Education
Ph.D., Stanford University, 2025
Fields of Interest:
I am an historian of the ancient Mediterranean whose research agenda primarily investigates the political economy and society of the early Roman Empire. Some areas of particular interest include: Roman law, administration, and fiscality; the ancient economy and pre-modern economic performance; ancient demography and urbanism; state formation and dynamics; historical sociology and comparative history; quantitative historical approaches and methods.
Courses Taught:
World History to 1500
Representative Writing:
Review of The Roman Municipia of Malta and Gozo: The Epigraphic Evidence, by G. Azzopardi. Oxford: Archaeopress 2023. American Journal of Archaeology 128.4. (2024).
Representative Conference Papers:
“Perpetual Endowments and Civic Finances in the Early Roman Empire” 2025 Joint Annual Meeting of the SCS and AIA, Philadelphia
“Public Land and the Revenues of Cities in the Early Roman Empire” 2024 Classical Association of the Atlantic States Annual Meeting, New Brunswick, NJ
“Premodern Data and Computation: A Database for the Study of Greek and Roman Private Associations” 2024 "Data That Divides Us" Mellon Sawyer Seminar Series Symposium at CESTA, Stanford University
(with Ü. Öztürk) “Theoretical Pluralism and Institutional Change in the Ancient Mediterranean” 2024 Institutional Change in the Ancient Mediterranean Conference, Stanford University
“Fiscal Administration in the Cities of the Early Empire: Evidence from the leges municipales” 2024 Fourth North American Congress of Greek and Latin Epigraphy, Chicago
Current Projects:
My primary work at present is producing a monograph based on my recently completed dissertation Public Finance in the Cities of the Early Roman Empire. This project examines the public finances and fiscal regimes of local governments within the early Roman Empire and demonstrates that the financial resources mobilized by the cities were substantial and that the activities of local authorities are profitably integrated into our assessment of the interests and infrastructural power of government during the principate.
My other ongoing research projects include an article on capital depreciation and the maintenance of Roman urban infrastructure, a chapter on the organizational isomorphism of Greco-Roman private associations, and an edited volume concerning the application of new-institutionalist theories and models of institutional change to the study of ancient Mediterranean history.