Teaching
I teach a second-year undergraduate module, "Abolish the Rich and You Will Find No More Poor: Wealth and Poverty in the Late Roman Empire", that is led by my present research project. In this module, students learn to read our mainstream sources for early Christian social and economic thought, such as sermons on giving to the poor, against the grain in order to access the marginal traditions of thinking about inequality that were both made possible by the spread of Christianity and closed down by early Christian leaders.
I also contribute to the HIST115 premodern survey module, "Power, Belief, and Identity: Medieval and Early Modern Worlds, c.500–1600", and supervise final-year undergraduate dissertations in the Department of Archaeology, Classics, and Egyptology on all aspects of Roman history.
Modules for 2025-26
"ABOLISH THE RICH AND YOU WILL FIND NO MORE POOR": WEALTH AND POVERTY IN THE LATE ROMAN EMPIRE
Module code: HIST281
Role: Module Co-ordinator