WORK IN PROGRESS

 

Papers under review or in progress

[with S. Bernard and M. Lavan] ‘The profitability of Roman slavery’ (in progress)

a paper on cross-cultural visions and practices of ‘stateness’ for a volume edited by C. Lundgreen (in progress)

a review essay on P. Turchin, The great Holocene transformation (2025) for Cliodynamics (in progress)

 

Projects in progress

New blood: Rome’s emperors in global perspective

 

Monographs at the planning stage

The demography of the Greco-Roman world, ‘Key themes in ancient history’ series, under contract with Cambridge University Press

A world without Europe (a counterfactual history of human development during the last 800 years)

a comparative study of the ancient histories of the Americas relative to those of Afroeurasia