Professional Activities
Committees/Research Activities
- Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, Oxford - Hon. Publications Officer, since 1997 - joint series editor with Prof A. Meadows of Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents series (OUP)
- Member of Faculty of Archaeology, History, and Letters, British School at Rome (Jan 2014-Jul 2024)
- Papers of the British School at Rome co-editor (2017-2024)
- Urbana Species (Edizioni Quasar), Comitato scientifico member (2014-)
- Advisory Committee Member: 'Crossreads: Text, materiality, and multiculturalism at the crossroads of the ancient Mediterranean’ (PI Jonathan Prag), ERC Advanced Grant, 2020-2025
- British Epigraphy Society, President (Nov 2022-2026)
- University of Malta, External Evaluator of Research Proposals (2024/25)
External Examining
- University of Birmingham, Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity, External Examiner, undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in Ancient History; Ancient History and Archaeology (2008-11)
- The Dynamics of Civic Euergetism in Spain, Gaul and Africa (D.Phil., Oxford, 2006)
- Divine justification: Flavian imperial cult (M.Litt., Oxford, 2010/11)
- Asinius Pollio (PhD, University of Western Australia, 2012)
- Augustus and the Roman Provinces of Iberia (PhD, Liverpool, 2013)
- Hope, fear, and conceptions of the future in the early Principate (D.Phil, Oxford 2018)
- Inscribing domestic space in Pompeii (MA R, Macquarie, 2018)
- A linguistic analysis of Roman Republican official letters in Greek (PhD, Macquarie, 2019)
- Roman archetypes: how Augustus used Roman mores and exempla to justify his leading role in Roman society (MA R, Birmingham, 2019)
- Civic honourability in Western Asia Minor from the late Attalid dynasty to the early Principate, 188 BCE to 98 CE (D.Phil., Oxford, 2021)
Grants and Prizes
- IAS (Warwick) Visiting Fellowship for Prof. Silvia Orlandi, Feb. 2023
- Leverhulme Major Research Fellowship (Sept 2020 - Sept 2022)
- WIHEA (Warwick), Project Lead for WOLC Subject Specific Learning Units (July 2020)
- IAS (Warwick) Award, 3-D scanning and Roman heritage: a test case in public engagement (2019/20) [jointly with Paul Wilson, WMG]
- IATL (Warwick) Academic Fellowship, Redesigning Roman Culture and Society module (2019/20)
- Staff Award 2018 - Public Engagement Team Award, Classics & Ancient History Dept
- Principal Investigator for AHRC Follow-on Grant, Jan-Dec 2017
- Warwick Impact Fund, grant to support Ashmolean Museum events, 2015-16, 2016-17
- Principal Investigator for AHRC Research Project Grant, Oct 2013-Sep 2016
- Humanities Research Fund (Warwick) Conference Grant, BSR conference 'Landscapes of Campania' May 2014
- IAS (Warwick) Public Engagement Award (Jan 2014) 'Teaching with ancient artefacts: an introduction for secondary-school teachers to interdisciplinary approaches to ancient visual and material culture, showcasing recent Warwick research' - to help fund JACT INSET Day 22nd Nov. 2014 in the Ashmolean Museum
- IATL (Warwick) Pedagogic Intervention Grant (May 2013), ‘Students as Researchers at the British Museum’
- IAS (Warwick) Visiting Fellowship for Prof. John Bodel, May 2012
- AHRC Research Leave, 2010
- Humanities Research Fund + North America Fund (Warwick), Conference travel, ‘Globalizing the History of Historical Writing’ – Edmonton (2008)
- British Academy, Overseas Conference Grant, Numen Adsit - Yale (2003)