EDUCATION

B.A. Trinity College, Hartford, Conn., 1973, summa cum laude with Majors in History and Classics
M.A. Yale University, 1975, History
M.Ph. Yale University, 1977, History
Ph.D. Yale University, 1978, History
Major Fields: Greek and Roman History
Minor Fields: Medieval and Byzantine History
Summer Seminar, 1975, American Numismatic Society, New York
Dissertation: "Political Attitudes of Rome's Eastern Provinces in the Third Century A.D." Directed by Ramsay MacMullen, with Donald Kagan and Harry Miskimin as readers.

FELLOWSHIPS:

1977-1978 Graduate Whitting Fellowship, Yale University
1986-87 Research Fellow, Universität des Saarlandes, Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship
1993 ROTC-USMA Summer Fellowship (1993), West Point
1996 Research Fellow, American Research Institute in Turkey, Ankara

ACADEMIC MEMBERSHIPS

American Research Institute in Turkey
American Numismatic Society; elected Fellow in 1991
American Society of Papyrologists
Association of Ancient Historians
Archaeological Institute of America
British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara
Friends of Ancient History
Medieval Academy of America
Royal Numismatic Society
Society of Ancient Military Historians
Society for the Promotion of Hellenic Studies
Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

Secretary of Friends of Ancient History, May 1982-May 1983
Institute of Archaeology, Tulane University, elected as an associate member
Elected Fellow of the American Numismatic Society, 1991 (life membership)
Archaeological Institute of America, Fellowship Committee, 1997-2003
Editorial Board, American Journal of Archaeology, from 1999
Director of Alumni, American Numismatic Society, Southwest, from 1999

PUBLICATIONS: BOOKS:

Civic Coins and Civic Politics in the Roman East, 180-275 A.D. (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1987)
Coinage in Roman Economy, 300 B.C.-700 A.D (Johns Hopkins Press, Baltimore, 1996)

PUBLICATIONS: ARTICLES:

"Caracalla or Elagabalus? The Imperial Imago at the Civic Mint of Magnesia ad Maeandrum," American Numismatic Soceity, Museum Notes 26 (1981), 163-184
"The Coinage of Neapolis in Samaria, A.D. 244-253," American Numismatic Society, Museum Notes 29 (1984), 62-95
"The Meaning of Value Marks on Tetrarchic Nummi and Diocletian's Monetary Policy," Phoenix 39 (1985), 263-270
"Sacrifice and Pagan Belief in Fifth- and Sixth-Century Byzantium," Past and Present 128 (August, 1990), 7-27
"Livy and the Date of the Introduction of the Cistophoric Tetradrachma," Classical Antiquity 10 (1991), 268-297
"Coins in Taxes and Markets of the Roman World," Ancient World 27. 2 (1996), 197-204
"Actium," "Cyrus the Great,", "Jewish Rebellions," Masada," "Roman-Persian Wars," and "Teuboburg Forest," articles in Reader's Companion to Military History, edited by R. Cowley and G. Parker (Boston: Houghton Mifflin Co., 1996)
"Alexander's Cavalry Battle at the Granicus," in Polis and Polemos: Essays in Honor of Donald Kagan (Regina Books, 1997), pp. 309-30.
"Greek Imperial Coins in the Economic Life of the Roman East," in Nomisma: Internationales Kolloquium zur kaiserzeitlichen Münzprägung Kleinasiens, 27-30 April 1994 in der Staatlichen Münzsammlung, München, edited by J. Nollé, B. Overbeck, and P. Weiss (Milan, 1997), pp. 223-30.

SUBMITTED WORK:

"From Pagan to Christian in Cities of Roman Anatolia in the Fourth through Sixth Centuries"; submitted to Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity III, edited by John Eadie.
"Christians in Central Anatolia during the Third Century," submitted to Shifting Frontiers in Late Antiquity III, edited by John Eadie.

WORK IN PROGRESS:

Coins from the Excavations at Gordium, 1950-1983 Publication of all coin finds and strays from the excavations directed by Professors Rodney Young and G. Kenneth Sams. Professor Sams may be contacted at Department of Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hills, N.C. 27514
"Coins from the Excavations at Metropolis," permission to study coins with aim of eventual publication; contact director Professor Recep Meriç, Aegean University (Izmir), Kaz Evi, Metropolis, Torbal, Turkey. For the summer 1999, a hoard of 191 antoniniani found in the Bath Complex and currently in the Izmir Museum
Christianizing Asia Minor, the religious and social transformation of the peninsula from the time of S. Paul to the era of Justinian (527-565). Research in progress.
Asia Minor between Rome and Mithridates VI Eupator, a study of how the peninsula or Anatolia passed to Roman rule during the Mithridatic Wars. The work includes the social, religious, and economic transformation of the peninsula from the third through first centuries B.C.
The Coinage of Stratonicea in Caria during the Imperial Age, numismatic and historical monograph in revision for submission to the American Numismatic Society
"Legion over Phalanx: The Battle of Magnesia, 190 B.C.," article study, based on texts and visit to the battlefield in 1996 and 1997.

TEACHING AWARDS:

Fields: Ancient Near Eastern, Greek, Roman, Byzantine, and Crusader History; Ancient and Medieval Numismatics, Classical Epigraphy.
Student Award for Excellence in Teaching, Tulane College, Tulane University, voted in 1982, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1996, 1997, and 1999.
Mortar Board Award for Excellence in Teaching, Newcomb College, Tulane University, voted 1999.
Sheldon Hackney Award in Teaching, Tulane University, 1986 and 1995.
Honors Professor of the Year, Tulane University, 1993.