/1: C. Armoni, Studien zur Verwaltung des Ptolemäischen Ägypten: Das Amt des Basilikos Grammateus, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 50: C. Adams, Land Transport in Roman Egypt: A Study of Economics and Administration in a Roman Province. Classical World 105: M. Schentuleit, Aus der Buchhaltung des Weinmagazins im Edfu-Tempel. Der demotische P.Carlsberg 409. Journal of Near Eastern Studies 70: M. Schentuleit and G. Vittmann, Du hast mein Herz zufriendengestellt... Ptolemäerzeitliche demotische Urkunden aus Soknopaiu Nesos. Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 48: S. von Reden, Money in Ptolemaic Egypt: From the Macedonian Conquest to the Third Century B.C. The Classical Journal 105: with Kathryn Piquette and Geoffrey Tassie, Conference Review: Encounters with Ancient Egypt. Papers from the Institute of Archaeology 12: FELLOWSHIPS, GRANTS, AND AWARDS 2015 Pro Academia Prize, as contributor to R. C. Schulz s project ( NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, Legitimation of Autocracy conference NYU History and Office of Global Programs, Taxation and Sovereignty conference Charles A. Ryskamp Fellowship, American Council of Learned Societies NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, Beliefs, Markets, and Empires conference Stanford University, Department of Classics, Fiscal Regimes conference NYU Alexander Hamilton Center for Political Economy, Fiscal Regimes conference Goddard Research Fellowship, New York University. 5

6 Experienced Researcher Fellowship, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Fellowship, National Forum on the Future of Liberal Education NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, Teaching the Ancient World Jacobi Fellowship, German Archaeological Institute (DAI) in Munich Research Fellowship, German Academic Exchange Service Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University Overseas Research Student Award, University College London. CONFERENCES ORGANIZED 2014 The Legitimation of Autocracy in the Ancient World. Co-organizer: P. Mitsis. NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, UAE, November Taxation and Sovereignty: Explorations in Fiscal History from Antiquity to Modernity. Co-organizers: Y. Kotsonis and K. Smyrlis. NYU Florence, La Pietra Villa, Italy, May Beliefs, Markets, and Empires: Understanding Mechanisms of Integration in Early Societies. Co-organizer: W. Scheidel. NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, UAE, March Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Early States. Co-organizer: W. Scheidel. Stanford University, May Teaching the Ancient World. NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, UAE, November From Late Period to Late Antiquity: Conquest and Cultural Change in Egypt. Co-organizer: S.-A. Ashton. UCL Institute of Archaeology, UK, February 14. INVITED LECTURES 2017 Ohne Steuer kein Staat. Der Steuerstaat im klassischen Athen und im Hellenismus. Institut für Geschichte, Universität Regensburg, Germany, July Ein antiker Steuerstaat? Fiskalische Neuerungen im Frühhellenismus. Forum Antike, Institut für Alte Geschichte, Universität Wien, Austria, April 20, and Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik München, Germany, April 22, Seminar für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik, Universität Heidelberg, Germany, June The Birth of the Tax State? Greek Fiscal Thought and the Hellenistic Kingdoms. Ausonius, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France, March Le Fayoum de l Égypte : recherches nouvelles sur l époque grèco-romaine. Ausonius, Université Bordeaux Montaigne, France, March Eine Krise des Steuerstaates? Griechische Finanzexpertise und die hellenistischen Königreiche. Lehrstuhl für Alte Geschichte, Goethe Universität Frankfurt, December 10. 6

7 2015 The Greco-Roman Fayyum: New Perspectives on Hellenistic and Roman Egypt. Fachbereich Alte Geschichte des Departments Altertumswissenschaften, Universität Basel, Switzerland, December Greeks in the Fayyum: A Multi-Ethnic Frontier in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. Department of Classics, Yale University, March Getting to Rome: Empires and the Future of Ancient History. School of Classics, University of St. Andrews, March War Makes Tax States: Were the Greeks Exceptional? Departments of Classics, Cornell University, February 20 and University of Chicago, April The High Priest of Jerusalem and the Fiscal Crisis of the Seleucid Empire. Faculty of Humanities, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, May High Priests and Tax Farmers in Hellenistic Jerusalem. Seminar on Classical Civilization, Columbia University, January 24, and Lehrstuhl für Alte Geschichte, Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nüremberg, November Herrschafts- und Wirtschaftsstruktur im Wandel vom ptolemäischen zum römischen Ägypten. Lehrstuhl für altägyptische Kulturgeschichte in ptolemäisch-römischer Zeit, Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Germany, July Empires and Warring States: Ancient Fiscal Regimes in Comparative Perspective. Lecture series, Einheit des Rechts und Vielheit der Rechte zwischen Rom und Bru ssel: Antiker und gegenwa rtiger Umgang mit Fremdheit in großraümigen Herrschaftsgebilden, Universität Heidelberg, Germany, June From Satrapies to Kingdoms: Persian and Hellenistic Fiscal Regimes. Department of Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania, January 20, Department of Classics, Brown University, February Hellenistic Fiscal Regimes: Warring States Between World Empires. Department of Classical and Near Eastern Studies, Pennsylvania State University, November Land and Population: Royal Farmers in Ptolemaic Egypt. Department of Egyptology and Coptology, Leiden University, the Netherlands, April Crocodile Clubs: Egyptian, Greek, or Hellenistic? Department of Classics, Stanford University, February Words and Things: Excavating Papyri in Tebtunis, Egypt. Stanford Archaeology Center, Stanford University, March 12. CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION 2018 Respondent, Tolls and Ancient Economies, 19th International Congress of Classical Archaeology, Cologne/Bonn, May Alexander s Tributary Empire. Alexander s Empire: The Legitimation of Conquest. Villa Vigoni, Italy, May

8 2016 Taxation under Alexander the Great. The Mechanics of Extraction: Comparing Principles of Taxation and Tax Compliance in the Ancient World, Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, September 30-October The Men of the Village: Royal Status and Agricultural Labor in Ptolemaic Egypt. Statuts personnels et main-d œuvre en Méditerranée hellénistique. Clermont- Ferrand, France, March Early Demotic Land Surveys and Accounts from Magdola. La 8 e école d'été démotique, Paris, France, July Egyptian Fiscal Reforms in a World of Warring States, BCE. Taxation and Sovereignty: Explorations in Fiscal History from Antiquity to Modernity, NYU Florence, La Pietra Villa, May Secure Property Rights and Low Taxes: A Recipe for Economic Growth in Roman Egypt? Continuity and Change in the Economy of Graeco-Roman and Arab Egypt. Leuven, Belgium, October Harvest Taxes on Cleruchic Land in the Third Century B.C. 27th International Congress of Papyrology. Warsaw, Poland, July 29 August The Augustan Threshold: Imperial Taxation and the European Project. Römisches Reich und Europäische Union - Perspektiven eines Vergleichs. Konstanz, Germany, May The Benefit and the Burden: Tax Reform in Roman Egypt. Propriétaires et citoyens dans l Orient romain. University of Paris-Sorbonne, France, March Political and Sacred Animals: Religious Associations in Greco-Roman Egypt. Associations in Context: Rethinking Associations and Religion in the Post- Classical Polis. University of Copenhagen, Denmark, October Seed Loans in a Ptolemaic Land Survey: P. Cair. II Seventh Demotic Summer School, University of Chicago, August Land Productivity in the Fayyum: the Garden of Egypt? Das Fayum in Hellenismus und Kaiserzeit Fallstudien zu multikulturellem Leben in der Antike. Bronnbach, Germany, May Administrative Regime Change from Ptolemaic to Roman Egypt. 142nd Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association. San Antonio, TX, January Hellenistic States. Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Early States. Stanford University, May Associations, Cooperation, and State Formation in the Hellenistic World. The Emergence of Cooperation. Stanford University, May Reorienting Greco-Roman History. Teaching the Ancient World. NYU Abu Dhabi Institute, Abu Dhabi (UAE), November A Proposal to Become Lesonis of Harsaphes. 6. Demotische Sommerschule. Universität Heidelberg, Germany, August with Christelle Fischer-Bovet, Military Settlers and Taxation in P.Lips. II 124 (137 BC). Summer Institute of Papyrology, American Society of Papyrologists. Stanford, CA, July 11. 8

9 2008 Agrarian Institutions in Transition: Privatization from Ptolemaic to Roman Egypt. Summer Institute of Papyrology, American Society of Papyrologists. Stanford, CA, July Fiscal Institutions in Transition: Private Land in Ptolemaic and Roman Egypt. 139th Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association (Panel: American Society of Papyrologists). Chicago, IL, January Communal Agriculture in the Ptolemaic and Roman Fayyum. Graeco-Roman Fayum: Texts and Archaeology. Freudenstadt, Germany, May 30 June The Evolution of Land Rights: Public Farmers and Privatization in Roman Egypt. 10th Annual Conference of the International Society for New Institutional Economics (Panel: Institutions of the Ancient World). Boulder, CO, September 21 23, An Early Ptolemaic Land Survey in Demotic. 5. Demotische Sommerschule. Freie Universität Berlin, Germany, August The Ethics and Economics of Egyptian Religious Associations. Papyrology: New Approaches in a New Generation. Inaugural Sather Conference, University of California-Berkeley, November Temples and Cult Associations in Ptolemaic Tebtunis. 24th International Congress of Papyrology. Helsinki, Finland, August Priests and Temple Land Tenure in Roman Tebtunis. Tebtynis und Soknopaiu Nesos: Leben im römerzeitlichen Fajum. Sommerhausen, December Cult Guilds and Temple Organization in Ptolemaic and Roman Tebtunis. From Late Period to Late Antiquity: Conquest and Cultural Change in Egypt. University College London, February The Legend of the Egyptian Coronation of Alexander the Great, Encounters with Ancient Egypt. University College London, December TEACHING New York University (2008 present) Graduate Seminars: The Persian Empire; War, Diplomacy, and Finance, BCE; Politics & Culture in Hellenistic Egypt. Undergraduate Seminars: Alexander the Great; Ancient Empires: Persia, Rome, and China; Democracy, Oligarchy, and Tyranny in the Ancient World. Undergraduate Lecture Courses: Greek History from the Bronze Age to Alexander; The Greek World from Alexander to Augustus; Ancient Political Theory; Core Curriculum (Text & Ideas): Mixed Constitutions. Undergraduate Language Courses: Intermediate Latin: Cicero; Advanced Greek: Herodotus; Advanced Greek: Xenophon Stanford University ( ) Teaching Assistant: The Greeks (I. Morris); History and Culture of Ancient Egypt (J.G. Manning); Greek Mythology (A. Karanika); Social Power, the Law, and the State (J.G. Manning). 9

10 ACADEMIC SERVICE Graduate Supervision (NYU 2008 ) Primary PhD advisor: Daniel Hoyer (graduated 2014, post-doc with Seshat: Global History Databack under P. Turchin); Lorenzo del Monte (in progress). PhD committee: Philip Katz (in progress); Christopher Parmenter (in progress) Examination committees for PhD students in Classics, ISAW and IFA. Graduate Supervision (External) PhD committee: Luuk de Boer, Department of Classics, Princeton. Jury de thèse: Deborah Kott, École Pratique des Hautes Études. University Service (NYU 2008 ) Advisory Board for NYU Berlin, 2013 ; College of Arts & Sciences Undergraduate Research Conference, Judge, , 2015; NYU Abu Dhabi, Ancient World Professor Search Committee, ; NYU Abu Dhabi, Third-Year Review Teaching Evaluator Departmental Service (NYU 2008 ) Chair 2017 ; Global Network Coordinator 2013 ; Graduate Admissions Committee, , , ; Promotion Committee, ; Merit Salary Raise Committee, , , 2015; Greek Literature Position Search Committee Service to the Profession (2008 ) Director-at-Large, American Society of Papyrologists, 2017 ; Senior Editor for Classical Studies of Oxford Handbooks Online, ; Reviewer of book manuscripts, book proposals, abstracts, and articles for Cambridge University Press, Oxford University Press, Ancient Society, Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists, Topoi, European Journal of Law and Economics, American Society of Papyrologists SCS Panel. ARCHAEOLOGICAL AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES Trench Supervisor, IFAO Excavation at Tebtunis, Egypt Assistant Surveyor, Fayum Survey Project, Egypt Research Assistant, Advanced Papyrological Information Systems ASP Summer Institute of Papyrology, UC Berkeley. LANGUAGES Modern: English (native), German (fluent), French (proficient), Italian (reading). Ancient: Greek, Latin, Demotic Egyptian, and Coptic. 10