Hans Beck (historian)

Hans Beck received his PhD in Ancient History from University of Erlangen–Nuremberg in 1996 with a thesis on Polis und Koinon. Untersuchungen zur Geschichte und Struktur der griechischen Bundesstaaten im 4. Jahrhundert v. Chr. In 1997 he was hired to the position of Assistant Professor at Cologne University. In 2001-02 he was Junior Fellow in residence at the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington DC. Finishing his Habilitation in Cologne in 2003 with a work entitled Karriere und Hierarchie. Die römische Aristokratie und die Anfänge des cursus honorum in der mittleren Republik, he moved on to Frankfurt University in 2004, where he held a Heisenberg Fellowship, awarded by the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft. In 2005 he was hired to the position of Professor of Ancient Greek History and John MacNaughon Chair of Classics at McGill University, which is his current employment. From 2007 to 2016 he was the Director of Classical Studies at McGill.

Beck specializes in the history and culture of the ancient Greek world, with a thematic focus on federalism, polis governance, and notions of the local. His research also extends to the study of the political culture of ancient Rome, the exercise of aristocratic rule in antiquity, and ancient historiography. He contributed many entries to Brill's New Pauly and Brill’s New Jacoby, for which he has also served on the editorial board. He is co-editor of Teiresias Supplements Online and co-director of Global Antiquities, a research network on the comparative study of ancient Greece, Rome, and China, based at McGill University. In 2015, he was awarded the Anneliese Maier Research Prize of the German Research Foundation.

• Polis und Koinon. Untersuchungen zur Geschichte und Struktur der griechischen Bundesstaaten im 4. Jhdt. v. Chr., Steiner, Stuttgart 1997 ISBN 3-515-07117-2 (Historia Einzelschriften, Vol 114).
• Editor with Uwe Walter: Die Frühen Römischen Historiker I. Von Fabius Pictor bis Cn. Gellius, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2001, ISBN 3-534-14757-X (Texte zur Forschung, Vol. 76)
  • E-book edition 2003, 2nd revised edition 2005 (ISBN 3-534-19048-3)
• Editor with Uwe Walter: Die Frühen Römischen Historiker II. Von Coelius Antipater bis Pomponius Atticus, Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 2004, ISBN 3-534-14758-8 (Texte zur Forschung, Vol. 77)
• Karriere und Hierarchie. Die römische Aristokratie und die Anfänge des cursus honorum in der mittleren Republik, Akademie, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-05-004154-4 (Klio supplement, New Series, Vol. 10).
• Editor with Peter Scholz und Uwe Walter: Die Macht der Wenigen. Aristokratische Herrschaftspraxis, Kommunikation und edler Lebensstil in Antike und Früher Neuzeit, Oldenbourg, München 2008 ISBN 978-3-486-58726-5 (Historische Zeitschrift, Supplement, New Series, Vol. 47)
• With John Buckler: Central Greece and the Politics of Power in the Fourth Century BC., Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2008
• Editor with Hans-Ulrich Wiemer: Feiern und Erinnern. Geschichtsbilder im Spiegel antiker Feste, Verlag Antike, Berlin 2009 (Studien zur Alten Geschichte).
• Editor with Antonio Dupla, Francisco Pina Polo und Martin Jehne: Consuls and Res Publica. Holding High Office in Republican Rome, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2011
• Editor: A Companion to Ancient Greek Government, Wiley-Blackwell Publishing (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World), Malden, Mass 2013
  • E-book edition 2013.
• Editor with Peter Funke: Federalism in Greek Antiquity, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge 2015
• Editor with Martin Jehne and John Serrati: Money and Power in the Roman Republic, Latomus Press, Brussels 2016

• Publications by and about Hans Beck in the catalogue of the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
• Hans Beck's personal Website