Marc Van De Mieroop
Born	22 October 1956 Belgium
Citizenship	Belgian
Education	Ph.D.,Yale University, 1983 MA,Yale University, 1980 BA,Katholieke Universiteit Leuven, 1978
Occupation	Assyriologist
Children	Kenan Van De Mieroop
Awards	2013 Guggenheim Fellowship

Marc Van De Mieroop (born 22 October 1956) is a notedBelgianAssyriologist andEgyptologist who has been full professor ofAncient Near Eastern history atColumbia University since 1996.

Born inBelgium to a prominentFlemish family who paternally descend fromJan I van Cuijk. He received hisbachelor's degree from theKatholieke Universiteit Leuven, later attendingYale University, where he received hismaster's degree in 1980 and hisdoctoral degree in 1983. He taught at Yale andOxford, later becoming a full professor at Columbia in 1996.

Van De Mieroop specializes in the history of the Ancient Near East from the beginning of writing to the age ofAlexander the Great, with a particular interest in the socio-economic and political history of the Ancient Near East. He has written extensively on historical methodology and was a Senior Fellow at theInternationales Forschungszentrum Kulturwissenschaften in 2011, and aGuggenheim Fellow in 2013. In 2016 he held a fellowship from theACLS for a project entitled, "Babylonian Cosmopolitanism and the Birth of Greek and Hebrew Literate Traditions."^[1][2][3] He is a member of the editorial board for Journal of Ancient History.^[4]

In addition to his articles and translations, his book publications include:

• Crafts in the EarlyIsin Period (1987),
• Sumerian Administrative Documents from the Reigns ofIshbi-Erra andShu-Ilishu (1987)
• Society and Enterprise in Old BabylonianUr (1992)
• The AncientMesopotamian City (1997 and 1999)Oxford University Press, Oxford;ISBN 978-0-19-815286-6
• Cuneiform Texts and the Writing of History (1999)
• KingHammurabi ofBabylon (2005) Blackwell, Oxford.ISBN 978-1-4051-2660-1
• TheEastern Mediterranean in the Age ofRamesses II (2007)Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford;ISBN 978-1-4051-6069-8
• withBonnie Smith, Richard von Glahn, andKris Lane,Crossroads and Cultures. A History of the World's Peoples (2012), Bedford-St. Martin;ISBN 0-312-57317-0
• A History of the Ancient Near East, ca. 3000–323 BC (2015) Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford;ISBN 978-1118718162
• Philosophy before the Greeks. The Pursuit of Truth in Ancient Babylonia (2015), Princeton University Press;ISBN 978-0691157184
• A History ofAncient Egypt (2021) Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford;ISBN 978-1-119-62087-7
• The Practice of Ancient Near Eastern History - Opera Minora (2022) (Alter Orient und Altes Testament 400), Ugarit Verlag: Münster;ISBN 978-3-86835-336-5
• Before and After Babel: Writing as Resistance in Ancient Near Eastern Empires (2023) Oxford University Press, New York;ISBN 978-0-19-763466-0

• Columbia University: Marc Van De Mieroop
• Archaeology Magazine Interview
• Philosophy Interview
• On Bronze Age Collapse, BBC, The Forum

• 1958 births
• Living people
• 20th-century Belgian historians
• Columbia University faculty
• 21st-century Belgian historians
• Belgian emigrants to the United States
• Belgian academics
• Flemish academics

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