Professional Summary
Jack is a first year PhD student specializing in Ancient History. He graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 2019 with a degree in Economics and a minor in History and graduated from the University of Notre Dame's Classics MA program in 2023. His Master's Thesis, "Greek Past, Roman Present" compared the perceptions of the past and identities of three Greek-language writers under the Roman Empire, Plutarch, Cassius Dio, and the emperor Julian.
His research interests focus on Late Antique and Byzantine studies, and in particular the Greek historiographical tradition under the period of Roman rule. In 2021 he completed an Undergraduate Research Opportunities Project (UROP) at the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, titled "(Re-)Interpreting the Past in Byzantium" which compared the historical accounts of two Byzantine historians, Procopius of Caesarea and Theophanes the Confessor.