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'''Paul J. Kosmin''' (born 1984) is a historian of the [[Hellenistic period]], the centuries after the conquests of [[Alexander the Great]] that saw the spread of Greek culture and language across the Eastern Mediterranean and western Asia. His main focus is the [[Seleucid Empire]], the [[diadochi|Macedonian successor state]] that ruled Syria, Babylonia, Persia, and various adjoining regions at its height. He is a professor of classics at [[Harvard University]] in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

==Biography==
Kosmin attended [[Balliol College]] at [[Oxford University]] and graduated with a degree in Ancient and Modern History. He did his graduate program at [[Harvard University]], where he completed a Ph.D. in Ancient History and wrote his dissertation on the [[Seleucid Empire]]. Afterward, he attained an associate professorship in the Classics department at Harvard in 2012, and was given the [[named professorship]] of John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities in 2014.<ref>[https://scholar.harvard.edu/pjkosmin/biocv Paul J. Kosmin], Harvard bio</ref>

In 2014, he published ''The Land of the Elephant Kings: Space, Territory, and Ideology in the Seleucid Empire'', a popular adaptation of his dissertation on how the Seleucid Empire controlled its territory. In 2018, he published ''Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire'', a book on the [[Seleucid era]], the [[Ancient Macedonian calendar]], the cultural impact of timekeeping in the Hellenistic world, and related topics. ''Time and Its Adversaries'' was a joint winner of the [[Runciman Award]] in 2019.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20191026200217/https://runcimanaward.org/ Winners of the 2019 Runciman Book Prize]</ref> Kosmin has since collaborated with [[Andrea Berlin]], a professor of Archeology at Boston University, on several volumes of scholarly research. The two edited ''Spear-Won Land: Sardis from the King's Peace to the Peace of Apamea'' in 2019. ''Spear-Won Land'' is a compilation of journal articles and research on the city of [[Sardis]] in Asia Minor while it was under Seleucid rule until the [[Peace of Apamea]], which saw it transferred to the Roman-allied [[Kingdom of Pergamon]]. In 2021, Kosmin and Berlin edited a collection of articles on the latest archeological findings and scholarship on the final stages of the [[Maccabean Revolt]] and the early [[Hasmonean kingdom]], ''The Middle Maccabees: Archaeology, History, and the Rise of the Hasmonean Kingdom''.

Kosmin was awarded a [[Guggenheim Fellowship]] in 2021.<ref>[https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2021/4/12/guggenheim-fellowship-winners/ Four Harvard Affiliates Awarded Guggenheim Fellowships]</ref><ref>[https://www.gf.org/fellows/all-fellows/paul-j-kosmin/ Guggenheim Fellows: PAUL J. KOSMIN]</ref>

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