Ian Worthington

Dr. Ian Worthington is the Curators' Professor and Professor of History at the University of Missouri, where he has been teaching since 1998. The Curators' Professor title, which he received in 2013, is the highest research award in the UM system. Born in England, Professor Worthington earned a B.A. in Classical Studies from the University of Hull and an M.A. in Ancient History from the University of Durham. In 1987 he was awarded a Ph.D. from Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, with a thesis on the Greek orator Dinarchus and Athenian history in the age of Alexander the Great. He went on to teach for 10 years in the classics departments at the universities of New England and of Tasmania. In 2005 Professor Worthington won the Chancellor?s Award for Outstanding Research and Creativity in the Humanities and in 2007 the Student-Athlete Most Inspiring Professor Award. In 2011 he was the recipient of the William H. Byler Distinguished Professor Award and the CAMWS Excellence in College Teaching Award. Professor Worthington has published 6 sole-authored books, 11 edited books, and 100 articles, book chapters, and essays on Greek history, oratory and epigraphy, including By the Spear, The Rise and Fall of the Macedonian Empire (Oxford University Press: 2014), Demosthenes of Athens and the Fall of Classical Greece (Oxford University Press 2013), Philip II of Macedonia (Yale University Press 2008), and Alexander the Great: Man and God (Pearson 2004), and the Blackwell Companions to Ancient Macedonia (2010; coedited with Joseph Roisman), and Greek Rhetoric (2007). He is also editor-in-chief of Brill's New Jacoby. He and Joseph Roisman just completed a commentary on the ancient lives of the Attic orators for the Clarendon Ancient History Series (forthcoming, 2015). He is working on a biography of Ptolemy I for Oxford University Press.