I am interested in the socio-economic and military history of the Late Antiquity period of the Roman Empire from the second century to the fifth century. I particularly study the socio-economic edicts of the Roman Empire in the third and fourth century and its impact on the Roman army, imperial family members, and the Roman aristocracy.

Politics, Religious Persecution, and the Tetrarchic Inflation

Assisted Publications:

Drake, Harold Allen. The Wisdom of the Ancients: Four Ideas that Changed the World. Oxford University Press, 2025.

Brown, Christopher Boyd, ed.  John 13-21.  Reformation Commentary on Scripture: New Testament 4.  Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press, 2020.

Luther, Martin.  Disputations II.  Luther’s Works 73.  St. Louis: Concordia, 2020.

 

Late Antiquity, the Socio-Economic and Military History of the Roman Republic-Late Roman Empire,  and the history of Early Christianity

Teaching Assistant

  1. TA for History 4A: The Ancient Mediterranean Fall 2022
  2. TA for History 4B: Medieval-Early Modern Europe Winter 2023 
  3. TA for History 4A: The Ancient Mediterranean Spring 2023
  4. TA for History 4A: The Ancient Mediterranean Fall 2023
  5. TA for History 4B: Medieval and Early Modern Europe Winter 2024
  6. TA for History 4C: Modern Europe Spring 2024
  7. TA for History 4A: Ancient West Asia Fall 2024
  8. TA for History 17B: History of the American People, 1830-1920  Winter 2025
  9. TA for History 2C: World History Since 1700 Spring 2025
  10. TA for History 4B: Medieval and Early Modern Europe Summer Session
  11. TA for History of Art and Architecture ARTHI W6R/WRIT W6R: Rome: The Game, Fall 2026
  12. TA for History 4A: Global Rome, Winter, 2026
  13. Instructor of Record (Teaching Associate) for History 112A: Roman Imperialism, Spring 2026

Awards and Honors

  1. American Numismatics Society Fellowship, $3,000, New York, NY, March 5, 2026
  2. UCSB History Department, Harold and Kathleen Drake Fund, $1,100, UC Santa Barbara, March 13, 2026
  3. UC Santa Barbara Preliminary Round Runner-up, February 27, 2026
  4. Esmé Frost Fellowship, $5,000, History Department, UC Santa Barbara, June 4, 2025
  5. Advanced to doctoral candidacy, History Department, UC Santa Barbara, Winter quarter 2025
  6. UCSB History Department, Travel and Research Fund, $1,200, UC Santa Barbara, March 2023
  7. UCSB Foundation, Harold and Kathleen Drake Fund, $5,000, History Department, UC Santa Barbara, February 2023
  8. History Department 5-year TAship $215,440, History Department, UC Santa Barbara, March 2022-June 2027
  9. Thomas N. Sizgorich Memorial Award, History Department $1,200, UC Santa Barbara, April 2022        
  10. STM Tuition Scholarship $13,747, School of Theology and Ministry, Boston College,  September 2020-May 2021
  11. Dean’s Fellowship $24,000 a year and a $5,000 yearly stipend, School of Theology, Boston University, Massachusetts, September 2017- May 2020