I teach courses in ancient Greek, Roman, Mediterranean, and world history, including topics courses on ethnicity and race, sexuality, and democracy. My current research project explores the history of indigenous peoples in the Hellenistic world (323-30 BC), with a particular focus on the region of Anatolia/Asia Minor (modern Turkey). I seek to understand how these communities were able to maintain traditional practices and identities while interacting with and appropriating hegemonic Greek culture and power structures. My degrees include a B.A. in Ancient Mediterranean Civilizations (Rice University, 2003, where I also competed in Cross-Country and Track & Field) and a Ph.D. in Ancient History (University of Pennsylvania, 2010, where I briefly participated in a campus Shakespeare company). I have also studied abroad and conducted research in Greece (American School of Classical Studies in Athens), Turkey (American Research Institute), and Germany (Institute for Epigraphy and Ancient History).
BOOKS/EDITED VOLUMES
* Polis Expansion and Elite Power in Hellenistic Karia. Lanham: Lexington Books, December 2015.
* Ancient World 44.1 (2013), special issue on Insurgency in the Ancient World, co-edited with Dan Powers.
ARTICLES/ CHAPTERS
* “Leagues of Karians as Local Rather than Imperial Structures,” in M. Munn, D. Redford, & S. Redford (eds.), Hellenistic Monarchies (De Gruyter, forthcoming 2019)
* “The Achaemenid Creation of Karia” in T. Howe, R. Rollinger, & H. Bowden (eds.), The History of the Argeads: New Perspectives (Wiesbaden, 2017).
* “Who(’)s(e) Karian? Language, Names, and Identity.” Ancient History Bulletin 27 (2013): 83-105.
* “The Union of Latmos and Pidasa Reconsidered.” Epigraphica Anatolica 43 (2010): 115-24.
* “Sympoliteia and Ethnicity in Caria.” in J. Che & N. Pappas (eds.), The Traditional Mediterranean: Essays from the Ancient to the Early Modern Era (Athens 2010), 21-34.
* “Expanding the Audience of the Hymn to Delos.” New England Classical Journal 36.1 (2009): 21-31.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
* “Dorians,” “Aeolians,” “Caria,” “Halicarnassus,” and 18 other entries in C. Baron (ed.), The Herodotus Encyclopedia (Wiley-Blackwell, forthcoming 2019)
* Review of Chrubasik, Kings and Usurpers in the Seleukid Empire, American Journal of Philology (forthcoming 2018)
* Review of Scott, Ancient Worlds: A Global History of Antiquity, Ancient World 48 (2017): 104-106.
* Review of Talloen, Cult in Pisidia: Religious Practice in Southwestern Asia Minor from Alexander the Great to the Rise of Christianity, Classical Review 67 (2017): 1-3.
* Review of Marek and Frei, In the Land of a Thousand Gods: A History of Asia Minor in the Ancient World, H-Teach, H-Net Reviews. December 2016.
* Review of Matthaei & Zimmermann, Urbane Strukturen und bürgerliche Identität im Hellenismus, BMCR 2016.10.18
* Review of Boulay & Pont, Chalkètôr en Carie, BMCR 2015.10.36
* Review of Grieb & Koehn, Polybios und seine Historien, BMCR 2014.09.03
* Review of Mac Sweeney, Community Identity & Archaeology, BMCR 2013.01.38
* Review of Constantakopoulou, Dance of the Islands. BMCR 2011.03.58