I am currently an Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Toronto. I received a BA in Classical Archaeology from Dartmouth College in 2004 and a PhD in Classics from Stanford University in 2013. My research interests include the development of Greek economic, cultural and ritual institutions between the end of the Late Bronze Age and the Early Iron Age (ca. 1300–700 BCE), archaeological survey methods, and the use of quantitative evidence in archaeological research.
I have worked in a number of archaeological fieldwork projects: at the site of Pompeii in Italy and at many sites throughout Greece, including the Bronze Age harbor site of Korphos-Kalamianos, the Mycenaean chamber tomb cemetery of Ayia Sotira, the transitional Bronze to Iron Age site on the islet of Mitrou, the Mesolithic site of Damnoni and cave art at Asphendou in southwestern Crete, and the agricultural landscape of the Mazi Plain. I am currently the co-director of the Bays of East Attica Regional Survey Project situated around the bay of Porto Rafti in eastern Attica (Greece).
Most of my publications relate to the transition between the Late Bronze and Early Iron Ages in Greece, but I have also published on other topics related to fieldwork and other interests, like the history of Ancient Greek athletics. Some of my favorite peer-reviewed publications include articles on women’s roles in ceramic production in the Early Iron Age Aegean and the LH IIIC cemetery of Perati in eastern Attica (in the American Journal of Archaeology, 2018, 2020) and the historiography of the Greek Dark Ages (in the journal Hesperia, 2018), and two monographs, The Collapse of the Mycenaean Economy: Trade, Imports, and Institutions, published by Cambridge University Press in 2017, and Male Nudity in the Greek Iron Age: Representation and Ritual Context in Aegean Societies, published by Cambridge University Press in 2022.
I was born and raised in Marietta, Ohio, and was inducted into the Marietta High School Athletic Hall of Fame in 2018 because I achieved all-Ohio status as a distance runner. I still run a lot but not very fast.
Occasionally I make posters and t-shirts, some of which are on display on this website. I like to travel and take pictures of landscapes and wildlife. I post a lot of photos here.