About

My research combines literary, documentary, and archaeological evidence to investigate the intersections of economic life, social relations, and political and legal cultures in the Graeco-Roman past.

Ongoing projects focus on Romano-Italian settler colonialism and the impact it left on Rome’s emerging provinces; on Greek demographic thought and action, in particular as it relates to the notion of oligandria (the lack of men and /or people); and on the intersection of slavery and gender: I am the co-PI in a project funded by the German Research Foundation, which undertakes the first investigation of women as enslavers in the Roman world.

Beyond these topics I have published on various aspects of Roman legal and imperial history, including the relationship of law and time in republican political culture, the origins of patronage and the Roman law of debt, and the meanings of taxes and their histories in the high empire.

I am also working on edited volumes on discursive constructions of unrest (together with Myles Lavan), and on praxeological approaches to the actions of Roman governors (together with James Corke-Webster).

Every so often I develop and experiment with online pedagogical tools for the physical classroom.