Education:
B.A., Victoria College, Toronto, 1952; M.A. Yale, 1953; Ph.D., 1957; study at ASCSA, 1954-5.
Dissertation:
“A Social and Economic History of the Egyptian Temple of Soknebtunis in the Greco-Roman Period” (Ph.D., Yale, 1957; rev. and publ. as Economic History of an Egyptian Temple in Greco-Roman Egypt (New Haven: Yale U. Press, 1961).
Professional Experience:
Asst. prof., classics, Western Ontario and Waterloo College, London, 1955-60; vis. spec. lectr., Toronto, 1960-1; asst. prof., Texas, 1961-2; prof. history, McMaster, 1862-71; prof. classics & head of dept., British Columbia, 1972-95; fellow, Royal Society of Canada, 1992; vis. prof. history, Washington, 1997-8; vis. faculty, Simon Fraser U., British Columbia, 1998; Whitehead vis. prof., ASCSA, 1998-9.
Publications:
Procopius (Boston: Twayne, 1972); Polis and Imperium: Studies in Honour of Edward Togo Salmon (Toronto: Hakkert, 1974); Herodotus (Boston: Twayne, 1982); Herodotus, Explorer of the Past: Three Essays (Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1991); The Age of Justinian: The Circumstances of Imperial Power (New York: Routledge, 1996); The Empress Theodora: Partner of Justinian (Austin: U. of Texas Press, 2002); The Emperor Justinian and the Byzantine Empire(Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2005); Daily Life in the Hellenistic Age: From Alexander to Cleopatra (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2008).
