I am a historian of the premodern world — Rome, China, the ancient Mediterranean — whose research increasingly turns on a question that feels urgently contemporary: what happens to institutions when the systems they rely on to know things change faster than they can adapt?

My scholarly work examines transnational and comparative history across ancient civilizations. My public writing applies that training to the governance challenges posed by artificial intelligence — arguing that the historical record of institutional resilience and collapse has something precise, not merely analogical, to say about our present moment.

I am an Assistant Professor of History at Mercer University. My book manuscript, To Rise from the Ashes, is under contract with the University of Michigan Press.