Education

• Ph.D. in history, University of Chicago, June 2001. Dissertation: "A Public 'House' but Closed: 'Fiscal Participation' and Economic Decision Making on the Oxyrhynchite Estate of the Flavii Apiones." Committee: Professor Walter E. Kaegi (chair); Professor Richard P. Saller; Professor Roger S. Bagnall (Columbia University); and Professor James G. Keenan (Loyola University Chicago).  Defended with distinction.
  

• A.M. in Byzantine history, University of Chicago, December 1992. Seminar paper: "Observations on the Sasanian Invasion and Occupation of Egypt."

• A.B. (with distinction and summa cum laude) in Latin and Greek language, University of Pennsylvania, May 1990.

Professional Experience 

• Assistant research papyrologist, Center for the Tebtunis Papyri, University of California at Berkeley, July 2001 - present. Lecturer in the Department of Classics or Near Eastern Studies when teaching; member of the Graduate Group in Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology.  Courses created:  Classics 130 ("Graeco-Roman Egypt:  Society and Economy"; undergraduates), 225 ("Introduction to Papyrology"; graduate seminar).  Other courses taught:  Egyptian 102A, 102B (Coptic).
  

• Member, supplemental faculty, Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, University of Delaware, August 2000 - June 2001. Courses taught or to be taught: Latin 101, 102, 213 ("Cicero"), and 214 ("Vergil"). Created the Classics@UD web site with Dr. Annette Giesecke.

• Consultant for Coptic texts, Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS), Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University, July 1997 - September 1999.

• Consultant for Coptic texts, Advanced Papyrological Information System (APIS), Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library, July 1997 - December 1998.

• Research staff, Demotic Dictionary Project, Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago, June - December 1992, October - December 1996.

• Course assistant in the History of Western Civilization, University of Chicago, January - June 1996.

Professional Affiliations

American Numismatic Society, American Philological Association, American Society of Papyrologists, Association Internationale de Papyrologues , Association of Ancient Historians, Byzantine Studies Conference, Egypt Exploration Society, Fondation Égyptologique Reine Élisabeth, International Association for Coptic Studies (effective summer 2004), International Society for Arabic Papyrology, International Workshop for Papyrology and Social History, United States National Committee for Byzantine Studies (executive board). 

Publications

Book and Book Sections

• "The Bilingual (Demotic-Greek) Dossier of Kabiris," in preparation (with Willy Clarysse and Paul Heilporn; to be published by the Österreichische Nationalbibliothek).

• "The Tebtunis Papyri," in A Guide to The Bancroft Library, forthcoming.

• Contributor to chapter one ("General Introduction") of Egypt from Alexander to the Copts:  An Archaeological and Historical Guide, forthcoming.
  

Articles

• "Reuniting Anastasia:  P.bibl. univ. Giss. 56 + P.Erl. 87," ten-page manuscript, under submission.

• "A New Fragment from the Apion Dossier in New Haven (P.CtYBR inv. 4357)," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik, forthcoming.

• "A Roman-Period Cession of Residential Property from Soknopaiou Nesos (P.Mich. inv. 6168 + inv. 6174c + inv. 6174a+b)," forthcoming Festschrift (with Joseph G. Manning).

• "P.Lond. V 1876 descr.:  Which Landowner?" Chronique d’Égypte, forthcoming (with James G. Keenan).
  

• "A Flavia Christodotê Fragment from Giessen (P. bibl. univ. Giss. inv. 63)," in Essays and Texts in Honor of J. David Thomas (Oakville 2001) 251-54 (with James G. Keenan).

• "P.Lond.V 1797: Classification and Date," in Papyri in honorem Johannis Bingen octogenarii editae (Leuven 2000) 529-35 (with James G. Keenan).

• "Notes on Some Papyri from the Byzantine Oxyrhynchite," Tyche 14 (1999) 325-27.

• " Dumbarton Oaks," in Der neue Pauly: Reallexikon der Antike und ihrer Rezeption,Volume 13 (Stuttgart 1999) cols. 904-10.

• "Notes on Some Cairo Papyri from Byzantine Oxyrhynchus (Part I)," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 123 (1998) 161-64.

• "The Dossier of Patermouthios sidêrourgos: New Texts from Chicago," Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 34 (1997) 79-109 (with Klaas A. Worp).

• "More from the Archive of the Descendants of Eulogius," Analecta Papyrologica 8-9 (1996-97) 209-18 (with James G. Keenan).

• "P.Oxy.X 1323 descr.: A Receipt for the Rent of an orbiopôleion," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 113 (1996) 227-29.

• "A Fragment of a Letter from a Bishop to a scholastikos," Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 110 (1996) 127-31.

Papers Presented

Invited Lectures and Seminars

• "The Economy of Byzantine Egypt," to be presented at the Dumbarton Oaks Byzantine Symposium, spring 2004.

• "The Dossier of the Descendants of Harpokratiôn son of Marepsêmis:  A Priestly Family Over Two Centuries," to be presented at "Tebtynis und Soknopaiu Nesos:  Leben im römerzeitlichen Fajum," Universität Würzburg, December 2003.

• "A River Runs Through It:  The Bilingual (Demotic-Greek) Archive of Kabiris," Ancient History and Mediterranean Archaeology Noon Colloquium, University of California at Berkeley, 18 November 2002.

• "Papyrology and the Ancient Economy: The Case of the Flavii Apiones," University of Texas at Austin, January 29, 2001.

• "An Introduction to the Glass Coin Weights of the Later Roman Empire," American Research Center in Egypt, Cairo, 4 June 1997.

Conference Papers

• "The Demotic Papyri at the Center for the Tebtunis Papyri (University of California, Berkeley)," 8. Internationale Konferenz für demotische Studien, Würzburg, 28 August 2002.

• "The Center for the Tebtunis Papyri at the University of California, Berkeley," 23. Internationaler Kongreß für Papyrologie, Vienna, 23 July 2001.

• "Conflicting Beginnings: Restoring the Text of P.Col. inv. 523," 23. Internationaler Kongreß für Papyrologie, Vienna, 23 July 2001.

• "Representing Anastasia: A geouchousa's 'Disappearing' Dossier and Its Contribution to the Social and Economic History of the Byzantine Oxyrhynchite," One Hundred and Thirty-Second Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, San Diego, 4 January 2001.

• "New Evidence Concerning the Production of Wine on the Oxyrhynchite Holdings of the Flavii Apiones," XXII Congresso Internazionale di Papirologia, Florence, 27 August 1998.

• "Flavius Isidorus' Journey to Hierapolis," One Hundred and Twenty-Fifth Annual Meeting of the American Philological Association, Washington, D.C., 28 December 1993.

• "Who Really Led the Sasanian Invasion of Egypt?" Nineteenth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, Princeton University, 4 November 1993.

Academic Honors and Awards

• Junior Fellow in Byzantine Studies, Dumbarton Oaks, September 1997 - May 1998.

• United States Information Agency Fellow, American Research Center in Egypt, February - June 1997 (for research at Egyptian Museum in Cairo).

• Andrew W. Mellon Summer Research Fellowship, University of Chicago, September 1996 (for research at Katholieke Universiteit Leuven; Musées Royaux d'Art et d'Histoire, Brussels; Universiteit van Amsterdam; Biblioteca Medicea Laurenziana; and Istituto Papirologico «G. Vitelli,» Florence).

• Graduate Seminar, American Numismatic Society, June - August 1994.

• Full tuition with stipend fellowship, University of Chicago, September 1991 - June 1996.

• Phi Beta Kappa , University of Pennsylvania chapter.

• Senior Classics Prize, University of Pennsylvania, May 1990.

• President, University of Pennsylvania chapter of Eta Sigma Phi (the classics honor society), January 1988 - May 1990.

• George Allen Prize (best examination in a Greek subject), University of Pennsylvania, May 1988.