About Me

I recently completed my doctoral dissertation on ethnicity and historical memory in the late Roman Republic and early Principate at the University of California, Santa Barbara. I have undergraduate degrees in Classics and Political Science. Part of graduate school is learning to be a teacher, and I have taught many courses in the University of California system in both Classics and History departments, so I am familiar with subjects ranging from Ancient Epic Poetry and Women in the Classical World to Modern Western Civilization and Medieval Literature. I have designed and taught two of my own courses as instructor of record, both on Roman History. I find the most enjoyable bits of teaching is taking students through a work - historical, literary, whatever - and helping the student discover the references and connections the author of that work was making, what he or she was trying to say, and to whom - to try to uncover someone else's intellectual world.

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