Publications and research

My research interests broadly encompass Greek and Roman Historiography, Roman History, Roman memory, the literature of the Roman Empire (Greek and Latin), and the city of Rome in classical literature.

My most recent book is Empire and Memory. The Representation of the Roman Republic in Imperial Culture (Cambridge 2005). My current project, tentatively titled Genius urbis. The city of Rome in Latin historiography, investigates when and how the urban spaces, buildings, and monuments of Rome figure in (primarily) Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus. Some side projects address a similar concern in other imperial texts, including Cassius Dio and Aelius Aristides. My overarching interests, however, lie in the intersection of history and literature, especially in the imperial period.

This is a list of publications and work in progress or forthcoming, some of which may be found on my academia.edu page:

•Books

Empire and Memory. The Representation of the Roman Republic in Imperial Culture. Cambridge Univ. Press 2005.

The Triumviral Narratives of Appian and Cassius Dio. Ann Arbor: Univ. of Michigan Press 1992.

•Articles

‘Cassius Dio and the City of Rome’, in Cassius Dio – Greek Intellectual and Roman Politician, C. Lange and J. Madsen, edd., Historiography of Rome and its Empire 1, pp. 117-35. Brill Academic Publishers, forthcoming 2016.

‘Miscellaneous Minor Objects’, co-authored with L.J. Bliquez, in The Collection of Antiquities of the American Academy in Rome, Supplement to the Memoirs of the American Academy in Rome, L. Bonfante and H. Nagy, edd., pp. 367-69 Ann Arbor 2016. Click HERE for the accompanying database.

‘Memory and Motive in Tacitus’, in Memory in Ancient Rome and Early Christianity, K. Galinsky, ed., 43-64. Oxford Univ. Press 2015.

‘Tully’s Boat: Cicero in the imperial period’, in The Cambridge Companion to Cicero, C. Steel, ed., 233-50. Cambridge University Press 2013.

Afterword to Augustan Poetry and the Roman Republic, J. Farrell and D. Nelis, edd., 319-32. Oxford University Press 2013.

An entry on ‘Appian of Alexandria’, in the Dictionary of African Bibliography, editors in chief Dr. Henry Louis Gates and Dr. Emmanuel K. Akyeampong, editors-in-chief. Oxford University Press 2011.

‘‘Caesar grabs my pen’: Writing civil war under Tiberius,’ in Citizens of Discord: Rome and its Civil Wars, B.W. Breed, C. Damon and A. Rossi, edd., 249-60, Oxford University Press 2010.

‘Rome and the ruin of memory,’ Mouseion 52, series III, vol 8, no. 3 (2008) 451-67. [published 2010]

‘From Polybius to Dionysius: the decline and fall of Hellenistic historiography,’ in the Blackwell Companion to Hellenistic Literature, J. Clauss and M. Cuypers, edd., pp. 384-94, Wiley-Blackwell 2010.

‘From the Annalists to the Annales: Latin Historiography before Tacitus’, in the Cambridge Companion to Tacitus, T. Woodman, ed., pp.17-30, Cambridge University Press 2009.

‘The Roman exempla tradition in imperial Greek historiography: the case of Camillus,’ in the Cambridge Companion to Roman Historiography, Andrew Feldherr, ed., pp. 332-47, Cambridge University Press 2009.

‘Urbs Roma: Tacitus on Tiberius and the city’, in Maxima debetur magistro reverentia. Essays on Rome and the Roman Tradition in Honor of Russell T. Scott. Paul B. Harvey, Jr., and Catherine Conybeare, edd., pp. 93-106. Biblioteca di Athenaeum 54. Como 2009.

Several articles (Lucius Brutus, Marcus Brutus, Philippi, triumvirs) in the Oxford Encyclopedia of Ancient Greece and Rome, M. Gagarin, ed., Oxford University Press 2009

‘The imperial Republic of Velleius Paterculus’, in The Blackwell Companion to Greek and Roman Historiography, John Marincola, ed., pp. 411-18. Blackwell 2007.

‘Pirates, Witches, and Slaves: the Imperial afterlife of Sextus Pompeius,’ in Sextus Pompeius, A. Powell and K. Welch, edd., pp. 187-211. Duckworth/Classical Press of Wales 2002.

‘Miscellaneous Minor Objects,’ co-authored with Lawrence Bliquez, forthcoming in Catalogue of the Collection of Antiquities at the American Academy in Rome.

‘Memory and silence in Cicero's Brutus.’ Eranos 98 (2000) 39-64.

‘Word-Order Transference between Latin and Greek: the relative position of the accusative direct object and the governing verb in Cassius Dio and other Greek and Roman prose authors.’ Co-authored with Bernard Frischer et al. Harvard Studies in Classical Philology 99 (1999) 357-90)

‘Greek advice for a Roman senator: Cassius Dio and the Dialogue between Philiscus and Cicero (38.18-29).’ Proceedings of the Leeds Latin Seminar. Vol. 10. F. Cairns and M. Heath, edd., 373-90. Leeds 1998.

‘Cassius Dio on the reign of Nero.’ Aufstieg und Niedergang der Römischen Welt II.34.3 (1997) 2558-90.

‘Lepidus, the Proscriptions, and the Laudatio Turiae.’ Historia 41.3 (1992) 283-96.

‘Appian and Rhodian Libertas.’ Ancient History Bulletin 5.5/6 (1991) 135-44.

‘Tacitus and the Client Kings.’ Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association 120 (1990) 315-331.

‘Appian and Cassius’ Speech before Philippi (BCiv. 4.90-100).’ Phoenix 44 (1990) 158-81.

‘Dio’s Name.’ Classical Philology 85 (1990) 49-54.

•Reviews

B. McGing, ed. and trans., Appian. Roman history, volume IV-VI: Civil Wars, books 1-5; fragments, (3 vols.). Loeb classical library, L005, L543,

L544. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020, Bryn Mawr Classical Review 6.27 (2021).

C. B. Champion, Cultural Politics in Polybius’ Histories (Berkeley 2004), Journal of Hellenic Studies 127 (2007) 201-2.

U. Walter, Memoria und res publica. Zur Geschichtskultur im republikanischen Rom. Munich 2004. Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2005.07.56

P.G. Walsh, trans. Cicero. On Obligations. Oxford 2000. Latomus 63 (2004) 453-54.

C. Kraus, ed., The limits of historiography: genre and narrative in ancient historical texts. Brill 1999. Journal of Roman Studies 93 (2003) 342-43.

J. Chaplin, Livy’s Exemplary History. Oxford 2000. Classical Journal 99.2 (2003-04) 223-26.

C. L. Murison. Rebellion and Reconstruction: Galba to Domitian. An Historical Commentary on Cassius Dio’s Roman History Books 64-67 (A.D. 68-96). Atlanta: Scholars Press, 1999. Classical World 94.2 (2001) 200-01.

R. Gurval. Actium and Augustus. Ann Arbor 1995. For American Journal of Philology 118.4 (1997) 638-40.

J. Carter, trans. Appian. The Civil War. Penguin Classics 1996. For electronic journal Histos (1997) http://www.dur.ac.uk/Classics/histos/gowing.html

J.S. Ruebel, Caesar and the Crisis of the Roman Aristocracy. Norman and London: University of Oklahoma Press, 1994. For Bryn Mawr Classical Review 5.7 (1994) 630-33.

B.W. Jones. The Emperor Domitian. London and New York: Routledge, 1992. For Bryn Mawr Classical Review 3.6 (1992) 462-65.

J.W. Rich, ed. and trans. Cassius Dio. The Augustan Settlement (Roman History 53-55.9). Aris & Phillips, 1990. For Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2.5 (1991) 318-20.

Averil Cameron, ed. History as Text (Chapel Hill 1990). For Bryn Mawr Classical Review 1.2 (1990) 46-49.

•Work in Progress or Forthcoming

Genius urbis. The city of Rome in Latin historiography. (working title) Book-length study of the role of Rome and urban space in Sallust, Livy, and Tacitus.