My research interests centre on the cultural and economic history of the Hellenistic and Roman Mediterranean and Western Asia, and in particular in the way this was shaped by the interactions between the localised and imperialising states - villages, cities, federations, kingdoms, empires - that characterised it. My recent work has focussed on how we can read these interactions through epigraphic evidence, as reflections both of institutional, political, and economic realities, but also of ideological idealisation; my doctoral thesis in particular applied this sort of analysis to a study of the culture of euergetism in western Asia Minor, as shaped by Roman domination from the 2nd century BC to early imperial period.
Within the remit of the CHANGE project, I am currently further exploring these themes through a short book-length study of dynastic rulers in pre-Roman Asia Minor, figures who appear sporadically in our literary accounts, epigraphy, and coinage, occupying an intermediate place between imperial rulers and local communities, and who have not really been examined as a whole over this period. Other work has included the compilation of an electronic index of monetary and economic data across the pre-Roman epigraphy of Asia Minor, which will be published online within a linked open data framework, and with future projects including further articles on particular inscriptions and coinages, a historiographical study of gift-giving in Diodoros Siculus, and an edited volume (with Simon Glenn and Leah Lazar) on Hellenistic monetary economies.
