John Ma joined the Department in 2015, after working at Corpus Christi College and the Faculty of Classics at Oxford for fifteen years. Before that, he worked in the Classicss Department at Princeton (during which period he lived in New York).

John Ma is an ancient historian, working in the history of the Greek world, with particular interest in Greek epigraphy and the Hellenistic world. He received a BA in Classics and a DPhil in Ancient History from Oxford (after a short stint in Princeton as a graduate student in Classics).

Jul 12, 2024 · John Ma joined the Department in 2015, after working at Corpus Christi College and the Faculty of Classics at Oxford for fifteen years. Before that, he worked in the Classicss Department at Princeton (during which period he lived in New York).

John Ma, Columbia University: 5958 Followers, 1352 Following, 77 Research papers. Research interests: Ancient History, Greek History, and Greek Epigraphy.

Feb 2, 2025 · In this landmark book, John Ma provides a new history of the polis, charting its spread and development into a common denominator for hundreds of communities from the Black Sea to North Africa and from the Near East to Italy.

Jun 4, 2024 · John Ma is professor of classics at Columbia University. He is the author of Statues and Cities: Honorific Portraits and Civic Identity in the Hellenistic World, Antiochos III and the Cities of Western Asia Minor, and numerous articles on ancient history.

John Ma Professor of Classics; Chair, Department of Classics. Hyde Lectures, Department of Classics, University of Pennsylvania, March 2023

Feb 3, 2025 · Columbia professor John Ma participated in the pro-Hamas encampment at Columbia, according to a tip submitted to Canary Mission in April 2024. Ma can be seen in the photo wearing an orange faculty vest.

Dec 3, 2024 · John Ma is a Professor of Classics at Columbia University. He is the author of Statues and Cities: Honorific Portraits and Civic Identity in the Hellenistic World, Antiochos III and the Cities of Western Asia Minor, and numerous articles on ancient history.