• PhD, University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill, 1986

• The Textualization of the Greek Alphabet (Cambridge University Press, 2014)
• Myth, Ritual, and the Warrior in Roman and Indo-European Antiquity (Cambridge University Press, 2013)
• Indo-European Sacred Space: Vedic and Roman Cult. (University of Illinois Press, 2006).
• The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages. Organizer, editor and contributor. (Cambridge University Press, 2004).
• Ovid: Fasti. In collaboration with A. J. Boyle. Translation and commentary of Ovid’s work on Roman festivals and religion. (Penguin Books, 2000, reissued 2004).
• Greek Writing from Knossos to Homer: A Linguistic Interpretation of the Origin of the Greek Alphabet and the Continuity of Ancient Greek Literacy. (Oxford University Press, 1997).

• President of the Society for the Study of Greek and Latin Language and Linguistics, 1992-2001

• CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of 2006 for The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the World’s Ancient Languages, 2004
• Sustained Achievement Award, UB Exceptional Scholars Program, 2002

• Ongoing research in my several areas
• A new project on the origins of Greek conceptualizations of language

Myth and Religion in the Ancient World; Ancient Greek

Aristotle; Hesiod; Homer; Greek Lyric; Apollodorus; Plutarch; Roman Religion; Indo-European Linguistics; Greek and Latin Linguistics; Sanskrit