Public Scholarship

Essays and Blog Posts

“Premodern Italy: Race, Religion, and Cross Cultural Interaction,” H-Sicily Blog (Jan 24, 2024)

“Men Think About Rome Almost Every Day. That’s a Problem. But It Doesn’t Have to Be.” The Sundial (Sept 28, 2023).

“How A Carthaginian Princess Became White: On Race, Whiteness, and the Future of Italian Renaissance Studies,” invited reflective-methodological essay, Italian Art Society Newsletter (Spring 2022).

“What Machiavelli would do about climate change,” The Washington Post (Feb 23, 2020)

Exhibitions and Public Talks

“Through Time and the City: A Conversation about Deep and Shallow Time in Rome,” with Kristi Cheramie, a part of Tuesday Talks. A Public Arts + Humanities Forum of the Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome (Jan 25, 2022).

“Rome: Urban Formation and Transformation,” with Michael Schwarting and Theodore Liebman, a part of Tuesday Talks. A Public Arts + Humanities Forum of the Society of Fellows of the American Academy in Rome (August 17, 2021).

“Environmental Speculations: Reclaiming Ephemeral Ecologies of the Colosseum,” The American Academy in Rome, with Kristi Cheramie, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture, Knowlton School of Architecture, Ohio State (June-July 2017).