Research Areas

 Papyrology (Greek, Latin & Egyptian), Late Antiquity, cultural heritage ethics

Biography

I was born in Green Bay, Wisconsin, and childhood experiences in the countryside around that city established my interest in rural societies and their narratives. I attended college out East (AB, University of Pennsylvania, 1990) but returned to the Midwest for graduate study. After receiving my PhD from the University of Chicago in 2001, I was hired as the founding curator for Berkeley’s Center for the Tebtunis Papyri. In 2004, I joined the then Department of Classics. 

Publications

Books

• Edgar J. Goodspeed, America’s First Papyrologist, California Classical Studies 8, Berkeley 2021 (with James G. Keenan).

• The Property of a Lady: P.Christodote, Papyrologica Florentina XLVIII, Florence 2020 (with James G. Keenan).

• Wine, Wealth, and the State in Late Antique Egypt: The House of Apion at Oxyrhynchus, New Texts from Ancient Cultures 3, Ann Arbor 2012.

Edited Volumes

• Papyrological Texts in Honor of Roger S. Bagnall, Durham 2012 (with Rodney Ast, Hélène Cuvigny, and Julia Lugovaya).

• Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 45 (2008), guest editor.

Articles and Book Chapters or Sections

• Text 2877 in Dokumentarische Texte der Berliner Papyrussammlung aus byzantinischer und früharabischer Zeit zur Wiedereröffnung des Neuen Museums (= volume twenty-one of Berliner griechische Urkunden), Berlin 2024.

• “Three Late Antique Documents,” in Unending Variety: Papyrological Texts and Studies in Honour of Peter van Minnen, Leiden 2024, 115–23 (with James G. Keenan and Michael Zellmann-Rohrer).

• “Letter to a Deacon about a Grape-Treading Platform’s Repair (P.Ups. inv. 104),” in Papyrologische und althistorische Studien zum 65. Geburtstag von Andrea Jördens, Wiesbaden 2023, 445‒51 (with James G. Keenan and Michael Zellmann-Rohrer).

• “Two Ptolemaic Tax Receipts at University College Dublin,” Pylon 4 (2023), https://doi.org/10.48631/pylon.2023.4.101700

• “A Writing Board from the Kharga Oasis,” in Papyrologische und althistorische Studien zum 65. Geburtstag von Andrea Jördens, Wiesbaden 2023, 381‒96 (with Rodney Ast).

• “A Purchase of Captives, Egypt, 29 BC,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 221 (2022) 199‒206 (with James G. Keenan).

• “Skins from Phermouthis,” Comunicazioni (Istituto Papirologico “G. Vitelli”) 14 (2022) 3‒7.

• “Accounting for Arrears at the Beginning of a Roll: Metechthesis, and a Protocol, in a Herakleopolite Papyrus in Lund,” Aegyptus 101 (2021) 157–64 (with James G. Keenan).

• “Accounting for Debt in the Late Antique Oxyrhynchite (Cairo SR 3049/94),” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 220 (2021) 259–62.

• “An Order from the Late Antique Herakleopolite Nome (P.Lund inv. 41),” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 58 (2021) 149–54.

• Sections 2.3 (“Languages in Roman Egypt”), 2.5 (“Egypt’s Integration into the Roman Economy”), 2.7 (“The Treatment of the Temples and Its Implications”), 3.3 (“Intensification of High-Value Agriculture”), 4.4 (“Elite Struggles for Wealth and Power and the Rise of a New Aristocracy”), 5.5 (“The Dominance of the Wealthy Elite”), and 6.1 (“The Sasanians in Egypt”) in Roman Egypt: A History, Cambridge 2021. (Arabic version, to be published by Dar al-Shorouk, in press.)

• “An Enslaved Woman Resold,” in Text Editions of (Abnormal) Hieratic, Demotic, Greek, Latin, and Coptic Papyri and Ostraca (= Festschrift for F. A. J. Hoogendijk), Leiden 2020, 114–22 (with James G. Keenan).

• “Papyri from the Summer Institute in Papyrology at Washington University in St. Louis: Introduction,” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 57 (2020) 297–301 (includes a history of the Washington University collection).

• “Shipping Document from Oxyrhynchus Dated by the Consul of 478,” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 57 (2020) 349–51.

• Texts 17 and 45 in E me l’ovrare appaga (P.Messeri), Florence 2020 (with Rodney Ast).

• Text 1701 in volume seventeen of Papiri greci e latini, Florence 2019.

• Texts 5462 (with Amin Benaissa) and 5464 in volume eighty-four of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, London 2019.

• “Completing (Almost) a Census Declaration: P.Heid. IV 298 + P.Lund inv. 177,” in Πολυμάθεια: Studi classici offerti a Mario Capasso, Lecce 2018, 15–19 (with Rodney Ast).

• “The Coptic and Greek Papyri of the Istituto Nazionale di Archeologia e di Storia dell’Arte (P.INASA),” Rivista dell’Istituto Nazionale di Archeologia e Storia dell’Arte 73 (2018) 129–42 (with Jennifer Cromwell).

• “Grenfell and Hunt in the Fayyūm: Two Letters to J. Gilbart Smyly,” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 54 (2017) 219–35.

• “A New Fragment from P.Batav. 5 (Pathyris, May 118 BC),” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 202 (2017) 214–18 (with Katelijn Vandorpe).

• “Oregonian Descendants of Alopex (Prewitt-Allen Museum inv. 280),” Archiv für Papyrusforschung 63 (2017) 104–13.

• “At the Creation: Seven Letters from Grenfell, 1897,” Analecta Papyrologica 28 (2016) 351–   82 (with James G. Keenan).

• “Historical and Textual Notes on Magical Texts in the Papyrus Collection of the University of Oslo Library,” Symbolae Osloenses 89 (2016) 156–82 (with Anastasia Maravela and Michael Zellmann-Rohrer) 

 • “The Papyrological Collection of the Kyoto University Museum,” in From Petrie to Hamada: Egyptian Antiquities of Kyoto University, Kyoto 2016, 54–59.

• “Three Late Antique descripta from P.Amh. II,” in Mélanges Jean Gascou: Textes et études papyrologiques (P.Gascou) = Travaux et Mémoires 20/1 (2016) 233–42.

• “A Misclassified Sherd from the Archive of Theopemptos and Zacharias (Ashm. D. O. 810),” Tyche 29 (2014) 45–49.

• “More from the Dossier of Count John, Son of Timagenes (P.Ups. inv. 37),” Comunicazioni (Istituto Papirologico “G. Vitelli”) 11 (2013) 87–89.

• “A Labor Contract for a pronoētēs (P.Lond. inv. 2219),” in Papyrological Texts in Honor of Roger S. Bagnall, Durham 2012, 141–47 (with James G. Keenan).

• “P.bibl. univ. Giss. 48: New Light on the domus divina at Oxyrhynchus,” appendix in Giuseppina Azzarello, Il dossier della domus divina in Egitto, Berlin 2012, 134–36.

• “A Surety for an enapographos,” in Inediti offerti a Rosario Pintaudi per il suo 65° compleanno, Florence 2012, 90–95 (with Fabian Reiter).

• “The Workers and the Vineyard (P.Lond. inv. 2238),” Archiv für Papyrusforschung 58 (2012) 302–7.

• “The Dossier of Flavia Anastasia, Part One: Document Prescripts,” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 48 (2011) 99–112 (with Brendan Haug).

• “A penthēmeros Certificate from the Reign of Caracalla (P.Lund inv. 12),” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 178 (2011) 240–42.

• “A Private Extract from a Weaver’s Census Return (P.Lund inv. 77),” Comunicazioni (Istituto Papirologico “G. Vitelli”) 9 (2011) 57–60.

• “Ostraca Upsaliensia (I),” Archiv für Papyrusforschung 56 (2010) 258–73.

• “Tebtunis on the Arno and Beyond: Two ‘Archives,’” in 100 anni di istituzioni fiorentine per la papirologia, Florence 2009, 67–81.

• “Two Papyri in Lund,” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 46 (2009) 31–36.

• “Writing Histories from the Papyri,” in Oxford Handbook of Papyrology, Oxford 2009, 495–520.

• “Down and Out in Late Antique Tebtunis?” in Graeco-Roman Fayum – Texts and Archaeology, Wiesbaden 2008, 135–42.

• “An Inconvenient Truth? P.Oxy. 18.2196 verso, the Apion Estate, and fiscalité in the Late Antique Oxyrhynchite,” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 45 (2008) 87–100.

• “A Late Antique Miscellany,” in Sixty-Five Papyrological Texts Presented to Klaas A. Worp on the Occasion of His 65th Birthday, Leiden 2008, 343–50.

• “Papyrology,” in Oxford Handbook of Byzantine Studies, Oxford 2008, 115–28.

• “Aristocratic Landholding and the Economy of Byzantine Egypt,” in Egypt in the Byzantine World, 450–700, Cambridge 2007, 288–308.

• “Un frammento delle Storie di Erodoto (I 59, 6 – 60, 1; I 60, 4) in PCair JE 45623,” Studi di egittologia e di papirologia 4 (2007) 73–76 (with Mario Capasso).

• Five texts in volume seventy of The Oxyrhynchus Papyri, London 2006 (with Nikolaos Gonis).

• “A New Fragment from the Apion Dossier in New Haven (P.CtYBR inv. 4357),” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 146 (2004) 165–66.

• “P.Lond. V 1876 descr.: Which Landowner?” Chronique d’Égypte 79 (2004) 241–48 (with James G. Keenan).

• “A Roman-Period Cession of Residential Property from Soknopaiou Nesos (P.Mich. inv. 6168 + inv. 6174c + inv. 6174a+b),” in Res severa verum gaudium: Festschrift für Karl-Theodor Zauzich zum 65. Geburtstag am 8. Juni 2004, Leuven 2004, 237–47 (with Joseph G. Manning).

• “Reuniting Anastasia: P.bibl. univ. Giss. inv. 56 + P.Erl. 87,” Archiv für Papyrusforschung 49 (2003) 199–206.

• “A Flavia Christodotê Fragment from Giessen (P.bibl. univ. Giss. inv. 63),” in Essays and Texts in Honor of J. David Thomas, Oakville 2001, 251–54 (with James G. Keenan).

• “P.Lond. V 1797: Classification and Date,” in Papyri in honorem Johannis Bingen octogenarii editae, Leuven 2000, 529–35 (with James G. Keenan).

• “Dumbarton Oaks,” in Der neue Pauly: Reallexikon der Antike und ihrer Rezeption, Volume 13, Stuttgart 1999, columns 904–10.

• “Notes on Some Papyri from the Byzantine Oxyrhynchite,” Tyche 14 (1999) 325–27.

• “Notes on Some Cairo Papyri from Byzantine Oxyrhynchus (Part I),” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 123 (1998) 161–64.

• “The Dossier of Patermouthios sidêrourgos: New Texts from Chicago,” Bulletin of the American Society of Papyrologists 34 (1997) 79–109 (with Klaas A. Worp). 

• “More from the Archive of the Descendants of Eulogius,” Analecta Papyrologica 8–9 (1996–97) 209–18 (with James G. Keenan).

• “P.Oxy. X 1323 descr.: A Receipt for the Rent of an orbiopôleion,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik113 (1996) 227–29.

• “A Fragment of a Letter from a Bishop to a scholastikos,” Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 110 (1996) 127–31.