Greek history and epigraphy. Law, economics, politics.

Representative Publications:
Book

Creating a Common Polity: Religion, Economy, and Politics in the Making of the Greek Koinon. Berkeley, 2013. Winner of the Charles J. Goodwin Award of Merit from the Society for Classical Studies, 2016.

Articles

“Property Security and its Limits in Classical Greece.” Forthcoming in Ancient Greek History and Contemporary Social Science, edited by M. Canevaro et al., Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017.

“Property Claims and State Formation in the Archaic Greek World.” Forthcoming in Infrastructural and Despotic Power in Ancient States, edited by C. Ando and S. Richardson (University of Pennsylvania Press).

"The Economics of Federation in Ancient Greece" in H. Beck & P. Funke, eds., Greek Federal States. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2015).

"The Greek Polis and Koinon" in A. Monson and W. Scheidel, eds., Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States, 469-491. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press (2015).

"Ethnos and Koinon" in J. McInerney, ed., A Companion to Ethnicity in the Ancient Mediterranean, 270–284. Oxford: Blackwell (2014).

"Creating a Common Polity in Boeotia" in N. Papazarkadas, ed., The Epigraphy and History of Boeotia: New Finds, New Prospects, 45–67. Leiden: Brill (2014).

“The Greek Koinon,” in P. Bang and W. Scheidel, edd., The Oxford Handbook of the Ancient State: Near East and Mediterranean. Oxford: Oxford University Press (2013).

“A Boiotian Proxeny Decree and Relief in the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston and Boiotian-Lakonian Relations in the 360s.” Chiron. Mitteilungen der Kommission für Alte Geschichte und Epigraphik des Deutschen Archäologischen Instituts. 38 (2008) 157-194.

Coauthor with P. van Alfen, “Cooperative Coinage,” in P. van Alfen, ed., Agoranomia: Studies in Money and Exchange Presented to John H. Kroll. New York: The American Numismatic Society (2006): 201-246.

“Wandering Cities: Alternatives to Catastrophe in the Greek Polis,”American Journal of Archaeology 108.4 (2004): 493-516.