Talia Prussin

Talia Prussin serves as Assistant Professor in the Department of History at Cornell University's College of Arts and Sciences, having previously taught at the University of British Columbia's Department of Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies. Her research examines ancient Western and Central Asia, specializing in the Hellenistic period (323-31 BCE) and Seleucid Empire dynamics.

Core research domains include:

• Comparative and Transnational studies
• Empires and Colonialism
• Hellenistic history
• Economics of empire
• Greek epigraphy
• Intercultural interaction in the ancient world
• Digital Humanities for ancient text analysis

Her monograph "Empire Under New Management: Land, Colonization, and Regime Change in Western Asia, 500-150 BCE" establishes institutional discontinuity between Achaemenid and Seleucid land management systems, arguing the Seleucids strategically used land distributions to bind local powers (e.g., Western Asia Minor cities, Babylonian temples) to imperial interests following their loss of Macedonian homeland.