Summer Course 2018- Iceland and Greenland 

On August 15th, Anders Winroth, Johanna Friedricksdottir and myself will lead an exciting Summer program based at Geocamp, Iceland. Why would historians go there? The course will provide a basic introduction to Geophysical processes, to Paleoclimatology and to historical case studies and methods on the impact of climate change on human society. Based at Geocamp Iceland (http://www.geocamp.is), we will also have time to travel through some of the historical landscape of Iceland, see the well-known volcanoes and lava fields left by some of the largest eruptions in history, and experience on-site lectures at a variety of locations throughout the island.  We plan a series of lectures by experts on Geology, Volcanology and Ancient and Medieval History as well as trips to local museums and historic sites. This trip has wide potential for collaborative learning, and aims to introduce students to the methods required to integrate human and natural archives to tell a richer story of the past. Most exciting of all (which is truly saying something!) is that we plan on flying over to the Greenland Climate Research CentrePinngortitaleriffik * Grønlands Naturinstitut * Greenland Institute of Natural Resources in Nuuk, which offers both expertise in Environmental Studies, Climatology and also a rich historical setting for examining the historical effects of climate change on human settlement patterns.

The Yale Archaia Group

Archaia is a collaborative forum that brings together one of the largest groups of scholars in the world working on early civilizations. Scholars in the Humanities and Social Sciences join with those working in the Yale Divinity School, the Yale Law School, the collections and the university libraries. While admiring and encouraging traditional modes of work and traditional fields of scholarship, we build a new inter- and multi-disciplinary framework that redefines old disciplinary boundaries.

Very few programs anywhere bring together around the table in sustained dialogue literary scholars and archaeologists, art historians and cuneiformists, legal historians and anthropologists, papyrologists and numismatists. Via description, analysis, and comparison the Archaia collaboration allows for broader exposure to new ideas and methods that will stimulate new research agendas across disciplines encompassing the whole of the premodern world. We aim to enhance an already world class graduate education by exposing students early in their careers to a wider intellectual world, and to understand in new ways the value of antiquity, from the Mediterranean to Japan, and its rich cultural heritage for our own world.

Check out our website HERE

The Annual Michael I. Rostovtzeff Lecture

Our Annual Rostovzteff lecture and colloquium is a highlight each year. Stay tuned.

 My Current and former PhD Students 

Alissa Abrams (Yale History)
Niv Allon (Yale NELC, now Assistant Curator at the Metropolitan Museum of Art)
​Sara Cole (Yale History, now Assistant Curator at the Getty Museum)
Christelle Fischer-Bovet (Stanford Classics, now Associate Professor at USC)
François Gerardin (Yale History, Visiting Assistant Professor of Ancient History, Yale, 2018-2019)
Maria Gutierrez (Yale NELC)
Andy Hogan (Yale History)
Andrew Monson (Stanford Classics, now Associate Professor at NYU)
Joe Morgan (Yale History & Classics)
Jelle Stoop (Yale Classics, now Lecturer in Ancient History at U. Sydney)