My Current Projects:
The Project on Ancient Cultural Engagement (PACE)
This is an online database, initially funded by the Canada Foundation for Innovation (CFI) in connection with my Canada Research Chair. It aims to enrich the study of important ancient figures who represent cultural interaction and whose works have survived in large part. We begin with Polybius of Megalopolis (second century BCE) and Flavius Josephus (first century CE). The site provides tagged Greek text (via Perseus), alternative English translations, extensive commentary, images, archaeological reports, bibliography, scholarly works, dissertations, and for Josephus history-of-reception notes and a comparison tool for parallel material. Qualified specialists are invited to become members, who are then entitled to add their own material to the database by means of data forms for each module. Membership is not necessary, however, to use any of the site’s resources. The PACE server is graciously hosted and maintained by the Humanities Media and Computing group (HMC) at my alma mater, McMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario.
The Brill Josephus Project. Flavius Josephus: Translation and Commentary
This project involves writing the first comprehensive historical and literary commentary to Josephus' thirty Greek volumes. An international team of fourteen scholars is preparing this material, currently expected to occupy twelve Brill volumes. SIx have already appeared. I edit the project and have contributed two of the volumes thus far (Life of Josephus and Judean War 2).
The Judaean-Roman War of A.D. 66 to 74.
This is the book I am currently writing, for Cambridge University Press's Key Conflicts in Classical Antiquity series. I plan to submit it by the spring of 2010.
External Links:
The Canada Research Chairs Program
York University, Graduate Program in History
York University, Graduate Program in Humanities
