简介

I joined the faculty in 2008 as part of a Division-wide initiative to build a digital humanities program at UCLA. My research applies the tools and techniques of digital humanities and the analytical methodologies of classics to social historical problems. I am currently developing a hybrid, geo-temporal publication tentatively titled Spectacle in the Forum: Visualizing the Roman Aristocratic Funeral of the Middle Republic, which is a study of material and literary contexts set within a digital laboratory. My work on the Roman world connects to a larger discussion on the evolution of scholarly tools and communication, and I am keenly interested in developing new methods of historical visualization, knowledge representation, and geo-temporal argumentation. As Associate Director of the UCLA Experiential Technologies Center and as a co-director of the Keck Program in Digital Cultural Mapping, I have collaborated on mapping projects set in Bolivia, Peru, Albania, Iceland, Spain, and Italy. I currently lead a small team of students on a yearly digital research expedition at two archaeological sites in western Turkey, Nysa and Magnesia on the Maeander.