Mark Thatcher
Associate Professor of the Practice
Biography
Mark Thatcher specializes in Greek history and culture of the Archaic and Classical periods, with a particular focus on cross-cultural connections and concepts of ethnicity and identity in ancient Greece, and on the history of Sicily. His first book investigated how Greeks in Sicily and southern Italy negotiated between multiple types of identity, including ethnicity, polis identity, regional identity, and overarching Hellenic identity, and shows how juxtapositions and contrasts between a community’s multiple (and often contested) identities shaped its social and political history. He is working on a second book on the Sicilian Expedition; other ongoing projects explore Sicily in the Hellenistic period and myth and identity in the Greek West.