Overview
My research focuses on understandings of slavery, freedom, and ownership in Roman legal, literary, and philosophical texts. My book, , considers the double nature of slaves as property and human beings under the law in the Roman world. My primary focus at the moment is a monograph-length project on "letters of enslavement," as well as longer-term projects on trust and the construction of legal personhood.
Research Focus
- slavery and freedom studies
- Roman law and society
- Latin letters
- Seneca the Younger
Publications
鈥淭wo Ex-Slaves of Cicero: Tiro and Chrysippus Beyond Reach,鈥 D. Meticic and J. Rogers (eds.), Working Lives in Ancient Rome, Palgrave MacMillan, 2024.
鈥淭he Cost of Ingratitude: Freedmen, Patrons, and Re-enslavement,鈥 R. MacLean, S. Bell, and D. Borbonus (eds.), Freed Persons in the Roman World: Integration, Diversity, and Representation, Cambridge, 2024.
鈥溌縃onor entre esclavos?: desigualdad frente a la ley en el Imperio romano,鈥 M. Campagno, J. Gallego, C. Garc铆a, and R. Payne (eds.), Desigualdades Antiguas. Econom铆a, Cultura y Sociedad en el Oriente Medio y el Mediterr谩neo, Mi帽o y D谩vila Editores, 2023.
鈥淏etween Slave Catchers and Slave Harborers: Trust on a Roman Road,鈥 C. Moatti and E. Chevreau (eds.), L'exp茅rience de la mobilit茅 de l'Antiquit茅 脿 nos jours, entre pr茅carit茅 et confiance, Bordeaux: 脡ditions Ausonius, 2021.
鈥淔ree in Fact? Legal Status and State in the Suits for Freedom,鈥 C. Ando and W. Sullivan (eds.), The Discovery of the Fact, Michigan, 2020.
鈥淭he Freedom to Give: The Legal Basis of Seneca鈥檚 Treatment of Slaves in De Beneficiis,鈥 Classical Philology 114.1, January 2019.
