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My work has long been centered on the administrative structures and practices of the early Roman Empire. Three books and various articles have emerged from this basic interest. A first volume dealt with imperial titles and chronology in the third century AD, a second with the mechanisms provided by the Roman imperial state for the adjudication of legal disputes (esp. the emperor as judge and his deputies in this function), and a third with Frontinus’ booklet De aquis urbis Romae. In the course of writing the last two books, I became increasingly sensitive to the ways in which the rhetorical education had by Roman elites shaped their quotidian pragmatic doings – and thus, the ways in which they shaped the governmental contours of their empire. This interest led me, in turn, to the panorama of abusive behaviors engaged in by the Romans, and engaged by them not only for pleasure and entertainment, but also continually in the arenas of practical (often even administrative) affairs. I have produced two articles dealing with this complex, and hope soon to create a book-length treatment of this topic. I have also edited a handbook on Roman social relations for the Oxford University Press, another on friendship in the Journal of Roman Archaeology Supplementary series, and am writing an overview history of the Early Empire for Blackwell Publishers.