WORK IN PROGRESS

Monographs in progress

The demography of the Greco-Roman world, ‘Key themes in ancient history’ series, under contract with Cambridge University Press (c.200 p., to be completed in 2015)

Explaining empire: models for ancient history, ‘Oxford Studies in Early Empires’ series, under contract with Oxford University Press (c.250 p.)

Edited volumes in progress

State power in ancient China and Rome, for ‘Oxford Studies in Early Empires’ series, Oxford University Press (c.400 p., to be submitted in May 2013)

[co-edited with Andrew Monson] Fiscal regimes and the political economy of premodern states, for Cambridge University Press (c.500 p., to be submitted in 2013)

[co-edited with Peter Bang and Chris Bayly] The Oxford world history of empire, under contract with Oxford University Press (2 vols., completion planned for 2014)

Biohistory and the future of the ancient world, for Princeton University Press (proposal under review)

[co-edited with John Bodel] After Slavery and Social Death

Future book projects

The emperor’s new blood: Rome’s rulers in comparative perspective

Multipast: counterfactuals and the construction of ancient history

The wolf and the dragon: the rise and fall of the Han and Roman empires

The biohistory of the Greco-Roman world

Ancient slavery and modern comparisons

Tales of two empires: Han, Rome, and beyond [re-worked collected essays]

Population, labor and empire in the Roman economy [re-worked collected essays]

Brother-sister and parent-child marriage in pre-modern societies

Book chapters in progress or planned

[with Andrew Monson] ‘Introduction’, ‘Global patterns in fiscal regimes’, for Andrew Monson and Walter Scheidel (eds.), Fiscal regimes and the political economy of premodern states

[with Gilles Bransbourg] ‘Roman empire’, for Andrew Monson and Walter Scheidel (eds.), Fiscal regimes and the political economy of premodern states

‘Demographies of empire’, ‘Ancient Mediterranean city-state empires’, for Peter Bang, Chris Bayly and Walter Scheidel (eds.), The Oxford World History of Empire, under contract with Oxford University Press

[with Saskia Hin] ‘Ancient demography’, Oxford bibliographies online, under contract with Oxford University Press (to be submitted in 2014)

Journal articles in progress or planned

[with Kyle Harper] ‘The rise and fall of Roman slavery’

‘Monarchical succession and dynastic continuity in world history’

‘The short lives of monarchs’

‘The ‘First Great Divergence’: causes and consequences of post-ancient state formation in eastern and western Eurasia’

‘Femicide and sex ratios in the ancient Mediterranean world’

‘Beyond Taagepera: global long-term trends in the scale of state formation’

‘Death and renewal in a Roman local elite: the album of Canusium reconsidered’

‘Zoroastrian close-kin marriage: a corpus of testimonies with bibliography’ (e-publication)

(For forthcoming work in press, see Publications. For collaborative projects, see Collaborations.)