As a social and cultural historian, I am interested in researching narratives that have been systematically erased from our history books: the stories of women, enslaved people, sex laborers, non-citizen residents, and the people at the intersections of these identities. I know that we can gain better insight into modern social dynamics by studying the way ancient people lived their lives.
Before joining the faculty of the University of Pittsburgh in 2024, I earned my doctorate at the University of Washington and worked as a Center for Faculty Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow and Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Davidson College in North Carolina, teaching courses on Greco-Roman slavery, race & identity, and gender & sexuality.
My current book project, tentatively titled, “Silent Testimonies: Enslaved Women in the Athenian Courts,” addresses the relationship between gender, slavery, and violence in classical Athenian court cases. I focus on the portrayal of enslaved women, exploring how and why the orators primarily depict these women in scenes of pain and humiliation. By problematizing the assumptions that these citizen male narrators make about enslaved women and questioning the veracity of their accounts, I scrutinize the construction of enslaved womanhood in the Athenian rhetoric to argue that being both enslaved and female in classical Athens rendered one particularly vulnerable to physical and archival violence.
My additional publications address sexual assault in Roman Comedy, domestic laborers in Greek Old Comedy, war captives in Attic Oratory, Latin curse tablets from Roman Aquae Sulis (Bath), and same-sex relationships in receptions of ancient Greece. I am currently working on an article about sex-change narratives in the early Roman Empire.
- Ph.D., Classics, University of Washington
- M.A., Classics, University of Washington
- Post-Baccalaureate, Classics, University of Pennsylvania
- B.A., Classics, Skidmore College
Education & Training
- “Flying at His Eyes with Her Nails: Pythias and the Violent Gaze in Terence’s Eunuchus,” Helios 53.1. [Forthcoming 2026]
- “One of the Olynthians: Violence against Enslaved Female War Captives in Dem. 19.196–98.” In Brill’s Companion to War Violence in the Ancient Mediterranean World, ed. L. Gilhaus. Leiden: Brill. [Forthcoming May 2026]
- “Taking Thratta’s Cherry: The Rape of Enslaved Domestic Laborers in Aristophanes.” In Ancient Rape Cultures: Greek, Roman, Jewish, and Christian, ed. E. Pyy. Rome: Acta Instituti Romani Finlandiae. 2025
- “May the Thief Become as Liquid as Water: Persuasion and Power in a Curse Tablet from Roman Bath.” In Inscriptions and the Epigraphic Habit. Brill Studies in Greek and Roman Epigraphy, ed. R. Benefiel & C. Keesling. Leiden: Brill, 321–338. 2023.
- “'Never Bury My Bones Apart from Yours': Iliad Reception in Xena: Warrior Princess.” In The Routledge Companion to the Reception of Ancient Greek and Roman Gender and Sexuality, ed. K. Moore. New York: Routledge, 3–21. 2023.
Greek History, Slavery & Manumission, Gender & Sexuality, Race & Ethnicity, Graffiti & Epigraphy, Greco-Roman Magic, Greek Prose Literature (esp. Oratory), Greek and Roman Comedy, Reception Studies (esp. Shakespeare)