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., completion planned for 2014)

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

[with Andrew Monson] What is ancient history?, under contract with Polity Press (c.150 p.)

Edited volumes in progress

State power in ancient China and Rome, for ‘Oxford Studies in Early Empires’ series, Oxford University Press (c.250 p., to be submitted in 2012)

[co-edited with Andrew Monson] Fiscal regimes and the political economy of premodern states, for Cambridge University Press (c.500 p., completion planned for 2012)

[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)

Into the future of the past: the new science of ancient history, proposal pending for Princeton University Press

[co-edited with John Bodel] publication of 2012 conference on ‘Being nobody? Understanding slavery 30 years after Slavery and Social Death’

Future book projects

The she-wolf and the dragon: state power in ancient Rome and China

Ancient slavery and modern comparisons

Counterfactuals in ancient history

Monogamy and western civilization

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

Book chapters in progress or planned

‘Human societies and the environment: climate, demography, and disease’, for Craig Benjamin (ed.), The Cambridge history of the world, Vol. IV, under contract with Cambridge University Press

[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

‘Ancient demography’, Oxford bibliographies online, under contract with Oxford University Press

Journal articles in progress or planned

‘Biological evolution and human behavior’, for a roundtable on biology and history, American Historical Review

‘The shape of the Roman empire’

‘Monarchical succession and dynastic continuity in world history’

‘The short lives of monarchs’

‘The emperors’ new blood: Roman rulers, global comparisons’

‘Barbarians within the gates: the first conquest of the Roman empire’

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

‘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.)