I am currently an Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto. I received a BA in Classical Archaeology from Dartmouth College in 2004 and a PhD in Classics from Stanford University in 2013. My research interests include the development of Greek economic, cultural and ritual institutions between the end of the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age, archaeological survey methods, and the use of quantitative evidence in archaeological research.
I have worked in a number of archaeological fieldwork projects: at the site of Pompeii and the landscape of southwestern Sardinia around Santadi in Italy and at many sites throughout Greece. I am currently the co-director of the Bays of East Attica Regional Survey Project situated around the bay of Porto Rafti in eastern Attica (Greece). Since 2013 or so, my primary activities in fieldwork projects have tended to involve deployment of geospatial and optical technology, especially dGPS mapping and photogrammetric recording.
Most of my publications relate to the transition between the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages in Greece, but I have also published on other topics related to fieldwork and other interests, like the history of Ancient Greek athletics. Some of my favorite peer-reviewed publications include articles on women’s roles in ceramic production in the Early Iron Age Aegean and the LH IIIC cemetery of Perati in eastern Attica (in the American Journal of Archaeology, 2018, 2020) and the historiography of the Greek Dark Ages (in the journal Hesperia, 2018), and two monographs, The Collapse of the Mycenaean Economy: Trade, Imports, and Institutions, published by Cambridge University Press in 2017, and Male Nudity in the Greek Iron Age: Representation and Ritual Context in Aegean Societies, published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.
I grew up in the Mid-Ohio Valley. Occasionally I design/make posters and shirts. I like to travel and take pictures of landscapes and wildlife.