Education

Ph.D.	2008	Classics, Stanford University
B.A.	2000	Classics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Highest Distinction with Highest Honors, Phi Beta Kappa

Non-degree educational experience:

2006 (Summer), 2005 (Summer), and 2003-2004 
 • Visiting Student Associate Member, The American School of Classical Studies at Athens

2003 (Summer)
• International Summer School, The Institute for Balkan Studies, Thessaloniki, Greece

1999 (Spring)
• College Year in Athens

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Research & Teaching Interests

History, archaeology, and culture of the ancient Greek world, including ancient Macedon, Philip II, ancient leadership, state formation, institutional change, socio-cultural change, and socio-political and ritual behavior (e.g., death-ritual, dining, drinking, and feasting, festivals, gift-giving, public speaking, voting)

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Representative research projects

• Co-Creating Cultural Heritage, Stanford University Metamedia Lab (2006-2007)
• The Helike Project (Helike, Greece) (2005-present)
• Stanford Digital Forma Urbis Romae Project (2002-2003)
• Monte Polizzo Project, Stanford University (Salemi, Sicily) (2000-2001)
• Roman Aqaba Project, North Carolina State University (Aqaba, Jordan) (1998)

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Representative presentations

“Warrior Kings and the Rise of Macedon.” 
Stanford Chapter of the Archaeological Institute of America, Stanford, CA (2007)

“Things Ain’t Like They Used To Be:  Socio-Cultural Change in Ancient Macedon and the Greater Aegean World.” 
Classical Association of the Canadian West & Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest Joint Annual Meeting, Vancouver, BC (2007)

“Teaching by Destroying:  The Polis and the Oikos in the Classroom.”
Classical Association of the Canadian West Annual Meeting, Saskatoon, SK (2006)

“The Warrior, the Citizen, and the Prince:  Death-ritual in Northern Greece.”
APA/AIA Annual Meeting, Montreal, QC (2006)

“The People, the Press, and the Past:  The Illustrated London News.”
Stanford Mellon Humanities Workshop on Ancients and Moderns, Stanford, CA (2005)

“Découpage:  The Creative Negotiation of Archaeological Temporalities.”
Carnegie Mellon University Center for the Arts in Society Conference, Pittsburgh, PA (2005)

“What Goes Around Comes Around:  Ancient Macedon and the Greater Aegean World.”  The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill International Colloquium on Current Issues in State Formation:  The Mediterranean and Beyond, Chapel Hill, NC (2003)