Who did Josiah Ober work for from 2006 to 2007?
Josiah Ober Josiah Ober is an American historian of ancient Greece and classical political theorist . He is Tsakopoulos-Kounalakis Professor in honor of Constantine Mitsotakis , and professor of classics and political science , at Stanford University . His teaching and research links ancient Greek history and philosophy with modern political theory and practice . Career . Ober was educated at the University of Minnesota ( B.A. , major in history , 1975 ) and the University of Michigan ( Ph.D. , Department of History , 1980 ) . He was a professor of ancient history at Montana State University ( 1980–1990 ) , and then at Princeton University ( 1990–2006 ) . He has received fellowships from the American Council of Learned Societies ( 1989–90 ) , the National Endowment for the Humanities ( 1997 ) , and the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Science ( 2004-5 ) . He delivered the 2002-2003 Sigmund H . Danziger , Jr . Memorial Lecture in the Humanities at the University of Chicago and the 2019 Sather Lectures University of California , Berkeley . Ober was a student of Chester Starr , and has taught classicist John Ma , ancient Greek historian Emily Mackil , and the political theorist Ryan Balot . Influence . Obers Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens won the Goodwin Award in 1989 . Some early work was criticized by Mogens Herman Hansen for overemphasizing the ideological aspect of Athenian democracy against its institutional dimension , and P.J . Rhodes accused him of abandoning scholarly impartiality in favour of democratic advocacy . In a review of The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece for New Left Review , Peter Rose concluded that Ober had produced “an eccentric , at times intriguing , but deeply flawed work of history , which ultimately tells us more about the ideology of the Stanford classics department than it does about ancient Greece” . Paul Cartledge called Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens “a seminal work” . Jennifer Roberts called Political Dissent in Democratic Athens “a major contribution to a dialogue of enormous import” . Melissa Lane wrote : Ober draws on empirical evidence about the ancient world in the service of normative political theory , and in so doing sheds light not just on Athens but on the creation and operation of democratic institutions . Danielle Allen praised Obers Democracy and Knowledge in The New Republic ( 2008 ) . Mimis Chrysomaliss review of The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece CritCom states that in this “significant resource for scholars of classical antiquity , political science , and economic history” Ober “offers a novel perspective on how economic performance was connected to . . . democratic institutions.” Adriaan Lannis review praised Rise and Fall as part of the “exciting ( and controversial ) recent developments” in the Stanford school of ancient history and judged Obers arguments an “unusually compelling compilation of methods , data and argument in support of a broad thesis.” Barton Swaim called Demopolis : Democracy Before Liberalism a “tightly reasoned work of scholarship” in his Wall Street Journal review . Books . Authored . - Fortress Attica : Defense of the Athenian Land Frontier , 404-322 B.C. , Leiden : E.J . Brill , 1985 . - Mass and Elite in Democratic Athens : Rhetoric , Ideology , and the Power of the People , Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1989 . - The Athenian Revolution : Essays on Ancient Greek Democracy and Political Theory , Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1996 . - Political Dissent in Democratic Athens : Intellectual Critics of Popular Rule , Princeton : Princeton University Press , 1998 . - Athenian Legacies : Essays on the Politics of Going on Together , Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2005 . - Democracy and Knowledge : Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens , Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2008 . - The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece , Princeton : Princeton University Press , 2016 . - Demopolis : Democracy Before Liberalism , Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2018 . Co-authored . - with Manville , B. , A Company of Citizens : What the Worlds First Democracy Teaches Leaders about Creating Great Organizations , Cambridge , MA : Harvard Business Press , 2003 . Edited . - with Eadie , J. , The Craft of the Ancient Historian : Essays in Honor of Chester G . Starr , University Press of America : Lanham , 1985 . - with Euben , P. , and Wallach , J. , Athenian Political Thought and the Reconstruction of American Democracy , Cornell University Press : Ithaca , 1994 . - with Hedrick , C. , Demokratia : A Conversation on Democracies , Ancient and Modern , Princeton University Press : Princeton , 1996 . External links . - Democratic Lessons : What the Greeks Can Teach Us , ( Part I ) - A Conversation with Josh Ober , Ideas Roadshow , 2015 - Learning from Athens , 2006 - Classicists Crunch Data to Test Hypotheses about Greece , 2015