Jonathan Mark Hall is professor of Greek history at the University of Chicago. He earned a BA from the University of Oxford (Hertford College) in 1988 and a PhD from the University of Cambridge (King's College) in 1993 and he is the author of many books, including Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity, Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture, A History of the Archaic Greek World, ca. 1200-479 BCE, Artifact and Artifice: Classical Archaeology and the Ancient Historian, and Reclaiming the Past: Argos and its Archaeological Heritage in the Modern Era, as well as various articles and reviews on Archaic and Classical Greece. His focus of research is on Greek history, historiography, and archaeology. He has received the Quantrell Teaching Award in 2009. 2009: Llewellyn John and Harriet Manchester Quantrell Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Teaching. 2005: 2004 Gordon J. Laing Award, presented by the University of Chicago Press. 1999: Charles J. Goodwin Award for Merit, presented by the American Philological Association 1998–1999: Junior Fellowship, Center for Hellenic Studies, Washington D.C. Reclaiming the Past: Argos and its Archaeological Heritage in the Modern World (2021). Artifact and Artifice: Classical Archaeology and the Ancient Historian (2014). The Blackwell History of the Archaic Greek World. Oxford: Basil Blackwell (2007). Hellenicity: Between Ethnicity and Culture. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press (2002). Paperback edition, 2005. Recipient of the 2004 Gordon J. Laing Award from the University of Chicago Press. Ethnic Identity in Greek Antiquity. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (1997). Paperback edition, 2000. Electronic edition, 2002. Recipient of the American Philological Association's 1999 Charles J. Goodwin Award for Merit. 'The rise of state action in the Archaic age', in H. Beck (ed.), A Companion to Ancient Greek Government. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell (forthcoming). 'Early Greek settlement in the west: the limits of colonialism', in K. Bosher (ed.