Craige B. Champion is Associate Professor of Ancient History and Classics and Chair of the History Department in the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University, where in 2004 he received the Daniel Patrick Moynihan Award.

His scholarly interests lie in the history of the Hellenistic world and the Middle Roman Republic and Greek and Roman historiography.  He has had an enduring interest in the ancient Greek historian Polybius.  His wider academic interests include the influence of classical political theory in western political thought, ancient Greek democratic theories and practices, and interrelationships between citizenship and empire in classical antiquity.

He is the author of Cultural Politics in Polybius’s Histories (Berkeley, 2004), editor of Roman Imperialism: Readings and Sources (Oxford, 2004), and co-editor, with Arthur M. Eckstein, of a new, annotated, two-volume English-language edition of Polybius, The Landmark Edition of Polybius’ Histories (New York, forthcoming).  He has published numerous articles and review essays on ancient Greek and Roman history and historiography.