Vincent Gabrielsen

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Vincent Gabrielsen

CURRICULUM VITAE

Personal 
Date of birth: 30 November 1950.

Residence: Denmark

Address: James Grieve Vaenget 4, 5270 Odense N, Denmark

 

Education,

Academic Degrees:          
1983: BA in Classical Tradition, The University of Odense, Denmark

1983: BA in English language and literature. The University of Odense,

Denmark

1984: MA in History, specialization in ancient history. The University of

Odense, Denmark

1985-1987: PhD scholar at the Department of Classical Philology,

University of Copenhagen.

1998: PhD degree, the University of Copenhagen. Dissertation: Studies

in the Liturgies and Financing of the Athenian Fleet

1991: DPhil degree (Habilitation), University of Copenhagen.

Dissertation: The Athenian Trierarchy.

 

Current Position:               
Professor of Ancient History, SAXO-Institute, Univ. of Copenhagen,

Director of the Copenhagen Associations Project (funded by the Carlsberg Foundation)

Director of the Rhodes Centennial Project (Funded by the Carlsberg Foundation)

 

Previous Academic Positions                            
1988-1991: Post-doctoral Fellow, Department of Classical Philology,

University of Copenhagen.

1991-92: Assistant Professor (non-tenured), Department of History,

University of Odense.

1992-94: Senior Researcher, National Research Council’s Hellenism

Initiative.

1995-96: Lecturer (non-tenured), Department of History, University of

Copenhagen.

1996-2001:    Associate Professor, Department of History, University of

Copenhagen.

2001- : Professor of Ancient History, Department of History (now

SAXO-Institute), University of Copenhagen.

 

Visiting Appointments      
1988-1989: Visiting Fellow at Wolfson College, The University of Cambridge.

2010 (fall): R.D. Milns Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia

 

Teaching, Supervision of Theses      

Courses in Ancient Greek and Hellenistic History, Greek Epigraphy, the Theory of History, World History and Historical Method at BA and MA levels. Supervision of theses in Ancient Greek and Hellenistic History, Greek Epigraphy. Seminars in Ancient History

 

International Conferences                      
Convener (and co-convener) of several international conferences, the latest of which are:

Demand Creation and Economic Flows, Copenhagen, 7-9 September 2006

Private Associations and the Public Sphere in the Ancient World, The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Copenhagen, 9-11 September 2010

A World of Well-Ordered Societies? The Rules and Regulations of Ancient Associations, The Danish Institute at Athens, 22-23 May 2014.

 

Research                           
Classical Greek and Hellenistic History. Specialization in Naval History, Ship Construction and Public Finances, Warfare and Piracy, Hellenistic Rhodes and its Possessions in Asia Minor, Trade in Hellenistic Times, Banking and Credit Supply, the Private Associations of the Ancient World.

 

Distinctions (excluding grants)

2006: Best Teacher of the Year Award (Årets Harald), University of Copenhagen

2007: Member of the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters

2010: R.D. Milns Honorary Professor at the University of Queensland, Australia

2012: Member of the Academia Europaea

2015: Knight of the Dannebrogordenen (Ridder af Dannebrogordenen)

2016: Einar Hansens Research Foundations Research Prize (Einar Hansens Forskningsonds Forskningshæderpris)

 

Invited Lectures               

Invited lecturer at several uiniversities in Europe, Australia, USA and Japan (a selection) 

2008, Nov.    Royal Irish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Dublin

2008, Nov.    Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Letters, Stockholm

2009, March  Univ. of Bergen, Norway

2009, June    Trinity College, Dublin

2009, Sept.   University of Athens

2009, Nov.    University of Oxford

2010, Febr.   University of Oxford

2010, Oct.     University of Queensland, Australia

2010, Nov.    University of Sidney, Australia

2010, Nov.    Macquarie University, Australia

2010, Dec.    Freiburg Universität

2011, Jan.     University of Chicago

2012, June:   Humboldt-Universität-Berlin

2012, Sept. : Ruhr-Universität, Bochum

2012, Dec.: The Norwegian Institute at Athens

2013, May Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona

2014, Febr. Marburg Universität

2014, Oct. Academy of Sciences, Vienna

…

2018, March   Univ. of Kyoto and Kwansei Gakuin (Japan)

2018, March   Univ. of Nagoya (Japan)

2018, April: Univ. Carlos III, Madrid

 

Administration

I have held several posts at departmental level (e.g. Vice-Head of Department 1998-2005) and Faculty level (Chairman for the Faculty’s PhD Committee 2007-8). Member of the SAXO-Department’s Council and of the National ”Bibliometric” Committee for the discipline of History.                                         

2010: Member of an International Committee for the Evaluation of the University of Crete (Archaeology and History)

2011: Member of an International Committe for the Evaluation of the Univ. of Uppsala (Classics, History)

 

Other Posts                       

Chairman of the Landsdommer V. Gieses Foundation

Chairman of the national commitee Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum (Union Académique Internationale)

Chairman of the national committee Thesaurus Cultus et Rituum Antiquorum(Union Académique Internationale)

Board of Trustees for the Elisabeth Munksgaard Foundation. 

Board of Trustees for the Danish Institute at Athens

Board of Trustees for Lillian og Dan Finks Fond (Royal Academy)

Board of the Danish Historical Association

Editorial board of Classica et Mediaevalia.

External reviewer for The Institute of Advanced Studies, Princeton

External reviewer for the Swedish and Norwegian Humanities Councils

Mentor for the University of Copenhagen, ”Research Track” 

 

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Vincent Gabrielsen

Bibliography

 

(Reviews and lexica articles under 2000 words are not included)

 

Books

 

1. Remuneration of State Officials in Fourth-Century B.C. Athens. Odense University Classical Studies 11. Odense University Press: Odense, 1981. Pp. 165

 

2. The Athenian Trierarchy. The University of Copenhagen, Dissertation: Copenhagen, 1991. Pp. 504

 

3. Financing the Athenian Fleet: Public Taxation and Social Relations. The Johns Hopkins University Press: Baltimore and London, 1994. Pp. 306

 

4. The Naval Aristocracy of Hellenistic Rhodes. Studies in Hellenistic Civilization 6. Aarhus University Press: Aarhus, 1997. Pp. 254

 

 

Edited volumes

 

1999

5. Hellenistic Rhodes: Politics, Culture and Society. Studies in Hellenistic Civilization 9. Aarhus University Press: Aarhus, 1999. Pp. 358

 

2001

6. (with Z.H. Archibald, J.K. Davies & G. Oliver), Hellenistic Economies. Routledge: London and New York, 2001. Pp. 400

 

2005

7. (with Z.H. Archibald and J.K. Davies), Making, Moving and Managing: The New World of Ancient Economies, 323-31 BC. Oxbow Books: Oxford, 2005. Pp. 368

 

2007

8. (with J. Lund) The Black Sea in Antiquity: Regional and Interregional Economic Exchanges. Black Sea Studies 6. Aarhus Univ. Press: Aarhus, 2007.

 

2011

9. (with Z.H. Archibald and J.K. Davies)The Economies of Hellenistic Societies, Third to First Centuries BC, 216-250. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2011. Pp. 465

 

2015

(with C.A. Thomsen) Private Associations and the Public Sphere. Proceedings of a Symposium held at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 9-11 September 2010. Scientia Danica. Series H, Humanistica, 8 vol. 9. Copenhagen: Det Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab/The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. ISBN 9788773043899.

 

 

 

Articles and chapters

 

10. ’The Naukrariai and the Athenian Navy’, Classica et Mediaevalia36 (1985) 21-51

 

11. ’Phaneraand Aphanes Ousiain Classical Athens’, Classica et Mediaevalia37 (1986) 99-

              114

12. ’Det athenske demokrati i den nygræske tradition’, in R. Thomsen (udg.), Det athenske demokrati i samtidens og eftertidens syn, vol. 2. 281-294. Aarhus Univ.Press: Aarhus, 1986

 

13. ‘The AntidosisProcedure in Classical Athens’, Classica et Mediaevalia 38 (1987) 7-38

 

14. ‘The Diadikasia-Documents’,Classica et Mediaevalia38 (1987) 31-51

 

15. ‘A Naval Debt and the Appointment of a Syntrierarch in IG II²1623’, Classica et Mediaevalia39 (1988) 63-87

 

16. ’Trieren – grækernes krigsskib sejler igen’, Sfinx11:1 (1988) 35-30.

 

17. ’IGII²1609 and EisphoraPayments in Kind?’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik79 (1989) 93-99

 

18. ‘The Number of Athenian Trierarchs after ca. 340 B.C.’, Classica et Mediaevalia40 (1989) 149-159

 

19. ’Trierarchic Symmories’, Classica et Mediaevalia41 (1990) 89-118

 

20. ’Det rhodiske flådearistokrati", in P. Bilde et al. (udg.), Rhodos i hellenistisk tid. Hellenismestudier 5, 7-24. Aarhus Univ. Press: Aarhus, 1991

 

21 ‚The Date of IGII²1604 Again’, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik93 (1992) 69-

74

 

22. ‘The Status of Rhodioiin Hellenistic Rhodes’, Classica et Mediaevalia 43 (1992) 43-69

 

23. ‘Contributions of Ship's Equipment in the Athenian Naval Records", Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik98 (1993) 175-183

 

24. ’Hellenistiske uddannelsesfonde: Rhodos, Teos, Milet og Delphi’, i C. Gorm Tortzen et al. (udg.), Den hellenistiske skole. Hellenismestudier 8, 87-99. Aarhus Univ. Press: Aarhus, 1993

 

25. ‘Rhodes and Rome after the Third Macedonian War’, in P. Bilde et al. (eds.), Centre and Periphery in the Hellenistic World. Studies in Hellenistic Civilization 4, 132-161. Aarhus Univ. Press: Aarhus, 1993

 

26.’Subdivisions of the Rhodian State and their Decrees in Hellenistic Rhodes’, Classica et Mediaevalia45 (1994) 117-135

 

27. ‘The Rhodian Associations Honouring Dionysodoros from Alexandria’, Classica et Mediaevalia45 (1994) 137-160

 

28. ‘The Athenian Navy in the Fourth Century B.C.’, in R. Gardiner and J.S. Morrison (eds.), The Age of the Galley: Mediterranean Oared Vessels since pre-classical Times, 234-240. Conway: London, 1995

 

29. ‘The Naval Records from the Athenian Agora’, Classica et Mediaevalia 50 (1999) 25-60.

 

30. ‘Economic Activity, Maritime Trade and Piracy in the Hellenistic Aegean’, Revue des Études Anciennes103 (1999), ss. 219-240

 

31. ’The Synoikized Polisof Rhodes’, in P. Flensted-Jensen et al. (eds.), Polis and Politics. Studies in Ancient Greek History Presented to Mogens Herman Hansen on his 60th Birthday, 177-205. Museum Tusculanum Press: Copenhagen, 2000

 

32. ‘The Rhodian Peraiain the Third and Second Centuries BC’, Classica et Mediaevalia51 (2000) 1-57.

 

33. ‘The Rhodian Associations and Economic Activity’, in´Z.H. Archibald et al. (eds.) Hellenistic Economies, 215-244. Routledge: London & New York, 2001

 

34. ‘The Social and Economic Impact of Naval Warfare on the Greek Cities’, in T. Bekker-Nielsen & L. Hannestad (eds.), War as a Cultural and Social Force: Studies in Ancient Warfare. Det Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab. The Royal Danish Academy od Sciences and Letters, 72-89: Copenhagen, 2001

 

35. ‘The Impact of Armed forces on Government and Politics in Archaic and Classical Greece: A Response to Hans van Wees’, in A. Chaniotis & P. Ducrey (eds.), Army and Power in the Ancient World. Heidelberger althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien 37, 83-98. Franz Steiner: Stuttgart, 2002 

 

2003

 

36. ‘Piracy and the Slave-Trade’, in A Erskine (ed.), A Companion to the Hellenistic World, 389-404. Blackwell: Oxford, 2003

 

2004

 

37. ’Organiseret vold og dens konventioner. Nogle bemærkninger’, in J. Iddeng (red.), Antikke Samfunn i Krig og Fred. Festskrift til Johan Henrik Schreiner, 30-42. Oslo, 2003.

 

38. (with Thomas H. Nielsen) ’Rhodos’, in M.H. Hansen & T.H. Nielsen (eds.), An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis, 1196-1210. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2004.

 

 

2005

 

39. (with John Lund) ‘A Fishy business. Transport Amphorae of the Black Sea              Region as a Source for the Trade in Fish and Fish Products in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods’, in T. Bekker-Nielsen (ed.), Ancient Fishing andFish Processing in the Black Sea Region, 161-169. Black Sea Studies 2. Aarhus Univ.Press: Aarhus, 2005   

 

40. ’Mithradates VI af Pontos og de græske byer’, in J.M. Højte (red.),Mithradates VI af Pontos, Roms perfekte fjende, 25-42. Sortehavsstudier 3. Aarhus Univ. Press: Aarhus, 2005

 

41. ‘Banking and Credit Operations in Hellenistic Times’, in Z.H. Archibald, J. Davies & V. Gabrielsen (eds.),Making, Moving and Managing: The New World of Ancient Economies, 323-31 BC, 136-164. Oxbow Books: Oxford, 2005.

 

*** (with Z.H. Archibald and J.K. Davies), Making, Moving and Managing: The New World of Ancient Economies, 323-31 BC. Oxbow Books: Oxford, 2005. Pp. 368.

 

 

2006

 

42. ’Den hellenistiske verden’, in B. Fonnesbech-Wulff & P. Roslyng-Jensen (red.), Historiens Lange Linjer, 20-40. Gyldendal: Copenhagen,2006

 

 

2007

 

43. ‘Warfare and the State’, in P. Sabin, H. van Wees & M. Whitby (eds.),The Cambridge History of Greek and Roman Warfare, vol. 1, 248-272. Cambridge Univ. Press: Cambridge, 2007. 

 

44. ’The Public Banks of Hellenistic Cities’, in K. Verboven (ed.), Banks, Loans and Financial Archives in the Ancient World, 287-285. Koninklijke Vlaamse Academie van Belgie voor Wetenschappen en Kunste. Contactforum: Brussels, 2007.

 

45. ’Trade, Tribute and Taxes: Byzantion and the Black Sea Straits’, in V. Gabrielsen & J. Lund (eds.), The Black Sea in Antiquity: Regional and Interregional Economic Exchanges, 287-324. Black Sea Studies 6. Aarhus Univ. Press: Aarhus, 2007.

 

*** (with J. Lund) The Black Sea in Antiquity: Regional and Interregional Economic Exchanges. Black Sea Studies 6. Aarhus Univ. Press: Aarhus, 2007.

 

46. ’Brotherhoods of Faith and Provident Planning: The Non-public Associations of the Greek World’, Mediterranean Historical Review22 (2007)183-210 = I. Malkin, C. Constantakopoulou

 and K. Panagopoulou (eds.), Greek and Roman Networks in the Mediterranean, 176-203. London, 2009: Routledge.

 

 

2008

 

 

47. ’The Public Banks of Hellenistic Cities”, in K. Verboven, K. Vandorpe and V. Chankowski (eds.), Pistoi dia tèn technèn: Bankers, Loans and Archives in the Ancient World. Studies in Honour of Raymond Bogaert, 115-130. Studia Hellenistica 44. Peeters: Brussels, 2008.

 

48. ’Provincial Challenges to the Imperial Centre in Achaemenid and Seleucid Asia Minor’, in B. Forsén & G. Salmieri (eds.), The Province Strikes Back: Imperial Dynamics in the Eastern Mediterranean, 15-44. Papers and Monographs of the Finish Institute at Athens 13. Foundation of the Finnish Institute at Athens: Helsinki, 2008.

 

49. ’Die Kosten der athenischen Flotte in klassischer Zeit’, in F. Burrer & H. Müller (Hrsg.), Krigskosten und Kriegsfinanzierung in der Antike, 46-73. Wissenschaftlicher Buchgesellschaft: Darmstadt, 2008.

 

 

2011

 

50. ‘The Chrysaoreis of Caria”, in L. Karlsson and S. Carlsson (eds.), Labraunda and Karia. Proceedings of an International Symposium Commemorating Sixty Years of Swedish Archaeological Work in Labraunda.The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and Letters, History and Antiquity, Stockholm, November 20-21, 2008, 331-353. Boreas, Uppsala Studies in Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Civilization 32: Uppsala 2011

 

51. ’Profitable Partnerships: Monopolies, Traders, Kings and Cities’, in Z.H. Archibald, J.K. Davies and V. Gabrielsen (eds.), The Economies of Hellenistic Societies, Third to First Centuries BC, 216-250. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2011.

 

52. 'Afterword', in Z.H. Archibald, J.K. Davies and V. Gabrielsen (eds.), The Economies of Hellenistic Societies, Third to First Centuries BC, 441-444, Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2011.

 

***(with Z.H. Archibald and J.K. Davies) The Economies of Hellenistic Societies, Third to First Centuries BC, 216-250. Oxford University Press: Oxford, 2011. Pp. 465

 

 

2012

 

52. ‘Navies, Greek and Hellenistic’, in The Ancient History Encyclopaedia. Blackwell-Wiley (electronic edition, 2012)

 

53. ‘Rhodes’, in The Ancient History Encyclopaedia. Blackwell-Wiley (electronic edition, 2012)

 

 

2013

 

53 ‘Rhodes and the Ptolemaic Kingdom: the Commercial Infrastructure’, in K. Buraselis, M. Stefanou and D.J. Thompson (eds.), The Ptolemies, the Sea and the Nile: Studies in Waterborne Power, 66-81. Cambridge, 2013: Cambridge University Press.

 

54. ’Warfare, Statehood and Piracy in the Greek World’, in N. Jaspert and S. Kolditz (Hg.), Seeraub im Mittelmeerraum. Piraterie, Korsarentum und maritime Gewalt von der Antike bis zur Neuzeit, 133-153. Padeborn, 2013: Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh GmbH & Co.

 

55. ’Finance and Taxes’, in H. Beck (ed.), A Companion to Ancient Greek Government. Blackwel Companions to the Ancient World, 332-346. Malden MA and Oxford, 2013. Wiley-Blackwell.

 

56. ’The Navies of  Classical Athens and Hellenistic Rhodes: An Epigraphic Comparison’, in C. Brélaz and S. Fachard (eds.), Pratiques militaires et art de la guerre dans le monde grec antique: études offertes à Pierre Ducrey à l’occasion de son 75e anniversaire. Revue des Études Militaires Anciennes 6, pp. 63-79. Paris, 2013. Éditions A et J. Picard.

 

 

2014

 

57. ’The Navies of Classical Athens and Hellenistic Rhodes: An Epigraphic Comparison of Display, Monument and Text’, in W. Eck and P. Funke (eds.), Öffentlichkeit - Monument - Text. XIV Congressus Internationalis Epigraphie Graecae et Latinae, 27. - 31. Augusti MMXII. Akten. Actuarium, Series Nova 4, 461-463. Berlin-brandenburgische Akademie der Wissenschaften. Berlin and Berlin: De Gruyter.

 

58. ’The Piraeus and the Athenian Navy: recent archaeological and historical advances’, Proceedings of the Danish Insrtitute at Athens 4(2014), 37-48. 

 

59. ’”Måtte guderne kæmpe på vor side”: religion og krigsførelse i antikken’, LOGOS. Klasssikerforeningens medlemsblad4 (December 2014), 11-20.

 

 

2015

 

60. ‘Naval and Grain Networks and Associations in Fourth-Century Athens’, in: C. Taylor and K. Vlassopoulos (eds.), Communities and Networks in the Ancient Greek World. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 177-212. ISBN 9780198726494.

 

61. ’Introduction’ (with C.A. Thomsen), in V. Gabrielsen and C.A. Thomsen (eds.), Private Associations and the Public Sphere. Proceedings of a Symposium held at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 9-11 September 2010. Scientia Danica. Series H, Humanistica, 8 vol. 9. Copenhagen: Det Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab/The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. ISBN 9788773043899.

 

*** (with C.A. Thomsen), in V. Gabrielsen and C.A. Thomsen (eds.), Private Associations and the Public Sphere. Proceedings of a Symposium held at the Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters, 9-11 September 2010. Scientia Danica. Series H, Humanistica, 8 vol. 9. Copenhagen: Det Kgl. Danske Videnskabernes Selskab/The Royal Danish Academy of Sciences and Letters. ISBN 9788773043899.

 

2016

 

62. 'Associations, Modernization and the Return of the Private Network in Athens’, in C. Tiersch (Hg.), Die athenische Demokratie in 4. Jarhundert.Zwischen Modernisierung und Tradition. Stuttgart, 2016: Franz Steiner Verlag, 121-162. ISBN 9783515110693.

 

63. ’Be Faithful and Prosper. Associations, Trust and the Economy of Security’, in K. Droß-Krüpe, S. Föllinger and K. Ruffing (Hg.),Wirtchaft und ihre Kulturelle Prägung/The Cultural Shaping of the Ancient Economy. Philippika 98. Wiesbaden, 2016: Harrassowitz Verlag, 87-111. ISBN 9783447106740. 

 

2017

 

64. ’Financial, Human, Material and Economic Resources Required to Build and Operate Navies in the Classical Greek World’, in Ph. de Souza, P. Arnaud and Chr. Buchet (eds.), The Sea in History, vol. 1: The Ancient World. Suffolk and Rochester, New York, 2017: Beydell Press, 2017, 426-442. ISBN 9781783271573.

 

65. ’A New Inscription Attesting to Associations from the Necropolis of Rhodes, with an Appendix by Nicos Christodoulides’, Tyche. Beiträge zur Alten Geschichte, Papyrologie und Epigraphik32 (2017) 15-40 (Pl. 5-10)

 

In press/forthcoming                         

 

'"Mankind's Most Secure and Durable Institution": State, Credit, Trade and Capital Accumulation in the Classical-Early Hellenistic Aegean', in B. Woytek (ed.) Infrastructure and Distribution in Ancient Economies: The Flow of Money, Goods and Services. International Conference of the Division "Documenta Antiqua". Institute for the Study of Ancient Culture, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna, 28-31 Oct 2014.

 

‘Tribute and its Impact on Long-Term Growth’, in A. Bresson, E. Lo Cascio and F. Velde (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Economies in the Classical World. Oxford University Press 

 

*** Articles/Entries in the Database of The Copehagen Associations Project.

 

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