Jake earned his Bachelor’s degree in Classical Languages and Literature at SUNY at Buffalo in 2020, after which he took two gap years. From 2022 to 2024, Jake completed his MA in Classics at Washington University in St. Louis and is currently working towards his Classics Ph.D. on the Department’s Ancient History track.
His research interests include ancient Greek economic history (especially banking and money-lending), epigraphy, and numismatics. He is particularly interested in legal interactions between Greek city-states and the private and sacred spheres of their economies. Under the supervision of Dr. William Bubelis, he wrote his MA Thesis on IEphesos Ia, no. 4, a debt mitigation law from 297/6 BC which Ephesos enacted in response to a conflict which significantly damaged and devalued mortgaged private Ephesian farmland. Jake currently plans to expand on the research he conducted in his Thesis and study Ephesian coinage as well as other Ephesian inscriptions in order to investigate in further detail Ephesos’ political and financial state at the end of the fourth and the beginning of the third century BC.
