Teaching Fellow in the Department of Classics and in the College
Classics 23
BA, Columbia University, 2018; MPhil, University of Oxford, 2020; PhD, University of Chicago, 2026
Research Interests:
Roman political thought; Greek political philosophy; Roman historiography; imperial Greek literature
I am a Teaching Fellow in the Department of Classics and in the College. My research explores the relationship between political theory and narrative texts, especially focusing on Roman literature of the late republic and early empire, in Latin and Greek. My current book project, The Republic of Virtue: The Mixed Constitution in Greek Philosophy and Roman Historiography, argues that Sallust and Livy, inheriting Platonic and Aristotelian political thought via Polybius and Cicero, are best read as innovative theorists of the mixed constitution, using historical experience and narrative form to discover and repair inadequacies in the ideal models of the philosophers. I am also at work on a new short project about Tacitus and Hannah Arendt, arguing that both thinkers define autocracy as a mode of government which relieves citizens of the obligation to be truly human. Previously, I have published in Polis and Mnemosyne on the distinctive political thought of the Greek novelists and of misanthropes throughout Greek literature. My current teaching includes the Greece and Rome core sequence; Latin language; and a course of my own design on outlaw communities in the Greek novels.