Education

Dartmouth College, 1973-1977, A.B. in Classics and German, Summa cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa

Oxford University (Magdalen College), 1977-1979, B.A. in Classics, First Class Honors

University of Michigan, 1979-1982, Ph.D. in Classical Studies

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Research and Teaching Interests

My research interests are in Roman social and economic history and Roman law. My current research is on the role of legal institutions in shaping the economy of the Roman Empire. I offers courses in Roman political and social history, Latin, and Roman law.

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Publications

Books:

• The Economics of Agriculture on Roman Imperial Estates in North Africa, HYPOMNEMATA 89, Gottingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht 1988, xvi + 281 pp.
• Management and Investment on Estates in Roman Egypt during the Early Empire, Papyrologische Texte und Abhandlungen 40, Bonn: Habelt, 1992, xiv + 188 pp.
• Investment, Profit, and Tenancy: The Jurists and the Roman Agrarian Economy, Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press, 1997, xiv + 269 pp.
• Law and the Rural Economy in the Roman Empire (forthcoming, Ann Arbor: The University of Michigan Press)

Principal articles:

• "Allocation of Risk and Investment on the Estates of Pliny the Younger," Chiron 18 (1988): 15-42.
• "Approaches to Economic Problems in the Letters of Pliny the Younger: the Question of Risk in Agriculture," Aufstieg und Niedergang der Romischen Welt, edd. H. Temporini, W. Haase (Berlin-New York, 1989) II 33.1, 555-90.
• "Legal Institutions and the Bargaining Power of the Tenant in Roman Egypt," Archiv fur Papyrusforschung 41, no. 2 (1995): 232-62.
• "Roman-Law Influence on Louisiana's Landlord-Tenant Law: The Question of Risk in Agriculture," Tulane Law Review 70, no. 4 (1996): 1053-68.
• "The Early Roman Empire: Production, " in I. Morris, R. Saller, W. Scheidel, eds., The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World (forthcoming, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press).