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Title

Associate Professor of History

Office Building

Lincoln Hall

Office

213

Mailing Address

Lincoln Hall 213
School of American and Global Studies-Box 2212
University Station
Brookings, SD 57007

CV

Education

• M.A. | University of Cambridge | 2004
• M.A. | University of Calgary | 2006
• Ph.D. | University of Calgary | 2013

Academic Interests

• Ancient warfare
• Greece and Rome
• Tactical manuals
• Medieval England
• Crusades
• Military history

Academic Responsibilities

• AHSS 111 – Diversity and Global Studies (compulsory class for all Humanities majors)
• HIST 121 - Western Civilization I (110-150 students every semester)
• HIST 280 - Writing History (basic historical research methods taught every year)
• HIST 322 - Ancient Greece and Rome
• HIST 341 - English History to 1688
• HIST 342 – Renaissance and Reformation
• HIST 404 - Classical and Norse mythology (co-taught with Mick Nagy, professor of Early medieval literature)
• HIST 406 - Experiential history (practical teaching in military and social history)
• HIST 415 - Women in Antiquity
• HIST 422 - Rome
• HIST 425 - Medieval Europe
• HIST 440 – Greece
• HIST 460 – American Military History
• HIST 482 - Travel Studies: Greece - Ancient and Medieval architecture, art and archaeology
• HIST 491 - Latin – independent study
• HIST 491 – Medieval Latin – independent study
• HIST 491 - Greek – independent study
• HIST 492 - Ancient and Medieval Warfare

Committees and Professional Memberships

Committees

• Faculty advisor for History Honors society, History Club Phi Alpha Theta and the Ultimate Frisbee Club.
• Various University committees

Professional Memberships

• Association of Ancient Historians
• American Philological Association

Areas of Research

• Battle tactics
• Tactical manuals
• Hellenistic generalship
• The historical development of combined arms
• Casualty figures
• Battlefield medicine

Publications

Monographs

1. The Battles of Antiochus the Great: the failure of combined arms at Magnesia (Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2022) (In press)
2. Combined Arms warfare in Ancient Greece: from Homer to Alexander the Great and his Successors. (London and New York: Routledge, 2019)
   Reviews: 
   
   . The Classical Review; Cambridge Vol. 69, Iss. 2 (Oct 2019): 501-503.

Articles

1. “‘Surprise, surprise:’ The tactical response of Alexander to guerilla warfare and fighting in difficult terrain.” The Ancient World 46, No. 2 (2015): 162-179.
2. “The nature of command in the Macedonian sarissa phalanx.” AHB 24 (2010): 71-92.

Edited books

1. Wrightson, G., ed. Terrorism through the Ages. Leiden: Brill, 2023. (In press)
2. Howe, T., E. Garvin, and G. Wrightson eds. Greece, Macedon and Persia: Studies in the Social, Political and Military Consequences of Conquest Societies in honour of Waldemar Heckel. Oxford: Oxbow, 2015.
3. Heckel, W., S Mueller, and G. Wrightson, eds. The Many Faces of War in the Ancient World. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2015.
4. G. Lee, H. Whittaker, & G. Wrightson eds. Ancient Warfare: Introducing Current Research (International Ancient Warfare Conference vol. 1). Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2015.

Book Chapters (double blind peer-reviewed)

1. “To use or not to use: The practical and historical reliability of Asclepiodotus’ ‘philosophical’ tactical manual.” In Ancient Warfare: Introducing Current Research (IAWC vol. 1) edited by G. Lee, H. Whittaker, & G. Wrightson, 65-93. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2015.

Book Chapters (peer reviewed)

1. “The Macedonian heavy infantry of Philip II and Alexander the Great: professionals in a world of amateurs.” In Warfare in the Ancient Mediterranean World, edited by Edward Anson. Leiden: Brill, 2023. (In press)
2. “Aeneas Tacticus, Philon of Byzantium, Onasander and the Good Siege: A Case-Study of Demetrius at Rhodes.” In Greek and Roman Military Manuals: Genre and History Edited by James T. Chlup and Conor Whately, 99-120. London and New York: Routledge, 2020.
3. “Macedonian armies and the perfection of Combined Arms.” In Greece, Macedon and Persia: Studies in the Social, Political and Military Consequences of Conquest Societies in honour of Waldemar Heckel, edited by T. Howe, E. Garvin, & G. Wrightson, 59-68. Oxford: Oxbow, 2015.
4. “The Naval Battles of 323/2 BCE.” In The Age of the Successors (323-276 BC) (Studia Hellenistic), edited by H. Hauben & A. Meeus, 517-535. Leuven: Peeters, 2010.

Co-authored Chapters

1. Heckel, W., G. Wrightson and C. Willekes. “Scythed Chariots at Gaugamela.” In Philip II and Alexander the Great: Father and Son, Lives and Afterlives, edited by E. Carney & D. Ogden, 103-113. Oxford: OUP, 2010.

Textbook

1. G. Wrightson. Becoming Civilized? A History of Western Civilization to 1600. First edition. Minneapolis: Cognella, 2017.

Encyclopedia Articles 

1. In: Londey, P., D. Kelly, S. Phang, and I. Spence eds. Conflict in Ancient Greece and Rome: The Definitive Political, Social and Military Encyclopedia. Santa Barbara, CA: ABC-CLIO, 2016. 
   – entries on: Megalopolis, battle of (331); Ipsus, battle of (301); Alexander III, campaigns in Thrace and Illyria; Paraetacene, battle of (316); Gabiene, battle of (316); Magnesia, battle of (189); Cynoscephalae, battle of (197); Pydna, battle of (168); Rhodes, siege of (305).

Magazine articles

1. “Combined Arms and Integrated Warfare - All together now.” Ancient Warfare XIII.1 (2019): 18-21.
2. “Combined arms in ancient Greece - Beginnings of integrated warfare.” Ancient Warfare XIII.2 (2019): 12-15.
3. “Combined arms in Macedonia - The peak of integrated warfare.” Ancient Warfare XIII.3 (2019): 16-19.
4. “Chariots and combined arms - Impact vehicle.” Ancient Warfare XIII.4 (2020): 44-47.
5. "La batalla de Gaugamela y el empleo de 'armas combinadas' (The battle of Gaugamela and Integrated Warfare).” Desperta Ferro Historia antigua y medieval 47 (May 2018): 14-22.

Book Reviews

1. Alexander the Great and Propaganda edited by John Walsh and Elizabeth Baynham. London and New York: Routledge, 2021. 205 pages. AHB (2021)
2. Under Contract: 
   Monograph: The Third Macedonian War and the failure of Macedonian combined arms. Barnsley: Pen and Sword, 2023. Under contract for manuscript submission December 24, 2022.

Edited book

1. Topics in Ancient Warfare: International Ancient Warfare Conference Proceedings vol. 2, G. Wrightson eds. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2023. Under contract.

Book chapter

1. “A new interpretation of the battle of Panion,” in Topics in Ancient Warfare: International Ancient Warfare Conference Proceedings vol. 2, G. Wrightson eds. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Press, 2023.