My research focuses on population displacements and refugee crises in the Classical and early Hellenistic Greek world. Alongside compiling and analysing all the evidence and cases of this phenomenon, my thesis examines the identity that expelled poleis and citizens forged during exile and how they applied it in their political interactions. It gauges this by focusing especially on evidence produced more directly by expelled populations themselves, including epigraphic, numismatic, and archaeological, while also analysing historiographical and oratorical accounts. This work offers a full, new characterisation of this understudied but common phenomenon, and re-evaluates ancient Greek social and political culture through this topical lens.
My other research interests include Greek epigraphy (particularly graffiti), Greek numismatics, ancient historiography, and documentary papyrology, as well as ancient and modern refugee and migration studies, ancient cross-cultural interactions (especially in the Achaemenid and Seleucid East), subaltern studies and ancient slavery, ancient gender, and the modern politics of ancient heritage. I work in various archaeological excavations, most recently at Lyktos (Crete), Aphrodisias (Türkiye), and Samos, and I am a current Assistant Editor of SEG. To enrich my research, I engage with modern refugee studies and more recent Greek migrations (1922, the past half-century), and use my research to reflect on and help shape modern refugee policy, including in Oxford. I am currently Secretary of the Oxford University Numismatics Society and have aided with digitising epigraphy and numismatics at Oxford.
I completed my B.A. in Classics at Durham University (2020) and MPhil in Greek History (2022) at Merton College, Oxford. My research is supported by the Open-Oxford-Cambridge AHRC doctoral training partnership, the Clarendon Fund, and the MC3 Merton College Scholarship. I am a current Prize Scholar at Merton College.
