Education
2011-2018 Ph.D. Ancient History, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
2015-2017 Regular & Associate Member, American School of Classical Studies at Athens.
2006-2009 M.A. Languages & Literature National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung.
2002-2006 Cert. Classics & Medieval Studies, Fu Jen Catholic University, Taipei.
2001-2006 B.A. Languages & Literature, National Sun Yat-Sen University, Kaohsiung.
Employment & Teaching Experience
2020.10- Assistant Professor (Tenure Track), Peking University, Beijing
2018.10-2020.9 Postdoctoral Researcher, Peking University
2017.7-2017.8 Instructor (Intermediate Greek & Intro. Classical Studies) Fu Jen Catholic University
2015.7-2015.8 Instructor (Elementary Greek & Intro. Classical Studies) Fu Jen Catholic University 2014.7-2014.8 Instructor (Intro. Ancient Greece), Penn Summer, University of Pennsylvania 2013.7-2013.8 Instructor (Intro. Ancient Rome), Penn Summer, University of Pennsylvania 2013.9-2013.12 Teaching Assistant (Greek and Roman Mythology) University of Pennsylvania
2012.9-2013.5 Teaching Assistant (Intros. Ancient Greece, Rome) University of Pennsylvania
2012.7-2012.8 Instructor (Intermediate Latin), Fu Jen Catholic University
Fellowships, Grants, Awards
本科教学改革项目
[Experimenting the chaîne opératoire of Ancient Greek Pottery in Beijing]
2023 文科科研创新项目
Cultural Exchanges in Funerary Practices: Chu and Apulia in Antiquity. Humanities
Innovation Grant, Peking University
本科教学改革项目
[Western Classical Studies Materials Workshop. Undergraduate Teaching Reform Grant,
Peking University]
2022 兴证全球基金奖教金杰出青年学者奖
[Peking University Aegon Global Outstanding Scholar Award]
2021 国家社科基金一般项目
Governors' Edicts in the Roman East: Local Autonomy and Imperial Governance. China
National Social Science Foundation Grant [2021-2025] [21BSS043]
2019 中国博士后基金面上资助（二等）
Koina in Roman Macedonia, China Postdoctoral Science Research Grant [No.
2019M660354]
2018 北京大学国际交流引进博士后
China/PKU International Postdoctoral Exchange Fellowship, China Postdoctoral Science,
Foundation/Peking University [2018-2020]
2018 GAPSA Research Travel Grant Award, University of Pennsylvania
2017 President Gutmann Leadership Award, University of Pennsylvania
2017 Paul Rehak Memorial Traveling Fellowship, American School of Classical Studies at
Athens (ASCSA)
2016 Capps Fellowship [2016-2017], American School of Classical Studies at Athens
2015 Colburn Fellowship [2015-2016], Penn Museum/American School of Classical Studies at
Athens (ASCSA)
2015 GAPSA Research Travel Grant Award, University of Pennsylvania
2015 Penn Museum Student Field Research Grant, University of Pennsylvania
2014 President Gutmann Leadership Award, University of Pennsylvania
2014 GAPSA Research Travel Grant Award, University of Pennsylvania
2011 Benjamin Franklin Fellowship, University of Pennsylvania (5 years)
Publications
Journal Articles/Book Chapters
2024
《劳迪凯亚《政令》与图拉真时代的地方治理》，《世界历史》2024年第3期，17-39页。
"A Tang Dynasty Coin in 13th-Century Corinth: Context and Transmission." Hesperia: The Journal of the American School of Classical Studies at Athens Vol. 93, no. 1 (2024): 83-143. https://doi.org/10.2972/hes.2024.a922193.
“The Sum of All Victories? Reassessing a Sinopean Victory Catalogue (IK Sinope 105).” Anatolian Studies: Journal of the British Institute of Archaeology at Ankara Vol. 74 (2024): 1–23. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0066154624000036.
2023
"语序对翻译拉丁语文本的重要性：以塔西陀《编年史》片段为例" [Word Order's Importance to Translating Latin Texts: A Case Study using Tacitus' Annales], 功成行滿見真如：康士林教授八秩榮慶論文集 [Festschrift for Professor Nicolas Koss]，書林出版社 [Bookman Press], pp. 177-204. 9786267193150
2022
"罗马帝国时期行省总督的危机管理：以马其顿贝瑞亚城的水利设施为例" [Crisis Management in the Roman Province: Beroian Water Installations as an Example], 古代法律碑刻研究第二輯 [Studies on Ancient Legal Inscriptions], 中国政法大学出版社 [China University of Political Science and Law Press], pp. 1-25. 9787576403107
"Of Wellbing or Savior? Emending the Herennia Announcement," The East Asian Journal of Classical Studies 1, pp. 1-28. https://teajcs.com/2022/10/16/of-wellbeing-or-savior-emending-the-herenn...
"从铭刻看罗马帝国时期马其顿共同体的区域性" [On the Regionalistic Tendencies of the Macedonian Koinon during the Roman Period: an Epigraphic Perspective], 古典与中世纪研究第三辑 [Classics and Medieval Studies, Volume 3], 商务印书馆 [Commercial Press], pp. 35-66. 978-7-100-20814-7
2020
简谈西方古典学铭刻研究的若干发展与挑战，[Some Developments and Challenges in Epigraphic Studies of the Western Classical Tradition], 古典与中世纪研究第二辑 [Classics and Medieval Studies, Volume 2] 商务印书馆 [Commercial Press], pp. 154-196. 978-7-100-18784-8
"怜悯之心:陆克瑞提乌的社会发展论" [Misererier: Lucretius' Social development Theory], 侠义行：跨界与传承─苏其康教授荣退纪念文集, Festschrift for Professor Francis So，書林出版社 [Bookmans], pp. 107-152. 9789574458776
2017
"奥维德的圣所与其意义" [Ovid’s Sacrum Caesaris] , 都市文化研究 [Studies in Urban Culture] 17.2, pp. 451-471.
2016
“Lucian’s Lepidus: Problems with Identification.” Zhishan 21, pp. 129-147. [peer reviewed][ACI]
“Live Like a King: The Monument of Philopappus and the Continuity of Client-Kingship.” In Francis K. H. So, ed. Perceiving Power in Early Modern Europe. Palmgrave Macmillan, pp. 25-47. (978-1-137-58381-9) [Scopus]
2015
琴在西漢的政治敘述典範 Guqin as a Paradigm in Western Han Political Discourse，in 琴學薈萃-第五屆古琴國際學術研討會論文集 [Gathering of Qin Studies - Proceedings of the Fifth International Academic Conference on Guqin], 耿慧玲、鄭煒明主編, ed. Keng Huiling and Zheng Weiming, 齊魯書社 [Qilu Press], pp. 311-339. (978-7-533-33327-0) [Conference Proceedings]
forthcoming
"Administering the Han and the Roman Iron Industries: Approaching the Comparison of Governance Behaviors." Law, Institutions, and Economic Performance in Classical Antiquity, Michael Leese & Charles Bartlett, eds.
"Oropos 290：公元前四世纪上半叶以前安斐阿若圣所的雅典式决议与建筑细则译释" [Oropos 290: An Early to Mid-Fourth Century Athenian Decree and Building Specifications in the Amphiareion], 北大史学 [Clio at Beida].
Book Reviews
2024
Review: Barbara Zając, Between Roman culture and local tradition: Roman provincial coinage of Bithynia and Pontus during the reign of Trajan (98-117 AD). Archaeopress Roman archaeology, 100. Oxford: Archaeopress, 2023. Pp. 280. ISBN 9781803274652. BMCR 2024.07.03.
2023
Review: Vassilis Evangelidis, The archaeology of Roman Macedonia: urban and rural environments. Oxford: Oxbow, 2022. Pp. 224. ISBN 9781789258011. $59.99. BMCR 2023.04.24.
2021
Review: Beneker, Jeffrey and Georgia Tsouvala (ed.). The Discourse of Marriage in the Greco-Roman World. Wisconsin Studies in Classics. Madison, Wisconsin: University of Wisconsin, 2020. Pp. x, 269. $99.95. ISBN 9780299328405" BMCR 2021.03.05.
2017
Review: Babett Edelmann-Singer, Koina und Concilia: Genese, Organisation und sozioökonomische Funktion der Provinziallandtage im römischen Reich. Heidelberger Althistorische Beiträge und epigraphische Studien, 57. Stuttgart: Franz Steiner Verlag, 2015. Pp. 363. ISBN 9783515111003. €59.00.” BMCR 2017.01.06.
2014
Review: Michels, Christoph. Kulturtransfer und monarchischer Philhellenismus: Bithynien, Pontus und Kappadokien in hellenistischer Zeit. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2008. ISBN 9783899715361." Zhishan 16, pp. 147-156.
Conference Papers
2025
Sinope's Changing Epochs: a Colony's Adaptation to a Common Paphlagonian Past. 2025 AIA/SCS Joint Annual Meeting, January 2nd to January 5th, 2025, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
2024
“Obey…for the Common Good”: Building a Sense of Community in the Bakers’ Strike Edict.
Community and Communication in Classical Antiquity：第13届中日韩三国欧洲古代史学术研讨会, 2024 年 10 月 17-20 日, 复旦大学.
Aquila's Roads: Connecting Paphlagonian Spaces. 18th International Conference of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies, to be held on November 1-2, 2024, at National Taiwan University, Taipei, Taiwan.
Heracleote and Amastrian Connectedness: External Prosopographies (and Coins). 2024 AIA/SCS Joint Annual Meeting January 4th-7th, 2024, Chicago, IL., USA.
2023
Governor versus Bakers: Ways to Deal with Disorder at Ephesus. 17th International Conference of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Chinese Culture University Taipei, Taiwan, October 20-21, 2023.
秦汉帝国和罗马帝国铁业管理：古代帝国的"现代化"观察 [Qin and Han Empire and Roman Empire Iron Industry Management: Observations on the "Modernization" of Ancient Empires], 第十届《历史研究》杂志社青年学者论坛 [Journal Historical Research Tenth Annual Young Scholars Forum], 《历史研究》杂志社、安徽大学历史学院联合主办 [jointly hosted by "Historical Research" Journal and the History Department of Anhui University], November 11, 2023.
何必写信：罗马帝国总督的沟通问题[Why Write Letters: Communication Issues of Roman Imperial Governors], 北京大学“历史与文学文本中的古代帝国”人文论坛[Humanities Forum on "Ancient Empires in Historical and Literary Texts" at Peking University, September 16, 2023.
Sinope's Changing Eras: An Adaptive Perspective. Celtic Conference in Classics, Panel “Manipulating Time in Roman Culture,” July 11-14, 2023, Coimbra, Portugal.
疫情石刻：发泄的工作坊 [Inscribing during the Pandemic: Workshop for Catharsis] 世界古代中世纪史本科教学研讨会 [Undergraduate Teaching Seminar on World Ancient and Medieval History], 浙江大学历史学院、世界历史研究所与历史学专业教学研究中心主办 [hosted by the History Department of Zhejiang University, the Institute of World History Studies, and the Teaching and Research Center for History Studies], June 3, 2023.
古罗马的立法说服文化：婚姻法制化的案例研究 [Legislative Persuasion Culture in Ancient Rome: A Case Study of Legalization of Marriage Laws]，北京大学—首都师范大学 世界史青年学者学术交流会[Academic Exchange Conference for Young Scholars in World History between Peking University and Capital Normal University], June 2, 2023.
Augustan marriage laws in Augustan Inscriptions: Signs of Persuasion? Classical Association Annual Conference, April 21-23, 2023, Cambridge, UK.
An Epigraphic View on the Dynamics of Amastrian Peripheral Integration in the "Amstriane." The 154th AIA and SCS Joint Annual Meeting, January 5–8, 2023, New Orleans.
2022
从阿马斯翠城看元首制时期帝国边陲的区域间社群整合[Examining Regional Community Integration at the Imperial Borderlands during the Principate Period through the Lens of Amastris]，北大文研论坛：多视角看基层社会[Peking University Humanities Research Forum: Multi-Perspective Examination of Grassroots Society], October 29th to 30th, 2022.
A Gladiatorial Duel in Pontus: The Lucian Version. 16th TACMRS International Conference, Tamkang University, October 21-22, 2022, Taipei.
Diversity and Dynamism in the "Amastriane": Cooperation and Integration. Competition and Cooperation in the Ancient World Workshop, Eötvös Loránd University Faculty of Arts, September 19-20, 2022.
新出土图拉真时期政令中的央地关系 [Center and Local Relations in a New Praesidial Edict of the Trajanic Period]，第九届历史研究青年史学家论坛 [Journal Historical Research Ninth Annual Young Scholars Forum]，August 28, 2022.
A Lucianic Local Memory: The Case of a Gladiatorial Duel. Tsinghua University Xinya College Classics Workshop, May 29th, 2022.
Regionalism in the Amastrian Territorium: An Epigraphic Perspective. Classical Association Annual Conference, 2022. Sweansea, April 8-11, 2022.
2021
Naukratis: from Port-of-Trade to Middle Ground. Seas, Continents, and Empires: the Communication and Division of Civilizations. Peking University, November 1, 2021.
从长时段历史脉络和罗马公民社会惯俗看奥古斯都阶级婚姻法 [Augustus' Marriage Laws in Long-Term Historical and Social Contexts]，世界古代史前沿研究青年论坛 [Symposium of Early Career Scholars in Ancient World History]，山东大学历史文化学院 ，济南，2021年10月29日-31日。
Travelling to the Koinon Assembly – Provincial Level Elite Mobilization during the Principate. The 15th TACMRS International Conference, National Taiwan Normal University, October 22-23, 2021, Taipei.
Context and Transmission of a Tang Dynasty coin in Thirteenth Century Corinth. Byzantium and China: Relationships and Parallels, Hellenistic Institute of Byzantine and Post-Byzantine Studies in Venice & Peking University, Mystras, Greece. October 2-4th, 2021.
Counting Victories or Years? The Curious Case of the Sinopean Victory List. The 152nd AIA and SCS Joint Annual Meeting, January 7-10, 2021, Chicago.
2020
The Provincial Governor's Gaze: Hydromechanai and Local Governance. Conference on Inscriptions concerning Water Infrastructure and Social Governance. Institute for Chinese Ancient Legal Docmuents, China University of Political Science and Law, December 26, 2020. Beijing. [《行省总督眼下的北瑞亚“水机”：从水利设施看罗马帝国东部城市的经济稳定性》水利铭刻与社会治理研讨会，中国政法大学法律古籍整理研究所]
The Politics of Communal Feasting in Roman Macedonia, The 14th TACMRS International Conference, National Taiwan University, October 23-24, 2020, Taipei.
語序的價值：從溝通觀點看拉丁語和英語翻譯之間的「微關係」 [Valuing Word Order: A Communicative Perspective on the Micro-Relations between the Latin Text and its English Translations]，The 42th Annual Conference of the Comparative Literature Association of the Republic of China, May 29-30, 2020, Taipei. [中華民國比較文學學會第四十二屆比較文學會議，2020年5月29-30日，南港中研院文哲所]。[abstract accepted][postponed to 2020/9/18-19][online presentation cancelled]
Of Health or Savior? Emending the Herennia Hispana Inscription. Association of Ancient Historians Annual Conference, April 23-25, 2020, Iowa City.
2019
再看涂礼雅悼词：监察下的骑士阶级 [Revisiting the Laudatio Turia: The Censored Ordo Equestris]。新中国成立七十年妇女/性别史研究的回顾与展望国际学术研讨会， Shanghai Normal University, November 9-10, 2019, Shanghai.
再看涂礼雅悼词：奥古斯都婚姻改革下骑士阶级的应对进退. [Revisiting the Laudatio Turiae: Equestrian Behavior during the Augustan Marriage Reforms.] Workshop on the Ancient Roman Empire and the Civilizations of the East and the West, Shanghai Normal University, November 9-10, 2019, Shanghai.
The Emperor's Health and Gladiatorial Shows in Roman Macedonia. The 13th Annual International Conference of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval, and Renaissance Studies, Fu Jen Catholic University, 1-2 November 2019, Taipei.
Revisiting the Comparison of the Iron Industries of the Han and the Roman Empires. Law, Institutions, and Economic Performance in Classical Antiquity. Celtic Conference in Classics, 26–29 June 2019, Coimbra.
Evidence for a Regional Assembly in Pre-Trajanic Coastal Paphlagonia. The 150th AIA and SCS Joint Annual Meeting, January 3–6, 2019, Boston.
2018
The Role of the Family in Lucretius DRN 5.1011-1027. The Second International Conference on Classical and Medieval Studies, Peking University, 18-19 November, 2018, Beijing.
Rural Koina in Macedonia: Cultic or Social Organizations? The Twelfth International Conference of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Puli, Taiwan, October 19-20, 2018.
Context and Transmission of a Tang Dynasty Chinese Coin in Thirteenth Century Corinth. The Forty-fourth Annual Byzantine Studies Conference, San Antonio, USA, October 4-7, 2018.
“Three Documents of the Koinon of the Cities in Pontus. 149th Annual Meeting of the Society of Classical Studies. Boston, Jan. 4-8, 2018.
2017
Ovid’s Shrine in Tomis: Formation and Significance. Globalizing Ovid: Shanghai 2017. An International Conference in Commemoration of the Bimillennium of Ovid’s Death, May 31–June 2, 2017.
Amastrian High Priests: Leading Men of the Koinon of the Cities in Pontus? Annual Meeting of Postgraduates in Ancient History (AMPAH), King’s College London, Strand campus, March 25, 2017.
2016
The Antonine Pontus: An Amastrian Perspective. Grounding Ancient Imperialism: A graduate student conference sponsored by Harvard University’s Department of the Classics, Saturday March 5, 2016. [Abstract accepted]
Constructing Time under the Roman Empire: The Politics of Time-Reckoning in Herakleia Pontika, Amastris, and Sinope. 147th Annual Meeting of the Society of Classical Studies. San Francisco, Jan. 6-9, 2016.
2015
Lepidus the Archiereus of Pontus: Guardian of Amastris against the Cult of Glykon? The Ninth International Conference of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies. Taipei: National Taiwan University, 23-24 October 2015. [read in absence]
2014
艾格士塔殘碑的定年問題 [Problems of Dating the Egesta Decree.] International Conference on Epigraphy, Philology and Archaeology. Chiayi, Dec. 27-28, 2014. (Language: Chinese)
Live Like a King: Commagenian Siblings and their Royal Roman Identity. 8th International Conference of the Taiwan Association of Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies Rulership: Kings and Queens in Elite and Popular Cultures. Kaohsiung: National Sun Yat-Sen University, Oct. 23-25, 2014.
2013
琴在漢代的政治敘述典範 [Guqin as a Paradigm in Han Dynasty Political Discourse.] Fifth International Guqin Conference. 2013. Kinmen, 2013. (read in absence)
Translation
2011
Duncan B Campbell, Greek and Roman Artillery 399 BC—AD 363 [希臘·羅馬 弩砲＆攻城器械], New Taipei City: Maple Publishing. ISBN 9789868724969.
Works In Progress
Book project: The Roman World of Amastris, Shanghai: Commercial Press.
Book project: 罗马帝国东部行省总督政令中的地方自治与帝国治理研究 [Governors' Edicts in the Roman East: Local Autonomy and Imperial Governance] 国家社科基金项目 (National Social Science Fund General Project, 21BSS043）
Paper: Sinope's Changing Eras: An Adaptive Perspective. 2023 Manipulating Time in Roman Culture Conference Proceedings. Eds. Rachel Philbrick, Sandro La Barbera. De Gruyter.
Invited Talks
Marriage and Roman History: Vignettes and Processes. Communication University of China General Education Center, March 16, 2023.
Sinope's Chronographic Politics. Beijing Foreign Studies University Latin Program, December 8, 2022.
Peripheral Hubs: The Case of Amastris. Beijing Foreign Studies University Latin Program, December 6, 2022.
Lucian's Historical Memory of the Black Sea. Beijing Foreign Studies University Latin Program, December 1, 2022.
From Homer to Rome: Changing Human Geographies in the Southern Black Sea Littoral. Beijing Foreign Studies University Latin Program, November 29, 2022.
The Macedonian Koinon in the Imperial Period: A Regionalizing Institution. Peking University History Department Colloquium, December 11, 2020.
"Visiting Archaeological Sites." 5070 Social Enterprise Wednesday Colloquium, August 7, 2019.
"The Second Triumvirate." Beijing Foreign Studies University, May 21-22, 2019.
"On the Landmark Chinese Translation of Horace." Italian Consulate, Beijing, November 9, 2018.
“The Koinon of the Cities in Pontus: An Amastrian Point of View.” American School of Classcial Studies at Athens Tea Talk, February 3, 2017.
Ph.D. Dissertation
The Local Impact of the Koinon in Roman Coastal Paphlagonia
Courses Taught
Academic Year:
Latin Reading Tutorial (2019 Spring); Historical Sources for Ancient History (2019 Fall; 2022 Fall); Greek Reading I (2020 Fall); Greek Reading II (2024 Spring); Introduction to Ancient Greek History (2021 Spring, 2023 Spring); Greek Reading III (2024 Fall); Greek and Roman History (2021 Fall, 2023 Fall); Ancient Greek II – Inscriptions (2021 Fall; 2022 Spring); Roman Empire – Principate (2022 Spring); Introduction to Classical Studies (2022 Fall; 2024 Fall)
Summer course:
Elementary & Intermediate Level Latin (2012 Summer); Elementary & Intermediate Level Greek (2013 Summer, 2017 Summer); Introduction to Ancient Rome (2013 Summer); Introduction to Ancient Greece (2014 Summer); Introduction to Classical Studies (2015 Summer, 2017 Summer)
Fieldwork and Museum Study
2023 Palazzo Simi in Bari and the convent of Sant'Antonio in Taranto of the National Superintendence for Underwater Cultural Heritage ( study and photography of funerary contexts from Rutigliano, Loc. Purgatorio, Didonna, and Azetium)
2019 ASCSA Visiting Senior Associate Fellow, Athens (squeezes at the Theater of Dionysus, IG II² 3427 = NK284; IG II² 4215 = ΝΚ276)
2016 Corinth Archaeological Museum, Coin Collection (May 30th to June 30th)
Report: “Corinth Chinese Coin: Chronology and Contextualization.”
2015 Archaeotek Roman Provincial Settlement Excavation and Survey (Rapoltu-Mare, Romania, May 31st to June 28th).