Prof. Irad Malkin, an expert in ancient Mediterranean history at Tel Aviv University's Department of History, has been awarded the 2014 Israel Prize in the field of General History. Prof. Malkin is known for using innovative cross-disciplinary research methods and groundbreaking contributions to historical methodology, including his theory of "networks." In his recently published book, A Small Greek World: Networks in the Ancient Mediterranean (Oxford UP),

Prof. Malkin examines how and why city states and trading stations — from the Black Sea to the Western Mediterranean — connected to establish the social and cultural network known today as Ancient Greek civilization. Prof. Malkin is the co-founder and co-editor of the Mediterranean historical Review and incumbent of the Maxwell Cummings Family Chair for the Study of Mediterranean History and Culture. In 1982, after completing his PhD at the University of Pennsylvania, Prof. Malkin began teaching at Tel Aviv University, where he became a Full Professor in 1996. He has been awarded Fellowships from the Israel Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Center for Hellenic Studies (Harvard), the Institut universitaire de France, and All Souls College, Oxford, as well as serving as a visiting Scholar and Professor at several prominent universities .