I grew up in North Wales and attend a local state school and then Sixth Form college. I then moved to Magdalen College, Oxford in 2016 to complete by BA in Ancient and Modern History. I stayed at Magdalen to complete an MPhil in Greek and Roman History funded by the Ertegun Scholarship before moving to Corpus Christi College for my DPhil funded by the AHRC.

I am William Golding Junior Research Fellow working on Roman imperialism in the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE.

I teach all aspects of Roman History for Classics, AMH and CAAH. I have taken tutorials in Roman History 4: 241 to 146 BC, Roman History 5: 146 to 46 BC, Roman History 6: 46 BC to AD 54 and Cicero and Catiline. I have also taught classes in Cicero: Politics and Thought, An Introduction to Roman History and Texts and Contexts.

My research focuses on Roman imperialism during the 3rd and 2nd centuries BCE. I am interested in understanding contemporary motivations for, understandings of, and attitudes towards the expansion of power over other peoples and territories. I have two current projects. The first analyses Roman expansion into the eastern Mediterranean from c. 206-167 BCE and seeks to explain that expansion by exploring the ideology of the Roman aristocracy focused on proving Roman greatness to the Mediterranean world and imitating the ambitions for world conquest of Alexander the Great as his successors. The second focuses on the conflicts the Romans had with Italians and Gauls throughout the early and middle Republic, explaining how such conflict became an important aspect of Roman male identity. Simultaneously, I have further smaller projects looking at the Roman military and military equipment and the religion of Roman Chester.

Scipio’s Volunteer Veterans: The Secret Behind Rome’s Military Success in the Eastern Mediterranean

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