EDUCATION

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

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

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

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RESEARCH & 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:  

• Law and the Rural Economy in the Roman Empire, Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2007, x + 265 pp.

• Investment, Profit, and Tenancy: The Jurists and the Roman Agrarian Economy, Ann Arbor MI: University of Michigan Press, 1997, xiv + 269 pp.

• Management and Investment on Estates in Roman Egypt during the Early Empire, Papyrologische Texte und Abhandlungen 40, Bonn: Habelt, 1992, xiv + 188 pp.

• The Economics of Agriculture on Roman Imperial Estates in North Africa, Hypomnemata 89, Göttingen: Vandenhoeck und Ruprecht 1988, xvi + 281 pp.

Principal Articles:

• “Law and Social Formation,” forthcoming in M. Peachin, ed., Handbook of Roman Social Relations (Oxford University Press).

• "Das kaiserzeitliche Gymnasion, Bildung und Wirtschaft im Römischen Reich," forthcoming in Wolfgang Habermann, Hartmut Leppin, and Peter Scholz, eds., Das kaiserzeitliche Gymnasion (Frankfurt).

• “Chapter 17, The Economy, Graeco-Roman Period," in A. B. Loyd, ed., A Companion to Ancient Egypt (Oxford-Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell, 2010) vol. I, 309-25.

• “Landwirtschaft” (“Agriculture,” trans. Gerhard Rexin), Reallexikon für Antike und Christentum XXII (2008), 945-977.

•   “The Early Roman Empire: Production,” in W. Scheidel, I. Morris, R. Saller, eds., The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 543-69.

• With B. W. Frier,  “Law and Economic Institutions,” in W. Scheidel, I. Morris, R. Saller, eds., The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007), 113-43.

• “Roman-Law Influence on Louisiana's Landlord-Tenant Law: The Question of Risk in Agriculture,” Tulane Law Review 70, no. 4 (1996): 1053-68.

• “Legal Institutions and the Bargaining Power of the Tenant in Roman Egypt,” Archiv fur Papyrusforschung 41, no. 2 (1995): 232-62.

• “Allocation of Risk and Investment on the Estates of Pliny the Younger,”Chiron 18 (1988): 15-42.