I have published four monographs: The Hauswaldt Papyri. A Family Archive from Edfu in the Ptolemaic Period.  Demotische Studien, Vol. 12. Würzburg, 1997, Land and power in Ptolemaic Egypt. The structure of land tenure 332-30 BCE. Cambridge University Press, 2003, and The last pharaohs. Egypt under the Ptolemies, 305 – 30 BC. Princeton University Press, 2009. My new book, The Open Sea. The Economic Life of the Ancient Mediterranean World from the Iron Age to the Rise of Rome, has just appeared with Princeton University Press. I am in the process of completing a monograph on Hellenistic History for the University of Edinburgh Press,

I have also edited (with Ian Morris, Stanford University) a volume on economic history: The Ancient Economy: Evidence and Models. Stanford University Press, 2005, and Law and society in Egypt from Alexander to the Arab Conquest (330 BC-640 AD. Co-edited with J.G. Keenan & Uri Yiftach. Cambridge University Press. With R.J. Jasnow, The Demotic and Hieratic Papyri in the Suzuki Collection of Tokay University, Japan appeared in 2016. The edited volume in honor of Pierre Briant, ​Writing History in Time of War. Michael Rostovtzeff, Elias Bickerman and the "Hellenization of Asia" appeared in 2015 with Franz Steiner Verlag.

Before coming to Yale, I taught for 12 years at Stanford University and two years at Princeton University with a one-year stop as a Solmsen Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I have appointments in both the Classics and the History Departments at Yale, am a Professor in the School of Forestry and Environmental Studies (by Courtesy), and am also a Senior Research Scholar at Yale Law School. I am a collaborative member of Yale’s Program in Economic History, and co-coordinator of Yale's Archaia program. I received my B.A. from Ohio State, and an A.M. and Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

Great video of a recent climb of one of my favs, the Kautz route on Rainier. I climbed it with IMG in 2014. Video by Keita Sakon. Great view of Mt St Helens at about 2:50.