M.A., University of California, Berkeley B.A., University of Washington Dissertation: Forsaken for God: Christian Asceticism and Familial Renunciation in the Sixth-Century Life of Matrona of Perge
I work chiefly on Late Antique social and intellectual history and the material culture of the later Roman Empire. My research focuses on perceptions of piety and the impact of asceticism in Late Antique thought, particularly the ways in which the holiness of pagan and Christian ascetics was exhibited, accessed, and exploited through their bodies, portraits, and biographies. For...
PhD awarded 2023 MA University of California, Berkeley 2018 MA University College London 2013 BA Boston University 2011 Dissertation: Violence and Polis Formation on Crete in the Age of Hoplite Warfare, 700-400 BCE I graduatedfrom Boston University with a double major in Classical Civilizations and Archaeology. In 2013, I received a M.A. in Ancient History from University College London where I earned a Distinction on my thesis, The Role of Attendants in Ancient Greek Combat. I have worked on archaeological excavation and survey projects in Southern Italy and...
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 2016 B.A., University of Chicago, 2013 Dissertation: This Land is Our Land: Financing Empires Before and After Alexander I focus primarily on the Seleucid Empire, studying their strategies for exploitation of land in Anatolia and Mesopotamia. My research seeks to find roots for those strategies in the Persian empire and Classical Macedonia to better understand how the Macedonians held onto power in the Near East. My dissertation project seeks to unite two larger threads of Seleucid studies: the economics of empire and institution...
M.A., University of California, Berkeley, 2016 B.A., Dartmouth, 2013 Dissertation: Sacred Wealth and Institutional Development in the Archaic Argolid, Corinthia, and Saronic Gulf
I study the history and archaeology of Iron Age and Archaic Greece with an emphasis on public authority and society. In my dissertation, "Sacred Wealth and Institutional Development in the Archaic Argolid, Corinthia, and Saronic Gulf," I explore the problem of conceiving of the early polis as an economic actor comprised of many individual economic actors, given that the early polis’ institutions...
I received my BA from Macalester College in 2009, where I double majored in Theatre and Classical Archaeology. While there I spent two seasons working on Macalester’s excavations at Omrit in Israel and a third season working at Kenchreai in Greece. I also spent a semester in Egypt studying at the American University in Cairo, where I received the prestigious Simpson Scholarship to pursue my interest in Egyptian Archaeology. After returning from Egypt I wrote an honors dissertation titled The Sed Festival and Performance in Ancient Egypt...