Ben Abbott
Visiting Assistant Professor
Office: Filene Hall 210
Phone: 518-580-5233
Email: babbott@skidmore.edu
EDUCATION
- Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania (2023)
- B.A., Binghamton University (2015
Dissertation:
Forging the Anchor: Antiochus I and the Creation of the Seleucid Empire
TEACHING and RESEARCH INTERESTS
- Greek and Roman history
- Seleucid history and archaeology
- Hellenistic empires
- Ancient imperial ideology and propaganda
- Race and ethnicity in antiquity
- Achaemenid studies
- Nomadic cultures of ancient Central Asia
- Ancient Silk Road studies
Fieldwork
- Khaytabad Archaeological Survey Project (Uzbekistan)
- Gordion Archaeological Project (Turkey)
- Nax莽ivan Archaeological Project (Azerbaijan)
Publications
- (forthcoming) 鈥�(Re)Builder of Cities: Seleucid Central Asia under Antiochus I鈥�
- 鈥淓lephants, Greeks, and Gold: The Silk Road in the Age of Hellenistic Empires.鈥� In X. Liu ed. The World of the Ancient Silk Road (Routledge). 2022.