Faculty

Greek literature (tragedy, Hellenistic literature, especially epigram); literature and gender; classical myth; reception studies; myth in popular culture.

Greek archaeology; Aegean Prehistory; Anatolian archaeology

Greek and Roman social, economic, and political history, most notably democracy and oligarchy; economic development, particularly agriculture, living standards, nutrition, housing, and trade; social inequality, social welfare, slavery and labour exploitation; and ideologies of social inequality, most notably capitalism, racism, and colonialism

Silver Latin poetry, especially Senecan tragedy and Roman satire.

Greek and Latin language pedagogy; Imperial Greek literature; Greek and Latin novels, esp. Achilles Tatius and Petronius; gender and sexuality in Greek and Roman culture; reception studies, esp. historical fiction and film

Interests: Roman History:Greek and Latin epigraphy, Roman public and private law, Jewish and early Christian history.

Research focus: the study of ancient colonialism and the social, economic and cultural history of the Iberian Peninsula during the Iron Age and the Roman era. Most notably, mobility and demography, religion, daily practices, cultural change and identity formation, pre-Roman languages, archaeometry, and archaeological method and theory.

PhD research compares slavery in ancient Greece and Rome with that in colonial North America, Brazil, and the Caribbean. My focus is these slaveries’ intersection with race and ethnicity.