Marc Van De Mieroop

Professor

Email: mv1@columbia.edu

Ancient Near Eastern History; Socio-economic and political history; Egyptian history; Ancient Babylonia

Marc Van De Mieroop is a specialist of the history of the ancient Near East from the beginning of writing to the age of Alexander of Macedon. Besides teaching at Columbia University, he has taught at the University of Oxford and at Yale University. He is the Director of Columbia’s Center for the Ancient Mediterranean and Founding Editor of the Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History.

He is the author of more than 100 articles and reviews, and has published numerous books on various aspects of ancient Near Eastern history, Egyptian history, and World History. His interests include socio-economic and political history, and he has written extensively on historical methodology as it applies to his field of study. His current research focuses on the intellectual history of ancient Babylonia and his last book, Philosophy before the Greeks: The Pursuit of Truth in Ancient Babylonia, written while he was a Guggenheim Fellow in 2013-14, studies Babylonian epistemology. His ongoing project, Babylonian Cosmopolitanism and the Birth of Greek and Hebrew Literate Traditions, received support from the ACLS during the academic year 2016-17.