I taught Hellenistic Greek at Bluefield College (VA) and Southern Seminary (KY), and Classical Greek at NC State. For the 1994-95 academic year I served as a Mellon Research Fellow in Greek Linguistics at UNC Chapel Hill while on sabbatical from Bluefield.
After many years of teaching Greek, I switched to teaching English, giving seminars for teachers on language acquisition theory and methods. From 2020 to 2025 I served as an English Language Instructional Program Facilitator for Chatham County Schools in North Carolina, and in 2024-25 Chatham County Schools led the state in student progress.
I have published a number of items about the application of modern Linguistics to the study and description of Ancient Greek as it was used in the Hellenistic period. My passions are reading Ancient Greek, studying the way the language functioned for native speakers in the ancient world, and studying the way humans in general acquire languages.
In 2025 I began the process of acquiring Mandarin. I’m not very far along in that process, but I’m excited to be acquiring a language that is nothing like any I have studied before.
Además del inglés, hablo español. I spend time in Perú, my wife’s country of origin, as often as I can.
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