The “Anthropocene” is the name that many propose for the current geological epoch in recognition of how fundamentally humans (= anthropoi) have altered the earth’s…
The term “endemic,” when applied to disease, is a spatial term: it means a particular disease is native or persistently present in a specific place….
The need to understand contemporary climate change – and the role of human activity in driving climate change – has an unintended side effect for…
Smallpox, We Hardly Knew Ye* [updated 2/7/2017] In an important new study, Duggan et al. sequenced the genome of a 17th-century smallpox virus (Variola major)…
Here is the video of a lecture I gave in October of 2016 titled “Nature Did It: Romans, Ecology, and the Global History of Infectious…
Papyri from Egypt provide extraordinary information about life in the ancient world. In a new study, I assemble a large database of Wheat Prices, Land…
In the 2015 issue of the Journal of Roman Archaeology, I published a study of the much neglected Plague of Cyprian, a pandemic caused…
It was very exciting to read this excellent summary of my recent work in The Atlantic. Caroline Wazer does a great job of reporting on…
Twenty of the most iconic images of western civilization are making their American debut and decided it should be in Norman, OK! Some of…
For Spring Break Michelle and I were able to sneak away to England for a quick trip, hitting Little Gidding (above), Burnt Norton (below), and…
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