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Steven A Johnstone

  • Professor, History
  • Member of the Graduate Faculty
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  • sjohnsto@arizona.edu
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Awards

  • Institute for Research in the Humanities Fellow
    • Institute for Research in the Humanities, University of Wisconsin, Fall 2004
  • John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
    • Spring 2004
  • Center for Hellenic Studies fellowship
    • Center for Hellenic Studies, Fall 2000

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Scholarly Contributions

Books

  • Johnstone, S. A. (2011). A History of Trust in Ancient Greece. University of Chicago Press.

Chapters

  • Johnstone, S. A. (2022). “Punishing and Valuing in Ancient Greek Laws.”. In conference procedings.
  • Johnstone, S. A. (2017). Pistis and Citizens in Ancient Greece. In Trust and Happiness in the History of Political Thought(pp 371-90). Leiden: Brill.
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    I believe this should be published in the fall of 2017.
  • Johnstone, S. A. (2013). Of Doubt. In The Feedback Loop: Historians Talk about the Links between Research and Teaching(pp 15-19). American Historical Association.

Journals/Publications

  • Johnstone, S. A. (2014). A New History of Libraries and Books in the Hellenistic Period. Classical Antiquity, 33, 347-93.

Presentations

  • Johnstone, S. A. (2016, September). Valuing and Punishing. Numbers and Numeracy in Classical Greece. Leiden, Netherlands.
  • Johnstone, S. A. (2014, March). A New History of Libraries and Books in the Hellenistic Period. invited talk. University of Texas, Austin: Classics Department.
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    Invited talk at the Classics department at the University of Texas, Austin (28 March 2014).
  • Johnstone, S. A. (2014, September). Trust and Citizens in Ancient Greece. Trust and Happiness in the History of Political Thought. Central European University, Budapest: European Society for the History of Political Thought.
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    It was the opening keynote address.
  • Johnstone, S. A. (2011, 2011-10-01). Ceci n'est pas une bibliothèque, Or, On Libraries in the Ancient World. History Department Workshop.
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    ;Type of Presentation: University;

Others

  • Johnstone, S. A. (2010). Virtuous Toil, Vicious Work: Xenophon on Aristocratic Style.
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    I don't know whether the book was peer reviewed. The article was in 1994.;Full Citation: pp. 137-66 in Vivienne J. Gray, ed., Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Xenophon. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press, 2010.;Type of Publication: Reprint of my 1994 article;

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