PhD Candidate
Research Interests
My research interests focus on late antiquity and the early Middle Ages. My current dissertation research focuses on understanding community and identity in this period by investigating fifth- and early sixth-century Mediterranean maritime communities. By extension, my research interests include Vandals, the end of the western Roman Empire, the eastern Roman Empire, seaborne travel and trade, naval conflicts, and piracy. I especially am interested in identity and community as formed through actions and relationships among people and between people and places.