You can download a PDF copy of my curriculum vitae here (last updated August 18, 2022).
Employment
University of Colorado-Boulder
Assistant Professor, Department of Classics (2019-)
Courses: The Rise and Fall of Rome, Topics in Latin Poetry, Roman Law, Introduction to Roman Literature, Latin Literature (Cicero), Sex and Gender in Ancient Rome
Georgetown University
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Classics (2018-2019)
Courses: Roman Imperial History, Roman Law, Marketing the Roman Empire, The Rise of Rome, Greek and Roman Slavery
Education
Columbia University
Ph.D., Classical Studies, May 2018
Dissertation: "Playing the Judge: Law and Imperial Messaging in Severan Rome"
Supervisors: William Harris, Francesco de Angelis (acting)
Committee: James Zetzel, Katja Vogt
External Readers: Serena Connolly, Michael Peachin
M.Phil., Classical Studies, February 2015
M.A., Classical Studies, October 2011
Yale Law School
J.D., May 2014
Yale Law Journal, Articles Editor
Yale Journal of Law and Feminism, Executive Editor
The University of Chicago
B.A., Classical Studies, June 2008
Phi Beta Kappa
Publications
“The Epistemology of the Courthouse: Classical Antiquity in American LGBT-Rights Litigation,” in Enticements: Queer Legal Studies (Joseph Fischel and Brenda Cossman, eds.: forthcoming, New York University Press)
“Straight Talk About Curved Horns and Gay Marriage: A New Reading of Juvenal’s Second Satire,” Classical Quarterly (forthcoming)
“Precedential Reasoning and Dynastic Self-Fashioning in the Rescripts of Severus Alexander,” Historia: Zeitschrift für alte Geschichte 69 (2020), 103-25.
“The Marrying Kind,” Tennessee Law Review 83 (2015) 83-159.
“The Effect of Bankruptcy on Roman Imperial Credit Markets,” Business and Bankruptcy Law Review 2 (2015) 207-49.
“Price's Progress: Sex Stereotype and Its Potential for Antidiscrimination Law,” Yale Law Journal 124 (2014) 396-446.
Review Articles
Olivier Hekster and Koenraad Verboven (edd.), The Impact of Justice on the Roman Empire, Classical Review 70 (2020) 462-64.
Emma Dench, Empire and Political Cultures in the Roman World, Sehepunkte 19 (2019).
David Johnston (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Roman Law, Classical World 109 (2016) 420-21.
Awards and Fellowships
2021: Charles McCurdy/University of Virginia Fellow, J. Willard Hurst Summer Institute in Legal History, 2021
2017: Core Preceptor Fellowship in Contemporary Civilization, Columbia University
2017: First-Year Mentorship Grant, Department of Classical Studies, Columbia University
2016: Core Preceptor Fellowship in Contemporary Civilization, Columbia University
2015: First-Year Mentorship Grant, Department of Classical Studies, Columbia University
Invited Lectures
“The Amazing Emperor Elagabalus,” Gonzaga University, Spring 2022
“Lampreys and the Birth of Imperial Jurisdiction,” Colorado University-Boulder, February 2022
“Imagined Bureaucracies: Citation at the End of an Empire,” Australian National University, Classics Seminar Series, Spring 2022
“The Epistemology of the Courthouse,” University of Chicago Law School, Workshop on the Regulation of Family, Sex, and Gender, April 28, 2021
“Ancient History in Same-Sex Marriage Litigation,” University of Nebraska-Omaha, April 20, 2021
“Debt and Bankruptcy in Roman Political Culture,” Colorado College, September 11, 2020
Conference Presentations
Chair, “The Critical Turn in Roman Legal History.” Convened at the 2021 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Legal History, New Orleans, LA, November 6, 2021
“Werewolves and Other Party Tricks in the Cena Trimalchionis.” Delivered at the 2020 Annual Meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians, The University of Iowa, April 24, 2020
“Death of a Crossdresser: Legal Storytelling in Pomponius.” Delivered at the 2020 Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting, Washington, DC, January 3, 2020.
“Severan Jurists, Policy Analysis, and the Rule of Law.” Delivered at the 73rd Session of the Societé Internationale Fernand de Visscher pour l’Histoire des Droits de l’Antiquité, Edinburgh, UK, September 2019.
“Exemplarity, Precedent, and the Rules of Law.” Delivered at conference entitled: “Roman Law and Latin Literature,” Durham University, September 2019.
“Bureaucratic Consistency and Dynastic Continuity: The Case of Titus.” Delivered at the 2019 Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, January 3, 2019.
“Personality and Power in the Age of the Emperor(s).” Delivered at conference entitled: “The Creation of Roman History and Epigraphy: Theodor Mommsen from 1817 to 2017,” Columbia University, December 9, 2017.
“Negligence, Economics, and the Demon Barber of the Via Sacra.” Delivered at the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians, Brown University, May 6, 2017.
“Persuasive Authority: Continuity and Precedent in the Rescripts of Severus Alexander.” Delivered at the 2017 Society for Classical Studies Annual Meeting, Toronto, ON, January 7, 2017.
“Roman Same-Sex Marriage and the ‘Feminine Mystique,’” delivered at the 2016 Annual Meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians, University of Puget Sound, May 6, 2016.
Teaching Experience
University of Colorado-Boulder, Assistant Professor
The Rise and Fall of Rome: A survey course, extending from Rome’s mythical founding by Romulus and Remus to the fall of the western Empire in 476 C.E. Students learn important events in Roman history, as well as how historians use both primary and secondary sources to reconstruct the past. Texts read: Boatwright et al., The Romans: From Village to Empire, as well as primary sources in translation.
Sex and Gender in Ancient Rome: A lecture course discussing the role of gender in Roman social life. The course uses a variety of sources to better understand how Romans perceived men, women, and interactions between the two; we explore how gender informed everything from Roman contract law to the mythical founding of the city. We also use Roman examples to discuss the role of gender in contemporary American society, and how our vision of gender and sex both echoes and departs from that of classical antiquity.
An Introduction to Roman Law: Lecture course, focused on explaining the sources used in Roman legal study, as well as Roman family law and the Roman law of delict. Texts read: Crook, Law and Life of Rome; Frier, A Casebook on the Roman Law of Delict; Frier & McGinn, A Casebook on Roman Family Law; Johnston, Roman Law in Context.
Power & Passion in Ancient Rome: A survey of Roman literature from Plautus to the Historia Augusta. The course explores the corpus of extant Roman literature with an eye towards several thematic questions: how does Latin literature understand itself as different from Greek models? How do Roman authors understand the communities in which they live? What did these authors believe was owed to gods, or kings, or to each other? Texts read: primary sources in translation.
Cicero’s Verrines
Topics in Latin Poetry: Juvenal (Sat. 1–5)
Introduction to Latin Poetry: Catullus and Martial
Georgetown University, Visiting Assistant Professor
Marketing Empire: Seminar, discussing the different genres and communicative goals of state communication or propaganda during the Principate. Texts read: in addition to primary sources, Ando, Imperial Ideology and Provincial Loyalty in the Roman Empire; Noreña, Imperial Ideals in the Roman West; Zanker, The Power of Images in the Age of Augustus.
Slavery in the Roman World: Lecture course on the role of enslaved persons in Roman thought, law, and culture. Topics include the role of the libertus in the Roman familia, the legal treatment of slavery, and various nonliterary sources for enslaved lives; students also reckon with the sourcing difficulties inherent in studying subaltern groups within a historical tradition that has largely transmitted elite voices. This class also discusses Georgetown University's own interactions with enslaved people as part of Georgetown's Slavery, Memory, and Reconciliation Project.
Columbia University: Ph.D. Candidate, Core Preceptor in Contemporary Civilization
Contemporary Western Civilization: Required course for all Columbia College undergraduates, focusing on canonical texts in the history of Western political and social thought. Various foundational texts read, beginning with Plato’s Republic and ending with Discipline and Punish by Foucault. I am happy to provide a list of authors that I have taught in my capacity as a Contemporary Civilization instructor upon request.
Intermediate Latin: Ovid and Sallust
Accelerated Introductory Latin [Text used: Learn to Read Latin (Keller & Russell, second edition)]
Intermediate Latin: Catullus and Cicero
Service
Member, Boulder Faculty Assembly (September 2021-present)
Committeemember, Non-Tenure-Track Faculty Affairs Committee, BFA (September 2021-present)
Reader, McClanahan Essay Prize Committee, CU Boulder (September 2020-present)
Faculty Liaison, CU Boulder Classics Club (August 2019-present)
Committeemember, CU Boulder Department of Classics: Latin Curriculum Committee, Inclusive Excellence Committee, Undergraduate Committee (2020-2021)
President, Colorado Classics Association (September 2019-September 2021)
Chair, Committee on Mentoring, Association of Ancient Historians (July 2019-July 2021)
Committeemember, Committee on Diversity, Association of Ancient Historians (July 2021-present)
Peer Reviewer, Journal of Late Antiquity, Historia: Zeitschrift für alte Geschichte
Interview Panelist, Fulbright Program, Georgetown University (2018)
Languages
Spanish (fluency)
Latin (reading fluency)
Greek (reading fluency)
French (reading fluency)
German (reading fluency)
Italian (reading fluency)