I graduated from King’s College, London, with a BA (Hons) degree in Classical Studies in 2010 and spent eleven years working in the financial services industry before returning to academia. In the spring of 2025, I graduated from UBC with a master’s degree in Ancient Culture, Religion and Ethnicity and I am now in the first year of UBC’s PhD Classics (Ancient History) programme. My doctoral research focuses on risk allocation in Roman maritime trade contracts as an instrument of colonialism and utilises network theory as its core methodology, casting provincial actors as peripheral but burdened nodes in a broader Roman imperial network.

By contrast, my master’s research focused on the intersection of Roman mime and the “public purse”, and was guided by the question: why would the Romans pay for such a subversive form of entertainment as an element of public spectacle? I presented aspects of this work at three conferences: the Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest 2024, the Classical Association of Canada 2024 (where I was shortlisted for the graduate prize and won an honourable mention for my paper) and Classical Association of the Pacific Northwest 2025. I further developed this work and “Casting the Charition Mime of POxy. 413: Troupe Size and Gender” is due for publication in Phoenix 79.2 (November 2025).

In 2024, I was the project lead of Experiencing Antiquity a graduate student led project which looks after the department’s collection of artefacts and which, under my stewardship, held outreach events throughout the year. In May 2025, volunteers from Experiencing Antiquity facilitated hands-on sessions for over 400 elementary school students. I was also a member of the steering committee for the 2025 Annual Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference. My archaeological fieldwork experience includes work with the Apulum Roman Villa Project in Alba, Romania, under dig directors Dr. Matthew McCarty and Dr. Mariana Egri and with Petuaria ReVisited in Brough, UK, under dig director Dr. Peter Halkon.

Outside of my studies, I run the Hull Classical Association (UK) which welcomes speakers from across the UK to deliver talks on topics spanning classics, reception studies, ancient history and archaeology. In 2022, I obtained funding from the UK-based charity, Classics for All, to run an after-school Latin club for children and I am keen to advocate for the inclusion of Latin and ancient Greek in school curricula.

In 2025, I was a recipient of the Simons Foundation Doctoral Scholarship and the Archaeological Institute of America’s Bronze Public Engagement Award.

Research Interests

• Banking, risk management and speculation in the Roman world
• Roman maritime trade contracts
• Roman economy
• Roman mime and laughter
• The intersection of entertainment and public finance