Dr. Edward M. Anson, professor of history at UALR, has been nominated for the Criticos Prize for his 2013 book, Alexander the Great: Themes and Issues.

Funded by the Athens-based Critico-Fotinelli Foundation and administration, the London Hellenic Society sponsors the prize worth more than $16,000.

Dr. Anson has authored six additional books and more than 30 journal articles. He is currently under contract to produce a second edition of Eumenes of Cardia: A Greek Among Macedonians to be published in 2015.

He is the also the editor of the Alexander the Great and the Hellenistic World series for Lexington Books, published by Rowman and Littlefield; associate editor of the Ancient History Bulletin; and a classics assessor for an Australian government agency that awards grants to researchers.

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