Graduate Education

2000 – 2002

DPhil in Ancient History, Brasenose College, Oxford

‘Intellectual Responses to Rome: Politics and Historiography in the Late Republic’

1998 – 2000

MPhil in Ancient History, Brasenose College, Oxford

Thesis: ‘Non-Roman Portrayals of Foreign Affairs in the Last Century of the Republic: The Historical Writings of Posidonius, Diodorus Siculus, and Pompeius Trogus’

Papers: Greek Prose Translation, Numismatics, Rome and the Greek East from the end of the First Punic War to the end of the Third Punic War, and Rome in the late Republic, 146-44 BC

1999 and 2000

Institute For Classical Studies, University of London, Summer Schools in Numismatics and Quantitative Methods for Ancient Historians

Undergraduate Education

1994 – 1998

BA Summa Cum Laude, The George Washington University, Washington, DC

Classical Humanities Major with Minors in Art History and Fine Arts

1996 – 1997

Visiting Student, Pembroke College, Oxford

Courses included Archaic Greek History and Archaeology, Roman Republican History and Historiography, Roman Religion, and Medieval Latin

Summer 1996

Visiting Student, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis Campus

Courses included Latin and Logic

Honours and Awards

2006

Kraay Scholarship awarded by the Heberden Coin Room at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford for four weeks numismatic research using their collection and library.

2004

Grants from British Institute at Ankara and the Craven Committee on behalf of the Ireland Fund for five weeks research on Memnon of Heraclea in Northern Turkey.

2000

Barclay Head Prize in Numismatics, Committee for Archaeology, The University of Oxford

1998 – 2001

The Overseas Research Students Award, Committee of Vice-Chancellors and Principals of the Universities of the United Kingdom

1998

Latimer Award in the Classical Humanities, The George Washington University

1994 – 1997

Undergraduate education at The George Washington University subsidized by a variety of merit-based scholarships awarded by the University

Academic Employment

2005 – present

Assistant Professor, Brooklyn College, City University of New York

(tenure-track)

2004 - 2005

Stipendiary Lecturer in Ancient History, Merton College, Oxford

2002 – 2005

Stipendiary Lecturer in Roman History, Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford

2002 – 2004

Institutional Fellow for Roman Provincial Coinage IV, The Antonine Period, Heberden Coin Room, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford

2000 – 2002

Assistant to the Schools Liaison Officer, Classics Faculty, Oxford

1999 – 2002

Assistant Dean, Brasenose College, Oxford

Summer 1999

Voluntary Intern, Department of Coins and Medals, British Museum

Publications

Forthcoming

‘Heracles in the West: Numismatics and Questions of Periodization’ in J. Prag and J. Quinn’s Hellenistic West

Forthcoming

‘Antonine Coinage: Imperial and Provincial’ in W. Metcalf’s Oxford Handbook of Greek and Roman Coinage

Forthcoming

Review of G. R. Bugh’s The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World in the Journal of Hellenic Studies

June 2006

 ‘Lucius Mummius and the Spoils of Corinth’, Scripta Classica Israelica

May 2006

Review of P. Counillon’s Pseudo-Skylax: le Périple du Pont-Euxin. Texte, traduction, commentaire philologique et historique in BMCR

April 2006

Historiography at the End of the Republic: Provincial Perspectives on Roman Rule in the Oxford Classical Monographs Series

October 2004

Review of A. Erskine’s A Companion to the Hellenistic World in Greece and Rome

October 2003

Subject Review for Recent Publications on Sexuality and Gender in Greece and Rome

April 2003

Review of C.E.W. Steel’s Cicero, Rhetoric, and Empire in Greece and Rome

Papers

21 June 2007

‘Historical “Universalism”: beyond the constraints of genre’, International Conference on Universal History, University of Manchester

17 November 2006

‘Faustus' Choice: A Lesson in Identity Construction from Republican Coinage’, Princeton University

26 October 2006

‘New Perspectives on Antonine Coinage’, CUNY Graduate Center

30 May 2006

‘Numismatic Evidence of the Hellenistic West’, Ancient History Seminar, Oxford

24 February 2006

‘Memories of Marius, 71-60 BC’, Yale University

23 January 2006

‘The Malleability of Historical Memory and the Motivations for Manipulation’, Exeter University

26 July 2005

‘Coins and Identities’ with Jonathan Williams at the Triennial Classics Conference 2005, The Joint Committee of the Greek and Roman Societies, Cambridge

1 March 2005

‘Reflections of Rome in 1 & 2  Maccabees’, Jewish History and Literature in the Graeco-Roman Period Seminar, Oxford

10 February 2005

‘Triumphator: Understanding Aristocratic Ambitions in the Late Republic’, Brooklyn College

29 October 2003

‘L. Mummius, Euergetism, and the Spoils of Corinth’, Ancient History Seminar, Oxford

22 October 2001

‘The Power of the Intellectual’, Graduate Work in Progress Seminar, Oxford

13 November 2000

‘A Context for Memnon of Heraclea’, Graduate Work in Progress Seminar, Oxford

22 November 1999

‘The Non-Canonical Triumph: Commemorating Victory in the Late Republic’, Graduate Work in Progress Seminar, Oxford

23 February 1999

‘Presence of the Author in the Histories of Polybius’, Theories and Methods in Ancient History  Graduate Seminar, Oxford

Current Research

Political Commemoration

I am building on my substantial research on the Roman triumph to produce a short, illustrated, monograph emphasizing the interest of the Roman elite to control the popular memory of military and political events, and the diverse strategies used to commemorate such events.

RPC, volume four

I continue to collaborate with V. Heuchert and C. Howgego on the preparation of the Antonine material for the Roman Provincial Coinage project.  Following the web launch of the catalogue and image collection, we are shifting our attention to the collective analysis of mints and regions.