Biography
Peter is the Mary and Moses Finley Fellow at Darwin College. For Lent and Easter 2024, he is the Acting Director of Studies at Magdalene and Lucy Cavendish Colleges. He received his BA, MPhil and PhD in Classics at Cambridge.
Peter is currently finishing a book project, based on his doctoral research, on the development of Greco-Roman historiography from Herodotus and historiography’s origins in the 5th century BCE to the Late-Antique historian Ammianus Marcellinus in the 4th century CE. He is interested in how the genre of historiography changed during this 800-year time period, and why it changed. A central question of his research is: to what extent was the form of historical narratives shaped by historical events themselves? By identifying slow-moving patterns of historiographical change over time, an aim of his research is to write a ‘longue durée’ history of historiography. His next project examines causation within Greek and Roman historiography.
Most recently, Peter was the Dan David Fellow at Tel Aviv University. Before that, he was a Visiting Lecturer in Greek History at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire.
