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Contact Information

3115 LCLB
707 S Mathews Ave
Urbana, IL 61801

Office Hours

Fall 2025:
Mondays & Fridays, 2:00-3:00PM
Tuesday & Thursdays, 3:30-4:30PM
Others, by appointment
Assistant Professor

Biography

Eduardo M. García-Molina (B.A. University of South Florida, M.A. Florida State University, Ph.D. University of Chicago) is an Assistant Professor of Classics. He is an Ancient Historian specializing in the Seleukid Empire, the largest of the polities that emerged after the death of Alexander the Great. His research interests include the interrelated development of imperial bureaucracy and ideology, archives and recordkeeping practices in antiquity, Graeco-Roman historiography and political thought on states and empires, epigraphy, numismatics, and Hellenistic law. He currently working on his first monograph examining the role that material conditions and information technologies (i.e., documentary media, sealing practices, formatting, archival storage and retrieval) played in the realization of imperial law and order in the Seleukid Empire and contributed to subjects’ experience of empire.

Alongside his ancient research, he is also interested in the reception and translation of ancient history within video games. He has published and presented on multiple aspects, from the gamification of ancient states and religions to the material culture and epigraphy of games like Total War, Elden Ring, Pokémon, and World of Warcraft.

Awards and Honors

Fellow for the Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2025

The Lawrence Friedman/Stanford Law School Fellowship of the American Society for Legal History, 2025

Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities Research Institute at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, 2024-2025

Affiliated Doctoral Fellow at the Franke Institute for the Humanities, 2023-2024

Mellon Foundation - University of Chicago Dissertation Completion Award, 2023-2024

Courses Taught

Intro to Ancient Greek Culture (Fall 2025)

The Ancient World in Video Games (Fall 2025, Spring 2026)

Oaths and Laws in Ancient Greece (Spring 2026)

Additional Campus Affiliations

Assistant Professor, Classics

Faculty Affiliate, Game Studies and Design

Recent Publications

García-Molina, E. Forthcoming. “A New Chronology and Archival Reading of the Seleukid Dossier of Baitokaike (IGLS VII 4028).” Historia.

García-Molina, E. Forthcoming. “Mythstoricity and Monsters in Total War Saga: Troy.” In Farnsworth, S. (ed.) Video Game Monsters: A Compendium. Routledge.

García-Molina, E. Forthcoming. “Culture, Population, and the Simulation of Ancient State Power in Total War.” In Dor, S. (ed). Depictions of Power: Strategy and Management Games. Bloomsbury Publishing.

García-Molina, E. Forthcoming. “Cuban Theatre and the Politics of Education in Electra Garrigó.” Classical Receptions Journal.

García-Molina, E.  2024. “Seleukeia Pieria.” In De Giorgi, A. (ed.) Antioch on-the-Orontes: History, Society, Ecology, and Visual Culture. Cambridge University Press. 43-56.

García-Molina, E. 2023. “Food and Drink in Context: Hellenistic Greece.” In Brice, L. and Donahue, J. (eds.) Brill’s Companion to Diet and Logistics in Greek and Roman Warfare. Brill.