My main research interests are in the economic and legal history of the hellenistic world. In addition to editing documents from Egypt, my main research projects in 2007-2008 are two monographs, one on Ptolemaic state formation in historical perspective and a second edited volume on legal sources from Egypt and their value for legal history. Within the next two years I am working on a textbook on Egyptian history and a general monograph on the Ptolemaic economy and its relationships to other Hellenistic economies.

Papyrological Institute at Stanford University
1 July - 31 July 2008

In July of 2008, the Department of Classics at Stanford University will host a summer Papyrological Institute for advanced graduate students and junior faculty in Ancient History, Classics, History, Egyptology, Art and Archaeology, as well as other related disciplines. The Papyrological Institute will run through the month of July in the summer of 2008, and will focus on Ptolemaic papyri...
This summer’s Papyrological Institute follows in the series of summer institutes that have been held at Yale (2003), UC Berkeley (2004), Cincinnati (2005), and Columbia (2006) under the sponsorship of the American Society of Papyrologists.
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