SERVICE

Academic administrative service

2008-

Chair, Department of Classics, Stanford University

2008-

Appointments and Promotions Committee, Humanities Cluster, Stanford University

2006-

Executive Committee, Urban Studies Program, Stanford University

2006-7

Appointments and Promotions Committee, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University (substitute member)

2004-7

Director of Graduate Studies, Department of Classics, Stanford University

2003-

Faculty Advisory Board, Social Science History Institute, Stanford University

2003-7

Ancient History Track Advisor, Department of Classics, Stanford University

1997

Acting College Librarian, Darwin College, Cambridge

1996-9

Governing Body and Library Committee, Darwin College, Cambridge

1986-90/1990-3

Student/faculty representative, Department of Ancient History, University of Vienna

Professional service

2008-

Co-editor, monograph series Oxford Studies in Early Empires (Oxford University Press, New York)

2007-

Advisory Board, Tijdschrift voor Geschiedenis (Assen, The Netherlands)

2005-

Co-coordinator, Princeton/Stanford Working Papers in Classics

1997-

Associate of Behavioral and Brain Sciences (Cambridge, UK)

1993-2001

Contributor to the annual bibliographical supplement of research on slavery in Slavery and Abolition (London, UK)

1993-9

Member of the research group on ancient slavery of the Academy of Sciences and Literature in Mainz, Germany

1990-3

Member of the editorial staff of Tyche (Vienna, Austria)

Evaluation of article manuscripts for American Anthropologist; Ancient History Bulletin; Behavioral and Brain Sciences; Classical Bulletin; Classical Philology; Comparative Studies in Society and History; Current Anthropology; Economic History Review; Greek, Roman, and Byzantine Studies; Historia; Historical Methods; Journal of Economic History; Journal of Hellenic Studies; Journal of Interdisciplinary History; Journal of Population Research; Journal of Roman Archaeology; Journal of Roman Studies; Mouseion; Phoenix; Structure and Dynamics; Tyche

Evaluation of book manuscripts or proposals for Brill; Cambridge University Press; MIT Press; Oxford University Press; Routledge; Rowman & Littlefield; Sloan Publishing; Storm King Publishing; University of California Press; University of Chicago Press; University of Missouri Press; University of North Carolina Press

Evaluation of promotion cases for research universities in the USA and the UK

Evaluation of fellowship and grant applications for the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Stanford Humanities Center

Chair, Program Committee, Annual Meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians, Stanford University, 2006

External member, Program Committee, Annual Meeting of the Association of Ancient Historians, University of Michigan, 2004

Professional memberships

American Philological Association; Association of Ancient Historians; Economic History Association; Economic History Society; Human Behavior and Evolution Society; Social Science History Association; Society for the Promotion of Roman Studies; World History Association