Jenn Finn

Degrees

B.A., University of Michigan
M.A., Columbia University
M.A., University of Michigan
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Ph.D., Ludwig-Maximilians Universitat

Research Interests

Ancient Near East, Alexander the Great, ancient warfare

Selected Publications

Recent books and articles:

• Much Ado about Marduk: Questioning Discourses of Royalty in First Millennium Mesopotamian Literature(Berlin: de Gruyter, 2017).
• Contested Pasts: A Determinist History of Alexander the Great in the Roman Empire (University of Michigan Press, 2022).
• Editor, Brill鈥檚 Companion to Courage and Cowardice in Ancient Mediterranean Warfare (under review).
• 鈥淭he Center of the Earth in Ancient Thought.鈥� Journal of Ancient Near Eastern History4 nos.1-2, 2017 (177-209).
• 鈥淗erodotus鈥� Poor Man of Nippur.鈥� Classical World2, 2019 (13-38).
• 鈥淭he Ship of Aeneas.鈥� The Ancient History Bulletin1-2, 2020 (1-24).
• 鈥淧lutarch鈥檚 Themistocles: The Serpent of Hellas.鈥� Histos14, 2020 (185-205).
• 鈥淧ersian Collections: Center and Periphery at Achaemenid Imperial Capitals.鈥� Studia Orientalia 2, 2021 (154-173).
• 鈥淭he Grand Strategy of the Achaemenid Persian Empire.鈥� Brill鈥檚 Companion to War in the Ancient Iranian Empires (forthcoming).
• 鈥淎lexander鈥檚 Military Propaganda.鈥� Brill鈥檚 Companion to Alexander the Great鈥檚 Military Strategy (forthcoming)
• 鈥淯rbicide, Memory Sanctions, and the Perso-Macedonian Dynasty: The Destructions of Thebes and Persepolis in the Reign of Alexander the Great.鈥� Colloquia Antiqua volume, Festschrift in honor of Ed Anson (forthcoming).

Recent Papers:

• 鈥淣ear Eastern Military Empires and the Origins of Fake News in the Ancient World.鈥� Workshop Organizer and Presenter, The Many Faces of War V, South Dakota State University (October 2019); invited lecturer at the University of Colorado-Boulder, Center for the Study of Origins (October 2020).
• 鈥淭he Unruinable City in the Ancient Near East.鈥� Invited workshop presenter at the annual meeting of the American Society for Oriental Research (November 2020).
• 鈥淚nnovative and Experiential Pedagogies in Classical Studies.鈥� Invited workshop presenter at the Focus on Teaching and Learning Conference, 春风视频Chicago (January 2022).
• 鈥淭he Seven Wonders of the World and the Hellenistic Imaginary.鈥� Invited Presenter at the Ancient Societies Workshop, University of Chicago (February 2022).
• 鈥淕reek Military Generals in the Service of Foreign Armies: Some Case Studies.鈥� Invited Presenter at the Society for Military History (April 2022).
• 鈥淭he Hoplite Enigma: Ancient Persian War Strategy and its Failures.鈥� Invited Workshop Presenter, Conference on Ancient Military Strategy at Quantico (April 2022).
• 鈥淭he Last Plans of Alexander the Great.鈥� Invited Speaker at the Global Antiquities Workshop, Northwestern University (May 2022).
• 鈥淰irtual Empires: Cultural Heritage and the Politics of Power in the Ancient Mediterranean.鈥� Invited Speaker at Stanford University (March 2023) and University of Texas-Austin (March 2023).

Works in Progress:

• The Great Man鈥檚 Grand Tour: Cultural Heritage and the Politics of Power in the Ancient World.