Contact
| Dept: | History |
| Email: | dbh8@iastate.edu |
| Office: | 647 Ross 527 Farm House Ln. Ames IA 50011-1054 |
| Phone: | 515-294-1261 |
Bio
I study the economic and agricultural history of late Republican and early Imperial Rome. I am the author of Money in the Late Roman Republic (Brill, 2007) and Farmers and Agriculture in the Roman Economy (Routledge, 2018).
Along with Thomas R. Blanton IV and John T. Fitzgerald, I edited The Extramercantile Economies of Greek and Roman Cities: New Perspectives on the Economic History of Classical Antiquity (Routledge, 2019) and, with Timothy Howe, I edited A Companion to Ancient Agriculture (Wiley, 2020). I am also one of the general editors of Wiley's The Encyclopedia of Ancient History for which I’ve written entries on such topics as Roman Republican Coinage, bullion, glue, and insects.
I regularly teach Introduction to Western Civilization I (HIST 2010), Ancient Empires (HIST 2110), Greek Civilization (HIST 4020), and Roman Civilization (HIST 4030). With Professor Rachel Meyers (WLC), I have taught several study abroad classes in Italy. In 2009, I won an LAS Excellence in Undergraduate Introductory Teaching Award. In 2019, I won an LAS Award for Outstanding Achievement in Teaching and the Cassling Family Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching.
In addition to my appointment in the Department of History, I also serve as Director of the Classical Studies Program.