General Fields of Study: Late-Antique History (Peter Brown, Dept. of History), Roman Literature (Robert Kaster, Dept. of Classics), High Middle Ages (William Jordan, Dept. of History) Supplemental Language Studies: Istituto Dante Alighieri, Rome (summer, 2003); Goethe Institute, Frankfurt-am-Main (summer, 2002) University of Alabama in Huntsville, 1996-2001 B.A., summa cum laude, major in History and minor in Classical Studies (2001) Senior Thesis: “Book III of Fredegar’s Chronicle: Scarpsum Est from Gregory of Tours?” (awarded best thesis in History) Publications Books The End of Empire in Early Memory (in progress) The Life and Legacy of Constantine: Traditions through the Ages. Edited. (contracted with Ashgate, forthcoming 2016) A Companion to Ostrogothic Italy, co-edited with Jonathan Arnold and Kristina Sessa (contracted with Brill, forthcoming 2016) Politics and Tradition between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople: A Study of Cassiodorus and the Variae, 527-554 (Cambridge UP, 2013) Winner of the Classical Association of the Midwest and South First Book Award for 2016 Journal Articles and Book Chapters “Romans, barbarians and provincials in the Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus.” In Cinzia Grifoni, Clemens Gantner, Walter Pohl and Marianne Pollheimer, Transformations of Romanness: Regions and Identities (under consideration with DeGruyter, forthcoming). “The Variae of Cassiodorus: depingere modo historico colore”. In Christiana Sogno, Bradley Storin and Edward Watts, eds., A Critical Introduction and Reference Guide to Late Antique Letter Collections (contracted with University of California Press, forthcoming). “Constantine in the century: from Constantinople to Tours.” In M. Shane Bjornlie, ed., The Life and Legacy of Constantine from Late Antiquity to Early Modern Memory (contracted with Ashgate, forthcoming 2016) “Governmental administration”. In Jonathan Arnold, Bjornlie and Kristina Sessa, eds., A Companion to Ostrogothic Italy (contracted with Brill, forthcoming 2016).
“The last of the Romans: Cassiodorus between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople”, an invited paper presented to the After Rome Seminar, Trinity College, Oxford University (June, 2011) “The last of the Romans: Cassiodorus between Rome, Ravenna and Constantinople”, an invited paper presented to the Department of Medieval Studies, Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Central European University, Budapest (May, 2011) “Antiquitas and novitas as the semiotics of governance in the Variae”, an invited paper presented at a Circolo Gianicolense seminar, Finnish Institute at Rome (April, 2011) “Cassiodorus and the epistolary response to Roman cultural crises”, presented to the American Academy at Rome Shop Talks, Rome (April, 2011) “Pulcheria and the imperial domus”, an invited response to Kathryn Chew, presented to the Friends of Ancient History, CSU Long Beach (November, 2009) “Assessing decline and fall in Ostrogothic Italy: the fiscal profile from Cassiodorus’ Variae”, presented at The End of Ancient Empires Conference, Classical Association of Scotland, University of Edinburgh (June, 2009) “Amicitia and political survival: Cassiodorus’ Variae in context”, presented at Passages from Antiquity to the Middle Ages III, University of Tampere, Finland (August, 2007) “What Have Elephants to Do with Sixth-Century Politics? A Reappraisal of the ‘Official’ Governmental Dossier of Cassiodorus”, presented at Claremont McKenna College (February, 2007) “Cassiodorus and the ‘Secret History’ of the Variae”, presented at the International Congress on Medieval Studies, University of Western Michigan (May, 2005) “Book III of Fredegar’s Chronicle: Scarpsum Est from Gregory of Tours?”, presented at the International Medieval Congress, University of Leeds (July, 2002) Editorial Work Member of the Editorial for Late Antique, Byzantine and Ottoman Studies at Central European University Press (since April, 2013) Member of the Editorial Board, Bryn Mawr Classical Review (since March, 2013) Invited anonymous reviews for Journal of Late Antiquity, Florilegium, Latomus, Classical Philology, Traditio, Early Medieval Europe Invited anonymous review of book proposals for Ashgate Publishing
Lectures Organized for the Athenaeum at Claremont McKenna College Ruby Blondell (University of Washington), February 2016 Cam Grey (University of Pennsylvania), “Climate, the Environment and the Transformation of Agriculture in Late Antique Europe”, April 2015 Clifford Ando (University of Chicago), “The Long Defeat of the Roman Empire”, March 2015 Edward Watts (UC San Diego), “A Job-Friendly Education and the Humanities: The Late Antique Side of the Story”, November 2014 Andrew Feldherr (Princeton University), “History in the Mist: Reviewing Visual Representation in Ancient Historiography”, October 2014 Paul Woodruff (University of Texas, Austin), “Tragic Ethics”, February 2014 Ted Lendon (University of Virginia), “The Strangeness of Greco-Roman Thinking about Foreign Affairs: A Guide to the Eccentric Behavior of Modern States?”, February 2013 Walter Scheidel and Mark Lewis (Stanford University), “The Rise and Demise of Universal Empire: Rome, Europe and China”, March 2010 Brown (Princeton University), “Wealth, Work and the Holy Poor: Early Christian Monasticism between Syria and Egypt”, January 2009 Josh Ober (Stanford University), “Democracy and Knowledge: Innovation and Learning in Classical Athens”, April 2008 Arthur Eckstein (University of Maryland), “Creating the Roman Juggernaut: How Rome Broke from the Pack in the Ancient Mediterranean”, February 2008 Academic Grants and Awards Nominated for the NEH Summer Grant (2014) Gould Center Summer Research Grant at Claremont McKenna College (2013) Andrew Heiskell Post-doctoral Rome Prize Fellow for Ancient Studies at the American Academy in Rome (2010-11) CMC History Department Nominee for the Graves Award Competition (fall 2009) Grants from the Dept. of History and the Program for the Ancient World at Princeton University for archaeological research at Desenzano del Garda, Italy (fall, 2005) Grant from the Graduate College at Princeton University for the 40th Medieval Congress at the University of Western Michigan (May, 2005)
William Robinson ’15 (Pomona), “Cicero’s Representations of Sicily and its Peoples in his Verrine Orations” Michael Beam ’15 (Pomona), “Falernian Wine: Fame, Symbolism and Imperial Afterglow” Austin Strong ’15 (Pitzer), Sacra and Narratives of the Fourth Crusade” Theo Tsirigotis ’14 (Claremont McKenna), “Communal Authority and Individual Valorization in Republican Rome” Helwig ’14 (Pomona), “Perspectives of the First Crusade: A Comparative Analysis of the Gesta Francorum and the Gesta Tancredi ” Sam Kaplan ’14 (Pomona), “Making Robert Guiscard’s Many Faces: Examining the Different Myths Made out of One Man” Jessica Lee ’14 (Scripps), “Gendered Souls: Female Religious and Imperial Power in Early Byzantium” John Medin ’14 (Claremont McKenna), “Hannibal’s Strategy in the Second Punic War” Anna Bayley Mullan ’14 (Claremont McKenna), “Nature in Vergil’s Georgics” Alexander Maltun ‘13 (Pitzer), “Bridge between Two Worlds: The Shifting Representation of Imperial Authority during the Third Century Crisis” Sarah Murtaugh ‘13 (Scripps), “Gibbon’s Guides: The Scholarly Reception of Ammianus Marcellinus and Procopius of Caesarea after The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” William Cole ’13 (Pomona), “Consensus in Cicero’s Post Reditum Speeches” Adam Littlestone-Luria ‘13 (Pomona), “Patronage in the Letters of Sidonius” Kendra Francis ‘12 (Pomona), “A Barbarian Identity Crisis: Seeking Legitimacy as Inheritors of the Roman Legacy” Courtney Cikach ’10 (Claremont McKenna), “Women in Virgil’s Aeneid” Emily Forden ‘10 (Claremont McKenna), “Violence in Augustan Rome” Ian Johnson ’09 (Claremont McKenna), “The Wrath of God: Genghis Khan and Empire” Zach Johnson ‘09 (Pomona), “Oliganthropia: Aristotle’s House of Cards” Elizabeth Kata ’07 (Bryn Mawr), “Gender, Ethnicity and Power in the Historia Langobardorum: Paul the Deacon’s Warnings against Female Leadership”