My research focuses on the civic uses of writing in the ancient Greek polis. My first book, Public Records and Archives in Classical Athens (Chapel Hill 1999), examined the types of documents that the ancient Athenians made, used, and kept, often without inscribing and displaying them on stone. I have also written on Greek law, the epigraphic habit, and the bureaucracy of Athenian government, and co-edited, with G. Bakewell, of Gestures. Studies in Ancient Literature, History, and Philosophy Presented to A.L. Boegehold (Oxford: Oxbow Books, 2003). At present I serve as a contributing editor to Brill's New Jacoby, where I oversee the local historians of Argos and Attica. I am also completing a study of recently discovered ostraka from the Athenian Agora, and book projects on the Athenian epigraphic habit and the misuse of Athenian democracy in modern scholarship and political discourse. For a list of publications see my research page and CV.

My research has been supported by the Fulbright Foundation (1989), the Samuel Kress Foundation (1994), and the National Endowment from the Humanities (1996, 2001). From 2002 to 2005 he was the Andrew W. Mellon Professor of Classical Studies at the American School of Classical Studies at Athens.

I am by training a generalist, and at FSU I have taught a wide range of courses, from "Gender and Society in Ancient Greece" to "Vergil's Eclogues and Georgics". In recent years my teaching has focused on the Attic orators, Ancient Warfare, and Greek epigraphy.