Education & Training
- Ph.D., Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania
- M.A., Classical Studies, University of Pennsylvania
- M.A., Classics, Stanford University
- B.A. (Honors), Classics, Stanford University
Awards
- Faculty Fellow in Global Studies (University of Pittsburgh), 2019-2020
- Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship in Classics (Colby College), 2010-2012
- Dean’s Scholar, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (University of Pennsylvania), 2003-2004
- George L. Harrison Graduate Fellowship in Classical Studies (University of Pennsylvania), 2001-2003
Representative Publications
- Global Classics (Routledge, 2021)
- "Pax Olympica: The Rhetoric and Ideology of the Olympic Truce", in Ronald Forero Álvarez, Gemma Bernadó Ferrer, Juan Felipe González Calderón, Laura Almandós Mora eds., LA PAZ: PERSPECTIVAS ANTIGUAS SOBRE UN TEMA ACTUAL (Universidad de los Andes, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, 2020), pp. 267-296.
- "Pliny’s Telemacheia Epic and Exemplarity under Vesuvius", in Virginia M. Closs and Elizabeth Keitel eds., Urban Disasters and the Roman Imagination (De Gruyter, 2020), pp. 47-70.
- "Greek Tragedy and the Socratic Tradition", in Christopher Moore ed., Brill's Companion to the Reception of Socrates (Leiden: Brill, 2019), pp. 41-74
- “A Sage on the Stage? Socrates and Old Comedy,” in Christopher Moore and Alessandro Stavru edd., A Companion to Socrates and the Socratic Method (Leiden: Brill, 2018), pp. 31-63.
- “In Search of Prometheus: Aeschylean Wanderings Latin America”, in Rebecca Kennedy ed., A Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus (Leiden: Brill, 2017), pp. 488-508
- “Academic Disciplines in Aristophanes’ Clouds (200-203)”, Classical Quarterly 62.1 (2012): 81-91.
Research Interests
- Greek Literature (esp. drama and rhetoric)
- Globalization Studies, Global Studies, Global Classics
- Classical Receptions (esp. in Latin America)
- Socrates and the Socratic Tradition
- History and Philosophy of Sport (esp. sport and peace, sport and development, and Olympism)