Prof Ma proposes to his Fellowship to pursue research on gender and sexuality in the Hellenistic world, namely the Afro-Eurasian spaces from Italy to Central Asia and the Indus Valley and the Black Sea to Upper Egypt, in the dynamic period defined by the destruction of the Persian Empire and the creation of extensive conquest-states with Greek ruling elites. This political watershed was accompanied by shifts in the conception of the self, changes in patterns of consumption and exchange, intensified and multipolar encounters between cultures. The subject is hence the construction of sexual roles and the relationship within sexes in a fascinating period defined by persistence, change, and inventivity.
Official Announcement: https://www.gf.org/stories/announcing-the-2025-guggenheim-fellows
Congratulations, John!
