J.G. Manning
Professor of Classics and History
Senior Research Scholar, Yale Law School
He has published three monographs: The Hauswaldt Papyri. A Family Archive from Edfu in the Ptolemaic Period. Demotische Studien, Vol. 12. Würzburg, 1997, Land and power in Ptolemaic Egypt. The structure of land tenure 332–30 BCE. Cambridge University Press, 2003, and The last pharaohs. Egypt under the Ptolemies, 305–30 BC. Princeton University Press, 2009 (appearing in October). He has also edited (with Ian Morris, Stanford University) a volume on economic history: The Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models. Stanford University Press, 2005, and a second edited volume will appear shortly: Law and society in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest (330 BC-640 AD). Co-edited with J.G. Keenan & Uri Yiftach. Cambridge University Press.
His current projects include the writing of a history of the Hellenistic world for the new University of Edinburgh Greek history series and an archaeological survey in Upper Egypt.
Before coming to Yale, Manning taught for 12 years at Stanford University and two years at Princeton University. Manning is a Professor in both the Classics and the History Departments at Yale, and a Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School. He is a collaborative member of Yale’s Program in Economic History. He received his B.A. from Ohio State, and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.
Selected Recent Publications
- The last pharaohs. Egypt under the Ptolemies. Princeton University Press, 2009.
- "The Ptolemaic economy," in The Cambridge Economic History
of the Graeco-Roman World. Eds. Ian Morris, Walter Scheidel & Richard Saller.
Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 434-59. - The ancient economy. Evidence and models. With Ian Morris.
Stanford University Press, 2005. - Land and power in Ptolemaic Egypt. The structure of land tenure 332—30 BCE.
Cambridge University Press, 2003. - "Demotic Law," in A history of ancient Near Eastern law.
Ed. Raymond Westbrook. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 2003. Pp. 819-62.
