Ian Morris (historian)
Ian M. Morris | |
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archaeologist, professor | |
Known for | Why the West Rules—For Now |
Ian Matthew Morris (born 27 January 1960) is a British
Early life
Morris was born on 27 January 1960 in
Career
From 1987 to 1995, he taught at the University of Chicago. Since 1995, he has been at Stanford.
Since joining Stanford, he has served as Associate Dean of Humanities and Sciences, Chair of the Classics Department, and Director of the Social Science History Institute. He was one of the founders of the Stanford Archaeology Center and has served two terms as its director.[6] He has published extensively on the history and the archaeology of the ancient Mediterranean and on world history. He has also won a Dean's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2009.[7]
Between 2000 and 2007, he directed Stanford's
He has been awarded research fellowships from the
Ian Morris plans to develop his views on the first-millennium BC transformations (the shift from religion-based power to bureaucratic and military one, and the rise of Axial thought) in his new book.[12]
Why the West Rules—For Now
His 2010 book, Why the West Rules—For Now, compares
The Measure of Civilization
The Measure of Civilization is a companion volume to Why the West Rules—For Now. It provides details of the evidence and the statistical methods used by Morris to construct the social development index that he used in Why the West Rules to compare long-term Eastern and Western history. The International Studies Association and Social Science History Association devoted panels to discussing the book at their 2013 annual meetings. The book is being translated into Chinese.
War! What is it Good For?
War! What is it Good For?: Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots was published by
Awards and honors
- 2014 California Book Awards Nonfiction Finalist for War! What is it Good For? [22]
Bibliography
- Burial and Ancient Society, Cambridge, 1987 ISBN 978-0-521-38738-5
- Death-Ritual and Social Structure in Classical Antiquity, Cambridge 1992 ISBN 978-0-521-37611-2
- Editor, Classical Greece: Ancient Histories and Modern Archaeologies, Cambridge, 1994 ISBN 978-0-521-45678-4
- Co-editor, with ISBN 978-90-04-09989-0
- Co-editor, with ISBN 978-0-7872-4466-8
- Archaeology as Cultural History, Blackwell, 2000 ISBN 978-0-631-19602-0
- The Greeks: History, Culture, and Society, with Barry B. Powell; Prentice-Hall, 1st ed. 2005, 2nd ed. 2009 ISBN 978-0-13-921156-0
- Co-editor, with Joe Manning, The Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models, ISBN 978-0-8047-5755-3
- Co-editor, with ISBN 978-0-521-78053-7
- Co-editor, with Walter Scheidel, of The Dynamics of Ancient Empires, Oxford, 2009 ISBN 978-0-19-537158-1
- ISBN 978-0-374-29002-3
- ISBN 978-0-691-15568-5
- War! What is it Good For? Conflict and the Progress of Civilization from Primates to Robots, ISBN 978-0-374-28600-2
- Foragers, Farmers, and Fossil Fuels: How Human Values Evolve (The ISBN 9780691160399
- Geography Is Destiny: Britain and the World: A 10,000-Year History, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2022; Profile Books, 2022 ISBN 9780374157272
References
- ^ a b "Ian Morris". Department of Classics. Stanford University. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 10 November 2010.
- ^ Who's Who 2021. Oxford University Press. 1 December 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
- ^ "Ian Morris CV" (PDF). Department of Classics. Stanford University. 2017. Retrieved 17 March 2021.[permanent dead link]
- ^ "New Johnian Fellows of the British Academy". www.joh.cam.ac.uk. 2012.
- doi:10.17863/CAM.20100. Archived from the originalon 20 February 2023. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
- ^ a b c "Classics and History Expert - Ian Morris | Humanities at Stanford". 17 February 2014. Archived from the original on 1 November 2009. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ "H&S Dean's Award - School of Humanities and Sciences". 3 August 2011. Archived from the original on 11 December 2015. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ "Ian Morris". Hoover Institution. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ a b Trei, Lisa (24 April 2002). "Faculty win Guggenheims for 'exceptional' scholarship:4/02". Stanford News Service. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ Parry, Marc (25 February 2013). "The Shape of History". The Chronicle of Higher Education. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ "Princeton UCHV". 20 June 2013. Archived from the original on 5 November 2013. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
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- ^ "On top of the world". The Economist. 7 October 2010. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ "Announcing the 2011 Literary Awards Festival Winners | PEN Center USA". 14 July 2012. Archived from the original on 14 July 2012. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ "Smarter Reading - Newsweek". 19 January 2011. Archived from the original on 19 January 2011. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
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: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link) - ^ Ferguson, Niall (2011). "Books for the World Ahead" (PDF). Foreign Affairs (November/December): 7. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 May 2013. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ "The Global Thinkers' Book Club | Foreign Policy". foreignpolicy.com. Archived from the original on 20 November 2013.
- ^ Shephard, Ben (19 April 2014). "Books: What Is It Good for?". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ Lowe, Keith (25 April 2014). "War: What Is It Good For? by Ian Morris, review". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ Lutz, Catherine (10 July 2014). "'War: What Is It Good For?' by Ian Morris". SFGate. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ Fernandez-Armesto, Felipe (11 April 2014). "Book Review: 'War! What Is It Good For?' by Ian Morris". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 19 June 2017.
- ^ "84th Annual California Book Awards Winners".
External links
- Ian Morris Archived 5 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine, Stanford University Classics Department.
- Classics and History Expert - Ian Morris, Stanford University Humanities Department.
- Why the West Rules for Now, Interview with Ian Morris in www.theglobaldispatches.com.
- Ian Morris interview on "Conversations With History," Archived 21 February 2011 at the UC Berkeleypodcast and video series.
- ' Foreign Policy magazine review Archived 20 November 2013 at the Wayback Machine of Why the West Rules.
- Increased Affluence Explains the Emergence of Ascetic Wisdoms and Moralizing Religions, an article together with Nicolas Baumard, Alexandre Hyafil and Pascal Boyer