My research explores the political and economic history of the ancient Greek world. I’m especially interested in empires and their complex interaction with smaller political communities. As a historian, I make use of a broad range of sources, but I also have specialist expertise in studying Greek inscriptions and coins. 

My first book, Athenian Power in the Fifth Century BC (Oxford University Press, 2024), provides an innovative analysis of the fifth-century BC Athenian empire, a central topic in ancient Greek history. Challenging orthodox approaches, which have been mostly been monolithic and focused on Athens, the book argues that Athenian power was flexible and a matter of negotiation between the Athenians and their subjects. It brings subject communities to centre stage as active agents, and considers how the Athenian empire operated in different regions. I’m currently editing two collaborative books on Athenian history – one on interdisciplinary approaches to the Athenian empire, and another on the late fifth-century anti-democratic revolutions at Athens.

A second strand of my research focuses on monetary history, and bringing numismatics into conversation with mainstream historical study. I’m writing a second monograph on the impact of different imperial powers on the monetary economies of cities in ancient Anatolia (modern-day Türkiye), and I'm co-editing a book of essays on monetary economies across the Hellenistic world. I've also just started work on the Greek coins excavated at the sanctuary of Poseidon at Isthmia, near Corinth in the northern Peloponnese.