Review of Maréchal, Public baths and bathing habits in late antiquity in BMCR

For the Brwn Mawr Classical Review, I recently wrote a review of Sadi Maréchal, Public baths and bathing habits in late antiquity: a study of the evidence from Italy, North Africa and Palestine A.D. 285-700. Late antique archaeology (supplementary series), volume 6. Leiden; Boston: Brill, 2020. This volume, a revision of the author’s PhD thesis,... Read more 06 Nov 2021 - 1 minute read

IHAC 5th International Byzantine Seminar

This year I will help host the Byzantine seminar series as part of being a Visiting Professor for the Institute for the History of Ancient Civilization (IHAC) at Northeast Normal University (NENU), Changchun, People’s Republic of China. The event is organized in collaboration with the Department of Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies at the Unive... Read more 16 Sep 2021 - less than 1 minute read

Dumbarton Oaks & HMML Coptic Summer Program

In July 2021 I again had the pleasure to attend an intensive language program, this time in Armenian, co-hosted by the Hill Manuscript Museum and Library and the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library. The program was originally scheduled to be held in-person in Collegeville, Minnesota in July 2020. The course was rescheduled to this year, and although... Read more 09 Aug 2021 - 1 minute read

Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity now available

Congratulations to Dawn Hollis and Jason König, the editors for the volume Mountain Dialogues from Antiquity to Modernity which was just published by Bloomsbury Academic. This volume contains the revised proceedings of a very productive workshop which I had the pleasure to attend in early December 2018. I contributed a chapter titled ‘Mountains ... Read more 22 May 2021 - 1 minute read

Roman Identity from the Arab Conquests to the Triumph of Orthodoxy is now out!

My first book is now out! It is published by Palgrave Macmillan as part of their series New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture (NABHC). This monograph is a revision of my 2016 PhD thesis. This book asks how the inhabitants and neighbours of the Eastern Roman Empire understand their identity as Romans in the centuries following the emer... Read more 22 Jan 2021 - 1 minute read